Chiaki Kunimi

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Chiaki Kunimi (Japanese: 国見 智秋 *Kunimi Chiaki*) was a 3rd year at Aobajohsai Highand a pinch server for the school's female volleyball team. She quit volleyball after high school since she felt she no longer had a reason to play it. As of 2018, she is a librarian in Kitagawa Daiichi Junior High

## Appearance

Chiaki has long dark hair parted to the right. Like her younger brother, she can usually be seen with a blank or indifferent expression on her face. She has an average chest and a slender build, but is a bit tall for a girl. She has the same delicate features as her brother such as the signature apathetic and tired dull brown eyes.

## Personality

Chiaki is quiet and indifferent by nature, similar to her brother. However, while her brother's personality is entirely due to laziness, she genuinely enjoys the reactions of others to the odd lengths she goes to simply to avoid effort. Surprisingly, she always attends practice and does well academically. However, she is normally asleep during majority of her classes and practice sessions. She also dislikes loud and energetic people, believing them to be idiots and nuisances. She is shown to be rather attached to her brother, him being one of the reasons she plays volleyball.

## Background

Chiaki went to Kitagawa Daiichi Junior High with Akira, her younger brother of two years, and she can sometimes be seen in the background of flashbacks. She was in the same year as Oikawa, Iwaizumi, Matsukawa, and Hanamaki, but was never in the same class as them. As a result, they are only acquainted through volleyball.

She only started playing volleyball during her third year of middle school, the same year her brother started. All throughout elementary school and her first two years of middle school, she was part of the "Going Home Club". She felt responsible for walking her little brother home but found that she didn't enjoy watching their practices due to the fact that everyone assumed she was another Oikawa fangirl so she decided to join a club. Since she didn't really have any interests then and didn't want to think too much about her choice, she joined the Kitagawa Daiichi Female Volleyball Team. She later on goes to Aobajohsai High and plays as a pinch server for the school's female volleyball team. She uses the fact that her reason for playing volleyball was boredom as an excuse for not putting in much effort during practice and it is implied that this is the reason why she doesn't care about not being a regular player on the team.

## Plot

Chiaki, along with her teammates, is first seen watching from a front row seat during the match between Kitagawa Daiichi Junior High and Yukigaoka Junior High during the middle school volleyball tournament. Although it wasn't shown in the anime, a gag shows her yawning every time the opposite team messed up due to being unskilled. Later on, she can be seen being restrained by a few of her teammates after she heard Kageyama yell at her brother.

### **Interhigh Arc**

Chiaki can be briefly seen entering the arena after Aobajohsai, most likely to watch the matches her brother will be in since her team's matches were done for the day.
**Karasuno vs Aobajohsai**

Chiaki can be seen in the audience, quietly cheering on her school's team, and her brother in particular. When Kunimi smiles with genuine happiness after a good spike, a brief shot shows that she saw him and began tearing up at the sight, most likely incredibly proud of him and happy to finally see such an expression on his face.

### **Final Arc**

Chiaki appears in the Final Arc when she goes to the game between the Schweiden Adlers and the MSBY Black Jackals with Akira and Kindaichi. At the time of the game, Chiaki is a librarian at her old school, Kitagawa Daiichi Junior High . Kindaichi states that he didn't expect her to become a librarian to which she reveals that she chose it because of how easy it was. At the end of the game, she glares at Kageyama after overhearing his request of wanting to play volleyball with Akira and Kindaichi. Although her brother agrees to the request, she continues to glare at Kageyama, most likely remembering the time he yelled at her brother.

## Statistics

 Stamina
 Game Sense
 Technique
 Speed

**Jumping Reach: 303 cm**

Chiaki is below average in some aspects as a player but her serves rarely fail to help the team. She specializes in jump float and ceiling serves, once scoring her team six consecutive points.

## Relationships

### Akira Kunimi

To most people, Chiaki doesn't seem very close to Akira. However, anyone who actually knows the two can tell how attached they are to each other. Chiaki, despite admitting that she is generally lazy and irresponsible, has always felt responsible for her brother. She called him "Aki-chan" when they were in elementary school and still calls him "Aki-kun" after the timeskip. Akira, however, has always called her "Aneki" rather than "Onee-chan", which Chiaki seems to prefer. They often walked home together from elementary to high school and keep in touch as adults.

### Yūtarō Kindaichi

Due to Kindaichi's long-standing friendship with Akira, they've met each other quite a couple of times. Kindaichi respects her but is sometimes shown to be puzzled by her personality. On the other hand, she believes he's a good kid and trusts him to take care of Akira the most.

### Aobajohsai Female Volleyball Team

Chiaki gets along rather well with her teammates but isn't particularly close to any of them, except maybe the captain. Many of her teammates feel responsible for her due to her tendency to slack off or fall asleep during practice, but a few are annoyed by this. A few of them, particularly the captain, are also concerned and/or confused as to why she lacks any ambition to become a regular player on the team. She tends to avoid the coach like the plague.

## Trivia

* Favorite Food: Butterscotch
* Current Concern: "The kids are starting to follow my example of sleeping in the library..."
* While her brother has a list of most hated words, she has a list of most hated quotes/idioms.
	+ 1. "Fall down seven times, stand up eight." (七転び八起き)
	+ 2. "Child of a frog is a frog." (蛙の子は蛙。)
* Her star sign is Scorpio.
* It is canon that Akira Kunimi has an older sister.
* She is the only one on her team who has never been a regular at some point.
* **Nomenclature**
	+ Chiaki (智秋) -
		- 智 - *Smart*
		- 秋 - *Autumn*
	+ Kunimi (国見) -
		- 国 - *Country*
		- 見 - *See*