Karasuno Girls' Volleyball Club (Haikyuu!! Karasuno Girls!!)

**Karasuno Girls' Volleyball Club** (Japanese: 烏野女性バレーボールチーム, *Karasuno Josei Barēbōru Chīmu*) is the female's volleyball club located in Karasuno High School, Miyagi Prefecture.

## Uniform

Like the boy's volleyball uniform, it consists of a black jersey and shorts, with white details. The shoulder area and lining is white, as is the team name and logo boldly depicted at the front in a bright orange. The body and side-stripes of the uniform are black, and their backs have small white triangles highlighting the shape of the shoulders. The libero has a contrasting jersey in white with black details.

The girls have to tie their hair into a ponytail or bun during practice or matches as an unspoken rule, or have their hair cut short above the shoulder.

## Volleyball Club

The girl's volleyball club was founded many years ago, but it was never in the spotlight as much as the boy's team. Contrastingly, the girl's team has always been inferior compared to the boy's team, not in terms of strength, but rather in team work. The team has often been associated with crows due to the school's name. Its former banner for the girl's team used to read "Fly!" until Tomoe Oikawa and Yako Momoka created a new banner for the team, which is "Prove them wrong!".

They were never considered one of the best volleyball teams in Miyagi, only making it to Spring Inter-High and losing in the first round. Due to the team's constant loss in the Inter-High Preliminaries, they were nicknamed the "Weakling Crows". After years of being humiliated by their loss, the girl's team finally managed to pass the Preliminaries and earn second place in the Nationals.

Initially, the girl's team did not have a coach. When Yui Michimiya retired from the volleyball team in 2012, the role of captain was passed to Kaede Aoi. However, after Kaede gained the role of captain, the volleyball team gradually fell apart, leaving Kaede and her two friends Hifumi and Masako the only ones in the club. Just as the club was about to disband, Shineko Tadashi, Tomoe Oikawa, Reina Naoki, Haruka Hayase, and Makoto Koharu joined in their second year, stopping the disbanding volleyball club as Hifumi and Masako left to due disinterest. Haruka then became the club's vice-captain, with Masaru Gorou as their club manager. Later, Kocho Tsukihiko, Haruki Aikyo, and Yako Momoka joined the club as well.

Their main starting line-up is composed of Kaede Aoi, Haruka Hayase, Shineko Tadashi, Kocho Tsukihiko, Makoto Koharu, and Reina Naoki. Karasuno is currently famous for their quick-attack (performed by Haruka and Shineko), which is a copy of Kageyama Tobio and Hinata Shoyo's quick-attack, and it's unique members and skills, Kocho; for kicking the ball frequently, Reina; for her intellectual abilities, Tomoe; for her powerful serves, Makoto; for her decoys and unexpected dump shots, and Kaede; for her accurate and powerful spikes.

Karasuno's main rivals are Aoba Johsai High due to majority of the member's past experiences with the team (mostly Haruka and Tomoe) and Nekoma High, their "true" rival. The girls' team doesn't have many rivals mainly because they weren't able to meet many teams in official and non-official matches.

Offensive power and counter-attacks are the club's speciality, with heavy focus on attacks and rebounds. They utilize techniques such as quick-strikes, synchronized attacks using tempo, and uncommon techniques which includes jump-float serves and a libero tossing the ball to perform the synchronized attack.

In 2013, they won the Miyagi Qualifiers Tournament against Aoba Johsai and advanced to the Spring Nationals. When they got there, they managed to rank in the top 4 of all of Japan after losing to Nekoma. They earned two consecutive participations at the Tournament for the next two years. In 2015, they placed in the Top 10 after losing in the second round to Itachiyama. In 2016, they played on center court against Nekoma again in the semifinals, and lost, ranking third nationally.

## Members

**2012-2013 Team**

**2014 - 2015 Team**

## Trivia

* One of the team's strategic teamwork moves is known as mobbing, which is when they attack as a group to drive an opponent off. In the wild, this is a type of behavior that birds use against a larger predator on the prowl; this is another reference to Karasuno's nickname as crows. Karasuno has the kanji "crow" (烏 *karasu*) in its name.
* Initially, the girl's club didn't do very well because of their lack of practice. During 2013, this changed.
* The fictional brand for their uniforms and warm-up sweats is shown to be a foot with the letters "ics" underneath. The word for foot in Japanese is "ashi", so the full name would be "ashi-ics". This is a play on the name for the real life sports brand "Asics", which in Japanese would be pronounced the same way. Asics is a Japanese sports company, and is recognized worldwide for their volleyball athletic wear.
* All of the team membrs have different colored shoes associated with their own theme colors (e.g. Shineko is black and white while Kocho is purple and white, etc).
* Other schools often misread Karasuno (烏野) for Torino (鳥野) because they have very similar kanji. Karasu (烏) refers to crows, whereas tori (鳥) refers to birds in general.
* While most schools usually reserve the number 4 for the team ace, the girls' team doesn't seem to have certain numbers reserves for specific roles. The numbers are given to whoever joins the club in their order.
* Because of their initial lack of practice, the team wasn't doing very well. As a result, they earned the nickname "Weakling Crows".
* Their current banner reads "Prove Them Wrong!" which is a reference to their nickname the "Weakling Crows". The team wants to prove other people that they are not weak anymore.