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| 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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  NYANPASU  whiskey tango foxtrot |
| 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. |
NYANPASU whiskey tango foxtrot |
| 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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