hi. it’s been a long time.
it feels like it’s been eighty four years since i last posted here. well, to be fair, i deleted my tumblr app after the Tumblr Purge (iykyk) and decided to just lurk in the shadows of the cursed bird app. i came back here to just put my thoughts out into the tumblr web because... we’ve already reached the end, huh?
i remember one saturday morning in the beginning of my road to adulthood, just waiting for breakfast and casually pressing the buttons of our television’s remote control, when i stumbled upon a local anime channel. they were showing haikyuu, that episode when nishinoya was introduced. i remember finding him funny after he promised hinata an ice cream after said boy called him “senpai”. i remember thinking to myself, “ah, im gonna watch this later”. i just wanted to know nishinoya’s name, i didnt know i was on the way to find a new home. as cheesy as it may sound, haikyuu really feels like home to me. home, i think, isnt necessarily a place. home is where you can take refuge after a long tiring day, just there to make you feel better after battling with the shitty world (and maybe your own self sometimes). haikyuu has really touched my life for the better. i cried when the characters cried, i rejoiced when they rejoiced, i empathized when they were experiencing hardships. and last night, while i was reading the final chapter, i was just crying from the first page down to the last. i wasnt crying because i was sad (well... partly), i was crying because i felt so proud of each character. i watched them grow to be the persons they are now. i grew with them. the lessons, the realizations, it will remain forever in me. it’s also kinda reassuring to see the characters happy and content in their lives right now bc hey, if they could do it, maybe we could too. it may be the end of the manga, but it isnt the end of haikyuu itself. we still have the anime, the light novels, the content from this fandom’s talented creators, our own imaginations even if we dont have the confidence to share it to the world, the friends we’ve made because of haikyuu, and the lessons it imparted to us—the readers—will remain forever. anyway, this has gotten longer than i initially planned. i really just wanted to thank haikyuu for being with me for the last five years. now im a few steps shy from full-blown adulthood, and i’ll forever be grateful to furudate-sensei of the lessons they imparted to me through haikyuu. thank you for providing us a home we could always come back to when we’re tired of the world. i will forever be grateful.
