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Both mangas focus on a first year setter/spiker duo. The similarity also extends to protagonists' inability to get along with one another: Haikyuu's Hinata and Kageyama being kicked out before they've started, and Junjou's Akira and Katta stubbornly competing not cooperating. However, they then quickly become a completed pair as a great asset. It's hard to not to think about the other when reading the volleyball centred mangas. Even the common goal to redeem a team previously of great power is similar. Junjou compacts insane volleyball into powerful matches whilst Haikyuu pushes the team into practices and overwhelming the opposition. 

Same game - volleyball with a exceptional setter and ace-wanna-be with great jumping power.  

Both series are about school sports teams and have protagonists who decide against attending a prestigious school known for its talented athletes and powerhouse teams and instead go to a school that's down on its luck athletically but will allow them to play with more freedom for the love of the game. 

Both are volleyball series with equal focus on the protagonists' passion for the sport and their teams' struggles in learning to get along and work together.