2.43: Seiin Koukou Danshi Volley-bu

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Japanese: 2.43 清陰高校男子バレー部

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Type: TV

Episodes: 12

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Jan 8, 2021 to Mar 26, 2021

Premiered: Winter 2021

Broadcast: Fridays at 00:55 (JST)

Producers: Aniplex, Dentsu, Animax, Movic, Fuji TV, Fujipacific Music, Shueisha, Fuji Creative, Tohan Corporation, Japan Volleyball Association

Licensors: Funimation

Studios: David Production

Source: Novel

Genres: Drama, Slice of Life, Sports

Theme: School

Duration: 23 min. per ep.

Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

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Score: 6.15¹ (scored by 31,962 users)

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Ranked: #7915²

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Popularity: #1739

Members: 94,196

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Genius setter Kimichika Haijima moves back to Fukui from Tokyo after an incident within his school's volleyball team forces him out. There, he is reunited with his childhood friend, Yuni Kuroba, a member of the Monshiro Middle School Boys' Volleyball Team, who is unaware of his own talents. Haijima notices Kuroba's abilities and is determined to form a new volleyball team with Kuroba as the team's ace. At the prefectural tournament, Kuroba crumbles under the pressure, which causes the Monshiro team to fall apart after losing. The loss also creates a rift between Haijima and Kuroba, leading the former to quit the team.

Now, as students at Seiin High School, Haijima and Kuroba find themselves on the same volleyball team once again. Having learned from his past mistakes, Haijima helps Kuroba overcome his performance anxiety to become the ace and carry the team to the prefectural championship. With support from team captain Shinichirou Oda and vice captain Misao Aoki, Seiin aim to win the prefecturals and become Fukui's representatives at the Spring Tournament. To do this, they will need to beat Fukuho Technical High School, the reigning champions of Fukui. Will Haijima's team defeat the odds, or are they doomed to repeat his history of losing?

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Wakabayashi, Yuu
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Kimura, Yasuhiro

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Tsuchiya, Masaki

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Sakiyama, Soushi

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"Mahi (麻痺)" by yama

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"Undulation" by Soushi Sakiyama (崎山蒼志)

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Mar 25, 2021

12 of 12 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 5

blueleo (All reviews)

95 people found this review helpful

This review is spoiler free :D

2.43: Seiin Koukou Danshi Volley-bu is quite standard. It doesn’t make you feel much watching it. The direction is...okay? The animation is pretty bad, except for the insane spikes that David Production will occasionally pour the whole budget into. The show just lacks substance. It lacks that “oomph” that propels it over being ordinary. It feels flat. It doesn’t come to life on your screen like a good anime should.

That’s not to say the show itself is bad. There are some good plot points, some likeable characters, and some interesting dynamics. I enjoyed the dual perspective of the two main teams, Seiin and Fukuho, as I constantly flip-flopped on who I was rooting for. Like I mentioned earlier, there are times where the animation IS great, feeling more like David Production’s other amazingly animated shows. There are times where the rivalry feels real, and there are times where I care about what happens to the characters. The thing that brings Seiin down though is that all of these times where I actually feel something are short lived. They feel like glances to a better show. It feels like the show is struggling to wedge itself out of the hole of mediocrity, but is only able to peak its head out. It feels frustrating going from that back to the usual bad animation and poor writing. Seeing the glimmers of satisfaction in a show is not very satisfying when they simmer out.

This show is ambitious in the fact that it has a background narrative behind the volleyball. At least, at the beginning it does. I couldn’t even tell you what it was now. Maybe that’s another reason this show feels half-baked. Somewhere along the line, it transferred from being a show about flawed characters who happen to play volleyball, to just volleyball. Don’t get me wrong, I like watching dudes hit balls as much as the next guy, but the show can’t expect to make that switch when the volleyball isn’t even that good. The narratives of the first few episodes are what drew me and many others to this show, and it just feels like a huge disappointment to somewhat abandon it.

If you asked me if you should watch this show, I’d say “how much free time do you have?” There are definitely better anime out there, better sports anime, and obviously better volleyball anime. But at the end of the day, I don’t regret watching this one. At its higher points, it was good. At its lower points, it wasn’t necessarily unwatchable. So, if you have some free time and are just yearning to watch a sports anime, sure, this one’s alright.

Overall, I think this show is the epitome of average. It's not good, but I wouldn’t say it's bad either. There are times where you laugh about how shitty the writing in that episode was, but there are times where that Demon Bazooka is just so damn cool. Give it a watch if you want. I probably wouldn’t redo it again, but I don’t regret watching it either.

