#Furudate Haruichi

[haikyuumood]

Furudate sensei on Oikawa's "nicknames"

This deserves to be a separate post

An excerpt from Furudate sensei's interview with their editors, which I read in the 10th chronicles...

Ikeda: Oikawa calls Kageyama "Tobio". Hinata is "chibi-chan" at first then becomes "Shouyou". Is this international? Furudate: Oikawa comes off as friendly, but he's actually the type of person who's sensitive about the distance between someone else and himself. When he uses nicknames to address people he finds difficult to deal with--like Kageyama and Ushijima--it's a way to distance himself from them and to gain the upper hand. So when he's speaking his mind or really angry, such as the time when he said, "Listen well, Ushijima," he does not use such nicknames. In Rio, Oikawa calls Hinata by his name, which means that to Oikawa, Hinata's position has shifted from "a kouhai from a different school" to friend/rival. And I think there's also that Oikawa's assessment of Hinata has changed from "a mystery" to "someone like me". But Iwaizumi is "Iwa-chan" because I decided his name would be "Hajime" when I was working on the book format. [Oikawa might have] called him differently if Iwaizumi's name had been fixed from the start. Ikeda: That's interesting! Furudate: It's a weird story if you think about it now. Iwaizumi is his childhood friend, so his mother and father would all be Iwaizumi if you went to his house. That's weird... Anyway, there are two patterns to Oikawa's nicknames, one that is simply friendly and the other that's used for distancing.

Idk why this has just made my day

[mettywiththenotes]

Q&A with Furudate translated on twitter, including questions about Nekoma and Karasuno

And a Q&A about Furudate

Here's the source and if you already have a twitter account, make sure to comment and thank the translator!

[mizuki-nikki]

boku aka is definitely canon. akaashi coming all the way from tokyo twice a month just to bring his own prepared food for bokuto??

where can i find this kind of guy in life..... 🫠

[milaisreading]

Furudate really wrote the most perfect manga and then went to enjoy his life

[the-chikyuu-times]

[klwl-truck]

New line stickers by furudate!! akajsjsdkddjd i love them so much you have no idea (rough translations by @/palaboras on twt!! check out her profile!!!)

[hauntedbythenarrative]

Can we talk about:

These two

These two²

This unexpected duo

Tendou <3

'Tsumu just disassociating

[theheightofdishonor]

Furudate's attention to detail- in this case, Takeda falling off his chair) is both hilarious and incredible. Like just the motions of it, and Ukai and how the frame zooms in during Hinata's last motion

[cherryblossomssmash]

Kenma's face lol. 😂 When the game is officially over but he knew that it will be just an endless rally with Karasuno even if he hadn't spatched that ball. Rally from hell indeed. Nobu still even dreams about it in year 2024. 🤣

Thank you for the special chapter Furudate-sama! 🥰🥰🥰

[the-view-from-sby]

I really hope that in the movies they won't cut out a lot of this important moments.

The Bokuto-Akaashi back story is one of my favorites and the reason why Fukurodani as a team is one of my favourites too. And it helps so much to understand both characters in detail.

At the beginning, Bokuto didn't have someone to keep up with him in his training. We know that Bokuto is someone with A LOT of energy, so it wasn't easy that some could match that. And I love this because is a parallel between him and Hinata in a way.

Even when Bokuto get in Fukurodani and had beautiful team mates, Konoha/Saru/Washio/Komi, they weren't in the same level of energy as Bokuto.

But when Akaashi, after been literally starstruck by Bokuto, entered in Fukurodani, he had now someone who was willing to stay with him "for a bit".

Akaashi wasn't someone with the same level of energy, but he was amazed by Bokuto.

In the outside, Bokuto might look like a simple minded person, which he is, but there is a depth in that kind of person too.

And that is what Akaashi discovered.

"Think about what's fun, not what's easy"

Akaashi then understood that Bokuto was more thoughtful than it seems, that he works hard for the things he likes (volleyball).

And this I think it's another parallel but with something that our best boy Kita said about the people who won't just do 1 to 10,but 1 to 20 or a to z instead. The people that we call genius had put a lot of effort behind. And that is what Akaashi saw in Bokuto.

In the end, Akaashi may not have the same energy as Bokuto, or the same drive for volleyball, but he was someone who tried to understand and accompanied Bokuto, and that is so endearing.

We saw how Bokuto went from having no one to follow him, to have a great team and friends.

[haikyuumood]

Got suddenly hyped to read through Furudate's interview with their editors in the 10th Chronicle... some parts that I laughed and loved (translation is my own so won't be word for word):

Honda-san: (During Karasuno vs. Jozenji) I recall that Furudate sensei was very happy while we were working on the sketch, they went, "Doesn't this [Daichi on the floor after having collided with Tanaka 😭] really look like a corpse?"

Furudate sensei seems to have been generally worried/cautious about drawing long arcs that did not feature Hinata, saying that "the readers aren't probably very interested in the story when the protagonist isn't in the picture", which I guess explains why we didn't go much of teams like Itachiyama or Fukurodani etc. 🥹

The Little Giant's 'future' was pretty much set from the start--it would've been unrealistic for Hinata to not search him on the Internet if he'd gone pro. Or someone else would have etc.

In Furudate sensei's mind, Kamemodai's level comes the closest to international standard than any other schools, hence their coach is not Japanese. Michiko sensei because there hadn't been a female teacher before)

Leading up to the end of vs. Kamemodai, Furudate sensei once said, "[Karasuno] is going to lose well. You are truly the protagonist when you lose."

Ikeda-san: Did you ever think, in the middle of vs. Kamemodai, "Oh, [Karasuno] might win, actually"? Furudate sensei: No, I did not get that feeling at all.

Aw they have a dog!!

Furudate sensei: Hinata and Hoshiumi's circumstances are similar, but I did not want them to become a similar type of players. And realistically speaking, it's a bit awkward (really not sure what to translate this as) to portray a match between similar players, isn't it? I wanted to stress that "Strength is truly diverse". It felt unrealistic to have a short player as a middle blocker, so [I shifted Hinata's position] to become an opposite, who's closer to an all-rounder.

I actually really love this...I was happy when Hinata started receiving well

WAIT BOKUTO ACTUALLY WENT TO COLLEGE?????????? ATSUMU DID NOT, BUT BOKUTO DID??????

It's crazy how much Furudate sensei has stashed in their brain

give us more

give us all the titbits

[sunarins]

i haven’t been feeling like myself lately and my anxiety’s been at an all time high but hq always brings me back down so thank you furudate for sharing this piece of comfort with all of us

[mizuki-nikki]

are you ready for this everybody?? 🥳🥳🥳

[touchlikethesun]

i feel like, i tend to talk about furudate maybe more than most ppl, but that’s really just because, it is so refreshing to see a creator (to cover author artist director and in this case mangaka) just so in love with their characters and the world they created. like furudate loves every single character in haikyuu and you can just feel it. i would say not to shit on my other recent fandoms but tbh jkr and kripke could never i love hp and spn but for all their textual talk of love you can feel the hate and the disdain the creators hold in them when you consume their work. maybe hp/spn are unfair examples, but just to say, i personally really cannot take for granted how much of a difference it makes to the experience of reading and watching haikyuu when i can trust that furudate genuinely wants his characters to succeed and has such a fondness for them and all their quirks like. even when he tries to make "unpleasant" characters, they just end up being relatable/understandable/endearing. it’s just so nice okay.

[the-chikyuu-times]

[honeyimissjoo]

who needs gods when Kiyoko-senpai believes in you

happy 3rd yrs