HinaNoya

Season 1
Hinata and Nishinoya first met when Nishinoya rushes into the gym Hinata and Kageyama are in and perfectly received one of Kageyama's serves. Hinata approaches Nishinoya and notices that the latter is shorter, which annoys Nishinoya. Hinata apologizes and asks how tall Nishinoya is, to which he responds 159 centimeters. Hinata, shocked from Nishinoya's answer, cries and says that it was the first time he had looked down at someone since he started high school club activities. Nishinoya gets more agitated, misunderstanding and thinking Hinata was weeping in joy and looking down at him.

Tanaka, Daichi, and Sugawara then arrive at the gym and introduce Hinata and Kageyama to Nishinoya. After talking with various people, Nishinoya asks the third years about Asahi. After learning Asahi had not come back, he insults him, to Hinata's surprise. Nishinoya then leaves the gym, claiming that if Asahi wouldn't return, neither would he.

Hinata runs after an cold Nishinoya and asks him if he's a libero. Nishinoya asks Hinata why he thought he was a libero. Nishinoya follows this up by asking if it was because he was short. Hinata denies and says it's because Nishinoya was a receiver and the libero position was for good receivers. Hinata then mentioned that Daichi called Nishinoya the Guardian God. Nishinoya suddenly gets flustered after hearing the compliment. Hinata says that he himself is still bad at receiving and asks Nishinoya to teach him how. While doing so, Hinata calls Nishinoya senpai, which shocks Nishinoya. Nishinoya grabs Hinata's shoulder and tells Hinata that he will buy him ice cream after practice because he was Hinata's senpai. Although, Nishinoya state that he will not be coming back to the volleyball club, only teaching Hinata.

Later, Nishinoya is seen teaching Hinata Tsukishima to receive, using many onomatopoeias to explain. This confuses the two.

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HinaNoya isn't very popular in it's fandom and is overshadowed by ships such as KageHina, KenHina, AsaNoya, and TanaNoya. Many of the shippers started shipping it after seeing their dynamic in the episode Nishinoya was introduced. The ship currently has 228+ works on AO3 while the friendship currently has 75+.

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Trivia

 * Nishinoya and Hinata are the two shortest Karasuno volleyball players with the Nishinoya being 160.5 cm and Hinata being 164.2 cm as of November 2012.