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You asked, we answered. It's the Q&A epsiode!!
This week, rainbow and em talk about their experiences with Haikyuu, how they got together, and a variety of other topics based on listener questions.
1:02:12 - 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 Care for Gaza
Hello everyone and welcome to Fly A Queer Haikyuu Podcast. I'm Rainbow and [I'm Em] and today we're going to be doing something a little bit different. It's the Q&A episode. Woohoo, you ask questions, we're going to answer them.
em:Yeah, and don't worry, we will be back to our regularly scheduled programming next week with episode 14. We just felt this was a really good place to kind of do our Q&A. We just finished the Nekoma game and we're going to jump into our first. What is it? The Interhigh Tournament. The Interhigh Tournament. So we're going to take a little break.
rainbow:We're going to chat about us, because we're self-centered we're also gonna talk about a haikyuu, another anime, but yeah, we're also gonna talk a lot about us, so sit down, grab a coffee, grab a snack and get comfortable all righty? Are we ready to just jump right into these questions?
em:yeah, we're just gonna. This is the q a episode. We're just gonna question and answer. So you want to start us off with our first question?
rainbow:Yeah, and so our first handful of questions come from Daisy, our Daisy baby in the. Twitter family and her first question is how did we find Haikyuu?
em:Well, for me personally, I think I got into this in episode zero, but it was, I mean, I can trace it back to the pandemic, getting on TikTok. And then, in 2020, anime audios were everywhere and they initially they finally like intrigued me enough to try out anime. I really wasn't an anime girly up until then at all and I started off with Kake Guru and then Beastars and like I'd seen edits of Haikyuu on TikTok and I knew I wanted to watch it and I knew I was going to ship the redhead with that tall black haired character and then, by the summer of 2021, I think I started watching it and I loved it immediately.
rainbow:Yeah, for me. So I have a very distinct memory of watching the first, I want to say, two episodes of Haikyuu, because I was helping out a friend, and I may have committed a crime in helping this friend we won't go into details about that, but so and this friend had to like be at my house, and we, we were watching a few things and you know she knew I liked anime. And she was like, oh, do you want to watch this volleyball anime? And I was like, yeah, sure, and I think I talked about this on episode zero, where I watched the first two episodes, and then I was mad because I felt like I was being queer baited, because within the first 10 minutes of episode one, I was like they want to kiss, right, talking about Kagehina. I was like they clearly want to kiss each other and I she was like, oh my gosh, yes, that's what the entire fandom thinks.
rainbow:I was like, but do? But do they ever kiss? And she was like no, I don't think they ever kiss in canon. And I was like this is bullshit. And so I just kind of didn't get back to it until I was hanging out with that friend again a few months later and she was like, oh, did you ever watch more of Haikyuu? And I was like, oh, no, I didn't. And that was probably around a similar time as you. I think spring of 2021 was when I watched the first episode, and then the summer of 2021 is when I got really into it our paths really, parallel each other for a haiku and then bring us together.
rainbow:We're so kagehina coded.
em:Next question yes, what moment was the? That's my anime moment that's hard for me.
rainbow:I remember like the episode, the moment that really got me hooked into the show I want to say was the like I'm here moment where I was like, oh my gosh, these two are soulmates. But where? When did I think it was like that's my anime. I don't know if there was like a single moment. I think it was like that's my anime. I don't know if there was like a single moment, I think it was just. I think I probably had like any of like the big moments where I like found myself standing up and like cheering or screaming. I was like, oh my God, this is amazing. Like the show just like hooks me and in so many ways. I don't know if I have one moment, but I know you do.
em:I do have a very specific moment because when I was watching season one I was kind of like three-fourths paying attention, like I got through it and I liked it.
em:But sometimes for me too, like with a new show, it takes me a minute and I liked it and everything. But it wasn't until season two, episode one, the episode where Kagehina follow Japan Ushijima to his school and then when Hinata grabs the ball from him and Kageyama is looking at him with this like proud, creepy little smirk. But I just loved everything about that moment. I loved Hinata's balls, I love that Ushijima was gagged and my favorite thing was like the pride in Kageyama's face and like because they're such like, especially by the beginning of season two, their their friendship is really like established, I think, and like I just love where they're at, because they're such like, especially by the beginning of season two, their their friendship is really like established, I think, and like I just love where they're at, like they're such little monster partners, so that I just like I rewatched that moment so many embarrassing amount of times.
rainbow:And that was really. You made a TikTok edit to it right, I definitely did a TikTok edit.
em:That TikTok is now dead and buried, but I made I used to make a lot of Haikyuu edits and that was definitely one of them, but that was definitely the moment where I was like I am locked in chat, let's go yeah.
rainbow:Okay, cool, and these are still questions from Daisy. So third question would you tattoo anything from Haikyuu?
