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| THIS IS AN ANIME ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS THE MANGA BEYOND THIS EPISODE. ---------------------------------------- Good God, Hinata and his overreactions sometimes.. Glad to see Karasuno putting him a fight but with the score being so close and even tied at one point this episode, it can go either way. Pretty neat pacing too this episode. They really managed to capture the magic of the competition without wasting time. Phenomenal soundtrack this episode too. |
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| Younger one not trusting older brother? Mamo's character even reading what setter guy would do and blocked it. Fighting back time. lol @ megane guy. Mamo's character being marked by main guy. Still have difficulty, though. Main guy thinking he's better, while setter guy always thinking it's just coincidence. Serve guy getting affected by the audience, and coach saved him. |
tsubasaloverOct 9, 2020 11:31 AM
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| So Hinata doesnt need to keep depending on Kageyama for the quicks forever. There are other setters like Kageyama who can pull off the quick too. Thats interesting. Tsukishima was pretty good today. Their synchronized attack brought back flashbacks from the Shiratorizawa match! And finally, service ace by Tadashi. I feel like they can win this set but who knows. Next episode is "Broken Hearts". |
| The foreshadowing, tho. Anyway, another nice episode, especially loved the Tsukki scenes like where he teamed up with Kageyama or him laughing over Asahi-senpai. Gold xD And nice serve Yamaguchi, but Shimada came clutch. The cheering squad is killing it this season. |
One Piece episode 914 & 915 & 1027 were a mistake and 957 brought the salvation - FMmatron |
| Glad I'm not the only one that noticed the weird animation this episode. It was still enjoyable, but it was a bit off-putting. Loved that last service ace though, it's nice to see Yamaguchi grow!! |
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| Epic episode. All the energy in this episode was infectious, comedy was on point as well. Kageyama calling out Hinata for luck, Tsukii making fun of Hinata, teaming up with Kageyama and laughing over Asahi. Tons of gold reaction faces, top tier stuff really. Hinata's blocking was definitely the highlight for me, the first commit block was great but what really took the cake was him blocking the cross shot and forcing the straight line shot. Nishinoya immediately picking up on it was great too. Bokuto saying, 'these damn crows' after Asahi's point was awesome. Yamaguchi service ace was epic. Can't wait for more. |
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| The animation quality dropped this episode. Yamaguchi nice serve! Looks like Tanaka and Kinoshita will get some character development in this match. |
| It seems that the staff was not ready for this episode. The chara designs are too often off model and the animation seems a bit average (the synchronized attack was horrible). Hayashi's OSTs compensate, but not enough. Otherwise, quite surprised to see 7 chapters adapted, the match is progressing rather quickly |
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| The animation was pretty bad this episode, there were some scenes which the characters were sooo bad animated |
| Definitely noticed a decrease in animation quality. But episode 2 had me very excited for Yamaguchi :D |
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| i'm glad i'm not the only one who questioned the animation this episode.. kinda weird :/ but still a good episode in terms of content overall |
   ❝☆ 𝗧𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗿, 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗿, 𝗺𝘆 𝘃𝗼𝗶𝗰𝗲 ☆ 𝘐 𝘸𝘪𝘴𝘩 𝘐 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘩 𝘺𝘰𝘶...❞ |
| Great episode. Karasuno have a tough match against a more experienced veteran school but that hasn't stopped them from trying their best to win. Hinata's reactions were hilarious. And so were Tsukishima's. Yamaguchi's serve at the end was just awesome. |
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| I didn’t notice the animation until I saw these comments. Yeah, it was bad. I’m glad Yanaguchi improved, he finally got the result of his training. |
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| There were some good moments this episode. The highlights for me were Yamaguchi’s mental breakdown and Hinata wondering which blocker was the most annoying(Matsukawa from Aoba Johsai I think). Unfortunately, I don’t like Haikyū devolving to Devilman Crybaby animation. Even if you’re saving the budget for the cool stuff, I cannot tolerate this abysmal quality of animation. Absolutely terrible in some scenes. This is not what I expected at all. I will probably read the manga chapters this episode adapted. I’m hoping this will not continue for future eps. This is why you don’t review a series after one episode 🤦🏻♂️ Edit: some people are saying the animation is outsourced- well that explains it. Petition for this ep to be reanimated |
AcbSnakeDemonOct 11, 2020 6:50 PM
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| This episode I heard got fully outsourced animation and art wise so no wonder it looks so bad and inconsistent compared to the norm. |