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Mar 25, 2021

12 of 12 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 4

ren0080 (All reviews)

43 people found this review helpful

I had high hopes for this ever since the first episode, but that quickly diminished as the series goes on.
The story became a pile of rubbish, ruined by rushed pacing. The story itself is decent, but paired with bad pacing, then it'd be much much worst than it actually is.

The characters are non-existent. Basically, anyone other than the two main characters and the two rival characters, aren't developed to make them "characters". There are the captain and the other guy (forgot his name cause that's all they are, forgettable) that got little development. But all their interaction and development are so stiff and unnatural that read more

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Mar 25, 2021

12 of 12 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 10

Miyushiki (All reviews)

41 people found this review helpful

To begin, I want to say before watching Seiin Koukou Danshi Volley-bu, I was not a very big fan of sports anime at all. I love sports in real life but have not found myself very interested in sports animated. HOWEVER, I fell in love this this show very quickly. I feel like it focuses a lot on the characters, instead of simply the sport. The show really got even better with every new episode. So, if you are not content with the first couple of episodes, I promise it gets better if you keep watching, and I will tell you why you should below.

It does start a little slow, and the main characters seemed a bit aggravating at first, but it really paid off later with the development the characters showed. I found myself very impressed with how some of the characters changed over the course of the season. Everything just felt very realistic, it shows the immature and selfish side of a high schooler, and how sometimes being on a team and working together can change you for the better.

The art and animation are of course very nice, David Pro back at it again. Obviously, there is no need for crazy animation or sound, but it all looked very clean. The sound effects and the animation during the volleyball matches were amazing and consistent throughout the season.

Oh boy the opening, what an amazing song. The beat and vocals by Yama on the Opening song are what honestly got me hooked on the show first. I found myself excited for the new episode just to hear the song. The ending song by Soushi Sakayama is also a very nice song that I like a lot. As far as OSTs go, they were very fitting. They do not necessarily need to stand out if they are nice and fit the theme, which they did.

I think the characters and how they progressed was my favorite part of the whole show. Towards the later part of the season, I found myself being torn between who to cheer for because I loved both teams and did not want to see either lose. Kuroba and Haijima are both wonderful characters. They start of as very immature and selfish boys, but through volleyball they learn to deal with past discrepancies and do what is best for the team and each other.

At first, I thought Subaru would step in and be a bland villain type character who the Seiin boys would have to overcome, but that was dead wrong. Subaru really made the show so much better. Though dealing with his own past and very uncertain future, he put all that behind him for the time being so he could take his team all the way. He had lots of pressure on him as the best player on the best team, but he took not only his own dreams and aspirations, but those of this teammates, fans, and best friend with him as far as he could. Subaru had me cheering my heart out for Fukuhou even though I loved the Seiin team as well. What a wonderful cast.

I think it is safe to say I really enjoyed this show. What started out as me being interested simply because of David Productions, turned into me loving the opening song, and eventually turned into one of, if not my favorite seasonal this winter. Such an incredibly consistent show that got better each week. If you are a fan of sports anime, or even if you are not, you should give this show a chance because it is so much more than that. Thank you, David Productions, and everyone involved for making 2.43 Seiin Koukou Danshi Volley-bu such a good experience. It has really opened my eyes towards sports anime. I really hope David Pro does a second season so we can see these boys grow even further as athletes and men.

Seiin Koukou Danshi Volley-bu gets 10 spike serves out of 10 from me.

Thank you for reading. <3

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Mar 25, 2021

12 of 12 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 4

KANLen09 (All reviews)

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Whenever shows that tend to be setting up on the wavelengths of superior ones before it, the most apt case of comparison will be the most unsightly one...and in this case, 2.43: Seiin High School Boys Volleyball Team will get the most flack for looking like the "superiorally" inferior rip-off to one of the most prominent volleyball shows ever made: Production I.G's Haikyuu!. But yet, I implore you to hold off that comparison.

Also, 2.43 is the height of the net for male volleyball: 2.43m, and the same could be said for the level of ambition for the show: too high, and when it drops, it hits the floor like a ticking time bomb.

Backtracking to when this show got its first PV, not gonna lie, despite the marketing that tries to show what 2.43 is at the hinds of its legs, some of us had the inkling that 2.43 is inherently similar to said show (at the time when Haikyuu! was all but wrapping up soon), especially with the volleyball setting. But while the show is heavily skewed in that direction, you could say that it was in actual fact a mix of that with some character drama, akin to Akane Kazuki's Hoshiai no Sora a.k.a Stars Align, but with the entire recluse of the original novel's setting that's similar to Summer 2016's Battery (similar settings, but a different sport of baseball).

