#hq!! final

[suckishima]

"Big Hit Thank You PV (Nekoma Edition)"

[mitsuyama-ryo]

[Haikyuu!! manga is officially over]

We still have the anime but knowing that their story has concluded will definitely feel different.

I noticed a very small panel in the manga of a boy in a bike watching Hinata on TV as he competes as a representative of Japan's national team. I barely understand Japanese but I'm pretty sure that was the same town, if not the same store, where Hinata witnessed how fun volleyball is. And I cried oceans at this point in the chapter.

Haikyuu!! has been a safe place to a lot of people (it has been to me at least). It's gonna feel weird for next week to go by without a new chapter for us to anticipate to.

Admit it or not, even after numerous re-reading or rewat ching, the feeling you get the first time you digest new content will feel different.

After some time, Haikyuu!! is gonna fill us with nostalgia.

I grew up with this manga and to finally have come to the end is totally a hard pill for me to swallow. It's been such a ride! And this manga will always be the number one for me. It taught me so much and hit all the right places in my heart especially as a former volleyball player.

For the most significant 8 years of our lives, thank you, Furudate. Thank you, Hinata.

THANK YOU, HAIKYUU!!

[suckishima]

"It wasn't like we had a grand adventure across a sprawling fantasy world... We just ran in circles in a rectangle 18 meters long and nine meters wide, trying desperately hard to make a ball hit the floor in one spot and not hit the floor in another..."

Haikyuu Battle at the Garbage Dump latest PV

[suckishima]

i wasn’t joking i need to do math

okay so we’ve seen two of what i consider to be the major matches of the series animated so far, season 3 vs shiratorizawa and the second half of season 4 with inarizaki

shiratorizawa is ~39 chapters and we got ten episodes at about 22 minutes each to make for about 3hr40m of content

inarizaki is ~44 chapters (if we include the jump to nekoma vs sarukawa between the first and second sets), and that was 12 episodes also at about 22 minutes each to make about 4hr20m of content

(if we take out the nekoma/sarukawa bits then inarizaki basically matches shiratorizawa to be ~40 chapters, 10 episodes, and about 3hr40m)

so both matches end up translating to be roughly 5m30s per chapter

(and all these numbers are rough bc there’s disagreements about where matches really start and end, as well as content often being repeated to recap at the beginning of episodes, plus i didn’t account for the lost time of the opening theme, credits, and teasers - so there’s a fair amount of leeway)

NOW, let’s apply it to the nekoma match which is ~33 chapters. at 5m30s per chapter that would be 3hr05m ish, which realistically is way longer than we’d ever get for an anime movie lol

BUT like i said there’s a lot of padding with the numbers and i think if we’re lucky enough to get a two hour movie (which i know i know that’s still high hopes), I actually don’t think toooo much is gonna be cut??

i mean i personally have always said id want a shorter 10 ish ep season 5 and then a full 25 ish ep season 6 to pace out the rest of the story, and a movie instead of a short season (when it’s 7 chapters shorter than the basis of season 3 was) is not a TERRIBLE second option..

however i still continue to mourn the fact that this means the rest of the 77 chapters will apparently be thrown into another single movie rip

[suckishima]

watch after all of my excitement about it being a nekoma match only movie we find out next month that it's only titled battle of the garbage dump and they actually plan to smoosh more of the final arcs into it....