Haikyuu!! x Kuroko no Basket
A second-year manager for the Karasuno Volleyball Team and the same age as the Generation of Miracles.
Original character, Akatsuki Ai 暁 愛, added to the Haikyuu storyline. Girlfriend of Teikō and Rakuzan's captain, Aka...
Fukuda Sōgō Academy: Ishida Hideki: "People for people" Haizaki Shōgo: "Survival of the fittest" Mochizuki Kazuhiro: "Knock on the bridge before crossing it" (meaning - Look before you leap)
Kirisaki Daiichi High: Hanamiya Makoto: "Birds of a feather flock together" Seto Kentarō: "Free and without restrictions" Furuhashi Kōjirō: "Go with the flow" Yamazaki Hiroshi: "Life will work out somehow" Hara Kazuya: "A joyful evening may follow a sorrowful morning"
Seihō High: Coach Matsumoto Yukinori: "Slow and steady wins the race" Iwamura Tsutomu: "Enemies and friends are both reflections of oneself" Ōmurō Yoshikasu: "Silence is golden" Sakamoto Kenjirō: "Out of the mouth comes evil" Tsugawa Tomoki: "Do with all your might"
Jōsei High: Kawase Yōhei: "Time is money" Sakuma Hiroshi: "All's well that ends well" Tsukubu Masahiro: "Surrounded by enemies" Narumi Daisuke: "Throw a sprat to catch a mackerel" Tōyama Kazuki: "He who does not work, shall not eat"
Shinkyō Academy: Tanimura Yūsuke: "One who is kind to others is sure to be rewarded" Papa Mbaye Siki: "Can't see the forest for the trees"
Ōnita High: Kobayashi Keisuke: "Dust amassed will made a mountain"
Meikō Junior High: Ogiwara Shigehiro: "Earnestly and sincerely"
Team Jabberwock: Nash Gold Jr.: "Do not suppose opportunity will knock twice at your door" Jason Silver: "I have never thought"
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Extra: (Haikyuu)
Oikawa Tōru: "叩くなら折れるまで！- If you're gonna hit it, hit it till it breaks!"
Tanaka Ryūnosuke: (haiku poem) "後輩を支えてこその先輩だ - To be a senpai is to support one's juniors". (Season 3 Episode 6)
Nekoma: (by Kuroo) "俺達は血液だ 滞り無く流れろ 酸素を回せ "脳"が正常に働くために - We are the body's blood, Flow without stopping, Circulate oxygen, So that the brain functions properly"
T-shirt idioms from Nishinoya and Tanaka: (from a Drama CD) Shimizu Kiyoko: "Shimizu Kiyoko" (清水潔子) Sawamura Daichi: "Fall down seven and get up eight" (七転八起 - shichiten hakki) (like Shūtoku's Kimura) Sugawara Kōshi: "Indomitable" (不撓不屈 - futou fukutsu) (like Shūtoku's epithet) Azumane Asahi: "Happy New Year" (謹賀新年 - kinga shinnen) Nishinoya Yū: "Racing recklessly" (猪突猛進 - chototsu moushin) (Fun Fact: The phrase is commonly associated with boars — like Inosuke, who says this a lot in Demon Slayer/Kimetsu no Yaiba — and Nishinoya was born in the zodiac year of the boar!) Tanaka Ryūnosuke: "Survival of the fittest" (弱肉強食 - jakuniku kyoushoku) (same as Haizaki) Ennoshita Chikara: "Once-in-a-lifetime encounter" (一期一会 - ichigo ichie) (same as Kuroko) Kageyama Tobio: "Single-celled" (単細胞 - tansaibou) Hinata Shōyō: "Great talents become mature late" (大器晩成 - taiki bansei) Tsukishima Kei: "Herbivore" (草食動物 - soushoku doubutsu) Yamaguchi Tadashi: "Mollusk" (軟体動物 - nantai doubutsu)
Akatsuki Ai: "Love every thing related to the person you love" (愛及屋烏 - aikyuu okuu) (Origin: Love that spreads to even the crow perched atop of your lover's roof)
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Which one's your favorite? Do you have a motto?
It's too bad everyone in Haikyuu doesn't have one, but I think we could probably come up with some good ones for them😉
Please let me know if I should add anyone or missed their mottos/notable quotes!
