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| THIS IS AN ANIME ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS THE MANGA BEYOND THIS EPISODE. ---------------------------------------- It's back to Karasuno's chance to take the match. With their roster talent, it seemed possible but their opponents are no pushovers. Karasuno needed a better defense lineup. Some of those shots went through like it was nothing. They even had to make a substitute mid match. Howver, it looks like Karasuno managed to make some comebacks with their serves so maybe they have a chance. |
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| Nobu's character and Megane guy got targetted. Miyu-Miyu's character's turn. Such a short appearance. Setter guy giving opponent team pressure. Cat team is also watching and commenting. |
I ♥ Two Syaorans from Tsubasa RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE and TRC!!! |
| Some of the animations are melting,hope the next episodes will be on points and will not get worse than this. |
| The remake of Berserk is a mistake. |
| Oh no, wierd hair character comes in... We all now where this is going! |
| well that's just my opinion..... |
| Another outsourced episode? Looks like the same trouble with character designs as in ep 2 I believe? I wonder if they had to outsource so much because of the pandemic, cause I don't remember the first half of season 4 being like this. Hopefully season 5 will have better resources and schedule, cause this is a bit sad... At least the nekoma match got the right treatment haha |
| Damn, Atsumu was targeting Nishinoya. Kageyama's serves were too powerful. Kinda scary if you ask me. |
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| This episode shows a lot about Inarizaki. They are ahead by a lot. However, one can lose composure and the tide can turn around badly. |
| The hell happened to the animations... |
  Must love Moe! Darkness prevails!! Slice of Life is all we need! |
| Miya's targeting Nishinoya! Glad he got back into the game somehow after doing some quick push ups *-* Kageyama is so powerful it's scarry, as always >.>; I see some lightning exchange between Miya and Kageyama XD they are threatening each other! Great episode! ... How sad the animation got weird again :/ |
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| Not sure why everyone is complaining so much about the animation, it really wasn't all that bad. It was still engaging and fun to watch, I had a lot of fun with the episode. Targeting Nishinoya eh? He's the last person teams target but it was awesome to see him psyche himself up with those push ups as Atsumu watched and smiled at this competition. Kageyama with those service aces, so satisfying. Some nice plays but I wish they bumped up the OST, it felt like it was way too far in the background while normally it's just blasting as the play happens to make it feel hype. Loved the little staring contest between Atsumu and Kageyama with the former then proceeding to shout at his brother, that was great. Looking forward to next week. |
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| I feel like this episode was a bit everywhere. It wasn't as entertaining as it usually was and that bugged me a bit. Animation is...weird...very weird. Don't really know what else to say. Ok episode :/ |
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 so about that animation uhh |
| Both teams tried so many different tactics to try to gain the upper hand but they're pretty much evenly matched... BUT the Miya twins reaction to the dude with white and black hair subbing in has me concerned for our boys 🙁 |
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| If he has a detailed hair, he's strong. |
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| Do we really have to watch the annoying Nohebi guy and his gf comment on the match? In season 3 we had Oikawa and Iwa commenting and look what we're stuck with now. tsk tsk what a step down. Plus he seems to be following and commenting on all the matches going on. Is being a Speedwagon level commentator his superpower or something? The animation, especially the beginnings felt really odd. The second half was better. A few screenshots that show the horror: |
bluninjaNov 6, 2020 2:11 PM
| If you read Eleceed you're automatically my friend. |
| I don't know how to feel about this episode I fell like it was a real rollescoaster, be it from the animation quality, be it from the actual match Regarding the animation, there were some instances in which it was REALLY beautiful and fluid (Aran's triple spike, Kageyama's serves, etc.), and others that i literally lol'd of how awful and jagged they were (sugawara's entrance, like wtf???? i counted only 10 frames in more than a second when inarizaki stared at him) Regarding the match, sometimes they dropped the ball on Haikyuu's general oomphness, like when Noya injured his fingers at the start of the episode, while also having some jaw-dropping moments ih the aforementioned beautiful moments At least, this episode was the most content-heavy on the ACTUAL MATCH WE ALL WANT TO SEE, no flashbacks or side matches, just good ol' ball slapping |
   Skibbidy skib skib skaa say "NO" to fanservice |
