Haikyuu’s New Artbook Will Finally Get an English Release

Haikyuu officially ended its run with Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump magazine some time ago, and now fans outside of Japan will be able to enjoy it even more as Viz Media will finally be bringing the new art book for the series in English for the first time ever! Haruichi Furudate’s original manga series is currently celebrating its tenth anniversary of it first hitting Shueisha’s prominent action magazine, and the franchise has been coming back in some cool new ways as part of the celebration. Now fans outside of Japan will be able to celebrate the manga in a whole new way.

Following the end of Haikyuu‘s run a few years ago, Furudate’s art was collected in a special new book known as the “Complete Illustration Book” in Japan. Viz Media will officially release this new art book in English for the first time, and is currently scheduled for a release next Spring. There’s no concrete release date for the new art book just yet outside of its release window, but you can check out the cover for Haikyuu’s new art book below as part of Viz Media’s special announcement for the licensing: 

If you wanted to check out Haikyuu for yourself, the entire manga run is complete (including the brand new chapter released for its 10th Anniversary) and now available with Viz Media’s digital Shonen Jump library with a paid subscription. The four seasons of the anime, movies, and OAD specials can now be found streaming with HIDIVE and Crunchyroll. They describe Haikyuu‘s anime adaptation as such:

“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.”

What do you think? Are you excited to see Haikyuu’s newest art book getting an official English release? Will you be nabbing it off the shelves next Spring? Let us know all of your thoughts about it in the comments! You can even reach out to me directly about all things animated and other cool stuff @Valdezology on Twitter!