“Just once more! Call for the ball just one more time… ACE!”
And we thought AsaNoya were being gay last week…
This week, rainbow and em cover season 1, episode 9 'A Toss to the Ace'' and cover the break up and make up of AsaNoya and Takeda’s successful seduction of Coach Ukai. In the character spotlight, they talk about Asahi’s many, many, many, many worries.
1:00:08 - Spoiler Zone Begins
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“Just once more! Call for the ball just one more time… ACE!”
And we thought AsaNoya were being gay last week…
This week, rainbow and em cover season 1, episode 9 'A Toss to the Ace'' and cover the break up and make up of AsaNoya and Takeda’s successful seduction of Coach Ukai. In the character spotlight, they talk about Asahi’s many, many, many, many worries.
1:00:08 - Spoiler Zone Begins
Podcast Socials:
Send us an email! flyhqpod@gmail.com
Transcript available on our website, if not included in your podcast app: https://flyhqpod.buzzsprout.com
If you have the means, please consider donating to the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund
Hello everyone and welcome to Fly a queer Haikyuu podcast. I'm Rainbow and I'm Em, and today we are going to be talking about episode 9, A Toss for the Ace. But before that, we wanted to talk about something that I don't think we've mentioned on the podcast, but has been a thing since February 16th and beyond, honestly, even before that and that's the Haikyuu movie that just came out last month there's a movie.
em:Have I seen it?
rainbow:No, no, we live in the United States and we have not not gotten it. I think they've released international dates for, like Korea and the Philippines, but so far nothing like outside of Asia. And, of course, the movie came out on February 16th in Japan and has been breaking records it's doing really good.
em:I really hope that this, like I already don't understand why Haikyuu isn't treated with the same level of respect as like a Jujutsu Kaisen or a my Hero, with just endless seasons.
rainbow:But we're not respected and they're giving us this movie, which looks really good yeah, and like we're doing no spoilers here, if you've seen the trailer, you know, or I mean, if you've seen the end of season four, you know, it's going to be about the nekoma karasuno game at nationals the battle of the garbage dump like, which is like.
rainbow:The reason I wanted to talk about the movie in this episode is because this episode is kind of like really maybe a little bit of the last episode is really starting to set up the nekama rivalry, and so I felt it was appropriate to just talk about that and talk about how excited we are and we can't wait to see it. Like I, I hope it gets released in theaters, even if it just gets released on crunchyroll.
em:Like I will be screaming and shouting I just can't believe that there hasn't been. I've've seen clips now, like two or three clips at least, but the fact that there isn't like a shaky recording pirated version of this yet is astounding to me. It's been almost a month and I don't know maybe that's a good thing, but I want it selfishly. It's never been harder to be an American than right now. But I want it selfishly it's never been harder to be an American than right now.
em:No, but, and of course we're all mourning because, it being in a movie, we're going to have to sacrifice some things and I've heard as a Kageyama stan that I am losing out on some things. But I think if you go into the movie not thinking about the manga and all the little tidbits that you love that might be getting cut, I think I think we'll be able to appreciate it for what it is.
rainbow:From what I've seen, I think it's giving us like the. You know, the ultimate thing about that game is it is like the culmination of this rivalry, and I think they're really staying true to that. And I think a lot of the like, bigger moments they are including in there.
rainbow:I think there's going to be a lot of good stuff for kuroken you know if you've read the manga, you know a lot of the really big, important stuff is gonna happen and it looks like the animation is looks really good and I, you know, I don't know, and maybe if anybody has seen any kind of like think pieces on this or anything that's maybe been translated from like japan, that kind of like goes into like why they decided to do a movie instead of a season.
em:Maybe it is because of the like higher production they definitely seem to get more money for the movie and I could see that even in the clips that I've seen.
rainbow:Like I really like what they're doing so far, so maybe that's why, and I don't know, maybe there is something about, like you know, maybe because haikyuu took so long and we were waiting for it because of, I think, the pandemic the pandemic, I think is the reason why we have some episodes that look really rough and stuff like that.
rainbow:Yeah, but I wonder if, like, because it took so long for that to come out if maybe they felt like interest was dying and they were like, well, we, we aren't going to be able to do like a full, full seasons for this. So if we do movies and we make it this big event, like we'll get the most bang for our buck. Like I'm sure capitalism is the ultimate villain here, as usual. And like I don't know, I don't know how much of like the, the original creator, like the mangaka, is involved with the creations of the animes. Like I don't really know about that, like I don't know how. I would love to know how furudate feels about them doing movies. I don't even know really how much money like mangakas get from, like when they do anime and movies and stuff. Like a lot of that is a mystery to me.
rainbow:I have, I have seen things where like, like anime producers in japan, like people have asked like, oh, like, what about? Like the western fans, like do you ever try to cater to them? And they were like, no, we don't care, which I respect that, yeah, honestly, I do too. Yeah, I don't think. Like I don't like when creators who are making fiction are like catering to the fans in that way. I think that's how you end up with Renesmee from Twilight.
em:Yeah, the less you cater to people, the better, that's for sure. But also I'm suffering.
rainbow:Yeah, yeah, absolutely, and like you're never going to please everybody. So, just you know, do what you tell the story that you want to tell. Yeah, so I mean you know, but I am excited for it. I'm fucking pumped.
em:I can't wait. I mean, if this comes out in theaters, like around here it's going to be we're not going to know how to act, because when we watch and we watch old games that we've already seen a million times we still get wrapped up in it and like we're going to be treating this like your dad watching a football game, like I will be shouting at that screen, like this is our Super Bowl.
rainbow:Yes, yeah, like I like I've never understood watching people Superbowl. Yes, like I like I've never understood watching people. Well, I guess I have, because I've gotten hyped to watching people play sports before. So that's not true. But like I get as hyped for these games as I've gotten for like actual games of people.
em:Oh yeah, I mean, this show helped me understand why people care about sports, but I also like I would love for it to come out in theaters because I want to see who else in our little town is in the haikyuu community yes, absolutely yeah.
rainbow:Like we have a very tiny theater here, I think it has like six screens, and like I don't think I've ever has it ever been packed.
rainbow:I think maybe when we saw the new hunger games movie yeah that was the only time I've seen like a full house in any of the theaters. So I think it would be fascinating to see and like I would want you know I hope they give us enough time because I want like a jersey to wear, Like I want to get some merch, I want to really go out there and celebrate.
em:I'm bringing my Kageyama plushie with me.
rainbow:I'm bringing my hinata plushie with me. We're going full, full nerd, full fan on this. Yeah, and I don't. Yeah, and it's like be prepared for us to be screaming because I will like watch these games and like stand up and cheer at the screen and like games I've already seen a million times and I know exactly what's going to happen. If anything, it makes me more excited knowing what's going to happen, and I have. It makes me more excited knowing what's going to happen, and I have read all of the manga.
rainbow:I think you have too, so we do know how the game it turns out. We know, like, and I've read it several times, so like I know a lot of the big beats and I'm just, I'm going to be so excited.
em:I will. I haven't read this match. I mean, like I think I haven't really reread the manga since I initially read it after I finished the show a couple of years ago. So I'm really vague on the details and I'm going to keep it that way because I think I'd be more unhappy if I knew exactly how it goes down and because then I feel like you can't help but like compare in your head while you're watching it. So it's like no, I'll just be ignorant and happy.
