Régine Shibayama

**"Insignificant being be gone!"**

## Character Information

### Epithet

The Shadow Libero
The Quiet One
Onee-chan (by Shibayama)
Shiba
Shiba-chan (by Oikawa)

### Also Known As

The Shadow Libero
The Quiet One
Onee-chan (by Shibayama)
Shiba
Shiba-chan (by Oikawa)

### Height

184.3cm (6' 0.6") - Apr 2012 (appears to be)
185.5cm (6' 1") - 2018 (appears to be)

## Background Information

### Family

Unnamed Parents
Unnamed older sister
Unnamed older brother
Yūki Shibayama (Brother; younger)
Naoyasu Kuguri (Brother-in-law)
Naofumi Shibayama (Niece; maternal)

### Likes

Yūki Shibayama
Naoyasu Kuguri
Volleyball
Watching movies with Yūki and Naoyasu
Playing pranks
Annoying her captains
Running away from responsibilities
Sour gummies

## Professional Status

### Occupation

High School Student (3rd Year, Class 6) - 2012
Professional Volleyball Player

### Teams

Kochō High - 2012
Azuma Pharmacy Green Rockets

## Seiyu Information

### English Actor

Alexandrina Feodorovna

**Régine Shibayama** (Japanese: **芝山 (しばやま)  レジーヌ ()** , *Shibayama Rejīnu*) was the starting libero for Kochō High`s Boys` Volleyball Team, a heavy favourite to win the Sunset Volleyball Tournament; an international volleyball tournament hosted in the United States. She was the #2 high school libero, serving as the unwitting "rival" to Aiko Sakunami; the #3 high school libero. The tough-as-nails, sarcastic, and dry-humored older sister of Yūki Shibayama and the sister-in-law to Naoyasu Kuguri after the time skip; she disguised herself as a male in order to play as their libero. As Kochō High has no bans on crossdressing, Régine was able to disguise herself as a male and became one of the most important players on Kochō High`s volleyball team. She was invited to the All-Japan Youth Intensive Training Camp, alongside fellow ranked liberos; Motoya Komori & Aiko Sakunami, ranked #1 and #3 respectively. As of 2021, she is a member of the Azuma Pharmacy Green Rockets, a professional volleyball team in Division 1 of Japan's V.League, serving as their unofficial manager and official starting libero. She is also a member of the Japan Mixed-Gender National Volleyball Team, and participated in the 2021 Olympics.

## Appearance

Régine appears to be one of the tallest volleyball players; easily towering over Motoya Komori and "is" the "tallest libero" shown in the series itself. Wakatoshi Ushijima has noted that she is slightly shorter than him, by only a few inches; in all actuality, her presence and clothes lend them into giving her a bigger frame, so that she appears fairly tall. She is actually the shortest libero in the series and the fastest, as she easily outclasses both Miya brothers and Karasuno`s first-year duo when it comes to her natural speed alone. Due to the fact that her lighter frame lends itself to greater acceleration and speed; she tends to injure herself a lot more often than most liberos and wears cushioned arm and leg volleyball pads during practice and practice matches in order to decrease her chance of an injury. As she has previously broken both of her legs and both of her arms, she wears four white medical pads; two pads starting from her elbow and stopping at her forearm and two pads starting from her thigh and ending at her calf. She has short black hair, similar to that of her brother and has gradient eyes that begin with a soft raven black and then transition to a light gray color before ending with a dark chocolate brown at the tops of her eyes. She is often shown with a teasing expression; contrasting her role as the starting libero, though she has been shown with a harsh, sarcastic, angry, or even incredulous expression on her face. As a side-effect of possessing a small portion Third Spirit; she is capable of changing her height subconsciously, which she uses to scare her teammates into behaving.

## Personality

Régine seems to have a harsh and tough-as-nails demeanor; easily seemly unbothered by the amount of injuries that she has received over her entire volleyball career, this leads to her being incredibly reckless with her body. Kiyoomi Sakusa has noted that she is a "fool" with a long-running reputation of always getting injured no matter that kind of stretching exercises she did, calling it an "art form". She holds a soft form of affection, towards her younger brother. Out of all of the Shibayama siblings, she seems to be the most passionate about volleyball. She seems to be friendly towards Motoya Komori and Kiyoomi Sakusa, as she handed Komori a tray of plastic-wrapped cookies, with several extra packages of wet-wipes for Kiyoomi. When on the court; she serves as the silent and non-detectable libero and backbone for her team.

## Background

At the age of 8; the Shibayama siblings` parents died to a severe case of food poisoning. Their older sister and brother who had graduated from their respective colleges and had good-paying jobs, took them in as their wards; due to their older siblings not being often, Régine often acted as the mother figure for her younger brother. During one of her middle school tournaments, the Shibayama siblings` older sister and brother died in a car accident, due to a truck accidently bashing head-onto into their car. Régine would use the last of their older siblings` money to rent a home out in the countryside, due to the lower costs of living out there.

## Plot

### **Tokyo Nationals Arc**

#### **Preparation for Nationals**

In mid-November, Kochō begins preparing for Nationals. Régine walks with a friend from the science club before the beginning of morning practice, during which she complains about her older sister` persistent nagging to get a "special somebody" much to the amusement of her friend. When Aoi-chan suggests the soccer team`s captain; she is instantly met with an incredibly disgusted look from Régine who states that Greeley is a troublemaker, which causes Aoichan to laugh loudly. They`re interrupted in the middle of their conversation by some of Régine`s underclassmen in the volleyball club beckoning her over to them; Aoichan then waves bye to Régine and runs over to some of their fellow seniors in their classroom to quiz them about possible crushes.

