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1st Haikyu!! Compilation Film's Teaser Streamed

Japanese news website CinemaToday began streaming a teaser video for the Haikyu!! anime's first compilation film Gekijō-ban Haikyu!! Owari to Hajimari (Haikyu!! the Movie: Ending and Beginning) on Sunday. The video features the television anime's theme song "Imagination" by SPYAIR.

Hinata: The view from the top.
Text: While aiming for the view from the top, which they could not witness alone...
Hinata: It's a view I can't see alone.
Text: The boys connect it to the ball.
Hinata: Then, if I'm not alone.
Text: The new generation sports youth anime, with 14 million copies of the manga in circulation...
Man: When you hit a wall, it's a chance to go through it.
Text: ...will heat up cinemas!
Man: Let's go!
Man: It's not me that's strong...
Text: The showdown of destiny begins!
Man: Now then.
Man: ...it's everyone.
Man: Let's take this back.
Hinata: Toss it! Give it to me!
Text: Gekijō-ban Haikyu!! Owari to Hajimari
Man: This is connecting.

The film's official website previously streamed a promotional video in March.

The film will open on July 3. The second film, Gekijō-ban Haikyu!! Shōsha to Haisha (Haikyu!! the Movie: Winners and Losers), will open on September 18. The visual for the first film (seen right) was revealed during the AnimeJapan 2015 event in March.

Production I.G's anime adaptation of Haruichi Furudate's volleyball manga premiered last April. Sentai Filmworks has licensed the series for North American digital and home video release, and Crunchyroll streamed the series as it aired. The 25th and final episode of the first season aired on September 21. The anime is getting a a second season in October.

The story follows Shōyō Hinata (voiced by Ayumu Murase), who began playing volleyball after seeing the "Small Giant" who played the sport when he was in elementary school. He suffers a crushing defeat in his first and last tournament in middle school at the hands of his rival Tobio Kageyama (Kaito Ishikawa). So, Hinata joins Karasuno High School's volleyball team, vowing revenge against Kageyama.

However, Kageyama is also on Karasuno's team. The former rivals form a legendary combo with Hinata's mobility and Kageyama's precision ball-handling. Together, they take on the local tournaments and vow to meet Kurasuno's fated rival school in the nationals.

Furudate's manga also received an anime special for the Jump Special Anime Festa event on November 9. This special received a DVD release with the 15th volume of the manga on March 4. The manga has also spawned a series of novels, and a Nintendo 3DS game adaptation shipped in Japan on September 25.

Furudate first published a one-shot version of the manga in the Winter 2011 issue of Shueisha's Shonen Jump Next! magazine, and then ran another one-shot in the main Weekly Shonen Jump magazine later that year. In the following year, he launched the series version of the manga in Weekly Shonen Jump. Shueisha published the 16th compiled volume on May 1.