Haikyuu!! 1x14 Reaction Extended (YT link below)
Added 2022-12-15 16:24:09 +0000 UTCIn Haikyuu 1x14, Formidable Opponents, the team gets the upcoming FULLY ELIMINATION game schedule and realize there's a lot of tough character drama in front of them.
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love story between hinata and kageyama
Aray YIKAMACI
2023-02-28 13:56:32 +0000 UTCYamaguchi my baby
Aray YIKAMACI
2023-02-28 13:49:51 +0000 UTCdaichi is the erwin of haikyuu. Its the power of the eyebrows
Nikki Dee
2023-02-27 18:37:40 +0000 UTCThe Shimizu scene makes me cry laugh every time. All the second and third years understand how meaningful Shimizu's gesture is. The silence before the suddenly explosive tears gets me every time.
Athena
2022-12-17 16:32:21 +0000 UTCThe show is just endlessly inspiring! 14 episodes is all it takes for these kids to grow on you, and there's still so much time to grow with them
Aura Y
2022-12-16 04:33:58 +0000 UTC"id love to see a Daichi arc" that sounds interesting since he's the captain
jess
2022-12-16 03:49:05 +0000 UTCI don’t need to know Japanese to know these dudes are gonna get smoked.
Chris Sharpe
2022-12-16 02:42:35 +0000 UTCRewatching this with you made me realize how good of an episode this was
Kasie
2022-12-16 01:59:39 +0000 UTCYeah.... sometimes I wonder if it's kinda spoilers, but like, the Japanese audience sees it from day 1, so clearly the author wasn't hiding it from us. It happens often. Demon Slayer comes to mind, but I remember the first episode of "Blue Lock" that came out this year where there was a character in the opening scene called "Tada-chan," (tada-no-___ means like "just an ordinary ___"), and I was like, "whelp.... guess we're not seeing him after this scene." And indeed we did not.
Ryan
2022-12-15 22:00:23 +0000 UTCShimizu knows the secret. Sure, drive, stakes, and rivalry are excellent fuel, but nothing beats the hormones of high school dudes.
Chris Sharpe
2022-12-15 21:49:25 +0000 UTCWith a name like that, clearly Kurasuno is gonna get wrecked.
Chris Sharpe
2022-12-15 21:47:15 +0000 UTCUkai, our favorite minimum wage king.
Chris Sharpe
2022-12-15 21:45:36 +0000 UTCThis anime really taught me why people value sport as someone who use to eyeroll at them as a concept. I feel kind of dumb for dismissing why people invested so much of themselves in sports now. They really are something people put there heart in.
Sage
2022-12-15 21:29:52 +0000 UTCAnother great Haikyuu reaction. I watched this show a year ago but I’m still getting as hyped as I was back then. Also, I prefer this new video embedding you’re using over what you used before.
tundrxdemon
2022-12-15 19:30:24 +0000 UTCYour final comments really connect with the themes of the episode after next. Excited to hear your thoughts on it. Very strong start to this rollercoaster of a tournament.
Tope
2022-12-15 19:01:58 +0000 UTCThis episode really made me feel a shift, even before the games have started
Alex G
2022-12-15 18:41:21 +0000 UTCThat just increased my respect for both Ukai and Takeda. I hadn't thought about the money angle at all but this just reinforces that they're doing it for the love of the kids and the game.
Alex G
2022-12-15 18:40:32 +0000 UTCThis is where I think Haikyuu really starts. Let the games begin!
Skyler Anderson
2022-12-15 18:40:22 +0000 UTCOh right! At the opening: you're right, they were having trouble reading Karasuno's name. They confused this: 烏野 -> 鳥野, which would be "torino," which was the Winter Olympic location in 2006 (the Haikyuu manga came out in 2011). It continuously amazes me how Japanese people commonly cannot read Japanese place names. I don't know of any other language on earth where fully literate adults can look at words written in the language and go, "well, it's probably one of these three possibilities, unless it's something really weird." And for completion: Noya's shirt was the same as the first time he was introduced: 一騎当千 (ikki tousen, "one knight who's a match for 1000")
Ryan
2022-12-15 18:38:39 +0000 UTC2:11 Right, there's actually no regular season in *any* Japanese school sport, not just volleyball. It's something many Japanese people think is obvious, so it's not often explained directly in anime, but it's true for basketball, soccer, baseball, tennis, softball, and so on. The only sports clubs that do have a regular season are private clubs run outside the school system, which are rare, but they exist for sports like soccer. You'll have "X City Football Club" vs "Y City FC," and they have their own league, but that's almost just to make up for the fact that they can't participate in the big annual tournaments, since those are run by MEXT (the Ministry of Education, Sports, Science, Culture, and Technology). 15:20 Worth saying, but Ukai probably isn't getting paid to coach the kids. Even if he is, it'd be max on the order of about 10,000yen (less than $100) per month as a "special consultant." Takeda-sensei isn't paid extra for any of the school club activities, either. Takeda has a responsibility to do at least a bare minimum as advisor, but he doesn't get more for organizing or going to practice matches, etc. That's why most teams effectively have to coach themselves if they can't find people passionate enough to essentially volunteer their time and pay each other in drinks, memories, and respect. 27:50 Your speech here is really piercing. My comments are always too long, so this is a super condensed history of sports in Japanese education, but the people who first designed public sports in Japan had almost exactly the kind of life-training you talk about in mind (except also for the purpose of glorifying the Emperor and helping Japan militarily take over its neighbors...). Nowadays, it's MEXT's explicit goal to keep school sports strong for precisely the life-lessons you mentioned here. On that note and talking about having to be "abnormally" invested to reach elite levels, the name of the school Daichi's middle school friend is from, who Karasuno will be playing in the first round, is "Tokonami," 常波, 'normal waves,' or almost literally "the average guys."
Ryan
2022-12-15 18:36:19 +0000 UTCI love these Haikyuu reactions :D
Emman Reed
2022-12-15 18:07:25 +0000 UTCso excited to watch the next part with you!!! the hype is so real!!!
Margaret
2022-12-15 17:30:45 +0000 UTC
