#magic's hq

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why wld he laugh ..... 🙁

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themes of observing, using eyes - hinata in the ballboy arc.

chapters 211, 212, 214, 217, 218

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i think people often forget that haikyuu started with hinata and hinata wanting to beat kageyama - like they get so caught up in nationals and wanting to win it. which is valid, they're a team we have been rooting for from the beginning like it's only natural we feel sad and crushed when they lose.

it's when people start getting extremely caught up in karasuno as a narrative, and get really dissatisfied when they lose nationals (which, they were never setup to win - but topic 4 another day) and argue that that the plot was left "unresolved"/it's bad writing, that it gets to me ...

when u rmbr that haikyuu was born out of hinata's need to beat kageyama and that is what we get in the end the whole story makes much more sense - this is a story about kagehina mainly and not karasuno.

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to know bone deep that you have a partner & a rival who will accept a bad toss in the name of improvement but will not accept a toss that regresses in technique... it must have wiped clean any fears he had that they wouldn't have been able to make this work.

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oikawa tooru is not a genuis

aka a meta analysis of Oikawa Tooru's hard-work & how it ties into his play-style as a setter

What comes to fruition in this episode/equivalent manga chapter has been built up and slowly put into place over the course of the last few chapters/eps, which is this - Oikawa Tooru is built up of pure effort & hard-work and not inherent talent.

Moreso than trying to put down the concept of people with natural talent, I feel this statement and this concept is more to hammer in Oikawa's character and the effort Oikawa as a person puts into the sport.

Inklings of this has always been present but the first definitive scene where we see this theme being furthered is when Oikawa gets the "Dateko vs Karasuno" match recording and watches it through the night. This is paralleled with Ukai doing the same - the extra mile is, obviously and normally, taken by Karasuno's Coach and not by any specific player in Karasuno. (Interestingly enough the anime ep title is "Coaches")

Curiously enough in Seijoh it is Oikawa that assumes the coach role. It isn't explained and the team isn't surprised, making it seem casual and normal. Oikawa calls for a time-out to his coach and his coach follows suit. He gathers his team around, explaining his findings on the team (through the homework that he had done) and devises a strategy to beat them - all things typically done by the coach.

To further drive this in, something as minute as the team's warm ups is used to show the amount of tiny details that Oikawa knows about each of his spikers - small encouragement for Makki, apologising to Kindaichi despite being his senior , and taunting Iwaizumi as per their usual dynamic.

Not only does he show it in his actions, he verbalises it before every match as a reminder. As a setter, he is someone who elevates his team - using the deep bond he has created with them as a vessel.

"Rule the court" is Seijoh's banner and while that isn't explicitly commented on, we do have multiple people commenting on how Seijoh as a team and by extension Oikawa as their setter/conductor play by taking control of each rally - by essentially ruling the court.

All of these puzzle pieces of Oikawa's grit and determination and pure, simple, effort, and him using sheer work to reach to his team & form that intimate bond with them by noticing tiny details about his own team (and his opponents), we finally reach the climax of this mini arc: at this moment, pit against the "natural prodigy" -

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this is a fairly obvious parallel so im not going to waste time talking about that, this is more so about the second panel.

why are two CLUB teams playing at a world stage? by digging a little, here's what i found-

The FIVB Men's World Club Championship is a tournament held at the club level. To qualify you'd either need to be a wild card invite - which shows the calibre of your club to be recognised at world level, or traditionally by winning the continental cup - CEV for Europe & CSV for South America.

what im getting at is the sheer level of dedication it requires to qualify and participate in the club championship tournament. quite frankly, it isn't as prestigious as other cups as well and YET kagehina are there, facing each other. they qualified (which is a whole cup in and of itself) AND got past every other opponent in the club championship to meet each other at the highest stage !!!

"(...)that means you're going to stay on the same playing field as me the whole time right? (...) or the top of the world stage?"

that's exactly what they did. that's why the fact that furudate drew club championship finals as the last panel makes me go kinda insane. they stayed on the same playing field by literally being one of the two best club teams in the world.

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SHINSENGUMI CRISIS ARC REFERENCE????????????????????

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hinata the man that u are