#haikyuu 297

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Karasuno's Spear and Sheidl!!

Haikyuu chapter 297

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#was remembering this in contrast to rin's 'i want you to swim for me' early in s01 and makoto's 'i want you to swim for yourself' in fs02

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#5

nbd just Haru smiling as Rin catches him when he faints, just before losing consciousness.

nbd nbd nbd nbd nbd nbd N B D

286 notes - Posted June 9, 2022

#4

Sasaki to Miyano, ending theme w/subs (from September Subs’ subtitles)

297 notes - Posted January 10, 2022

#3

FENCER'S HUGE-ASS SPOILER-LADEN DAY 1 REVIEW OF FREE! THE FINAL STROKE PART 2 or How KyoAni Said, "You WILL experience 10 years' worth of emotions in 2 hours and you'll like it!!"

Let's cut to the chase. You know why you're here. I know why you're here. So I won't make you wait any longer. You wanna know every gory detail from this glorious sobfest of a movie? THEN GET THEE BEHIND A CUT!

(warning that this is probably only mildly coherent and has a HEAVY HARURIN BEND. Mostly because THE MOVIE HAS A HEAVY HARURIN BEND. Sorry I don't make the rules I just report on how much boys stay winning)

Now, I was so scared of this movie.

I have a thing, see. If a series ends, and it doesn't end EXACTLY the way I wanted it to? If it does something that I think is a sour note to end on, or even if it just makes some narrative decisions I disagree with?

I can't watch it anymore. I can't read it anymore. Everything I used to love about it turns sour to me and I can't enjoy it. It happened with Haikyuu, it happened with Evangelion. It's happened with dozens of series over the years. A series is pretty much never going to end the way I want it to, and in my case, for whatever reason, that means I can't enjoy it AT ALL anymore. I can't just imagine what happened DIDN'T happen. It's there. I can't forget it, and it ruins the story.

So I was scared of this movie. Because it was the end. Decisions would be made about characters' futures, and I probably wouldn't agree with them. Might even hate them. I was of course under no delusion that there would be any SHIPS confirmed--so that wasn't something I was worried about or excited about--but everything else. Everything else was something real and final that would be canon now.

I went anyway, though, knowing I'd never forgive myself if I just let someone else spoil me. I fought the knot in my stomach, settled in, and watched.

And I cried. Oh boy did I cry. There was definitely a moment there where I knew oh this is it, this was going to be what made me never able to watch this series again. It wasn't disappointment--it wasn't anger--it was just...sadness. A deep well of sadness.

But then they fixed it. And I won't bore you with those out-of-context details now. I'll just say read on, and you'll understand.

And then you'll start to see how amazing it was.

Movie opens with a semi-recap. Not a recap in so many words, but characters remembering things and flashing back to those scenes in the previous movie. No biggie.

Except. Except then KyoAni said, "Hi we're here to kick you in the stomach so settle in for two hours of emotional trauma :)))))" and RIPS INTO AN ACOUSTIC DRIED UP YOUTHFUL FAME. OH YEAH, THEY WERE IN. THIS. BITCH.

"But wait, flashbacks to previous scenes from the last movie? You mean we have to live through That Fight all over again?"

Oh, no don't worry. You don't have to live through it again as it happened.

You have to see how Haru imagined it going and then see his heartbreak when he realizes it didn't happen that way.

You have to hear him tell Rin, beaming and whole-heartedly committed, "Rin, I want to swim in the lane next to you in our next tournament. I want to keep walking forward with you."

Yes, he was explicit in that he wanted to go there with Rin. He wanted his future to be, explicitly, swimming alongside Rin. Competing alongside Rin. Forever.

But then, of course, that's not how it happened.

A lot of this movie takes place in imaginary sequences, dreams and nightmares and memories that never happened. It's very cool, but also a little weird XD So, par for the course for Free! For example, early on as Haru is reliving his fight with Rin, we see lots of flashbacks to them as kids, but viewed in a movie theater (whoa trippy) with baby Makoto and baby Nagisa giving commentary. Scenes of young Haru and Rin fighting morph into them as Power Ranger standins (blue and red ofc), fighting but then deciding to work together, their union being stronger than either of them alone.

Haru has nightmares that play out over and over and over--most of the time of Rin leaving him…but occasionally of him leaving Rin, of him pushing Rin away and avoiding him for so long, refusing to swim with him. Haru resents Rin for his decision to 'leave' him, but he also recognizes that it's his own selfishness and stubbornness that has hurt Rin too.

Elsewhere, the coaches discuss their students. Mikhail remarks that Rin was crying.

Part 2 is set one year after Part 1, for context--and in that time, Nagisa and Rei and Nitori have all graduated…and moved to Tokyo! Rei and Nitori have joined the swim team at Ikuya and Hiyori's school, while Nagisa has joined Kinjou's school's team. The gang's all back together again!

Haru has been training HARD this whole time…to the point that he's hurting himself. He's working himself to exhaustion, and after nearly fainting after one training session, Azuma makes him take a break to rest, warning him that he's trying to do the equivalent of strapping a huge engine into a tiny car--it's going to destroy the car eventually.

