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| THIS IS AN ANIME ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS THE MANGA BEYOND THIS EPISODE. ---------------------------------------- After a lengthy proposal, Yuni manages to convince Kimichika and get things in order ASAP within the Seiin High School Volleyball team. Practice as much as you can? That's as hell ludicrious for even a seasonal break. The volleyball tournament has come (that's insanely fast for a 12-episode series), and the Seiin team going through the seams in quick succession. But for Yuni, his vulnerability under pressure is his Achilies' Heel, and asking him to hold different postiions (other than being Striker)...that's quote the contrast, whereas Kimichika could easily foresee things in order and adapt to the changes, as how a veteran player would be. The first loss (that came with immense baggages), and already that underwhelming by playing a one-man show. What is truly going on Yuni's mind, the essence grows fonder to his retraction and Kimichika's reaction to his failure, as if he's a different beast altogether. You can try as hard as you can, but there's a limit before you eventually break. |
KANLen09Jan 16, 2021 4:39 AM
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| Well everything seems kind of fasted forward and surprise, surprise Haijima is turning more into a pain... |
| I get it now. I thought it was weird the tournament came very fast. It it because they are still in middle school. |
| This anime has a pretty unique dialect. Didn't expect a tournament so early, and it ended already. 3rd place is pretty good for a 1v5 game. Main characters are just kageyama and hinata. They're going to have to fix their team relations. Also how has haijima never been nervous? Is that some kind of superpower? |
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| The whole directing and composition of this show just feels so disconnected for some reason. Everything about it from the story, to the characters, to the actual matches themselves and the rushed pacing early on, although it could just be that prequel arc being compact to a few episodes. The visuals look good at times in game but stiff at times too. It's about the same as I feel for the first episode but not a big fan of the drama involved at all so far. At least the OP song still bangs hard, probably my favorite OP song I've heard this season and the best one since the No Guns Life 2nd season OP song. |
| wow all it took was 1 ep for me to completely change my opinion on good ol'Yuni what a dick bruh I get the whole inferiority complex, but who tf shit talks the dude who literally carried the game and is the only reason the team won. I'd too be pissed if I was Haijima, having that domekano ass lookalike flopping around and not being able to do jack shit and then start talking smack it's no wonder Haijima is depressed af when all his teammates all talk but no action goddamnnn pacing wise it's understandable if the HS part is meant to be the main story and this is more of a prologue type of deal. Animation during the match I have to say, it has the cleanness but doesn't have that impactful focus a lot of the time. Though this wasn't really a properly important match so maybe that could change |
 'On-Hold' is another way for a completionist to say 'Dropped' |
| Holy shit that was fast paced. They blazed through months of training and games in one episode, so none of it has any impact. Yuni is a quitter when the going gets tough, so I have very little sympathy for him when he cries that he wants to keep playing volleyball. |
| I think the first episode was better than this one, mainly because of how rushed it felt. I don't dislike it or anything, but it didn't give us the chance to feel or connect with Yuni's emotions or understand how Haijima was trying to save the game. |
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| How to be an unlikable character in two easy steps: become overconfident after one good game and then get jealous of the team's ace that covered for your nervous wreck ass. At least it leaves a lot of room for a good character arc? Not that it matters a lot when a character boiling point comes two minutes afterwards. |
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| This episode seemed a bit rushed. Guess that's what happens when you try to make a volleyball show in 12 episodes. Well first tournament is going to be over in a flash unless Seiin preforms a miracle. Like how they added a psychological element to display Yuni's thoughts during the second game. Think the show will focus more on friendship and bonds rather than volleyball itself. Volleyball is going to be the cause of future events that will effect the teams well being and friendships that seems non-existent at the moment. |
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| I was thinking "wtf the pacing's insane" but then at the very end I've realised they're still in middle school and it was only a prologue arc. The real stuff begins in high school. Yuni was being a big fool for running away from the match and talking shit about Haijima behind his back. Meanwhile Haijima probably lost all his faith in humanity after even his childhood friend did him dirty like that. Now onto high school. |
| If you read Eleceed you're automatically my friend. |
| this anime actually 10x better than Haikyuu!! - no wasting time for repeat comedic - no full season just for training arc - straight to the idea also I like the fact they focus on character development rather than stupid support tricks and supper moves if all support anime like this would be cool |
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| Well this is incredibly fast paced but like other people mentioned this is the middle school prologue. That probably explains why nobody from the OP has shown up or have names aside from Haijima and Kuroba. I'm actually really enjoying this so far. I haven't watched Haikyuu so I can't compare it but tbh making a comparison just because they're both about volleyball seems a bit weird to me. Either way I'm hyped for the next episode. |
