Haikyu!! To the Top
Alternate Title
ハイキュー!!(第4期)
Synopsis
Haikyu!! To the Top is a comedy, sports anime that follows student Shoyo Hinata’s life after he develops a sudden love for volleyball. It is the fourth season of the Haikyu!! anime and his Karasuno High School volleyball team will be returning. The anime focuses around practices, games, and the daily lives as well as the relationships of the characters.
Background
Haikyu!! To the Top is the fourth season of Haikyu!!. The series began as a Japanese shonen manga written and illustrated by Haruichi Furudate which is still ongoing and serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump There has also been a radio drama, anime films (Haikyu!! the Movie: Endings and Beginnings, Haikyu!! the Movie: Winners and Losers, Haikyu!! Genius and Sense, Haikyu!! Battle of Concepts), a video game (Haikyu!! Tsunage! Itadaki no Keshiki), and a series of stage plays (Hyper Projection Engeki: Haikyu!!). The fourth season is being produced again by Production I.G with several of the staff returning.
Characters
Shoyo Hinata (Voiced by: Ayumu Murase (Japanese); Bryson Baugus (English))
Shoyo Hinata is one of the volleyball team’s middle blockers. He makes up for his lack of height by specializing in jumping. He has a lively, friendly personality, but can be quite serious when it comes to volleyball. He does not do very well at his schoolwork because he focuses more on the volleyball team.
Tobio Kageyama (Voiced by: Kaito Ishikawa (Japanese); Scott Gibbs (English))
Tobio Kageyama is the volleyball team’s regular setter. Other players and coaches regard him as a genius when it comes to volleyball. He is a perfectionist with a melancholic, grumpy personality.
Daichi Sawamura (Voiced by: Satoshi Hino (Japanese); Justin Doran (English))
Daichi Sawamura is the volleyball team’s captain. He is very caring, responsible, and patient, but also can be strict when players are out of line.
Koshi Sugawara (Voiced by: Miyu Irino (Japanese); Adam Gibbs (English))
Koshi Sugawara is a setter and the Vice Captain of the volleyball club. He is supportive, soothing, and gentle to his teammates. He believes in never giving up.
Ryunosuke Tanaka (Voiced by: Yu Hayashi (Japanese); Greg Cote (English))
Ryunosuke Tanaka is the wing spiker and up-and-coming ace of the volleyball club. He has a hot temper and has been known to pick fights. He tends to be tardy to practice and not good at his school work. He still makes a great teammate though and is supportive of his teammates.
Asahi Azumane (Voiced by: Yoshimasa Hosoya (Japanese); Orlanders Jones (English))
Asahi Azumane is the wing spiker and ace of the volleyball club. He is quiet, gentle, and struggles with self-confidence. Some say he has a “glass heart” because he takes everything people say to him seriously and it can make him depressed.
Yu Nishinoya (Voiced by: Nobuhiko Okamoto (Japanese); Greg Ayres (English))
Yu Nishinoya “Karasuno’s Guardian Deity” is the libero for the volleyball team. He is very energetic, impatient, and temperamental. Despite his shenanigans he is considerate of his friends’ feelings and insecurities.
Kei Tsukishima (Voiced by: Koki Uchiyama (Japanese); Leraldo Anzaldua (English))
Kei Tsukishima is the middle clocker in the volleyball club.
Chikara Ennoshita (Voiced by: Toshiki Masuda (Japanese); Adam Noble (English))
Chikara Ennoshita is one of the volleyball team’s wing spikers. He is quiet and reserved.
Kiyoko Shimizu (Voiced by: Kaori Nazuka (Japanese); Rebekah Stevens (English))
Kiyoko Shimizu is one of the managers of the volleyball club. She is very beautiful, serious, and passionate.
Hitoka Yachi (Voiced by: Sumire Morohoshi (Japanese); Brittney Karbowski (English))
Hitoka Yachi is one of the volleyball team’s managers. She is paranoid and thinks she is incapable at things. She is also clean and organized.
Ittetsu Takeda (Voiced by: Hiroshi Kamiya (Japanese); Gareth West (English))
Ittetsu Takeda is the faculty advisor of the volleyball club. He is optimistic and persistent.
Keishin Ukai (Voiced by: Hisao Egawa (Japanese); David Wald (English))
Keishin Ukai is the coach of the volleyball club. Though he can come off as lazy, he is very hardworking and competitive.
Suguru Daisho (Voiced by: Kazuyuki Okitsu (Japanese))
Suguru Daisho is the captain of a rival volleyball team from Nohebi Academy. He mocks others but can’t handle taking it. He is manipulative and puts on a facade.
Atsumu Miya (Voiced by: Mamoru Miyano (Japanese))
Atsumu Miya is a setter for a rival volleyball team from Inarizaki High School. He seems to be carefree and confident, but he is actually often condescending and selfish. He’s been known to lie habitually. He’s also a perfectionist.
Korai Hoshiumi (Voiced by: Natsuki Hanae (Japanese))
Korai Hoshiumi is a wing spiker for a rival volleyball team from Kaomomedai High. He is a loud and proud person in games, but calm and collected out of them. He can become irritated quickly.
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Staff
- Original Creator: Haruichi Furudate
- Director: Masako Sato
- Assistant Director: Mariko Ishikawa
- Series Composition: Taku Kishimoto
- Character Designer: Takahiro Kishida
- Prop Designer: Mai Yonekawa
- Chief Animation Director: Yu Kobayashi
- Action Animation Director: Hideki Takahashi
- Art Director/Art Setting: Ichiro Tatsuta
- Color Designer: Mayumi Sato
- Assistant Color Designer: Noriko Arizawa
- Director of Photography: Yumiko Nakata
- Assistant Director of Photography: Chika Fukui
- 3D Works: Kohei Iwabuchi
- 2D Works: Akiko Hatanaka
- Special Effects: Hoshi Miyako
- Editing: Junichi Uematsu
- Sound Director: Hiromi Kikuta
- Music: Asami Tachibana, Yuki Hayashi
- Animation Production: Production I.G