Makoto hears about Haru being made to rest because he'd worked himself to exhaustion and immediately tells Rin…who absolutely wants to MURDER Azuma. Makoto has to almost physically restrain him, begging him not to do anything rash when Rin confronts Azuma in a rage over the state he feels he's brought Haru to. Azuma snaps back, "If something's really that important to you, then you shouldn't have let it go in the first place!" Makoto and Rin split up, looking for Haru, who's nowhere to be found.

Rin runs himself ragged searching all over the city, regretting how selfish he'd been. Muttering, "I'm so lame…" he collapses on a sidewalk and rolls over…and sees a beautiful glimmering sakura tree towering over him, lit up in the night. He squints at its brilliance--and just beyond it, standing atop a building, he finally spots Haru.

Rin calls Makoto and tells him he's found Haru, and they meet up at the top of the building, where there's a night pool you can swim in. Haru is floating aimlessly on his back in the pool alone. Makoto moves to go to him--but Rin holds out a hand to stop him. Then Rin jumps in the pool and approaches Haru.

Apologies are made, challenges are issued. "You have a duty to race me," Rin says, harkening back to their first real clash when they reunited in Season 1.

They race. Rin keeps glancing over, watching Haru, as they push each other further and further.

They reach the finish, both panting, and in Haru's mind he sees himself standing once more at that railroad crossing. Rin is there, on the other side. And this time, the crossing guard lifts and Rin rushes toward him.

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315 notes - Posted April 23, 2022

#2

"So when I first read the script, I was kind of taken aback by the way that Rin got dragged down whenever Haruka did, getting in a total funk. But Haruka and Rin share a common destiny, right? So when one stumbles, the other does too. I was both moved and excited by their exchange in the night pool."

- Miyano Mamoru, at the May 1, 2022, stage greetings (x)

331 notes - Posted May 1, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

Sasaki and Miyano, vol. 8, ch. 42

422 notes - Posted January 11, 2022

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#sorry harry but the ballerina dress just annoys me bc it’s fine but that’s all it is. its not some massive ‘serve’ it’s just a tutu 😭

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#5

Wait a sec the Ass Slap™️ was unscripted??

apparently! on the ISWM live stream, Amy was like, "that wasn't in the script, right?" and Mark was like, "no," meaning that Mick just did that, and i guess they thought it was funny, so they ran with it

21 notes - Posted May 19, 2022

#4

i simply think that if i had Andrew Garfield Peter Parker's thumbhole sleeves i could hit Peak gender euphoria

24 notes - Posted February 4, 2022

#3

the autism truly is fucking WINNING today (positive)

45 notes - Posted September 18, 2022

#2

Is Peter Parker canonically Autistic ?

yes!!!

47 notes - Posted February 1, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

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i love that we’re all just assuming that we haven’t seen post-timeskip kuroo yet because he’s in prison

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overly enthusiastic soccer mom volleyball dad

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Haikyuu!!

Chapter 297 + Teacher VS student

[haikyuu-is-madness]

I have no words except inhuman screaching so....

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I love this entire freaking page and here’s why:

- Kuroo being that annoying friend who keeps bringing up your old embarrasing moments in front of a crowd 

- the return of that supremely bad pun in general (gosh, I missed the bokuro non-sense SO MUCH)

- Tsukki trying to counter-salt but failing spectacularly in front of a more skilled senpai

- Bokuto cheering for Tsukki and not for his mate Kuroo because he’s a proud senpai who enjoys supporting his juniors the best he can

- Akaashi’s “my Pain-In-The-Ass Kuroo-san senses are tingling”

- Just... the fact that the entire page is a throwback to the training camp and particularly to the third gym nerds because I never realized until this very moment how much I’d missed them 

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Okay but Tsukishima and Kageyama do that sync thing again. 

[nezh4a]

tsukishima respects and supports his best friend yamaguchi tadashi pass it on

[nikfly]

Akiteru!

[thefairymagiduelist]

askjdhfj just look at Kuroo aaahhhh 

[volleydorkscentral]

Suga you’re the most supportive mom! :) I love Hinata and Tsukki’s developing friendship, too. 

But DAMMit if I am not here for that BURN Tsukki hit Kuroo with. WHAt aMAZING CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT.

Tsukki is openly acknowledging that he needs his team, that he can WIN with his TEAM. In the chapter where he trusted Hinata, he didn’t say anything, but we got the internal monologue. And now he’s telling Kuroo that he’s about to get his ass handed to him! (more or less......)

Kuroo’s narrowing eyes make me laugh - he didn’t know exactly what Tsukki was going to say. Maybe he thought Tsukki was going to be self deprecating again and he was going to scold him or something. Or maybe he was laughing. Maybe he was grinning. I dunno! But I love his eyes!

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If you thought I couldn’t possibly fall more in love with Kuroo Tetsurou, you were horribly mistaken.

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I’m late, but the English scans for the new Haikyuu!! chapter are out~ Enjoy! ^^