em:Absolutely, I haven't yet I got a few tattoos and then it's been a long time since I've gotten one. But I have some pictures saved and I'll probably do. I like more like subtle ones, so I want to do something with. I've seen ones of like the cat and the crow playing together, so that's.
rainbow:I would probably do something within that vein. Yeah, I don't currently have any Haikyuu tattoos. I do have seven tattoos. I love them. I actually have been kind of getting the itch to get a new one lately, so we'll see if I can afford that. [tattoos are just so disposable income] but they're so worth it but yeah, I think I guess if I were going to get a tattoo, I would probably also go with something like more symbolic.
rainbow:Like I would probably do something, maybe something with crows, maybe something with like that like light and shadow thing, maybe like a yin and yang type thing, I don't know. I it with me. When it comes to tattoos, I generally have like a vague idea of what I want, and then I find an artist who I think will give me what I want, and then I really like it to be a collaborative process between myself and the artist.
rainbow:Like I probably wouldn't get like a manga panel yeah because that's just not really my style, but I I do want to get a haikyuu tattoo one day.
em:It feels like I I need to at some point, especially because haikyuu has been so influential in our lives, I like, like I kind of got some random tattoos that I don't believe in regretting I did it already but like haikyuu is, is, I think, influential enough and symbolic enough that it warrants a tattoo for us all right.
rainbow:Next question.
em:Next question is and this also was asked by Miko why did you start a podcast slash? Why did you start your twitter?
rainbow:yeah, so I'll, I'll hand you the twitter. The twitter one first, which is I was just trying to find community. Yeah, I actually had another twitter that is now deactivated that I was kind of at first going through and like kind of liking haikyuu stuff with and then, but then I just like I felt like I wasn't like it had like my name and my picture and everything on there and I I was noticing that a lot of people were more like anonymous on anime twitter and I felt like there was some freedom in that where I could just be like a weird little freak and nobody had to know it was me.
rainbow:not that like I'm ashamed of anything that I've said or done on Twitter, but just it just feels like it's more freeing, I think, and so I made my anime Twitter. It also, I think, coincided with me writing fic. I think that was probably another big thing was like, well, if I'm gonna have fic, I want to put it out there on Twitter, but I don't necessarily want my full name and face out there with it, just because you know it's. People are fucking weird about shit people are crazy.
rainbow:They'll, they'll, dox you, yeah, and then you yeah, so why don't you handle the Twitter one, and then we can talk about the podcast?
em:and yeah, and for me it was like I just had so many headcanons and things I wanted to say and I started out my anime fandom journey on TikTok and that really wasn't it. It was a lot of like teenagers and bad takes and like also. It's just not the best forum for like if I just want to write out my headcanons. So I'm through TikTok, though I did see that there was a presence on Twitter, so I made a anime Twitter for that and it went way bigger than I ever thought it would yeah, literally now we're here yeah.
rainbow:I think we each have over a thousand followers which is not like a huge flex, but is never what I thought I would get well, exactly for people who were not trying whatsoever, it's.
em:It feels good that, like, people are attracted to what you're saying and who you are and stuff. So that's it, that's been a fun journey. And then for the podcast, that's really been more rainbow, yes, rainbow has always wanted to start a twitter.
rainbow:Why do I keep talking about myself in third person? no, but I, yeah. So I started listening to podcasts, probably around the like, maybe like a year or two before I started watching Haikyuu. I started off with my Favorite Murder. I'm not like a huge true crime podcast person, but I like the comedy aspect and I like the like you know, girls just telling stories to each other. And then the next podcast I listened to was about Gilmore Girls and they were going episode by episode and that was really I think I was listening to that when I was getting into Haikyuu and I was like, oh, my god, I wish I could talk about Haikyuu episode by episode on a podcast, like these guys are.
rainbow:And so it was always something I had like an idea that I wanted to do, but I wasn't really sure how to do it. I wasn't sure. Like I had ideas for like what I would do for an outline and stuff, but like the technology aspect of it I wasn't like sure about. I was really, not very confident and I didn't have the equipment. And you know, em and I talked about it like I kind of at first it was just like, oh, this is a dream I have. And then we kind of talked about it a little bit more seriously of like, yeah, let's really do this. And then for Christmas Em this past Christmas Em got mics and headsets for us and just like she really started the ball rolling, and you know. Now here we are and it's just no regrets. I love this. I love podcasting. I want to make podcasts for the rest of my life now and I'm so glad that we're starting with Haikyuu yeah, like for my side, I really I don't have the attention span for podcasts.
em:I've dabbled here and there, but it's definitely Rainbow's thing. But talking about it like doing an episode by episode haiku recap was a no-brainer for me, like that's something that I had I could definitely talk about and it just like made sense for us to do that. And then, yeah, it really is kind of a perfect marriage because you have the podcast know-how, you're good at all like the social media, like I call you the front of house and I'm the back of house and and then I have just enough tech know-how and equipment that we were able to make this work and it's been great. And, thank God, we have like a year and a half of solid content to get through before we have to figure out what we're going to do next.
