Shoyo Hinata (2024)

Shoyo Hinata
Kanji	日向翔陽
Rōmaji	Hinata Shōyō
Character Information
Also known As	チビの1番 (Chibi no Itsuban) The Strongest Decoy Number One Shortie
Gender	Male
Date of Birth	June 21
Age	15
Height	162.8 cm
Weight	51.9 kg
Background Information
Family	Natsu Hinata (Sister)
Goal	To become the Ace of the Karasuno High Volleyball Club
Likes	Volleyball
Dislikes	Being Short
Professional Status
Occupation	High School Student
Teams	Yukigaoka Junior High (Former) Karasuno High (Current)
'Number	1 (Former) 10 (Current)
Position	Wing Spiker (Former) Middle Blocker (Current)
Debut Information
In the Manga	Endings and Beginnings
In the Anime	Endings and Beginnings
Seiyu Information
Voice Actor	Murase Ayumu

Shōyō Hinata(Japanese:日向翔陽Hinata Shōyō, Hinata Shoyo^[2])is the main protagonist of theHaikyuu!!series written and illustrated byHaruichi Furudate. He is a first year student at Kurasuno High Schooland joined theVolleyball team, becoming a middle blocker. Hinata's dream is to become strong enough to spike past tall blockers just like the "Small Giant" once did. Like the Small Giant, he specializes in jumping to compensate his lack of height.

Appearance -

Hinata's height is 162.8 cm, making him the second shortest person on his team next toYū Nishinoya. Although he is quite short, he is shown to jumpextraordinarilyhigh,like his idol,theSmall Giant. He has been taunted for his short height, but when he jumps on the court, many are impressed by the height he can reach just by jumping. He has messy orange hair and brown eyes. He is mostly seen in his currently school uniform, a black jacket and black jeans. Beneath his jacket, he wears a beige or tanned sweatshirt. In the first episode, he is first seen with a green school outfit from his former school. Since he had join Karasuno's Volleyball Club, he has been wearing a black shirt and black shorts with white tin stripes and orange tin stripes on the side. On the back of his shirt, his position number, 10, can be seen and also his school's name in Japanese kanji. While on court, he wears kneecaps and white tennis court shoes with red stripes.Regularly he wears a training outfit that is a burgundy color and white toed sneakers with accents of green. He is also seen with his training outfit that has black stripes on the side. He sometimes wears a regular white tshirt and shorts.

Statistics -

Other Appearances -

Tanaka-Senpai's Nightmare:

Hinata and Kageyama were training even before Tanaka was arriving. The next day, they were also seen to be more earlier than Tanaka. The next day as well which Hinata and Kageyama both tells Tanaka that they were here around 3:00 AM. Later on, Tanaka sees Hinata and Kageyama putting their sleeping bags saying that they thought to stay overnight at the gymnasium. Sawamura overheard what has happened, which Hinata and Kageyama asks Tanaka to stay with them. But, it was a dream of Tanaka.

The Battle at Lunch Break:

Hinata is seen to have the lastyakisobabread after Yū and Tanaka were been beaten by two school girls after they looked under their skirt.

Nisekyū!!:

Yū and Tanaka fought with guys from a different school after they were picking up on Kiyoko which ending up doing roadwork outside of their respective prefecture. Hinata and Kageyama who were just standing nearby, are also confronted in doing roadwork. Hinata sees on a board that there is a beach volleyball tournament. They want to participate but Tanaka was refering to Daiichi, if they are participating the tournament if he is finding it out. After that Yū points to some beatifull women, he changes his mind to participate in the tournament. The match has started, which they are having a match againstRaku,Chitoge,Onodera,Tsugumi, andTachibana. After seeing the other team containing most of it to be girls, Hinata is trying to play softly to them, but Tsugumi spiked a ball towards Hinata which he can't save it, which Raku's team gained a point. After what has happened to Hinata, they were shocked about the strength Raku's team has. After the match, they were seen in a restaurant, which Onodera is offering meat to Hinata, which Hinata blushes trying to accept it.

Trivia -

• Shōyō (翔陽) can be read as "flying heaven" while actually "yō" has different meanings which are: "sunshine, yang principle, positive, male, heaven, or daytime". His last name Hinata (日向) can be read as "place in the sun".
• In the firstpopularity poll, Hinata was ranked 2nd, after Kageyama with 6,058 votes. In the second popularity poll, he was ranked 1st with 12,720.
• Hinata's favorite food is:Tamago Kake Gohan.
• Hinata's current concern is that he can't catch a ball one-handed.