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Name: Haikyuu!! ハイキュ―！！
Status: Completed
Episode: 25
Release Date (for eng subs): Every Monday
Summary:
A chance event triggered Shouyou Hinata's love for volleyball. His club had no members, but somehow persevered and finally made it into its very first and final regular match of middle school, where it was steamrolled by Tobio Kageyama, a superstar player known as "King of the Court." Vowing revenge, Hinata applied to the Karasuno High School volleyball club... only to come face-to-face with his hated rival, Kageyama!
A tale of hot-blooded youth and volleyball from the pen of Haruichi Furudate!!
Summary Source: Shounen Jump
Summary from: http://myanimelist.net/anime/20583/Haikyuu!!
Personal Ratings: 3.5
After things got heated up in the sports anime category by Kuroko no Basuke, this anime really brings it back to the traditional type of sports anime, which kind of reminds me of Ookiku Furikabutte. It's takes a more classical approach, while anime these days focuses more on fan services, this anime focus more on the details of the match. It's kind of a slower paced anime with more thinking and details involved in the game. It's a lot more realistic compared to the current type of sports anime.
For this anime, they focus more on the strategies and the basic theories in the game. They let the character's personality and the character's relationships with one another for fan service.
Of course, for this type of anime which focuses more on the strategy and theory, it's hard to pull of and usually end up pretty boring. But for this, they actually add in some fun parts (like jokes and such) into the anime, to make it more cheerful and allow the viewers to break away from the intensive theories.
Honestly when I first watched the first episode of this anime during the release of the whole bunch of 2014 Spring anime, it really left a huge impact on me. And I seriously thought "woah, this anime is going to be the best anime." In which I was wrong, because No Game No Life, was a whole lot better when it came towards the middle part of the 13 episode mark.
I liked how they actually add in a newbie teacher in the show, so that they can actually explain the fundamentals of volleyball to the viewers. I just thought that he should have been there since the beginning, and not just appear half way.
I also thought that they didn't really explain certain basic stuff, so there were still somethings I didn't get while watching the show.
I think that they really know how to make the viewers go along with the atmosphere and kind of make the viewers fired up together with the flow of the game.
I think what I like about this anime is probably the fact that the main characters aren't overly strong and every character has their strengths and weakness, unlike some anime who focus everything on the main character. I think that to a certain extend, this anime is within logic and realism.
I don't really like most of their characters, I think that there were too many re-used ideas. There were a lot of characters with clashing personalities and looks. (So I don't really actually remember much of the opposing team's characters other than the main character for the teams.)
For Nekoma, it maybe fine, because it kind of shows how they are fated to be rivals, since they go on from way back. But for the other teams, it feels as if those characters will be forgotten.
Of course, for this type of anime which focuses more on the strategy and theory, it's hard to pull of and usually end up pretty boring. But for this, they actually add in some fun parts (like jokes and such) into the anime, to make it more cheerful and allow the viewers to break away from the intensive theories.
Honestly when I first watched the first episode of this anime during the release of the whole bunch of 2014 Spring anime, it really left a huge impact on me. And I seriously thought "woah, this anime is going to be the best anime." In which I was wrong, because No Game No Life, was a whole lot better when it came towards the middle part of the 13 episode mark.
I liked how they actually add in a newbie teacher in the show, so that they can actually explain the fundamentals of volleyball to the viewers. I just thought that he should have been there since the beginning, and not just appear half way.
I also thought that they didn't really explain certain basic stuff, so there were still somethings I didn't get while watching the show.
I think that they really know how to make the viewers go along with the atmosphere and kind of make the viewers fired up together with the flow of the game.
I think what I like about this anime is probably the fact that the main characters aren't overly strong and every character has their strengths and weakness, unlike some anime who focus everything on the main character. I think that to a certain extend, this anime is within logic and realism.
I don't really like most of their characters, I think that there were too many re-used ideas. There were a lot of characters with clashing personalities and looks. (So I don't really actually remember much of the opposing team's characters other than the main character for the teams.)
For Nekoma, it maybe fine, because it kind of shows how they are fated to be rivals, since they go on from way back. But for the other teams, it feels as if those characters will be forgotten.
I think that this anime really has a lot of ups and downs, and they can be quite different in terms of level of interest. Other than the matches, those normal episodes were kind of boring. However, the matches is really really interesting, especially since they really make use of all the characters, and not just the main few characters. The strategies that were used in the games were also really interesting. Even though not many sports anime differentiate between practice matches and real matches, I liked how they did for this anime. It really shows what practice matches can do to help the team improve. It also showed how winning is not everything.
However, no matter how good the matches maybe, I did think that some parts were really draggy (especially for some parts where they kept repeating the same few things over and over again).
Quite nice art. I think the simpler art and less detailed art really suits the story line. Though sometimes the art may look a little disfigured, especially when the character moves really fast. And I also thought that there weren't enough thicker lines used. It seems like they only use really fine lines.
Good thing that all the characters can be identified distinctively.
Gender: Both
Age: 12 and above
My Ratings: PG
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