A stage presentation at the Jump Festa ’20 event last Saturday unveiled a new promotional video on the upcoming fourth season of hit volleyball anime Haikyu!! The PV also previews the fourth season’s new OP, “PHOENIX”, performed by J-rock band Burnout Syndromes. Check it out here!
A new teaser visual was also revealed on the series’ official Twitter account, which you can check out below.
The fourth season, officially titled Haikyu!! To the Top, will premiere on January 10 and will run until March. It will then take a break for some months and will continue airing in July.
Two new cast members have also been announced for this season: Mamoru Miyano (Light Yagami in Death Note) will be voicing Inarizaki High’s Atsumu Miya, while Natsuki Hanae (Kaneki Ken in Tokyo Ghoul) will play Kamomedai High’s Korai Hoshiumi.
Haikyu!! is a manga series written by Haruichi Furudate. Since its release in 2012, it has been serialized in the Weekly Shonen Jump, with tankobon releases done by Shueisha already numbering to 36 (as of this writing). Haikyu!! already has over 28 million copies in print as of January 2018. Production I.G. adapted the manga into an anime series in 2014, with the second season airing the year after and a third season airing in 2016.
The manga’s story centers around Shoyo Hinata, who dreams of becoming a star volleyball player despite his height. However, he suffers a crushing defeat in his first and last tournament in middle school at the hands of Tobio Kageyama, dubbed as “King of the Court”. After graduating, he vows to seek revenge on Kageyama and enters Karasuno High School—only for them to wind up as teammates in the school’s volleyball team. Thus the two form a legendary combo by combining Hinata’s athleticism and Kageyama’s genius and together, they vow to take Karasuno to the nationals.
Source: Anime News Network