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nanami's backstory always gets me because he starts in the jujutsu world, sees the corruption and feels how powerless he is, and decides that maybe he's better off not joining missions if that risks losing his friends. so he becomes a salaryman, sees how corrupt that is, and
What gets me every fucking time is that kenma's mistake is not realizing that kageyama has changed and no longer only wants hinaya for his speed - he just wants hinata, fullstop. Kageyama is now a setter who WILL get the best out of hinata, and hinata no longer needs to save
"Lower the net", in my opinion, is one of the defining lines of Haikyuu. The power of it is "anyone can play volleyball" and "let's make volleyball fun"
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#ハイキュー #ゴミ捨て場の決戦
furudate put SO MUCH EFFORT into fleshing out fukurodani and showing us their games and i know many people think it's because they were meant to play karasuno at nationals in a first draft but i think it's bc fukurodani is to nekoma what seijoh is to karasuno, and furudate loves
i still think about what the school must think about karasuno when they see them in the final like kageyama's classmates suddenly find him smart and hot? daichi's are probably in love with him already? suga's are like FUCK HE YELLS?? ON NATIONAL TV???
ukai is really, really young for a coach (he barely has his own life figured out yet he is mentoring 14 teenagers), and in moments like these, you can tell he's unexperienced, yet always striving to provide the best words for these boys. his relationship with hinata is so dear to
This is so personal to me bc we spend so long knowing tsukki doesn't eat enough (s1 and 2 training camps, hinata worrying for him at the shiratorizawa camp) and here, hinata falling sick makes him understand the importance of taking care of yourself
"tobio, i might actually lose to you... but that won't be today" - i want to talk about this line for a second, because there's smth profoundly sad about the way oikawa says it. even the look on his face is one of pure resignation - "you are a genius, and i am not, and therefore
i am so tired of people villainizing oikawa like does this really look like the face of someone who WANTED to snap??? he himself is shocked that he raised his hand against kageyama. THIS oikawa is the product of an unhealthy environment in middle school and his own fears getting
i love it every time we get a reminder that daichi is a teenager after all and he has his own fears and demons bc he acts SO MUCH like an adult and dad to these kids that we often forget about his own insecurities
i've ranted about the importance and direction of this point excessively in the past but i still feel the need to point out how it's been built up for THREE FUCKING SEASON and delivered in perfect, ground-breaking silence with perfect voice acting and i am so in love with it
ennoshita's arc always gets the waterworks running for me bc the feeling of wanting a break, wanting to run away, but then realizing that despite the hardships, you miss it all - the sweat, the pain, the ONE MOMENT - is so relatable. ennoshita returns to vball bc he had his one
i will NEVER shut up about how every character in shiratorizawa was created to directly oppose every character in karasuno so of COURSE tendou had to be a guessing monster while tsukki becomes a reading block monster
"Haikyu!! JUMP Decisive Battle at the Garbage Dump"
— Releases February 2nd, 2024
Special omnibus featuring a selection of scenes from the original manga, highlighting the story of Karasuno and Nekoma leading up to the movie! 440 pages and includes a
mad respect for tanaka for this scene, really. it's hard to be THIS open about your feelings and he takes shimizu's rejection in stride. he's never actually pushing her to date him, just constantly expressing his admiration of her, and if she was actually bothered he'd stop
let's talk about the miya twins, shall we? (not like i ever shut up about them in the first place tho)
the miya twins were a later addition into the story - according to an interview, furudate only gave atsumu a twin after he was introduced in the training camp cause he seemed
tsukishima is cocky, but he's not arrogant. when yamaguchi confronts him about his pride, he tells him he's cool, then immediately goes to ask the gym3 guys why they play vball. he asks ukai how to be a better blocker. he hates being lame, but asking is NOT lame if it means
let's talk about battle lines because i'm sobbing once again (this is one of my favourites moment int he first half of the season, after the ballboy arc and the return of the king)