rainbow:Yeah, as much as I enjoy reading the manga, I it's because we're seeing a sport and we're seeing action. It is, I feel, better watching it play out than just seeing like static manga panels, like I love being able to see the movement and the way that they animate it and I'm just very excited and the voice acting sounds amazing from what I've heard. I mean Ken.
em:Kenna is such a like well-known. That's Aaron from Attack on Titan and several other things, Todoroki from my Hero, so he's a huge voice actor. I mean they're all good, so I'm. But yeah, in short, we're excited, Looks really fucking good, and hopefully they start releasing dates soon and hopefully the success of these movies urges them to, because I know they originally announced like two movies. The one is this game, but then there's so much still to wrap up the whole manga and just one more movie seems insane. So I really hope that the like reception of this maybe will change the trajectory of their plans. Maybe we do get another movie, but then we'll also get a season. Like just properly, I don't care how you do it, but just properly flesh it out, and like I do. I think I've heard that the game feels a little rushed. I just I don't want the end of the story to be rushed. Give it the space that it deserves.
rainbow:Yeah, and that's the thing with Haikyuu. You know, again, without getting into spoilers, I don't think you can properly tell this story without telling all of it. You have to go all the way through, to the end, otherwise it's not really ended. Like if they don't decide, especially like the time skip. like you know, we know that it exists. Even if you haven't read it, even if you don't know what happens in that time skip, you know that it's there, and if we don't get to see that, like just thinking, like if they end it with them in high school, it just is not a good ending. and so I will be interested to see how they do it and, I don't know, maybe we get some ovas yeah, like I said, I'll accept any way they do it, but just give me the full meal please and furudate is constantly giving us more content like
rainbow:all the time, yeah, so, yeah, I don't know, I'm very confused about the choices that have been made, but you know, I'm I'm excited, I'm very, I'm very excited. I'm very stoked for the movie. If anyone has any information, I have a google alert set up for haikyuu, which is unfortunate because oftentimes it'll just be like the 10 best sports anime of all time, and I'm like this is not what I meant when I said and a lot of haikyuu news that comes out is not really news like I feel like we're being edged the entire fucking time which I do like edging, so it's not that bad, but it has control over the edit.
rainbow:We'll see if that makes it in. yeah, okay, do we have anything else we want to say about the haiku movie?
em:nothing much to say until we get to see it. I can't wait until we see it. That might be a whole mini episode.
rainbow:We've talked about that oh, I mean, I would like to do an initial reaction, like as soon as we get home from watching the movie, or if we're already home watching it on crunchyroll as soon as we're done. I want like an initial, like pure. This is how I'm feeling. Right after that, maybe we put at the very beginning and then we can like, maybe watch it again, take notes and really do a full yeah, like discussion of it, but yeah, who knows how long that'll take.
em:Yeah, I know it could be another year or something. I really don't know what the timelines and I think that's kind of like.
em:For me, it's kind of nice that we have decided to do the podcast now, when all of this movie stuff is going on, because, like, until the move, until we get to see the movie, we're still like reveling in haikyuu and yeah like the haikyuu fandom has kind of gone through these ebbs and flows, because the manga wrapped up a few years ago now and, like people always like I see all the time like, oh, I remember my Haikyuu phase and the Haikyuu fandom's dead. You know they're there, are the I'll call them the weekenders. You know they're here for a good time, not a long time but the Haikyuu fandom has gone absolutely fucking nowhere.
rainbow:We may get a little dormant, but we've always been here, bitch well, and that's the thing is, like I would say we don't even go dormant, there's just like maybe there are just some people who leave, but like, at least like for me in my experience, there are people consistently talking about Haikyuu and like I don't think the fandom ever truly goes dormant. Maybe it goes a little quieter, but I think we are just, we're always here and we're always loving it and like kind of feeding into each other's love of it.
rainbow:And you know. I hope that this podcast is becoming a part of that.
em:Yeah, hopefully. Yeah, but I just think people undermine, like how big and strong of a fandom we are, so maybe this movie will change things.
rainbow:And it's an international fandom baby. We all over the world, oh yeah, Haikyuu is about connections and we have connected.
em:Mm, hmm.
rainbow:We mentioned this in the last episode, but we are going to be recording a Q&A episode later this month, which is April, and we'll be recording that not too long after this episode. Episode nine comes out. But go ahead and send us questions on Twitter, Tumblr and email I guess Instagram and Blue Sky if you're on there. But yeah, go ahead and send us questions on Twitter, Tumblr and email I guess Instagram and Blue Sky if you're on there. But yeah, go ahead and keep sending us questions.
rainbow:I've got a spreadsheet going and even if you are worried like oh no, maybe they've already recorded the episode and it's too late, send us questions anyway, because there is a good chance that we will do other Q&A episodes later on in other seasons. So like, please send us your questions, we love to hear them. And other seasons. So like, please send us your questions, we love to hear them. We've gotten quite a few so far, I think. Initially I was like oh, we'll do a Q&A mini episode that's like half the length of a regular episode. I don't know if that's going to happen.
em:We got like one email that had enough questions where I could talk about like each question for a whole episode. So, yeah, we're going to have to figure out how we're going to spread these out and we'll definitely do more in the future and, as always, this is an ongoing dialogue between us and y'all.
rainbow:So, but yeah, we're really, really excited about that. I love a Q&A episode and, again, like it doesn't just have to be about Haikyuu, you can ask us about ourselves. You can ask us about other media. We've enjoyed other anime, other cartoons, other live action movie, anything that you want to ask us. You can ask us spoiler questions as well, like stuff that happens in the time skip or in later seasons, because we do plan to do a spoiler zone for those questions. that, will you know, we'll do it just like we do in these episodes. We'll do no spoilers for most of it and then at the end we'll talk about spoiler stuff. yeah, and we're really, really excited. We love the engagement, we love the like back and forth that we have with you all.
em:So yeah, let's keep it up, let's get into. This is such a good, very dramatic episode, and so we got to get into it, and it is rainbow's turn to give us a little recap now. Have you prepared or are you going off the cuff?
rainbow:I have, the basic like episode breakdown outline, and I'm to use that to gather my thoughts.
em:Well, are you ready for me to count you down?
rainbow:I sure am.
em:All right, Three, two one.
rainbow:All right. Asahi sees Kagehina spiking in the gym and remembers what it feels like to spike a ball. But then Daichi is there to scare him half to death, but actually to try and encourage him and remind him that if he still loves volleyball then he should play volleyball. And then Asahi runs away. Meanwhile Takeda is. There's a lot of scaring in this episode because Takeda scares Ukai half to death by being a creeper at the store and he's there to ask him to be a coach again and Ukai's ready to turn him down until Takeda tells him that Nekoma is coming for a practice match and reminds Ukai of his old rival from the other team. And Ukai agrees and he says all right, we're gonna go see the team right now, but he brings some friends with them so that he can see how these boys play in a practice match against the neighborhood team.
rainbow:But the neighborhood team doesn't have quite enough players. Luckily Noya is there to be their Libero and Suga is there to be their setter after a interesting confrontation with Kageyama. And then they still need one more player, but luckily Asahi's right outside and Ukai pulls him in to be the wing spiker and then the game begins and we get to learn the truth Behind Noya and Asahi's breakup and Suga's role in that as well, and his feelings on it. But it's okay, Because they make up. Asahi figures out what's going on with him there. This is a terrible recap, but that's okay. Stop Keep going.
