August 19th is Haikyu!! Day in Japan, so it’s about time for some big announcements! Today, we have two: a film art exhibition and a massive fan event.
An art exhibition celebrating HAIKYU!! The Dumpster Battle will take place later this year. An X (formerly Twitter) account has opened for the exhibition, which will run from December 27 to January 22, 2025 in Tokyo’s Matsuya Ginza. The event will showcase original art, goods and footage from the film, as well as offering original merchandise featuring the event’s artwork (seen above). After its run in Tokyo, the exhibition will travel around Japan to locations including Ishikawa, Kanazawa and Osaka.
Additionally, we have some early details on the final event in the Haikyu!! 10th anniversary festivities. Hakiyu!! 10th Event -NEXT STEP- promises to be the largest-capacity Haikyu!! fan event ever, taking place in Tokyo’s Ariake Arena on March 2, 2025. Ayumu Murase (the voice of Shoyo Hinata) and Kaito Ishikawa (the voice of Tobio Kageyama) are both scheduled to be in attendance. Additional information about guest appearances and programming will be available at a later date.
Toho Animation returns to produce the two Haikyu!! FINAL anime films with the animation continuing to be made by the team at Production I.G, including Susumu Mitsunaka as director and screenwriter, Takahiro Kishida as character designer and Takahiro Chiba as chief animation director. The first film, titled HAIKYU!! The Dumpster Battle, was released in Japan on February 16, 2024. No date for the second film has been announced as of yet. Crunchyroll and Sony Pictures Entertainment released the film internationally on May 30.
Haruichi Furudate published the original Haikyu!! manga series in Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump from 2012 to 2020 for a total of 45 volumes. VIZ Media releases an English-language version of the manga.
Crunchyroll currently streams each previous season of the Haikyu!! anime, and describes the HAIKYU!! The Dumpster Battle movie:
Shoyo Hinata joins Karasuno High’s volleyball club to be like his idol, a former Karasuno player known as the “Little Giant.” But, Hinata soon finds that he must team up with his middle school nemesis, Tobio Kageyama. Their clashing styles turn into a surprising weapon, but can they beat their rival Nekoma High in the highly anticipated “Dumpster Battle,” the long awaited ultimate showdown between two opposing underdog teams?
Source: Comic Natalie
