“If I played in a match and our team won, it would be proof that we could so without Asahi-san.”
Wow, AsaNoya are gay as hell
This week, em and rainbow cover season 1, episode 8 'The One They Call 'Ace'' and discuss the coolest character in Haikyuu, Nishinoya Yuu, the very gay reason he doesn't want to rejoin Karasuno, and the full-grown man that is Asahi. For Who in HQ, the hosts talk about what kind of podcasts the characters would listen to.
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“If I played in a match and our team won, it would be proof that we could so without Asahi-san.”
Wow, AsaNoya are gay as hell
This week, em and rainbow cover season 1, episode 8 'The One They Call 'Ace'' and discuss the coolest character in Haikyuu, Nishinoya Yuu, the very gay reason he doesn't want to rejoin Karasuno, and the full-grown man that is Asahi. For Who in HQ, the hosts talk about what kind of podcasts the characters would listen to.
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Hello everyone and welcome to Fly a Haikyuu podcast, a queer Haikyuu podcast. My name is Rainbow and I'm Em, and today we are going to talk about episode eight of season one, he who is called Ace. This is a good one, but it is so good and I do kind of just want to jump into it. But do you have anything you want to talk about? Anything happened to you this week, any exciting news, gosh.
em:Well, we didn't even write anything down in our chit chat section of the notes, so I don't know Now I'm kind of blank and I got nothing.
rainbow:Yeah, I'm happy to move right into housekeeping, if you are. Let's do some housekeeping, yeah, so no chit chat for this week, because this episode is so good, we just want to get right to it. But before that, I do want to say happy birthday to my best friend, Dee Dee, because her birthday is March 25th, which is the day this episode is dropping. I don't even know if she's listening to the podcast she doesn't watch Haikyuu, but she's a very supportive friend though. At the very least, I'll probably tell her she should listen to the beginning of this episode so she can hear her shout out. But happy birthday. I love you. You are one of the best friends a person could ever ask for. I am so happy to have you in my life and I just want everyone who is listening to this podcast to know that it is your birthday, so happy birthday Dee Dee.
em:Happy birthday, dee Dee. We love you. I can't wait to meet you.
rainbow:Yes, in person, Dee Dee already loves him so much yeah we love him.
em:That yeah, because they live in a different state. But it's going to happen one day.
rainbow:Yeah, we have a little Snapchat group. It's all good, you're part of the fam, yeah. And then another exciting thing is we have decided we are going to do a mini-sode about halfway through season one, which will probably be sometime after episode 12 or 13. And we are going to do a Q&A episode. So we want you to ask us questions. Ask us anything. We promise we'll answer every single question, yeah and we're going to try.
em:We didn't really discuss this, but I think we are on the same page where you can ask about us, and then you can also ask about Haikyuu. Yeah, pretty much what you just said. Ask us anything. There's no guarantee we'll answer it, but I love a good AMA.
rainbow:Yeah, absolutely, and you can ask us about other anime or other types of media. We've mentioned other things that we enjoy, so if you enjoy that too and you have any questions, yeah, how we take our coffee.
em:What our deepest fear is really anything, you're curious?
rainbow:What are your dreams for the future? You know? Do we want to be buried or cremated?
em:Good things to know.
rainbow:Yeah, we'll answer lots of questions and we'll put out a call on social media for it as well. But just you know, in the meantime, and really anytime, even if we're not doing a Q&A, always feel free to send us questions via DMs or emails. We love an email.
em:Yeah, I do want to say really quick that we did. We got another listener email. It was really sweet and another reminder of why we do this. Basically, they were just like thank you for sharing your enthusiasm for this show. It's fun to listen to. So, yeah, keep doing this.
rainbow:And that person is Laura from Twitter, who had given us our who and haikyuu scenario in the last episode. So you know they reached out to us on Twitter and the replies, and then they decided to reach out via email and we really loved that email. So, thank you so much. And, yeah, anybody even if you're like a person we regularly interact with on Twitter if you want to send us an email, we won't be mad about it, but I also get if your email has, like, your real name and you maybe don't want to share that with us.
rainbow:We also understand that we are, like we said, we're doing a Q&A. Send us through DM, send us an email, ask your questions and, like I said, even if we aren't planning on doing a Q&A, if you send us questions, we will hold on to those, because we are down to do more Q&A mini soads and others and that could also be, you know, when it comes to haikyuu, it could also be like hey, I have this idea for an AU. How do you think that would work with haikyuu characters? We love talking about haikyuu AUs in this house, in this house. Yeah, so I think that's it for housekeeping, unless you have anything, that's all I've got All righty, then it's time for your recap.
rainbow:Are you ready.
em:Full disclosure. I did write this down, since y'all said you don't care what we do. So yeah, here is. You want to count me down? Of course I do.
rainbow:Are you ready? I'm going to do it. Icarly style Three, two.
em:In this episode we finally meet the great deity guardian of Karasuno, a libero with skills that match Kageyama. Nishinoya Yu is a spitfire personality with deadly receiving skills but a chip on his shoulder. He won't come back until the ace of Karasuno does, but it seems our great ace Asahi-san has been humbled because his confidence is on the floor. Kagehina, try to talk some sense into him. Meanwhile, takeda sensei has put together a practice match that he believes will draw out his pick for future Karasuno. Coach Ukai, that was fantastic Round of applause, thank you everybody, I love it.
rainbow:Yeah, I full disclosure am so fucking excited to talk about this episode. I feel like last week we were really excited to talk about Oikawa and like the versus the great king episode. But I think I'm actually more excited than I even was last week because I love Noya, I love Asahi, I love this little like mini arc here that we're getting into and it's just so good, and there's also a lot of Kagehina in this episode, so it's like we get like the best of both worlds.
em:Yeah, we're. It's fun because we're really starting to branch out. It's been so, like, concentrated on these little group of characters that we have, but now we're starting to get some players and, yeah, noya and Asahi are both really fun and the background Kagehina in this episode is tier one, so we got a lot of fun things to talk about.
rainbow:And we're also kind of completing the team here, other than the coach wasn't officially joined the team, but, like we know now, like, oh, this person and if you watch the opening you know what's going to happen.
em:Yeah, that kind of gives it away.
rainbow:Yeah, yeah, and the team is going to be completed and to start this episode off, because it is called he, was he who is called the ace. I want to talk about what an ace is, and so I did pull some stuff up, but like, what do you think a sports ace is?
em:He just seems to be like he's him. He's that guy, Like he's the one where, like when you're down and out and you need a reliable scorer, that's your guy yeah, yeah, absolutely, and I think it might be.
rainbow:I don't know if a sports ace exists in like all sports necessarily, like maybe it's more of a Japanese thing or maybe it's more of a sports anime thing, but there is, I do think. In baseball, the ace refers to the best starting pitcher on the team.
em:I definitely have never heard that phrase before haikyuu and I played a little bit of sports in my time.
rainbow:Yeah, I feel like I'd heard the term like sports ace or like, oh, he's ace, just like in the background, and I don't. I didn't really watch any other sports anime before haikyuu, but like haikyuu is just like they're, so like they go into it immediately with just like yeah, the ace is like basically it's like a position and like it's a person on the team and like it's just part of the world, and like I was just like, yeah, sports ace, I totally get it. I did find on Tumblr somebody I don't know this person retro continuity. It was like one of the first things that came up when I typed in sports anime, sports ace and anime, and so an anonymous, anonymous person asked them why are sports anime fixated with the idea of having ace? Does a team need an ace? and they said what an interesting question. The facetious answer is that aces are a cool concept in sports and it mentioned you know, they mentioned that the spurt starting pitcher on a baseball team and they talk about like other anime as well. I won't get into it.
rainbow:they do mention, you know, michael Jordan being the ace of the Chicago Bulls in the early nineties, which, if you don't know about Michael Jordan.
rainbow:Uh, first of all, if you live in the United States and you don't know who Michael Jordan is, I don't know what has been going on in your life.
