Natalia Porosha

**"Insignificant being be gone!"**

**Natalia Porosha** (Japanese:  **雪 ナタリー**  *Porosha Yuki*) is the main heroine of the *Haikyuu!!* series by Haruichi Furudate. For the majority of the series, she was a third-year at Senbonzakura High School, playing as the starting opposite hitter for the school`s volleyball club. Initially, she was referred to as the "King of Opposite Hitters," a nickname referring to her scary defensive and offensive skills by her middle school classmates and even some of her opponents.

As of November 2018, she married Hajime Iwaizumi and has changed her name to **Natalia Iwaizumi** (Japanese:  **岩泉 ナタリー** *Iwaizumi Natalia*). She currently works as a cafe waitress in Kyoto, Japan where she and Hajime have moved to attend university.

## Appearance

Natalia is a girl of average height with shoulder-length brown hair and blue eyes. In appearance, she is closer to her mother and looks very different from her maternal twin sister, Hinata Porosha. She wears Senbonzakura High`s winter uniform which, consists of a dark-teal tie with light-teal stripes, a white dress-shirt, a black sweater vest, and a dark-grey short skirt. She wears silver earrings and is usually seen wearing a silver necklace with a small charm dangling from the middle of the necklace. She is usually seen with a stoic look on her face and carrying a Styrofoam coffee cup in her right hand. During, events where she is required to wear the club`s uniform, she wears a white tracksuit with lilac/lavender details. As seen during practice matches, Natalia wears a cream t-shirt with her school`s name on the back of it, white shorts, a silver sports bib on top of her cream t-shirt, and black tennis shoes. Like the rest of her teammates, during official matches she wears a white jersey with lilac/lavender details, and lilac/lavender shorts with a white vertical stripe on both sides of her shorts, along with her black tennis shoes. During official matches, practice matches, and practices (after-school and otherwise), her hair is tied into a high ponytail at the back of her head. During school, her choice of shoe-wear is Mary Janes, completed with a professional light-lilac dress with white designs, and a tan cardigan over her dress.

### Seasonal Attire

Natalia is shown to never alter her attire unless it is for a specific purpose, such as that she cannot wear the same uniform all year-around or she is forced to wear a different uniform due to her uniform being washed by her mother. During the Spring Festival, is actually the one time when she didn`t don the winter Senbonzakura High Uniform.

## Personality

Natalia is respected for her abilities as a strong opposite hitter. Nekoma High`s opposite hitter, Nobuyuki Kai, had confronted her about her talent as a opposite hitter from her experience of playing against him in the same position. She takes great pride in her team and respects her underclassmen and the people in her grade. As noted by Natalia`s parents, Natalia is a very reserved and quiet young woman who is also concentrated, focused, and confident. At times, she appears to be very stoic, even with her teammates admitting as such much to Natalia`s dismay. Off the court, she is supportive of her team and often takes on the role of a manager to her teammates, and is seen as the "support pillar" for many of her teammates. She can be incredibly short-tempered, especially concerning her underclassmen, who seems to find Natalia`s angry outburts "scary" (though these outbursts are typically in response to them tactlessly commenting on her anger issues, attempting to skip practices, and even trying to "poison" Natalia with food that she is allergic to). Even Yacov at times refers to her as a "demonic upperclassmen".

## Plot

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

Natalia is introduced as Senbonzakura High`s third year starting opposite hitter in Chapter 27 as she is helping Yaku break up an embarrassing encounter between Karasuno's Tanaka and Yaku`s teammate, Taketora.