Shouyou Hinata, after losing to Kitagawa Daiichi Junior High's setter Tobio Kageyama in his first official volleyball match, transfers to Karasuno High, intent on finally having a proper volleyball team and getting his revenge on Kageyama. Upon arrival at Karasuno, however, Hinata finds out Kageyama has also gone to Karasuno. Initially at odds with each other, the two form an oddball combination and fight together with the other members of the volleyball club. Karasuno reunites with a former rival school, Nekoma High, in a practice match and reignites their school rivalry.
Direction
Mitsunaka makes volleyball feel like a battle shonen, complete with dramatic pauses mid-air
Editing
Compilation format actually works—zero fat, all spike
Acting
Murase and Ishikawa's screaming chemistry sells the rivals-to-partners arc completely
Director
Susumu Mitsunaka
Ayumu Murase
Shoyo Hinata (voice)
Kaito Ishikawa
Tobio Kageyama (voice)
Koki Uchiyama
Kei Tsukishima (voice)
Soma Saito
Tadashi Yamaguchi (voice)
Nobuhiko Okamoto
Yu Nishinoya (voice)
Toshiki Masuda
Chikara Ennoshita (voice)
Yuu Hayashi
Ryunosuke Tanaka (voice)
Miyu Irino
Koshi Sugawara (voice)
Yoshimasa Hosoya
Asahi Azumane (voice)
Nobuyori Sagara
Hisashi Kinoshita (voice)
Koutaro Nishiyama
Kazuhito Narita (voice)
Satoshi Hino
Daichi Sawamura (voice)
Kaori Nazuka
Kiyoko Shimizu (voice)
Hiroshi Kamiya
Ittetsu Takeda (voice)
Kazunari Tanaka
Keishin Ukai (voice)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
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