em:You're almost at the end. Suga's on Faito.
rainbow:I will, I will keep going, a toss for the ace, but it's okay, yes, and the game is going. There's really just a lot of volleyball in this part, but you know, at the end of the day, asahi, noya and Suga heal from their past trauma and we get to see asahi coming into himself as the ace oh my god, maybe I should pre-write these I'm telling you, I, I enjoy, I think I thought about doing it for this one, but I was like no, I think I, I think I might.
rainbow:I'll try next episode. Yeah, we'll see how it goes. I hope you all liked that.
em:They're all booing. No, no, it was great.
rainbow:In my head, everyone's booing all the time yeah, I have low self-esteem but I'm also confident.
rainbow:That is something, I I guess that I could have put this in the chit chat part, but I did one of those, like you know. It was like eight different haikyuu characters and it was like which vibe do I give off? And so many people said noya, which like high praise. I love that, thank you all, but I do feel like I'm maybe like I I do get where that comes from, because I I think I am pretty cool and I'm pretty I'm very confident in my abilities but, I, also have Asahi's low self-esteem and, like I often like take responsibility for everybody else and I'm like it's my fault and therefore I'm bad if things don't go well.
rainbow:You are Asanoya.
em:I am Asanoya, so let's jump into it.
rainbow:Yeah, absolutely, let's start off. So we pick up right where the last episode ended, as always.
em:I want to say, I think it's so. Daichi and asahi's dynamic is so interesting because and daichi says it himself he's nice to everyone but asahi, because he doesn't really respect, , asahi being a little bitch, and that is something that continues on through the show yeah, absolutely.
rainbow:you know he keeps calling him a wuss. Everyone calls asahi a wuss because he is, which I think it. It is funny because he looks so big and scary and like we'll we'll hear about it more in later.
rainbow:episodes, or people are like look at that big, scary guy, but he's actually the biggest, softest teddy bear you've ever met and, as daichi says himself, he's the exact opposite of noya, basically yeah, yeah, absolutely like noya has the personality that people expect from Asahi and vice versa, and I do love it, yeah, and I just love Asahi being scared of Daichi and just be like you're scary when you're mad, which is true, yeah, but Daichi's like I'm not mad at you, and then I like what he says to him about if you still love volleyball, that's reason enough to come back yes.
em:I wrote that down because I really enjoy that yeah, because I think that there's a lot of like shame that is holding Asahi back. He's clearly so embarrassed from how everything went down and he feels like he's not good enough to face Suga and Noya again. But the thing is, is they all kind of feel this way? They all feel like the responsibility of what went down and no one is blaming each other.
rainbow:Yeah, absolutely yeah. They're all blaming themselves. I would say Noya does hold some anger towards Asahi, but not because of what happened in the game, but because he gave up.
rainbow:Yes, because of how he reacts to him. Losing Like Noya is like well, we'll get to it when we talk about the fight. I also did want to mention that, you know, nekoma gets brought up right at the beginning of this episode, daichi Ramai, because Hinata says something about oh, we're going to like we'll defeat those cats, yeah, and you know, and it's clear that, like you know, daichi and Asahir are talking about it. It's clear that they have heard of the Nekoma rivalry before and I think even daichi says it's more like a legend to us and like we don't really have any beef with that team, but it's like there is this like tradition that they want to uphold.
rainbow:and it's, and we're just, we're getting closer and closer again. They, they're edging us with nekoma. They're like for the next two episodes, we're gonna kind of, we're gonna hear about them, but we don't get to see them yet, because that that's what this show does. The show's like, oh, we're going to take two or three episodes and set this up while other things are going on, as you should. And it's masterful, honestly.
em:That brings us. I think that kind of segues us into the Ukai moment, speaking of Nekoma and all like the backstory of it all, and again I'm going to keep things that I probably did notice but then forgot about. But yeah, so Takeda goes to the shop and, um, he tells him about this rivalry and of course that that, because in the volleyball world a rivalry is a love story yeah, he like reminds him like one of the like key pieces of this.
rainbow:He's like not only is Nekoma coming, but the setter for that team like you guys, rival setter from nekama is now the coach. Yeah, so it's like it's, it's just beautiful and like that. And you know, that's something we get to talk about when we talk about the movie is learning of where all of this began and how it's like just generations of rivals between these two teams it really is and I kind of forgot, like I forget, that you guys was a setter in his heyday.
em:And then like, yeah, the, the setter that was his rival, is now the coach and first of all, that's a ship that is slept on, probably because nothing else really comes of it, but like I forgot that that was like the origin and you get to see them.
rainbow:You see like what that rivalry meant to you, kai, and how the it's always about them like fighting each other at nationals. Like the the other setter I don't remember his name, I'm sure we learn it in a couple episodes from now, but he and like Ukai are shaking hand. He's like you're gonna be at nationals.
em:It's like this promise, this declaration they keep making to each other he loves a declaration and a promise oh, they really really do and then I was right right for you guys' reasoning of not wanting to return. It was partially because being a coach is stuffy or whatever. He's just a cool cigarette smoking 27-year-old and he doesn't want to be a coach, which I understand. But then it's true, it's kind of like that message of you can never go home again. He was like I have so many good memories but those are all frozen in the past and to go back would be weird and like I could totally relate to that feeling, especially being around Ukai's age, and like it is weird to like go back to a place, like going back home, if you've moved away from home and it doesn't really quite feel like home, like it is a strange feeling. So that's like surprisingly deep of Ukai, yeah, and like the self-awareness he has to recognize that.
rainbow:That's like surprisingly deep of Ukai, yeah, and like this self-awareness, he has to recognize that that's like part of why he doesn't want to go back is he? Doesn't want to tarnish those memories.
em:I also think it's a little dramatic well, I mean, obviously everything is very over and this whole episode is like we were watching it. I was watching it this morning and we're just like this is the most dramatic episode yet, like everything is so serious and intense for no reason but, of course, aside from all those other reasons, you can't turn down the rivalry, so it's like let's go, I've got teammates on speed dial and I love the way it goes down, how like takeda says all this stuff and takeda like you can see it in his face he's like he's smug about, he's like I got him now and then you guys like yelling.
rainbow:He's like he's like what do you think you're doing? Is this a joke? What time is practice? And that's like one of my favorite kind of like gags in the world is when somebody is just like I'm not gonna do this, okay, I'm gonna do it, yes, very bad, yeah, and then yeah. So he calls the neighborhood association and I love it. I think he even says like this is bullshit in the dub. He's like this is bullshit, what time is practice.
em:And the team itself is so funny because I think Sekishima says it where he's, like I expected, like a bunch of old dudes, but it really is just a bunch of young men from the community in their tracksuits.
rainbow:I don't know why everyone has such colorful tracksuits, but they do, yeah, and I wonder. I don't know if they ever really explain, like how you got this team together?
em:like, does he?
rainbow:know these guys, did they all go to high school?
em:together. I think they did and I think, well, it's the neighborhood team. So and you guys says he plays with, he plays volleyball still sometimes with them, like casually.
rainbow:Well, and well, and I'm thinking but like, how did he meet them? And I think the two of them that really become like recurring characters. I think they were also on the team with Ukai. I don't know if they were on in the exact same year as him, but so that's, that must be where he knows at least those two.