rainbow:Yeah, we have a. Yeah, we have a lot to get through, but yeah, that's how.
em:That's how we came to be.
rainbow:Yeah, it's really exciting and you know, I would love to do a podcast on other TV shows, like movies, lots of different stuff. I love them. So, who knows, you know, maybe that will be in my future, but for right now I'm so happy just talking about Haikyuu. So much, okay. So I think we're on to the next question. This is again still from Daisy. So who is your favorite character in Haikyuu and why is it Kageyama JK?
em:It is, though, for me, and it is Kageyama, and it's because Kageyama, I mean, I always tend to like the deuteragonist. I always like the moody you know like maybe kind of has a prickly outside, but like there's more under the surface And's kageyama. I like his character design, I just like everything about him, and I like his relationship with hinata, and I think I can relate to his social awkwardness and stuff like that. So he's just my baby and I'll fight anybody for him.
rainbow:M loves an angry gay. Yeah, I'm like I feel like going into every anime we're about to watch if I've already watched it. I'm like I can't wait to see what she thinks of this angry gay character and surprise, surprise, that's her favorite. I'm going to show her Naruto soon and I'm really excited to see what she thinks of Sasuke. Yeah, who I feel like is like the like initial template for all the other angry gays. I believe it. Actually, there's probably a template in like dragon ball z or something. my favorite character in haikyuu. So I'm really bad at picking just one favorite of anything. Really, there's very few things where I can say this is my absolute favorite, so I'm gonna give like a top three favorite characters. Go ahead. hinata, of course I love him. I'm gonna throw yachi in there because I love yachi so much I, yeah, I just I.
rainbow:I can't wait till we get to season two. We get to talk about her and then tendo. Tendo is another one of my favorites. Yachi and tendo are two characters where they showed up and I was like, well, yachi's a little bit different. We'll talk about that when we get to yachi, because I I had some fears when yachi showed up and then they were quickly, quickly put to bed. Thank you for Udate, but Tendo I was like not prepared for Tendo in season three and as soon as he showed up I was like who is this? Also, shout out to Noya, because you know I love Noya.
em:We do love Noya. We're such opposites in these ways. I mean, I love Hinata, but Yashi, I also was like like I didn't love her at first because I thought her like anxiety was over the fucking top and it was gonna be like just kind of a very 2d girl and it's more than that. So I feel you on that. But Tendo, I was so put off the first time I was like I don't like him. Stop showing him to me. He freaks me out and it's just one of those characters that I think you grow to love, but for me I was very uncomfortable, like why does he exist?
rainbow:get him out of here. He exists because Frujate has a horror background and he needed a character who is a terrifying person. Yeah, I, yeah, I.
em:I'm very excited for season three, last question from Daisy which which trait slash skill from Haikyuu would you like to have?
rainbow:god, there's so many. So I mean, I'm not gonna lie like I I wish I could do an overhand serve or a jump serve, if we're talking volleyball skill, but then as far as, because there's lots of other like traits and skills that you know I think we had a conversation about this recently where it's like you know they, they have traits and skills that, like they apply to volleyball but that they could apply to other things, yeah, as well. And I would say, like I would say, like Hinata and Kageyama, they're like determination and their dedication, like sometimes I wish I had that.
rainbow:I have ADHD, so it is like hard for me to really stick with one thing like all the time. I would say writing is probably the only thing I've like stuck with and even then I feel like I rest a little bit on like natural talent and I'm not always like challenging myself and pushing myself with that the way that they are. So I think like I kind of wish I had that drive, but that also seems exhausting. Yeah, so I maybe I wish I had that drive to apply to like writing specifically. but it I don't need to apply that to everything in my life it would be.
em:I mean, it's an anime, so like to apply to real life would definitely be different. yeah, if I had to pick a volleyball skill I'd want to be good at at like being a libero, like digging. I want to do cool saves. I'm already good at that, so that's okay, I'll meet you on the beach, bitch. And then like yeah, a similar answer. I mean I really like Hinata's attitude towards challenges, that he gets excited about them because he wants to do better. So, yeah, I kind of wish I had his attitude toward things. I also wish I had his social skills, like his genuineness and his ease of like connecting to people Very cool.
rainbow:Okay, so that's it for daisy's questions. We have one question from so so hi hina baby. And so this question is how has being a haikyuu fan changed for you through the years? Like, how was it when you started and how does it feel now?
em:it owned my mind. It lived rent free in my head to the point where I had to make TikToks and Twitters about it and like that was two years ago now, and so I would say like the intensity of it has greatly calmed down. I mean, I really don't read fic on a regular basis whatsoever. I don't interact with the fandom the same amount that I used to Like where I'm at with the podcast is where I like it. Like this is good, I enjoy doing this. It's like it's just settled in. Basically, like I will always love Haikyuu. It will always be in like the hall of fame. For my personal hall of fame of fandoms that have really, like, changed my life, there's not many, but Haikyuu is definitely the biggest one.
