Tōru Nishinoya

**"Insignificant being be gone!"**

## Character Information

### Epithet

Imotou-san (By Yū Nishinoya)
 Adorable Kouhai (By Upperclassmen)
 The Unbreakable Libero (By Hayato Yamagata)
 Glue of the Team (By Kiku Azumane)

### Also Known As

Imotou-san (By Yū Nishinoya)
 Adorable Kouhai (By Upperclassmen)
 The Unbreakable Libero (By Hayato Yamagata)
 Glue of the Team (By Kiku Azumane)

## Background Information

### Family

Yū Nishinoya (*Brother*)
 Kōsuke Sakunami (*Husband*)

### Goal

Go to Nationals
 Win Nationals
 Be feared by boys

## Professional Status

### Occupation

High School Student (2nd Year, Class 3)
 Construction worker (current)

### Teams

Kitagawa Daiichi Junior High (*Former*)
 Alexandra Military Academy (*Former*)

## Seiyu Information

### Voice Actor

Hilary Haag (English)
 Rina Hidaka (Japanese)

**Tōru Nishinoya** (Japanese: **西谷 徹** *Nishinoya Tōru*) is a second year libero of Alexandra Military Academy. As of 2018, she has married Kōsuke Sakunami changing her name to **Tōru Sakunami** (Japanese: **作並 徹** *Sakunami Tōru*), and now works as a construction worker alongside her husband.

## **Appearance**

Tōru is quite small in both size and build, and is the shortest member of the team, despite that; she has incredible speed, befitting her smaller frame. Possessing a petite frame, long indigo hair and violet eyes. She wears many different types of clothes, but is mostly seen wearing her black deep V-neck dress with four buttons on each side and no sleeves. Underneath, she wears a white long-sleeved ruffle blouse. She is often seen wearing plain black shoes with gray thigh-length socks.

## **Personality**

As the result of her isolated childhood, Nishinoya harbored a cold and brooding personality. She would inadvertently lash out at others and interacted poorly with people. This was the reason for her decision to move to Alexandra Academy: she wanted to live on her own. Her plan, however, is disrupted by the arrival of her future teammates, who unexpectedly enter her life. At first, she is initially surprised and uninterested by their offers to become their libero but after their persuasion that they want strong females on their volleyball team, she agrees and creates lasting connections with them.

All her life she had been respected merely for her family or social status, yet because of their genuine kindness and friendship towards her, her teammates were the only people to take interest in her for who she was. Though she continued to treat them with some (unintended) bitterness, she began to warm up to them, and eventually those around her as well. Over time, she came to see her friends as an almost family, and although her slight abrasive nature remained, she reached out to people more in attempt to better understand them.

## **History**

Tōru was born into the Nishinoya family, a wealthy family of important status; it was mentioned they do clothes and fashion. But because of this she suffered bullying and humiliation at school: her classmates told her she was a boring person and that she shouldn't get full of herself just because her family was rich. That is why Tōru put up a front and developed her bad habit of verbally abusing people. Even her teachers vainly defended her from the bullies in hopes of getting recognized by her family. Only her brother, Yū Nishinoya genuinely cared for her, and openly loved her, while her brother decided to go to Karasuno, she decided to go to the private military academy, known as Alexandra. At some point, she joined the volleyball team of Alexandra and was selected as their starting libero due to her incredible receiving skills. At some point around the start of her second year, Date Tech received a new libero, Kōsuke Sakunami who she met in town, and eventually they started dating.