Hanebado!

Kitakomachi High School

• Ayano Hanesaki (羽咲 綾乃)
• A first year in high school and a shy badminton player. When she is spoken to, Elena often comes on her side. In one instance; When Kentaro was scouting for badminton members to join the team's club, while he saw Ayano climbed up a tree.
• Nagisa Aragaki (荒垣 なぎさ)
• A third year in high school and the team's badminton captain.
• Riko Izumi (泉 理子)
• A third year in high school and the team's vice-captain.
• Elena Fujisawa (藤沢 エレナ)
• A first year in high school and the badminton club's manager as well as Ayano's childhood friend, and classmate.
• Kentaro Tachibana (立花 健太郎)
• The coach of the women's badminton club.
• Miyako Tarōmaru (太郎丸 美也子)
• The badminton club's advisor.

Konan High School

• Kaoruko Serigaya (芹ヶ谷 薫子)
• Ayano's rival during their middle school days and a member of the Konan High School badminton club.

Fredericia Girls High School

• Connie Christensen (コニー・クリステンセン)
• A badminton player from Denmark, who was trained by Uchika Hanesaki and a member of the Fredericia girls badminton club. She meets Ayano by a river, after she ran away from the training camp. They went by a flower shop to look around. When Ayano's phone rang, she overheard her name on the phone, which surprised Connie.
• Yuika Shiwahime (志波姫 唯華)
• A third year and the captain of a rival high school badminton club, Fredericia.

Zushi Sogo High School

• Nozomi Ishizawa (石澤 望)
• She was Riko's middle school friend and a semifinalist from a past badminton tournament.

Others

• Uchika Hanesaki (羽咲 有千夏)
• A retired badminton champion and Ayano's mother. Before she retired, her name was Uchika Shindo.

Manga

Written and illustrated by Kōsuke Hamada, Hanebado! was serialized in the manga anthology Good! Afternoon from June 7, 2013, to October 7, 2019.[2][10] The chapters were collected in 16 volumes by Kodansha.[11]

Novel

A novel was released on June 29, 2018. The story begins a year before the events in the manga.[2]

Anime

An anime television series adaptation aired from July 2 to October 1, 2018, on Tokyo MX and other channels.[13] It ran for 13 episodes.[14] The series is directed by Shinpei Ezaki and written by Taku Kishimoto, with animation by Liden Films. Satoshi Kimura provided the character designs, and Tatsuya Kato composed the music. The opening theme is "Futari no Hane" (ふたりの羽根) by Yurika, and the ending theme is "High Stepper" (ハイステッパー) by Yuiko Ōhara.[15]

The production was affected by the 2018 Hokkaido earthquake: the photography studio is located in Sapporo and was without power following the earthquake, making it impossible for the staff to continue working until electricity is fully restored. As a result, episode 11 of the show was delayed, with a new broadcast date yet to be decided.[16] The show resumed on September 17, 2018, after being delayed for a week.[17]

Crunchyroll streamed the series with original Japanese audio and English subtitles, while Funimation streamed it with an English dub.[18]