| caught up with this anime. I agree the pacing was way too fast, but maybe they are trying to adapt the entire LN series. I'm fine with the anime going full-angst and focusing more on the relationships of the characters rather than the sport itself, as long as it has a satisfying payoff. I just hope it doesn't go too over the top with the melodrama, as what happened with Stars Align that went overboard with the abusive parents and etc. Otherwise I'll keep watching it for now. There's so many other sports anime out this season, but that SK8 Infinity anime seems to be the only decent one so far, so I'm hoping 2.43 will be good. The Skate Leading Stars anime is making me wanna drop it, it's painfully mediocre so far. Haven't started watching that surfing anime either. |
| ngl the pacing in this episode was pretty awful so much happened that it felt like nothing happened |
"Leonardo... it wasn't, by any means, only your eyes that we welcomed into Libra." - Klaus von Reinherz |
| Pacing was awful as already said. What the hell is up with the blushing this episode? He blushes when he's embarrassed OK... but also when he's annoyed, mad, angry, sad, when his cousin gets angry at him and when he rides the truck with the other cousin. What? |
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| The MAL synopsis had me extremely confused. As a member of MAL Rewrite I am going to check if someone has claimed this show yet, and if not, rewrite it myself lol. After figuring out they're still in middle school, and these first 2 episodes are more like backstory, it doesn't feel as rushed as I thought it to be. Good episode. Personally, I enjoy sports anime that deal with the drama and relationships more than the sport (and it's godly when they combine both the sport and the relationships of the characters together, like Ookiku Furikabutte did, which is an amazing show). Anyways, excited for the next episode. Guessing it will be the time skip of when they meet again in high school? |
| I really enjoyed this episode, just like the first! There's actually much less drama than I had expected (thank goodness it didn't go down the Battery or Dive!! route...yet), and I liked the way Yuni decided for himself what to do after the confrontation with Yori. Ideally, that's what he wanted to do, to judge Haijima for himself (positively), but he ended up not being able to do so due to being frustrated at his own bad performance and inferiority complex. Childish, yes, and they are in fact children, only 14-15 years old. I've been spiteful like that when I was younger, and like Yuni, been incredibly embarrassed at myself for acting like that due to inferiority complex. It's not fun to watch a character acting this way, but it's definitely realistic, and for some, relatable. It's nice that the drama parts don't seem to drag out. Yuni was given a good wake up call at the end of the episode. (Yori not being hung up on not being able to hang out with Yuni was nice, too. Guess he's not too dumb about these things, either, even if he was mean at the end of last episode.) That being said, Yuni did go a bit overboard, as volleyball is a team sport, and even if he didn't feel like going to match, he should've called to say that he won't be going (make up an excuse) or let them know that he'd be late. It's always worrisome when someone doesn't show up to an event. I feel a bit for Haijima. Imagine the thoughts that ran through his head when Yuni didn't arrive and then a teammate wondered out loud if Yuni got into an accident :( Of course it might've been better if they all just talked it out after the first day's match, but I think communication between people is always something you keep learning, especially at a younger age. Hopefully this means that in the future, they will be able to fight verbally and make up, instead of having to be this drastic and make things worse by not talking. As for the pacing, I think it works. The title even has their high school name (Seiin), and not their current middle school one (Monshiro). The author wanted to focus on a pair who knew each other before high school, so I don't think it's necessary to fill up the training parts. But I mean, if it feels fast-paced to many others, then it just does :'D I'm glad I'm really enjoying this so far, though ^^ |
tingyJan 14, 2021 3:56 PM
| Perhaps 14 or even a two-cour 24 episodes would have been better if the story's gonna be like this? Going from January to March and April and straight to the end of July in one single episode, jumping over so many things in order to just move the story forward... It does have a sense of rushedness to it, but at the same it all feels weightless, because the drama and the emotions get no time or place to fully bloom and settle. So like... They are where they are, and it's hard for us to be invested because couldn't even digest one thing by the time they've already moved - not even to the next, but the one after the next. It's weird and it feels even weirder after the rather decent "table setting" the first episode managed to do. Having said that, I still love the settings and scenery. The houses, stations, stadiums, inside and out, generic as all hell perhaps, but the fact the anime actually bothers to have those cuts at all does help placing ourselves into the scenes. |
| The dialect/accent is quite unique... |
| Wow that was something? I don't think I've ever been this disappointed by an episode of almost any anime I've seen.. The pacing was just awful and everything about it just felt so forced. I have hopes the future episodes are better played out because this was just disappointing. |
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| If it's just for the prologue, then I will be able to overlook the pacing. So let's see how it turns out. |
One Piece episode 914 & 915 & 1027 were a mistake and 957 brought the salvation - FMmatron |
| I liked it, good episode. Was surprised the tournament came on so fast, we didn't even get a nice training montage. :( I suppose it makes sense that this is the middle school prologue and why we don't know anyone in the rest of the team apart from Haijima and Yuni. I was glad Yuni didn't listen to his cousin and decided to see for himself what Haijima was like, the first game was pretty nice to watch too. Sadly Yuni just fell apart in the second game, everyone has off games, Haijima did his best to cover for you and carry the game but I was surprised that Yuni basically decided that Haijima was a prick who didn't need the team and talked shit about him behind his back. I kinda didn't expect that from him after he said he'd believe in Haijima and decide for himself, he even ran away from the game because he didn't want to face Haijima. That was a pretty low move from him. Sure Haijima is not the smartest when it comes to being socially amicable, he could've cheered the team up after that game or said something but he did his best to carry them and hope that Yuni would get his game back but unfortunate. :( Curious to see how high school will play out. |
