Kuroko no Basket (Kuroko's Basketball)

I've never been much of a sports person. I mean, I like them and all, but playing them has never interested me, though I can easily attribute that to coaches who cared too much about winning and less about giving each players equal time on the field (or time at all in my case). However, there's not been a single thing in my life that's inspired me to play sports, basketball particularly than the anime Kuroko no Basket.

The story follows one of the six players of a legendary middleschool basket ball team called the Generation of Miracles. Each of them has a unique ability that allows them to excel on the court. One of those people is Shintaro Midorima (middle), point guard for Shutoku High, and the greatest shooter in the series.

Now let me again iterate I had absolutely no desire to play basketball again until I watched this anime, or more particularly, the characters in it. Each on has their bad qualities, along with their good. Midorima is, in my opinion someone I'd most want to be like, if I could be like anyone from the show. He's calm, cool, collected, skilled, a little bit eccentric (which I've already got in the bag). He's also capable of swooshing it from half and full court. Skill and calculating calm. Inspiration comes in many forms, and for me, it mostly comes in the form of animations. When one makes even something we know is fake believable, it becomes so much more than fiction. It becomes an aspiration. 

For me, that aspiration is to be what I know I cannot become, but will no less spend the rest of my life trying to reach.