rainbow:Yeah, and then, yeah, I, you know, I guess you know, as we learn watching Haikyuu, volleyball is a very tight-knit community. Yes, yes, it is. They all know each other's business. So, yeah, so, but before you guys shows up, we go back to the karasuno gym and we have a little moment between tanaka and noya, which I love, where, you know, tanaka notices that noya has bruises all over his arms and legs and asks him like, what kind of training were you doing? And noya explains that he was doing, block, follow, yeah, block follow, training, like he was learning how to pick up a ball after it gets blocked. And I have a note that he is just effortlessly badass because he says this and it's not like and that's something I love about noya is like he is so cool, but he doesn't really have an ego, like that's what, because tanaka and noya are very similar, but I think in that way, like tanaka is like, he's a lot more like puff chest puff he's putting on like a performance where Noya is just being.
rainbow:Noya. Yeah, noya is just cool and doesn't even realize how cool he is, because even later there's like that part where he's talking to Suga and he's like Suga, you've gotten really cool, and Suga's like wow, wow, that's a compliment coming from you, noya and noya's like why, why, yeah, and I just love that and yeah.
rainbow:And then, like tanaka is just very emotional this entire episode, I love it. He like wants to cry hearing about noya, learning the block follows, yeah. And then so the neighborhood team comes in and I made a note that we see yamaguchi interacting with one of the guys from the neighborhood association, like first guy that walks in, which that's in the anime but not in the manga, and I just thought that was very interesting. It's like a small moment. It's shimada, is it?
em:oh okay, I wasn't sure if it was the guy who ends up like teaching him the float serve. That's cool. They're putting that again. They always put the the stuff in early. They sow the seeds of the story yes, absolutely so.
rainbow:Yeah, and then we're just putting the neighborhood association team together because it's like very short notice. It's amazing he got any of them. Honestly, if somebody called me up right now and was like, hey, you have to come play a volleyball game with a bunch of high schoolers, I'd be like I'm gonna go get high and play video games.
em:Bye, bro no well, these men are dedicated.
rainbow:Yes, yes, they are, but they are missing a libero.
em:So noya goes with them and you can see noya's hesitance to even join the game. But I think because he's on the other team and it's not with his ex-boyfriend, then it's fine, he'll accept it and go well, and the way you guys like what's wrong with you?
rainbow:why aren't you playing? Are you injured or something? And daichi's trying to explain. He's like no, it's something different. It's like he doesn't know how to say it. I have a lot of headcanons. This is probably going to be one of the shippiest episodes we've done so far, because you just can't not with Asanoya.
em:Well, speaking of. I really want to know if there is fan art of like Karasuno and Nekoma as a ship, like the schools as a ship, because that's the rivalry baby. I want them to personify these schools and make it a ship.
rainbow:Yes, we were talking about this last night. It's the same thing. It's the same way I feel about the port mafia and the ada from bungo stray dogs, where it's like these two organizations I ship them together. Yes, I love it. So, yeah, if anybody knows of any fan art and yeah, we're not talking about the characters we're talking about like nekama, the school personified, and karasuno, the school personified, and then them like being rivals and just like glaring intensely at each other with like evil smirks on their faces I feel like that's like early haiku fandom, like that probably was created at some point.
rainbow:So if there are any elders out there, hit me up and if we ever say stuff like this and anyone gets inspired, to draw, oh, my please feel free to take our ideas and make them into art.
em:Yeah.
rainbow:Yeah, so we get Noya on the team. And then is it Suga next or is it Asahi next?
em:So it's Suga next, okay, and they're like we need a setter. And Suga starts to go. And Kageyama, who again is more volleyball love language of like Suga's like I won't you know, go easy on you. And Kami's like I won't either, and that's just such volleyball language of like I respect you and I love you. But another reason, I think, why Suga wants to go over there is because he wants that second chance to be with Noya and Asahi. So Asahi, when does he come in?
rainbow:I think it is Suga and then Asahi, because I think they have the Libero, they have the setter, and then I think you guys like okay, we still need one more player. And then Hinata notices that Asahi's outside. Yeah, and then he's like Asahi-san and Asahi's like you again.
em:And I will say I think you know Hinata's probably the most in the background he's ever been in this episode, but he's still such a little driving force behind all these pieces moving together because of just his pure light and love of the game. But, and then you guys like, hey, what do you? You know he doesn't know what's going on. So he just goes out there and he's like what are you doing? You're late, get in here. What are you? A wingspiker? Cool.
rainbow:Off. They've kind of smudged this team together, yeah, and I've seen this in a lot of like Haikyuu dub compilations on YouTube and it is fun because Ukai says chop, chop, man bun. It's very funny and I love it. And I did want to make a note, because we get to see Noya's shirt in this episode and they translate it for us because, you know, if you don't know already, noya is always wearing a shirt with some sort of quote on it, and this one says great talents mature late, and I thought that was interesting rip noya, you would have loved the target graphic t section oh man well, you know what what was it again?
rainbow:I was too busy thinking of that joke, wow I'm just being so real great talents mature late. Oh, that is appropriate. I thought that was interesting.
em:Yeah, so Suga Asahi, this throuple, is getting their second chance to work together after this like month long break. And is this when the flashback starts?
rainbow:We get a little bit more stuff before that. Oh no, I guess we do kind of. I guess this is kind of when we go into it because it's like we're we're like kind of starting the game and Asahi's just kind of there, yes, and he's like I'm not really like giving it my all and he's he's clearly like still like he's like on the court, actively processing his trauma from the last game he played in you, because again he's got, and they do, a lot of framing where they show Asahi, suga and Noya in the same shot, because this is really their episode. Like I feel like we talk about it as the Asanoya episode. But I kind of want to talk a little bit about Asa Suga, because Suga like kind of says you know, in that conversation he's having with kageyama about why he wants to play, he says like I was relieved when you showed up and became the official setter, because then I didn't have to worry about putting up tosses that would be blocked, like I didn't have to worry about putting up a ball that's going to be blocked when it gets spiked, and I like that we get to see how it's been weighing on suga, because like we kind of got hints of that in the last couple of episodes and Noe is so loud about his feelings about it, but, like, clearly it's been, like you know, it's really been eating away at Suga as well, and I think it's I have a note in here somewhere that this episode is really like we've been building towards this, not just with these characters, but also with, like, the idea of, like you know, players not being alone.
rainbow:That's a constant message we get in this show is that, like you are not on the court alone, like you have your team to back you up, which is so great I love. Like it's about community. But also, like you know, hinata has been getting these lessons over and over again of like there are no sets without, there are no spikes without sets, there are no sets without receives, and this is kind of a culmination of that, and so we're getting a setter, a receiver and a spiker, and this is them kind of overcoming that trauma of you know, like the setter kept putting up the ball for the spiker and the spiker kept getting blocked and then the receiver couldn't get the blocked ball, yeah, and so they kept losing and they were all too busy like just beating themselves up yeah, and they were focusing on what they did wrong.
rainbow:And you know, and like noya because he's noya is like well, I have to learn how to pick up blocked balls. And suga is like oh, he kind of like you know, he, in a similar way to asahi, is like well, maybe I just don't want to do this as much and like maybe it's okay. Like he, he's a lot more hesitant. You kind of see that at the beginning of the game, where he's like I, he's, he even says something about like oh, the neighborhood guys are really like accommodating me, and then also he just completely goes away, he completely takes himself out of the game. So he doesn't have to have those feelings again and he doesn't have to let his team down, because that's how they all feel.
