Return of the King (Volume)

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Return of the King
Japanese title	返還
Romanized title	Henkan
Volume Info
Volume	25
Release date (JP)	March 3, 2017
Release date (US)	July 3, 2018
ISBN (JP)	978-4-08-881019-5
ISBN (US)	978-1-42-159807-9
Total pages	184
Volume Guide
← Previous Volume	First Snow
Next Volume→	Battle Lines

Return of the King (Japanese: 返還 (へんかん) , Henkan) is the twenty-fifth volume of the Haikyū!! series by Haruichi Furudate.

List of Chapters

• Chapter 217: Take It Easy (Japanese: "楽", "Raku")
• Chapter 218: To the Very End (Japanese: 最後まで, Saigomade)
• Chapter 219: Hunger (Japanese: 空腹, Kūfuku)
• Chapter 220: Back Together (Japanese: 合流, Gōryū)
• Chapter 221: The Wall Returns (Japanese: 壁、再び, Kabe, Futatabi)
• Chapter 222: Enhancements (Japanese: 昂揚, Kōyō)
• Chapter 223: Thorny (Japanese: 刺刺, Togetoge)
• Chapter 224: Return of the King (Japanese: 返還, Henkan)
• Special: The Silent Court (Japanese: 沈黙のコート, Chinmoku no Kōto)

Cover Characters

Front Cover

• Tobio Kageyama

Back Cover

• Takanobu Aone
• Kenji Futakuchi

Spine Cover

• Kentarō Kyōtani

Author's Note

Thank you for picking up Haikyū!! volume 25! Kageyama is on the cover of this volume! He was also on the promotional poster I did for the January 2017 Sping Tournament (last year's featured Hinata, by the way). Both the part of the story I'm working on in Weekly Shonen Jump and the touch-ups I did for this volume focus on Kageyama. It's practically "Kageyama Month" for me right now! The thing is, drawing Kageyama is pretty rough. Well...the gloss for his hair is anyway...

Synopsis

Hinata may not have been allowed to participate in the Miyagi Prefecture Rookie Camp, but he’s determined to learn something from watching on the sidelines as a ball boy! Meanwhile, thanks to the other players at the All-Japan Youth Camp, Kageyama is starting to worry about how he’s interacting with his teammates! Then, with the Spring Tournament looming ever closer, Date Tech arrives at Karasuno for a practice game!

Gallery

Back Cover characters

Spine cover featuring Kentarō Kyōtani

Inner Cover featuring Takanobu Aone and Kenji Futakuchi

Kunimi's least favorite phrase #1: "So Pitiful!"

A sketch of an oyster. This is a reference to when Akira Saitō was ill due to eating a bad oyster.

Koganegawa is happy over his increased contact list after the training camp.

Tendō gives Hinata an interview and congratulates him on beating Kageyama to the volleyball club room.

During the Date Tech Practice Match, Futakuchi was supposed to have a special "Anti-Aone-lock-on block". But due to page constraints, it was removed in the original magazine version. Furudate drew a sketch of it in the volume.

Furudate had drawn a small doodle of a Hinagarasu next to Obara's foot.

The "Top 3 biggest eaters": #1 is Yasushi Kamasaki from Date Tech, #2 is Daichi Sawamura from Karasuno and #3 is Yū Nishinoya from Karasuno. Nishinoya comments that he does his "business" after every meal and starts to talk about the shape before Tsukishima cuts him off.

When Hinata announces the new "King of the Court" is born to Kageyama, Oikawa suddenly feels annoyed and it's like he needs to break something.

Furudate gave Kageyama's face expression a name: Kageyama's 'Whoops, now I’ve done it' face.

Kindaichi, Koganegawa, and Hinata introducing the bonus story of the volume.

The joke movie poster for Director Ennoshita's "The Silent Court"

Behind the scenes for The Silent Court

A sketch of Hinata, Koganegawa, Hyakuzawa, and Kunimi.

A sketch of Haruki Komi

A sketch of Akinori Konoha

English cover

English back cover

Trivia

• In the English translation, the character introduction page at the start of the volume incorrectly lists Kiyoomi Sakusa as a middle blocker. He is listed as a wing spiker in the Japanese original.