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Haikyuu Book Club Week 10: 336 - 340

Udai Tenma vs. "It's just a club"

an important part of haikyuu is the debate over whether volleyball is just a club. tsukishima and kenma are two characters who (for most of the story) didn't consider volleyball to be all that important to them. kenma didn't even think it was particularly fun to play. on the other hand, we have characters like hinata and kageyama to whom volleyball means everything. it's pretty much the foundation of their identity as people. i don't think these two could even imagine a future without volleyball. especially hinata, whose main goal it is to stay on the court for as long as he possibly can.

to him, it was obvious that the player he looked up to all his life would feel the same way about volleyball. of course he would become a professional player after high school.

except, udai tenma didn't do that. he quit volleyball. it's not that he suddenly stopped liking volleyball. there were just other things he liked more. it also doesn't change the fact that he loved playing volleyball in high school.

but does quitting volleyball mean that it was "just a club" to him after all? that's hard to say. it does open up the question of what "just a club" even means, though. does that refer to an activity you do after school just to pass time? is it something you attend every day without it causing any sort of emotion in you, simply because you have nothing better to do?

exemplified in the arcs we have seen tsukishima and kenma go through, i think it's safe to say that none of the characters in haikyuu feel that way about volleyball. it seems almost impossible to be entirely indifferent towards the sport, to your team. volleyball is about forming connections at its core. you cannot join a team and leave it without at the very least having formed bonds with your teammates.

so, i don't think volleyball can ever be "just a club" in that sense to the characters in haikyuu. it's about making friends and having fun, about having fun with your friends. what you're going to do in the future doesn't really matter - whether you will continue to play volleyball for a professional team or a neighborhood association or maybe quit altogether - playing volleyball is about being in the moment, about making sure to connect with the ball and the next player on the court. those moments that make you realize volleyball is fun won't ever disappear, no matter what you decide to do in the future.

udai tenma is a character that shows us that it's okay for our passions to change. it's okay for something to be "just a phase," to be "just a hobby." it doesn't take away from the passion you once felt for it, or the joy it brought you.

manga panels of udai and hinata's conversation in ch.338 :)

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