Haikyu!! 1x16 "Winners and Losers" - reaction & review
Added 2024-11-18 13:08:01 +0000 UTCHey everyone! Here it is - my reaction to season 1 episode 16 of Haikyu!! WOW you guys!!! What a novel way to approach this ep - to do it solely from the perspective of the opposite team! This time, they were the ones who weren't ready. And sadly, our girls learned the same lesson! But that's life and sports I guess - as long as you're there and still in the game, there's always hope to train more, get better/stronger, etc.! I love how realistic they are about that on this show. And now, the scary team!!! Great stuff! Enjoy! ~ MH
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Oh thanks for the heads up on the name! Also the way it's spelled suggests "KAR-asuno" unless there's an error in the translation. Thanks for explaining the tech elements! It's true that there can only be one. I love how they broke the tension here too. No kidding, that seems like a lot of physical stress to put on the players, wow! LOL I could def feel the Bakugo vibes!
Melissa Moore
2024-11-25 14:42:03 +0000 UTCOhhh ok thanks for clarifying cause I wasn't sure! Wow, what an experience you had while you were debating! That's how it goes sometimes. Yeah I wasn't even thinking about that, that this is the last chance for a lot of them. Omg I know, they really have a way of getting me attached to totally different people here!!
Melissa Moore
2024-11-25 14:40:15 +0000 UTCRight! They don't get another chance, I wasn't really thinking about that!
Melissa Moore
2024-11-25 14:38:29 +0000 UTCThose players you saw crying and wondering whatvthey could have done better are now done with their high school careers in volleyball
JAMES D'ALESSANDRO
2024-11-19 15:23:50 +0000 UTC10:31-10:40 just to clarify Daichi touched the net so it was the other teams point. And I liked how it, along with Ikejiri, raised the team’s morale. Take any win and benefit and just roll with it. This was me in a debate. This guy and me were not seeing eye to eye. And we gave it one more shot before we quit. Up against a high caliber team. Idk how we did it but somehow we did not do our best but followed the rubric better than the other. Call it a fluke or luck—whatever. We looked at each other and worked beautifully after that. You gotta take what you can and roll with it. Cuz now we had that in our resume. Anyway this episode is one of my favorites. It was delightfully unexpected and you have to appreciate them shedding light on the other teams. For many of them it’s their last chance before high school is over. Staying as long as they can in the court is what they want to do. You feel for these others who are not our guys and this was the first instance where you find yourself truly rooting for someone else.
Manny
2024-11-19 12:05:58 +0000 UTCOh, I forgot to answer you last episode: the name of the character hanging out with Tsukishima (Tsukki) is Yamaguchi. Also question: am I hearing it pronounced Car-a-soon-oh, or am I hearing them say it Kuh-RAW-soo-no? It’s hard to tell. First I should explain the technical fault that occurred during the match to give the other team their first point: the ball appeared to be blocked by Karasuno, for a point to them. The problem is that one or more of them reached OVER the net onto the other side to do it - which isn’t allowed. So I am watching this show at the same pace you are - I am not as up to date on how Japan’s sports seasons work but I think you might’ve misinterpreted a key point - you kept saying things like “oh, they’ll learn,” or “this will be good for the next time.” If this is similar to how a season in the USA works, this is the big tournament at the end. It’s also elimination. Once you lose, you’re out, and your season is done. For the upperclassmen, some of them will never get the chance to play again. They’ll graduate, new players will come in, and that’s why you saw a lot of them so reflective and/or emotional after losing. There aren’t any second chances left. (Someone else, feel free to correct me if this isn’t the actual case in the show but this is a common occurrence.) There is an ugly truth in sports that nobody wants to admit, or think about. To steal a quote from Highlander, “there can only be one.” There is only one team that will win it all. Everyone else will be stopped at some point. It doesn’t matter how hard anyone trains, learns, or tries - it’s simple mathematics. As Raven said in RWBY (ironic pun here), “a story of victory for one side is a story of defeat for someone else.” It isn’t that they didn’t care, or try hard, or want it enough… it’s just the way sports work. It’s a huge adrenaline boost and it’s incredibly exciting to those participating, but when you realize that it’s all over it’s kind of like dealing with a death of sorts. Your season could be over, your school career might be over. No one wants to admit it could be the last time, because most everyone who plays the sports they do has passion at some level for it. It’s like when you get to a series finale, you don’t want it to end, but it still must. You’ll either win it all, or you’ll come up short. And then all that time invested and team camaraderie you had coming to an end just kinda hits you like a ton of bricks if you cared. On the lighter side, it seems that Nishinoya’s antics in warmups have gotten everyone to relax - good thing, too, because Asahi’s about to face his demons now. Hinata asking do we play another match is ironic, but he’s never won before. Oh, you seemed surprised that they’d play multiple matches in a single day. This is actually quite common in tournament play. Volleyball is not as grueling of a sport as say, football, where you need a week to recover, or basketball, where you’re running several miles in the game. It’s not unusual to have teams play even 3-4 matches in one day because of the nature of the sport at times, depending on the setting and the number of sets per match. It’s a little less physically taxing. PS: By the way Tanaka chiding Noya about the name of his little move seems to have awakened his inner Bakugo, anyone else think so? Of course this VA would know a thing or two about that attitude. 😉
Tyler Stobbe
2024-11-19 05:13:32 +0000 UTC
