Haikyuu!! 1

[p001]

Narration:
"Volleyball (in Japanese, haikyuu)"
2 teams rally a ball back and forth over the net dividing the court in half.
The ball must not be dropped.
Nor may it be held during play.
A ball game where
3 volleys are
"connected"
into one attack.
(top left) The 1st chapter of a new serialization!! "Haikyuu!!"
(bottom of panel, star) The curtain rises on a youthful volleyball story!!!

Box: Before my eyes, it blocks my path.
Box: A high, high wall.
Box: What sort of scene is on the other side?
Box: What will I be able to see there?

Box: "The view from the top."
Box: Scenery that I will never be able to see on my own.

Box: But
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Box: If I'm
Box: not alone, then

[p002/003]

Box: I might be able to see it---
(right, star) All our power in love! All our power in club activities! Brushing off the tedium of the everyday, the 1st chapter in a dramatic youthful new serialization!!
(bottom, large) Haikyuu!!
(bottom, small) Chapter 1: Endings and Beginnings
(left) Believe, and leap!!!
(left bottom, small) 54 pages and opening color!!
(left bottom, large) New serialization

[p004]

Television: He is surely a "small giant"!!

Box: ---That
Box: was what the television announcer called him.

Box: The "springtime high school volleyball" national meet. The ones competing were
Box: Torono Town's "Karasuno High School".
(kanji on shirt) Karasuno

Box: Jostling against players almost 190 cm. in height,
Box: one, at 170 cm., who was by no means tall, bounded about the court.

Box: One after another, the points piled up. I remember
Box: how I shivered
Box: at the sight of that black form.

[p005]

Box: ---About 3 years and 3 months later

Players: Nice!!
Players: Nice course!!

Box: The town gymnasium

(sign)
Junior high athletics meet
Boys' volleyball competition
Student: There's tons of people here...!

Student: The gymnasium's huge...!!
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???: OK
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Boy: And---

[p006]

Boy: There's the smell of Air Salonpas......!!
(Air Salonpas is an over-the-counter pain relief spray)
(left)
Hinata Shouyou
Yukigaoka Junior High School, 3rd year
Volleyball Team captain

Player: Wait a sec Shou-chan, aren't you way too nervous?
(small text) Air Salonpas?
Player: What are you, some country hick?
Shou: Th...that's because we're really starting out in a tournament...!

Shou: For 3 years I've watched, but finally... at last...!!
Player: Seriously... until now, you weren't able to enter and participate... well, in the beginning, you were the team's only member, though...
Player: That's true~ He really perservered, being the only one...

Player: E-erm, I hope we'll be up soon...
(across boys) Volleyball Team 1st years
(far right boy) Suzuki
(right, middle boy) Kawashima
(right, leftmost boy) Mori
Boy: C'mon, captain, take command!
(center boy)
3rd Year
Izumi Yukitaka
[actually on the basketball team]
(left boy)
3rd Year
Sekimukai Kouji
[actually on the soccer team]
Kouji: That's right!
Kouji: Since we were dragged here all of a sudden and we don't really know the rules or anything!
Shou: I...I know, okay!!

[p007]

Shou: Finally participating in a tournament...
Shou: Since we're here... let's win...!

Izumi: Bwuh...?! You're thinking of winning with this impromptu, amateur team...?!
Shou: Of course I am!!

(Izumi/Kouji): Where is that confidence coming from...
Shou: ...Izumin, Kouji...

Shou: Thanks for
Shou: coming to help!!

Kouji: Quit that!! It's awkward!!
Izumi: We're one step closer to the end of the tournament, huh.
俺達一足先に大会終わっちゃったしね

Shou: And you 3 miraculous first years, too!! Thanks for joining!! Thanks soooo much for joiningggg
Mori: Ahh, yes! Though we're still basically novices...

Kenji: Don't cry, Shouyou!
Shou: I'm not!
Izumi: You're super teary-eyed, you know?
Player: Look... it's those guys...
Player: Ehh, what about them?

[p008]

Player: "Yukigaoka Junior High"...
(kanji on shirt) Yukigaoka
Player: What a pitiful team, facing "Kitagawa Daiichi" at the start.
一発目から〃北川第一〃と当たる可哀相なチーム
Player: A no-name school suddenly up against the championship favorite?! What bad luck.

Player: If the rumors are...
Player: There they are...