The team later meets at the gym, where they are informed of several members of their team being invited to the All-Japan Youth Intensive Training Camp; Régine states that going every year is boring, only for her team`s captain and vice-captain to shoot her annoyed looks. After arriving at the camp; Motoya Komori greets them with Régine quietly greeting him and handing him a package of plastic-wrapped cookies, with a package of wet-wipes sitting on top of the plastic wrap before walking her, grabbing a piggyback ride off one of her team members in order to keep her injury from worsening. She is on Hoshiumi`s team and diligently tries to receive almost every single ball for her team, drastically worsening her injury in the process and lengthening her recovery time. Later at lunch, she appears while Sakusa is interrogating Kageyama about how Karasuno beat Shiratorizawa and asks Kageyama if he has a phone, her teammate scolds her for overexerting herself in the practice matches yesterday as she probably pulled a tendon, with Régine asking her to stop jumping down her throat for every single little injury she receives. She is then promptly punched in the stomach by her teammate, with Régine collapsing on the floor, clutching her stomach in agony.

#### **Nationals**

Régine greets Aiko at nationals and when asked about her injury, states that she is healing gradually.

## Statistics

 Stamina
 Game Sense
 Technique
 Speed

Régine is a highly skilled and proficient libero, acknowledged as the fastest high school libero due to her small body frame. Her raw speed, high game sense, technique, and jumping power are additional assets which aid her other abilities and elevate them to their utmost potential. Her speed is such, that it can even match that of Karasuno`s first year duo and surpass that of Motoya Komori, who is said to be the #1 high school libero. As stated before; Régine is the #2 high school libero and was the former mentor of the current #3 high school libero, Aiko Sakunami, which suggests her talent in coaching. Due to her injuries, she is significantly less powerful than she used to be; it is currently how unknown how powerful she would be without having obtained her injuries. Her weapons are her raw speed, agility, acrobatic abilities, and previous soccer goalie experience as they all lend themselves to making her into one of the three best high school liberos in the nation.

## Relationships

### Kochō High

* Amane Tsukishima: Amane is one of Régine`s former volleyball students; unlike the rest of the Kochō High Boys` Volleyball Team, she doesn`t seem fazed by the harsh words that Amane uses nor does she seem affected by the comments that Amane makes about her height. Aside from Azumi Ahane; Amane Tsukishima`s deceased boyfriend, she seems to be the closest person to Amane.
* Azumi Ahane: The two were friends—with the death of Azumi, Régine become more harsher and harder on herself when she messed up during a practice match—it should be noted that Azumi regulated Régine from receiving any serious injuries while he was alive, yet after he was deceased, she began getting serious injury after serious injury, leading to a vicious cycle of self-hatred.
* Katana:

## Quotes

* *"My injuries hurt... Captain why are you picking up that ball? Captain stop throwing balls at my injuries! Captain!"* (To Ilma)
* *"If I receive your ball, will you **finally** shut up?!"* (To Riley)
* *"I don`t talk to idiots...specifically idiots who talk loudly and are overly energetic"* (To Shōyō)
* *"Your brother is loud, please murder him for the sake of our ears as well as our sanity"* (To Natsu)
* *"I like your little sister better than you; at least she knows when not to bother me and she tries to quiet down for my sake, you...well not so much.."* (To Shōyō about Natsu)

## Trivia

* Favorite Food: Salty Stir-fried vegetables
* Pre-timeskip Concern: Her injuries are slightly decreasing her preformance level
* Post-timeskip Concern: Being stalked by her fans
* Favorite Candy: Kasugai Soda Flavor Tsubu Gumi Jelly Beans
* Favorite Drink: Pocari Sweat
* June 20th is the day that astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin became the first men to walk on the moon.
* Her star sign is ♊︎ (Gemini), also known as the Twins.
* Like Morisuke, she likes meat, girls with short hair, spicy curry, Molten volleyballs, cats and going to the mountains during the summer
	+ Based on this information about her presence for girls and her noted disinterest in boys, she is lesbian.
* She has an older sister and brother; her niece (Naofumi Shibayama) comes from one of her older siblings, with a lot of evidence pointing to her older brother.
	+ In addition to an older sister and brother, she has a younger brother; Yūki Shibayama and a brother-in-law, Naoyasu Kuguri.
* Her personality was slightly based on that of Asami Sato from *Avatar: The Last Airbender*.
* She is often called "Shiba" to differentiate her from her older sister, older brother, younger brother, and her niece; all of whom carry the surname "Shibayama". Once in an OVA, she was jokingly called "Shiba Inu-san".
	+ A Shiba Inu is a Japanese Dog Breed; described as rather adorable.
* She is the "rival" of Aiko; the #3 high school libero. She doesn't seem to be aware of that; often brushing off Aiko`s attempts to challenge her for her position, as a cry for affection and attention from her.
* Rather dense and oblivious, she often bluntly rejected a female underclassmen`s love letter, not even realizing that they were trying to confess to her.