Haikyu!! Season 3

Synopsis

After the victory against Aoba Johsai 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 Haikyu!!.

Main Cast

Ayumu Murase

Shouyou Hinata (voice)

Age : 35 | Popularity : 19%

Kaito Ishikawa

Tobio Kageyama (voice)

Age : 30 | Popularity : 23%

Daisuke Namikawa

Tooru Oikawa (voice)

Age : 48 | Popularity : 12%

Nobuhiko Okamoto

Yuu Nishinoya (voice)

Age : 37 | Popularity : 36%

Koki Uchiyama

Kei Tsukishima (voice)

Age : 33 | Popularity : 52%

Miyu Irino

Koushi Sugawara (voice)

Age : 36 | Popularity : 10%

Soma Saito

Tadashi Yamaguchi (voice)

Age : 33 | Popularity : 40%

Yoshimasa Hosoya

Asahi Azumane (voice)

Age : 42 | Popularity : 9%

Episodes

Episode 1

08 October 2016 - Greetings

The Miyagi Prefecture Qualifier finals of the Spring High School Volleyball Tournament. The ones to stand before Karasuno High School are the undefeated champions, Shiratorizawa Academy. Do they have a chance to win against the ultimate spiker, Ushijima? Their battle towards the nationals finally begins...

Episode 2

15 October 2016 - The Threat of the Left

From the very beginning of the match, Ushijima attacks with his powerful spikes. Because he's not used to left-handed attacks, their Guardian Deity, Nishinoya, has a hard time receiving them. What is Karasuno's plan to deal with the mounting point difference?

Episode 3

22 October 2016 - Guess-Monster

Underway into the second match, Karasuno tries to attack, but Shiratorizawa's middle blocker is a Guess Monster. Using fast intuition, he keeps blocking all of their attempts. As he blocked Karasuno's spikes one after another, Tsukki calmly assesses the situation for a counter-attack.

Episode 4

29 October 2016 - The Halo Around the Moon

Thanks to Tsukki and Nishinoya's blocking, Karasuno comes back at the end of the second set. It is a heated battle in the end, resulting in multiple deuces... Who will score the final point?

Episode 5

05 November 2016 - Individual vs. Numbers

As the third set starts, the bout is tied at 1-1. Attempting to seize momentum after stopping Ushijima, Karasuno tries to stay aggressive. However, Shiratorizawa's setter, Shirabu, seems unfazed by the loss of the second set and swings momentum back to the undefeated champions.

Episode 6

12 November 2016 - The Chemical Change of Encounters

Karasuno finds themselves against a wall as Shiratorizawa wins their second set easily. Needing a push, Hinata ups his defense and the two teams battle it out..

Episode 7

19 November 2016 - Obsession

Karasuno manages to win the fourth set. The fifth set begins, but has a different set of rules: whoever gets 15 points first wins. Keishin sees that Kageyama is exhausted, and switches him out with Sugawara. Determined to hold up his end, Sugawara shows how he has improved.

Episode 8

26 November 2016 - An Annoying Guy

Tsukki injures his hand and has to leave for medical attention, which causes Karasuno's blocking to weaken. Karasuno steps up their attacks in his absence. Hinata's play finally makes Ushijima feel like he's worth playing against.

Episode 9

03 December 2016 - The Volleyball Idiots

Just as Shiratorizawa gets to match point, Karasuno regains spirit as Tsukki returns to the court.. Players on both teams are at the end of their ropes, but they continue to give their all to the last part of the match!

Episode 10

10 December 2016 - The Battle of Concepts

The battle goes well beyond 15, as the fifth set for both teams enters the 20's. Shiratorizawa shows off individual strengths, and Karasuno continues to show the strength as a team. In a battle of volleyball philosophy, Karasuno and Shiratorizawa fight for who moves on to Nationals.

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Production	Executive Producer	Yoshihiro Furusawa Makoto Oyoshi Yosuke Imai Nobuoki Kinoshita Hiroo Maruyama Katsuji Morishita Kohei Takenaka Shingo Kunieda Keiji Ota Mitsuhisa Ishikawa
	Producer	Shinya Shinozaki Tomoyuki Saito Kozue Kananiwa Wakana Okamura Toshihiro Maeda Fumi Morihiro
	Associate Producer	Sukeyuki Honda
Visual Effects	Opening/Ending Animation	Shingo Natsume Masako Sato Rina Takenawa Haruo Okuno Takayuki Gotan Sachiko Fukuda Mai Yonekawa Kengo Takebana Liang Boya Takahiro Chiba Yasuyuki Kai Hisako Shimozuma Hideki Takahashi Satoshi Nagura Kazumasa Orii Masayuki Honda
	Character Designer	Takahiro Kishida
	Color Designer	Mayumi Sato
Art	Prop Designer	Yuu Kobayashi
	Assistant Art Director	Yoshio Harisaki
	Art Designer	Ichiro Tatsuta
	Art Direction	Ichiro Tatsuta
Sound	Music Director	Yoshiki Kobayashi
	Music Producer	Masataka Mikami
	Sound Director	Hiromi Kikuta
	Original Music Composer	Yuki Hayashi Asami Tachibana
	Sound Effects	Kosuke Ogata
	Sound Mixer	Haru Yamada
Directing	Assistant Director	Mariko Ishikawa
	Series Director	Susumu Mitsunaka
Writing	Comic Book	Haruichi Furudate
	Series Composition	Taku Kishimoto
Camera	Director of Photography	Yumiko Nakata
Editing	Editor	Junichi Uematsu
	Assistant Editor	Taeko Hamauzu Yoshinori Murakami
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