Miyabi Takanashi

**"Show me your true colors!"**

## Character Information

### **Also Known As**

Silent AceForeseer
Golden Hands (by Shiratorizawa)
Miya-chan (by Kageyama, Hinata, Yachi)
Shiratorizawa's Black Bird (by Nishinoya)

### **Age**

14 - 15 (High School 1st Year)20 (Nov 2018)

### **Height**

160.3 cm (5' 2.5") - April 2012162.8 cm (5' 4.1") - Nov 2012
170 cm (5'5") - Nov 2018

## Background Information

### **Goal**

To hone her skills more and help with pushing her team to the top

## Professional Status

### **Occupation**

High School Student (1st Year, Class 6) - April 2012V.League Division 1 Player/Coach - 2018

### **Teams**

Karasuno High (Former)Shiratorizawa Academy (Former)
Japanese National Volleyball Team (Former)
Schweiden Adlers (Current)

### **Number**

11 (Junior High 1st Year)1 (Junior High 3rd Year)
15 (National Team)

## Image gallery

**Miyabi Takanashi** (Japanese: **小鳥遊 雅** *Takanashi Miyabi*) was a first-year at Shiratorizawa Academy, playing as the wing spiker and a substitute setter for the girls' volleyball team for the majority of the series. She was referred to as the "Foreseer" the moment of her arrival at Shiratorizawa because of her aptitude. She was then widely recognized around the prefecture by both players and coaches as a volleyball genius after showing her talents in matches.

She became a professional volleyball player at age 18 and a part of Japan women's national volleyball team, participating in the FIVB World Grand Prix 2016. She announced partial retirement shortly after and is now a commanding-submissive coach for the Japanese V-League Division 1 team Schweiden Adlers.

## Appearance

Miyabi is regarded as a very beautiful and slim teenage girl by many characters of the series, sporting a wavy shoulder-length black hair with
upturned dark blue eyes and a beauty mark under her left eye. Her image is usually compared to a black swan by those who see her.

## Personality

Refined and calm, Miyabi heavily exudes a mature disposition for her age. She is known as the "Silent Ace" in court for the rarity of her voice to be heard during games, which meant she prefers silent passing of messages to her teammates rather than shouting like how most players do. She is a genius both in volleyball and academics, which somehow imprinted a very intimidating aura around her, most especially by the students who know of her achievements and background.

Though her most prominent trait is her very subtle eccentricity, as noted by many to be an odd contrast to the elegant air that surrounds her. She is known to adore a variety of strange merchandise and food combinations, easily going from calm and timid to a buzzing ray of curiosity if she sees something that piques her interests.

She is also shown to be laughing, smiling, and frowning, showing that she is still prone to feel and express emotions like normal. She tends to let her goofy side out when she is around her team and tends to tease and berate a few of her teammates if she finds the opening.

On rare occasions, she tends to bark back witty retorts to particularly rude players that she encounters in court.

## Background

Miyabi was born in a fairly wealthy family. Her mother was a doctor and her father was an architect who is frequently based overseas. Because of this, she has already gone to a number of countries at such a young age and is known to speak more than three languages. During her elementary days, her parents divorced, which lead her to be taken in by her grandparents on her father's side back to Miyagi, where she spent the rest of her days. In her junior high, she watched a volleyball game through the television, and expressed her liking and wanting to experience it to her grandmother, who then encouraged her to start playing. She did not join any clubs during the entirety of her junior high school days, stating that she felt intimidated to join her school's volleyball club after seeing its tall members and their practice match, hinting that she may have been fainthearted as a child. She instead, played and practiced alone by using the corner walls of their large house.

Her current volleyball playstyle is heavily inspired by mixing the techniques and styles she sees as she watches games both for male and female matches. She is also heavily doted by her grandparents about her passion to play, agreeing to toss to her if she seeks assistance. She initially enrolled to Karasuno and joined the female's volleyball team after not receiving a response from her test in Shiratorizawa, spending a short amount of time there as a student and as a setter for the club before transferring a few weeks before the Interhigh soon after receiving a delayed mail from the academy. She later joined Shiratorizawa's female volleyball team, replacing the third-year wing spiker as a regular.

She expressed her disappointment to her teammates about the lack of practices her former team had, expressing her admiration towards their captain only. She also became an under 19 representative sometime after Interhigh.

