#Decisive Battle at the Garbage Dump Celebrates 8.19 Billion Yen Success With New Visual

Haikyu!!: Decisive Battle at the Garbage Dump has received a new visual to celebrate the anime movie’s current gross of over 8.19 billion yen (~US$54 million).

While 8.19 billion yen is a large sum (it makes Haikyu!!: Decisive Battle at the Garbage Dump the 80th highest-grossing movie in Japan), the choice to commemorate the milestone seems to be mainly tied to how the number 819 can be read as “haikyu” due to Japanese wordplay.

Haikyu!!: Decisive Battle at the Garbage Dump depicts the Spring Nationals match between Karasuno and Nekoma and is the latest Haikyu!! anime since 2020’s Haikyu!! To The Top, the fourth season of the series. It begin screening in Japan on February 16, and English-subtitled screenings in select locations began on March 15.

Haikyu!! is based on the Shueisha-published manga by Haruichi Furudate, which was serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump from 2012 to 2020 and is collected into 45 tankoubon volumes. Viz Media describes the manga as:

After losing his first and last volleyball match against Tobio Kageyama, “the King of the Court,” Shoyo Hinata swears to become his rival after graduating middle school. But what happens when the guy he wants to defeat ends up being his teammate?!

Haikyu!!‘s first season premiered in 2014. In 2022, it was announced that there will be a two-part Haikyu!! Final movie.

Staff

• Director: Susumu Mitsunaka (first three Haikyu!! seasons)
• Scriptwriter: Mitsunaka (Season 2 and 3 co-writer)
• Character designer: Takahiro Kishida (returning)
• Chief animation director: Takahiro Chiba (co-chief animation director on first three seasons)
• Assistant director: Mariko Ishikawa (Haikyu!! Second Season et al.)
• Color designer: Mayumi Satou (returning)
• Art director: Studio Fuga’s Ichirou Tatsuta (returning)
• Animation production: Production I.G

Source: @animehaikyu_com