i think shimizu's story here came as a bit of a surprise for a lot of us when reading the manga/
understands that his life doesn't have a purpose. between living a life with no purpose and risking it to save others - the latter is better, and it's smth he fully decides on when he hears that "thank you" from the baker. because as a jujutsu sorcerer you're not seen, so you're
nanami's story is so ordinarily mundane, and yet so touching BECAUSE it's relatable. BECAUSE he sees yuuji not as sukuna's vessel, not as a sorcerer, but as a kid - not in terms of weakness, but in terms of being vulnerable and allowed to make mistakes. he deserves someone on his
oh man I WANT TO TALK ABOUT THIS LINE. because atsumu is so insanely aware of others (maybe bc he's a setter) but in 3 days he's already figured tobio out, and how he indulges the spikers instead of pushing them to their limits, and how instead of figuring out what the best set
"you don't need a lofty reason to start. sometimes, the things you pick up on a whim end up becoming important to you, too" is one of my favourite haikyuu lessons
man every time i rewatch s1 it still hits me how far kageyama's come. of COURSE he's frustrated here - he's been waiting for years for someone "even better" to come, but all he finds are people who don't take volleyball seriously enough for him, or people like oikawa who won't
i think an important distinction to make is that hinata isn't being greedy bc he's thoughtless: he KNOWS the consequences of his actions. he knows it's wrong, and he knows he's troubling a bunch of people, and he knows he's trying to create an opportunity that never existed for
i will never shut up about the way haikyuu uses the audience bc sure, they explain certain moves and react for the viewer to understand what is going on, but they're also actual characters with fondness and connections to certain teams, like this old guy who just wants karasuno
not thanked by extension, but this one moment. this one moments gives his sorrow meaning. and so he returns to the jujutsu world, meets itadori, and thinks that maybe he should protect this kid who puts others in front of him, who lost a dear friend, who eventually saves him.
ok i'm not gonna lie i still think they're a cute rarepair like they're both kinda mischevious and bisexual disasters and i like to think they date for a bit before breaking up on good terms and then tanakiyo get their shit sorted out meanwhile suga calls her in the middle of
ok but i really want to point out how, whenever they're discussing someone else, kageyama is so understanding of their situation. with asahi back in s1, he says "he must have his own reasons", and with yachi now, "it's up to her" what she wants to do. hinata is much pushier in
hinata triggered everyone's change, but he's the one who needs the longest to find a new strategy for himself, and that has always made me feel so understood. he doesn't even know where to start bc there's so much to work on, and it's overwhelming, and he's in a rush and i GET IT
the kindaichi-kunimi-kageyama relationship is such a high stress one, and i remember when the last manga chapters came out, i was NOT expecting to see it resolved, but it was also one of the things that made me happiest about everything coming together. the thing is, they were in
they are the WILDEST bunch, it a special grade dude with a yandere curse following him, a girl who can't even SEE curses, a dude who only speaks in onigiri ingridients and a fucking panda
and it's funny how he says this, isn't it? when yaga told yuuji no sorcerer goes out without regrets. but in this moment, facing what could very well have been his end, nanami realizes his life DID have a purpose. and that's enough for him
we don't talk enough about the fact that ushijima is an amazing captain. he's always paying attention to his team, and BECAUSE he is so straight in his delivery and never holds back, no one ever has to break their brains trying to interpret his words. they know he means it all.
if you think that the take in haikyuu is that hoshiumi had natural talent you missed the whole point in kamomedai's banner😭😭kita didn't hold his "genius" speech for nothing and ushisaku didn't have the whole "lucky ones" chapters to be done dirty like this😭😭😭
i love how deranged and intimidating ushiwaka seems when we first meet him, only to then turn out that he's the ultimate vball idiot and this smile was bc he was excited to finally be challenged by someone. and making hinata his challenger only for them to later become opposites?
let's talk about kita's definition of geniuses, and why oikawa appears in this episode, and how this changes haikyuu.
