Review Episode 20:
This episode is fairly tense. The game is every bit as hard as expected and while most of the characters keep trying to bring their spirits back up, Kageyama seems to hit a wall. Not surprising really for a perfectionist, control-freak to berate himself for what he perceives as poor performance, but not particularly helpful. Then of course the episode ends before the end of the first set (yep, whole episode and the first set isn’t over) and Kageyama is getting subbed out. I wonder how he’s going to react to that.
Review Episode 21:
Apparently Kageyama has grown a bit since we first met him. He actually takes being subbed fairly well and uses the time to calm himself and study the game. Sugawara is the stand out of the episode. He’s always been quiet with good advice for his team mates but seeing him bring them all back into the game was kind of fun and created a very different mood on court to what we’ve seen so far.
And we didn’t finish the second set but Kageyama has just taken the court. Wow, they are making this game take awhile, but I can’t help but thinking that rushing it would have been a bad idea.
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Karandi James.
I’m glad they didn’t rush the game hehe love all the tension in the air pacing in haikyuu is reasonably good XD
I remember particularly enjoying episode 21. As you say Sugawara goes through most of the season on the sidelines being a cheerleader, overshadowed by Kageyama. It was really great to see that actually he does play volleyball and, also, he does it pretty well too. Thanks for sharing 🙂
It was a great change of pace, which I guess is one of the things that keeps this show interesting in that they don’t just keep repeating the same thing over and over.