rainbow:They all feel they let the team down which is just like poor karasuno, just didn't have enough strong players, like it really did all kind of fall on the three of them yeah, and they talk about it being asahi, and I think suga talks about there being a lot of guilt for, like, I kept putting the ball up for asahi, I kept relying on him and I think, from Noya's perspective, he's like well, yeah, that's the point of the ace and it, you know, and I think he even says it he's like it doesn't like you. You have to keep going for it, you have to keep trying, and he's like I have to be there to pick up the ball if you get blocked. Yeah, and you know. And so he says that he's like, he's like, he can't stand the Asi, he is giving up exactly that's what he's really mad about.
em:So, like in this flashback you see he's just getting blocked over and over. They're up against Daytech and if you know, you know that's a pretty hard one and yeah. So Noya's not mad at Asahi because he's fucking up these blocks, he's mad because he ends up like towards the very end of the game he gives up. He doesn't call for the toss, daichi takes it and they lose the set. But Noya's whole thing is like I'm out there doing my job, I'm saving the balls for you. That's what I need to do. You need to do the job of going for it. I don't care if you miss it, but you can't just like if I'm doing my job like you do yours, kind of thing.
em:This is a connection. We're all parts of a machine. I'm doing my part, you just keep doing yours, but Asahi's just like, but I'm failing the team, so I'm going to go ahead and give up. Let me just quick side note to like such a self-conscious, awkward, large person, I see myself in Asahi so much. I really was like sympathizing with him this episode, because I get that it probably there is a lot of pressure on the ace and to keep getting blocked probably is such a frustrating feeling and then you just feel like you're letting the team down.
rainbow:So I totally get where he was coming from, but giving up is letting down the team in a whole other way well and I think for him he felt like because he couldn't get the ball through the block, he felt like he was not being reliable, whereas noya is like no, you're not reliable if you're giving up, if you're refusing to try again and again, then we can't rely on you, then you're not the ace. And then, like, what's even the point of playing? And I do think it's interesting that, like you know, because Asahi then refuses to play, noya also refuses. He's like no, I'm not coming back until Asahi comes back. Refuses. He's like no, I'm not coming back until Asahi comes back. And I want to just take a moment and talk about do we think Asanoya are dating or were dating? Like let's get into the shipping aspect? Obviously this is fanon theories, these are headcanons, this is not like canon, but like using the canon as support, like if this is romantic, what do we think is going?
em:on. I mean I won't. I was thinking heavily about this last night, because I want to write an asanoya thread now. I don't think they were dating in any kind of traditional sense, at least in high school.
em:I feel like their coming together was very unlabeled and I think all I believe is that noya was the driving force behind like, if, like, he was the one to kiss asahi, like he was the one to kiss Asahi first, he's the one to do things first, and I could see Asahi like going along but also being a little scared about it. So I could, I would buy that going on in the background on top of the volleyball stuff. Because you watch this episode, folks, this, this argument that takes place, this is where the broken broom comes from, because they're shouting at each other in this equipment room and and that's how asahi like or one of them like backs up and steps on the broom and breaks it because noya has him like by the shirt and is like pushing him, and it's because in it's very clear that, like, noya is also upset with himself for not being able to get those balls.
em:Yeah yeah, so it. So it's just very dramatic. And then it's followed up with their fight in the hallway, which is even more emotional. Like Noya is holding back tears because now Asahi is not showing up to practices, which is scary, and especially if we're imagining that they're like dating in the background and now he's not coming to practice and to like to tell the vice president to shut up.
rainbow:like noya is just so focused on what's going on with asahi and like it is just like a little too intense where I'm like you guys have kissed behind the school a few times right, the emotions are just so heightened and like, again, you could read this as just being about the volleyball, but like this is a queer podcast and we read it as gay and so as like a gay thing, it's like, yeah, it feels like maybe they were just kind of beginning to do something. I actually have a headcanon about Asa Noya that I wanted to bring up here, because we see Noya wears an elbow pad because he's always like diving on the ground for the ball and Asahi is always only wearing one knee pad. And so I have a headcanon where Asahi noticed that Noya was always like going down on his arm and like needed an elbow pad and like maybe didn't have one, or maybe he did have one but it broke or something, and so Asahi took one of his knee pads home and like sewed it so that it would fit onto Noya's arm, and so I like to think that noya's elbow pad is actually one of asahi's knee pads, because that's just so cute and gay and that could maybe be like kind of the beginning of something. Like maybe like asahi did that for noya and then maybe they kissed and they just hadn't gotten a chance to define things and maybe noya was hoping that they could, and I think you could even like maybe to turn it a little bit more like tragic of maybe like Asahi like just like isn't. And maybe it doesn't even have to be about like Noya being like a boy and it about being gay or anything, but Asahi maybe is just like oh, I don't know if I'm like a good person to be in a relationship with.
rainbow:I could see like his like self-esteem and his like lack of confidence being like I'm just gonna let you down, noya. And maybe they had that conversation like at one point, like shortly before the game, and then so Asahi is just being like that's, it's reinforced for him through this volleyball game. And so then Noya's like how can you give up? And it's like he's giving up on the team, but like maybe he also feels like Asahi is giving up on them and maybe like not even he's not coming to practice and he's not talking to noya, and so there's just this extra gay level to it. And then also he comes back and then he finally wants, he calls for the ball yes, yes, I love that moment too.
em:We're like it's.
rainbow:I love it in the dub, I love it in the sub, I love it in the manga. I love that moment entirely, I think. Even before that moment, though, before he actually calls for the ball, he tells because I think they see the, the freak quick, they see Hina ta spike the ball oh yes, that's a great moment too, because Ukai sees it for the first time as well, and it's always fun to watch people realize what monsters they are and I love Takeda being excited about you guys seeing it.
rainbow:He's like this see, this is what I was talking about. See, watch them play. They're amazing, and he's just like he's like I'm you're. You're gonna get hooked just like I've gotten hooked.
rainbow:You're gonna believe in these boys like I do and then we're gonna kiss no, but also he like has. He says like he's like I want to go for the ball, I want to keep going for it, like I want to keep trying to get through the block. Yeah, and Noya is like that's all I needed. That's all I needed from you.
em:That's as easy as it was. He was like that, I'm fine.
rainbow:Yes, they make up on the court, on the court and everyone's there to see it, and I think Noya even says Just like, just please keep calling for the ball Ace.
em:Yep, just a lot of loud declarations, yeah, when Asahi is like kind of reflecting and like there's like a superimposed image of Suga and then Noya and like, oh, it's just so, volleyball, gay man.
rainbow:Well, and I think in the dub at least, there's a moment where they're having that fight in the club room and Noya goes to like he's trying to say something to Noya and he says Nishi, and then Noya like cuts him off and yells and I was like I don't know if we hear anybody else call Noya Nishi, but I would love it if that was a special nickname that Asahi used for Noya.
em:Oh, please, if he called him N nishi I just like that they are so opposites in every way and that noya just cares for asahi so much like I don't know.
rainbow:They're just very sweet, I do want to point out the moment we do see suga set for the neighborhood team and somebody says something like oh, suga is like such a good setter and daichi is so proud and happy. They even comment on how happy he is where he's like yeah, I mean, suga is our official setter and Daichi is so proud and happy. They even comment on how happy he is where he's like yeah, I mean, suga is our official setter and everything, and it's just like okay, go hype up your boyfriend. They're so dating, they're so in love. Tell me they're not dating.