Player: Kitagawa Daiichi Junior High School!!
(back of shirt)
Kitagawa Daiichi
Junior High School
Volleyball Team

Player: They're huge.
Player: What a completely intimidating air...

Player: ! Ah.
Player: Oi, look!

Player: That's him, isn't it!
Player: The one we were talking about...

[p009]

Player: The "king of the court", Kageyama Tobio!!

Player: So scaryyy... What's with him...??
Player: ...huh? What's that whole "king" business?
Player: I don't know where the nickname came from, but...

Player: Anyway, it's because he's incredible.
Player: They say he's a great setter with amazing senses who's an excellent leader.
Player: Ooh...

Izumi: ...it's almost time, isn't it, Shou-chan?
Shou: Ah...
Shou: ...yeah.........

Kouji: Don't go all silent, Shouyou!!
Kouji: You're making me nervous!!
Shou: Ehh
Izumi: I understand the feeling, though...

[p010]

Shou: But... that's... how I always talk...?
Kouji: Get it together!!
Kouji: What now?!
Crowd: Kita-ichi!!
Crowd: Kita-ichi!!
Crowd: Kita-ichi!!

Crowd: Kita-ichi!!
Crowd: Kita-ichi!!
Crowd: Kita-ichi!!
Crowd: Kita-ichi!!
(kanji on shirt) Kitagawa Daiichi

Kouji: They're huge...?!
Izumi: Scary!!

Kouji: Wait a...
Kouji: Those guys are our opponents?! Are they seriously junior high students?!
Shou: I-it'll be fine!!!

Shou: Because I have confidence in my jumping power!! No matter what kind of beanpoles we've got for opponents,
Shou: We'll plow right through them!!
Izumi: Ooh...!
Izumi: Shou-chan's jumping is certainly incredible!
Kouji: I can see you as reliable for the first time today!

Shou: Ah... but before that, the bathroom...
(sfx) Guuurgle
Izumi/Kouji: AGAIN?!

[p011]

(sfx bubble) Turn
(kanji on shirt) Kitagawa Daiichi
Player: Hey,
Player: Where's this "Yukigaoka Junior High"? I've never heard of it.

Player: More like didn't they hardly have any people?!
Player: And no libero, either!
(In volleyball, libero is a defense position that remains in play at all times and never moves to the front row)
Player: Not to mention that half've them were elementary schoolers.
Player: Hah?! They're 1st years, aren't they.
Player: They're practically elementary schoolers. How do they plan to compete against us, huh?

???: OI, you lot!!! Don't you make fun of us!!!

Shou: ...once my stomach settles down... you better be prepared, 'cause we'll really give you something to cry about in the mat
(small text, right) Ugh
Shou: ch
Shou: Uughh...
(sfx) Guuuuuurgle

Player: Are you serious! We'll be looking forward to it!!
Player: See, an elementary schooler!
Player: Stupid! He's wearing the captain's mark, ain't he? He's the team captain!
(left of Player) Your stomach doing okaaay?
Shou: Kuh~~
(right of Shou, sfx) Guuuurgle
(Shou) They're making fun of meee

???: ......Oi, 2nd years.

[p012]

Tobio: We're starting the official warmup.
Tobio: Hurry up and get to it.
(bottom)
Kitagawa Daiichi Junior High, 3rd Year
Kageyama Tobio

Player: Crap, it's Kageyama-san.
Player: Sorry, we'll head back right away.

(sfx) Glance

Player: C'mon, hurry it up! There's still 2 drinks left!
Player: Even if we fill up that many, there's no way we're gonna drink'em. I mean, those Yukigaoka guys are our opponents.
Shou: Wha?!

Player: Haha, for sure.
Shou: What'd you saaaaay!

[p013]

Tobio: ...you lot.
Tobio: Even though you're on the bench,
Tobio: do you plan to get stronger by looking down on your opponents?

Tobio: ...don't ride on the laurels of your school's name.
...学校の名前に乗っかってんはねぇよ

Players: W-we're sorry!
(Shou/Players): He's scaaary

(Shou): Crap, don't get overwhelmed.
Shou: I wa-
Shou: I was going to come out and say that too, y'know.

Shou: Ugh.

