Ryūnosuke Tanaka

Ryūnosuke Tanaka for the majority of the series is a second-year student at Karasuno High. He is part of the Boys' Volleyball Club and plays as a starting wing spiker. Tanaka was known as the team's up-and-coming ace. After graduating high school, he became a personal trainer and married Kiyoko Shimizu. Tanaka has a shaved head with a widow's peak and sharp blue-grey eyes (golden brown in the manga colored illustrations) which led many to mistake him as a delinquent. Back in his first year at Karasuno, Tanaka had short fuzzy hair dyed in a light color (blond in the anime). He is average in he...

Loud, hotheaded, and easily angered, he is no stranger to picking fights. He is also somewhat of a slacker, as shown by his less-than-stellar work ethic in school and his usual lateness to practices. Despite all this, he is shown to be caring and supportive of his teammates, and even protective of h...