Tsukishima Kei

Name:Kei Tsukishima Age:15 Birthday: September 27th Sign: Libra Team: Karasuno Volleyball playing position: Middle Blocker Number of players:11 Height:1.90 Gender Male weight:68.4KG Family: Akiteru Tsukishima his older brother and Tsukishima (Mother)

Tsukishima is very blunt and sometimes irritates his teammates due to his antagonistic nature (most notably Hinata, Kageyama, Nishinoya, and Tanaka) and sometimes other teams due to his casual and cocky attitude, taking pride and enjoyment when his opponents view him as a nuisance as seen with Tendō and Shirabu. Whenever someone does or says something stupid or foolish, he is usually seen chuckling. However, he seems to be intimidated by his superiors, and is not seen when Daichi reprimands Tanaka for antagonizing Aoba Johsai despite the fact that he did it as well, or when he backs down when Ennoshita reprimands him. Despite coming across as arrogant, Tsukishima has low self-esteem and considers himself inferior. This is first noticed as a surprise by Kuroo, who accidentally irritates him by suggesting that he will lose to Hinata, to which he states that he is already beneath him. After the Shiratorizawa match, despite being the MVP, he is seen as a fool for only being able to block Ushijima's attacks once, which increases how little he believes in himself and his accomplishments. Although Tsukishima maintains a personality of someone who shows little interest in anything and wouldn't do something he didn't like or dislike, he genuinely enjoys volleyball. He initially refrained from putting too much effort into volleyball and becoming too passionate about it for fear of suffering the same fate as his brother. However, after his confrontation with Yamaguchi and hearing Bokuto's inspiring words at the Tokyo training camp, he began to take the sport more seriously and eventually found his passion and motivation for volleyball when he blocked Ushijima. Tsukishima remains calm, for the most part, but can be seen getting visibly upset when people underestimate him or tell him what he can or can't do, and uses it as motivation to prove them wrong. He also says things like "It's not a competition" with Hinata, but then

He immediately proceeds to do something that makes him jealous, such as the time difference attack during the Shiratorizawa match. According to Akiteru, "Kei is straightforward and doesn't show his emotions often, but he's actually a very hard-working and kind boy."

moon, while Hinata is the sun due to their opposite surnames and personalities. In a poll conducted by Charapedia, a Japanese database of anime and manga characters, asking which anime characters they would choose as the basis for their children's names, Tsukishima came in ninth with 98 votes among respondents. In Haikyū!!: One Shot, Tsukishima was a second-year, while Hinata and Kageyama were first-years. Furudate chose the name Tsukishima because “His surname has ‘moon’ (月) in it to contrast Hinata’s ‘sun’ (日). But I named him ‘firefly’ (蛍) because he can emit light on his own.” In the first Haikyuu popularity poll, Tsukishima came in 8th place with 3.40