rainbow:But yeah, I would just say the overall intensity has died down, but the love of it has not gone anywhere yeah, I would say for me, like when I was first watching haikyuu and reading the manga you know, for probably that like year, when I was like starting my haikyuu twitter, all of that it was like my entire brain was taken over by haikyuu. There was just this like orange haze over my mind, but now it feels like there's just like a part of my brain that just is haiku, like it is still there. It's just not like at the forefront, but to the point where, like you know, like I'll like watch something you know, and I'll be like, oh, that's very like kagehina or that's very boko aka, or I'll like see something and I'm like, oh, hinata would love this.
rainbow:You know, it's kind of like they're, it's like they're like old friends. Yeah, you know that like they, you know, and every time I go back to it it's it's like I never left.
em:Well, because I knew haikyuu, I have been changed for good.
rainbow:Yes, yes, haikyuu is everything. Everything is haikyuu, but yeah, so, like I still love it and I do occasionally still like read fic, I like to go back to my old fics that I liked, but it's just, it's no longer like the thing I'm like always like talking about and thinking about. But I do love having this podcast and this ability to like get this deeper analysis, because I feel like I have like always done like an analysis of it and I've done rewatches, but this is really fun getting to really dig in and pick it apart. Like I feel like we're fully dissecting it and and that's really enjoyable. And I think it'll be interesting to see, like when we get to the end of this podcast, when we get through all of the content that's available you know, hopefully a second movie included it'll be interesting to see how we feel about Haikyuu, yeah, and, and how, how we, how we view it. I think it'll always be like an old friend. Yes, absolutely all right. So now we have two questions from nico, what is your favorite haiku episode?
em:and we want to do one that for an episode we've covered already in the podcast and one for spoiler zone.
rainbow:Yes a favorite haiku episode? Of the ones 1 through 13 that we've watched so far? The first one, I was gonna say. I think we both have the same answer. The first one, a runner-up for me would probably be, yeah, no, episode one. I can't even think of another one that comes close to my love, and we will talk about more when we get to the spoiler zone. All right, so the next question from Nico is our top three haikyuu fics.
rainbow:I love quite a few fics. There's many that I will reread. I would say one of my top ones is it's from esselle and it's and the Oscar goes to and it's this really fun meta fic. where, Kagehina, are both actors and the movies they're in are based on past, a self fix, and it's just really fun and it's just them slowly falling in love through, like, through a period of years and getting closer and, like you know, the in these movies they end up doing a lot of like sex scenes together and there's lots of like fun stuff with that. There's like one where, you know they were, they were like oh, it's not really gonna work if we do this like, maybe we should use body doubles and kagehina, we're like, but no, like we'll lose the emotion in the scene if it's not the two of us and it's just it's really fun and it has a. It has like a fun little epilogue on tumblr too, like I just I love that fic.
rainbow:There's a mermaid AU that like takes place in the 90s and Hinata has a mullet. I can't remember the name of that one. I probably should have looked it up, but I love that one. And then you know, I really love Dial yeah, dial's a really good one. Dial's yeah, dial's a really good one. And then, like a shout out as a runner up, I would say, there's like a Dr Kageyama fic that I really love as well, yes, those are both from Majestic Artacks.
em:Majestic Artacks and esselle, two writers that we mentioned, are huge in the Kagehina fandom, if you don't. I actually had to bring those writers to attention to someone the other day, so I'm sure there's newbies every day. Go check them out. They both have tons of fic and they're all really good. Dial and Deadly are probably my favorites from Majestic Art Hacks. But for my top three my number one, my number one Haikyuu fic, and it's because I really think this author nails Kagehina like their characters. She gets them and like it's a canon compliant fic 33 days of mist and mountains by tiny gumdrops, fan fucking tastic. And I'm just going to give you a really quick synopsis.
em:It takes place like when kageyama has joined the italy team and hinata comes to visit him. Kageyama has to kind of he he hasn't really been close with hinata in a few years and it's so him trying to kind of like remember things about him, to figure out like what they should do together while they hang out, and it is the most like romantic fucking thing. They have a good fix. Other ones like that are like magical realism type AUs that are just like it's the kind of fix where I'm like this should be in a bookstore Like these are so good. So 33 Days of Misty Mountains is my ultimate haikuu slash kagehina fic.
em:After that, I really like the jungle by esselle. I like a lot of esselle's fix. The jungle is just one that I always kept going back to. It's like a tarzan, tarzan au, and it's just fun and like. I just really like esselle's writing as well, like I just think the it flows. I'm very picky when it comes to my fic. I need the writing to be very good, so my recommendations are never going to fail you, I promise. And then, yeah, I guess, like Dial by Majestic Car Tax. There are so many good authors, though. Like Paper Wet with Ink, benzel Hide I think I'm saying that right Big Spoon Noya, like. Just if you guys want any more, hit me up on Twitter or I'll send you to my bookmarks list.
