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Shealyna said: Spring Tournament! Let's gooo!! Can't wait for next episode! By the way, why was Noya's uniform black?? It's just for the opening ceremony, I guess it looks better. All the liberos were wearing the same uniform as the other players in their teams. |
| this has been by far the dullest installment of haikyuu, i seriously hope it gets better from here. also some of the characters look weird as fuck half the time now |
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| Kyouko♥ That is all. 10/10 |
| Ennoshita: Kageyama, where are you going?! Kageyama: I'm going for a jog. Next episode:  |
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| Showing the old animation and art-style in the episode were the characters looked like dog shitto half of the time was not a good move. Daichi looked constipated. |
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Paak said: Tsukizono said: But at least Season 2 traning ark had good animation and great pacing with a great Director working on it.That makes no sense. You missed the entire point of the first few eps which are a good chunk of Hinata and Kageyama's character arcs. and if that happens y'all are just gonna complain about how it's "out of nowhere" when karasuno suddenly gets power-ups in nationals. There are a shit ton of moments later on that refer back to that arc and will not make sense if it was cut. I'm pretty sure it's because you guys watched it weekly and didn't binge it. I don't see the same comments about the Season 2 training arc which didn't have any matches for many episodes either. >pace The magical word. Season 2 training arc was waaay better paced, better directed and was even more technical than this one. And that's not taking into account the hideous animation this season has. But that fanboy just won't accept it and will keep repeating himself. |
Blue_Flame18 said: Please don't tell me the animation for Daiya no Ace took an extreme dip, because I was planning on watching it when it ended I mean, technically speaking it didn't, as having narrated slideshows can't really be called animation. Especially when there isn't even any transition. That and lots of white background closeups for "dramatic effect". Somewhat less of it as the season progressed, but that's what I seem to recall the most. :/ |
| I'M SOOOOO EXCITED!!!!!!!! ❤️ Finals will start now!!!!! Tsuki became a baby sitter of Hinata and Kageyama xD Nishinoya is so funny lol lucky perv but reality hits him hard lol |
| Proverbs 4:23 Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it. |
| Nice buildup ep, looking forward for the upcoming match ups |
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| What a beautiful episode! It perfectly set up the mood for the upcoming matches, building up excitement and nervousness in equal measure. Probably the best episode of the season so far. |
| Calm before the storm episode. Not much to said on this episode but it is a good transition episode with the before the fight begin. |
| Episodes like these are everything for me. The whole vibe and the prospect of nationals got me really pumped. |
One Piece episode 914 & 915 & 1027 were a mistake and 957 brought the salvation - FMmatron |
| Didn't this episode look worse? I barely give a damn about it for my favourite series but I couldn't help thinking that. Lmao, Noya letting fate do its thing. Though Ryu turned the situation into kinda cringy |
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| When they were watching clips from past seasons someone said "this is much higher quality than I was expecting". Was that a subtle dig on the fact that the animation this season has been noticeably lower quality than previous seasons? |
| But that's just one opinion. |
| it seems like we're actually going to get a game in this season! That nishinoya scene towards the end was pretty hilarious too xd. |
    - ✼ - 👏 hyped for 2022 lockdown 👏 👏 all good things come in threes 👏 - - ✽ - - |
| Not cool! I wanted to see her sc(ASS)ars! |
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| Nationals time! Only 4 episodes left to get some action going on before having to wait for the next season. HEY HEY HEY! |
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| Holy shit it's finally here, I thought it would take longer to come cause there's only a few episodes left. Hopefully we see a complete match of Karasuno before this season ends. And that Bokuto guy looks a lot like that short kid from All Japan camp that Kageyama went to. |
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| I'm guessing they won't win the actual tournament, and will probably lose against one of the 2-3 new schools introduced in Kageyama's camp. Hopefully they will still be in at least top 8 or 4, but I kinda doubt they go higher than that. |
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| Finally the tournament is about to start! |
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| New year was a great time for them relaxing and stuff especially the third years and lol Captain Obi surely had a scary dream and he's scary himself too as always. And finally we're in Tokyo now and the moment they saw the real Skytree was funny lol and Nishinoya thought he will get that lucky pervy moment and Tanaka frozed for a moment right there lucky. And we're finally on the battlegrounds I guess who would be their first opponent. |
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| He makes me laugh with his Nishinoya "accident"! xD |
so cuteeeeeeeeeeee 10/10 episode, great wrap-up & intro for the spring tournament. i loved the first half with the SOL stuff. daichi's anxieties & worries playing up & that was so cute how when he returned to school & noya, tanaka, kageyama and hinata were already there. why oh why do people hate on the first half of this season with the training arc & all. wasn't it necessary for their development, character & plot-wise? i didn't think it was dragged out any longer than it needed to be, there was great follow-up with the characters' growth & it was definitely not filler episodes. i sure as hell wouldn't have wanted this season to be started off right with the tournament. the pacing is just right for me. |
 ꕤ but i’ll probably remember over and over again you were there and everyone else was there — the day we all searched for just one thing ꕤ |
