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Haikyu!! Fly High Smartphone Card Game Launches Outside Japan on July 31
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Garena describes the game:
In HAIKYU!! FLY HIGH, players get to recruit, train, and compete with iconic volleyball players from the anime series. In assembling unique team combinations and deploying strategic formations, players will face off in thrilling matches — brought to life through high-quality 3D visuals and cinematic skill animations that capture the intensity and exhilaration of the sport.
The game launched in Japan in March 2024.
Furudate launched the original Haikyu!! manga in 2011, and ended the series in July 2020. Shueisha published the manga's 45th and final volume in November 2020. Viz Media is publishing the manga digitally and in print, and published the manga simultaneously with its Japanese release digitally. MANGA Plus also published the manga digitally in English.
Production I.G's first television anime adaptation of the manga premiered in April 2014. The second season of the anime premiered in October 2015, and the third season premiered in October 2016. The first half of Haikyu!! To The Top, the fourth season, premiered in January 2020, and episode 13 aired in April 2020. The second half, consisting of episodes 14 to 25, was originally planned to premiere in July 2020, but was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The second half premiered in October 2020.
HAIKYU!! The Dumpster Battle (Gekijōban Haikyu!! Gomi Suteba no Kessen), the first film in the two-part Haikyu!! Final sequel film project, premiered in Japan in February 2024. The film sold 1,529,000 tickets for 2,230,465,540 yen (about US$14.12 million) in its first three days of screening. The film screened in North American theaters in May 2024 in Japanese with English subtitles and with an English dub.
The film project's second film titled Gekijōban Haikyū!! VS Chiisana Kyojin (Haikyu!! Vs. The Little Giant) has been green-lit. An anime short "Haikyū!! Bakemono-tachi no Iku Tokoro" (Where Monsters Go) will also air on television.
Kyōhei Miyajima's Haikyūbu!! manga, the spinoff of Haruichi Furudate's Haikyu!! manga, launched on Shonen Jump+ in 2019, and ended on March 24.
The manga has also inspired a series of stage plays, a clay-animated short, compilation anime films, and several video anime.
Sources: Press release, K-Lab
