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| Kyanma has my respect! |
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| I felt exhausted after watching Kenma in this episode. Kenma randomly getting angry at gravity was hilarious. His personality really does change when he gets angry. |
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| Waiting for Karasuno vs Nekoma. |
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| Another ok episode. Nekoma won as predicted. The setter's cat eyes are disturbing sometimes haha. Finally we are back to Karasuno's match. |
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Pre_Yum said: Waiting for Karasuno vs Nekoma. This has to happen of course, as the whole anime has been foreboding the Battle at the Trash Heap. But I'm afraid we'll have to wait another season before this happens as I'm sure Inarizaki won't go down easy. :( |
| I'm not prepared for Karasuno vs Nekoma. I can't stand to see either of them lose :( But at the same time, I'm annoyed that we probably won't see that match for a while |
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| Really weak season so far, we begin with a couple episodes of the match who got a mediocre animation , and now we got 2 ep of a Nekoma match in the middle of Karasuno match who take us out of the action ( even if I enjoy the Nekoma ep ). |
| Liked the switch over to Nekoma. I don't think it took anything out of the flow; it doesn't have to be all Karasuno all the time. Developing the story of their rivals isn't a bad thing; everyone's got their motivations and desires, the cats as much as the crows. At this point, it seems that the Battle of the Trash Heap will be happening. (Granted, Haikyuu does occasionally spring a surprise on you, even a loss, but they've been not so much foreshadowing that as shouting it through a bullhorn.) Especially after seeing Nekoma in action, it will be awesome indeed to see that happen. |
| Risk something, take back what's yours Say something they know they might attack you for. --Linkin Park, "Hands Held High" |
| So finally back to some Karasuno action next episode. Kenma really pull himself together and with guts theyre able to win. |
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| Nekoma's play style is really the one I like the most. I really like it when they show different team's play style. Now there's no way Karasuno lose, I'm sad the Nekoma vs Karasuno match is not in the finals, but at least it's good we'll get to see the long awaited battle of the garbage dump. |
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| Nekoma's match was great and Kenma was great too. |
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mosam00 said: Can someone explain how exactly Kenma tricked the Saru team's players? I was confused by that a bit. Sarukawa intended to exhaust Kenma by doing a lot of hard to receive attacks on Nekoma, so that Nekoma's receives couldn't do A-passes (passes going directly to the setter), forcing Kenma to run every time to make a toss. So Kenma told his team to imitate imperfect receives on purpose, so that ball went to the side of the net, apparently making Kenma to move there and dragging Sarukawa's blockers along. Then Kenma just tossed to spikers on the far side of the net, and Sarukawa's blockers couldn't make it there in time. And after they got aware of his plan and started moving in the opposite direction of Kenma, he just tossed to a nearby spiker. |
| well nicely executed hmm..that was nice and wholesome and thensome...hmmm |
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| loved that episode, loved the match and loved the focus on kenma, he's a really great character |
物事は良くなりますか ？ |
| Ah, Kenma is too adorable for words - starts cursing gravity XD |
~Nothing is Eternal but Eternity ~ |
| Imagine getting two episodes devoted to Karasuno's biggest rivals and fleshing them out more and calling it filler. |
| Fantastic episode this time out. Nekoma really are a great team full of great characters who could just as easily be the protagonists of this show. Hopefully they keep this up from here on out. Also the animation wasn't as bad as it has been |
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| That was great! I agree with his teammates, if only Kemma wasn't this timid and had more stamina Nekoma will be unstoppable. Now, are we finally going back to Karasuno? |
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| It was really a good episode. Glad that Nekoma won. Waiting for Karasuno VS. Nekoma But, can someone tell the meaning of these A- pass and B- pass, about which Nekoma's coach mentioned in this episode? |
| Loved this ep, I wanted to protecc baby Kenma from being crushed but turns out Kenma can take care of himself. This was my favourite episode of the season thus far but I feel like the transition into the Nekoma game as well as into Tanakas back story didn't fit at all.. But this ep felt the hypiest out of all of them, at least to me so w.e. 4/5 |
| god the constant scene repetitions and flashbacks made this episode so annoying. there were at least 2 instances where they showed a scene and then repeated it like 3 seconds later |
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| kenma's character development!! :) i liked the whole thing about having guts/actually putting effort into matches. i guess the next match is nekoma vs karasuno; i think i'll be sad no matter who wins lol... but i guess im rooting for karasuno more. |
| Another Nekoma centered episode. Didn't expect all the mind games that went into the play tho.. Looks like Karasuno vs Nekoma will be the next match after Karasuno wins the current one. Looking forward to seeing how different it'll be from all the practise matches the two teams have played so far. |
| Yeah, Kenma is the only character that I actually liked on this series. The way Kenma think during a game was amusing, he's a genius. |
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| Amazing episode, I love how it focused on Nekoma, and especially Kenma. Their strategy was solid, I am glad that Kenma pulled through. Angry Kenma moments were hilarious lol |
| I'm very very impressed with Kenma!!! ❤ he's so smart! Sports is not all about physical but also mental ability! |
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| Yeah screw gravity! |
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| Well grats to Nekoma for moving to the next round...Kenma was so good out there.. |
| The transition (script-wise) from the nekoma game to karasuno playing inarizaki was so smooth. Nekoma's captain is just thinking to himself how to get kenma more aggressive, and then he remembers that player on karasuno, and it transitions to hinata. That's some nice FLOW at its finest. Haikyuu manages to not make moving to another game for two episodes feel out of place. For one, I'm sure most viewers do indeed care to see more of the many other games happening concurrently, especially one of what are probably karasuno's top historic rivals. And it also makes sense to dedicate a couple episodes completely to one of nekoma's games since On top of that, this really was a good character study imo of kenma. Definitely gave much more depth to him specifically but also the entire team as a whole. Man gets tired more easily than others but he keeps on fighting! |
  NYANPASU  5700XT |
| I've been wondering how Karasuno would do in the second set the whole time during Nekomata episodes. Did a double take on that 17/7 score.... |
| Great episode focusing on Nekoma. If there's one thing I've always loved in Haikyuu, it would be the characters' eyes in a special moment. It's just so badass when that happens with Hinata, Oikawa, Nishinoya, Tsukishima and now even Kenma. And that ending too!! It's finally happening! Nekoma vs Karasuno! Kuroo's words sent shivers down my spine. |
Come on man,where is that Noragami season 3 masterpiece.We want it, Bones! |
| while i felt this nekoma match was out of place, i liked the focus on kenma in this episode. although i think the pace was off in those 2 episodes. and just like this the show moving back to karasuno match, and we get to know that they beat 1st set? awesome. |
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