## Plot

### **Karasuno High Team Formation Arc**

#### **3-on-3 First Years Match**

While cleaning up the first gym after practice, she spots Kageyama, Hinata, Tsukishima and Yamaguchi's altercation, expressing genuine interest about their predicament and lingered by the corners longer, witnessing Hinata's incredible jumping skills and agility, surprising her, monologuing her personal analysis about his capabilities, before walking away with a small smile, claiming that she has seen enough as she goes back to the gym to meet up with Michimiya. She then begins to tell Michimiya about the "amazing" thing she saw without mentioning their appearances, which further made Michimiya question her eccentricity, laughing off her confusion as the two of them close the gym.

Miyabi then expresses her disappointment, recalling the number of players who took the initiatives to make it to practice today, calling the others "remarkably lazy" senpais after she pointed out their lack of motivation to continue, Michimiya nodding along, unable to deny anything, but quickly defends them by stating her incompetence to boost her team's morale. The two of them went on their separate ways home soon after.

### **Interhigh Arc**

Miyabi visits Michimiya in her classroom dressed in civilian clothes to announce her transferring, Michimiya depositing her sadness to lose a very talented player from their team, bidding her farewell with a hug and a smile. Miyabi then leaves the school, ignoring the knowing stares around and travels to Shiratorizawa, going straight to the gymnasium to join the volleyball team. She is immediately greeted by the intimidating and tall players of the female team, but she shows no signs of faltering that piques the female captain's interest. She then orders a practice match to test their new recruits' skills.

   She participates in a match, competing against most of the regular third years, including the captain, where she immediately shows her prodigious skills honed by self-studying and practicing, not mentioning that it is her first actual match against actual players. As the match progresses, the opposing team is ahead by momentum for the first set in 24-24. Her side's libero directs the ball to her, it's inaccurateness obvious with how the ball swooned In the air, and the players monologue their foreseeing, with a win for the captain's side for the first set, but was proved wrong after Miyabi's sudden and powerful successful spike, earning her team a point and making them win the set, rendering the gym quiet after the brandishing of her abilities. She begins to show her incredible adjusting methods, going along the momentum of the ball. By the end of the match, she is immediately dubbed as a "foreseer", an inclination to her ability to foresee and adjust to the trajectory of the ball.

She then joins the team and participates in the Interhigh as a regular wing spiker, but she is often subbing as a setter.

#### **Shiratorizawa vs Karasuno**

She formally greets Michimiya with glee, purposely ignoring the rest of the team to show her distaste with their lack of will to practice during her days in Karasuno. The players and audiences express their amazement over the sheer aura of their team, comparing it to their male counterparts and commenting on how Shiratorizawa is good as training skilled players. She immediately makes a name off of her by showing her more refined skills during her practices at Shiratorizawa, earning the most points for her team, with the coaching commenting on her genius skills as a spiker. The match ends with 25:10 and 25:15, Shiratorizawa dominating both sets.

## Statistics

 Stamina
 Game Sense
 Technique
 Speed

Although she can sub as a wing spiker and a setter simultaneously, multiple characters claimed she shines more as a setter, as she can perfectly balance her responsibilities when setting up the ball for the hitters in every offensive bump-set-spike plays she's in. Noted even by the male teams' coaches, Miyabi is noticeably very sharp with her actions. She has quick reflexes and soft yet strong hands. Her assertiveness and aptitude add up to the balance of her principles. Most even went as far as to claim she's one of the best female setters in the prefecture, claiming that only a few had abilities as keen as hers.

Adding to her capabilities as a setter, she is a great all-around player. She can play both as a spiker and as a blocker as her intelligence and craftiness in the sport can expand to even the complexities of each position. She is aware of the bounds and rules and can easily memorize signals and connotations. Because of her adept and skills over the range of complexities of the sport, she was chosen as an under 19 representative shortly after her first play at the Interhigh.

