#haikyuu littles

[kwadlayns]

talk to me in french, talk to me in spanish 🍒

[freshfrenchtoast]

Kageyama's backstory only being revealed near the very end of the series is really interesting from a meta perspective.

For reference, his chapter is 387 out of 402. That's 96% of the way in.

To contrast, other characters like Tsukishima and Yamaguchi's backstories are shown in Chapters 87-88.

Now, we do get the explanation for his "King of the Court" title in Chapter 6, at the start of the series, but we don't see how he got to that point, or why he started playing volleyball in the first place like Tsukishima's and Yamaguchi's stories show.

It creates this situation where, despite being the deuteragonist, the character our protagonist, Hinata, is practically glued to the entire series, we barely know anything about him.

We don't even know he has a sister until that point whereas other characters' siblings like Natsu, Saeko, Akiteru, Alisa have all made appearances way before then. Even Oikawa's sister, though we don't see her, we at least know she exists because of Takeru.

He's both closed off to us (the audience) as well as the other characters in the series, and this results in them finding him rude or disliking his character in general (see: the "Kageyama is abusive" discourse that somehow keeps popping up even now).

Chapter 387 takes place in 2018 and was published in 2020 so it takes him 6 years of in-universe time and 8 years of irl time to really open up.

And the catalyst for all of this is Hinata fulfilling his promise of beating him.

You see, another thing to note is that, whenever Hinata thinks of Kageyama, he's always looking at him from behind.

His internal image of him is someone who's always up ahead, someone he needs to catch up to, meaning Hinata can only see one side of him, he cannot see all of Kageyama until he catches up and passes him.

Which he finally does here.

In this shot Hinata is finally the one who's looking back at Kageyama. At this moment, Hinata (and by extension the audience) can see him for all he is, can see how he was just a lonely boy who's been waiting for someone to meet him where he is, to keep running alongside him and not quit the race.

Someone he doesn't have to go easy on. Someone who would actually tell him to hurry up instead of slow down for a change.

His someone better.

[tenowls]

bro hes literally just standing there

[nunkisketches]

Hugs hugs hugs!!

[hinata-boke]

tiny bkaks

[tanuki-tanuki]

my husband (tsukishima kei) left for war (hes not real) and now the military sends me back his dogtag (theres no new x readers of him) im a widow (i have no new fics) and i will never move past my deceased husband (i will now hyper fixate on someone else)

[kart0]

I FINALLY HAVE ENERGY AND WILL TO DRAW AGAIN AND I AM BACK AGAIN OBSESSED WITH HIM HE'S THE SUN TO ME

[tricodekus]

what is essential is invisible to the eye. 🌹

[anoant-haikyuu-dump]

Kenma meets his future self

[arctvros]

high school sweethearts to college fiancés

[kenm4vhs]

LOOK AT MY BABIES THEY GROW UP SO MUCH ‼️

[kristoffs-lullaby]

SPEAR AND SHIELD!! 🗣️🗣️

the calm shield and the spear that creates a path for the shield to think clearly..

[hinata-boke]

trick or treat

[leticiavasc-art]

[itoshi-s]

tsukishima only ever realizes how satisfying and rewarding it feels to please someone else when he has you come for him for the very first time.

he’s never been big on dating or hooking up either, and barely put much effort into it whenever it did happen. so to see you react so sweetly to him, thighs trembling and fingers tugging at his hair so rough he groans, turns his world upside down — and he doesn’t wanna half-ass anything for just his own pleasure anymore. yeah, his jaw hurts and hand cramps from curling his fingers into you, and he’s breathless from how hard you had his face pressed to your cunt — but as he stares up at you, almost in awe, and you give him a breathy giggle — he figures he wants to replay it. over and over and over. he wants to see your back arch again, needs you to look down at him with that teary gaze a thousand times more, and then some.

(maybe next time, he’ll manage to not spill in his boxers barely three minutes in.)

[quehecke]

i love him chat