Comedy · Comedy drama

Haikyu!!

Japanese manga series

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Genres: Comedy Comedy drama Coming-of-age Spokon
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Publishers: Jump Comics M&C!Viz Media, LLC Daewon C.I.Tong Li Publishing Kazé OMedia Star Comics Editorial Ivrea Editorial Planeta
Series: Haikyu!!
Country: Japan
Copies sold: 70 million as of 2025-07-11

About

Haikyu!! (ハイキュー!!, Haikyū!!; from the kanji 排球, 'volleyball') is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Haruichi Furudate. It was serialized in Shueisha's shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump from February 2012 to July 2020, with its chapters collected in 45 tankōbon volumes. The story follows Shoyo Hinata, a boy determined to become a great volleyball player despite his small stature.

G, aired on MBS from April to September 2014, with 25 episodes. A second season aired from October 2015 to March 2016, with 25 episodes. A third season aired from October to December 2016, with 10 episodes. A fourth season was released in two split cours from January to December 2020, with 25 episodes.

The articlegameplay, story, development, reception

Story

Junior high school student, Shoyo Hinata, becomes obsessed with volleyball after catching a glimpse of Karasuno High School playing in the Nationals on TV. Of short stature himself, Hinata is inspired by a player the commentators nickname 'The Little Giant', Karasuno's short but talented wing spiker. Though inexperienced, Hinata is athletic and has an impressive vertical jump. He joins his school's volleyball club—only to find he is its sole member, forcing him to spend the next two years trying to convince other students to help him practice.

In the third and final year of junior high, some of Hinata's friends agree to join the club so he can compete in a tournament. In his first official game ever, they suffer a crushing defeat to the team favored to win the tournament—that included third-year Tobio Kageyama, a prodigy setter nicknamed 'The King of the Court' for both his skill and his brutal play style. The two spark a short rivalry, and after the game, Hinata vows to defeat Kageyama in high school.

Reception

Haikyu!! received the 61st Shogakukan Manga Award for the shōnen category in 2016. Additionally, the series ranked fourth out of a total of fifteen comics recommended in Honya Club's Zenkoku Shoten'in ga Eranda Osusume Comic 2013 ranking. In November 2014, readers of Da Vinci magazine voted Haikyu!!

the eighteenth Weekly Shōnen Jump's greatest manga series of all time. Haikyu!! ranked fourth on the 2014 "Book of the Year" list by Da Vinci magazine; it ranked sixth in 2015; ninth in 2016; fourth in 2018; thirteenth in 2019, along with Space Brothers; tenth in 2020; and eighteenth in 2021. On TV Asahi's Manga Sōsenkyo 2021 poll, in which 150,000 people voted for their top 100 manga series, Haikyu!!