'Haikyuu!!' Manga Ends Eight-Year Run

The 32nd issue of Weekly Shounen Jump of 2020 announced on Monday that Haruichi Furudate's volleyball manga Haikyuu!! will end in the magazine's next issue. The manga will end its eight and a half year serialization in the combined 33rd and 34th issue on July 20.

Synopsis
The whistle blows. The ball is up. A dig. A set. A spike.

Volleyball. A sport where two teams face-off, separated by a formidable, wall-like net.

The "Little Giant," standing at only 170 cm, overcomes the towering net and the wall of blockers. The awe-inspired Shouyou Hinata looks on at the ace's crow-like figure. Determined to reach great heights like the Little Giant, small-statured Hinata finally manages to form a team in his last year of junior high school, and enters his first volleyball tournament. However, his team is utterly defeated in their first game against the powerhouse school Kitagawa Daiichi, led by the genius, but oppressive setter dubbed the "King of the courst," Tobio Kageyama.

Hinata enrolls into Karasuno High School seeking to take revenge against Kageyama in an official high school match and to follow in the Little Giant's footsteps—but his plans are ruined when he opens the gymnasium door to find Kageyama as one of his teammates.

Now, Hinata must establish himself on the team and work alongside the problematic Kageyama to overcome his shortcomings and to fulfill his dream of making it to the top of the high school volleyball world. [Written by MAL Rewrite]

Prior to serialization, Furudate published two one-shots in Shounen Jump NEXT and Weekly Shounen Jump in January and April 2011. The manga joined the latter's regular lineup in February 2012. Shueisha published the 43rd volume on May 13 (pictured), with the 44th volume scheduled for an August 4 release. Haikyuu!! has a cumulative 38 million copies of its volumes in print.

Production I.G first adapted the manga into a television anime in Spring 2014, which was followed by three more seasons in Fall 2015, Fall 2016, and Winter 2020. The manga also inspired four compilation films, the latest of which premiered in Japan in September 2017. The second cours of the fourth season, Haikyuu!!: To the Top, will premiere in Fall 2020.

Crunchyroll simulcast the seasons with subtitles as they aired in Japan. Sentai Filmworks licensed the anime series in North America and released the first three seasons on home video in June 2015, April 2018, and November 2019, and later with an English dub. The third season's dub debuted on HIDIVE on November 29 last year.

VIZ Media licensed the manga in English under its Shounen Jump imprint in 2016. The company now simulpublishes the chapters with the Japanese release on its Shounen Jump platform. The 39th volume shipped on July 7, with the 40th volume scheduled for release on September 1.

Haikyuu!! won the 61st Shogakukan Manga Awards in the shounen category in 2015.

Source: Comic Natalie

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