For the character meme, Kaneda for PoT and Sugawara for Haikyuu. :3
KANEDA ICHIROU
How I feel about this character
Just think. Poor boy just want to play tennis and have fun and he has to listen all Mizukiās neverending tactics and strategies and heās too shy and kind to call him out for bullshit - and also he respects his dumb seniors heās a good kouhai.He gets to play in a match and has to pair up with his captain who complains all the time because he feels like downgraded in doubles and he didnāt even tell him that itās his brain thatās downgraded because respect, you know.Like if they won against the Golden Pair we have to thank him right? I mean, they won against the Golden Pair. The boyās clearly underrated.Mizuki goes all around scouting a player here and a player there and then when he actually has good players like Kaneda and Akazawa that are very good respectively in singles and doubles he goes like āokay you two play the doubles who even care about doubles lolā The disrespect.
All the people I ship romantically with this character
Well, not really anyone sorry??
My non-romantic OTP for this character
Definitely Yuuta here. I mean theyāre the only second years in the team and I feel like they can get along well - Yuuta will need some ally in the team to cope with their senpaiās bullshit.Annd of course next generation will see Kaneda and Yuuta leading St.Rudolph and you know I can clearly see St.Rudolph and Fudoumine kickinā butts all around.
My unpopular opinion about this character
I think heās a little bitter with all the ātransfer students entering the teamā thing? I mean, he looks like a nice and hardworking guy, probably choose the Junior High because he enjoyed being part of a strong tennis team and then sees his teammates kicked out from the regulars because other student were rectruited from other schools? I donāt think heās bitter to them personally, but I donāt think heās really okay with the whole thing.
One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon.
Probably seeing him play again? This time with a proper doubles partner maybe.Ā
SUGAWARA KOUSHI
Okay let me begin because this will be long.
How I feel about this character
Just a premise, if you think Iām easily touched by the āthird year who gets replaced by younger studentā trope youāre very well damn right.Suga is basically the first character I fell in love with reading Haikyuu!! because thatās really a trope that hits me hard.
Of course itās the first thing that defines him, his love for Karasuno and his determination to be part of the team even if he doesnāt get to play in matches. But I donāt think heās even that in love with volleyball itself, I think heās more in love with the team because of the people, because of the feeling thatās being part of a team, the feeling of working together towards a common goal.Heās the one that everyoneād expect to quit after they lost in the Interhigh because whatās really the point of staying in the team, it wasnāt like he had a real chance to play in matches anyway - or getting a College scolarship for sports, as if itās the only thing that matters.And yet he stayed because for him being part of the team was more important that actually play volleyball and thatās a lot. Not to be spoilerish but that scene in the latest chapters of the Kamomedai match in which he says that itās Yamaguchi that should be summoned him says a lot about him. I think it comes after a loong way of coping with bitter feelings at the beginning. Heās not a sweet angel. He saw his spot stolen by a kid who has just came out of nowhere and he could never being mean to him but I donāt think he loved him either at the beginning.Heās kind, not pure.But day after day, match after match, I think he understood that the court was Kageyamaās territory, not his. He doesnāt have a killer instinct. He couldnāt really cope with all that pressure the same way. He loves to be part of the team, but the more people he met from top teams in the country, the more he understood that you have to be thirsty to step on the court and claim your place and thatās just not him??? He had never competed at that level before so he didnāt know how it was and realized it was far than how he had imagined it and realized heās not meant to be part of it. Thatās why he make his brain function and he tries to come up with good strategies but there are many many players that are better than him with that too, and can also read the game better than he does.And I also believe he felt bad for that at the beginning and thought himself as weak and still does a little probably. But heās very good at hiding it and converting it in support for his team; he wanted to really feel part of it, he wanted to feel āusefulā, even if the word sounds harsh. But I donāt think he regretted a single second.
All the people I ship romantically with this character
Okay I donāt even mention Daisuga because I think almost everyone in this fandom ships Daisuga and itās like one of the pillars of the fandom since forever and everything has already been said about them.Let me speak about SugaKiyo because I think itās one of the sweetest ships and also itās basically canon?I love how he looks at Noya and Tanaka like a dumb kids when they fangirl about her and just have her touch his hand once and becomes an even dumber fanboy than both of them could ever be??? Cute as hell.And also she looks like sheās cold but sheās just shy but in the manga sheās caught multiple times staring at him when he doesnāt look so donāt come at me but itās 100% canon lads. And 100% sheāll be the one confessing in the end because he doesnāt have the guts I can bet money on that.
My non-romantic OTP for this characters
I have a thing for OiSuga friendship I donāt know if it comes from fanfiction or from my own writing or probably both. I just think they could get along very well outside the court, Oikawa doesnāt have an easy attitude to cope with sometimes, and also Suga heās not the sweet angel he may looks like, and Oikawa heās probably a better person than his on-court behaviour shows, and I could easily see them sharing an apartment in a College AU and coping with each other shit all the time and getting turns to be the Drama Queen of the house thatās the thing.
My unpopular opinion about this character
Oooh, here we go. I donāt like the SugaMama trope at all. At all. Or better, the āDaisuga in an established relationship who are parents to a bunch of kids tropeā.I donāt see him as feeling that āresponsibleā of his kouhaiās behaviour or keeping them in lines and I think heās mostly the one who would encourage them instead outside the role of Vice-Captain he has during practice. He has a kind personality and he looks quite mature but I donāt think heās that mature??? I often see fanart and headcanons in which he gives romantic advice to the others and heās like so smooth and weāre still speaking about the one who forgets how words work when his crush touches his hand really. Also for Daichi itās the same, theyāre Captain and Vice-Captain so they have to be āresponsibleā for the team somehow but theyāre the very same age and are equally immature in many things they do and I donāt like when theyāre portrayed as more mature than they are - also because all the other team members are far to be as immature as theyāre often portrayed.
One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon.
I wouldāve like to see more about how he coped with his āreplacementā with Kageyama at the beginning; weāve been showed only the good feelings; I wouldāve wanted to see the bad ones too. I still believe Sugaās one of the most complex characters of this show and I feel like his character development went quite under the radar compared to othersā.