| I'm not sure why but I got overly emotional seeing our old friends from the practice games. I know I'm going to be sad no matter who wins/loses I love these teams so much. :') |
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| The opening ceremony ahead of the tournament! Surely the highlight was the bath scene though no? |
| I'm Bruneian and I like anime. And Manchester United. And fat cats. |
| Meeting the other teams are so wholesome, especially Sakusa lol |
| Finally the tournament has begun.....cant wait to see what happens now |
| Maybe my memory fails me but this seems to be the first episode in the whole series where some members of the team just go out and chill. It's kind of refreshing to see. Like we never got that beach or vacation or whatever episode to take a break from all the volleyball. From what I remember, every episode has been hard-focused on volleyball. In doing so they created great pacing but I wouldn't have minded a little break or something just to chill, you know? And it didn't last long in this episode but at least we got to seem some of the third years go to a shrine. I really can't remember anything else that they've done in the past seasons that wasn't volleyball-related. Anyhow, not that it matters, we're onto the nationals. Thought we wouldn't get there until the end of the season but here we are and I'm glad- or am I..?? Kind of feels un-deserved in a way, maybe perhaps rushed is a better word, but from what they gave us in these past 8 episodes, is it just me or is the team in no way in shape to take on the nationals? It feels like they're just casually training and then BOOM, out of nowhere, nationals. Imo they didn't do a good job at all building up to this moment, the hype was non-existent in this season for me. The hype for the nationals was real in seasons 2 and 3, like that was always the ultimate focus for the team, they just had to take down the teams that stood in front of them. Problem is, here in "to the top", they gave us these training episodes that really just felt like a lull. They killed the hype, and then suddenly they throw us into the nationals. The transition just doesn't seem smooth, you feel me? Or maybe it's just me, but anyhoo, that's just my two cents. I should stop complaining and maybe enjoy this moment that all the previous seasons have been building up to. Just hope they can deliver, and so far I think they're doing a good job with introducing us to this battleground. Man there's so many characters already but they're gonna introduce a heck of a lot more aren't they. It's a good thing that the real focus is just on a few teams and not all of them, otherwise they'd have to do some avengers infinity war-level script writing to give all of these characters adequate amounts of screen time. Fingers crossed that I can raise this 4/10 score that I'm intending to give this season. EDIT: and yeah that's probably going to be extremely likely because 1: we got BOKUTO back, 2: we get kiyoko taking a bath, and 3: nishinoya accepting his fate and going FULL PERV YUEAH LETS GOOOO |
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| Maybe my memory fails me but this seems to be the first episode in the whole series where some members of the team just go out and chill. It's kind of refreshing to see. Like we never got that beach or vacation or whatever episode to take a break from all the volleyball. From what I remember, every episode has been hard-focused on volleyball. In doing so they created great pacing but I wouldn't have minded a little break or something just to chill, you know? And it didn't last long in this episode but at least we got to seem some of the third years go to a shrine. I really can't remember anything else that they've done in the past seasons that wasn't volleyball-related. Anyhow, not that it matters, we're onto the nationals. Thought we wouldn't get there until the end of the season but here we are and I'm glad- or am I..?? Kind of feels un-deserved in a way, maybe perhaps rushed is a better word, but from what they gave us in these past 8 episodes, is it just me or is the team in no way in shape to take on the nationals? It feels like they're just casually training and then BOOM, out of nowhere, nationals. Imo they didn't do a good job at all building up to this moment, the hype was non-existent in this season for me. The hype for the nationals was real in seasons 2 and 3, like that was always the ultimate focus for the team, they just had to take down the teams that stood in front of them. Problem is, here in "to the top", they gave us these training episodes that really just felt like a lull. They killed the hype, and then suddenly they throw us into the nationals. The transition just doesn't seem smooth, you feel me? Or maybe it's just me, but anyhoo, that's just my two cents. I should stop complaining and maybe enjoy this moment that all the previous seasons have been building up to. Just hope they can deliver, and so far I think they're doing a good job with introducing us to this battleground. Fingers crossed that I can raise this 4/10 score that I'm intending to give this season. |
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| Loved the slice of life moments from the first part of the episode. And the tournament is finally underway. This is going to be great. |
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| This episode was long and so cool, love the slice of life moments in sport mangas ! |
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| I'm definitely not ready for this but it's time!! Nice and somewhat emotional opening ceremony, definitely made you think that you're there. And seeing Nekoma and Fukurodani was amazing! Happy to see Bokuto and Kuroo actually there. |
Come on man,where is that Noragami season 3 masterpiece.We want it, Bones! |
| breather episode in haikyuu, truly priceless for this out-of-breath series. seriously needed that. and we also had fanservice, which i found very fondly. mainly due the fact that we had more girl talking in this manly series. lol the dream at the beginning of the episode. truly lol we also had lots of wetting to the upcoming tournament. i actually didn't think we will have some matches this season, but seems that at least one match gonna fill up this season. |
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