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“Newcomer Kanna joins high-school volleyball as pinch server, aiming to start alongside three former Tokyo-prefecture reps.”
Harigane Service
ハリガネサービス
7.17
7,100 rank · 3,319 readers · 15 favorites
Shounen
Team Sports
Sports
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Synopsis
Newcomer Kanna joins high-school volleyball as pinch server, aiming to start alongside three former Tokyo-prefecture reps.
Kanna Shimodaira enrolls in Toritsu Toyose High School and immediately joins their volleyball club. During club introductions, he announces his position as a pinch server. Taken aback by this unorthodox declaration, other members introduce themselves: wing spiker Jouji Mashira, setter Ibuki Matsukata, and libero Susumu Kaneda. It turns out, in middle school, all three of them were players chosen to represent the Tokyo prefecture. Alongside talented teammates, Kanna will need to work incredibly hard to achieve his goal of becoming a starter—unless he has a hidden skill.
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Community consensus
Derived from 4 sampled reviews
7.8
/10
What 4 readers settled on.
100%
recommend
Score distribution
median 8
mode 8
σ 0.43
Agreement
Strong agreement
σ 0.43 · scores cluster tight
The polarity gap
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Not enough recommend signal yet
Score over time
↓ 0.25
Running avg · Jul 2016 → May 2021
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 8 “Harigane Service is a manga that has a potential to be a mainstream sports manga title. I love the character development of the protagonist Kanna and I also love how the story progress. The only...”
- 8 “An entertaining, slightly over the top volleyball manga. If Haikyuu!! is the gold standard then this is running second, though can still be very enjoyable. It's still early on but there's been some...”
- 8 “Minimal spoilers for first chapters. Please don't expect another Haikyuu, This is not Haikyuu. Haikyuu is Haikyuu and if expect to be exactly like Haikyuu u will be disappointed. Howeever if you...”
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Short · 50%
Medium · 25%
Long · 25%
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A Manga Publication
- Format 212 × 24 ch × vol
- Total read 28h 16m approx
- Published May 2014 – Oct 2018
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M29520 catalog