em:It's a lie they are like Daichi is very, very proud of and quick to like, vocally support Suga like their little friendship. History will say they were friends. is very sweet in that way. I do enjoy and that will.
rainbow:That will continue to happen as the show goes on yeah, and I just want to say that this arc like this, I think maybe this particular episode, was when it really clicked for me just how gay this show was going to be. I was like, oh, it's not just Kagehina, everybody's about to be really gay yes, in this show, yeah, everyone has a little boyfriend.
rainbow:I said it in like the first episode and it's only going to continue to prove itself every time yeah, every new school has a set of boyfriends I think we can just kind of wrap up the episode a little bit, that's the end of the episode.
em:I will say too, like just a testimony to haikyuu of how fast these episodes always feel Like whenever we get to the middle little section of their, like the halfway break of the episode, I'm like already it's been two minutes, but no, it hasn't.
rainbow:For one thing, this episode really reinforces the trust between Ace and Libero. Yes, that we really see in Karasuno, but we don't always see in other teams, which I think is interesting. Also, we haven't talked enough about kageyama, because kageyama is also kind of background in this episode, less so than hinata because of his interactions with suga. But I think kageyama it's part of kageyama's intelligence, only being related to volleyball where, like his like, he wouldn't understand, like the you know what we were talking about like the gay romance stuff with asanoya. But he understands that asahi needs to keep trying and like, I think, because he knows he's like I think he's doing the calculations he's like, okay, we need asanoya on the team, we need the libero, we need the ace, and like what do they need to do to get over this volleyball trauma?
rainbow:Because kageyama himself understands, having gone through like a trauma in a game, and so he knows. And so he's telling he yells at Suga before Suga does his big like toss to the ace and before the Asahi Suga call. Kageyama is yelling at him and I mean, don't forget they're on separate teams. but Kageyama is telling Suga he's like you have to keep giving him the ball, keep giving him the ball until he gets it through. and like Suga seems to understand that and like this to me, reinforces my belief that Kageyama will be an amazing coach one day like 100% agree.
em:I had that thought too when I was watching it, because it is it's kind of surprisingly insightful of Kageyama and I think it does speak to that like all of his intelligence is in volleyball, because he does seem to clock what's happening and what they need to do and they need to keep being an actual challenge for Asahi, Because if they go easy on him it won't really count. Like Asahi has to feel like he got through that block and earned it and like that they're kind of back to a good place as a team.
rainbow:Well, suki even says to Kagayama he's like well, you hyped him up, but he's like I'm still going to block him and Kageyama's block him. And kageyama's like well, of course it doesn't matter if it's not a challenge. Yes, and I just love that and yeah, I I just. Meanwhile tanaka is crying the entire time. Tanaka is just like tears in his eyes and like it was funny because, like when he first, when they first went to block asahi, did we talk about that moment how asahi does go to spike the ball but it gets blocked by kageyama tsukishima and tanaka. And tanaka is like afraid of the fact that he has to block asahi. I think he feels bad about it and I think he's worried about re-traumatizing him and so, but asahi does get blocked but then noya is there to save it. He saves it with like a pancake dive, he saves it with, like his hand. It's, I think one of the it's probably the second of noya's super cool saves that we get to see, his heroic moments and you know, and it and that's part of reinforcing, you know, the lesson that asahi learns by the very end of this episode, that like I am not alone on this court. Yeah, and so I love it. And asahi is cool in his own way, yeah, oh yeah, and he and that's the thing is because noya is just always effortlessly cool and asahi most of the time is a big wimp, but every once in a while he has these kind of cool moments and I love that.
rainbow:I have just a couple of things for sub versus dub. Asahi's dub voice is very interesting to me because it kind of sounds. He sounds like I don't know, I don't really know how to say it he just sounds like like a troublemaker. Yeah, he kind of sounds like he should be a troublemaker. That's, that's what it is, and I think that, which I think matches his looks and kind of like the way they like handle his character, in which he looks and sounds like he should be like stealing money from people on the streets, right, but that's not who he is. It's just like because he's so tall and his voice is so deep and also just the way he he talks is like he kind of like he. You know he, just he sounds, yeah, he sounds like a tough, like a street tough.
em:That's okay. Well, now I have to go listen, because I was. I was just saying to Rainbow like I don't remember what his dub voice sounds like, so I can't. She was trying to find the words to describe but and I was like I don't know. So I gotta listen to that. But let us know if you agree with that, because now I'm interested.
rainbow:Yeah, I also want to mention so that when Ukai first is introduced to the team as their coach, they're like oh, you're the guy from the sakinoshita store. And like hinata in in the manga and in the sub, he's like oh, shouldn't your name be is, wouldn't your name be sakinoshita, since that that's your store? And Ukai says like oh, no, it's. You know, that's the store's named for my mother's side of the family, but in the dub hinata's like hey, shouldn't the store be named ukai, like it just comes off like ruder to me, like he's being a little bit more rude about it and I wonder if that's like a cultural thing, like in Japan, like you don't really talk to, like like your senpai, like that you wouldn't talk to an adult, like that as a teenager, but like, because the dub is like Western and very more like American, it's like they you know they were able to kind of they tweaked it like that, like it. Just, it felt very different those two lines.
em:I just I already talked about this last episode but especially because of all the fighting and the yelling, like the Bakugo of Noya really jumps out and I enjoy that.
rainbow:Yes, that's a little wink wink to all my fellow Bakugo lovers out there. I have a couple of things for manga versus anime. I did like screenshots of some of my favorite panels, especially the ones that I felt were super gay, and I think I'm going to include those in a thread when I do like the episode tweet just so you can kind of see the moments that I'm talking about. But I also wanted to say and we don't see this in the anime but in the manga we see like a flashback of Ukai thinking about how Hinata wants to be the little giant and how the little giant we see a panel of him like talking to the libero and we see that the libero is wearing the number four. So it seems like that is like a tradition in karasuno, that the libero always wears the number four, which is a number that's usually reserved for the ace, and I was kind of looking it up online and there were some people on like reddit who had some ideas about it.
rainbow:But I want to give my read and I think that the ace is the person who, at the end of the day, is supposed to carry their team on their back when the going gets rough and I think for a lot of teams that ends up being the ace, because they're, like, the offensive one, they're the ones that can break through the block, and I think also he does, you know he fits that role in a lot of cases.
rainbow:But I think, because Karasuno is so focused on offense and they like put a lot of emphasis on their offensive players, and you know, and we see later, like there's often times where it's like all of the spikers are going for it at once and so I think often when Noya is on the court, kind of everything else gets like the whole defense gets left up to Noya and he ends up being the one who has to carry the team and he ends up having to be the one to like make the save. So I just thought that was interesting and just part of like my continuing like thinking about like what, what does being the ace mean?
rainbow:in haikyuu, yeah, but that's all I have for manga versus anime and we can do our character spotlight now. If you're ready, yes, let's do it. Okay, so we are doing, azumane asahi, which we almost never hear. His surname, which is something interesting. A lot of the characters we use their last names, but not asahi.
