Playground (Volume)

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Playground
Japanese title	アソビバ
Romanized title	Asobiba
Volume Info
Volume	13
Release date (JP)	October 3, 2014
Release date (US)	July 4, 2017
ISBN (JP)	978-4-08-880193-3
ISBN (US)	978-1-4215-9103-2
Total pages	216 (JP), 224 (US)
Volume Guide
← Previous Volume	The Tournament Begins!
Next Volume→	Quitter's Battle

Playground (Japanese: アソビバ, Asobiba) is the thirteenth volume of the Haikyū!! series by Haruichi Furudate.

List of Chapters

• Chapter 108: The Teams Arrive (Japanese: 集結, Shūketsu)
• Chapter 109: Let the Game Begin (Japanese: 開戦, Kaisen)
• Chapter 110: The Strength Needed for Freedom (Japanese: 自由の為の力, Jiyū no Tame no Chikara)
• Chapter 111: Inexperienced (Japanese: 未熟, Mijuku)
• Chapter 112: Playground (Japanese: アソビバ, Asobiba)
• Chapter 113: Playground: Part 2 (Japanese: アソビバ・２, Asobiba・2)
• Chapter 114: Playground: Part 3 (Japanese: アソビバ・３, Asobiba・3)
• Chapter 115: Next (Japanese: 次へ, Tsugi e)
• Chapter 116: Vs. Wakutani Minami (Japanese: VS和久谷南高校, Bāsasu Wakutani Minami Kōkō)
• Chapter 117: While Battling the Little Giant (Japanese: 小さな巨人戦の途中ですか, Chīsana Kyojin-Sen no Tochū Desu ka)

Cover Characters

Front Cover

• Daichi Sawamura

Back Cover

• Shōyō Hinata
• Yūji Terushima

Spine Cover

• Kiyoko Shimizu

Author's Note

Whether it's a living creature or a structure of some kind, giant things are inherently exciting. As you look at them, you can just feel your stomach squirm and drop. When I used to work in an office, my desk was on the sixth floor. I would look out the window and pretend to see giant monsters walking past it all the time.

Synopsis

Karasuno fights their way through the preliminaries and wins, earning them a spot in the October qualifier rounds of the Spring Tournament. Their first opponent is a team of partiers from Johzenji whose motto is “Play hard”! They're a highly unorthodox team that improvises crazy attacks on the fly, leaving Karasuno baffled on how to counter them!

Gallery

Back cover

Spine cover

Hinata and Terushima facing off

Aone and Hinata bowing to each other after the bathroom incident in Chapter 108.

What Hinata's (and the author's) Spider-Man-like save of the ball to look like in Chapter 109. "When I was still a student, I always wished I could pull off something like that in a game. I didn’t get the chance to back then, so I’m happy I got the opportunity to draw something like it in the story."

Yūji Terushima's character profile

Takeharu Futamata's character profile

Rintarō Numajiri's character profile

Kazuma Bobata's character profile

Nobuyoshi Īzaka's character profile

Katsumichi Higashiyama's character profile

Arata Tsuchiyu's character profile

A closer look at Asahi's face behind the after-image of Hinata's powerful spike in Chapter 114.

Hana Misaki's character profile

A sketch of Daichi holding Hinata and Tanaka in his hands. It's a reference to his ability to rile up his team members.

Daichi and Asahi fist bumping so hard that they hurt their hands.

Takeru Nakashima's character profile

English Cover

English Back Cover

Trivia

• Within three days of release, Haikyū!! vol. 13 sold 347,210 copies, making it the top-selling manga of that week.
• In 2014, the volume ranked 33rd in Japan among top-selling manga. It sold about 719,758 copies.