| These episodes so far have been decent... animation slacking occasionally, art slacking occasionally, and other times the animation and art is okay. It’s pissing me off how inconsistent this is. A really good match being bombarded with this crap. But anyways— didn’t expect Atsumu to target Nishinoya. I feel like Ushijima did the same, although that was more like he was forced by the blockers to hit in Noya’s path on purpose. Inarizaki was given more screen time- seems like they don’t take mess ups lightly. That one pinch server was pretty much shit on by the crowd and the team. Hope he’s okay though 😢 I’m sure Inarizaki has good intentions when they do that. It was funny how the crowd booing caught Hinata off guard lol Suna uses his whole body— I figured, since when I saw his spike animation in ep 3 it looked liked he was leaning on his side. Anyways, it was cool that they talked about that. He is a very strong player. Tanaka had another epic cut shot. Aran had some awesome spikes this ep. Aran’s spike animation was pretty good too. YES, FINALLY SAEKO MENTIONED THAT ARAN WAS LIKE USHIWAKA. I also couldn’t help but be reminded of Ushijima’s 3rd meter spikes when Aran spiked. That was cool. Kageyama service ace! The animation was actually kinda good for it. A-ok KITA SHINSUKE HAS ARRIVED. WHAT A WAY TO END THE EPISODE. DEF GONNA WATCH EP 7. |
AcbSnakeDemonNov 6, 2020 2:30 PM
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| Good ep. I'm a pretty open-minded guy when it comes to animation and artstyle, I love shows like MP100 and Eizouken with very stylized drawings. But in HQ case, this type of animation is really noticeable because it stands out a lot from the rest of the ep. Mukouda is a beast at animation, but his artstyle is hard to get use to. There were some great cuts is the ep, but outside of those cuts it looks really rough. And I know people are annoyed to see people complain, but just like with MHA S4, we complain this much because the show used to be so much more visually impressive. Like if you go from S3 to S4 (pretty much from best to worst), it's so damn obvious. 6 more ep to go, since now we're in the second half of the court I hope it'll be more consistent, I want to feel what I felt against Aoba Josai and Shiratorizawa again. Otherwise, very hyped for the Inarizaki captain, I like his design a lot. |
Honestly lol. I've been trying to discard the fact that the animation was a little weird, but it just seems like the studio is just slacking off at this point. I hope the quality starts picking up soon. |
| I am now officially ahead in the manga so being able to have read the manga and then see it animated was a really cool experience. I thoroughly enjoyed this episode. Also, whenever Hinata ran up for a spike he had the biggest smile on his face and it was adorable. |
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| Yes finally back to the main team. The animation was fine, stop nitpicking ffs |
| really disappointed about the quality drop, I would have rather waited next season than to have this animation. This episode looked horrendous. To be honest It's sadly ruining my enjoyment.... But since this is haikyuu am sure next episode I'll be happy again |
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| I don't really notice the animation all that much, too busy reading subtitles to closely pay attention to most of it. I have a bad feeling Karasuno is going to lose this match, but there's 5 episodes left so I guess we'll see what happens. |
| Looks godawful again. Man I expected this season to be a lot better than the really boring, tedious first season of To The Top but it's actually looking worse. Constant loss of momentum and really cheap production values don't help this long, stretched out match whatsoever. |
Why is everything complaining about the animation ?? I didn't think it was that bad anymore but I thought this episode nice. |
| Yaay finally back to Karasuno’s match. Glad to see Kageyama on fire again. The animation is pretty off again and I was thinking was the other characters really looks like that in previous episodes or even in previous season? LMAO Guess they outsourced it once again :( Anyway, despite the bad animation in some scenes, this was still a good episode! I feel like it was too short though. |
| Like when animators in Haikyuu!! get drunk. I mean, not even the audience was saved from having derpy faces every now and then this episode xD Well, leaving that aside, those last minutes with Kageyama in "calm mode" sure were intense. He managed to get some much needed good points but I seriously think the second set is already lost at this point. Suga was pretty cool too, by the way. |
| I can’t help but comment on how disappointed I am about the animation quality every episode. It’s just so disappointing given how great it usually is for this series. As a result, I start to care less about the drama and the comedy doesn’t work as well. It’s THAT distracting to me. |
| This episode had its decent-looking moments, but the animation really did feel awkward and clunky for the most part. Hopefully things will improve next week. |
| People on MAL refuse to actually enjoy watching anime. Your taste in anime isn't a personality trait. MAL is literally just anime Twitter as its own website lol. |
| I can excuse QUALITY animation, but some of these camera angles are just mind-boggling bad. Like, I need to pause the episode to make sense of what the hell just happened - something that Haikyuu NEVER did before. This season is made more disappointing by the fact the previous one was perfectly fine and on par with the other three despite the staff changes, making this drop in quality feel random. Maybe the pandemic hit the studio harder than others, dunno. But so far only episode 4 was on the level of classic Haikyuu, and that was thanks to good characterization instead of animation. |
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| Kageyama's serves were great. Also heh he finally enters the game. |
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| The animation was a bit weird but overall was a good episode. Great to see Kageyama getting those service aces tho. |
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