rainbow:But so, yeah, and I the non facetious, facetious answer they don't need an ace, but it's harder to write an engaging sports anime if you don't have one. And they go into I'm not going to read like all of this, but they go into the idea that, a lot of sports anime, traditionally, like the main character, the protagonist, becomes the ace, hmm, but you know, now a days, in like modern times, that's kind of become like kind of trade. It's just like that's been done so many times that it's boring, and so there is kind of a like I would say not to get into spoilers, but I don't think haikyuu necessarily falls into that category of like the main character becoming the ace, and so I think, like the ace is just kind of another like, it's an aspiration that certain players may have, especially for Hinata, especially for Hinata, but we'll see how, like his idea of the ace and like his desire to be the ace, changes over the course of the series.
em:I'm excited to talk about that, which is more interesting, I think, than just keeping that same goal of being the ace. But I totally agree.
rainbow:And I think it fits with IQ and like the way a lot of characters like start out at a certain path but then find that path isn't working for them and then so they diverge and they go another way, but yeah, so I just thought that was interesting and, like, I just wanted to get into a little bit what the ace is and I think the ace I think the ace makes so much sense as, like a character in an anime. I think it makes, I think it works perfectly. I think narratively it's a really good device and I'm glad we have it. And as we get more into the show and we learn more, particularly about Asahi and Noya, I want to talk about who the real ace of Karasano is, because, like, they call Asahi the ace. But I think it's so interesting that Noya and Asahi are both introduced in this episode and like this episode really focuses, I think, a little bit more on Noya than it does on Asahi, yeah, and so I think it's interesting that he who is called ace is like this focus is more on Noya.
rainbow:And also I think we've mentioned this before on the podcast, maybe in the spoilers zone, so maybe everyone hasn't heard it and this isn't really a spoiler, but later we hear that generally the number four jersey is reserved for the ace of the team and we see that reflected in other teams. We'll talk about it later on and in this episode you see, noya wears the number four. So it's not the ace Asahi, the quote unquote ace. Who's wearing the number four? It's Noya. So I think that that's kind of a conversation we can have as we continue going through this series.
em:Their fusion is the ace, because if you want to talk about ace's like dependability, that's Noya.
rainbow:And they talk about that in this episode, like from the jump, like they, I love it. So like, let's talk about Noya, because, yeah, we pretty much see the very end of the last episode at the beginning of this one. Yes, we pick right off. Mm-hmm, he's receiving Kageyama's surf and Kageyama's like it was perfect. He said he's setting it perfectly to the center.
em:And then Hinata's like are you shorter than me? Yeah, that's the only thing that Hinata has to say is he's a you're shorter than me, and he's crying about it. And then Noya's like don't cry tears of joy for that, yes, Um, I have to say, we stand Noya in this house. Oh my God, I mean, that's another character where it's like, it's like oh, why is it me like who does not like Nishinoya?
rainbow:Yeah, it's like how can you not? There are things about Noya I think you could argue are not great which we can get into in a minute, but I do want to say I think he is the coolest character in this show. Yeah, uh, by far. also I'm the same height as Noya, which I love to hear and also puts into perspective for me, like how tall these other characters are.
rainbow:Yeah, Like because when you see them next to each other, I'm like cause, like I would anyway. yeah, so I'll also. There's a comment, somebody's, where Noya like just keeps talking to Kage Hinata and it's like Daichi and Suga who like during this whole episode or just on the sidelines making comments. I love it. they're like, looks like. He's still a chatterbox and I had a moment of like am I a Noya Kin? Do I, do I Kin Noya?
em:I felt like that in this episode too, because of how unserious Noya is as a person, I really relate to that.
rainbow:Also the Hina to uh calls him a horny tornado in the dub, which is so funny, but that goes to like the one thing about Noya that I don't like, which he is like the pervy character of the show.
em:He's certainly a little bit more aggressive than like Tanaka has been so far. Yeah.
rainbow:And like, and I think that it's just part of his like personality, because he's very excitable and even like in. Was it the last episode or the episode before that? It was the last episode where Tanaka is talking about this. You know, he just talks about Noya without naming him and he says oh, he's like a really excitable character, and I think Kageyama has the thought like oh well, tanaka is thinking this and I and that definitely plays out in this.
rainbow:But I just like he like sees. First of all, he like is talking about how hot the girls are at Karasano.
em:Well. So I think it's a really. I think it says a lot about his character, his reason cause. Kageyama asked him why did you come to Karasano? You know they established how talented he is and I actually love that whole little back and forth that they have cause. Like they really compare Kageyama and Nishinoya a lot like as far as talent level goes, and so like Nishinoya is asking him well, what junior high did you go to? And oh, we, you guys beat us and it's very cute. But then they ask him and he's like the reason I came here was cause the girls uniforms, and then also that his uniform is super cool and also it's nearby school. All very valid reasons, honestly. But this is really kind of refreshing because, like, we've been so entrenched with Kageyama and a little bit of Oikawa and all that intensity, and here comes Nishinoya, who is just as good, but his reasonings are so much less serious than everybody else's. He's not so do or die about the sport as everyone else's.
rainbow:And not to say that he isn't an intense player, because they do like Daichi mentions like, oh yeah, he's really excitable, but, like in a game, he's very focused, he's quiet, he's quiet.
em:Yeah, I like that.
rainbow:But yeah, I do find so. Like he talks about like the girls uniforms and then Kyoko walks in and he's like Kyoko and he's like running towards her and in like the dub, she's like kind of screaming, she's like she looks like she's scared.
rainbow:And he like jumps at her and she like slaps him in the face and it's treated as this joke and, like you know, I mean we've talked before about how the show is not, like it doesn't fall too deeply into the like sexual harassment stuff, but it is disappointing to me. It's like, no matter how excited you are, like don't jump at her while she's screaming, like that's just the mode. But I think it calms down a little bit as the show goes on.
em:And.
rainbow:I wonder how much of that. I don't think I brought this up, but I do wonder if part of that is maybe like, maybe that is coming from like Shonen Jump, maybe that's like an editor or like a publisher thing where they're like, well, you have to have this, like, do more of this, like the boys will think it's funny. Like or I don't know. Like I, I hesitate to put all of that on Furudate.
em:It does feel a little like out of place.
rainbow:Yeah, it doesn't feel. It doesn't feel natural to the story. It just feels like, oh, we have to check this box. Yeah, and maybe it is still Furudate thinking you know they have to check that box. But yeah, we can talk about. We'll talk about more instances of that later because it does still happen, but it's not enough. Like Noya, being pervy is not enough to make me not like him. Yeah, which is saying something, because I am very quick to hate on a character.
em:Yeah.
rainbow:Sexually harasses women. But noya, because there's so much more going on and like this is just like one small part of it and the rest of Noya's focus in this episode is on Asahi yes, so I have a note that says we interrupt this Shonen volleyball anime to bring you break up and makeup arc, because that's exactly what it is.
rainbow:Yeah, it's serious, it's so ridiculous the way like Noya reacts to Asahi and like that's something about. Like Noya is like he's usually a very fun, excitable character. And then Asahi gets brought up and it's like he's like, oh, where's Asahi? And they're like, oh, he's, he didn't come back and he immediately is so angry. He's like that coward, yes, and just like to declare like, if Asahi is not coming back, neither am I, and I think because we learn about, we learn more about what happens in the next episode, and so I think we can get more deeply into that in that episode. But I just it's very interesting to me.
em:Well, yeah, and again, it's like Noya's sole focus is really not about volleyball, it's about playing with his friends and like having fun, and especially that is shown with with his attitude. Yeah, he's just like I'm not playing, and then he stalks, he storms out of the gym and oh, I do have something to say.
rainbow:Are you about to talk about? You know, to talking to.
em:Noya.
rainbow:OK, I do have one more thing, because we do. We kind of get a very like serious moment from Noya where he's thinking about him and Asahi and he's thinking about being the Libro and he says if I can just get the ball in the air, I know I can trust the ace to get it over. And I think that's interesting because I don't think we see this kind of like Libro ace relationship in other teams the way it is in Karasuno. Like there's a lot of like talk about setters and spikers. We see a lot of other setter spiker pairs but and we do see at least in one other team like a Libro that gets focused on. But there's something about like the connection between the Libro and the ace in Karasuno that is touched on. And I think it's just because Asahi and Noya are gay.
