Haikyu!! Anime Unviels New Visuals For Its Second Installment!
The visuals were shared to commemorate the 10-year anniversary of the Haikyu!! anime.
Continuing the celebration of the 10 year anniversary of the anime, the Haikyu!! Franchise shared four new visuals for the second part of the two part film.
The theme for the anniversary celebration is connecting, and the new visuals draw direct inspiration from it.
In the four new visuals, we see the players from Aoba Johsai High, Date Tech High, Shiratorizawa High School, and Fukurodanni High connecting a spike to their Spikars.
You can check out the visuals below:
The anime film, Haikyu!! The Dumpster Battle was the first film out of the two released on February 16th this year.
Since its release, the film has garnered impressive numbers over its 75-day run until April 30, with attendants reaching 6.99 million, earning 10 billion yen (63.69 million USD).
Haikyu!! The Dumpster Battle also made the biggest opening of the year with 2.23 billion yen (14.87 million USD) and crossed the 5 billion yen mark in just 17 days!
About Haikyu!!:
Haikyu!! is a manga series written and illustrated by Haruichi Furudate. It was serialized in Shueisha’s shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump from February 2012 to July 2020, with its chapters collected in 45 tankōbon volumes.
From April to September 2014, MBS broadcast a 25-episode adaptation of the Production I.G. anime television series. Between October 2015 and March 2016, a second season consisting of 25 episodes was broadcast.
Between October and December 2016, a third season consisting of ten episodes was broadcast. In two installments spanning from January to December 2020, a total of 25 episodes comprised the fourth season, which was officially unveiled at the Jump Festa ’19.
Crunchyroll describes the overall plot of Haikyu!! as follows:
Based off of the original Weekly Shonen Jump manga series from Haruichi Furudate, Haikyu!! is a slice-of-life sports anime revolving around Shoyo Hinata’s love of volleyball. Inspired by a small-statured pro volleyball player, Hinata creates a volleyball team in his last year of middle school.
Unfortunately the team is matched up against the “King of the Court” Tobio Kageyama’s team in their first tournament and inevitably lose. After the crushing defeat, Hinata vows to surpass Kageyama After entering high school, Hinata joins the volleyball team only to find that Tobio has also joined.
Source: Comic Natalie