Tobio: Guys who can't even manage their own bodies shouldn't say such self-important things.
Tobio: That's why you get ridiculed.
Shou: What'd you saaay...
(left of Shou, sfx) Guuuuuurgle
Tobio: It's only natural to be completely prepared for a match.
Tobio: Just what did you come here to do?
Tobio: "Make memories" or something??

Shou: ...I came here to win, of course!

[p014]

Tobio: ...you're saying that as if it is extremely easy to do.

Tobio: You're saying that despite knowing that
Tobio: height is something essential to volleyball?

Shou: ...it's true that I'm not very tall.
Shou: ...however!

Shou: I
Shou: can jump!!

Shou: It isn't as if the outcome of our match has already been decided.

Shou: I don't have to give u...
Tobio: "Not giving up" is easier said than done.

Tobio: It's not just about
Tobio: compensating for differences in physique, skill and willpower.

[p015]

Tobio: You'll understand in the match.

Shou: ...finally
Shou: I finally... can play volleyball... on a proper court... with 6 people......!

Shou: The 1st match,
Shou: and the 2nd,
Shou: we'll win.
Shou: We'll win,
Shou: and our team will play lots of matches!!

(Shou): For all those we couldn't play up to now, as well.

Tobio: ......In the 1st match,
Tobio: the 2nd,
Tobio: the last,

Tobio: and in all matches nationwide...!

[p016]

Tobio: The one standing on the winning side of the court will be me!!

Izumi: Shou-chan?!
Izumi: What are you doing getting such a scary person angry?! Didn't you go to take a dump?!
Shou: Ah, Izumin!!

Shou: Let's hurry back!!
Izumi: What about your stomachache?!
Shou: It's gone!!
Izumi: Wha?!

Izumi: ...but that guy just now,
Izumi: somehow the air about him was different than that of the rest of his team.
Shou: How?!
Izumi: Everyone is making fun of us, but......

Izumi: That guy was the only one taking this seriously.

[p017]

sfx bubble: Whoosh

Izumi: ...So that guy was a setter, huh...
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???: Nice course!!

Kouji: What was a "setter" again?!
Izumi: It's the position that ups the toss...
(small text) We studied up on this yesterday...
(Diagram)
(3) Attack
(2) Toss
(black box) Setter
(1) Receive
(bottom) A 3-step attack!!

Izumi: Like that, they can manipulate the ball at will!
Izumi: Even though he only touches the ball for a moment...

Izumi: He's able to predict exactly where the tossed ball will go...
トスがどこに上がるのか全然予測つかねー。。。
(Shou): Shit... he's really good...
Tobio: Your timing's slow!!

Tobio: I told you to get in on the Quick much faster, dammit!!
(A Quick is when the attacker jumps up before the setter bumps the ball, so both attacker and ball meet at the apex)
Player: ......sorry...
Izumi: How scary... he may be good, but he can't work with his team at all...
Kouji: Got that right.

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???: Kageyama.

[p018]

Coach: You're fussing too much over the "speed".
Coach: What's important isn't your personal technique,
Coach: but how the spiker "hits" the ball.
Coach: ...that's why.

Tobio: ...I know that!!

Announcer: Line up!!

Kouji: Crap... my stomach hurts...
Izumi: Oi!

(Shou): At last...
(Shou): At last...!!

Players: Let's have a good game!!!
Crowd: Look,
Crowd: It's really starting! Daichi-san! Suga-san!
Crowd: Yeah.
Crowd: Ooh, they're pretty fired up.

[p019]

Announcer: He is surely a "small giant"!!

Box: ---That
Box: was what the television announcer called him.

Announcer: The national spring high school volleyball meet!!
Box: It was a big high school volleyball tournament,
Box: and on the TV screen,

Box: wearing a black uniform with the name "Karasu" emblazoned on it,
(kanji on shirt) Karasuno

Box: was a short player who bounded across the court.

[p020]

Box: For a long time now, I, who was always in front when "lining up by height",
(below box) Follow the one in front!!

Box: have been completely enthralled by the words "small giant".
Box: Even though I didn't know much about the rules of volleyball,
Box: I watched that short player's movements as if in a trance.
Box: It'd be great if I could become like that, I thought.