rainbow:But yeah, I think those are my top three okay, I'm still trying to find the title of that damn mermaid au.
em:I really love it, but I cannot remember emily writes has a mermaid au, but I don't think that's the one you're thinking of I do love that one one. Emily Wright's is another staple.
rainbow:I just found it. It's called A Study in Control and it's by Majikara. Oh, I like Majikara, yeah, and there's, I think it's like a three part, like monster fucker, au thing, I feel like maybe.
em:I've read this too. Oh, I definitely read this.
rainbow:Yeah, there's like three different ones. It's like a mermaid AU and then a werewolf AU and then like a demon au yep, it's all coming back to me now. They're all really good. I think the mermaid one is my favorite. I do like the werewolf one and I've only read the demon one once. but the mermaid one is just really good. Really good like tension yeah, very nice.
em:Yeah, magic car is another good one. So many good ones, and if I forgot you I'm sorry. Just there's just too many to name yeah, we I.
rainbow:I will say I. Haikyuu was like the first fandom I ever read fan fiction for and boy oh boy, am I spoiled.
em:It's a good start because, yeah, there's so and this, and you know we're, we're kagehinaists, so you know. Sorry to every. There are other brilliant fics for Iwaoi Sakuatsu. There's others. Yeah, I'm sorry we didn't name them, but this is our house yeah, shout out to like insert queen to play that's sakuatsu, that's a very famous yeah iwo oi has like conquering the great king.
rainbow:there's a few others. Kuroken has some really good ones. There's one again, I can't remember. I think it's called mess is mine, I think that's the one, and that's a werewolf au. It's rated t for teen and it's really cute and I just think they really nail the Kuroken dynamic in that one perfectly.
em:Do y'all have any gender headcanons for any of the Haikyuu characters? Slash any thoughts of what their relationship with gender would be.
rainbow:Yes, and this is from Minty, who sent us an email. Yeah, so M correct me if I'm wrong, but you don't really have a lot.
em:I told you you can take the lead on this one, because I yeah, I don't really have any like specific gender headcanons, so, but I think you do. So take the lead on this one, babe. Yeah.
rainbow:I love gender, yeah, so gender headcanons so like, and you know I think I've talked about this before that I'm kind of like, maybe gender fluid, I'm kind of questioning my gender, I'm not really settled with it, so I'm kind of dealing with that, and so some of that I think does come through when I'm thinking about like characters, because, like I like I don't know if I headcanon any of the characters as trans that's totally valid if you do. I've seen a lot of like trans hinata, which I think makes sense, especially like for his story. I think that's like an added like layer to his whole.
rainbow:Like I need to be tall and like manly kind of thing I think that's that's probably very interesting and I can see why people would identify with that. I've also seen trans noya, trans daichi, trans iwaizumi, so I think you could take any of those characters, and headcanon or like gender fluid, like I could see, like I'd see like asahi, maybe even suga being a little bit like non-binary gender fluid. You know, because, again, like the story of haikyuu, like the main, like the first year, takes place in like 2012 and that was still a time when, like, it was very like fringe to even be like thinking about any other kind of like gender. There really wasn't that like explosion of like people speaking up for themselves about their identities, not just, and even, I think, even if it took place in now times, I don't think, they would let a sports anime explore those things. but yeah, I could definitely see, like when they're older, like some of these characters really exploring like their gender. So, yeah, and then I I will say when I write, I love to write like a femme.
rainbow:Au, yeah, my very first fic was a femme kageyama where, like just kageyama was the only gender swapped character, mainly because I'd read a real. Oh my god, I didn't even mention that one going. There's a really amazing fic. I've only read it once, but once was all I needed. It's a really good femme hinata fic. it's open-ended, it's got like you know there. It's got like possibilities for kage hina, ken hina, atsu hina and oi hina. but like the, the true ship is hinata slash volleyball, and I'm so mad that I can't remember the name of that one either, because it was so it's so, so, so, so, so good. It's really amazing and it's a femme hinata and just like her struggles, like having to, like you know, pretend to be a boy to play volleyball. And there's I've seen a lot of like specifically femme Hinata fics where, like Hinata is like a girl who, like pretends to be a boy to play volleyball. But I hadn't seen any with Kageyama and I thought that would be really fun and really interesting and that's really kind of like it's turned into like kind of me also like using this fic to kind of explore my own like relationship to gender. And that fic is kind of on hiatus. It's queen of the court.
rainbow:I haven't really worked on it too much, but it is still always on my mind and it is something I am determined to finish one day I just come to a place where, like, I hadn't really outlined fully this far and now things have kind of like changed in my mind.
