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After a year, we finally have the name for the Haikyuu mobile game: Haikyuu: TOUCH THE DREAM. While it doesn’t have an official website yet, you can check out the official Twitter for game related news.
Haikyuu: Touch the Dream will commence pre-registrations on 8 November 2022, which may be when we can see more of in-development game teasers. The currently available 15 second clip on the official Twitter does not show much, if at all. From a year ago, what we know of the game basically boils down to:
- Including a story mode that will let you relive the anime
- A “full-fledged volleyball game with deformed characters”
For the unfamiliar, here’s a summary of the series:
Inspired after watching a volleyball ace nicknamed “Little Giant” in action, small-statured Shouyou Hinata revives the volleyball club at his middle school. The newly-formed team even makes it to a tournament; however, their first match turns out to be their last when they are brutally squashed by the “King of the Court,” Tobio Kageyama. Hinata vows to surpass Kageyama, and so after graduating from middle school, he joins Karasuno High School’s volleyball team—only to find that his sworn rival, Kageyama, is now his teammate.
Thanks to his short height, Hinata struggles to find his role on the team, even with his superior jumping power. Surprisingly, Kageyama has his own problems that only Hinata can help with, and learning to work together appears to be the only way for the team to be successful. Based on Haruichi Furudate’s popular shounen manga of the same name, Haikyuu!! is an exhilarating and emotional sports comedy following two determined athletes as they attempt to patch a heated rivalry in order to make their high school volleyball team the best in Japan.
The manga ended in July 2020, while the fourth and latest season of the anime concluded in December 2020.
