is a Japanese

volleyball Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Sum ...

light novel A light novel (, Hepburn: ''raito noberu'') is a style of young adult novel primarily targeting high school and middle school students. The term "light novel" is a '' wasei-eigo'', or a Japanese term formed from words in the English languag ...

series written by Yukako Kabei and illustrated by Aiji Yamakawa.

Shueisha (lit. "Gathering of Intellect Publishing Co., Ltd.") is a Japanese company headquartered in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. The company was established in 1925 as the entertainment-related publishing division of Japanese publisher Shogakukan. The foll ...

have published five volumes in three seasons since March 2015 under their Shueisha Bunko imprint. A manga adaptation with art by Yamakawa has been serialized in Shueisha's ''josei'' manga magazine '' Cocohana'' from July to September 2018. An

anime is hand-drawn and computer-generated animation originating from Japan. Outside of Japan and in English, ''anime'' refers specifically to animation produced in Japan. However, in Japan and in Japanese, (a term derived from a shortening of ...

television series adaptation produced by

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aired from January to March 2021, on the

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block. "2.43" refers to the height of the net for male volleyball, 2.43 m.

Characters

; : :Yuni (or Kuroba his teammates call him) is Kimichika's (Chika's) best friend since kindergarten who was originally upset when his best friend moved back in middle school. ; : :Kimichika or Chika is Yuni's best friend since kindergarten. Chika was involved in a scandal at his middle school which caused him to transfer from a prestigious school to the same school as Yuni. ; : ; : ; : ; : ; : ; : ; : ; : ; : ; : ; : ; : ; : ; : ; :

Media

Light novels

Manga

Anime

television series adaptation was announced via

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on November 1, 2019. The series is animated by

and directed by Yasuhiro Kimura, with

Yōsuke Kuroda is a Japanese anime screenwriter from Mie Prefecture, Japan. He has his own studio enterprise, Studio Orphee. Kuroda is noted for his work on authoring the scenario, screenplay and story composition of the anime series ''Excel Saga'', ''Please ...

handling series composition, Yūichi Takahashi designing the characters, and

Yugo Kanno is a Japanese composer and musician known for his work on many television dramas, anime series, and movies. Biography Kanno was born in Saitama, Japan. He attended junior high school in Kawagoe before later moving to Takanezawa for university ...

composing the music. It aired from January 8 to March 26, 2021, on the

programming block. The opening theme song is performed by yama, and the ending theme song is "Undulation" performed by .

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licensed the series and streamed it on its website in North America and the British Isles, in Europe through

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, and in Australia and New Zealand through

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. Following Sony's acquisition of Crunchyroll, the series was moved to Crunchyroll.

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