Keiji Akaashi (Japanese: 赤葦あかあし 京治けいじ, Akaashi Keiji) was a second-year student at Fukurōdani Academy. He played as the starting setter and vice-captain on the Boys' Volleyball Team. Akaashi has short, messy black hair and blue eyes with thin pupils and slightly thick eyebrows; in some official art, his eyes appear to be green, but in others, they are more blue-colored. He tends to wear an emotionless or slightly exasperated expression a great majority of the time but is shown to smile occasion