Even for non-sports fans, these anime episodes are highly addictive despite their unrealistic and dramatized nature. One such popular sports anime is Haikyuu Final!!, which has attracted many people to the genre.
Based on the same-titled manga by Haruichi Furudate, Haikyuu!! debuted in 2014 and ran for four seasons, with 89 episodes overall. Though fans have been waiting for the fifth season, which has been around for about three years, the anime’s makers have revealed that, rather than adding another season, they will complete the series with a few films. In light of this, the following is all the information we currently know about the upcoming Haikyuu!! movie Battle at the Garbage Dump and the reasons fans should not miss it.
The Final Haikyuu Movie Will Reveal the Manga’s Final Arcs
As shown in the fourth season, Haikyuu’s tale has come a long way, from Hinata’s desire to follow in Little Giant’s footsteps and become a professional volleyball player to qualifying for the nationals. The previous season told the story of Karasuno’s run to the Nationals and their victory over the formidable Inarizaki squad, which featured the Miya Brothers, to go to the third round. The amazing Nekoma team, led by setter Kenma, will be the next destination for our Karasuno hustlers.
The chapters from 291 will be adapted for the upcoming Haikyuu movie, which may omit some events to cover the last arc, depending on where the first movie intends to end. The Time Skip arc, which takes place a few years after the event, comes after the Nationals arc. Before moving on to the Time Skip arc and saving other significant events for the second film, we will most likely witness the outcome of Karasuno vs. Nekoma and the ensuing battles.
Every major character in Haikyuu!! has received the same level of attention as the anime’s first season. As a result, several characters from earlier seasons—Kuroo, Bokuto, Hoshiumi, and others—will make a comeback. Hinata Shouyou is once again voiced by Ayumu Murase, who previously voiced popular anime characters like Ginro from Dr. Stone, Zerofuku from Record of Ragnarok, Kage from Ranking of Kings, and Neko from Durarara!!.
In addition, Kato Ishikawa returns to the character of Tobio Kageyama, the most well-known Karasuno member following Hinata. The actor’s roles in Mashle, Goblin Slayer, The Rising of the Shield Hero, and Rent a Girlfriend are his most well-known credits. The supporting cast, which also includes Nobuhiko Okamoto (Nishinoya), Yuuki Kaji (Kenma), Kouki Uchiyama (Tsukishima), Yuuichi Nakamura (Kuuro), Satoshi Hino (Daichi), Kaori Nazuka (Kiyoko Shimizu), and many more, will make a comeback in the movie.
Susumu Mistunaka, a well-known anime director who has worked on projects including Naruto, Fullmetal Alchemist, Code Geass, Pokémon, and Cowboy Bebop, is directing Haikyuu the Movie: Battle at the Garbage Dump.
As the Chief Animation Director, Takahiro Chiba—best known for Sword Art Online, Your Name, and Blue Exorcist—as well as the Character Designer, Takahiro Kishida, who has experience with JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure, That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime, and Serial Experiments—serve. Production I.G., who previously worked on the Haikyuu!! series and numerous other well-known sports anime programs, like as Ao Ashi and Kuroko’s Basketball, animated the film.
On February 16, 2024, Haikyuu the Movie: The Battle at the Garbage Dump will be released in Japan. While there is no official timetable for the Haikyuu film’s release in the West, considering how many well-known anime films, such as Suzume no Tojimari and The First Slam Dunk, have made their way to theaters five to seven months after their initial release, we may anticipate the same for this one.
When fans learned about the announcement regarding the two films, their opinions were diverse. Some were thrilled to see the anime again after a three-year hiatus, but others were skeptical about the process of condensing more than 100 chapters into two films.
Generally speaking, the anime would have ended as many fans had wanted after a few more seasons. The Promised Neverland and Tokyo Ghoul demonstrate how disastrous it would be to omit any portion of the original material, which makes it unlikely that three arcs could be included in the two films.
Maybe budgetary constraints held the creators back, and the epidemic perhaps caused some setbacks for the fourth season. Because of this, the anime’s creators most likely want to wrap things up as quickly as possible. We’ll just have to wait and watch how they manage to fit more than 100 chapters into two movies.
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