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Aoba Johsai Boys’ Volleyball Club Spring Tournament

i loved this scene in the anime. the entire sequence, plus the fucking fantastic music which is now the most-played piece of audio on my ipod, was so dramatic and intense and it really captured the drive of that last volley. i’m not here to pick faults with this scene. that would be impossible anyway.

but i kinda want to look at the manga version of this particular part, because honestly, no one should miss out on it.

in the anime, it’s oikawa who delivers irihata’s lines, in slightly different words. personally, i prefer the use of “instinct” in the anime, but that’s not the point i want to make. 

because oikawa said it in the anime, i kinda felt like people missed this one aspect. it’s actually his coach, someone who’s likely been involved with volleyball since before oikawa was born, who says that. he says that he likely undervalued oikawa, and is clearly respecting the incredible game sense that oikawa possesses. does that not make you wanna scream about oikawa tooru? it makes me wanna scream about oikawa tooru, because he’s just so good. 

and then there’s what ukai says, which is missed out entirely, and that makes me sad because those lines hit me like a ton of bricks when i read them. oikawa knows exactly where iwaizumi’s hand will be, he knows exactly how long the court is and how high the net is.

that knowledge is ingrained in him.

this volleyball nerd loves his sport so much, has played for so long and put his everything into it, that he fucking instinctively knows that court, like it’s a part of him. 

haikyuu!! final chapter: the challengers

today…

today, once again…

afterall, we should never forget his worthless pride, right?

“If you’re going to hit it, hit it until it breaks.”

“being good…means being free”

Aoba Johsai Boys’ Volleyball Club Spring Tournament