Perfectly Unposed

Ryōta Kise has perfected the art of becoming whatever people want him to be.

A gifted basketball player. A successful model. The golden boy with an effortless smile and an endless crowd of admirers. Kise knows exactly how to pose beneath the lights-but very few people have ever met the boy behind the carefully polished image.

Rose Whitely has never wanted to be noticed. Painfully petite, innocent, and soft-spoken, she is far more comfortable caring for her five adoptive siblings than standing in anyone's spotlight. As Kagami Taiga's gentlest sister, Rose knows that the Generation of Miracles means rivalry, bruised pride, and basketball-induced headaches.

She never expects one of them to look at her.

When Kise enters Rose's quiet world during his second year of high school, he initially believes she will be another girl captivated by his appearance. Instead, Rose sees past his charm, his fame, and the smile he wears for everyone else. With her, Kise doesn't have to perform. With him, Rose slowly discovers that being gentle doesn't mean she has to remain invisible.

But first love cannot stay protected inside high-school hallways forever. As graduation leads them toward university, changing dreams, growing fame, family interference, and an uncertain future threaten the one relationship neither of them knows how to surrender.

Kise has spent years copying other people.

Rose may be the first person who teaches him how to be himself.

And somewhere in the middle of threatening Kise's life for dating his baby sister, Kagami begins experiencing a completely unrelated-and absolutely heterosexual-crisis involving Kuroko Tetsuya.

Perfectly Unposed is the first story in an interconnected Kuroko's Basketball romance series following five sisters, five Generation of Miracles, and one hopelessly oblivious pair of basketball partners from high school to university.