Haikyu!! 1x19 "The Conductor" - reaction & review
Added 2024-12-03 12:00:11 +0000 UTCHey everyone! Here it is - my reaction to season 1 episode 19 of Haikyu!! Oh man you guys, so we finally get to see Oikawa in action!! I've gotta say, underneath the careless playboy facade, he is LEGIT!!! He observes, learns, and keeps so many moves ahead, it's crazy. But dang, the way he got one-upped after that fakeout by our guys' TRIPLE FAKEOUT!!! Seems like he and Kageyama are gonna butt heads, I can't wait to see what happens! Great stuff! Enjoy! ~ MH
Comments
Hey there's no rule saying you can't like both! Ooh I totally get rooting for the "underdog" team! Wow that's a whole lot of teams left! Thanks for explaining the aced serve thing! It kinda makes sense that one would get in the zone that way. Wow, that sounds really intense, to have to think that quickly on the run. Oh ok, well, getting his attention is a good thing too! Lol!!
Melissa Moore
2024-12-10 14:40:24 +0000 UTCI am a sports fan myself (whoever said you can’t like both anime and athletics is someone I refuse to acknowledge :P) - but I have to say the first sequence in this episode hit a little close to home for me. The part where the team hears they’re being talked about on TV, but the media is really only interested in pushing the “Star powered” players and teams for ratings. To give you an example, I live in the backyard of a college football team that’s doing extremely well and all the national shows are yapping about them constantly - but I root for the team up the road. They have considerably less money, people mostly don’t know who they are - and half the time of they mention anything they mix us up with the other team. Picture it this way - Aoba Johsai / Seijoh is basically a team with the popularity of a LA or NY following (see the screaming girls following Oikawa) - but Karasuno is like the team I follow - no one’s giving them really a second thought. Which is why the coaching staff was actually quite happy the principal did that - it gave them the motivation they needed. They didn’t have to say anything else. It was mentioned this is the third match - the first was against Daichi’s old friend (forgot the name), and the second was Date Tech. According to the dialogue and math there’s sixteen teams left, so they need to win this match plus three more to go to nationals and there’s only one team that will go. The term “aced serve,” or “Ace,” was used in this episode. As you know every point/rally begins when a player serves the ball. The ace refers to when the serve scores without being hit, or is hit so well that it can’t be handled by the first receiver (like hitting it out of bounds instead of up to the setter). Oikawa takes on a different personality when he’s in a match, but this is not uncommon for athletes. They’re able to turn it on and off for the most part. The description of conductors was quite apt, but Oikawa seems to understand his team a lot more closely than Kageyama does yet, because of experience. The setter dump is like a joker in the card deck, just because the setters usually toss to a spiker doesn’t mean they necessarily HAVE to. While there is some degree of strategy involved in volleyball almost every decision is being made in seconds based on the situation, so you have to both be able to communicate non verbally and size up the opponent. Think fast! As for Oikawa getting rattled… no, I think Kageyama more or less just got his undivided attention. For better or worse. Hey! I’m going to leave another comment in the next video, too! Pay attention! (I had to do it 😂)
Tyler Stobbe
2024-12-04 04:49:49 +0000 UTC
