Kuroko's Basketball Street Rivals, the mobile game by Five Cross, is running a limited player gacha for New Light Kagami through October 21, 2026, an original form built from the movie version's setting whose offense or defense development depends on skill evolution choices. A cafe collaboration with Chugai Grace Cafe runs in Shibuya and Osaka from October 1 to 25, 2026.
The most recent Kuroko's Basketball activity centers on the mobile game Street Rivals. Five Cross added LAST GAME Kuroko on May 27, 2026, as a limited-time player before following with LAST GAME Midorima on July 29, 2026. The newest addition is New Light Kagami, an original form drawn from the movie version's setting, in a limited player gacha that opened September 23 and runs to October 21, 2026. The character develops along offense or defense lines depending on skill evolution choices, with a Flame Soul skin gacha and a development gacha for exclusive materials running alongside.
Outside the game, the franchise's merchandise and event schedule continues. Bushiroad Creative's deformed figure brand PalVerse released a six-character set on August 28, 2026, and a Tower Records pop up shop with headphone-themed art ran in Shibuya and Abeno from July 3 to July 20. A Chugai Grace Cafe collaboration in Shibuya and Osaka runs from October 1 to 25, with black suit illustrations on acrylic stands, while a fifth Karaoke no Tetsujin collaboration, subtitled Summer for you, was set for early September with aloha outfit art.
Anime reruns remain part of the schedule. ABEMA broadcast all 78 episodes of the TV anime for free over three Sundays starting June 14, 2026, with episodes then free for a week, and ABEMA followed with free marathon broadcasts of six sports anime from September 12. Kimura Ryohei's Ryota Kise took first place in a Nijimen otaku survey for the second straight year with 422 votes.
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Kuroko's Basketball Street Rivals added New Light Kagami, an original form built from the movie version's setting, in a limited player gacha running from September 23 to October 21, 2026. The character develops along offense or defense lines depending on skill evolution choices. A skin gacha for the exclusive Flame Soul skin and a development gacha for exclusive materials run alongside New Light Kagami's Trial, which gives rewards.
ABEMA will run free marathon broadcasts of six sports anime starting Saturday, September 12, 2026. The lineup includes Major, Kuroko's Basketball, and Haikyu!!, plus Inazuma Eleven the Movie 2025, the Hajime no Ippo TV special Champion Road, the OVA Mashiba vs Kimura Execution, and the New Challenger and Rising seasons. Episodes stay free for one week after broadcast.
A Kuroko's Basketball collaboration cafe with Chugai Grace Cafe runs in Shibuya and Osaka from October 1 to 25, 2026. The menu features character-inspired items like Riko Aida's honey lemon sundae and Kuroko's shiratama vanilla ice. Newly drawn black suit illustrations appear on acrylic figure stands and collection stands, with order and purchase bonuses.
Bushiroad Creative's deformed figure brand PalVerse is releasing a Kuroko's Basketball set. Six characters appear in the palm-sized series: Tetsuya Kuroko, Taiga Kagami, Ryota Kise, Yukio Kasamatsu, Shintaro Midorima, and Kazunari Takao. The figures go on sale August 28, 2026, with a box purchase completing the set.
The fifth collaboration between Kuroko's Basketball and Karaoke no Tetsujin, subtitled ~Summer for you~, will run in early September 2026. The official collaboration X account released a newly drawn illustration of Kuroko, Kagami, and the Generation of Miracles in aloha outfits. Novelties and goods using the art will be available at Kara-Tetsu, with details to come.
Nijimen's otaku survey for voice actor Kimura Ryohei's birthday ranked his characters, with Ryota Kise from 'Kuroko's Basketball' taking first place for the second straight year with 422 votes. Kotaro Bokuto from 'Haikyu!!' held second, while new entries from recent hits like 'Togen Anki' and 'Jujutsu Kaisen' broke into the top 10.
Five Cross announced that Kuroko's Basketball Street Rivals has launched a limited-time event featuring the new player LAST GAME Midorima. The event runs from July 29 to August 19 and includes a limited player gacha, a dedicated skin gacha for the Morning Garden skin, a training gacha, and the LAST GAME Midorima's Trial event.
A Kuroko's Basketball pop up shop will run from July 3 to July 20, 2026, at Tower Records Shibuya and Abeno. The shop sells collaboration-exclusive goods with newly drawn illustrations of characters wearing headphones. Items include can badges, acrylic stands, and coasters. Online orders are also available.
ABEMA announced a free all-at-once broadcast of the TV anime Kuroko's Basketball, airing all 78 episodes including OVAs over three consecutive Sundays starting June 14. Season 1 airs June 14, Season 2 on June 21, and Season 3 on June 28. Episodes are available for free for one week after each broadcast.
Five Cross Co., Ltd. has added "LAST GAME Kuroko" as a limited-time player in the 3D basketball game "Kuroko's Basketball Street Rivals." The character, known as the phantom sixth man from the Teiko Middle School era, is available through a limited player gacha from May 27 to June 17, 2026. An exclusive "Butler Style" skin and related events are also live.