rainbow:He is, and I think maybe that's part of him just being more like. Maybe that's what I mean with his, his dub voice. It feels more like he's more relaxed, he's more informal with his speech. That's what I was trying to say, and so I I think that's kind of part of like why everybody uses his first name, like he's just more. It's just more relaxed, more informal, and maybe he thinks part of him thinks he doesn't deserve the same amount of respect that other characters get. So, yeah, and I don't have. I have a small quote from the wiki about his personality that I liked and so quote Asahi is said to have a glass heart, taking everything that is said about him to heart and becoming depressed because of it at times.
em:He's a sensitive boy.
rainbow:He's a sensy boy and we love him. Daichi does not. You know what? Daichi loves him in his own way. It's a tough love.
rainbow:Yes, it is very much like dad tough love, dynamic between those two, and so I did want to do a quick name breakdown, and this is not from Reddit, I got this from a sub stack which is called Nihon Narrative, and for those of you who don't know, nihon is how you say Japan in Japanese. And so Azumane is, and I think I'm pronouncing that right. I could be wrong, but his family name Azumane translates to Eastern Peak, and his given name, asahi, is rising sun or morning sun, wasn't Noya? Western Valley, yes, and evening, his name translates to Western Valley and evening. So they, their names, ship them together on their own. Like they, their names are the ones like, like, it's like a kagehina level of like, oh, you two belong together.
rainbow:And it makes sense also, like, because asahi is like the wing spiker, he fights in the air, and that's something that gets talked about in a lot of this. So he's the eastern peak, and then noya, western valley, because he's digging, he has to go down low to save the ball, and it's, yeah, it's amazing, em is like covering her mouth, she's, she's, I'm just, I can't believe it. I can't believe. I can't believe how gay these boys are, yeah. And then I have his character sheet, which is fun, and so he's in class three, three. So middle of the road. Not an idiot, but not a smarty pants. I relate to him once again. his position is wing spiker.
rainbow:He is six foot and I think that's something he never mentioned in the last episode. Well, he's not like as tall as tsukishima, but he's bigger, like he's just wider. He's a third year, as we know. His birthday is january 1st. I thought that was interesting. He's a new year's baby. His favorite food is tonkatsu ramen. Yeah, that m loves tonkatsu ramen, so this is perfect, and then his current worry is an entire paragraph that I have to read for you of course it fucking is well, there's how people don't believe me when I say I'm still in high school and for some reason lots of first year students seem afraid of me.
rainbow:Then there's how the girls in my class are all disappointed in me because they say despite my looks I'm kind of a wuss. I still don't really know what I want to do after high school. The team captain is really scary when he's mad too, etc. Etc.
em:Poor Asa. He just has no riz, Like he's got the whole outer package, but inside he's just a scared little boy.
rainbow:But that's why noya is perfect for him, because noya has all the riz in the world yeah, and then his ability parameters his speed is a two, okay, his technique intelligence, stamina and jumping are all threes and his power is a five okay.
em:So he's a pretty middle of the road boy, but he's a big strong one. Yes, yeah, he's a big strong boy you're a big, strong, average boy.
rainbow:Yes, okay, and then yeah. So I think that's it for Asahi. I love him, I'm excited to talk more about him and I'm excited to talk about because we see it a little bit in this one, but I think we see it more in later episodes talking about the way that Hinata inspires Asahi, specifically because Hinata inspires really like every character in the show, every major character in the show in some way. But I think the way he inspires asahi is interesting, especially because hinata is so clearly inspired by him as the ace inspires him, kind of like challenges him yes, like challenges him too also he really acknowledges him as like a rival.
em:You know, he's like I'm not gonna be beat by the shrimp. Oh yes, you are, it's fine but we love it all right, okay. Moving on, okay. So now it's time for who in haikyuu, our favorite scenarios, this one is brought to us by our baby, So so on twitter hi hina baby, we love you. and this one is which disney princess the boy would be is that what I'm getting, okay?
em:and side note keep boycotting disney, but we are going to talk about disney princesses yeah, and we're going to link to the bds boycott list in the show notes because, that's where the disney boycott is coming from, and you can learn more about it on there.
rainbow:yeah, don't be spending money on disney. If you can, there's other ways \to get entertainment. Your local library probably has a lot of Disney movies available on DVD.
em:Okay, so for this round of who and Haikyuu, which Disney princess would they be? We're talking about Hinata, kageyama, noya, asahi, suga, ukai, takeda Daichi and Tanaka. So, starting off with Hinata, what Disney princess is he?
rainbow:Thinking specifically of, like Disney movies he's giving Rapunzel or Anna.
rainbow:I definitely believe either of those, actually, but Rapunzel was my first thought as well, just the spunkiest one that you can think of, the one with the most like I'm gonna do this, yeah honestly, I think, his is one of the rare times where I think like it doesn't work as a Kagehina AU, but I could see like a Atsuhina Rapunzel AU with like a tangled AU, specifically bringing up a character we have not talked about yet. But if you don't know who he exists, I don't know how you've managed to be in the Haikyuu fandom this long. But yeah, no, I totally see that.
em:Okay, I can go with that Kageyama hard one. Elsa, elsa. Oh okay, I would buy elsa. I was kind of leaning towards like maybe he's more like one of the classic, like oldies ones, like a cinderella or like just like a simpler, elegant one I was thinking, yeah, like maybe I.
rainbow:My first thought was sleeping beauty like aurora yeah a little bit. Put that boy to sleep. Yeah, put that boy to sleep.
em:He's nothing but good looks, I'm just.
rainbow:I'm mainly thinking of just like how. I'm just thinking about like, just how he's all like moody and stuff. That's what's giving me the Elsa vibes.
em:That's true, yeah no, I like Elsa, give him some ice powers. He'd look good as an ice power person. I mean, he's got the the eyes for it. Yeah, exactly okay, so that's pretty good. Noya is merida. I feel you're absolutely correct. Yes, yeah, because if you'd have a chance to change his fight, he would sorry. That was so bad, and I'm scottish too. How dare you, any anyone else for noya not, maybe moana potentially yeah, yeah, because the the want to travel yes, yes, absolutely all right.
em:And then sad boy, asahi, asahi I feel like he'd be like a sleeping beauty or like a cinderella, no, a snow white.
rainbow:He would be a snow white because of when she's running through the forest and is scared of everything oh my, my god, snow White and Huntsman Asanoi, au, and also he's like giant compared to almost everyone else, so it's like Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Everyone else is shorter than him.
em:Oh my god, yeah, I can get with that Suga.
rainbow:Suga is Anna. I think, okay, suga's giving Anna, she's giving, he's giving Anna, she's giving, he's giving. Yeah, I feel like Anna fits for Suga the most.
em:Okay, I can get down with that, mostly because I can't think of anybody else. Suddenly, I haven't remembered a single Disney princess in my life.
rainbow:I know we should have posted the picture of all of them together.
em:You guys not giving me any Disney princess.
rainbow:He gives me more Disney prince. He gives me more like disney prince. He gives me more like. He gives me like the beast from beauty and the beast, or maybe a little bit of flynn rider from tangled as well. Yeah, although not if hinata is rapunzel, because that doesn't work.
em:No, no, that's separate universes. Yeah, takeda, who would takeda be we're talking about?
rainbow:takeda is maybe like giving me like tiana from princess and the frog okay like works really hard and like has like a desire, yeah, to like do something. You know not getting into the all of the problems with princess and the frog- as a movie, yeah daichi. Daichi also gives me prince more than princess. Daichi's just so masculine that it's kind of hard which we should have. A masculine Disney princess.
