It’s been over a year since Haruichi Furudate’s hit sports manga series Haikyuu!! concluded. However, fans are anxiously waiting for Season 5 of the anime to be completed. For fans looking to read ahead or newcomers wanting to know what all the hype is about, here is where you can read the Haikyuu!! manga or watch the anime series.
The Plot of Haikyuu!!
Haikyuu!! is a coming-of-age sports series written and illustrated by Haruichi Furudate. Junior high school student Shoyo Hinata sees Karasuno High School's volleyball team playing in Nationals on TV and becomes interested in playing the sport himself. Hinata has a short stature, but hopes to play volleyball like ‘The Little Giant,’ a talented wing spiker for Karasuno with a similar stature to Hinata. However, his volleyball journey faces many hardships: there isn't a male volleyball team at his junior high school, so he has to learn the game from his school's female volleyball team as well as the community volleyball team.
In his last year of junior high, Hinata convinces his friends to join the team so he can compete in his first and only volleyball tournament. Unfortunately, the team was defeated by another school's team that starred the talented setter Tobio Kageyama. Kageyama and Hinata start a rivalry and vow to defeat one another in high school.
However, the two end up attending Karasuno High School together, and both join the volleyball team and learn to become an all-out powerful setter and spiker duo. Haikyuu!! is focused on the Karasuno volleyball team’s journey to Nationals.
Where to Read the Haikyuu!! Manga
Haikyuu!! was first serialized in Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump from February 2012 through July 2020 and is now compiled into 45 manga volumes. The series is licensed in English by Viz Media. You can get all manga volumes on the Viz Media website: each volume costs $6.99 for digital format and $9.99 for paperback. Fans can also buy the manga on Amazon or Barnes & Noble at similar prices, where digital copies cost $6.49 per volume and paperback is $9.99 per volume. For those wanting a cheaper price, the manga is also on RightStufAnime in paperback format for $7.49; however, RightStuf does not have all the volumes available right now as quite a few are on backorder.
Where to Watch the Haikyuu!! Anime
As of this writing, there are four seasons of the Haikyuu!! anime. Netflix offers the first two seasons in subbed and dubbed, while HIDIVE has season three of the series available subbed and dubbed.
Fans' best bet to watch the entire series is on Crunchyroll, which offers all four seasons of the series. Crunchyroll also offers two Haikyuu!! films for premium members: Haikyuu!! The Movie: Talent and Sense and Haikyuu!! The Movie: Battle of Concepts. In addition, Crunchyroll has all five Haikyuu!! OVAs, and you don’t need to be a premium member to watch them.
RightStufAnime has the completed first three seasons on Blu-ray with prices ranging from $52.49 to $74.99, with similar prices at Target and Best Buy. The Blu-rays are also available on Amazon with prices starting around $30.99 to $40.76.