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| I feel like everyone is expecting too much from this anime.... Anyway, this seems like a prologue and soon enough we'll have the actual plot starting once they begin High School. Despite the fast pace it's simply giving us insight on how the conflict begun and will eventually be tackled on later. I'm curious to see how they'll do things though. On another note, Yuni... im disappointed |
-miraiiJan 14, 2021 6:48 PM
 "In the past few months since we met, I've shared many memories with Nagato. Though I've also shared memories with Haruhi, Asahina-san and Koizumi, I found that I've experienced more events with Nagato in particular. In fact, every situation seems to involve her. I might as well mention this, she's probably the only person to cause the bell within me to shake the most vigorously..." ~ Kyon, TMOSH |
Very interesting second episode, setting up the problems between Kuroba and Haijima. Kind of expected them to quicken this episode because of the different uniforms and unnamed teammates. |
| Ew! too much blushing, also the personalities of the two main characters are disgusting. Dropped 2/10 |
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| Your typical drama of a newly built team which wasn't executed well enough due to how rushed this episode was. Also I seriously can't get used to Yuni's blushing, dude's cheek is red af 80% of the time. |
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| yea Haijima is strong for sure but his way of doing things is not healthy for the teams' well-being... 4/5. |
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| I like this ep, gotta say this ep feels more like rl, when sometimes youre hyped about something and then reality hits you in the face. When the game is going great and you feels that youre making mistakes, and its all in your head and youre ended up making more mistakes. and also I stopped counting how many times yuni blushes at some point lol |
winshenv said: dark-chaos said: this anime actually 10x better than Haikyuu!! - no wasting time for repeat comedic - no full season just for training arc - straight to the idea also I like the fact they focus on character development rather than stupid support tricks and supper moves if all support anime like this would be cool you were joking right... the audacity no I am not joking... |
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| Yuni decided to not play in that game, which made them lose it. Yuni is annoying and why the fuck is he blushing at everything? |
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| Well, I gave this show a shot, but this episode did it for me. We already saw last episode that Yuni is basically a blank yes man, with zero conviction for anything and no brain to think, but this week he took it to 11. Sure there will be character development and he will become a respectable character, but nothing will save what this episode did for the character. A blank slate nothingness of a character can obviously become anything, that is just lazy writing and no human is that full of nothingness. It feels like Yuni had zero own thoughts in his life till that point. Writing like that only deserves a drop from me. |
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| Good episode Why is this scored so low? |
| Deep dark fantasies |
| Looks like Yuni and Haijima aren't going along well. There seems to be a lot of problems going on between them. Because of Yuni not being there in the match, the team lost in the semifinals. Idk about this pacing, man. It's too frequent for me. Well, that's just my opinion. |
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Wei-kun said: Uhmm, please don't use BETTER... It's just your preference... You prefer straightforward ideas and straightforward events... Also Haikyuu has many character developments... There are also a lot of unique personalities... And the opposing teams are interesting. Plus they provide top-notch concepts on matches... The little details in real-life volleyball are on Haikyuu too... What's with the stupid tricks you talking about? It's anime, and haikyuu is the type to blend reality and experiment those... Of course there will be some type of impossible tricks but those oroginated from real volleyball plays, just a level higher. Haikyuu isn't as straightforward as you may think but... in almost all episodes of haikyuu, the focus on a concept is very well executed and rich... At least that's for me. I'm glad you weren't joking at all. (Damn me) actually, I am not here to discuss my opinion, I just said my opinion and I don't force anyone to accept it, so I am free to say what I like as I said I am not here to enter a discussion about which better and why I just said my opinion, and I don't care too much if you hate it or like it people got a different taste, no point in discussing which better |
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| Well that was fast, a whole tournament in a single episode. Though if it's just the prologue then, I guess it's understandable. Damn, they really talked trash about the one that carried their asses. If Haijima was openly arrogant about it, it's understandable but he was just doing his best for the team like damn, boy is trying to change slowly but surely. Hopefully this is a lesson for Yuni. |
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| During this episode I noticed that almost every character has a similar flow in their speech that goES KInd of liKE THiiis. I wonder if it's supposed to give the viewer a feeling of a regional dialect? It bothers me quite a bit now that I've noted it... The pacing is ridiculous. This show is technically a nice try to write a drama-heavy sports anime, but it's just executed so poorly it mainly makes me laugh. Yuni's emotional turmoil was somewhat relatable, but also hard to connect with because his character is written so sleazily. Most of the other guys in the club are useless background characters, the only real persona in the team right now is Kimichika. I honestly can't grasp where this show is trying to go, at this point I'm just waiting for the other cover art guys to appear. |
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