em:Well, yeah, they're, they're the pair and they're just. This is their coming out episode. But I, yeah, I found like, yeah, noya does kind of give a little speech about the Libro and it was very reminiscent of Kageyama's speech on being a setter, and that it really kind of showcases why this position is important, which I love. Like HQ is about volleyball and they really give the flowers to each and every position and it's the same like with Hinata, kind of like understand like, oh, there's this whole, oh there's this whole other position. That's pretty cool. And then they have a really interesting back and forth where, you know, he tells Noya that he's a decoy but he doesn't sound very excited about it.
rainbow:Yes, yeah, and well, that comes a little bit later on.
rainbow:First we have Hinata, like really showing a moment of growth, because he understands that receiving is just as important as spiking and he is like and he's asking Noya to help him of like, finally finding somebody who will really help him learn receiving and he's really good at it. And of course, at some point, daichi I think it's Daichi tells oh yeah, this was in the last episode. Daichi tells Hinata like, oh, just call him Senpai, call him your upperclassman. And so in the sub he calls him Noya Senpai, but in the dub, because they don't use those honorifics, hinata calls Noya Mr Upperclassman. It's just so funny. It makes me laugh. Every time I'm like maybe you guys could have just used the honorifics.
em:Yeah, that's, that's funny. And then, right before we get to that, but though I just also wanted to touch base on when Noya is re because so, as I was saying, hinata is telling him he's a decoy, but he doesn't sound very excited about it. And then Noya is like no, like that's cool, that's important, and I love when he's saying this. Kageyama is in the background nodding, like yes, this is what I've been telling him. I'm so glad there's someone else on my level that can explain this to the boy, because he doesn't listen to me. It's like when your mom tells you you're a pretty girl, but you don't believe it because that's your mom.
rainbow:Anyway, yes.
em:I just had to point that out, because the background again, we already said this, but the background Kageyama in this episode is mint.
rainbow:Yeah, and there's a few like. I just want to touch on a few other fun things that happen kind of like in this area where, like you, kind of it's, it's happening in the background. I think like Daichi is talking to somebody, but in the background Noya is like talking to the other first years and he's like oh, how tall are you guys? You're like so tall. And Yamaguchi goes to say how tall Suki is and Suki Shima shuts him down. He's like what did I tell you about bragging about my height? And then a win, because before they get into the conversation of Noya, like he had to ask Noya. He's like hey, noya, who is that Asahi guy you guys were talking about? And Tanaka is like dude, don't bring him up. And it's like it's literally like don't bring up Noya's ex boyfriend. Yes, it's just very exes vibe. It's so exes vibe. And it's so funny.
rainbow:We're going to do Noya for the character spotlight and I'm going to talk about how Noya is the best Senpai in the show. Yes, because he's so good at cheering Hinata up. He's like he really listens to him and he's responding to him and like he like he doesn't understand why Hinata is so upset about being the decoy. Even, and even though Noya was just talking about how cool it is to be the Libero, he's just like, he's like. But, hey, being a decoy is cool too. Like he, noya really understands that, like, every single person has a part to play and that in all of those parts are equally important.
rainbow:And I do like that Noya seems to like being the Libro because it's cool and he gets to be heroic he had. He talks about like, yeah, people love when, uh, like you know, there's a good spike, but they go crazy when somebody gets like a gets the ball, which is true it is. Those are sick to watch those. Yeah, oh, there's going to be so many cool Noya moments for us to talk about. And then I did want to comment on like Suga kind of at the end of this little section Suga is talking to Daichi about the team changing and, like Suga is constantly observing and commenting on the way the team is growing and changing.
rainbow:And I think that's important for his character and we can talk about that more in later episodes.
em:Daisuga continued to be the parents of Karasuno? No, they sure do, yeah, so now we're ready to move on to a little bit of ukai action. Yes, yes, we officially meet ukai, who has which we've seen in a minute, a few episodes. The store owner, or he, works at the store and Takeda is there in his suit and tie. But ukai has no interest in taking after his grandpa and helping to coach. But Takeda will not be so easily deterred, yeah.
rainbow:And I do you have any ideas of where you guys reluctance is coming from? Do you think? Because I don't think it's laziness necessarily.
em:Well, we know we get that answer eventually.
rainbow:We do yeah.
em:Do you want me to remind you? Yeah, so I think it's a mix of a couple of things, because he says that thing about not wanting to babysit a bunch of high schoolers, and I think that's true to a certain extent, because he doesn't know these kids yet, so he doesn't really know he's also young, he's like 26.
rainbow:He's 26, 27.
em:Yeah.
rainbow:He's like a young you know. He's like kind of young and still not at the point where he probably feels like, oh yeah, I should be helping the younger generation. He's probably just like, yeah, like you said, he's like I don't want to hang out with a bunch of teenagers.
em:I don't want to do that. And then he says maybe it's in the next episode, but it's something to do with, like and I might fuck this up, but I believe it's because, like, he has these like precious memories from high school that like he doesn't want to go back, in a way, like it feels weird to go back.
rainbow:Oh OK, all right, yeah, ok, well, I'll keep that in mind and then we can discuss that more when we actually get to that part. But I just had that thought as I was watching. I was like why is he so reluctant? And I wondered if there was maybe some shame mixed in there, because he didn't try as hard when he was on the team. And so maybe he feels like he's not going to be able to be the coach that the team needs. Yeah.
em:And he's also like, like we said, he's a 27 year old guy, probably figuring out what the hell he wants to do with his life and maybe coaching a bunch of 15 year old boys Isn't doesn't sound great, but but Takata says to him if you just watched them you would understand.
rainbow:And he has that determined look on his face which, as the audience member.
em:You're kind of screaming that with him, like, yeah, dude, you have to watch these boys play like you don't even know.
rainbow:Yes, and then that sentiment is even, I think, echoed at the end of this episode, and we can talk about that when we get there.
em:So that that's just a little part. And then we meet Asahi, who is a grown man with a beard for some reason. That that is a handsome young man who is looking for a wife. I don't know what he's doing in high school. Like some of these characters, man, they just do not look like teenagers. And he's a gentle giant and we haven't gotten into it yet. But it's very clear that, like Suga had some sort of role that played out in this like breakup and he feels a lot of guilt about it. He is the one who approaches Asahi at first to be like you got to come back. And Asahi you can tell like something like his spirit or his pride is broken. He's like no, and he's very like humble. He's just like no, no, not me, I'm just a boy. And and Suga's like no, but we have these good first years and like come on.
rainbow:Yeah Well, suga is so serious about it Like you even see, like the night before you see Suga like, like about to cross the street and he's like, ok, he's like preparing himself, like I feel, like he knows, he's like I have to be the one to bring Asahi back, which is, you know, I think, suga putting a lot of pressure on himself. And I do wonder how much blame he puts on himself for what will we'll, we'll talk about that yeah, clearly a lot.
rainbow:He clearly weighs on him and he knows that. He knows that it's important for Asahi to come back.
em:We'll get more into this dynamic in probably the next episode. But you kind of start to see the seedlings of like last year. It was really up to Asahi a lot, because they were just getting their strength back and it was really only like Suga Daichi, asahi and Noya who were the strong ones, and so it kind of came down to like Suga setting and you know, asahi getting it and Noya saving it. So that was a lot of pressure for Asahi and that's a big point. That Suga tries to make is like it's not going to be all on you anymore. We have new little baby monsters that want to eat us for dinner.
rainbow:Yeah well, and you can see yeah, actually I really love the way you said that but you can see that Asahi clearly has like pretty low self-esteem. He doesn't think very much of himself, and I think Suga even says, like he's the type which pot kettle Suga he's like he's the type to like put the all of the blame on himself. And so I think that's interesting and I think Suga even in this like mentions that they have these new first years. And then who should we meet? It's the first years and I just I love that. Like Kage Hinata, like they came together, like I want to see what happened right before that. Did Hinata to go to Kageya ma's classroom and be like Kageya ma, come on, we got to go talk to the ace. Or like like when did they decide they were going to do this? Like how much time are they spending together outside of class?
