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4 days ago · Anime Characters. TV. Anime. Anime. Fact-checked by: Taylor Park. Over 90 fans have voted on the 10+ characters on Best Female Characters From ‘Haikyuu!!,’. Ranked. Current Top 3: Kiyoko Shimizu, Hitoka Yachi, Saeko Tanaka ...
- Hitoka Yachi. Hitoka Yachi underwent a great deal of growth in Haikyuu!! (especially for a female character). She started off timid, insecure and knew next-to-nothing about volleyball before becoming a more competent volleyball manager with some confidence in herself.
- Kiyoko Shimizu. Kiyoko Shimizu is the manager of the Karasuno boys' volleyball team is, unsurprisingly, one of the best female characters in Haikyuu!!.
- Saeko Tanaka. Some anime fans like bad girls, and Saeko Tanaka certainly fits the bill (as far as Haikyuu!! characters go). She has a reckless and headstrong attitude that makes her stand out compared to some of the more demure female cast.
- Yui Michimiya. The female volleyball team at Karasuno got substantially less screentime compared to the boys' team. Unsurprisingly, it means that many of the characters on the team don't have much of a personality and often go by unnoticed.
- Karasuno. Characters from, or related to, Karasuno High School. Players. Daichi Sawamura. Kōshi Sugawara. Asahi Azumane. Yū Nishinoya. Ryūnosuke Tanaka. Chikara Ennoshita.
- Nekoma. Characters from, or related to, Metropolitan Nekoma High School. Players. Tetsurō Kuroo. Nobuyuki Kai. Morisuke Yaku. Taketora Yamamoto. Kenma Kozume.
- Aoba Johsai. Characters from, or related to, Aoba Johsai High School. Players. Tōru Oikawa. Issei Matsukawa. Takahiro Hanamaki. Hajime Iwaizumi. Shigeru Yahaba.
- Date Tech. Characters from, or related to, Date Technical High School. Players. Yasushi Kamasaki. Kaname Moniwa. Takehito Sasaya. Takanobu Aone. Kenji Futakuchi.
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Kiyoko Shimizu (Japanese: 清水 (しみず) 潔子 (きよこ) , Shimizu Kiyoko) was a third-year student at Karasuno High, as well as one of the managers for the Karasuno boy's volleyball team for majority of the series.
As of November 2018, she is married to Ryūnosuke Tanaka and has changed her name to Kiyoko Tanaka (Japanese: 田中 (たなか) 潔子 (きよこ) , Tanaka Kiyoko). She currently works as a sports store employee.
Kiyoko is a very beautiful girl who stands at above average height.
She has shoulder length, raven black hair that she tucks one portion behind her left ear, whereas the rest hang freely on the right side. She has grey colored eyes with visible long lashes, a beauty mark on the left side of her chin, and thin framed glasses with baby pink rims and bridge.
Because of her attractive appearance, followed by the amount of attention that she garners, Karasuno is generally known as the team with the beautiful manager.
In her first appearance of the anime, she was seen wearing the girl's uniform for Karasuno High. Following the second episode of the anime, she's shown to be wearing a lavender colored tracksuit with a single lilac colored stripe that runs down on both sides for the sleeves and the pants. Moving onwards, she's most commonly seen wearing the volleyball manager's uniform.
During her days as a track athlete, as shown in a middle school flashback, she was shown wearing a sky-blue colored tracksuit with purple colored tennis shoes and cyan blue accents. She was not seen wearing the glasses she commonly wears, and she had her hair tied up in a ponytail.
At the point when Daichi had first recruited Kiyoko into being a team manager during their first year in high school, after she decided to retire from track, she was seen wearing her hair in two pigtails. Following her third year of high school, she would be seen to occasionally wear her hair loose or up in a ponytail.
Quiet and reserved at first glance, Kiyoko is generally known for her strict and straightforward disposition due to the simple fact that she's serious and passionate about her position as the volleyball club's team manager.
Although she appears aloof for the most part, she is shown to care a lot about the team members in the volleyball club. Even going as far as to fix and wash up Karasuno's banner in order to boost up the team's morale. Surprisingly enough, she's shown to be extremely shy, especially when it comes to giving a speech of encouragement, such as when she wished the volleyball team to do their best.
After Kiyoko recruits Hitoka Yachi as manager and that she later joins the volleyball team, she begins to open herself up a lot more and is seen smiling and talking more often, even cracking jokes to let Yachi ease up whenever the latter feels anxious.
It can also be noted that Kiyoko is surprisingly strong and capable, as she was quick enough to knock a ball flying towards Yachi without flinching, which more than likely may be due to her past as a track athlete.
Kiyoko was previously a member of her middle school's track and field team, and her specialty was jumping over hurdles. As a result, she would injure her legs quite often, which would result in several scars. Because of the team's large size and her inability to talk to others, she wasn't necessarily close to any of the other members on the team. Moving onwards, she eventually decided to retire from the sport for unknown reasons.
At the start of her first year at Karasuno, after retiring from track, she was soon recruited by Daichi to become the manager for the boys' volleyball team. Because she didn't know anything about volleyball, especially prior to becoming the manager, she mostly taught herself about everything involved with playing volleyball, such as the rules, regulations, referee signals, etc.
Karasuno High Team Formation Arc
On the first day of school, Kiyoko's shown handing the first-years' registration papers to Daichi.
