Haikyuu!! Movie: Gomisuteba no Kessen

Kenma Kozume has never considered volleyball fun or thrilling: it is merely something he is good at. But now Nekoma High School's volleyball team has qualified for the Spring Nationals and prepares to battle their long-standing rivals—Karasuno. Now, Kenma has to analyze the most confounding and resilient team and lead Nekoma to victory against them. Moreover, he will play against his friend Shouyou Hinata, Karasuno's short but incredibly proficient middle blocker.

Karasuno has never been able to beat Nekoma in practice matches. Even so, despite his usual indifference, Kenma feels a tinge of excitement at the prospect of facing Karasuno in a high-stakes official game with no do-overs. To advance to the semifinals and ultimately restore their team's former glory, Karasuno must find a way to overcome Kenma's brilliant strategy and defeat Nekoma in their own territory.

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Hinata, Shouyou Main

Murase, Ayumu Japanese

Kageyama, Tobio Main

Ishikawa, Kaito Japanese

Kozume, Kenma Main

Kaji, Yuuki Japanese

Kuroo, Tetsurou Main

Nakamura, Yuuichi Japanese

Nishinoya, Yuu Supporting

Okamoto, Nobuhiko Japanese

Tsukishima, Kei Supporting

Uchiyama, Kouki Japanese

Bokuto, Koutarou Supporting

Kimura, Ryouhei Japanese

Sugawara, Koushi Supporting

Irino, Miyu Japanese

Akaashi, Keiji Supporting

Oosaka, Ryouta Japanese

Tanaka, Ryuunosuke Supporting

Hayashi, Yuu Japanese

Maeda, Toshihiro Producer

Morihiro, Fumi Producer

Taguchi, Shouichirou Producer

Matsushita, Keiko Producer

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May 31, 2024

Cia_Scarlett

Recommended

As a manga reader, after getting tired of no continuation from the previous season and having re-read the manga about 8 times in total, I would say they did a decent job at the animation. There are definitely a lot of stuff cut out from the manga with most the attention being given to Hianta and Kenma, which to be fair makes sense with the movie running time of only 80 mins. The highlight for me was the voice acting with Kaiji Yuuki-sensei and Murase Ayumu-sensei doing absolutely so perfect at voicing the hyped emotions behind each line. The OSTs and cinematography was chef's ... kiss and the pacing was decent for all the cutting up they did. I was at the edge of my seat this whole time and shaking even though I already knew what would happen.

In conclusion, I would say it is recommended, but if you are a fan of some specific characters from the manga, then I would also understand why you would have mixed feelings.

Reviewer’s Rating: 8

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May 31, 2024

itzonlaught

Mixed Feelings

First time I can say, that they didnt elevate the source material. Lots of skipped content. The emotional dynamics was done well. Overall instead of feeling like I was watching a volleyball anime. I felt like I was watching an anime sprinkled with volleyball. No tension, no urgency in the match. Still giving this a 7/10 bcuz I love haikyuu but very sad I waited so long for this. Understand a lot of people like the anime for purely the character dynamcis, I agree i also loved it for that. But the volleyball aspect made me grow to love a sport I knew nothing about. ... 2 full rallies in a 3 set match was not it.

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Nov 2, 2024

Rubber_and_Gum

Not Recommended

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Very poor movie that pissed me off as someone who adores this match in the manga, and I'm glad I did not watch it in theatres and would've regretted it if I did.
Outside of Hinata, Kenma and Kuroo[the ones i consider the main characters of this movie] it doesn't do any major characters[in this segment] justice directly and as a result, it indirectly harms these characters


The others did not get nearly enough , Kageyama felt so non existent compared to how pivotal he was in the manga, tsukki's moments weren't adapted well enough, Yamaguchi had more moments in the nekoma ... game which build up to the kamomedai game along with Tsukki, the less said about daichi and asahi the better, Noya was alright but again not enough.

The lack of quality inadapting these characters makes every character they're related to worse by extension, effectively dragging down nearly the entire cast , including the three main characters.Haikyu is a series centred around character interactions than spectacle, and this movie seems to prefer the latter a lot more .
Visually speaking, it's pretty good but that's irrelevant when it misses most emotional beats
The music wasn't great, could've contributed to many moments being weak alongside the writing and pacing
Overall , if you like haikyu until now, read the manga


As for good stuff, the flashback to Kuroo and Kenma playing volleyball as kids in the gym with Nekomata's guidance was adapted perfectly, so was kenma's iconic cage scene[but not Shoyo breaking from it, that could've been better].Tsukki's hi five was great too.

Reviewer’s Rating: 3

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