CASIO’s G-SHOCK brand has teamed up with the popular Haikyu!! anime to release a new watch, part of its 2100 series. Sold via the CASIO China website, the Haikyu!! watches are priced at 1,190 NTD (~$37) individually or 2,290 NTD (~$72) for both as part of a collector’s version with a special box. The watches come in two models for Karasuno High School and Nekoma High School. You can check out the images and more information below.
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The G-SHOCK Haikyu!! watches were described: “G-SHOCK and the popular anime, Haikyu!!, have created a co-branded watch, combining G-SHOCK’s TOUGHNESS with the passion of the boys, creating a co-branded watch for fans. This time, G-SHOCK has combined the two most popular teams in Haikyu!!, Karasuno and Nekoma, to create a co-branded watch, incorporating the team’s colors and team flag slogans into the watch design, echoing G-SHOCK’s TOUGHNESS spirit.” Special features include water resistance to 200m, solar charging, Bluetooth to connect to smartphones and adjust time automatically, local times for around 300 cities, and more.
Haikyu!! fans are also counting down the time to the release of Haikyu the Movie: VS The Little Giant. While yet to get a premiere date, Production I.G and director Susumu Mitsunaka were confirmed to be returning. A teaser visual was also released. Meanwhile, fans have noted that mentions of “final” have been removed from recent Haikyu!! movie promotions.
Crunchyroll streams the Haikyu!! anime series, describing it:
Based off of the original Weekly Shonen Jump manga series from Haruichi Furudate, Haikyu!! is a slice-of-life sports anime revolving around Shoyo Hinata’s love of volleyball. Inspired by a small-statured pro volleyball player, Hinata creates a volleyball team in his last year of middle school. Unfortunately, the team is matched up against the “King of the Court” Tobio Kageyama’s team in their first tournament and inevitably lose. After the crushing defeat, Hinata vows to surpass Kageyama. After entering high school, Hinata joins the volleyball team only to find that Tobio has also joined.
Source: CASIO
©Haruichi Furudate/Shueisha, Haikyuu Production Committee, MBS
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