The Haikyuu!! New Series Kick-off event unveiled new staff, two additional cast, and a new key visual (pictured) for the fourth anime season on Sunday. The new season, Haikyuu!!: To the Top, is scheduled to debut on MBS and TBS' Super Animeism programming block in January 2020.

Voice actors Natsuki Hanae (Kimetsu no Yaiba) and Mamoru Miyano (Ajin) are starring as second-year students Kourai Hoshiumi from Kamomedai High School and Atsumu Miya from Inarizaki High School, respectively.

Staff
Director: Masako Satou (Anima Yell!, Haikyuu!! Second Season episode director)
Assistant Director: Mariko Ishikawa (Haikyuu!!: Karasuno Koukou vs. Shiratorizawa Gakuen Koukou)
Chief Animation Director: Yuu Kobayashi (Pandora Hearts assistant animation director)
Action Animation Director: Hideki Takahashi (Haikyuu!!: Sainou to Sense)
Prop Design: Mai Yonekawa (Rakuen Tsuihou)
Color Design Assistance: Noriko Arisawa (FLCL Progressive)
Assistant Director of Photography: Chiaki Fukui (B: The Beginning photography)
3D: Kouhei Iwasaki (Inuyashiki)
2D Works: Akiko Hamanaka (Kuroshitsuji)
Special Effects: Miyako Hoshi (Kaze ga Tsuyoku Fuiteiru)
Studio: Production I.G

Production staff returning from the previous seasons include scriptwriter Taku Kishimoto, character designer Takahiro Kishida, art director and designer Ichirou Tatsuta, color designer Mayumi Satou, photography director Yumiko Nakata, editor Junichi Uematsu, sound director Hiromi Kikuta, and music composers Yuuki Hayashi and Asami Tachibana.

A two-episode original video animation titled Haikyuu!!: Riku vs. Kuu (Haikyuu!!: Land vs Sky), adapting chapters from volumes 22 and 23, will debut at the Jump Festa 2020 event, which runs on December 21 and 22. TOHO animation will ship the original video anime on Blu-ray and DVD on January 22, 2020. The official website also streamed a teaser promo.

Haikyuu!! adapts Haruichi Furudate's volleyball manga of the same title, which launched as a one-shot in Shounen Jump NEXT in January 2011. Weekly Shounen Jump published a second one-shot in April 2011 and began serializing the manga regularly in February 2012. Shueisha published the 39th volume on September 4, with the 40th volume planned for a November 1 release.

The first three anime seasons premiered in Spring 2014, Fall 2015, and Fall 2016, respectively. The manga also inspired four compilation films, the latest of which opened in Japan in September 2017.

Teaser PV


Source: animate Times