| this episode is like 90% weird proportioned faces, discontinuity, and tired and cheap animation tactics (not animating the ball and dragging drawings rather than animating them). It's such an obvious drop in quality and makes this episode unwatchable. hopefully, its fixed in the next episode or this season will be the biggest fumble in history. |
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| OMG WHEN TSUKISHIMA SPIKED IT AND SCORED THEM A POINT AND THEN HINATA AND YAMAGUCHI CHEERED AND SCREAMED FOR HIM AHHHH definitely one of the highlights of my anime watching today lol amazing episode^^ |
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| Never thought that Haikyuu would get the Mappa treatment. This episode was quite awful which is pretty disappointing since the match seems pretty interesting. |
| Watashi wa a victim of cyberbullying. Everyday someone online calls me a "weeb" desu. Watashi won't stand for this. 26 percent of bullying victims are chosen due to their race or religion desu. I may look like a basic white boy, but deep down I am Nihongo desu. Watashi religion is anime. Anata wa bullying me because of my race and religion desu ka? Disgusting desu. Anata should be ashamed of yourself, racist pig. A baka gaijin like anata is probably jealous of my race and culture, cause Nippon is more sugoi than your shitty country desu. Watashi pity anata. You'll never be Nihongo like watashi. Educate yourself on nani a "weeb" is. |
| Oh, man. This episode was awful. Like really, really awful. The animatian was very inconsistent and the characters were always unexplicably off-model. And, like, if the problem was just that, it would have been okay. A lot of episodes of Haikyuu didn't have amazing visuals or didn't have characters always on model. But it wasn't just that. They adapted 7 chapters of the source material. They normally do 3 chapters. Not only that, most of these chapters have good moments that were either cut or rushed. Hinata's ability to read the block. Tsukishima overwhelming Inarizaki. Yamaguchi's panic after losing his "reset place". Those and so many more little moments happend so fast and so unceremoniously that it felt like watching a slideshow presentation. As a manga reader, I'm just sad. The last two episodes from last season were very good and I got my hopes up for this match. But these first episodes have been okay to awful. |
Drack_wJan 1, 2022 5:28 PM
| Nice, they are leading now. |
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| This ep's scenes was so weird and disturbing =( I felt disappointed because this match was my fav in the manga I really hope next eps won't be like this |
| I loved tsukki sm in this episode :))))) I cant wait for the rest of it to b animated |
| I was excited this whole episode, the comedy was on point but the animation wasn't. The has to be the worst animated Haikyuu episode |
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MorallyCorrupt said: Okay, after a little more research, I found out that the episode was outsourced to 4tune(?). It was rushed and covered a greater number of chapters as compared to episode 1. It seems like the next episode will fix the pacing issue and bring back the consistent animation and characters quality of the previous episode. If that’s true, I kid you not, this news will let me sleep tonight |
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Akunai said: JadentheAnimeguy said: They weren't saving budget, budgets not a problem for Haikyu, the episode got outsourced to a different studio because I.G. didn't feel they were prepared enough to do it, presumably a busy schedule JadentheAnimeguy said: They weren't saving budget, budgets not a problem for Haikyu, the episode got outsourced to a different studio because I.G. didn't feel they were prepared enough to do it, presumably a busy schedule Makes me sad... Especially since this is supposed to be the last season and they had already delayed it due to covid. They would have had enough time to even redo it. In prior seasons, you could take a screenshot and compare it to the panel for the manga and it would look near the same for any action sequence. You can't even compare for this ep. Although they did have to incorporate a lot of chapters, timing is still off to me... I hope it only gets better. Mmmm this isn't the last season. |
| Seeing Tsukki laugh towards the end of the episode was so adorable. I also got very teary eyed when Shimada held up the grocery back for Yams. I'm also happy we got to see more of Kinoshita :) |
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| at this rate i started to worry that are they really saving the budget for the best part.. i kinda disappointed... |
| This was awful. I am very disappointed with the quality of this episode. Awful graphics, almost no animation, terrible rhythm, that was an insult to Haikyuu. If it wasn't Haikyuu, I would have dropped it at the middle of the episode. |
| Hinata seems to be learning new things during games..........not surprised. This episode wasn't as entertaining or as flashy as it usually is however I still was entertained however if it doesn't bring backs it's amazing animation then Haikyuu will be in trouble. Please bring me the good stuff next episode. |
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| The art and animation literally hurt my eyes. Couldn't even focus on the actual episode. I hope it gets better |
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