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Mark Ishii to Play Haikyu!!'s Lev Haiba in Jump Festa Anime Special
posted on by Kyle Cardine
The official special. The special will premiere at the Jump Special Anime Festa on November 9 in Tokyo. The original story will involve the relationship between two Nekoma volleyball players, Kenma Kozume and Lev Haiba.
Mark Ishii and Haikyu!! voice actors Yūki Kaji (Kenma Kozume) will also appear at the event.
This year's 34th issue of premiere in October.)
air on September 21 with the show's 25th episode.
The story follows Shōyō Hinata (voiced by Ayumu Murase), who began playing volleyball after seeing the "small giants" who played the sport when he was in elementary school. He suffers a crushing defeat in his first and last tournament in middle school at the hands of his rival Tobio Kageyama (Kaito Ishikawa). So, Hinata s Karasuno High School's volleyball team, vowing revenge against Kageyama.
However, Kageyama is also on Karasuno's team. The former rivals form a legendary combo with Hinata's mobility and Kageyama's precision ball-handling. Together, they take on the local tournaments and vow to meet Kurasuno's fated rival school in the nationals.
A slated to ship on September 25 in Japan.
[Via Nijimen]
