TV Series · 2012 · TV Series · 2010s
Kuroko's Basketball
Scored from 25 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Series · 2010s (3,236 peers).
Summary
Japanese anime series following Taki Kuroko, a basketball player with an unusual lack of presence on the court, as he joins an elite high school basketball team to achieve their championship dreams.
Released in 2012, Kuroko's Basketball is an animation, comedy and sport television series. It was made in Japan, in Japanese. Episodes run about 24m. Its certificate is TV-14.
The cohort it is ranked inside is 2010s television series — 3,236 of them. Only 25 of its IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 28 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track.
How the score was built
We compare the reviewers of this title against every other title those same people reviewed. Each review is scored relative to the reviewer's own baseline — a 7/10 from a hard grader sits well above their average, while a 7/10 from a generous grader sits below theirs. Every reviewer then counts the same, so the result is a calibrated consensus rather than a raw average.
- Global percentile
- Where Kuroko's Basketball lands against every title we rank.
- In-cohort percentile
- The same comparison narrowed to its cohort — titles of the same format released in the same decade. A 1970s film is judged against 1970s films, not against last year's streaming series. Ranked against TV Series · 2010s (3,236 titles).
- AI-adjusted percentile
- The same reviewer-normalized score, corrected for how much confidence the sample supports: thin samples are pulled toward the corpus average. Each title keeps the share n / (n + 53) of its measured distance from the average, where n is its calibrated-reviewer count, and the result is ranked on the same scale as the global percentile.53 is the median sample size across everything we rank. Here n is 25.
Cohort: TV Series · 2010s