It pains me to say this, but looking back at Battery and inferingly comparing to 2.43, there are indeed comparisons to be made: both are based off a novel, the synopsis of 2 guys (one strong and one weak, mentally) trying to recognize each other's radar of presence and support one another until they reach their objective and aim high for whatever they do. Yeah, you read that right: "grappling to find the true joy of the sport", and that's as much indicative for poorly mentally character-induced "drama" that just had a resolution with the many poutings and jealousies of the central duo that kinda rubs people the wrong way. You could argue that it's realistic, but I'd try to quote as much on the story and character fronts:

While Battery is not the standard hype-inducing kind of sports show that focuses most of its matter into the game being played, 2.43 inherently wants us viewers to see that the sport (which in this case, volleyball) is but only a medium platform to the plot...maybe too much, because it easily overshadowes the sport for a sacrifice for character development when hype-induced levels of animation like David Production's prove that it's effective to tell a story with great animation and visuals. And that right there is where 2.43 loses its hidden character drama plot, and I have an inkling that the production committee behind this show also knows it as well, and all they had to do was the get the best studio for animation effects, and it's DavidPro they've chosen to hide all these erroneously seemingly related-but-unrelated stuff to cover their tracks. Bad move.

Back to the whole character drama farce, it focuses heavily on the interaction between its characters, but also makes it glaringly rather difficult to say if it really even has much of a ‘story’ per se. Characters ARE a good source of material, and is one of, if not the most important agenda when it comes to character drama shows because of investment values for growth and development in the right stance. That being said, it's a disappointment that the characters doesn’t manage to carry themselves all that well, especially with the main Seiin duo Yuni Kuroba and Komichika Haijima. Both are physically efficient at what they do (and that's a good sign), but generically suck so bad at trying to relate with one another about their whims and getting along together (blame it mostly on the naive Kuroba) that unfortunately, isn't soakingly easy and is heavy to churn down on a one-way street. It’s like a never-ending struggle that feels like it could’ve been told better, but with the drama feeling so empty and everything feeling so bland (that is except the volleyball moments), it’s hard to really care much about anything that goes after the point of no return.

It’s quite obvious that a bigger topic is trying to be discussed behind the innocent front of sports shows but it’s just too bad that the message doesn’t properly come across unless you genuinely make an effort to really reach out for it. If I'd have to take a wager, replace the entire Seiin team for the opposing team, Fukuho Technical High School (which is Subaru Mimura and his team), because their circumstances are much more relatable and doesn't feel all that forced than what's found at Seiin. Take my word that when the focus is skewed in the main characters' direction, the side characters will try to make their mark as relevant as possible, and while 2.43 certainly did that, it's more so for progressing the "victory" plot than actually addressing the hidden core problem that is character motivation that development-wise, falls flat on its face with little to no stronghold. I know that Stars Align definitely did a better job than 2.43 overall, that's for sure, even if the character demographic is vastly different (young teens vs. young adults).

The bad times are over, and onto the good ones:
For anyone who has ever watched an inkling of shows made by David Productions, you know that the studio has the animation power to excel, and I'm nonchantantly sounding like a broken record, but it absolutely delivers in the similar veins to Haikyuu! on a production level. Also, its presentation is made to look like Stars Align in the watercolour space, so at least you'd have a better reference than always going for the juggernaut.

The soundtrack is supposed to help in the downtimes of moments like these, but somehow I find that to be particularly lacking, not because I don't remember what happened in those scenes where charater alleviation is supposed to be mattered most, but...it's just lacking, there's that. In other case, the OP slaps volleyballs to a T. It's definitely the right song for the right moment, and that is easily a plus for me. The same could not be said for the ED, much less its watercolour and creative visuals. It just sounds so generic and repetitive.

In conclusion, to be maligned into such a time as this to deliver on what is already the strong backdrop of similar shows of yesteryears past, I can't say that I can't recommend 2.43 for what it is, because as much as the anime has shown, hype for one aspect cannot uplift the others. It's like a weighing counter that has feathers on one side that are counteracted by the weight of solid objects on the other, and that's no good of a balance. If you like it, then I'm OK with it, no hatred for such lengths, but personally, I gear towards Stars Align more than 2.43 for a better experience.

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