#knb chapter 20

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On one hand, it's great that Kise drink of choice is mineral water, it can't get healthier than that ! On the other hand, if he avoids soda and other sugary drinks because of his job, i wonder if he restrains himself on other food as well.

Being a model at such a young age can't be good for maintaining a healthy relationship with your body and your diet, he could have easily developed an eating disorder. Thankfully he has basketball, which means he has to make sure to stay healthy and to eat enough to be able to progress and keep playing.

Yes, I know Fujimaki-sensei probably didn't give a single thought about the mental and physical health problems that becoming a model at 12 might cause, and I'm probably thinking about it too deeply, but it's still something worth noticing i guess.

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That's really one of the things Kagami improved the most on throughout the story, he really had a short temper at the start, he got angry all the time, was more violent, had no patience. In the end he is a completely changed boy.

And it makes a lot of sense, for a full year he was always alone, he arrived in Japan for his last year of middle school and didn't make a single friend until he joined Seirin, after so long in isolation it's hard to immediately be used to interact with other people. Not to mention that his friendship with Himuro ended in a very bad way. He is just very awkward around people.

This is a bit sad considering the reason he played basketball in the first place was to make friends. But it also ended up working again since he befriended Seirin and the GoM by playing basketball with them, so it's more happy than sad.

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"10's defense is even more intense than last year..." Kise is your memory ok ? Unless you confronted him twice in middle school you are talking about two years ago, not last year.

In the flashback Akashi calls him Kise and not Ryota so it couldn't be during their third year of middle school. Aomine threw too many basketball balls at his head, he must have destroyed a few neurons, i'm afraid our boy is already experiences memory loss at his young age.

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This is probably the first time Kuroko has encountered a situation like this, in Teiko there was no chance that all the miracles would be blocked at the same time.

Even against the best defensive teams, at least one of them would manage to be free so Kuroko always had someone to pass to. Which is why it wasn't necessary of him to learn how to shoot or dribble back then. It would have been counterproductive because he first had to learn to be extremely good at passing and that would have made his misdirection less effective anyways.

Here as he cannot pass he is completely blocked. Seirin really needs him to learn other basketball skills.

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Kagami and Aomine are similar one a lot of things, especially basketball, but this is one of the ways in which they are complete opposites. Aomine is a very slow starter, it takes him a while to really get into the game even when he's excited or looking forward to it.

Kagami start strong every times, he is more similar to Kise on that front.

I really like how the trio of Kagami, Kise and Aomine are so similar in many things and yet so different, it makes all of their interactions really interesting and narratively compelling.

Plus, Kise's bangs are cute like that. And his eyelashes are 3cm long, there's no way he doesn't use mascara.