* Your list is public by default.
Alternative TitlesSynonyms: High Kyuu!!, HQ!!, Nisekyuu!! Japanese: γγ€γγ₯γΌ!! English: Haikyu!! German: Haikyu!! French: Haikyu !! - Les As du volley Information
Volumes: 45
Chapters: 407
Status: Finished
Published: Feb 20, 2012 to Jul 20, 2020
StatisticsScore: 8.861 (scored by 118158118,158 users) Ranked: #32 2 2 based on the top manga page. Please note that 'R18+' titles are excluded. Popularity: #34
Members: 243,196
Favorites: 19,869 Available AtResources
|
Ranked #32Popularity #34Members 243,196
Volleyball. A sport where two teams face off, separated by a formidable, wall-like net.
The "Little Giant," standing at only 170 centimeters, overcomes the towering net and the wall of blockers. The awe-inspired Shouyou Hinata looks on at the ace's crow-like figure. Determined to reach great heights like the Little Giant, small-statured Hinata finally manages to form a team in his last year of junior high school, and enters his first volleyball tournament. However, his team is utterly defeated in their first game against the powerhouse school Kitagawa Daiichi, led by the genius, but oppressive setter dubbed the "King of the Court," Tobio Kageyama.
Hinata enrolls into Karasuno High School seeking to take revenge against Kageyama in an official high school match and to follow in the Little Giant's footstepsβbut his plans are ruined when he opens the gymnasium door to find Kageyama as one of his teammates.
Now, Hinata must establish himself on the team and work alongside the problematic Kageyama to overcome his shortcomings and to fulfill his dream of making it to the top of the high school volleyball world.
[Written by MAL Rewrite]
Included one-shot:
Volume 14: Nisekyuu!!BackgroundHaikyuu!! won the 61st Shogakukan Manga Award in the Shounen category in 2015.
The series was published in English by VIZ Media under the Shonen Jump imprint from July 5, 2016, to August 3, 2021. The publisher later released the manga in 3-in-1 omnibus volumes. It has also been published in Polish by Studio JG since May 6, 2022. |
|
Side Story:
|
|
|
Spin-Off:
|
|
|
Alternative Version:
|
|
|
MALxJapan -More than just anime-
|
Reviews
Jul 21, 2020
I actually don't have the words worthy enough to give to Haikyuu, while it has given me so much.
Just recently, the 8 long year journey has finally come to an end. I say long but it actually felt short now that it has ended. It is the first shounen and sports manga that I read and stuck with. I started this in college, and now I am also an adult like the characters.
Haikyuu made me laugh, cry and feel so many emotions. And until the end, the emotions were still there. It feels as if I was saying goodbye to a dear old friend.
...
Such a story foretold with so many life lessons and memories, I can't thank Furudate sensei enough. The success and praise for this story is very well-deserved.
No moment was dull. No character was left unappreciated. The character developments of each character is by far the best. Furudate really knows how to tug one's heartstrings.
Honestly, this is not a review. This is a farewell to my beloved manga. Truly a masterpiece that I hope will be remembered forever. Hinata and Kageyama's story will always have a place in my heart.
"Rather than despairing and giving up because you're not a genius, believe that your strength is not limited to this and continue on the path straight ahead of you." - This line from Oikawa's scene has always kept me going. So if Oikawa can do it, so CAN you (reference from the future chaps).
Again, this is not a review. But a farewell to my beloved manga. TO MY PARADISE. THANK YOU FURUDATE SENSEI. THANK YOU FOR CREATING HAIKYUU. FOR GIVING US THIS MASTERPIECE. FOR NOT GIVING UP ON IT. FOR THE MEMORIES. AND FOR INTRODUCING TO US THE WORLD YOU SAW.
Until we meet again.
Reviewerβs Rating: 10
What did you think of this review?
Jul 20, 2020
Haikyuu is like one of those porcelain dolls that can surely be found at your grandmaβs place β it might look nice, but ultimately it lacks point and only takes up space.
Haikyuu is a bit of unusual sports series, though not in a good way. You see, the major driving factor of most of sports anime and manga in terms of both plot progression and drawing the audience attention is either human drama, or insane over the top action, frequently one that non-drawn media could not hope to fully convey. Haikyuu does neither of those β it only has relatively regular matches. And thatβs it.
...
Practically speaking there is no story in Haikyuu, itβs just a string of matches with brief breaks in between mostly dedicated to training that is even less interesting as no matches. As someone who doesnβt care about volleyball at all, all of the matches felt the same. To be fair, thereβs not much of a variety to volleyball unless you spice its fictional version a bit, but that is exactly what the author should have done, as the 45 volumes of unchanged formula with no points of interest are a drag to read.
