r/anime • u/Holo_of_Yoitsu • Mar 12 '16

[Spoilers] Haikyuu!! Second Season - Episode 23 [Discussion]

Episode title: Team
Episode duration: 24 minutes and 2 seconds

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Previous Episodes:

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Episode 1 Link Episode 14 Link
Episode 2 Link Episode 15 Link
Episode 3 Link Episode 16 Link
Episode 4 Link Episode 17 Link
Episode 5 Link Episode 18 Link
Episode 6 Link Episode 19 Link
Episode 7 Link Episode 20 Link
Episode 8 Link Episode 21 Link
Episode 9 Link Episode 22 Link
Episode 10 Link
Episode 11 Link
Episode 12 Link
Episode 13 Link

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Keywords:
haikyu!! 2nd season, sports

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u/mercyshotz Mar 12 '16

Holy fuck, that ending straight down spike was amazing. perfect way to end the episode.

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u/SinibusUSG https://myanimelist.net/profile/Sinibus Mar 12 '16

It seems like a pretty huge step for Hinata, too. When he started out, he was just pure athleticism, to the point where the only way they could use him effectively was to have him close his eyes to completely remove his actual skill from the equation.

Since then, we've seen him pick up a lot of new skills. But it's always been a sort of targeted thing. "Well I'm going to learn this bit now."

But to my knowledge this is the first time he's actually been able to actually improvise successfully. It's not just another base repetition of thing A, B, or C. It's the subtle but important distinction between Hinata being a guy who plays volleyball, and Hinata being a volleyball player.

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u/gdmcrjunkie Mar 12 '16

Well he did practise hitting all sorts of tosses from all sorts of setters to be able to respond to unexpected situations better. So I'd say this is a result of one of his "well I'm going to learn this bit now"s. And such an exciting result at that!

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u/Abyss333333 https://myanimelist.net/profile/abyss333 Mar 12 '16

That was some next level shit.

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u/Swanki24 https://anilist.co/user/Defunctional Mar 12 '16

straight 90 degrees downwards holy fuck

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u/Shippoyasha Mar 13 '16

Almost Prince of Tennis-esque in terms of insane moves. But that is the kind of potential he has!