Boy: Shou-chan, hurry up!
Boy: We've gotta get to the sports grounds!!
グラウンドとられる!!
Box: I loved baseball, basketball and soccer too, but

Box: The image of that player burned into my eyes.
???: EHH?!
Box: In junior high, I chose to join the volleyball club,
Box: But

Shou: I'm...
Shou: the only... member...?
Teacher: Yup. The number of members has been decreasing year by year. Ah, and
Teacher: boys' volleyball isn't a "club" but an "appreciation group".
(small text) That's why you don't need many people.
Shou: Okay.
Teacher: What will you do? Switch to a different club? Or...

Teacher: Play with the girls?
Shou: Th
Shou: That's a little...

Shou: I-I'll do it, even if I'm alone!
Teacher: Oh?
Shou: I'll become a "small giant"!!
Teacher: Eh? Become what?

[p021]

Box: In a corner of the gymnasium,
Shou: Oww
Box: Off to one side of the sports grounds,

Player: Who the heck's that?!
Player: Oi, that's dangerous!

Box: In the hallway.
Box: I practiced "anywhere that could be a practice location".
Shou: Acchan! Are you done with club activities??
Shou: Pass the ball with me!
Acchan: Again?!
Acchan: And quit ambushing me!!

Box: I started energetically and continued obstinantly...
Box: Though that's what it felt like in the beginning,
Shou: It
Shou: it bounced straight up!
Shou: Acchan, didja see?!
Box: Among the hundreds of failures, each individual success
Box: made it that much more fun.

Acchan: Hey, isn't that enough?!
Acchan: My arms hurt and the ball doesn't go flying like I thought it would. I don't wanna do this anymore!
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Shou: Please, just one more set!
Acchan: You already said "just one more set" a while ago! This is really the last one, got it!!
Shou: Thank you!!

Student: Heey, Hinata~
Student: I heard you're in the girls' volleyball club even though you're a guy??
(left of student) Seriously?!

Shou: Th
Shou: That's not it at all!!
Student: Who're you aiming for??
Student: They have a gorgeous 3rd year senpai in the club~
Shou: There is a gorgeous senpai there, but...
Student: See, that's it!
Shou: I said that's not it!
Shou: I'm in the boys' volleyball club!!

[p022]

Shou: I know!! How about you guys join?!
Student: Ehhh...
Student: Playing along with girls is kinda...
Student: No, but, there's that, right?? Gir
Shou: Like I said, it's the boys' club!!

(sign) Gymnasium
Girl: ...then let's go running.
Girls: Kaay!!

sfx bubble: Wham wham
sfx bubble: Squeak squeak
(Shou): The girls went to do strength conditioning!
(Shou): This is my chance to use the court!

Shou: Izumin! Toss it up, toss it! You're taking a break now, right?!
Izumi: Shou-chan?! Wha?! Toss?!
Izumi: No way, it's impossible, I can't do that!

Shou: Just throw it!
Shou: It's fine, just throw it!
(right of Shou) Heft it up from underneath like this.
Shou: I want to hit a spike, but I can't do it by myself.
Izumi: I said I can't!
Shou: You'll just be helping me with independent training!
また自主練付き合うからさぁ!
Izumi: But the senpai are watching...
???: Assemble!

Izumi: O
Izumi: Ossu!

sfx bubble: Caw
sfx bubble: Caw
sfx bubble: Caw
???: Y'know, you

[p023]

Kouji: You sure practice a lot, even though you can't go out for any matches.
(left of runners) Fight-o! Fight-o!
Shou: I
Shou: I'm gonna go out for matches! Eventually!

Shou: I'll gather enough people!
Shou: So far, I keep getting turned down, but...
Shou: it'll be soon, for sure!
Kouji: Hmmmm.

Shou: How about it, Kouji?!
Kouji: How many times am I gonna have to refuse...

Box: And then---

Box: The 3rd year of junior high.

Box: ----Spring.
Shou: Eh?

Shou: Three...
Shou: first... years...??
Teacher: Right here.

[p024]

(top of paper) Club registration
(first fill-in row, handwritten) Volleyba
Teacher: It seems that they played it a little in elementary school.

Shou: UWAAAAAA WE DID IIIIIT!
Teacher: What are you crying for, Hinata?!
Shou: I'b nog crying!!
Teacher: I can see you wailing, though?!
(sign) Staff room

(Shou): With this... we just need 2 more...
(Shou): If I beg people to help, then somehow...!!

(Shou): Finally...

(Shou, on black) Finally,

Izumi: Go for it, Shou-chan!!

[p025]

Crowd: Uooo?!

Izumi/Kouji: Goo!

