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Haikyu!!
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
Ayumu Murase
Shoyo Hinata (voice)
85 eps
Kaito Ishikawa
Tobio Kageyama (voice)
85 eps
Ryota Takeuchi
Wakatoshi Ushijima (voice)
19 eps
Satoshi Hino
Daichi Sawamura (voice)
81 eps
Miyu Irino
Koshi Sugawara (voice)
81 eps
Yoshimasa Hosoya
Asahi Azumane (voice)
74 eps
Yuu Hayashi
Ryunosuke Tanaka (voice)
82 eps
Nobuhiko Okamoto
Yu Nishinoya (voice)
76 eps
Koki Uchiyama
Kei Tsukishima (voice)
79 eps
Soma Saito
Tadashi Yamaguchi (voice)
77 eps
Toshiki Masuda
Chikara Ennoshita (voice)
61 eps
Sumire Morohoshi
Hitoka Yachi (voice)
45 eps
Hiroshi Kamiya
Ittetsu Takeda (voice)
70 eps
Kazunari Tanaka
Keishin Ukai (voice)
52 eps
Hisao Egawa
Keishin Ukai (voice)
23 eps
Daisuke Namikawa
Toru Oikawa (voice)
33 eps
Nobuyori Sagara
Hisashi Kinoshita (voice)
49 eps
Hiroyuki Yoshino
Hajime Iwaizumi (voice)
25 eps
Yuki Kaji
Kenma Kozume (voice)
18 eps
Yuichi Nakamura
Tetsuro Kuroo (voice)
22 eps
Koutaro Nishiyama
Kazuhito Narita (voice)
40 eps
Kaori Nazuka
Kiyoko Shimizu (voice)
54 eps
Mark Ishii
Lev Haiba (voice)
11 eps
Syota Chonan
Shohei Fukunaga (voice)
11 eps
Junji Tachibana
Yamato Sarukui (voice)
14 eps
Arthur Lounsbery
Shinji Watari (voice)
19 eps
Haruka Yamazaki
Ms. Ono (voice)
11 eps
Kengo Kawanishi
Shigeru Yahaba (voice)
18 eps
Toru Sakurai
Takahiro Hanamaki (voice)
21 eps
Taishi Murata
Akinori Konoha (voice)
11 eps
Shinnosuke Tachibana
Morisuke Yaku (voice)
14 eps
Kyousuke Ikeda
So Inuoka (voice)
14 eps
Takahiro Sakurai
Akiteru Tsukishima (voice)
12 eps
Seiro Ogino
Sadayuki Mizoguchi (voice)
17 eps
Eiji Hanawa
Takaaki Anabara (voice)
11 eps
Seigo Yokota
Taketora Yamamoto (voice)
16 eps
Masatomo Nakazawa
Kenji Futakuchi (voice)
14 eps
Isamu Yusen
Issei Matsukawa (voice)
20 eps
Shuhei Matsuda
Student from Other School (voice)
15 eps
Ryota Osaka
Keiji Akaashi (voice)
15 eps
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How Haikyu!! actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Haikyu!! reads strongest on Character Depth, Humour and Bingeability.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
The story
What it's about
Inspired by a small-statured pro volleyball player, Hinata creates a volleyball team in his last year of middle school. Unfortunately the team is matched up against the "King of the Court" Tobio Kageyama’s team in their first tournament and inevitably lose. After the crushing defeat, Hinata vows to surpass Kageyama After entering high school, Hinata joins the volleyball team only to find that Tobio has also joined.
The run
Seasons
4 seasons · 85 episodes.
Season 0 · Complete
Specials
20159 episodes
Best episode · S00E01 Lev Appears!
Season 1 · Complete
Season 1
201425 episodes
8.4IMDbTwo boys who were bitter volleyball rivals in middle school join forces on their high school team to take on other schools with a vengeance.
Best episode · S01E04 The View from the Summit
Season 2 · Complete
Season 2
201525 episodes
8.2IMDbHinata, Kageyama and the rest of Team Karasuno head to Nekoma's special training camp in Tokyo to prepare for the Spring High Tournament.
Best episode · S02E22 The Former Coward's Fight
Season 3 · Complete
Karasuno High School vs Shiratorizawa Academy
201610 episodes
9.0IMDbThe Karasuno High volleyball team has finally made it to the Miyagi Prefectural finals. But they're up against the reigning champs: Shiratorizawa.
