Gorgeous career change: the former "Haikyuu!!" stage actor becomes a professional volleyball player

What happens if you get too into acting? It's good to just become the character. Recently, Japanese media reported that a former actor from the stage play "Haikyuu!!" successfully joined the Japanese Volleyball V League and became a professional volleyball player. He has been trending on Twitter. Let's learn more about it.

·Haikyuu!! is a manga by Japanese manga artist Haruichi Furudate. It was serialized in Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine on December 12, 2012. It is one of the mainstays of Jump after the end of Naruto. It is also a sports anime that is so exciting! In today's sports anime dominated by super powers, there is such a sports anime masterpiece that does not rely on super powers at all.

·The actor who has participated in the stage play of "Haikyuu!!" for many times is Ryuwei Hajime, who always plays the role of Koganegawa Kanjiro of the first grade group 1 of Date Industrial High School. According to an interview with Japanese media, Ryuwei Hajime actually met the then Japanese national team representative Kyohei Shibata in a special opportunity in high school, and since then he developed a yearning for volleyball.

Later, he joined a volleyball club for a period of time during college, but what completely ignited Yufu Ryuwei's volleyball dream was participating in many "Haikyuu!!" stage plays. Finally, through personal efforts, he successfully joined the Chiba ZELVA team of the Japanese Volleyball V League, realizing his gorgeous transformation from acting to real work.