rainbow:But I, yeah, I love a gender swap. You know, I want to write my I made a stripper au thread on twitter that I want to turn into a full-blown like multi-chapter, probably like with side story fic. That's like none of the characters are cishet, they're all in some way like their sexuality and their gender are just like all over the place and I really want to explore that and I just think it's fun and I just, you know, I love the feminine, I think it's fun to play with and, you know, and especially when it comes to like a sports thing, where it's just like, yeah, girls can be just as insane and tough and dedicated to a sport as boys can be, yes, so our next two questions are from Jimrold on Twitter, and so their first one is kind of a three-parter, but we can just kind of do like a rapid fire of this, okay. So it's favorite non-Kagehina haikyuu ship.
em:Okay, and they also say so. It's favorite non-Kagehina and then favorite non-Karasuno.
rainbow:Yes.
em:Kyushu, okay, and they also say so, it's favorite non-kagehina. And then favorite non-karasuno, yes. So I'm gonna say for favorite non-kagehina. Simply I'm gonna say Tsukiyama because I love them and they also, I project on like they. Just, they just remind me of my homoerotic high school friendship. So I like them and I understand their dynamic, I think on a pretty deep level.
rainbow:And then non-karasuno I'm gonna have to say kuroken. They gotta be my number two. Yeah, I would say. For non kagehina I would say probably asanoya yeah with a shout out to daisuga, because I do love some daisuga. And then for non karasuno I would say I do love kuroken, I love iwaoi. I'm also gonna throw ushiten in there, because yeah, I love it.
em:Name all the classics. Well, I love them.
rainbow:No, I don't blame you and then they do have a final one, which is favorite non-haikyuu shit.
rainbow:That's tough, that is tough there's some good ones I would say give like a top three if you want. Do you have any ready to go? yeah, I would say um, I have a poly ship from Oran High School Host Club and that's Tamaki Haruhi, and Kiyoya. Sasu Naru has to be in there. I love them as a ship.
rainbow:I know Harry Potter is a really sore subject for some people and I want to just say that, like, jk Rowling is a fucking TERF, and fuck her and do not give any money to any kind of official Harry Potter things, because you are giving money to a terrible person.
rainbow:But that being said, I do do love I still love the harry potter fandom and I love the fan works that are out there about it, and I love drarry. I love drarry so much I didn't even realize I was a drarry shipper when I was young and reading harry potter and now that I'm like older and I'm really into like my gay shipping, I'm really kind of rediscovering the world of harry potter through a very like queer inclusive lens and I think that's really fun. It's a fun way for me to explore something that like where the canon has really been like. You know, there's this really like terrible shadow cast over it by the terrible person who created it. but the the fandom, I think, is a really fun. Like they're, they're doing a lot of subversive things, so yeah, so drarry, sasunaru, and, and then that poly ship from Ouran.
em:Nice I'll stick with anime just to keep it simple, because anything I've consumed I probably have a ship for. I'll say Levi and Erwin from Attack on Titan, love them. And then from my Hero. I am a Bakudeku girly and I don't care what you have to say about it, because I'm right. And when I watched haikyuu I was like kagehina is just because I watched my hero first and I was like, oh, it's bakudeku in volleyball font.
rainbow:That's cool and yeah, same for me. When I watched haikyuu, I was like this is just sasunaru in volleyball. And then did you have a third one or just those two? [I'll just keep it to those two], not gonna going to talk about Gojo and Geto.
em:Oh yeah, that's a good reminder. I mean, that's got to be the most devastating Like a ship has never made me so deeply sad before, like when season two was airing. I was really into it and I just cried a lot. Yeah, but a good ship, okay. So the next question from Gemerald Three animes other than Haikyuu that you enjoy re-watching. Things like atla could count, avatar, the last airbender, um, despite not technically being anime, if you've watched these shows, please rank the following oh okay, so this is kind of a two-part question so let's talk about the first part, okay.
em:Anime other than haikyuu yeah, so I mean for me that's actually pretty easy. It's attack on titan, my hero, academia and b stars. I, I love these stars.
rainbow:It's good and I don't care. Louis and legoshi are just what a great show I just love like.
em:I think it's an interesting take on like the whole. Like you know, carnivores versus herbivores, it's a metaphor. Get into it.
rainbow:Yeah, really fun, interesting exploration. There's actually a youtube video that was like really it was like long, but it was really interesting talking about like legoshi being gay and like the show kind of exploring, like how he struggles with his sexuality through this, like predator versus prey metaphor.
rainbow:But the three anime other than haikyuu that I enjoy re-watching would be oran, high school host club, wallflower and probably naruto. I will say like I love, I like bungo stray dogs, I like jujitsu kaizen. I don't know if I can really re-watch those ones those are kind of a one and done for me, [I feel that.] I've never watched attack on titan, but one day and we'll- one day we'll just how.
