#around with concepts and stuff lolll. maybe ill make more concept characters and stuff

[suckishima]

okay so i know i posted a few weeks ago that i did get to see the haikyuu movie when i was in japan last month and ive been so busy i didnt fully have time to process lol so ive been writing down thoughts as i remember them so, spoilers under the cut (no particular order)

final rally pov shot was craaaaazyyy (sidenote i saw challengers today lmao and they did a similar pov shot thing a couple times and it reminded me how sick it was to see such a complicated thing be animated)

in addition to that tho, while i liked the drop of the music then to just have it be kenmas breathing, i felt lie his breathing seemed a little repetitive?? like it was possibly just the same couple voice recordings repeated???

and also tbh.. i kinda didnt love how after the super amazing pov animation the way they chose to animate the full court flashback to tokyo training camp was just like a flat pan around the room. it just didnt feel all that dynamic after seeing something so cool, and maybe it was just my screening but the image was kinda blurry and not that crisp at that part

in general tho i thought the sound design was really cool, so much of it just straight up felt like a live match happening, and the part when kenma tells hinata to stay interesting and the sound cuts out?? ooo v effective i thought

and then the birdcaaaage aaaah i loved the way the wings like got all stifled in the cage when kenma first trapped him and then ofc the bursting out of it oooo im excited to see it again in imax

there were a tonnnn of small moments that i assumed wouldnt make the cut that actually did too, yaku sitting on lev's back when he's doing pushups, the bokuto/kuroo hair swap flashback lmaooo, goshiki having to share his ipad with tendou (i cant remember for sure now if he actually says that or not but theyre definitely in the movie), bokuto and akaashi coming over and talking to yachi and ah i think theres more. a lot of them were shortened down a bit, but i appreciated them getting attention nonetheless. sadly no kuroo/lev poop conversation though lmaoo

i thought the kuroo/kenma flashbacks were pretty good as well, i think they possibly added a few lines?? it seemed like there were more frames of stuff of kuroo being inspired by the "lowering the net" concept which was really cool bc thats really integral to his character to me. and then theres this line where kenma is like "hinata has kageyama and i have kuroo" and uhhhh that is news to me!! im like 90% thats new content lmao, and oooo it was good, the shots they chose with it too gooood

oh for some reason they changed how kenma flops??? he falls with his butt up in the air instead of just flat??? like why lmao, obviously that was like an Actual Choice they made bc they had to draw it and obviously had the manga as reference and it makes no difference other than to confuse me lolll

im interested to see it again distributed by crunchyroll too bc im sure some of the subs i saw werent right, a few lines just didnt make sense and there were a few instances of like "lead blocking"

and okay. i gotta talk about the chapter 298 stuff

its there its in the movie!! but,, it's watered down lmao

and i think i was also too in my head and overanalyzing it which im disappointed in myself for so im hoping on rewatch ill have a better time

the "hes always been one step ahead of me after all" was like as perfect as it could get tbh, it looks just like the manga and tsukki like says it just right and yamaguchi comes onto the court behind him totally focused and aaah really loved it. then the service ace and tsukkis little laugh it really good

but then i'm torn on the actual serve and block, there's no inner thoughts on yamaguchis "oh no the ball isnt drifting enough" and then tsukkis silent reply "no that was plenty" before stuffing it, so we arent hearing their like mind reading/intuition connection there which was a bummer. and thennnn im not positive on this bit but i dont think anyone repeats anything about the serve and block being the perfect play?? (its yamaguchi echoing ukai in the manga) and then no little flashbacks to how theyve been training

HOWEVER the big main flashbacks of seeing how yamaguchi walks from behind tsukki to in front of him are there!!! and the way theyre presented is interesting? i was like taken aback by the decision to have the clips being showed within their silhouettes as they move toward each other (i couldnt even tell thats what it was at first tbh..) that i missed whether or not all the panels were in it..... (majorly disappointed in myself for that one). idk visually i found it a little confusing i guess and so i couldnt fully appreciate and im hoping itll look cool on rewatch when i understand whats happening

and then the high five ahhh it was pretty good, idk if anything will ever live up to that manga panel for me, the joy and success and sense of achievement in that image means so much to me lol, but its animated fairly well. do wish they didnt cover tsukkis smile tho

then kuroo asks how tsukki feels about volleyball and he says its fun and he smiles and its.. fine. like ugh its just one of those things were this entiiiire section just slightly suffered from being a two minute segment of a movie instead of a whole episode (or even just half an episode tbh), like something about his smile and saying it was fun just fell a little flat for me and i was unfortunately a little sad about it, i was hoping for a little more buildup and like emphasis. this is a huuuuge culminating moment for him and it didnt quite feel like it to me bc the movie had to have other priorities where a season wouldnt have

later one when tsukki and kuroo are like battling at the net exhausted tho and tsukki smiles again that was pretty good, the animated is really top notch when theyre all panting n stuff, and the voice acting there was great, really liked it

[puppyeared]

Sorry for the ask!! I wanted to hear more about your characters and the story of “normalville”!! (Referring to your most recent post-!) I loved reading the tags and I’m so so interested to hear more! If your willing to share? :0 ✨

omg yeah id be happy to share what i have!! cracks knuckles

so like i mentioned PJ is considered the town's "unofficial cryptid" because he likes to sneak around the town after dusk in his moth form (wings and antennae out, wearing sunglasses, slightly bigger and fluffier), so obviously hes infamous in the town but nobody actually knows its him in his human form lol. i dont really think he'd have a clear motive for doing this, he just likes messing with ppl and he likes the mothman legend lol

normalville is actually the town's nickname, its real name is actually normanville!! i decided to go with norman because norman is the most generic name i can think of, and its one letter off from normal lmao. PJ and other kids like to vandalize the town sign this way, and the town officials just got tired of cleaning it all the time they just left it as it is

I think if i did have to make a story around normalville, it would probably follow PJ trying to find out how many monsters are in the town because he likes eavesdropping noticed that some people known to be monsters doesnt line up with each person, so he makes it his goal to find out just how many monsters there are in town (little does he know, its a huge majority of the town lmao)

i think itd also be interesting if he had to really think about each suspect because he wants to know which people are monsters without tipping off the actual humans yknow? and its very difficult if you go off of rumours and everyone pretty much acts human lol

but the monsters are all very friendly!! nobodys really hostile, theyre all just very guarded around keeping their monster identities secret, thats why they choose to reveal their monster identities to ppl they trust most (and why who knows who is different for each person because it takes a high level of trust)

if i had to come up with town lore, id say this has probably been going on since the town was built (although im not sure when that would be). maybe the first residents all knew each other and were fine being monsters so they weren't worried about keeping the secret from each other, but it became a bigger deal when ppl started moving in from all over the place; although they all turned out to be mostly monsters disguising as humans too, but its like a mirrors reflecting mirrors situation, they all try to mimic each other lol

monsters all being drawn to the same small town is also a huge coincidence lol

id also like to imagine that as good as they are pretending to be human, there are small weird quirks they kind of developed? like a chain reaction and everyone thinks its Normal Human Behaviour, so they copy it too; maybe someone blinks one eye at a time really slowly and nobody questions it, others use outdated slang because they dont know that slang can go out of style.. just things that nobody really says is unusual but stands out a little ^^