Megumi Kindaichi (Artemis Chronicles)

**"Insignificant being be gone!"**

**Megumi Kindaichi** (Japanese: **金田一 恵**, *Kindaichi Megumi*) is a third-year student from Aobajohsai High; the girls' volleyball team ace, vice-captain, and a wing spiker. She is also Sakura Kunimi's childhood friend and pillar.

## Appearance

Megumi has dark, straight, long hair and very thin eyebrows. Her eyes are dark chocolate brown in the manga, olive green in the anime adaption, and silver in the Haikyuu!! smartphone game. Her hair is dark chocolate brown in the manga and in the Haikyuu!! smartphone game, but black in the anime. More often than not, she's shown to hold a serious or irked expression.

While playing volleyball, Megumi wears a standard Aobajohsai uniform with the number one on it emblazoned on it. Like the other members of her team, for some reason she wears a male Aobajohsai school uniform consisting of khakis with dark brown details, a lavender-colored button-down shirt, a dark red tie, and a white blazer. Megumi`s uniform is neat which fits her germaphobic nature, with her tie tight around her neck, missing the cream-colored vest that goes with the rest of the uniform and her shirt tucked in.

In the anime adaptation, Megumi is seen wearing an outfit which consists of a pair of jeans with an oversized dark blue denim jacket over a grey hoodie.

## Personality

Megumi is a stubborn but reliable teammate, often filling in Sakura's place as a morale booster if needed. She acts supportive to all, including Tobio Kageyama, and calls Emroy out for her childishness, and Sakura for her inferiority complex. Due to these traits of her's, she is often called "mom" by her team, and gets very embarrassed when she is called that, usually throwing a volleyball in retaliation. She often resorts to violence with her teammates whenever they tease or provoke her, but this does not change the fact that she cares immensely for them, as shown when she makes an effort to stop her teammates from either working too hard or losing confidence in an official match. Megumi's firm-yet-caring attitude has led some members of the Aobajohsai team to look up to and respect her, with even members of the boys' volleyball team respecting her as well. Her underclassmen often gravitate towards her and she is seen giving calm and light-hearted advice to Lily, which can contrast to how she treats Sakura. She is also very respectful and is stated to be a kind-hearted person, but yells at people in an encouraging manner to get their spirits up during a match. Despite her intimidating personality, she is shown to have a hidden side where she loves to fence and usually competes with Sakura in an attempt to improve her self-confidence.

## Background

   Knowing Sakura since early childhood, they both went to the same school, Kitagawa Daiichi Junior High and it's rumored that they've been in the same schools until high school. They were both bitter rivals of Titania Overlord, although Megumi didn't seem to take her as seriously as Sakura did. Megumi constanally kept her friend in check, including the time Sakura almost had a mental breakdown. She often uses violent and somewhat harsh words when encouraging Sakura but despite all that she still strongly cares for Sakura. Naturally, she lectured Sakura harshly on how she's not on the court alone, and that she always has her teammates on the court with her. Megumi and Sakura later attended Aobajohsai High together, becoming Vice-Captain and Captain respectively by their third year.

## Plot

#### **Interhigh**

In the interhigh preliminaries, Megumi's team faced off against against Karasuno High. In the end, Aobajohsai advanced, and defeated Shiratorizawa Academy. Reaching the next round, they were defeated by Maximilian Academy. While most 3rd years from other various schools moved on and left the volleyball club behind after the Interhigh, Megumi and the other 3rd years stuck around to have another chance at beating Maximilian.

### **Spring High Preliminary Arc**

In the Interhigh preliminaries, Megumi's team faced off against Karasuno High. In the end, Aobajohsai advanced and went onto to defeat Shiratorizawa Academy once more, reaching the finals where they faced Maximilian Academy. They defeated Maximilian by a huge land-slide and advanced as Miyagi Prefecture's representative. After finishing their game, Megumi and the rest of the Girls` Volleyball Team returned to watch the Karasuno vs Shiratorizawa match. Sakura commented on how lucky that Megumi was her vice-captain, managing to get her to smile genuinely at her.

## Statistics

 Stamina
 Game Sense
 Technique
 Speed

Megumi is Aobajohsai's ace, and her spikes are incredibly strong. She is a dependable player with faith in her own abilities, which leads Ginny setting to Megumi whenever she feels that she's in a pinch. She is shown to have solid receives; often getting the ball when Kuro Watari, Seijō's libero, is unable to. It has been noted by Morone Hampton that Megumi has a powerful serve. Being hit continuously by her and Lucy's serves throughout a match can be incredibly taxing on their opponents. She is also fearless enough to exploit Miriam's technical flaw as a blocker despite her height.