rainbow:I want a Disney princess with short hair who is more masc than femme, but Disney could never, because they're too heteronormative. They really are. Who's Daichi giving us, though? Daichi's giving like the like prince from Cinderellainderella, but like the live action one where you actually got to like where he spoke, where he yeah, where he said words, sure I'll go with that.
em:Oh, tonico, I think I know why I'm making this connection, but I want to give him jane from tarzan, which I think that's disney that's disney. Yeah, I mean she's not like technically like a princess, but I she she fits I'm Well, it's mostly because of that panel when he's eating a banana and Kyoko's like Tanaka looks good with a banana. And then I saw, I just thought banana monkey, tarzan, jane, that was my train of thought Sure. Sure that works.
rainbow:Tanaka gives me like the animal sidekick, oh my.
em:God, yeah, god, more than anything. Yeah, he's fucking. What's his face? He's a snowman, he's Olaf. Yeah, there you go. Can you tell him that?
rainbow:a Disney person yeah, im watched Frozen for the first time like a couple months ago. It was good yeah all right, yeah, but yeah, let us know what you think. Who in haiku disney princesses and keep boycotting yeah that.
em:So thank you again and keep giving us who in haiku u scenarios, because they're fun. We like to do them. And before we get into the spoiler zone, as usual, I'm just going to shout out our socials real quick so you can know how to hit us up. we are on twitter, instagram, tumblr, tumblr and Blue Sky. Will Blue Sky ever be relevant? I don't know, but we're there All under FlyHQPod. That's F-L-Y-H-Q-P-O-D, and you can also email us. We'd love to get a good email. Flyhqpod at gmail dot com.
rainbow:That being said, I want you to come into the deep end of the spoiler zone.
em:Spoilers and I don't think I have anything for spoilers on, but I see a note from you. I have a note I also.
rainbow:You know we briefly talked about shimada and yamaguchi meeting and we didn't. I you know, I didn't want to get too deep into that up top, but you know that is the relationship will be important later on yeah, I and it's.
rainbow:It's unique in that way because, off, like, there's very few relationships between, like, the high schoolers and like the like, you know, older, like 20 something year olds, and I like the like mentor relationship, I like the senpai kohei relationship that they end up having, and I thought it was so interesting the way the anime was like really foreshadowing that, yeah, in that moment where it's like they, you know, everybody has their moment for sure.
em:And yeah, I think their relationship is another good example of the theme of, like senpais and then also just like adults, investing in the younger generation and helping them out and how that makes such a difference.
rainbow:Yes, absolutely and then the only other thing I had, it's a small moment, but tsukishima, when all the neighborhood association guys come in, tsuki says he was imagining a bunch of old men and I thought that was interesting because he he ends up practicing with his brother's like neighborhood team in during like the summer training camp arc and there is an older guy on that team and like that's the guy who like is kind of like the main like yeah he's like, he's the one who's really like rousing Suki and riling him up, and so I just thought that was an interesting moment.
rainbow:It's like was that purposeful? Am I just making a connection that like is is only, can only be made after you have seen the rest of it?
em:but I just I thought that was interesting and I wanted to highlight it I do think your headcanon that you spoke about earlier is spoiler zone material with him sewing the elbow pad, because that makes a lot more sense. If you know the time, skip information that I say he becomes a fucking fashion designer, of all things which I love and like that's so interesting, because where does that come from?
rainbow:there's definitely no hints of that. Yeah, that's just kind of like. Yeah, and I would love to know more about like why maybe, and maybe that was just because, like, fashion designers do have the ability to like travel a lot more than certain other careers. So it fits in with, like Noya and Asahi being able to travel, because clearly, fugardate was like well, they are soulmates and they're going to spend the rest of their lives together also, but I also think it speaks to like how much volleyball is the focus of Haikyuu and like we really get no, there are no filler episodes in this show.
em:We really don't learn about the characters outside of volleyball, which is like fine, it's still a really tight, good story.
rainbow:But I think I think some of us super fans can like wish for more, like we want to know more about them well, I'd love to see, because I guess we get to see like we don't often see them in their street clothes, like we see them in their school uniforms, we see them in their practice gear and we see them in their official jerseys, in their official uniforms, but we really don't get to see them very much wearing just like regular clothes, and the only time I can really think of it is when we get to see the third years going to the shrine visit in like season four before they had to nationals, but even then they're all like bundled up, and so maybe I'll try to pay it like close attention to what asahi's wearing.
rainbow:Yeah, and like maybe you know, maybe there is like conversations we're not seeing because it's not about volleyball, where maybe Asahi is like giving advice to like the other guys about fashion, like maybe he's, maybe he's designing like sports gear. I think that happens in a lot of fics where it's like oh, yeah, like the you know we need to like design new uniforms and like oh, it ends up being Asahi. I always want to like add Asahi in as like a fashion designer in my fix. I always like I also know it needs to be in more fix.
em:They're just slept on, you know, and I think it's because, like, they have these really intense episodes, but then, yeah, they do kind of we don't get a lot more like intense storyline about those two. We kind of we have their moment and then there's a whole lot more show that happens. So they do kind of get they kind of like just slip through the cracks, which I don't think is anything against them. I think they're a really good ship, but there's just. There's just an oversaturation.
rainbow:Yeah, there's just so many, so many out there, and I think and part of it could just be because asanoya is so clearly canon yeah, it's just like all right, well, yeah we're done here. Yeah, we all know what's happening, for sure yeah, okay, so that is the end of episode nine. do we have anything else we need to talk about before we sign off?
em:I just wanted to say and you know what you know, I could have said this earlier, but this is just for the cool kids who stuck around to the end, that volleyball, like you know how, in movies sometimes like if a movie is set in like new york city, they'll be like the city was a character on its own. Volleyball is a character in haikyuu, like the way they talk about volleyball, like and like with daichi's line of like, if you still like ball, like volleyball just feels like this, it's its own character I think, yeah, in in any canon compliant ship that I ever want to write, the main ship is always kind of hina ta slash volleyball and kageyama.
rainbow:Slash volleyball and then Kagehina.
em:Kagehina is actually a throuple with volleyball. That, yeah, it's.
rainbow:Kagehina, it's, it's volleyball. Kagehina, yeah, all together, and they love each other. I have a headcanon that they do sleep with a volleyball in their bed.
em:Yes, which it's?
rainbow:actually canon that both of them separately sleep with a volleyball in their bed and so I think together they have a volleyball, just like sitting up, like on their headboard or something.
em:I would definitely buy that. So like, in the same way that I was saying, personify Karasuno and Nekoma and ship them together. I want someone to personify Haikyuu, the volleyball.
rainbow:Yes, haikyuu, I mean, come on, I've definitely seen people probably jokingly ship like the two different kinds of volleyball together. Oh yeah, Because there's like the yeah, the brands, because there's like the yellow and blue one, and then there's the white, green and Red.
em:Red one.
rainbow:Yeah, and so like we kind of ship those two together, yeah, come on.
em:There's nothing that can't be shipped, not in this house. All right, so next episode is 10. We're gonna keep going, we're gonna. We're gonna meet some new people soon.
rainbow:we're very excited yeah, well, we're gonna, we're gonna finish out this game. And then episode 11 is when things are really gonna be again off to the races. Oh, just this whole chunk of episodes is so good. I really love this like I think I want to say like like 6 through like 13 are just fantastic. Until next time, fly high.