It’s June 21 in Japan, which means now is officially time to start celebrating the birthday of the Haikyu!! short king, Shoyo Hinata! To mark the occasion, the JUMP COMICS YouTube channel shared a special promo focusing on Hinata, complete with some memorable moments from Haruichi Furudate’s manga.

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Check out the promo, followed by a reveal of the Haikyu!! 10th Chronicle commemorative book cover, below.

Haikyu!! 10th Chronicle will be released in Japan on September 2.

Haikyu!! ran in Weekly Shonen Jump from February 20, 2012, to July 20, 2020, with all 402 chapters collected into 45 volumes. All the chapters are available to read in English on the Shonen Jump app in English. Crunchyroll is streaming all four TV anime seasons of the Haikyu!! adaptation, describing it 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.

Source: Official Twitter

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