em:One day I'll I'll watch naruto. We'll get to. They're just classics and but yeah, it's like required reading. Yeah. So then the second part. If you've watched these shows which we have, please rank the following yuri on ice parentheses rip the yuri on ice movie. I'm so sorry. Everybody that has been waiting. That's fucked up. They like made y'all wait for eight years just to be like no, it's not happening.
rainbow:Yeah, deepest condolences. I was also excited about it and it's homophobic.
em:Yeah.
em:So, Yuri on Ice, sasaki and Miyano and Given. And now we went through these questions and we have slightly different rankings. So for me I'd probably put Sasaki and Miyano first. I just like loved it. It was a fun little anime. It was coming out when season four of AOT was coming out and it was such a nice palette cleanser, like after watching Attack on Titan, to just watch a little bit of soft and like I love how meta it is. Like the main character just loves BL but like doesn't realize that that he is also gay, which, wow, can really relate to me. Like me being obsessed with gay content was like my biggest indicator of like oh, you probably are actually pretty gay girl. I know you suspected it, but you are and it's just a cute, like wholesome little anime. And then I'd probably put Yuri on Ice second.
em:I'll be honest with y'all not a big Yuri on Ice. I think if I watched it while it was coming out I might've gotten more swept up in the fact that like okay, we have at least it's kind of canon gay, like that is really exciting and I don't want to like undermine that at all. I just like I think the relationship, the main ship just didn't really grab me. I actually liked the side one better, so like it. Just it wasn't my, it wasn't scratching my itch in particular, not to hate on it whatsoever, but that's why I put it as number two.
em:And then, given I'm going to give number three and I do love that it's paced out, it's inspired by Kagehina and that's great and I like the style of the art a lot and everything I just kind of find it the most boring out of the three. I don't know why, like a lot of gay content has the curse of being fucking boring sometimes, but I think Given kind of suffers from that a little bit. Again, this is my, that's my opinion, so don't get mad at me. So, yeah, what about you?
rainbow:I would say, mine is definitely different, because I put given first. I really like, I really like mafuyu's story and like his, his growth and his like.
rainbow:You know, it's very quiet and I can see like boring. I think like makes sense, but like I really I I really loved the like slow kind of stuff. It was almost like slice of life, yeah, a little bit which can be a little bit boring, but I really liked it. I thought it was funny and I liked the other characters in it as well and their different relationships. So, and I love this and I love music and I loved the song that I can't remember how you pronounce the song, if you know something like that. Anyway, that song is so beautiful and I will just like I listen to it all the time it's on my playlist. But I also like watching the video, because it's just like if I want to cry, I'll watch that video on youtube. So I love given. sasaki and miyano is my second. I really I loved it. I thought it was so cute. I actually think we should probably do a rewatch of it sometime soon because it was adorable.
rainbow:I like the meta-ness of it and I love that Sasaki is just kind of like. I love when a character is just kind of like oh, okay, yeah, like I have feelings for you, all right, and it's not like I like when there's that, like you know, one character is struggling with it and the other character is just like this is just who I am, yep, and so I love that and they're really cute. And then, yeah, yuri on Ice, which I did love. I watched it all in one night. I stayed up really late to watch it because I was like, oh, I'll just watch like the first, like two or three episodes, and then I was just suddenly it was four o'clock in the morning and I was watching like the very end of it.
rainbow:I was watching Yuri and Victor dance and I was like like this is beautiful and you know, I agree with him. I just like I don't. The Victor and Yuri ship just didn't really catch me that much. There's a lot of anti-fat bias in it that I didn't appreciate. You know, which is like big in the sports world in general, especially in something like figure skating, those kind of like gymnastics, figure skating, ballet, like dance, that kind kind of stuff like people with bigger bodies are just seen as like not talented and not capable, and that's wrong in my opinion.
rainbow:I do love figure skating, so I loved getting to watch the figure skating. I appreciate that they tried to teach us about the rules of this sport. I still don't understand the scoring for that. I also think it's just like I it like figure skating is the kind of thing in that it's like what if we looked at this as more of an art than a sport? Like what if we looked at it as dance rather than like a sport that needs to be scored on technicalities and the difficulty which you know like?
rainbow:I'm not a figure skater, so I'm sure there's lots of them out there that do like cause it is athletic, say it's not athletic, like yes, it's artistic and athletic. And I mean again, these are all good anime and they're all gay and they all like they don't have that like some a lot of times, a lot of like some BL that I've seen has like a non-consensual aspect to it which I think just is like homophobia and I think a lot of times the only like gay content that they're going to give us is going to have something that's a little bit like ooh, this is like maybe like these people are not so great.
em:And maybe they're like convincing.
