Sports manga isn’t for everyone, but this sagaof the ups and downs of an upstart small town high school volleyball team is hard to resist, and even if the only volleyball match you can remember watching is that one infamous scene in Top Gun, don’t let that stop you: this ebullient series has it where it counts. It ostenaibly follows Shoyo Hinata, an enthusiastic but unskilled player who joins the team of his dreams only to find that his bitterest rival, the talented but prickly Tobio Kageyama, has joined the same team. Despite their mutual distaste for each other, the boys quickly find they have a strange sort of chemistry that makes them much stronger together than they ever were apart. Hinata and Kageyama’s chemistry aside, Haikyu!! is the kind of manga where every single character gives you a reason to fall in love with them, and its sincere optimism, goofy sense of humor, and terrific energy bursts from every page. Plus, it will really teach you everything there is to know about volleyball, in the most engaging way possible.