Haikyu is currently celebrating the tenth anniversary of the anime series that has easily become the most popular volleyball anime of all time. With fans waiting on news for the fifth season of the anime, it would seem that the franchise will be bringing its anime adaptation to a close via two new finale films. With the manga having already come to a close, there are quite a few events for these movies to cover when it comes to the events that took place following the fourth season’s conclusion.
The Official Twitter Account for Haikyu shared a new teaser for the final two movies of the franchise that has grown to become one of the fan-favorite anime series that focuses on sports, using the game of volleyball to help sell its characters to fans of the medium:
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The final two films will see Toho and Production IG return to the series to finish out the story of Hinata and his teammates, along with the original cast behind the first four seasons of the series. A specific release date for the movies wasn’t revealed alongside the new teaser trailer, though a “kick-off event” will take place in August of next year, meaning we’re at least one year away from seeing the finale of Haikyu.
Haikyu brought its manga to an end in 2020, though there is plenty of ground for these two movies to cover following the end of the fourth season if there’s no fifth season in the works.
All the current seasons of Haikyu can be seen on Crunchyroll, with the streaming service offering the following official description for one of the biggest sports anime:
“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.”
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