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HAIKYU!! 3rd Season

Haikyuu!!: Karasuno Koukou VS Shiratorizawa Gakuen Koukouハイキュー!! 烏野高校 VS 白鳥沢学園高校Haikyu!! Karasuno High vs Shiratorizawa AcademyHaikyuu!! 3

2016 · TV · 10 eps Finished

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What is HAIKYU!! 3rd Season about?

HAIKYU!! 3rd Season is a TV anime series of 10 episodes animated by Production I.G, adapted from a manga. It aired from October 8, 2016 to December 10, 2016. AniList classifies it as comedy, drama and sports. It continues from HAIKYU!! 2nd Season, which is worth watching first.

After the victory against Aoba Jousai High, Karasuno High School, once called “a fallen powerhouse, a crow that can’t fly,” has finally reached the climax of the heated Spring tournament. Now, to advance to nationals, the Karasuno team has to defeat the powerhouse Shiratorizawa Academy. Karasuno’s greatest hurdle is their adversary’s ace, Wakatoshi Ushijima, the number one player in the Miyagi Prefecture, and one of the country’s top three aces.

Only the strongest team will make it to the national tournament. Since this match is the third-year players’ last chance to qualify for nationals, Karasuno has to use everything they learned during the training camp and prior matches to attain victory. Filled with restlessness and excitement, both teams are determined to come out on top in the third season of Haikyuu!!.

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Themes AniList users associate with it: Volleyball, School Club, Shounen, Male Protagonist, Primarily Male Cast, Primarily Teen Cast, Ensemble Cast, School, Coming of Age.

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Main characters

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  • Shouyou Hinata 日向翔陽

    Main character

    Hinata has an unusually high ability to jump. Since he was young, Hinata trained his legs to compensate for his lack of height. He joins the Karusuno High School Volleyball team and amazes the team with his natural affinity as a spiker.

    Japanese voice: Ayumu Murase

  • Tobio Kageyama 影山飛雄

    Main character

    A famous setter in his middle school who joins the Karusuno High Volleyball team. He was known as the "King of the Court" in his middle school because of his arrogant demeanor and the way he would order around his teammates.

    Japanese voice: Kaito Ishikawa

Supporting characters

  • Koushi Sugawara 菅原孝支

    Supporting character

    Being the vice captain, Sugawara has a soothing personality for his teammates and acts as a pillar of support for them. Even though he isn't Karasuno's official setter anymore, he doesn't dream of giving up on playing in general.

    Japanese voice: Miyu Irino

  • Daichi Sawamura 澤村大地

    Supporting character

    The captain of the Karasuno High volleyball club.

    Japanese voice: Satoshi Hino

  • Yuu Nishinoya 西谷夕

    Supporting character

    Yuu is a very energetic and temperamental person. His boisterous nature and crazy shenanigans can attract unwanted attention quite easily, which often bodes ill for him.

    Japanese voice: Nobuhiko Okamoto

  • Kei Tsukishima 月島蛍

    Supporting character

    A member of the Karasuno High volleyball club. Tsukishima is very blunt and will sometimes rile his teammates up due to his antagonistic nature (most notably being Hinata, Kageyama, Nishinoya, and Tanaka) and sometimes other teams because of his casual smug attitude, taking pride in and relishing when his opponents…

    Japanese voice: Kouki Uchiyama

  • Chikara Ennoshita 縁下力

    Supporting character

    Ennoshita seems quiet and reserved but can behave boldly towards the other 2nd years. He's smart and hasn't received a failing mark before. Similarly to Sugawara, he is always smiling. He's supposedly the only one within the 2nd years to be able to control Tanaka and Nishinoya.

    Japanese voice: Toshiki Masuda

  • Asahi Azumane 東峰旭

    Supporting character

    In contrast to his appearance, he is rather quiet and gentle and has his difficulties realizing that he is Karasuno's ace as he initially doesn't feel that way.

    Japanese voice: Yoshimasa Hosoya

  • Kiyoko Shimizu 清水潔子

    Supporting character

    The manager of the Karasuno High volleyball club.

    Japanese voice: Kaori Nazuka

  • Kouji Sekimukai 関向幸治

    Supporting character

    Hinata's good friend back when they still were attending Yukigaoka Junior High. He's playing soccer.

    Japanese voice: Seigo Yokota

  • Yukitaka Izumi 泉行高

    Supporting character

    Hinata's good friend from Yukigaoka Junior High. He's playing basketball, but often helped out Hinata with practicing volleyball.

    Japanese voice: Kyousuke Ikeda

  • Keishin Ukai 烏養繋心

    Supporting character

    Karasuno High School volleyball club's alumnus, currently coaching volleyball club and helping out his mother at the shop.

    Japanese voice: Kazunari Tanaka

  • Tetsurou Kuroo 黒尾鉄朗

    Supporting character

    The captain of the Nekoma High School volleyball club. Kuroo has a somehow manipulative and cunning personality, but cares about his friends and teammates very deeply. As Nekoma's captain he has a sense of responsibility and confidence. Even though Kuroo's a middle blocker, he often uses offensive plays too.

    Japanese voice: Yuuichi Nakamura

  • Tadashi Yamaguchi 山口忠

    Supporting character

    Yamaguchi always hangs out with Tsukishima and is very protective of him. He has trained himself hard to use a jump float serve. He is also a substitute ace server of the Karasuno Volleyball team.

    Japanese voice: Souma Saitou

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