things my mom actually said while watching Haikyuu:
“wow that guy really admires that shorty huh?” (Kageyama)
“we all need to be a bit more like Shouyou”
“those two are like a married couple” (Daichi and Suga)
“Tanaka needs to calm down” x4
“TURNIP-KUN” *laughs*
“he’s handsome” (Oikawa)
“wait is he gay?” (Oikawa again)
“oh, there’s the boyfriend” (Iwaizumi)
“he needs more appreciation” (Ennoshita)
“why is freckles always freaking out about the glasses boy?”
“what’s the ace fanboy’s name again?” (Noya)
“he’s more anxious than you!” (Asahi)
someone recently interacted with this post which brought my attention to it again. i don’t know if anyone is going to see this but I wanted to thank all of you from the haikyuu fandom for finding the hilarity in how my mother (a middle aged woman) reacted to watching the anime.
haikyuu was the first of many anime i managed to get my mom to watch and she thoroughly enjoyed every minute of it. she fell in love with the characters and storyline just as we all did and was given strength by their determination.
me and my mother have had a pretty complicated relationship my whole life. i love her deeply and I’m sure she does as well maybe even more deeply than i could imagine but there are many issues with our relationship and we are not not always on the best terms, especially since i became an adult and moved out.
the years we watched haikyuu together were the same ones where our relationship was at its best and i hate to say i have not been able to enjoy her presence in my life nearly as well as i did during that time.
this is particularly heartbreaking for me as i may never get the chance to finally be able to fully appreciate all the wonderful aspects of my mother without being wounded.
my mother has been struggling with a deadly illness for years and unfortunately will not be making it out. my time with her is likely to run out way before what i expected growing up. she may never see me married or see me have a child, i may never see us heal and watch her hair whiten and her smile become wrinkly.
because of an unfortunate flood in my area i have already lost most of if not all of the nostalgic items from my childhood that i wanted to keep in her memory as well as pictures and videos of us i had stored.
because of changes and updates made to another social media site i had already lost video footage of her that i always thought to be permanently and securely webbed into my profile.
this lighthearted and silly post about haikyuu (the most interacted with post on my blog to this day!!) may very well be one of the last pieces of evidence of the lovely period of my youth where my mother was at her best.
thank you to all of you who laughed with us. thank you for keeping this precious interaction i had with my mom alive. i hope the post keeps going around for the years to come so that even more people can share the joy that it is to discover and fall in love with all these volleyball idiots.
