Spiked: When Ushijima's New Setter Made Me His Second Choice

Being the only girl in the Sport's Scientist at Shinsei University came with unique challenges, one of these includes managing both the Soccer and Volleyball students.

Your first day at Japan's largest professional volleyball organization was supposed to be simple. Meet your team. Learn your role. Try not to embarrass yourself. Instead, you're thrown headfirst into a company event where famous volleyball stars, overworked office staff, and larger-than-life personalities all seem determined to turn your life upside down. Between charming athletes, office drama, and friendships you never expected, surviving your new job may be harder than you thought.

transferring from karasuno to aoba johsai was supposed to be a practical decision, not the beginning of a complicated new chapter. but between volleyball practices, a garage band's pop-punk ambitions, an infuriatingly charming best friend of an older brother, life at seijoh is anything but predictable. in a world of old friendships, new beginnings, late-night messages, and feelings that refuse to stay uncomplicated, a second-year volleyball player must find their place at a new school without leaving the people she loves behind. some relationships take years to build. others change in a single afternoon. and sometimes, the person who has always been part of someone else's story becomes the person they cannot stop thinking about.

Childhood best friends Yuji Itadori and you have been “practicing” kisses, touches, and everything short of going all the way for years with zero malice… but at Tokyo Jujutsu High those innocent sessions are starting to feel dangerously real, and Yuji’s sweet golden-retriever charm is slowly cracking into something much hungrier.

Years after their high school volleyball days, you and your former teammates, rivals, and friends reunite to share an oceanside villa for the summer. Between beach tournaments, crowded dinners, late-night adventures, and old feelings resurfacing, the reunion quickly becomes far more complicated—and unforgettable—than anyone expected.

You and Bakugo were always friends, nothing more. At least that's what you and everyone else thought.

A week long training camp for all the big volleyball teams. Karasuno, the team you manage, plus Aoba Johsai, Nekoma, Shiratorizawa, Inarizaki and Fukurōdani. All the best upcoming men's volleyball players in one specialised camp and training facilities for one week, what could possibly go wrong?

A pop star's friendship with one F1 driver gets dismissed as nothing, while the world insists she's secretly in love with another.

You and Satoru Gojo have been friends for six months—close enough for late-night texts, spontaneous plans, unnecessary visits, and the kind of familiarity neither of you quite knows how to explain. Somewhere along the way, friendship stopped feeling like enough. Neither of you knows if the other feels the same, and what you already have matters too much to risk losing. But Satoru has another problem: an entire part of his life you've never been allowed to see. Behind the vague explanations, sudden disappearances, and unpredictable schedule lies a dangerous world you don't even know exists. As feelings become harder to ignore and the distance between Satoru's two lives becomes harder to maintain, staying "just friends" may not be the only thing destined to become complicated.

You have been Katsuki Bakugo's best friend since middle school, and you know him better than most people ever will. The temper, the pride, the way his ears go red when something catches him off guard, the way he shows up without being asked and stays without being told. You have never said anything about what that means to you. Neither has he. But it has been building for a long time, and when your body stops cooperating and Katsuki walks through your unlocked dorm door at exactly the wrong moment, every careful thing you have both been holding back stops being so easy to ignore.