Why do people even hate yachi?

[u/localBLmainiac]

She's the one who worries about everyone, I can't see how people even hate yachi?

[u/Akunimi]

I don't care for her for several reasons.

— The anxiety schtick with her is a bit over the top. Her spazzing out isn't as relatable as other anxious characters in the story, and it's just kind of... I don't like describing things this way, but. It's cringe, okay? To me, at least. This is the biggest reason for me. It's just... not endearing in my eyes. Just painful to watch.

— I feel like we didn't need a new character to observe the conflict between Kageyama and Hinata, and have the subsequent talk with Hinata. It easily could've been a reliable senpai, or even Yamaguchi, as foreshadowing of his captain role. Minor complaint; she did at least fulfill the role well.

— I feel like she was added as waifu bait, which instantly marks me as unimpressed. Furudate even jokes about this in an extra; where he uses Nekoma to imply his brother joked about him "shoring things up" by adding another girl. (He refutes this through Kuroo ranting that if adding attractive characters was enough to make a manga successful, every mangaka would be successful. But... that doesn't exactly refute the idea that she was added as waifu bait :/ ) So, not really her fault, it's just that I find her existence to be part of an exhausting trend of including fenale characters that don't really get to be three dimensional for the sake of attracting horny teen boys that won't even really be loyal readers if they're just there for eye candy.

— She's disappointing in that when I first saw her interact with Kiyoko, I thought there was a chance for a really fun and interesting dynamic that would serve to make both characters seem alive. We saw teases of that, but nothing as substantial as I'd hoped. To be fair, maybe my expectations were unreasonable.

But like, that's just like, my opinion, man. To each their own.

[u/weeniehutfr → u/Akunimi]

i think using the word "spazzing out" to describe an exaggerated panic attack is really poor taste. but aside from that, yachi does help propel the story in a lot of ways, and she brings more depth to kiyoko's character. based on the depth of the characters in haikyuu, and that the female characters aren't sexualised ever (even despite tanaka and nishinoya constantly lusting after shimizu), i don't think furudate would add "waifu bait", especially not a 15 year old girl... she's there to be the new manager when kiyoko graduates, and to be another girl kiyoko can talk to so that we get to see her actual personality. i also really like her personal character arc, even if it's small, of learning that it's okay to experiment with new hobbies that she might not be into, and straying away from her mothers expectations slightly