em:Is it all of it? Because it seems like it's all of it. They're always together in this episode, at least during these scenes. And it's very cute because Asahi, again, he is intimidating. He's tall and big and when they see him for the first time, Hina to scurries to hide behind Kageya ma, which that is a moment of growth, because Hina is always afraid of Kageya ma, and now he's like boy feet protect me from the big man.
rainbow:He really like, he really did turn a corner in that Like, and I think it was the coward's anxiety is that where he hits him in the back of the head? Yeah, so yeah, like, when he does that, like it, like Kageya ma, like, I think because of the way Kageya ma reacted to that, he net as like, well, he didn't kill me, so is he really that scary?
em:Yes, and you can see a little bit more.
rainbow:Like you definitely see a change in Hinata his attitude towards Kageya ma in this episode. And then I love because, Hinata to like hides behind Kageya ma, kageya ma has no reaction to it, but he does like he kind of turns to face Asahi and in doing that he kind of like shields Hinata even more and it's like was that? I feel like that was like subconscious, I feel like he didn't realize he was doing that, but a part of him probably was. Well, I got to protect.
em:Hina to. Yes, I like to think that it was somewhat on purpose, yeah.
rainbow:And then I love, like Kageya ma asks Suga, because also he walks away and he asks if Suga, if also he got hurt, and Suga says no, and I would argue that in a way also he did get hurt. Like obviously he didn't get injured physically, but it's clear that like his, his self-esteem or his pride or his ego, like something like you said, was broken his spirit is broken, but Suga describes it as like.
em:I think Suga's fear is that he's lost his love for volleyball.
rainbow:Yeah, but I think it's really what is going on? Yeah. And well, it's a Kageya ma who says like well, we don't know for sure that Asahi has stopped loving volleyball, which I think for Kageya ma. He's like well, I can't imagine anyone not loving volleyball. So like there must be another explanation.
em:Well, I love how Kageya ma is dumb as a rock, but he can be surprisingly insightful when it comes to volleyball.
rainbow:Yes, Well, he's got a five in intelligence for volleyball. Very true, and I have a note here about Kageya ma understanding how a bad game can affect a player.
em:Yeah, he can definitely sympathize with what Asahi is going through. I think yes absolutely. And then just more of my Kage Hina agenda. So after this they're both like running to the club together like jogging, just because I could see them. Just like jogging, jogging everywhere because that's their preferred method of transportation. I bet they weren't even late. That's just what they do, and they're just like discussing the Asahi thing and I don't know. It just feels like Kage Hina has settled into this kind of friendship now and it's just nice to see.
rainbow:Yeah, well, it's like I feel like they finally, after the practice match against Sejo, it's like they see each other as true allies. Now I think they both understand that, like you know, and I think there maybe there's a little bit of like well, we are stuck together where we're going to be a pair now and they've kind of and I don't think they're as mad about it as they were initially yeah, and they really, they really there's like a little bit of fighting in this one, but it's not even fighting. There's a lot of teasing in this episode, but I feel like we really kind of move past them being like outright like trying to hurt each other's feelings, and more into just being kind of playfully antagonistic.
em:Yes, definitely.
rainbow:Yeah, ok, and so then we go back to the gym.
em:Yes, where Noya is showing off his rolling thunder, which this is another moment where I'm like. This is me, like I, because then they all, like all the first years, in their own way, are like what the fuck? Well, he loves it. But like Kage was like, why did he shout, which is funny, and then like he was laughing at him, and Yamaguchi is laughing so hard.
rainbow:I also. I love that. Kage isn't even trying to be mean, he just doesn't understand. He's genuinely confused. He's like why is he? He doesn't need to show. Yes, he's probably thinking like what?
em:it would be so ridiculous if I shouted every time I said dude, noya is the personality hire of Cross and they, like, they do need him a little bit because all I mean, aside from Hinata the first years, are pretty like I don't know, they're not as like you know, they're not like Noya. So, but I really relate to this moment because I too would be making a fucking fool of myself for fun, these, and then getting mad when people would make fun of me. Yes, absolutely.
rainbow:And then Hinata is immediately there to hype him up and I we can talk about like Noya and Hinata another favorite platonic ship of mine. I love them. They're little besties. They have like a really great like Senpai and Kohai relationship and they're just like little twinsies. They often have the same reactions to things like they're tiny and excitable and I think there's something so funny about like people who are like they're so small but they have such big feelings yes, very much so.
em:Yeah, Tanaka and Noya are really like Hinata' s parents.
rainbow:They really like his big brother.
em:Yeah, yes, they really take him under his wing. It's very cute. And then Takeda enter stage left and I just I think we may have addressed this already, but Tanaka calls him Takachan.
rainbow:I love it so much. Yeah, he calls him Takachan, which is like a term of endearment.
em:Yeah, to talk to your teacher who seems very unfazed. I think that would probably be taken very disrespectfully in other relationships and stuff. But like I just think it's funny that they have that relationship where he can call him that and Takeda has some very exciting news where he's got him set up for Golden Week.
rainbow:Is that what it is? Yes, and I did look it up because I, you know, I remember when I heard it I thought maybe it was just like, maybe that's just a sports thing, maybe they just have this Golden Week. But no, golden Week in Japan is a collection of four national holidays and it happens like it's like the end of April to like beginning of May. I think it's like April 28 or 29 through like May, like third or something, and the four holidays are Showa Day, and Showa was like a Japanese emperor Constitution Day, that's the postwar Constitution Greenery Day, so that's like an environmental day, and then Children's Day, which you know is for children.
em:Oh, I'm learning. I thought it was just like a volleyball thing.
rainbow:No, it's not a volleyball thing, it's like a national like holidays thing, and I will probably put a link to the Wikipedia page on Golden Week and the show notes If anyone wants to learn more, because it does seem pretty interesting. And I did see like something that like like the trains in the public areas get very crowded during Golden Week, but I guess, and I imagine I think they're off of school for Golden Week because of all those holidays and so I think they take it as an opportunity to have a training camp. Yes, because they can just dedicate all of their time to training, they don't have to worry about school.
em:And more importantly, on the very last day of this training camp, there will be a practice match against Nekama.
em:Nekama and I, and oh, you have it here talking about talking to being clever, because yes, talking to his clever that he does this because Nekama and Kurosno I'm sure many of you already know have a longstanding rivalry where, like their games against each other had a specific name Battle of the Garbage Dump. And he purposefully tries for the school because he knows that this rivalry will draw out Yuki, because there's nothing a man or boy can resist in a shonen anime more than a good rivalry.
rainbow:Yes, and while talking to us, talking about like, oh, I think this will get. I don't remember if he actually says Yuki's name, but he says, like this is how we're going to, like, lure the coach in, yeah. And then it cuts to Yuki's sneezing. And is this the first time we see this happen, or did this happen once before? This might be the first time.
rainbow:I can't remember is the first time there all there might have been a time. Actually that could be wrong, I think. Maybe, like early on in like episode two or three, suga and Hinata are talking about Kageyama and then I think it cuts to Kageyama sneezing in his classroom, probably, and that is like a running thing.
rainbow:I will try to keep a note of it every time it happens. But when they're talking about other people who aren't there, it cuts to them sneezing, and I think that's just like a thing in Japan, like, oh, if you sneeze, it means somebody's talking about you, which is. I don't think it's that in America there's something else, isn't it like our?
em:ears are ringing.
rainbow:Your ears ringing? Oh, my ears are ringing. Somebody must be talking about me. So I just that's like just a fun cultural thing.
em:Yeah, that that pops up a lot. It's very cute. Yeah, there is one person who is not so excited about this announcement Of course it's Noya, who has no intent of rejoining the club as long as Asahi is not, and he says something that is super gay, which is, if we won, it would prove we didn't need Asahi, and I don't know if I could handle that. And again, like it's really not like. Of course, noya loves volleyball and is like a dedicated player or whatever, but for him, it's more about having his teammate back than like that. That's what he cares about more than getting to play volleyball. Yeah, and.
rainbow:I think we do. We get to fully see that fight in the show, or is it in that OVA that we get to see it?
em:I think it'll be next episode that we get a full breakdown of what actually went down. So hang on tight because we'll deep dive into that next episode. But yeah, that's just that's pretty gay bro.