(Tobio): He jumped...!
(around Shou's picture) I can jump!!
(Tobio): He wasn't bluffing!!

Tobio: Tighten defense on the cross side.

[p026]

sfx bubble: Bam!!

Crowd: Aw man...
Crowd: They blocked it!
Crowd: But... what an amazing jump.

Izumi: Sho...
Izumi: Shou-chan, don't mind it!!

Shou: S...sorry, right when you'd tossed it up especially for me! I'll get it through next time!

???: In front, in front!
???: Nice cover!

[p027]

(scoreboard, right) Yukigaoka
(scoreboard, left) Kitagawa Daiichi
Score Boy: Uwaaa... looking at this, they've really gotten pathetic...

Score Boy: 1 more set and Kita-ichi will take a complete win.
Players: It's up!
Players: Shou-chan!
Players: Hinata-san!

(Shou): ----- "A wall."
(Shou): I can see it looming even larger than before the match...

(Shou): I can't
(Shou): see the other side at all.

Players: Aahh...

Crowd: Yikes.
Crowd: Blocked again!!

[p028]

Crowd: But that number 1 who's been dashing around can really move!!
Crowd: He's extremely clumsy in all sorts of ways, though!
Kouji: Shouyou, go for another one!!
Izumi: Don't mind it, Shou-chan!!
Crowd: And all with that amount of height!!

Crowd: Yeah. All that's left...
Crowd: Would be if Yukigaoka Junior High had a proper setter,
Crowd: so they could make better use of number 1.
Crowd: Yeah...

Crowd: But number 1 is single-handedly supporting that apparent mish-mash of beginners.
Crowd: On the other hand,

Crowd: Kageyama isn't any good at making use of the abundance of players around him.
Crowd: There doesn't seem to be anything to criticize about his own power, but

Crowd: It's as if
Crowd: he's fighting entirely by himself.

Player: Kuh...

Tobio: Do it quicker!!
Player: Tch.

[p029]

Player: He's just as anal about the tosses today as he always is...
今日も相変わらずのムチャブリトスだな...
Player: Even though the opponents' blocks are practically nonexistent,
Player: what's he getting so serious about...
Tobio: Then when are you lot doing to start taking this seriously?!
Tobio: The finals?!

Player: Leave it! We're in the middle of a match!

Kouji: Uwaa!

Player: That service ace is the end of it!
(A service ace is when the ball is served directly onto the opposite side of the court - in this case, the opposing team becomes unable to pass the ball back)
Tobio: Not yet!

Girl: No waaay he can reach that ball~

(Shou): It hasn't fallen yet.
(Shou): It hasn't fallen yet!

Player: There's no way he can do it.

[p030]

(Shou): Not yet...!

sfx bubble: Tap

Crowd: Uwaa, that looked painful.
Crowd: You did your best~!
(Tobio): This guy...

Announcer: This is Kitagawa Daiichi's match point!!
Announcer: It's a critical moment for Yukigaoka!!

Shou: Dammitttt
Player: Um...
Player: I'm sorry, I...
(small text) Missed the receive...

Shou: Sorry, I'll get the next one!
Player: U...umm...!

Player: Ge... getting injured even though...
Player: .......frankly... they aren't an opponent we can win against...
Player: Why... do you go that far...

Shou: EHH?!!

[p031]

Player: ...that's true.
Player: Hearing that sort of thing from an underclassman, though...
Player: But I'm really curious about that, too... if it were me, I'd have lost my fighting spirit.

Shou: Errm...
Shou: Eehh?
Shou: I don't really know why, but...
Shou: But...

Shou: We haven't lost yet, y'know?

(Tobio): ---That's right. It's so simple.
(Tobio): No matter what sort of difficult ball comes his way,
(Tobio): he has only one reason to chase after it.
(right of players) Concentrate here!
(left of players) Nice serve!!

(Tobio): Because the ball

(Tobio): has not yet fallen to touch the court.

Kouji: Shouyou!
Izumi: Shou-chan!!

[p032]

(Tobio): No matter how inferior their numbers,
(Tobio): He has only one reason to keep fighting.

(Tobio): Because

(Tobio): they haven't lost yet.

Player: One touch!!
(One touch is where you bump the ball to the other side of the net with only one touch)
Tobio: Cover it!!

[p033]

(Player): ...I can't reach it like this...
Tobio: Chase after it until the end!!

