#character development made tsukki sexie

[kikuoka]

why did tsukishima hit SO different in karasuno v kamomedai??

like ...

[therealvalkyrie]

YOU FINISHED SEASON3!?!? AHSHHDBESGH im so happy, how are you feeling about everything, please spill it all!!!

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YES I DID!! Sorry I took all day to answer this, my brain has been going at the speed of light for like ten hours straight and things just keep slipping through like water in a sieve hahahaaaa ANYWAY, i am now on a sugar high from eating ice cream before dinner, so here are my season three thoughts:

- USHIJIMA NOT LIKING HINATA SIMPLY BC HE HAS BAD TECHNICAL SKILLS MAKES ME SANGRY (sad/angry) BECAUSE IT’S NOT LIKE HINATA’S HAD ACCESS TO THE SAME CALIBER OF TRAINING THAT EVERYONE ELSE HAS!!! USHI’S BEEN TRAINING AT A REALLY HIGH LEVEL FOR A LONG TIME, AND HINATA’S LITERALLY ONLY BEEN ON AN ACTUAL TEAM FOR A COUPLE MONTHS AND HE STILL IS AN INVALUABLE PLAYER. LIKE, HAVE SOME FUCKING EMPATHY MY DUDE

- that being said, I think Ushi’s a sexy motherfucker and i want to [REDACTED] his [REDACTED] until the end of time

- red haired crazy eyes guy?? TENDO. he made me laugh. a lot. like i was cackling like a crazy person half the time he was on the screen. like i’m not sure that i lewd him but i really like his character ya know??

- WHEN TSUKKI’S FINGER GOT SPRAINED MY HEART WAS LITERALLY IN MY THROAT, HE’S SO SALTY BUT ALSO I LOVE HIM A LOT, HE FEELS LIKE A LITTLE BROTHER YA KNOW?? very much reminds me of the personality types in my family, and i love that we got some serious character development out of him

- speaking of character development, they really stretched a SINGLE VOLLEYBALL GAME into 10 episodes!!! and i was hooked on every single one!!! i binged them all in a row!!! wild. 

- also, the whole time i was like “they’re obviously gonna win, where’s the tension??” but then i realized this show isn’t about the “will they win or lose”, at least for the viewers, as it is about the “this is how they get to the winning part.” journey vs destination, ya know? and i really appreciated and enjoyed it more when i realized that.

anyway, that’s just off the top of my head rn if you have any more specific questions, i’m happy to answer!! lmao i hope that was coherent, it kinda feels like my brain’s been put through a food processor:)))

[takaraphoenix]

HAIKYUU PLEASE? For the sports trash! Thank you!

Sports trash? How daaare you! HQ is quality sports!

It is definitely the best among the sports anime genre. I love this anime so very much.

It’s literally the only one that ever made me care not just about the main team, but also about the other team(s).

First of all, I love the art. I’m usually very picky about animes, I need to like the art and I really love the art style of HQ.

Then the characters. This doesn’t just have the cool teens, I even love the adults. Coach Ukai is such a cool grump and that he wasn’t the coach who just was so convinced right from the start - most sports animes have those overly invested coaches - and that the teacher works so hard for his team. I adore that awkward little bean.

What is also very huge about HQ to me are the females. Female anime characters outside of the female-lead magical girl genre suck in 90% of the cases. I don’t know why, but somehow animes always turn them into flat, useless stereotypes whose only jobs are to look pretty next to the guys who actually get fleshed-out characters.

But Shimizu and Yachi-chan are just so cool. Like, yes, Shimizu is the sexy one, but she not that stereotype, she’s this shy and sweet and caring big sister type. And Yachi-chan is just way too adorable to be true. I adore her.

This is also one of the very, very few shows where the main character is actually my favorite character. Normally, the lead never takes the spot of my favorite character, but Hinata Shouyou is a literal ray of sunshine and I adore him so much. Such a cutie pie.

But it’s not just him. Kageyama is such a complex character, even Tsukki who starts out as this character that I disliked got so much character development.

A little too much, if I’m being honest. Like, that last season focused too much on Tsukki, in my personal opinion, considering that Hinata and Kageyama are kind of the leads. He really hijacked the story. Sure, it was important for his development, but I think it could have been just dialed back a notch.

Yamaguchi too got more development. Sugawara and Sawamura are the first time captain and vice-captain really, truly felt like mom and dad in a show and they’re so cute together too. But Suga is so much more than the caring mom character, he is such a mischievous little shit too.

And Noya is just adorable. He’s so hyper but also sweet and I definitely ship him with Asahi. I also love that they too have their own storyline. Same goes for Tanaka and Ennoshita.

Often sports animes tend to center around the super-special lead.

That this one gives all its players focus and story and also the fact that Hinata is not your average sports lead is amazing. Because the average sports lead is super duper special and the best in his sport.

And Hinata just sucks at first. He actually has to work hard for this. And it frustrates me beyond belief that they still have to figure out what makes him so special - though I also adore that they take it so slow with it.

And then there is the other team. I mean, there are a lot of teams and many people care abot all the teams, but to me it’s already amazing that I care about the main rivals. I love Nekoma. Nekoma are the precious kittens.

And the kittens are so shipable with the little crows. Kenma/Hinata is definitely my OTP and Kuroo/Tsukki is just so cute too.

The thing is, the owls are adorable too. Bokuto and Akaashi are so amazing.

Like, all the characters are kind of amazing? I love that.

And that this show too breaks the mold about many sports anime stereotypes, not just with the lead and the characters.

Of course, as it has to with sports animes, they go to their first big thing and they lose their first big thing so they can work real hard and win it the second time around.

But unlike other sports animes where... out of some strange reason the third years always drop out like life ends as soon as you’re a senior...? No. The seniors insist on staying around and that is so amazing because the show would have lost something without them and I always hate when they leave.

The training camps are my favorite episodes, because they give the characters growth. It’s not just one competition after the other, the characters also get chances to develop and I love training camp settings.

It’s also one of my most often rewatched animes. I think I’m up to 6 or 7 now. I just can’t stop watching when I start, even the second and third time around. It’s so insanely addictive.

And I am dying for the next season.