rainbow:Yeah, it's, it's pretty gay. So yeah, so Noya has decided he is not going to play. And then we have more of Kage Hina talking about Asahi and talking about the situation, very calmly again, not really fighting about it, but, and you know, earlier Hina t shows his growth by, like you know, saying that receiving is important. So, like Kage Ama has is shown, is shown here, that he has also grown, because he understands now that it isn't just, it isn't up to just one person to win. And you know, we see, like I watch that and I'm like oh, it's a moment of growth, and Hina is like no, you're not allowed to say that.
em:He immediately is bullying him for it. It's so good. And he does this little impression of Kage Ama. He's like and I love like they're so in love. Hina does like I still remember your words. And then he like does the impression of Kage Amma being like I would rather receive set spike all by myself. And then Kage Amma is embarrassed by this and he takes him and he shakes him and he's all blushy. But I think it's it's good, because the fact that Kage Amma is embarrassed that he said that is already showing a lot of growth within, like, the last couple of weeks.
rainbow:Yeah, and I I have to note this because it's so funny because, like Kage Ama is like shaking Hina t and then he like throws him and Hina to like spins like twice in the air and then he lands perfectly on his feet and it's just not faced at all. I love how they just like they. This is just how they interact and they are cool with it. And then Hina to like is is talking about, he's like he says something about Asahi, and I like the look on Kage Amma's face. I think, oh, he, he, oh Hina to says something about like I don't like when the team doesn't get along. And I think Kage Amma knows what can happen when a team doesn't get along. He's been there before.
em:Yeah this is a real do or die moment for Karasuno, because if they can get these two back on the team and getting along, then they will be like as strong as Takeda was predicting. But if they can't, well then we spell trouble.
rainbow:Yes, and so you know, kage Hina really like. I think this is really showing like their dedication and their drive and their desire to like have a good team to play on because they again go to Asahi, they like are relentless, they're like no, we're going to convince this person to play.
em:And Asahi is like why do you care about me? You've never seen me play. And then, and Hina, like Hina t starts to yell, but because if you don't, our sun pies will be sad. And then Kage Ama pokes them in the side and Asahi like giggles at them. Like yes, they have an adorable dynamic, don't they? He's like oh, you two are so funny.
rainbow:Yeah, that's cute. I love Asahi. But yeah, and then Hina t like gives like a little speech, which I love this moment I will probably post screenshots when we post this episode because I love this moment like Hina is talking about Kage Ama setting and he's like with this guy, like I used to get blocked a lot too, but this guy with his amazing sets, like I'm able to see the view from the other side and the way that Kage Ama looks at him is so contemplative. Yeah, yeah, yeah he probably.
em:Just he's just not used to being so appreciated too, like Hina t. That's like the magic of Hina to is. He's so full of genuine love for the sport and the people he plays with that like that's really his gift to other people. And he's doing it right now with Asahi, where he like reminds them why they love volleyball because, yeah, he describes like the feeling of having the ball hit his hand and how good it feels. And Asahi's touched because he remembers what that feels like. He probably has a like suppressed it through the time that they've been like suspended or whatever, but Hina does, bringing it all back. So he has a little speech and then but the bell rings and it's time to go, and Kage Ama smacks him in the back of the head and says, hey, let's go, but he has some parting words to say for Asahi as well.
rainbow:He tells Asahi, he can't win on his own. And he says, like I didn't, I just learned this lesson recently, so like I can't really talk, but like, yeah, like you know, it takes the whole team and like the whole team is going to have your back and it like makes me want to cry. I'm so proud. Yeah, also, just going back, you have a note about when Hinat is giving his little speech.
em:Yeah, well, you mentioned Kage Am=ma's look to him and I just think you know to push my agenda. Kage Amma is falling in love in the background.
rainbow:That's what this we are a queer, high-q podcast and we were here to talk about these boys falling in love with each other and.
rainbow:I do think that's a moment of like, you know, because like Kage Ama is so reserved, you don't really see a lot on his face, but when you do see, like you just like the way his eyes are looking, like he is like really taking in what Hinata is saying and I don't. I think that's the first moment Kage Amma really realizes how much his sets mean to Hinata. Yeah, and I don't.
em:I just don't think he understood that before and I really love that Hinata has no issues. I think this speaks to his emotional maturity of like giving people their flowers when they deserve it and like speaking about his adoration and stuff, just like unabashedly. I love that in a person and a character love it all.
rainbow:Yes, and and so, yeah, and Hinata is, and and I you know it is it like kind of selfish for Hinata to want Asahi to come back so bad. Like a little bit, he wants to see the ace, he wants to learn from an ace, but you know you can, but like he's. He's clearly not like forcing Asahi, because Asahi is like thinking to himself, he's like I know that feeling of the ball hitting my hand and like you can, at least in the dub, you can really hear kind of the longing in his voice and it's clear that Suga is wrong. Like Asahi has not stopped loving volleyball, he just feels like he can't do it anymore, he can't be the player they need him to be, which is bullshit, and that's what Noya knows. And I think, yeah, I think that's where Noya's anger comes from.
em:Yes, yeah, it's kind of this like almost like tough love, but also, yeah, just like he does not follow Asahi's logic, he's like what do you mean? Like you're being ridiculous, you're being cowardly, yes yeah, absolutely.
rainbow:And so the episode ends with Kagehina practicing alone in the gym, as they do. Just the two of them.
em:Yep, because they've been spending a lot of time together.
rainbow:This episode it's fine and Asahi is watching them and it's bringing back the love of volleyball and oh, and there's that moment, like that what Takeda was saying, where like if you could just see them play you would understand. And like he sees them do the quick and he's like wow, like that's amazing. And he just like looks at his hand and you can tell that he misses it. And we're kind of left with the question of like well, is Asahi going to come back? Is this enough? And we will answer that in the next episode.
em:Yeah, but for now let's talk about some sub versus dub.
rainbow:Yeah, you have a note here about Noya's Japanese VA.
em:Yeah, we're both here to talk about Noya's VA. I'm here to talk about the Japanese VA for all my my hero girlies out there. I watched Haikyuu right after my own my Hero Academia phase so I clocked immediately. It's Bakugo's voice actor, especially because they sound very similar. Like I was closing my I still remember watching it and like posting about it. It was, like my, one of my main big reactions during my first watch of Haikyuu, because you could close your eyes and just hear Bakugo. The biggest difference I think there's a lot more smokiness to Bakugo's voice, which makes sense for his character. But I just really love this voice actor. He's another one. He's like Lee by his voice actor, where I can always pick him out whenever I watch a new show and I just love. I love how his voice sounds. So I really like Noya's VA, obviously. And then you have a similar, but in the dub version.
rainbow:Yes, okay, so Noya's English VA is Greg Ayres and I recognized him immediately because he is the voice of Kauru in Oran High School Host Club and I think I mentioned, maybe way back in episode zero, that I love Oran High School Host Club, like that is. I've talked about watching Naruto, which was kind of like the first anime I started watching, but Oran was the first anime I watched from beginning to end. We might honestly do a series on Oran at some point if we run out of Haikyuu content, because I love it so much. It was the first anime I ever bought on DVD. I bought it with my second paycheck from my first job.
rainbow:I bought it on Amazon. It was the second thing I bought on Amazon. The first thing was the complete DVD set for Powerpuff Girls and then I bought the complete DVD set for Oran High School Host Club and I think it was like $50, but I was like, worth it. I think my dad got mad at me. He was like I saw that you paid this much for it. You shouldn't pay that much for stuff like this, and I'm like that you don't understand. It's worth it and it was.
rainbow:I still have those DVDs because it has the English dub and the subversion. It also has DVD commentaries and I'm obsessed and I, yeah, so like I love Oran High School Host Club and I think a lot of the voice actors in there they did a really good job. We will not get into the voice actor who played Tamaki, but Noya's voice actor is Greg Ayres and he is fucking prolific he. I also know him from the show Wallflower. He was the voice of Yuki and I just think he's really good like his voice, like being the voice of Noya, being the voice of Yuki and being the voice of Kaoru, like they're all very individual performances and like I think he he does a really good job of like that, like kind of like the Japanese voice actor, like you know, like he he makes the voice fit the character very well, I would say.