**Height and reach, as of mid-November 2012:**

* Fingertip Height: 208 cm
* Jumping Reach: 309 cm (spike) / 280 cm (block)

### **Skills**

* **Backrow Attack**: One of Miyabi's signature skill as a spiker is her ultra-powerful backrow attacks, where she jumps from behind the ten-foot line and contacts the ball, hitting it with a strong force that would dig past most blockers.
* **Trajectory Commanding**: Her very prominent skill is her ability to adjust and control the trajectory of the ball. She has quick reflexes and thinking, quickly picking and deciding the places in the court of the opposing team where the scene of her reception collapses, making her a formidable player to face. This skill shines both in setting and spiking, giving the illusion that she controls the ball at her will.
* **Jump Serve**: As a substitute setter, she is shown to have a powerful jump serve, making opponents who know of her reputation incredibly cautious. She has displayed an ability to manipulate the power of her serves that oftentimes tricks her opponents.
* **Dump Set**: Miyabi uses a dump set when she plays as a setter, being able to read and predict most blockers' actions that make her dump sets perfectly executed with her opponents' delayed responses, effectively rendering them speechless.
* **Cross Court Shot**: Miyabi often uses this when playing as a wing spiker, wherein she delivers the ball at an angle across the court from one side of the net to the other.
* **Full Extension Spike**: Miyabi developed an adept full-extension spiking skill after Interhigh. She jumps and swings with full extension, hitting the ball. It was explained by their coach that she is a skilled full reach spiker as she is quick to react to commands and tosses and maneuver her body to not let the ball off her elbows and lower the contact point.

## Relationships

### **Karasuno High**

* **Yui Michimiya**: Being her former team captain, Miyabi carries a lot of respect to her. She acknowledges her skills and efforts as she was there to witness her dependabilities and struggles to maintain her physical prowess and attend practices despite a number of her co-teammates' absences. Miyabi makes sure to greet her and bow to her whenever the two of them would meet in certain predicaments. She admires her for her team spirit, going as far as claiming that Yui was one of the prominent faces that helped her hone her skills despite the short time they spent as teammates.

* **Tobio Kageyama**: UNDER CONSTRUCTION.
* **Shōyō Hinata**: UNDER CONSTRUCTION.
* **Yachi Hitoka**: Yachi and Miyabi were previously classmates during her days as a student in Karasuno, though they rarely interacted as they were seated far from each other, they do exchange greetings in the hallways and classroom and maintains a moderate to friendly classmate relationship. They still acknowledge each other much like how Miyabi greets Yui whenever they meet. They seem to have gotten closer after the Spring Tournament, as Yachi began to address her as Miyabi-chan and Miyabi addressing her back as Hitoka-chan.

### **Shiratorizawa Academy**

* **Satori Tendō**: Tendo and Miyabi carry a bond similar to siblings. They both appreciate each other as they do not push each other away and carries quite a few common eccentricities. Miyabi began calling him Sato-sama sometime before Interhigh, Tendo then debunking how they met out of the court once and clicked the moment he mentioned a certain horror movie he liked. Miyabi is one of the few persons who slightly gets his tendencies and odd way of thinking and respects his boundaries and likings.

* **Wakatoshi Ushijima**: UNDER CONSTRUCTION.
* **Shiratorizawa Academy**: UNDER CONSTRUCTION.

### **Other Schools**

* **Akira Kunimi**: UNDER CONSTRUCTION.
* **Lev Haiba**: UNDER CONSTRUCTION.
* **Sō Inuoka**: UNDER CONSTRUCTION.
* **Naoyasu Kugiri**: UNDER CONSTRUCTION.

## Trivia

* Favorite Food: Donburi.
* Current Concern: She has less time to watch her favorite TV shows.
* Her volleyball shoes are gray with maroon accents.
* She is left-handed but is shown to also use her right hand when spiking.
* She likes watching horror movies in her past time.
* She gets along with Tendo because of their eccentricity. She calls him *Sato-sama*.
* Although she is usually the one who makes people feel intimidated, she does feel equally intimidated in a similar way with Hinata, only that she hides hers well with a vulpine expression and she tends to hang on to the sleeves of the one nearest to her.
* Her star sign is Capricorn.
* She is confused with her actual birthdate, as she has mentioned her mother and father often argued if she was born before or after 12 midnight. She stuck with her mother's statement.
* Her best subjects are Literature and Physical Education.
	+ Despite P.E being one of her bests, and being an athlete in general, she stated that she easily gets tired.
* She is called a social media turtle by her teammates.
	+ She only uses her phone to browse videos of animals and cooking.

**Nomenclature**:

* Miyabi (雅) - *Elegance*
* Takanashi (小鳥遊) - *“Little birds play”, but the reading means “no hawk”.*