Yuu Nishinoya

Yuu Nishinoya, also known as Karasuno's Guardian Deity, Karasuno's Guardian God, Nishi, Nishiya, and Noya, is a character from the Haikyuu!! series.
== Charactah Account ==
Yuu is the team's expert libero. Due playing for a powerful junior high team and being very skilled, he could have easily gone to any of the top volleyball high schools. Instead, he chose to go to Karasuno because he thought the uniforms looked cool. He was put under house arrest and banned from club activities for a period of time due to hitting the vice-principal during the uproar of a fight with Asahi after losing to Date Tech the year prior to the series’ events.
Yuu is a very energetic and temperamental person. His boisterous nature and crazy shenanigans can attract unwanted attention quite easily, which often goes badly for him. Although he hardly ever worries about the consequences of his actions (and may even revert to violence in order to vent out his anger on certain occasions), he is surprisingly considerate of his friends' feelings and insecurities.
Yuu has a quirky habit of spontaneously coming up with ridiculous names for the moves he executes while practicing receives. He is also unexpectedly shy when it comes to talking to girls he hasn't met before. 
== Appearance ==
=== Anime ===
* Haikyuu!!
* Haikyuu!! Land vs. Air
* Haikyuu!! Lev Genzan!
* Haikyuu!! Movie 1: The End and the Beginning
* Haikyuu!! Movie 2: The Winner and the Loser
* Haikyuu!! Movie 3: Talent and Sense
* Haikyuu!! Movie 4: Battle of Concepts
* Haikyuu!! Movie: The Dumpster Battle
* Haikyuu!! Second Season
* Haikyuu!! To the Top
* Haikyuu!! To the Top Part 2
* Haikyuu!! vs. "Akaten"
* Haikyuu!!: Karasuno High VS Shiratorizawa Academy
=== Manga ===
* Haikyuu!!
* Nisekyuu!!
=== Video Games ===
* Haikyuu!! Connect! The View from the Top!!
* Haikyuu!! Cross Team Match!
* Haikyuu!! Perfect Match!
* Jumputi Heroes
* Kotodaman
== Trivia ==
* Yuu wears white gym shoes with red accents.
* Yuu claims that he thought the name "Ace" sounded cool compared to other position names. But he also said that something the crowd likes even better than a good spike is an awesome save.
* Yuu was suspended from school for a week and was suspended from club activities for a month due to getting in a fight with Asahi and knocking down the Vice Principal's plant.
* Yuu said that he came to Karasuno because of the uniforms (the girls' are cute and the boys' black uniforms look super cool) and the short distance between the school and his home.
* During the team's first training camp, Hinata didn't recognize Yuu because, after bathing, his normally swept-up hair was down instead, and thus decreased his height by 10 cm.
* In the 35th Volume of the manga, Daichi says that Yuu has never seen anyone who looks that good with a stick before.
* According to Tanaka, the only type of movie Yuu will watch is over-the-top action, where he usually yells in the excitement in the middle of the film.
* Yuu attended Chidoriyama Junior High, a middle school in the Miyagi Prefecture.
* During Ennoshita's flashbacks of his first year, Yuu is seen with completely black hair, meaning he dyed his hair sometime after that year's summer vacation, but before the Newcomer's Match against Date Tech. However, this clashes with Yuu's flashback to his childhood in the manga, where he is seen as a young child with his signature blonde streak. Whether his streak is natural or dyed is still to be confirmed.
* Asahi and Yuu are foils. Their birthdays are inverse (01/01 and 10/10), as are their heights and personalities (and even their name kanji contrast each other—respectively 'east' and 'west', 'peak' and 'valley', 'morning sun' and 'evening'). They are also the two best-known, talented, and accomplished members of the team other than Kageyama.
* Yuu is officially the series' third-biggest eater, after Daichi and Yasushi Kamasaki.
* As a child, Yuu 'was a huge scaredy-cat' who was 'scared of bugs, scared of dogs, scared of birds,' and so on.
* Yuu hates onions and moths.
* Yuu fights with players from other schools if they flirt with Kiyoko Shimizu because he likes her.
* When Hinata was naming his back minus, Yuu advised Hinata to add "Thunder" to the name.
* When he gets excited, Yuu has a habit of placing his hands on the shoulders of the nearest person and uses this to stabilize himself as he jumps up and down in the air, kicking his feet up so it almost looks as if he's attempting to do a handstand in midair.
** On at least one occasion, Yuu actually manages to perform a handstand and maintain it for a short amount of time.
* Many times during a match when someone in the crowd compliments him, Yuu always points out a mistake he made.
* In the short chapter Nisekyuu!!, Yuu is seen spiking.
* Yuu received the most votes for the libero position on the 'Dream Team' poll and was hence chosen as the libero on the Readers' Dream Team.
* In Haikyuu's first popularity poll, Yuu ranked 3rd with 5,704 votes. In the second popularity poll, he dropped to 6th with 6,852 votes. In the Takara Tomy Character Poll, he ranked 10th with 7,560 votes.
* When asked about Yuu's name origin, Furudate said: "The evening sun that sets in the western valley! But I still think the name Yuu doesn't fit Nishinoya!"
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Yū Nishinoya at Haikyū!! Wiki
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