rainbow:And on behind the voice actors, calm, it says that he his credits are like in the 200s, like 292, like he's been the voice of almost 300 characters. He's been in like seven, 270 different like shows, movies and video games and I just love and I just love his voice. It's like kind of it has like a gravelly quality to it that I really like, yeah, and I just think his voice is amazing and he's like one of the only VAs who's like name I remember and I like really recognize him every time I hear him. There's a few others, like Monaco Royale, yeah, so I think that's all I have for Sub vs Dub. Do you have anything else?
em:no, that was it, although I feel like I really should have done more research on my voice actor tidbit, because you just had a whole Wikipedia article and I didn't even name mine. But you know what he voices back ago. That's the most important part, the girls, you gotta get it listen, everyone has access to Google.
rainbow:They can look stuff up if they want to. I'm just extra yeah, oh, and I do. I have one more sub versus dub thing, which is when Takeda is talking about Nekoma, because they're from Tokyo, tanaka calls them city boys, uh-huh, and he says it, I think, in English, even in the sub, but it sounds like he's saying shitty boys and it's very funny and even Tsukishima laughs at him and so well, he will say it again, and we can talk more about that. But I always clock that, yeah, that he's calls them city boys and it's very funny, yeah.
rainbow:So, moving on from sub versus dub to manga versus anime, this pretty much follows the manga pretty well. The one difference I did notice and I don't know why they do this but in the manga, noya says he's five three, and that's what his character sheet says. But in the anime, at least in the dub, he says he's five two. And I have, I just have to play something. "Really, I'm gonna watch my five foot two mouth. First of all, I'm glad you said that I'm not five two, I'm five three yes, anyway, that's what I immediately thought of when you made that point.
rainbow:Yes, yeah, we talked about this earlier, just talked about Nikki, and I like I think I for a long time I said I was five two, but I'm probably closer to five three. So me too, nikki. I'm a short person, though so I don't really care. I'm not focused on height very much, but yeah, that's pretty much it for that, and then we're gonna move into the character spotlight, if you're ready.
em:I'm ready take us away, and, of course, who else could it be?
rainbow:we're talking about Nishan oya yuu, the best Senpai, I just think and I will clock it over and over again because I think, like, most of the Senpai in the show are pretty great. oikawa is definitely an exception, but mainly, really, oikawa is just not a good Senpai for Kageyama. I think you could argue that he's pretty good for, like, the underclassmen at Seijo, but I just think Noya is like I don't know, it's like he's so effortlessly good at being a Senpai, yeah, and I just and like he does it for every single one of them, and I just really like that. And it starts with Hinata, obviously, because Hinata like kind of really seeks him out and he's always offering to buy him popsicles, yes, which I love. and yeah and whatever. We're just gonna keep continue to talk about how great he is as a Senpai yeah, we kind of skipped over that little bit.
em:When, uh, him and Hinata are talking outside and and he calls him Senpai and Nishinoya like falls over, and then he's like after school, I will buy you some ice pops, or something he's like more serious about being a Senpai than he is about volleyball yes, which?
rainbow:respect, yeah, honestl. So I want to talk about his personality a little bit again. I pulled from the wiki, so I just have a quote here. Nishinoya is a very energetic and temperamental person. His boisterous nature and crazy shenanigans can attract unwanted attention quite easily, which often goes badly for him. Although he hardly ever worries about the consequences of his actions and may even revert to violence to vent out his anger on certain occasions he's surprisingly considerate of his friends, feelings and insecurities. Yes, yeah, I would agree.
rainbow:And then we're gonna talk about his name breakdown and in the next episode we're going to do Asahi for a character spotlight and we will talk about how their names relate to each other. Uh, nishinoya, the family nickname, or Nishinoya, the family name, means Western Valley, which makes so much sense for him as a receiver, and then his given name, you, means evening, which I thought, yeah, which I thought was interesting. Also, I think I've seen in the manga because his name gets shortened to Noya a lot in the anime and especially in the dub, but I think sometimes they call him Nishi too. Oh, and I don't know if that's just like a bad translation or if they really do just like. Do call him Nishi as a nickname.
em:All right.
rainbow:are we ready to get into his character sheet?
em:Yes, and it's funny because everything has an exclamation point under it.
rainbow:I haven't known about that because it's true. Yeah, like. So all of the other character sheets is just like you know. It says all the stuff and there's no kind of punctuation, but there's at least one exclamation point at the end of like every single thing in his sheet. Yes, Also, we didn't talk about the fact that Noya always wears t-shirts that have like a phrase on the back yeah, and we can kind of point those out as we see them. But in his character sheet it's got. He looks very cool. He's standing with his hands on his hips and you're looking at his to show off the back of his shirt, and he's looking over his shoulder and his shirt says fearless, which he is. He is and, you know, connects to something later, much later in the anime. And so Nishinoya Yuu, exclamation point. He's in class two, three and his position is Libro and his height is five three or five two. If you're watching the anime in the dump.
em:His birthday is October 10th, which means he is well that makes him a Libra, which he does not act like a Libra. Libra Libras are usually pretty chill. He really gives me Aries vibes with just the intensity of like that can kind of be seen in a negative way. But he's also like it's just, it's all love, like he's just like I'm gonna scream this at you, like it's very Aries, that's fine. I don't think, for Odate was really thinking about astrology when he was doing these.
rainbow:No, I would be interested to know and maybe, if anybody knows this, I wonder if there is because, you know, with Kageyama and Hinata there's like very clear reasons why their birthdays are where they are. Like Hinata is the summer solstice, kageyamas is around the winter solstice.
em:It'll be interesting to see where Asahi's birthday falls and if they are connected in any way.
rainbow:Yeah, definitely, we'll have to keep that in mind for the next one. And you know, as far as like his astrology, like we don't know what any of the characters, moon and rising signs are, I wasn't even gonna get into it.
em:But yeah, just just a side note. You know your son sign is not the be all end, all he could. You know it's valid that he's a Libra. Maybe he's got Aries placements in his moon or his his miracle. But I digress.
rainbow:That was astrology corner with him. Yeah, I love it. Personally, his favorite food is gari gari ice pops cola flavor, of course. That's why he's always offering to buy them for Hinata. His current worry? None, he has no worries, he is just unbothered.
em:God, and that is the way that I am not like noya and I wish I was, and that's why every Asahi needs a noya. Yes, yeah honest.
rainbow:Yeah, asahi's current worry is everything. Yeah, although I think you could say that noya's current worry is that his boyfriend doesn't want to play volleyball with him anymore. Yeah, that would be legit. But I think these character sheets are more like less to do with, like, exactly what's going on in the story at this time and more to just show us their personality.
rainbow:And I think him not having a worry is very. It makes a lot of sense. And then, lastly, for noya, I want to talk about his ability parameters. On the five point scale, his power is a two, his technique is a three, his jumping and intelligence are both fours and his stamina and his speed five Interesting. I thought it was so interesting that his technique is only a three.
em:Yeah, and his jumping is higher. What does his jumping have to do with anything? I?
rainbow:don't. Well, I mean, you know, and jumping isn't just about going vertical in the air. That's true, because he does, he does a lot of diving.
em:Yes for the ball. Way scarier to me. Like that's the one thing I would not want to do in volleyball because I know I'm banging my chin against the floor immediately.
rainbow:Oh, okay, see, I, when I played wreck volleyball, we all just played all the positions. It wasn't specialized, but now that I like understand more about the positions, I think I would definitely be a libero. Yeah, I love one. I was always diving for the ball, Like that was like I was kind of just what I naturally did. I was like one of the only people on the team who was like willing to go for like a one arm dig, like I was like I will get this ball back into the air. I will make the connection. Yeah, you will. I love that, but I do think it's interesting. His technique is a three and I would say that that grows over time. I think that there are in even Noya admits this there are things that he can learn.
em:Yeah, there's things that he has to learn. I think Noya is right at this moment, anyway, running off a lot of pure talent. Yes, nothing, he doesn't practice or anything. But maybe that's why his technique is lower, because, like a lot of his like cool moves too are just like these, like out of nowhere saves that like aren't technically pretty in a lot of ways, but like it gets the job done, so that that's an interesting thing.