Best episode · S03E10 The Battle of Concepts
Season 4 · Complete
TO THE TOP
202025 episodes
8.1IMDbNew challenges lie ahead as the team prepares for Nationals. But when Kageyama is invited to a training camp, Hinata takes matters into his own hands.
Best episode · S04E23 The Birth of the Serene King
Where the series peaks
Best Episodes
The hours that define the show, ranked by audience response and editorial signal.
S03E10
The Battle of Concepts
The battle goes well beyond 15, as the fifth set for both teams enters the 20's. Shiratorizawa shows off individual strengths, and Karasuno continues to show the strength as a team. In a battle of volleyball philosophy, Karasuno and Shiratorizawa fight for who moves on to Nationals.
- Directed by Tetsuaki Watanabe
- Written by Taku Kishimoto
S03E04
The Halo Around the Moon
Thanks to Tsukki and Nishinoya's blocking, Karasuno comes back at the end of the second set. It is a heated battle in the end, resulting in multiple deuces... Who will score the final point?
- Directed by Masako Sato
- Written by Taku Kishimoto
S03E06
The Chemical Change of Encounters
Karasuno finds themselves against a wall as Shiratorizawa wins their second set easily. Needing a push, Hinata ups his defense and the two teams battle it out..
- Directed by Shintaro Itoga
- Written by Susumu Mitsunaka
S04E23
The Birth of the Serene King
The third set is reaching its end. Karasuno is able to take back the flow of the game with Hinata's receive and even though they show great offense and defense, Inarizaki gets a match point. With the game so down to the wire, the setter Kageyama decides to do a certain play...
- Directed by Rokou Ogiwara
- Written by Taku Kishimoto
S03E05
Individual vs. Numbers
As the third set starts, the bout is tied at 1-1. Attempting to seize momentum after stopping Ushijima, Karasuno tries to stay aggressive. However, Shiratorizawa's setter, Shirabu, seems unfazed by the loss of the second set and swings momentum back to the undefeated champions.
- Directed by Tetsuaki Watanabe
- Written by Taku Kishimoto
S04E25
The Promised Land
The Miyagi Prefecture Inter-High is now over. Hinata, Kageyama, and the other members of Karasuno have a lot on their minds...
- Directed by Hitomi Ezoe
- Written by Taku Kishimoto
Recently aired
Latest Episodes
S04E25
The Promised Land
- Directed by Hitomi Ezoe
- Written by Taku Kishimoto
S04E24
Monsters' Ball
- Directed by Yumi Kamakura
- Written by Taku Kishimoto
S04E23
The Birth of the Serene King
- Directed by Rokou Ogiwara
- Written by Taku Kishimoto
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
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Susumu Hieda
Executive producer
Makoto Oyoshi
Executive producer
Yoshihiro Furusawa
Executive producer
Mitsuhisa Ishikawa
Executive producer
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Kozue Kananiwa
Executive producer
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Yosuke Imai
Executive producer
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Nobuoki Kinoshita
Executive producer
Yoshihisa Heishi
Executive producer
Hiroo Maruyama
Executive producer
Naoki Kitagawa
Executive producer
Shingo Kunieda
Executive producer
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Kohei Takenaka
Executive producer
Keiji Ota
Executive producer
Katsuji Morishita
Executive producer
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Taihei Yamanishi
Executive producer
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Akifumi Fujio
Executive producer
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Naohiro Tafu
Executive producer
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Naoki Watanabe
Executive producer
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Hiroyuki Fujita
Executive producer
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Tetsuya Endo
Executive producer
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Akito Takahashi
Executive producer
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Takuya Sato
Writer
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Toshimitsu Takeuchi
Writer
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Taku Kishimoto
Writer
Susumu Mitsunaka
Writer
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Executive production
- Susumu HiedaExecutive Producer
- Makoto OyoshiExecutive Producer
- Yoshihiro FurusawaExecutive Producer
- Mitsuhisa IshikawaExecutive Producer
- Shoichiro TaguchiProducer
- Kozue KananiwaExecutive Producer
Writing
- Takuya SatoWriter
- Toshimitsu TakeuchiWriter
- Taku KishimotoWriter
- Susumu MitsunakaWriter
Direction
- Mayo NozakiDirector
- Masako SatoDirector
- Hirotaka EndoDirector
- Shintaro ItogaDirector
- Takahiro OtsukaDirector
- Yoshihide IbataDirector
Cinematography
- Yumiko NakataDirector of Photography
Music
- Asami TachibanaOriginal Music Composer
- Yuki HayashiOriginal Music Composer
Where to watch
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