kita says "i'm not sure what qualifies as a genius, but there are people who think someone like atsumu was just born w talent." if you've paid attention so far,
what i love about ukai is so well encapsulated in this moment: he knows it's a chance in a million that hinata can see blocks in slow motion. he tells hinata, too, that it's an illusion - but then hinata looks at him with that stare, and ukai chooses to trust him. ukai takes a
i cannot explain how narratively important hoshiumi's existence is. he is the short player that proves you can play volleyball no matter what. he is there to prove that hinata CAN make it, but also that he needs to be on THIS caliber to make it. he is good at everything hinata's
miya "HAVE YOU SEEN MY ENGAGEMENT RING?!" atsumu is definitely the type to belt out sad breakup songs when msby goes to karaoke, like here he is, absolutely singing his lungs out to "all too well" and the entirety of msby stares at sakusa "i proposed to him yesterday" kiyoomi
ukai's "eat a proper meal" seems like such a dad/nagging thing to say at first, but over the course of the story, as food becomes a motif in haikyuu, his words become so much deeper
i also love how atsumu does NOT care that people don't like him as long as he's doing the right thing - despite not vibing with his middle school teammates, he WAS sending them the best sets, so if they don't like them? it's his fault. he cares about embarrassing himself, like we
LISTEN i will never let go of my hc that sugakiyo date for all of 3 weeks before realizing they're better off as friends and then become besties who make innuendos at eo and complain to eo about their crushes hnnnn i love them sm
the reason noya gets annoyed is that he has pride as a libero, always supporting his friends, and as soon as he realizes kageyama was right? he acknowledges it an learns from it, bc that's what it means to be a true vball player. the fact that karasuno created a safe space for
the way tsukki and hinata start working together, and now that hinata has gained more experience he sees how the plays connect and how tsukki is fucking incredible as a middle blocker will never not make me an emotional mess
this is such a cute little throwaway line like hello the miya twins must've been super close to their granny?? the fact that this is osamu's FIRST THOUGHT their granny probably always tells them they have pretty names🥺🥺🥺
the fact that ukai says this about daichi, who is 18 and thus has much less life experience than him, is so important to me, cause it proves that ukai is taking these boys seriously and never patronizes them
the fact that almost 300 chapters in, there is still backstory and lore we don't know about the karasuno characters, bc furudate waited for the right moment to bring it up... i think the peak of it is chapter 387
ok but it would've been SO EASY to make ushijima a jerk and the entire shiratorizawa team robotic but instead they're quirky af and super funny and ushijima's just a bigass dork who loves vball and can't take social cues, a lot like kageyama just less expressive
let's talk about the ball bay arc aka haikyuu's best training arc.
hinata breaks into shiratorizawa's training camp without batting an eye, and it's the first time it becomes obvious to us just how greedy he is. we saw him in the tokyo training arc, stealing asahi's toss, but
something i really love about first season hinata is that he needs to yell "I'M HERE", meaning "i have to make it" vs last arc hinata who yells "I'M HERE" and it means "i've finally made it". no one replies in the first season - everyone replies at the end
i think up until kageyama meets atsumu, he misinterprets oikawa's words as "the spikers are the kings, not me" which is so funny because oikawa is THE GRAND KING. what oikawa is actually saying is "you keep giving them the tosses YOU think are best rather than the tosses that are
i rant about this so much but CONNECTION IN HAIKYUU is EVERYTHING like. these people don't even know shit about volleyball but they can tell that the boys are doing the best, and passion always attracts passion, so they earnestly cheer for this volleyball team
what gets me about shimada is that he's not a coach, but acts like the perfect mentor to yamaguchi, bc he sees himself in this kid, yet at the same time, he's not projecting on him. he sees this timid boy come out of his shell and wants to be there for him, bc he knows that the
WHY DOES NO ONE TALK ABOUT HOW TSUKKI WAS PERFECTLY POSITIONED TO SAVE HINATA'S QUICK AND HOW AT THIS POINT THIS IS ALREADY MORE THAN "JUST A CLUB" FOR HIM
i will NEVER shut up about the fact that hinata has nothing to tell tsukishima bc it's not his place to do so, but yamaguchi's. with kageyama and yachi, it made sense - he could find common ground in feeling inappropriate in the place he so desperately wanted to be a part of. but
let's talk about the last point against shiratorizawa bc, as per usual, it's a spectacle.
haikyuu makes it a thing that in the big matches, everyone touches the ball on the last rally, bc it's like a summary of all the central ideas in the match. so let's go through this
what always gets me about the asanoya arc is that asahi asks the others to blame himself because HE does, so if everyone else did, too, he'd be able to fuel that safe-hatred, and it'd make it easier to pretend like he hates vball. but as a libero, noya isn't allowed to attack, so
sweet nothings
#sakuatsu
“Since when am I dating your sister?!”
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Atsumu wakes up to his phone buzzing insistantly. It’s 8am on a Sunday, and he’d like to sleep, thank you very much, but Kiyoomi’s side of the bed is already empty, so Atsumu guesses he might as well check his
hinata and his bathroom meetings are my favourite running gag in haikyuu like furudate even brought it back for the last match and i think that's amazing