Haikyuu Band Au - Blog Posts

Drawing from the day @staugustinebutnotreligious and I really dug into our band au.

Kageyama is singing a background note to retune one of his strings during a song (he trusts his perfect pitch) and hoping no one notices. Hinata is gobsmacked, definitely notices, and is definitely helping by stopping his drums all together in the middle of the song to let those background vocals shine through.. yeah >:3

Finished my band au wip! It's meant to be them as the band looking over their high school selves.

Upcoming band au wip?????? What could it be?????

More band au art!!!

This piece is inspired by the idea of the group getting invited to a prestigious award show and/gala and taking the opportunity to do a photo shoot in their outfits for the night! Photo shoot concept: Tsuki “walking in” on the others

@jetjaw gave me prompts for the outfits and I ran with them. These are the ideas behind them:

Tadashi: funky 70s inspired fit

Yachi: SUPER BAGGY man suit (I took inspo from zoot suits and added some pink accessories)

Tsuki: oh please he never gets out of that damn shirt

Kageyama: office siren/pencil skirt (I steered away from the office theme but it’s in there)

Hinata: no shirt only tie

The first years band au I came up with @jetjaw is my guilty pleasure Haikyuu au. Like.

Should Yachi have extreme mommy issues that aren’t at all in line with how the series portrays them? Hell yeah pile them on. Is Tadashi the gayest fuck to ever live? Duh of course he is! Are Kagehina super messy and angsty and dramatic? Yes because it’s fun.

It’s completely inaccurate to their characters but sometimes my brain wants a bit of drama. Pizzazz even.

Finished that band au wip! There’s a lot of lore with this au…. Not gonna make a fic for it but I’m gonna slowly tell what @jetjaw and I have been planning…

For now here’s the basics:

They form the band in high school, but don’t really really take off till their young adults (though they have local fans in school)

Tadashi is the frontman on guitar and lead vocals, as well as the main lyricist for the band. He has always dreamed of being in a band, though he doesn’t have the raw natural talent some of the others do. He’s the one who brings everyone together at school. Him and Tsuki are still childhood friends, he’s school buddies with Yachi, he meets Kageyama in music class, and he rooms with Hinata in their school’s dorms.

Tsuki only picks up the guitar to have something in common with the only friend he tolerates, but ends up being very good at it. He’s the lead guitar, and he secretly loves it, though he never quite shakes the aloof persona. They know he loves them though, or he never would have let them talk him into that tongue piercing…

Yachi was taught piano as a kid, and it quickly became another outlet for her mother’s overly high expectations. She secretly gets into alternative music, synth, and fun keyboards to have a small sense of rebellion. As well as being the keyboard player, she becomes the producer, brand manager, and all around mom of the band. Everyone at their stuffy ass school thinks she’s suuuuuper emo for her hair and eyeliner. (None of them have ever seen an actual emo)

Kageyama is a youth symphony player, taught the bass by his grandfather. When his grandfather dies, he picks up the electric bass to breathe new life into the grief-tainted hobby. He composes a lot of their music, and is generally ridiculously skilled. Of course he dabbles in piano like the dramatic genius he is.

Hinata is the drummer, and undeniable heart of the group. When they meet at school, he’s the only one familiar with the local music scene, and opens up his rich-ass sheltered-ass friends to a freer creative approach. Though he didn’t play any instruments at all at first, Kageyama assumed he was a drummer from how many overly complex rhythms he’d tap on his desk in their shared class, and quickly resolved to get Hinata properly playing. Though he starts out a bit of the weak link, his passion and commanding presence completely transform their sound.

Cue the next several years of melodrama, exaggerated teenage culture, and pining wayyyy too far into their twenties.

Sneaky peaky of Kagehina in my band au wip :b

@jetjaw came up with the au with me so not all the ideas are mine

A quick watercolor piece of Kagehina in a band au @jetjaw and I came up with over the weekend

Sketch: