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MSBY Black Jackals, Then vs Now
Here we have the sun, a furry, a tax evader, and a thot. Note: atsumu’s weight during his Inarizaki years is 73.3 kg. i’m sorry for the error!
My personal commentary that I know all of you are dying for.
We were thankfully blessed with this piece of art today from the haikyuu official Twitter. Below are my thoughts on how amazing this is.
1. Why is Oikawa always sticking his cute tongue out. There's like 5 official haikyuu art pieces where he's just full tongue out. I will now include oikawa sticking his tongue out in all my writing.
2. WHY is Iwaizumi holding a dumbell I'm sure his arms are already huge but there he is carrying a dumbell.
3. Oikawa still has the white knee brace on his right knee. Tragic I know but he's a professional athlete still so it's okay. 😞😣
4. Oikawa is wearing ✨compression shorts✨. Compression shorts are beautiful. We wear them in soccer too and they're just a hot piece of athletic gear. Imagine Oikawa in JUST compression shorts.
5. Idk what the significance of being number 17 is but surely there must be one. I shall investigate.
6. Oikawa thighs.
7. If I hear oikawa has a flat ass one more time I will literally gather every fucking manga panel I can find of all the other characters having flat asses you annoying dumb ugh never mind.
8. Iwaizumi and oikawa are in the same position as Kageyama and Hinata (in their official art) clearly showing the significance of how these characters mirror each other.
9. Oikawa and Hinata both had to work incredibly hard to get to where they're at. They are essentially the same character but different stories. It's beautiful.
10. Oikawa and Hinata are the PROTAGONISTS.
10.5 jk Oikawa can still be final boss as long as he wins.
11. Iwa's smile.
12. OIKAWA'S TEETH.
i just finished haikyuu’s last episode,,,
Kageyama smiling makes my days better 😃💜
thinking about how kageyama has been smiling a lot in recent chapters
You’ve seen Farmer Ushijima,
Now get ready for, Fisherman Nishinoya,
(p.s. did Noya copy Ukai’s hairstyle?? Also, MY BOI IS BACK)
Literal representation of me catching up on Haikyuu!! and BNHA.
Haikyuu!! Observations: Chapter 372 and 395 Parallels
** SO. MANY. SPOILERS. BELOW **
Have I established that Furudate is master class in terms of narrative? The parallels in Chapter 372 and 395 of Haikyuu!! are stunning, and need to be discussed.
First off, though, is the establishment of a timeline. Because this final arc has been a mess to make linear sense of…I have no clue how the anime will handle this, other than putting title cards in every single flashback to keep us on track!
For starters, the Ushijima flashback in Chapter 395 happens nearly TWO YEARS before the events of Chapter 372. We get this evidence because at the start of Chapter 395, we have this shot of Ushijima:
Not only does it establish he’s 19, but he’s not on the Schweiden Adlers, yet. He’s in his debut year, playing for the Japan national team. I wonder if he made the switch to play because Hoshiumi joined the Adlers, or Kageyama? And then, in Chapter 372, when we get his selfie reaction – MORE ON THAT BELOW – we see that he’s 21 and on the Adlers. So two years difference in those flashbacks in 395 vs. 372, and a total of FOUR years’ difference between the events of Chapter 395 and the present Haikyuu!! timeline. Simple to keep up, right?
So, if the current timeline is November 2018, then it’s around 2014 when Chapter 395 happens. Hinata is considering doing Beach volleyball in his second year, as evidence below, and Oikawa has already joined the Argentinean League right out of high school, which will get brought up below, too.
Okay, getting on track now that we’ve established the timeline – the first major parallel is Iwaizumi meeting Ushijima, similar to Oikawa and Hinata meeting in Chapter 372, only, of course their meeting is so nonchalant and chill, versus Hinata and Oikawa’s dramatic sand reunion:
BUT HERE, my friends, is where the parallels of Hinata/Oikawa/Iwaizumi/Ushijima create a magnificent Venn Diagram of Narrative Magnificence! You have parallels of:
* TRAINING TO GET BETTER *
Hinata went to the beach in Rio to train in beach volleyball to become a more well-rounded trainer.
Ushijima went to California to get advice and practice training with his father’s foreign league team, much like Oikawa did with joining the Argentinean League…
* TRAINING WITH YOUR IDOLS *
Oikawa establishes in Chapter 372 that he immediately went to Argentina after high school because he wanted to play under the guidance of Jose Blanco, the famous Argentinean setter that he idolized as a kid and still very much respected as a young adult and player. He ALSO, and this is important, establishes that he was going to break into the foreign leagues to get stronger anyway, and that his overall goal is to make it into an Olympics-playing team some day. Given that Hinata’s encounter with Oikawa happens in 2017, he’s been playing with Argentina about three years at this point.
But THEN, we also have Iwaizumi, who back in 2014, went to California after high school to go to college at USC-Irvine in California. His whole reasoning is that a famous Japanese trainer works with the volleyball team there and that Iwaizumi has been a huge fan of him and his published work. He also wants to major as in Sports Science, as we the audience are led to believe, to become a Physical Trainer and intern with the author, Takashi Utsui, once he graduates college.
And of COURSE, there’s the reveal then that Iwaizumi’s actual idol in real life is also the real-life father of his team’s long rival, Ushijima himself. It’s worth posting this reaction alone. Iwaizumi, you beautiful dork, you. If Oikawa ever saw that face, though…
It’s also worth noting at this point that clearly Oikawa and Iwaizumi keep in contact, as evidence in his conversation with Ushijima. I have to say, this chapter showcasing Iwaizumi as the peace-keeper; able to be friends with both Oikawa and his hardest rival, Ushijima, is fantastic. It calls back to when Oikawa was making fun of Hinata outside the bathroom, and Iwaizumi chided him for it. Iwaizumi is just an honest, straightforward, nice guy.
Well….Nice to a point. Let’s all revel in the fact that it was IWAIZUMI, y’all, who started this selfie war. Keep in mind, this was 2014 when he and Ushijima supposedly sent the selfie to Oikawa of themselves. And then, three years later, Oikawa pays them all back:
The final parallel, interestingly enough, with Oikawa and Ushijima, who admits that he has hit a wall and has to move forward to get stronger. Revealing that just maybe, he’s not quite the “genius spiker” that Oikawa pegged him as. That maybe he really is just a normal guy that got “lucky” in terms of the father that helped protect his unique attribute of being a “south paw” and, like Kiyoomi in Chapter 394, was lucky to have those around him that he did to help foster his strength as a player.
Basically, Furudate has given us so much to work with in showing how these characters, who seem so fundamentally different, have so much more in common that we realize at first glance. It’s so masterful to see these moments of set up and payoff happening with so much satisfaction for the reader. I love it.
OH, and of course, I wasn’t going to leave you all without this little set of notes from Chapter 395:
* Tendou in this chapter wasn’t current time skip Tendou. It was 2014 Tendou. So technically, we have no clue what his hair looks like now – though he’s fabulous either way! So there’s that.
* It’s shown at the end of the chapter Ushijima’s father watching him play from California. We also see, since it’s 2:20 am there, that Iwaizumi is asleep, still in California, too. If it’s 2018 currently in the series, it means that Iwaizumi did graduate college, and has been interning for Utsui for likely a year, now (because it showed he was a sophomore in the flashback):
@tatakunara-orerumade and @hopipp have already posted my headcanons ahead of me, but basically – if the Olympics happen in 2020, a year and a half from now, that’s plenty of time for Iwaizumi to take his Bachelor’s in Sports Science, internship knowledge from working under his idol Utsui, and make it back to Japan to be a physical trainer for the same team as Ushijima, and more importantly for my shipping, fangirl heart, potentially Oikawa at the Olympics. It would be a beautiful payoff for all the set up these chapters have given us, and a beautiful wrap-up for the series. If we don’t actually get to see the Olympics happen in Haikyuu!! though, you better believe there’s going to be fanfiction about this. *runs off to write*
my take on the ushiiwa photo incident
i went to see the haikyuu movie recently (HAIKYUU SPOILERS!!!!!!!!!!!!) and honestly, as an anime only, it seemed to me that a lot was cut out of the movie? idk how to explain why i felt thay but yeah
on the other hand i loved it all the way!!!! lived the momenys, the animation (THAT KENMA POV SCENE???????) and i loved how kuroo and kenma's relationship and past was shown, it was so cute 😭
I watched haikyuu yhe dumpster battle today and im just so disappointed with it. Its just not haikyuu, not my haikyuu anyway. The many cuts to everything related to everyone that arent kenma or hinata just makes it feel flat and the spirit is gone. I was on the verge of tears for 90% of it and for all the wrong reasons
Onigiri Miya Tidbits Masterlist
Onigiri Miya is now hiring and you just happen to be the right person for the job. The business has been gaining popularity since its grand opening, and many customers travel from different cities just to have a bite of Miya Osamu’s delicious recipes. You did expect some craziness from working in food services, but what you didn’t expect was to be bombarded with frequent tomfoolery from a bunch of attractive volleyball players during your shifts.
Disclaimer: this story contains major manga spoilers, so if you don’t wanna be spoiled, kindly yeet yourself away before i make you sad (cause then i will be sad)
Ch 1: the predicament
Ch 2: the duplicate
Ch 3: the unexpected reunion
Ch 4: the celebrity and his con man
Ch 5: the graduation celebration
Ch 6: the eagle, the seagull, the crow, and the Brazilians
Ch 7: the fox’s den
Ch 8: the oh-no-giri miya
Ch 9: the lighthouse in the midst of a storm
Ch 10: the big game
Ch 11: the last hurrah
Last tidbit: the cherry on top
BONUS: August 14, 2022
TWO MOVIES????? HOW ARE THEY GOING TO FIT 110 CHAPTERS INTO TWO (2) MOVIES????? these people doing haikyuu DIRTY
and i swear if they cut out onigiri miya scenes, IT’S ON SIGHT. BLOOD WILL BE SHED BY DAYBREAK
Issei looking like a fucking snacc in the timeskip, like holy shit dudes AU where the funeral company is really just a front to hide his and Hiro's vigilante stuff 😔 Also explains why Hiro is jobless 😳
Alternate version!!
Also some clean ones
I cannot fucking believe my baby has a bowl cut now and is jobless 🤡🤡🤡 well, this is why we create AUs to make sense of whatever was given to us But hey, check out the Issei version of this!! It's an AU where Isseis's funeral home is just a front to hide something darker lmao
Alternate version!
Clean Versions!!
Remember when I said Issei's funeral home is a front to hide Hiro's vigilante stuff?? Well what if we push it one step further and Hiro is actually an associate for the Yakuza 😳
Link to the older works for this AU!! : Issei’s!! & Hiro’s!!
Hello they may be in long distance kinda thing but they are married and make it work because they love each other >:(( I don't make the rules Words can't describe how much I love Athlete trainer Iwa;; he's just so amazing, I love him;;
Iwa doesn't usually send selfies but when he does he makes sure it's something Tooru will lose his shit over 😈🤩🤩 wearing your husband's jersey + glasses surely will do the trick 🤪🤪🤪 Also just for general context I guess this takes places after 402?? So uh post-canon?? Tooru's team is chilling in Japan for a little while but Tooru forgot to bring his jersey to practice 🤡🤡 (Not like he needs it but I just wanted to draw flirty iwa teasing his husband 🤩🤩🤩🤩)
Alt version iwa without glasses lmao
Iwa's arm looks weird but I'm too tired to try and fix it anymore 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩
Hello, so more iwa in oikawa's jersey because yes 😌 Tooru really likes it when iwa wears his shirts in general but his jersey with his last name??? Godly It's not as obvious this time but just know and believe me when I say that it's oikawa's jersey hdjsjd, but yeah have some post-canon husbands 🤩🤩🤩
Click here for Part 1!
Alt versions as usual
That awkward moment when you forget to tell people you're married and end up being questioned as to if your last names are coincidentally the same or you're something else fhjxhfjdj, click here for first part!! Dedicated to this wonderful ask an anon sent me on Tumblr!!!
Alt Version!
Jdjdjdj You guys can have your Iwaizumi Tooru but in this house I only Stan Oikawa Hajime and his husband THE oikawa tooru