What Really Happened with the T-shirts

What Really Happened with the T-shirts
Japanese Title	Tシャツ裏事情
Romanized Title	Tī Shatsu Ura Jijō
Chapter Info
Volume	Go, Team Karasuno!
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"What Really Happened with the T-shirts" (Japanese: T (ティー) シャツ裏 (うら) 事 (じ) 情 (じょう) , Ti Shatsu Ura Jijō) is an extra chapter in Volume 3. The book was published on October 4, 2012.

Overview

Nishinoya gifts each member in Karasuno custom-made t-shirts with sayings that best fit them.

Plot

Each member of Karasuno receives t-shirts from Nishinoya with quotes that best fit them (according to Nishinoya):

• Hinata: "Great talents mature late"
• Sugawara: "Indomitable"
• Tsukishima: "Herbivore"
• Yamaguchi: "Mollusc"
• Kageyama: "Single-celled organisms"
• Ennoshita: "Once in a lifetime"
• Asahi: "Happy new year"
• Daichi: "Rising up after failure"
• Kiyoko: "Shimizu Kiyoko"

Hinata receives his shirt from Sugawara and asks about the meaning. Sugawara tells Hinata the shirt refers to how great talents require time to mature and become great, impressing Hinata; however, Tsukishima quickly points out how one of the words on Hinata's shirt is incorrectly written. Kageyama insults him back by pointing out his and Yamaguchi's shirts, "Herbivore" and "Mollusc", starting a fight between the two of them.

On the side, Ennoshita approaches Kiyoko and asks why she isn't wearing hers, and Kiyoko thinks back to when she first got it. Nishinoya and Tanaka had written only "Shimizu Kiyoko" on it because no other common phrase could express her beauty better than her own name. The shirt is also a shocking pink color, another reason why Kiyoko refuses to wear it, saying that she would only wear it if it was the sole alternative to going naked. Nishinoya and Tanaka, who were standing nearby, excitedly turn towards her, picking up on the word "naked" only.

Appearances

• Karasuno High
  • Asahi Azumane
  • Chikara Ennoshita
  • Shōyō Hinata
  • Tobio Kageyama
  • Yū Nishinoya
  • Daichi Sawamura
  • Kiyoko Shimizu
  • Kōshi Sugawara
  • Ryūnosuke Tanaka
  • Kei Tsukishima
  • Tadashi Yamaguchi

Chapter notes

Character revelations

• Nishinoya has a favorite store where he makes custom t-shirts.

Trivia

• The mistake on Hinata's shirt was actually a real mistake made by Furudate. He only noticed it after the chapter went to print, but added an apology at the end of the chapter.
• This chapter was adapted into a Drama CD audio drama that was included with the Haikyū!! season one Vol.2 DVD / Blu-ray.