Player: S...sorry...
Player: ...the heck, he's even tenser than usual...
Tobio: Even though the match's decided, don't slack off!!

(Player): What are you, our coach?
Player: I know that, but see... not even a miracle could reverse that point spread.
Tobio: That single point just now wasn't a miracle, it was taken from us.

Tobio: That guy!
Tobio: Took!!
Tobio: The point from us!!

Player: Well... yeah... I guess that's true.
(small) Haha...
Shou: I don't have to give up...
(Tobio): He was being serious when he said that...!!

(sfx) Tweeet!

Boy: ...it's true that Yukigaoka's number 1 is putting in a huge effort, but
Boy: their being in a tight spot won't change...
(above right girl) You can do it, little guuuy!
(above left girl) Nice serve!

[p034]

???: What are you going to do, Yukigaoka...
Player: Kouji, nice serve!
Kouji: Hmph.
sfx bubble, white: Tap
sfx bubble, black: Drop
Player: Net ball! It's falling in the front!
Player: Kuh...

Player: It's a free ball! Izumi-san!!
(A free ball is a ball passed over the net because an attack wasn't possible)
Izumi: Alright!

Izumi: Shou-chan, it's up to...

Izumi: Ah

(Izumi): !? Craaap!
(Izumi): It slipped out of my fingers!!

(Tobio): A missed toss?!

(Tobio): The dribble wasn't counted as a foul,
(Dribbling in volleyball is passing the ball - usually to yourself - by bumping it with your arms)
(Tobio): But

(Tobio): ...there's no one over there!!!

(Tobio) ---or so it had seemed.

[p035/036]

(Tobio, on black): It was
(Tobio, on black): only
(Tobio, on black): a moment.

(Tobio): Even though I thought he was off to the left side just now,

(Tobio): Even though I thought I'd marked him,
Tobio: Shit!

(Tobio): Why

[p037/038]

(Tobio): Why is he
(Tobio): over there
(Tobio): on the right?!

Izumi: Uwaa?! Shou-chan!!

Crowd: No kidding!! He hit it...!
Crowd: What a shock...
Crowd: That sort of bizarre toss...

Izumi: Shou-chan, are you alright?!

Shou: Ah...

Shou: The spike just now...
Shou: was out......?

[p039]

sfx bubble: Tweeeeeet!!
Box: Match end
Box:
(left) Set count
(bottom) Winner: Kitagawa Daiichi Junior High School

Boy: Uwaaaa, that last one was a real shame!
Boy: Yeah... but take a look at that.

Boy: The faces of those Kitagawa Daiichi guys
Boy: don't look like those of a team who just won by a huge margin.

(Tobio): That jump came from
(Tobio): a difficult position,
(Tobio): launched from one foot...!

(Tobio): ...my eyes could only follow him as best they could.

[p040]

Player: That 1 point... what a fluke, huh?
(Tobio): ---that's right. The situation just now was completely due to the setter's miss.
(Tobio): There was no way he could have predicted something like a back toss.

(Tobio): ---yet despite that
(Tobio): He still hit it?

(Tobio): That guy was able to react
(Tobio): to a toss like that...?

Izumi: ...Shou-chan...
Izumi: We're lining up...

(Tobio): ...a high range of motion,
(Tobio): reflexes,
(Tobio): a sense of how best to move one's own body,
(Tobio): and the tenacity to win.
(Tobio): If you possess all of those,

[p041]

Tobio: What have you been doing for 3 years?!

Kouji: The hell was that!!!
Izumi: I told you to stop it!

(Shou): Junior high school.
(Shou): My first real game was my last.

[p042]

(Shou): The number of sets won
(Shou): was 0.

Acchan: Again?!
Izumi: Toss?! No way, I can't!
(Shou): The entire match lasted

(Shou): Only
(Shou): 31 minutes.

(Shou): After that, I heard that his name
(Shou): was Kageyama Tobio.
(Shou): "The king of the court".

[p043]

Kouji: ...there was nothing we could've done.
Kouji: Seems that our opponents are the national favorites...
Kouji: We were really unlucky.

Kouji: ...ah.

Shou: Whether the opponent
Shou: is strong
Shou: or weak

Shou: in the end, it's about whether you win or lose.
Shou: If you lose,
Shou: you can no longer stand on the court.