Tokyo Expedition Arc
With the third-years deciding to stay on the team until the Spring Tournament, Kiyoko took it upon herself to find someone who would be interested in becoming the new manager for the volleyball team. Even with Hinata's help, she was unsuccessful in finding someone until she came across Yachi. Although Yachi had absentmindedly agreed to become a manager on a trial basis, Kiyoko was grateful and introduced Yachi to the team later, where she would reveal to them that she wanted to find someone who would continue to help the team grow once she had graduated. As she mentors Yachi, Kiyoko is noted to be more cheerful and relaxed. She is seen smiling and talking more often, to the joy of Tanaka and Nishinoya. During the training camps at Nekoma High and Shinzen High, Kiyoko continues to help Yachi gain more knowledge about volleyball by explaining technical terms and playing techniques. They both are seen helping the Karasuno players with team or individual practices and interacting with the managers of the other teams during the barbeque.
Tokyo Nationals Arc
Kiyoko assists in helping gather the measurements of each individual player for the Spring Tournament pamphlet. She is so impressed at hearing Kageyama was invited to attend the All-Japan Youth Camp that she is rendered nearly speechless. For majority of the time before the Spring Tournament, Kiyoko is mostly seen fulfilling her duties as manager. She would later join Daichi, Sugawara, and Asahi in a visit to a local shrine for New Years. At hearing how the three men were asking the greater forces for luck during the tournament, Kiyoko is able to inspire them to have faith in their own abilities. When the team arrives in Tokyo, Kiyoko is able to bond more with Yachi; revealing to the younger girl that she was a track athlete in middle school but had never been close to anyone on the team. From having gotten scars from jumping hurdles, Kiyoko began wearing leggings in order to cover them but got so use to wearing leggings that she continued wearing them even during the summer. From having such fun talking with Yachi, Kiyoko encourages them to spend more time together after the team claims their first victory.
Being a former track member, Kiyoko has impressive speed, jumping, and stamina where she has fast reflexes that enable her to stop stray volleyballs from hitting her or Hitoka Yachi. As she did not know much about volleyball prior to joining the club, Kiyoko studied the sport mainly on her own and became incredibly knowledgeable on things such as t...
Karasuno High
•Shōyō Hinata: While Hinata is often flustered around her, Kiyoko usually is easy going around the first-year. She gratefully accepted his help when she was looking for a new manager and encouraged him to pass his classes as Karasuno needed their greatest decoy. •Hitoka Yachi: When Yachi becomes part of the team, Kiyoko is shown taking on a protective and mentoring role toward her. Kiyoko occasional uses jokes to try to relax the first-year manager although they tend to have the opposite effect due to Yachi's anxious nature. While they have not known each other long, Kiyoko and Yachi have developed a great friendship. Kiyoko has even shared her history in middle school to Yachi and enjoys having conversations with her. •Karasuno High: While she does not often state so, Kiyoko acknowledges how strong the Karasuno team is and that they are fully capable of anything they attempt. She shares in their disappointment when they were unable to defeat Seijoh during the Interhigh as well as their determination to become stronger, wherein she decided to find a new manager to continue helping the team once she graduated. She often does what she can to help inspire them, such as finding the previous team banner and helping gather information on opposing teams so that Karasuno will be as prepared as possible. When Karasuno was able to defeat Shiratorizawa, Kiyoko is seen crying in joy. •Ryūnosuke Tanaka: The two first met when Tanaka was first trying out for the volleyball team in his first year. He had immediately proposed to Kiyoko when she had entered the gym and got rejected. He continued to tirelessly pursue her throughout their time in high school, but Kiyoko repeatedly turned him down. Even though Kiyoko found Tanaka to be a bit much at times, she has stated that she knows how strong he can be and that he wouldn't let certain situations get him down. Kiyoko goes on to marry Tanaka sometime in the future after high school, which is revealed in the Final Arc when they went to see the Schweiden Adlers vs. Black Jackals game together.
•(To Karasuno)"Do... Do your best."
•(To Yachi) "I think our team [Karasuno] is among the best in the prefecture."
•(To Yachi) "This time, we're [Karasuno] going to stand on the national stage."
•(To herself) "I may not stand on the court... I may not wear the uniform... But, right now, at this very moment... I stand with them on the front line of the battlefield."
•(Meaning that he behaves like a monkey; To herself) "A banana suits Tanaka."
•(To herself) "You train, keep training, then train some more. The countless hours you put in, the progress made... All of it can come to a screeching halt in the blink of an eye... So what if it does, though?"
•Favorite Food: Tenmusu (Japanese: 天 (てん) むす, Tenmusu).
•Current Concern: Whether to have Jagarico (Japanese: じゃがりこ, Jagariko) or Jagabee (Japanese: ジャガビー (じゃがびー) , Jagabī) for her snack.
•Star Sign: Capricorn.
•In middle school, Kiyoko used to get cuts and bruises on her legs from running into hurdles. To hide them, she would wear black tights. Even after retiring from the sport, she continues to wear them out of habit.
•Tōru Oikawa's high school concern lists Kiyoko as having ignored his advances before ("But she must just have been shy, and it's not like he's all that bothered by it, not even a little bit, not at all," Oikawa said to himself).
•Furudate gave her this name because "I like the way 'Kiyoko' sounds. I managed to name her without much trouble."
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