Haikyuu!!



Haikyuu!! is a 2012 manga.

Shoyou Hinata is a young boy very determinate to become a great volleyball player, like his unnamed idol "The Little Giant". Despite suffering with lack of support (the male voleyball club of his school is practically a fan club instead of a sports one), he manages to get other five students to create a team along him to compete in a volleyball tournament. They are utterly defeated in the first round, but Hinata's abilities impress his opponents and specially annoy Tobio Kageyama, the setter of the other team, regarded as a genius of volleyball even at such an early age. Not that Tobio's realism, to not say cynicism, doesn't annoys Hinata as well. To the surprise of both, they end up on the same high school on the next year and must work together if they want to achieve greater success in their careers.

Written and drawn by Haruichi Furudate. Serialized on Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump.


 * Curb Stomp Battle: The match between the team from Shoyou's school and the team from Tobio's school ends on a 3-0 result where Shoyou's team don't even makes half of the points of their opponents in the third set, and that's what we only see.
 * Determinator: Shoyou don't understands the meaning of the word "improbable". He trains volleyball in a place where's there's no volleyball training for boys, and his determination to win isn't extinguished when the opponent's team have over 10 points of advantage over his team and a set point.
 * Foil: Tobio and Hinata are both good at volleyball, but while Shoyou have determination fuelling his abilities and is a nice boy, Tobio has natural talent and a mean streak.
 * Jerkass: Tobio is very, very harsh towards everyone we see him interact with at first. Even though he shows a shade of niceness towards Shoyou at first, he seems more interested in attacking his team-mates for their pride than anything else.
 * The Ace: Tobio is very good at what he does.
 * Underdogs Never Lose: Like many other japanese sports' genre media, averted. Shoyou's improvised team is massacred by the more experienced team they to have to face at the first round.