Manaka Ujiie (Japanese: 氏家 愛花 Ujiie Manaka) is a minor character in the Haikyū!! series.
Appearance
Ujiie is a young teen with medium-length brown hair and brown eyes. She can often be seen wearing fashionable clothes.
Personality
Like many other girls, she is an admirer of Tōru Oikawa and often supports him and the Seijoh team during their matches. Although she is not too familiar with volleyball, she does show curiosity and acceptance in learning about the sport.
Background
Plot
Ujiie debuts alongside Asuka Hirama and another friend when Seijoh first plays an official match against Karasuno. She and her friends cheered at seeing Oikawa when the teams took the court.
When Kindaichi began serving, Hirama asked how he was able to score so well as he didn't seem as skilled as Oikawa when it came to serves. She then heard Takinoue detail how the setter in the back row, Kageyama, has to be ready to position himself to set when the serve takes place but that this can cause a delay in reaction for other receivers when a serve heads to where the setter just was. While it can become easy to figure out where the serve will go, it can already do a lot of damage by that point.
When the score is 21-15 in Seijoh's favor, Ujiie asks Takinoue if he can explain the hand signals she has seen Oikawa and Sugawara doing. Takinoue explains that the signals tell the rest of the players what the next plan of attack will be and that the setters can sometimes use the plays to trick opposing players.
Midway into the second set, Ujiie notices how things are going back and forth, which causes her and her friends to question if volleyball has time limits. This prompts her to shyly ask Takinoue for his help in explaining things further. She and the others listen to him explain how there is no time limit and that, even if one side reaches twenty-five points first, there has to be a minimum two-point difference in the score for one team to be declared the winner.
The match eventually moves into the third set, and the girls continue to support and cheer for Oikawa. Near the middle of the set, Ujiie is shocked at seeing how fast Hinata was able to get from one side of the court to the other and land a spike that puts Karasuno behind Seijoh in the score by one point at 13-14. She and Hirama comment how Hinata could have done this method from the start but are told by Takinoue that the wide-broad attack was successful because it hadn't been used until now.
The set continues, and Ujiie is amazed at how the ball has yet to hit the ground until Hinata acts as a decoy and gives Asahi the opportunity to score and end the rally.
Statistics
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Relationships
Trivia
- Ujiie shared her English voice actress with Mao Aihara (season 1) and Daichi's mother.