Haikyu!!

Summary

It should n’t descend as a surprisal that anime and manga are in many corners of Japanese society , but one specific mutation series , Haikyuu!!,helped revitalize a decline sport in the country thanks to its popularity .

Sports have always been popular in Japan . Many sports from all around the worldly concern are played but volleyball , particularly among the youth , was actively decline in the former 2010s . Other sports , such as baseball and soccer , were garnering more participant and viewers . It seemed like volleyball game was bound to be a niche mutant in the future , but that all transfer in 2012 whentheHaikyuu!!mangastarted serializing .

Created by Haruichi Furudate

Prior to the liberation of what is possiblyone of the best mutation manga and anime ever made , the number of students in volleyball golf club in Japan was sharply declining . There were around 41,000 bookman who participated in gild , but that figure had decreased to 37,000 by 2012 . It was obvious the sport was becoming less popular over meter in Japan . That all alter in 2012 whenHaikyuu ! ! ’s first chapter was released inWeekly Shonen JumpMagazine . Over the next years , the issue of students who lead up volleyball and conjoin a nine surface . By 2016 , there were more than 46,000 students in volleyball game club and the number keep increasing from there .

It ’s not a coincidence that the numbers just photograph up at the same timeHaikyuu!!started serializing . A 50 - mo documentary by NHK in 2016 revealed that many musician were inspired byHaikyuu ! ! . Some fan said : " We readHaikyuu!!with the full team every week , and we look forrader to it . " With others saying : " Even though it ’s a manga , it really gives you a motivation boost . " Such sentiment was shared by many vernal Japanese volleyball players , sometimes even honest-to-goodness actor . Professional volleyball game thespian and member of the Japanese internal team Masahiro Yanagida said that the manga resonated with him on a personal level and that he tried some of the moves express in the panels .

The sports musical genre is filled to the lip with awing anime and manga : the classicSlam Dunk , Kuroko No Basket , Hajime no Ippo , andthe late best - sellerBlue Lock . As entertaining as they are , they ’re not very realistic . Stunts like Kagami jumping from the gratuitous throw line or Nagi cook unimaginable catches are implausible even for the secure athletes ever , even more for first - year high school student . Haikyuu ! ! on the other manus , is naturalistic , and at the same sentence , very entertaining . new athletes who see Hinata working hard and contend against taller players can see themselves doing that since many shorter players have done well in volleyball despite their height .

Haikyu!! (2014)

The series , despite being less flashy than most sports Zanzibar copal , manages to blow up actions that would n’t be exceptional in real life , and they do it in a fashion that does n’t experience strained . It ’s inspiring to reand and keep an eye on , and many raw volleyball game players , not just in Japan but worldwide , have started playing the sport due to the anime . Althoughthe iconicSlam Dunkhas also instigate new and current players , Haikyuu!!has celebrated a much more impressive feat , havinga huge wallop on sport culturein Japan and all around the world .

generator : Haikyuu ! ! Documentary by NHK , apportion by Triana Nero ( YouTube )

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The cast of Haikyu!! together on a volleyball court in dynamic poses as Hinata strikes at a ball.

Haikyuu manga panel in full color of Hinata running in the cold in daylight as he has a broad smile.

Haikyu!!