rainbow:Well, and they talk about Noya like moving on pure instinct and you know, talking about like him training. He does train. I don't think we mentioned it in our episode discussion, but they Tanaka, I think, brings up that while Noya was suspended and wasn't allowed to play volleyball, he was still practicing with the local like women's team, just like he neta.
em:Yeah.
rainbow:Yeah, so yeah, that's noya. We love him. We stan a legend he's. He's just a lot of fun and I can't wait to talk about him more. And don't worry, like next episode, the character spotlight will be on Asahi, but I feel like you just can't talk about Asahi without talking about Noya and vice versa. So very excited for all of this.
em:Awesome, so that's our character spotlight, of course, love you. That brings us to our who in haikyuu scenario. This week's scenario is brought to us by Juneberry on Twitter, and it is what kind of podcast would they make slash listen to? And the characters that we're going to focus on are, as always, hinata Kageyama, noya, asahi, suga, Daichi, tanaka, kiyoko Takeda and you guys. So let's you want to start us off here?
rainbow:baby girl Hinata. Yeah, I think Hinata would listen to okay Hinata, like because he clearly has ADHD. So I do wonder, like I think he would only be able to listen to podcasts the way I do, which is like, while I'm doing something with my hands, I was gonna say like I feel like he doesn't get into podcasts until he's older and maybe he listens to them on his runs.
rainbow:Yes, yeah, when he's like training in the gym and stuff. So, yeah, I think, like high school Hinata would probably listen to, like he listened to like a sports podcast. He'd probably listen to like a podcast talking about his favorite like anime and manga. Older Hinata would definitely be listening to like like wellness podcasts that talk about like here's how you get the best sleep. Here's how you do this blah, blah, blah. But yeah, and then, as far as make, he would make a volleyball podcast I definitely have answers for listening to.
em:I don't know so much about make, but I love to imagine Hinata and Kageyama trying to do a volleyball podcast together, but they just keep yelling at each other and it doesn't work out. Yeah, like they're blowing the mics out, it would be it accidentally does really well, because they're so unserious and people are shipping them, yeah. And then Kageyama, volleyball. I think anything to do specifically with volleyball, like interviews with volleyball players, volleyball techniques, that's all he's going to listen to, because he has a one track mind. Yeah, who's next?
rainbow:Noya, noya, noya is next. I have thoughts for this. Unless you have, go ahead, I'm developing a thought. So I think Noya is the kind of person who would like find like random podcasts. I think he would be the kind which is I can't do this personally, but I think he would be like, oh yeah, just download the next episode, every episode that comes out of like a podcast I've subscribed to, and I think he would just listen to his feed like that, yeah, like, I think he would find podcasts that he likes. Again, I think he'd probably be listening to like movie podcasts, like things that are exciting. I think he'd like a lot of like comedic podcasts and I think that's what he would listen to. I think he would just like let his feed go. He would like because, like, I very much curate my cue and I like really decide what episodes I'm going to listen to next, depending on how I'm feeling. I don't think Noya would do that at all. I think he would just go for it.
em:For me, I think I could see him listening like. I don't even know if this is a genre. I'm not. I don't know if I've made this clear, but I don't really listen to podcasts. Rainbow is kind of been the champion of this whole brainchild but if there are like adventure podcasts or like travel podcasts, anything that yeah, like exciting kind of cool things, like cool stories, that's what he would be listening to.
rainbow:Yeah, I think he'd listen to like those like interview podcasts where they talk about like you know, like this week we're talking to get like this mountain climber or whatever. I think he would also. I could maybe see him listening to like fiction podcasts as well. I could see him like not really having the like attention span to sit down and like read a book, but I think like he could very easily listen to a fiction podcast while he's like doing other things. Ooh, a fiction podcast? Yeah, they're out there. If you don't know about them, they exist. I for me, they don't really work too well. I'm not super into. I'm also not like an audio book person. There is one I listened to called fruit. That was about a gay football player, and I really liked that one. That's cool.
rainbow:But yeah, so I think that's Noya OK. So what about ahi?
em:I feel like in the opposite direction, like something kind of calming, maybe even like meditative type ones.
rainbow:I was thinking like self-help type podcast Like here's how you love yourself a little bit more. But yeah, no, I agree, definitely. I think he's like listening he has to listen to, like a Sleepy Time podcast to go to sleep. Yeah, that sort of thing.
em:OK, all right, next up, suga. Ooh, what would Suga listen to? I don't know. Do you have anything for us? I think Suga.
rainbow:I think he would listen. I think Suga would probably listen to. I was going to say maybe like political podcasts, oh OK, and I think he would get like I don't know, I have a headcanon that Suga gets like really fired up about politics.
em:I like that, maybe a little bit of NPR.
rainbow:Yeah, I think he'd probably listen to some NPR. I think he'd probably listen to. I think he would listen to like podcasts about his interests, you know, without getting into spoilers, because we're not talking about like time skip.
em:I've been avoiding talking about the time skip actually, and I might jump into it a little bit in the spoilers zone.
rainbow:Yeah, but you know, without getting into spoilers, I think, like you know, older Suga would definitely listen to podcasts that relate to his career. Yeah, for sure, I think he'd probably also listen to comedy podcasts as well. Oh yeah, and then I could. Honestly, I think Suga would be a good podcaster. I think he could make a fun podcast. I could see him doing a podcast, maybe with like Daichi, where Daichi is more of the like calm one, where they like talk about things, and like I could see him bringing people on to like debate and stuff.
em:Yeah, that's cool. And, speaking of Daichi, what would he listen to? For me, like, I feel like Daichi would just listen to like sports podcasts, something boring, I don't know.
rainbow:Yeah, I think he'd listen to some pretty basic ones, you know I. Oh, we have to go back to Suga, because Suga would listen to True Crime Podcasts.
em:Oh yeah, I can't believe it. Oh my gosh, how can I forget about that very popular genre?
rainbow:Yeah, Like, yeah, that True Crime fucking built the podcast industry.
em:Yeah.
rainbow:So, yeah, I think he would definitely listen to that. I think Daichi would not want to listen to the True Crime ones. Yeah, I could see him being freaked out by that. So, although you know future career Daichi, which we'll get into that at some point, yeah, but yeah, so Daichi, yeah, I think like maybe he's just like not too big into podcasts, I could see him being kind of like you, being like I don't really watch, I don't really listen to podcasts. Yeah, maybe he only like listen. Maybe like Suga like forces him to listen to them in the car or something.
em:Yeah.
rainbow:I do like how we talk about Daisuga's. If they're just married, they are Because they are.
em:Tanaka. He's another one where I don't see him listening to podcasts, although he might get into like some True Crime, because it's cool and fun yeah.
rainbow:He would probably like the like. I think he would like maybe something like the Dala or my favorite murder, those kind of podcasts. I see him more as like a YouTube guy. I think he is like watching a lot of like Twitch streamers and like reaction videos and he is like fighting with people in the comments. Yeah, I put Kiyoko on the list, Even though we don't see a lot of her. We really just see her getting sexually harassed. But I refuse to forget about her.
em:Yeah, I'm one girl right now. Yeah, I defer to you and your expertise.
rainbow:So Kiyoko, I think, is listening. I think she's also listening to like NPR. I think she like really is like using podcasts as a way to like delve deep into certain topics. I think she probably listens to like podcasts about like oh, this is this really cool fact about like nature, like I think she's listening to those kind of things. I could see her listening to like I had Kanan every high-Q girl as a feminist, so I think she's listening to like the Bechdel cast yeah, you know you're wrong about and things like that. And I think you know like Kiyoko seems very like she's very quiet, but I think she thinks very deeply about things.
em:Yes, definitely.
rainbow:Yeah, ok, and then talk it up.
em:If there's like a podcast about connecting with your students, he's definitely listening to like podcast.
rainbow:Teacher podcast, yeah, teacher podcast. I think he's also another true crime girlie.
em:I think, sure, I think, talking about like sorry stuff, about like literature. He's an English teacher, yeah, yeah, he's definitely.