[p044]

Izumi: Shou-chan?!

sfx bubble: Step

Shou: YOU!!!

Shou: If you're the reigning "king" of the court, then!!

[p045/046]

Shou: I'll overthrow that title,
Shou: and
Shou: be the one who stands on the court the longest...!!!

Tobio: ...the only ones who remain on the court are...
Tobio: ...the winners and the strong.

Tobio: If you want to win and advance,
Tobio: try growing stronger.

(Shou): ---the things
(Shou): I am lacking.

[p047]

Box: Practice.
(above Shou) Thanks for today.
(right of Izumi) Again?!
(above Kouji) Quit it! It's embarrassing!

Box: Experience.

Box: A coach.
Box: Sparring partners.

Box: Whether it's the girl's volleyball club,
Box: or the team of neighborhood mothers,
Box: If they'll let us play alongside them, we'll go wherever.

Box: I mustn't do this alone.
Box: I can't win alone.

Box: Not alone...
(Newspaper)
(top)Junior high athletics meet volleyball (boys) results
(black strip) Kousen Academy Junior High School advances to the national athletics meet
(white box) Kitagawa Daiichi is unfortunately also defeated

Box: And--- studying for exams!!
Box: For the sake of going to high school and being in a "winning" match.
(above Izumi) My notes!!
(above Kouji) Gross.

(above Izumi) Ooh, crying?
(above Shou) I'm not crying! I'm not gonna cry anymore!!
(above Kouji) You can cry here.
Box: My first choice of schools

[p048]

Box: was decided a long time ago!!
Announcer: He is surely a "small giant"!!
(kanji on shirt) Karasuno

Box: By bicycle,
Box: it's 30 minutes through the mountains!!

Box: Miyagi Prefecture's Karasuno High School!!!

Box: 1st year of high school,
Box: spring.

???: Sawamura.

[p049]

Girl: Here.
Girl: The new club registrations.
(left)
Karasuno High School, 3rd year
Volleyball club
Manager
Shimizu Kyoko

Right Boy: Not all that many, huh... and I used to expect a lot more, too...
(left of boy) Thanks~
Center Boy: Our numbers'll increase with this, Daichi!!
Left Boy: Kyoko-san, you're beautiful as always today!!
(below right boy)
Karasuno High School, 3rd year
Volleyball club
Captain
Sawamura Daichi
(below center boy)
Karasuno High School, 3rd year
Volleyball club
Vice-captain
Sugawara Koushi
(below left boy)
Karasuno High School, 2nd year
Volleyball club
Tanaka Ryunosuke
Ryunosuke: You're ignoring my excitement!!
ガン無視興奮するっス!!

Daichi: Hm...
Daichi: Huh...?

Daichi: ! This guy,
Daichi: could he be...?!

Students: Won't you join the soccer club?
Students: How about trying your hand at managing the baseball club?
Students: Let's strengthen our abdominal muscles with wind instruments~

Student: Hrm!

Student: You there! The speedy, energetic one in the jersey!!
Student: Have you already decided on club acti

[p050]

Students: vities
Shou: Volleyball club!!

(Student): He... he slipped right through...!

(Shou): I'm here,
(Shou): I'm here!
(Shou): Karasuno...!!
(Shou): From now on, I'm gonna practice a while lot
(Shou): and then

(Shou): continuing through the prefecture's leading championship school, I'll!!!
(Shou): definitely get revenge on that king!!!

(sign) Second Gymnasium

(Shou): ---even though

(Shou): that's what

(Shou): I thought,

[p051/052]

(Shou): Before my eyes, it blocks my path.
(Shou): A high, high wall.

(Shou, on black): What sort of scene is on the other side?
Shou: Wh
(Shou, on black): What will I be able to see there?

(Shou): Scenery that
(Shou): I will
(Shou): never be able to see on my own.

(Shou, on black) But, if I'm not alone, then
Shou: WHY ARE YOU HERE?!

(Shou): I might be able to see it. "The view from the top."

Box: Karasu High School, second gymnasium.
Box: Club activities commence
Box: in 25 minutes.
(left) ---The wheels of fate begin to turn!!!

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Notes:

page 20: Bu (部) and Aikoukai (愛好会)
Both of these words would translate into English as "club", but there's a bit of a difference in the Japanese. As the teacher states, the latter doesn't require a minimum number of members to be recognized by the school.