I found Haikyuu to be pleasantly surprising! I don't normally care for sport-based anime, but Haikyuu has a certain charm that really pulls you in. Something notable IMO is that the anime doesn't fall into the trope of making all these high-school age children into god-tier players. With the exception of Kageyama, all the characters in the show are performing at levels I'd expect of a HS volleyball team, and their secret moves (like floater serves) are the types of skills that advanced HS athletes would realistically be trying to learn. In that sense Haikyuu had a realism that made me very nostalgic for my own time playing Volleyball in HS!
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