rainbow:Yeah, he's listening to a podcast where they like break down like the greatest you know Japanese literature books of all time I think Suga and Takeda are both listening to like the most fucked up true crime stories with a straight face. Like I think they're listening to like stories of people being like maimed and murdered, yeah, and just like you can't even tell that they're listening to something terrible.
em:I can see that for both of them for sure. And then lastly, we have uk ai, you guys, another one where I'm like he does not listen to podcast.
rainbow:He thinks it's dumb. He doesn't know how an MP3 player works.
em:Yeah yeah. He's just got like a shitty radio that's in the store and he listens to what's up from that.
rainbow:Yes, yeah, he's listening to whatever is on the radio and then I don't think we've talked about, do we have we talked about shipping Takeda and Ukai?
em:No, and I really want to write a thick about just how Takeda can convince you kind of join the team, but that's neither here nor there.
rainbow:I love them as a ship that I've read like a couple of fix with them that I enjoy. I wish there were more out there, but I love Takeda and Ukai. I do ship them together and I do think Takeda like like maybe like once they get like they're dating for a while and they get comfortable with each other. Takeda like starts listening to his true crime podcast out loud and you Ukai pretends like he's not affected, but he's actually like trying to go to sleep at night and is thinking about murderers breaking so our relationship yes.
rainbow:Yeah, I'm glad you don't pretend to hear freaky stuff.
em:You'll start to tell me about your freaky stuff and I have to stop you a lot of the time because my constitution cannot handle a spooky story.
rainbow:Yeah, I love fucked up shit and I like listening to fucked up shit and watching fucked up shit, reading about fucked up shit, and then I don't always think about the fact that other people aren't like me and so I will like go to tell him something and she'll just be like babe, not no, I don't.
rainbow:I don't want to hear this. And I'm like, oh okay, or like sometimes I'll go to like tell her something and she'll be like, babe, we're eating, can we not talk about this now? And I'm like, oh yeah, Because like I would watch a saw movie while eating spaghetti and not think twice about it.
em:And you know, that's not, that's not the flex that I think it is. No, no, listen, I'm the pussy here, I know, and that's fine.
rainbow:Well, you are what you eat. Oh, okay, do we have anything else we want to say? For who in haikyuu?
em:I think that that's it for who and IQ. Thank you again, june Berry, and thank you guys. Some of you have been like have sent us so many scenarios. We are set up for life, so thank you guys, keep them coming. They're fun to do.
rainbow:Yeah, that may be. You know, if we end up doing a Patreon, maybe that's something we consider doing is like mini sodes of just who and haikyuu, because we have so many scenarios and we want to try to like we don't want to pull from the same people every time. If you sent one in and we haven't done it yet. Like, we have just started doing scenarios from listeners, yeah, but we're going to try to like, you know, do scenarios from like everybody who's submitted, before we go back and like do repeats of people we've already done, but keep sending those in.
rainbow:We love them, we love like, thinking about them and I will say some of them are like, they are concerned with things that we don't personally know about. Like I think we had one that was like you know, how do these characters play Minecraft? And neither of us play Minecraft. So, like we might not do that on an episode, but I will probably put it out on social media at some point. Like, maybe when we decide to do who and haikyuu mini sodes, we'll like, we'll put out a call for like hey, you know, what do you all think of this? And then we can read that on the podcast.
em:It'll be fun Because, yeah, the only reason we wouldn't pick something is if we, if we felt like we couldn't talk about it. But that'd be a fun way to get everyone involved.
rainbow:Yeah, I don't want another like one piece situation where we're just like I actually am not prepared for this at all. Yeah, we were struggling.
em:U yeah.
rainbow:So before we get into the spoiler zone because some of you will be leaving us I just want to talk about our social media real quick and then we'll get into the social media or then we'll get into the spoiler zone. So, if you want to follow us on social media, we are fly haikyuu pod, twitter, instagram, tumblr and blue sky. You can also send us an email fly hq pod at gmail dot com again, that's f, l, y, h, q, p, o, d.
em:Okay, so with that out of the way, and you better hit us up on social media. We're going into the spoiler zone. Get in the pool, we're getting spoiled, u. So what do we have for the spoiler zone? Um, oh I, it's all me, baby. Um.
em:So the main thing I wanted to point out is just u with Nishinau's personality, again, like and I say this like almost every other episode, because fruit is a good writer it's just so set up from the very beginning, like Nishinau has choice in the time skip to not pursue volleyball but to like travel just makes so much sense because, from the beginning, like we said, it's not all about like, he's not a volleyball head, he's not a volleyball idiot, he's got a lot of other things going on in his life, u so I thought that was really cool.
em:And then I just wanted to say u for the podcast section that I didn't want to say and get spoilery. I could see Asahi listening to a fashion podcast. Yes, absolutely, he's a little fashion designer. And also, uh, is this a good time to talk about how, noya and Asahi travel the world together? And also, this isn't. We should have talked about this before the spoiler zone, but we'll talk about it next episode. More about how Asahiau is kind of like underappreciated as a ship, which is pretty wild considering the content. We get right at the top and then at the bottom, but yeah, we'll definitely.
rainbow:We'll talk more about that, because I also have a head cannon I want to talk about with Asa Noya and I thought about putting it in this episode. But I think I'm going to wait for the next episode because this one is like again like. I feel like it's very like separated Asahi and Noya, u and we don't like and we we see a lot more of like how Noya feels about Asahi because of this fight. But I think in the next episode, and maybe in the next two episodes, is when we really get into Asa Noya as a ship and we really get to see them interacting and we understand, like where the the fight came from.
rainbow:U yeah, and going back to Noya, um, in the time skip, I I see this a lot. I seen a lot of this in the discourse that it is cool that like, just because Noya is really good at volleyball, he's naturally talented, doesn't mean that's what he has to do with the rest of his life. And I love that he chooses, because you kind of see it like he does kind of do things on a whim, like he went to Karasuno because the uniforms were cool and like. So I just like fit so much and like he's so adventurous and free spirited and like I just think that's so cool, like, like as somebody who loves to travel but is really held back mainly by money. U fuck you capitalism.
rainbow:U you know, like I think it would be cool to just like go and travel the world and I love that. Like it shows like Asahi's growth, that like he, like he goes out and travels with Noya, and like in the manga, in that like panel where they're talking about like oh, where are Asahi and Noya? It's like, oh, you didn't hear they're going on a whirlwind tour of the world together. That's a honey boon. I seriously I think I tweeted one time where I was like you spelled honeymoon wrong. Like what are you talking about? Yeah, and they're just so canon and love, u and there's, you know, with Noya traveling the world in there's a that extra bonus chapter that came out about the um, the like expo game between all of the big players, like it shows, like Kuro going, like traveling the world himself and talking to a bunch of different players and convincing them to come, and Noya is in the background of, like, all of those which.
em:I love.
rainbow:And and I do there's something about like I often in fix, I have like a desire to like put Asahi and Noya in as like. Oh, they're just stopping by on their like, this is just one of their stops on their way on their whirlwind tour yeah. Yeah, I love it and I just I love Noya so much and he's so cool and this whole episode just feels like a love letter to Anisha Noya.
em:Yeah, for sure. Good, good character. We're really starting to widen our reach of characters and teams.
rainbow:Yeah, and I don't think we have anything else for the spoiler zone, because it's literally next episode. There's no point in talking about the fight right now.
em:Yeah.
rainbow:U is there anything? Oh, I did want to talk about the fact that in Noya's character sheet, his shirt says fearless, and there's like a whole episode in season four dedicated to Noya talking about fear and how it's not something he's really felt since he was a child. And then he feels it for the first time again when Atsumu is serving.
em:Yeah.
rainbow:And I just thought that was interesting and that's something.
em:I literally just noticed it as we were doing the character spotlight and I was like, oh, fascinating, yeah, and that scene has one of my favorite moments, which I've already talked about on this podcast actually, but I'll save it for when we get there.
rainbow:Yes, absolutely All right. I think that's it.
em:That'll do us. Noya is in the ring, asa, he's quick to follow. We've got a lot of things exciting to come up, so keep listening, keep emailing us and until next time, fly high. Bye, bye, we love you, Bye.