EARLY ACCESS Haikyuu Season 2 Episode 11 Reaction

Can you please reupload the discussion portion of these blocked episodes?

A L

The scene where Nishinoya got slapped is in season1 ep.8, the episode which Nishinoya and Asahi were first introduced.

Kuro Sun

This episode made me want BBQ too. I'm not sure what picks I'd have for a top 4, since all meat is god, but yeah brisket is extremely top tier

Daniel Shaw

Prepackaged shipping. I'm dead! XD Jacob's pun and jokes were too sharp and on point this episode! And as far as how many times they did those dives or runs I think they lost like 62-64 matches... So.... Also, I think that moment with Tsukki's brother was back in his Middle School days. Because he says that even as bad as his thoughts on High School were, he already had experienced that 'moment' and so despite how he regretted his time at Karasuno, he couldn't stop playing. I could be wrong but I think he was in middle school when he 'got hooked'.

Tammi M

And now we pretty much got nonstop matches. Haikyuu Hypuuuuu! And my favorite opening!

VVhytry

They're a cute pairing. My favorites is DaiSuga & AsaNoya. That joke from Jacob had me rolling lol

I wish that when they're confused about something, they'd just re-watch that specific scene during the discussion, so they don't keep speculating about the wrong thing. It'd be easier to edit out the process of them finding the scene, and the discussion would be so much better. But, I don't mind it for Haikyuu too much since it's really character-focused. (It'd be great if they did this for shows like HxH, though, where understanding the world-building is a must to understand the story.) Fun discussion either way, and I'm glad they're so excited about Haikyuu!

Sen Ogino

Thank you for that necessary BokuAka beginning. They are totally my favorite pairing :-D

EvAnn

While Haikyuu, as mentioned in one of the reactions, stands head and shoulders above the rest of the sports anime, it’s not because it has some kind of a unique plot - it still follows the shounen cliches. It’s about /how/ they do it. Whether or not the end result of the season will be easy for them to guess or not, I honestly don’t think it’s gonna influence their hype level in any bad way. They’re already at the stage where they love the show enough so that no matter what hints/pointers they get, it’s just gonna get their hype levels up (as long as it’s not unwanted spoilers obviously, which I don’t think the opening is).

TrianaNero

Finally managed to finish watching the discussion. Makes me happy that you enjoyed the barbecue scene that you‘d been looking forward to so much! The sequencing really is amazing, and all the interactions are just pure joy. Nekomata and Takeda discussing the close and far future was a really nice touch too, especially with that OST in the background. And Kuroo’s voice when he says “matane” really gets to me :”) They’re growing to be so much more than just mere rivals. Something I’d just like to mention: I can’t be 100% sure now since I don’t have a chance to check, but from what I remember, they didn’t have to do a lap of flying receives a dozen times - they had to do it literally dozens of times, because they played like a few dozens of sets in those few days. And Karasuno lost almost every time x) I feel like they had around 4 victories or so in the end, and Fukuroudani had like 60-70-something wins. Wish you guys to have an awesome barbecue sometime soon!

TrianaNero

You boys need to come down to NC I show you some real BBQ.

Will Mills

Its between Haikyuu and Diamond no Ace (which I'd love to see someone react to) for my favorite sports animes. As far as the opening goes, I was more focused on the song itself instead of the visuals whenever I watched it. Either way I am just looking forward to their reactions of the song itself.

devin billups

Should we be excited or not, I don't know :D In the end Jacob said "Haikyuu is not this thing of "Oh no, tension! What's going to happen" because it's either they win or they lose and we kind of have an idea of which one it is so we're actually not wondering what's going to happen and then it just turns into a drag". But they will know who will win when they see the opening to the point where they play... you know. Haikyuu is still my favourite sports anime and the opening didn't change the way I enjoyed the tournament because I read the manga before that but we can't be sure if it will increase or decrease the hype for them. I do understand that he actually talked about sports anime that mainly focus on the games and that's what worried him before he started Haikyuu, but that's not how Haikyuu works so it may be fine.

Milen Varbanov

Thank you, but come on, we all have our moments :) Bros are watching many shows, and it hasn’t been explicitly stated that Karasuno are gonna face those teams in the preliminaries, while it’s clear that they want to defeat them anyway (even if they don’t play against each other in this tournament). Besides, I knew how things worked when I watched the anime because of reading the manga, but today while watching the reaction even I had the “wait what” moment when I read the subs explaining that bit, and I had to recheck whether the subs were correct. Bros are discussing things on the go as well, which imo makes the reaction much, much more interesting (I’ve seen enough of those where the reactors barely say a word and it’s meh), so that might get in the way of catching onto such things immediately. I personally find it interesting to listen to their theories as well, and I’m sure many other people do, even when those theories are incorrect. Quite fascinating ideas or concepts come out of such theories sometimes :)

TrianaNero

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR DOING THIS!!! I hope they read this... PLEASE MODS!!!!

JManuelRM

the bbq scenes,tsukishima n his brother plus that little smile he had,not to forget the build up with the other teams for upcoming tournament , love it!

Are-eem

It's insane how they still haven't got it yet, episode 1 made it so clear that they have to beat shiratorizawa AND seijoh to get to nationals. The no.1 team in Miyagi "represents" the prefecture in nationals, it's really not hard to understand. nice explanation tho, hope they read your comments so they can stop theorising tourney formats that have already be explained

Ousmane Dembele

Btw there are 47 prefectures in Japan. Miyagi is 15th in terms of population. So it wouldn't make sense for them to send 8 teams.

Genghiz

Good explaination! Mods, please tell Caleb and Jacob this!

Johanna Gustavsson

You should watch the part where teacher explains the preliminaries again. He literally says that if they win 2 matches tomorrow, they will go to the qualifiers in October to decide the "representitive TEAM" So only 1 team can represent Miyagi.

Genghiz

Lemme explain a bit on the tournament system. There won't be any spoilers, but if you want to find it out on your own, then you might as well skip this bit. * * * * * * * * * * Interhigh and the Spring tournament (Harukou) have approximately the same systems. First come the prefecture preliminaries (Miyagi is a prefecture). Only teams from the same prefecture play against each other. Prefecture preliminaries have a few rounds, and the amount of games you have to take part in depends on your team's results in the recent competitions. Karasuno got into top-16 at the Interhigh preliminaries, so they get to miss the first rounds of the Harukou preliminaries. If you get into top-8 or top-4 at the Interhigh, you miss even more rounds of the Harukou preliminaries and enter the tournament later. This way the weaker teams of approximately the same level play against each other first. Both tournaments are single elimination. And since there're like 47 prefectures in Japan, only 1 team from each prefecture makes it to the national stage of the tournament (with just a couple of exceptions for hosting cities/Tokyo). Only 1 team from Miyagi can go to the national stage of the Spring Tournament, so Karasuno, Aobajousai, Shiratorizawa etc can't go together. They will have to face each other at some point, depending on how the tournament goes.

TrianaNero

3 more episodes until one of the best openings in anime!

devin billups