At this point some might object that the reason that I didnβt like Haikyuu is because I donβt like volleyball and therefore itβs my fault, not the authors. I object β a good sports manga or anime makes you like it even if you do not care about the sport itself β as mentioned the sport is used as a medium for either a good story or adrenaline-filled action, preferably both. I think real life boxing is stupid, but I greatly enjoyed Ashita no Joe, Hajime no Ippo and Megalobox. I couldnβt care less about ballroom dancing but Welcome to the Ballroom got my eyes glued to the screen. I still donβt understand how people think climbing mountains is a good way to spend their free time, but Kokou no Hito was amazing and unique experience. In comparison, Haikyuu felt just like watching regular real life matches and as it would bore me in real life, so it did while I was reading this manga. The structure of Haikyuu reminded me of fanservice-driven manga, just instead of nudity and pantyshots there are ball shots β the lack of overall plot stays the same.
The art is nice and the best part of this manga, though the animation of the adaptation is actually better than the art of the manga. And it too can get a bit stale as you can only make so much various angle shots of Hinata jumping up before it gets repetitive.
The characters are amazingly shallow. The personalities of cast are just (not so much) various takes on βI love volleyball!β. There is no character development in Haikyuu, any development the characters go through is directly tied to their sport skills and how they play volleyball. At one point it did get my hopes up with the time-skip β even though time-skip is usually just a lazier way to shoe in character progress without actually having to show how said progress happened, at least there would be some development, right? For a change it had me actually reading instead of just consuming the text and the pictures. But no, soon enough it turned into another undistinguishable match and then and. The final chapter really felt like those ending credits of the final episode of an old tv series where the fates of various characters was briefly mentioned as this was much budget friendly than actually showing those fates, which was kinda laughable. While the previous plot off Haikyuu could be summarized as βHaha volleyball ball goes WHOOOSHβ, the final arc is more like βNow that years have passed I am now stronger than I was before. Haha volleyball ball goes WHOOOSHβ.
Overall, I cannot find any reason to read this and Iβd go as far as to say this is just a waste of time, but I understand that it might catch the interest of sport nerds and sport players (letβs ignore the fujoshi that make up a huge chunk of the fanbase and it is since it caught the attention of those people that Haikyuu spiked up in popularity), so while my enjoyment of reading this manga was much lower, to be more fair my final rating is 5 out 10.
Reviewerβs Rating: 5
What did you think of this review?
Jan 29, 2026
Not Recommended
Preliminary
(251/407 eps)
Spoiler
The story started out as an underdog character wanting to play volleyball and be good at it. It started out with showing a lot of motivation and hard work, but some characters didn't get much character development. And at volume 16 or something, the story shifted its tone from a terrible high school volleyball team trying to be better again to an elite team that's trying to be the best despite being high schoolers. And the further the story goes, the author seems to forget that the characters are students and have stuff to do in class. The matches started to drag out longer and
...
longer, and they started to happen back-to-back without any breathing room. And even one spike can be dragged onto a whole chapter, or at least multiple pages of people explaining things. We don't need people explaining every move. The real volleyball match is way faster than this, so Haikyuu!! needs to speed up its pace. At first, the female characters barely show up and don't have much of a role, and later on, the female characters are either A) the commentators, B) the love interests, or C) the sibling who shows up and ends up being a commentator or love interest. The other thing is, Nishonoya and Tanaka like girls too much that they look at pretty girls and boobs all the time, it's annoying. At first, there are these random moments of fun. But later on (after volume 16), there are barely any downtime interactions anymore, which makes some characters severely underdeveloped. The characters somehow made their whole lives revolve around volleyball by then. My classmate said Haikyuu is real volleyball when I said it isn't, and we had a debate about whether Haikyuu is real or not. I don't think it's real since the story has pacing problems. Haikyuu!! trades its 'High School' soul for 'Elite' sports-porn. It sacrifices character development and realistic pacing for endless, dragged-out matches where women are relegated to the sidelines. Itβs not real volleyball; itβs a volleyball-themed treadmill.
Reviewerβs Rating: 6
What did you think of this review?
21 Entries Β· 21 Restacks
40 Entries Β· 43 Restacks
47 Entries Β· 10 Restacks
Haikyuu!! Second Season - Episode 3
Things really do change in Haikyuu!! after all - though happily, that doesn't extend to the relentless energy and positivity that makes this show so irresistible.
|
|
.jpg?ver=4e2158937aa5fcd18b1689e02230502cd6f0b12e){kind=link}