rainbow:Maybe they're like corrupting, you know, like somebody into being gay, which is just like wrong and that's just like homophobia right there for you. But these three things do not have them in there. I do think like the romance in these are all like pretty, like you know they're, they feel real. It feels like these are really people falling in love. And I agree with Yuri on Ice Yuri, and is it Odebek? I think so. Is that his name, odebek? Yeah, they're amazing that video of Yuri dancing in that like underground figure skating thing with the glove, you know when odabek takes the glove off, that is teeth.
rainbow:Yep, that's just one of the most amazing things I've ever seen in my entire life. Somebody did a tiktok edit to that of like a cover to river, like a river. Just I just love it so much, it's just so good, it's so amazing.
em:figure skating is incredible .props to all those animes, no matter what we rank them, you know, it's all incredible and yuri on ice is a sports anime that has gay content in it, which is like.
rainbow:That is something you do not see a lot of it was it was revolutionary. I wish I wish things would have changed more after it, but it is what it is it's a long battle, my friends.
em:Yes, okay.
rainbow:Next one yes is okay, so , gemerald said specifically for em. But I'm also going to answer this what's your favorite part of living on the west coast? I also moved from the east coast to the west coast, like I was only living on the west coast for like a year and a half before and moved out here.
em:Right, but I'll let you answer first and then I'll for me personally, like for my personal journey, it was just a nice change of scenery. I'd lived in New York City for five years before coming out here, and I love. New York City is my home and I love it so much. and I love, but after living in one for a while. You know, there's a quote from a thing where it's like live in New York for five years but leave before it makes you hard, and then live in California for five years but leave before it makes you too soft. I think that's true, like it's just nice to switch up the scenery once in a while.
em:So I went from, you know, living in a in a giant metropolis to now we live in a quite a small, like rural-esque. I mean the immediate area is pretty suburban but we're kind of in the middle of nowhere, but it's lovely and like. So I would say well, one thing the dry heat. I'm just going to say that I fucking love like, cause it gets so humid on the East coast and it's gross, but like when it gets hot in California. Here I can handle it a lot better because it just feels good and as soon as the sun goes down it's back to being cool. So I like that. I like the different plants and people's lawns are very different and diverse, which I really enjoy, like it's just a totally different. I feel like I'm on the opposite side of the world here. It's just very quaint and I enjoy it a lot.
rainbow:So, yeah, I moved from the southeast. You know, living in the south as a queer, feminist, atheist was hard, and so moving to a place that is and it's not. This isn't true of the whole west coast. There's plenty of people here who are very conservative, very intolerant, very unaccepting. You know, like there are places like, if we go to like the next, like three towns over from us, like if we go, really, if we're anywhere outside of our little town, we're going to run into a lot more people who, like, don't think we have a right to exist. You know, and that's true.
rainbow:I don't know if any of you know about Oregon, but Oregon was, like, founded initially to be like a white supremacist paradise, and I think that's where the Proud Boys started. So, like, yeah, I feel like Oregon because of, like, probably because of Portlandia. Like people have this view that it's like, oh, it's just a bunch of crunchy granola hippies and it's like, yeah, there's some of that, but just like everywhere else in the United States, there's also racist, homophobic, sexist people who don't think other people deserve to live no-transcript.
em:But like red state is fucking everywhere and California was more red. Like I was surprised to find out that the death penalty is legal here.
rainbow:Like there was a moratorium for a while, but I think it might have been lifted at this point. Yeah, I mean. Well, you know, back in like the 70s, california had, like you could legally have like assault rifles, until the black panthers started carrying around them around to protect themselves and their communities from the police. And then the nra like helped lobby to get like an assault ban rifle passed so that the black panthers could not exercise their second amendment rights, because this country is full of fucking hypocrites. so, yeah, so california is not perfect. it's very expensive to live here. Yes, like the capitalism is just rampant. We have a really bad like unhoused problem here. so it's definitely not perfect, but like for me, especially where I moved to like the, the town we're living in now, it just was like very freeing for me to really feel like I could express myself. Like rainbow flags are everywhere, like people are, like you know, we, we you know all people are welcome.
rainbow:Like it's very diverse. We have lots of different like cultural opportunities to like learn about other people's cultures and like eat different kinds of food.
em:It's kind of the best of both worlds here, like it's small and quaint, but also, yeah, it has that diversity, it has a lot of young people, so it's really nice.
rainbow:And we're really close to a lot of cool stuff and I think I feel closer to nature here and I feel like there's a lot more opportunities to just be around nature. But we also have like a bunch of like state and national parks that we could go to.
rainbow:we got to see the redwoods a couple of times to the pacific ocean yeah, it's just like I do feel like I feel like out here there is just and probably because, you know, just because of the way things like developed, but it does feel like there's just more and there's more like respect for nature and like wanting to conserve nature again, again, not every single person, but I think that's generally the vibe of like the state.
em:Okay, so this question comes from one which we got in an email and that is what are your favorite fanfic AUs for Kagehina to read, examples modern versus fantasy, soulmates, university. So for me I'm not picky with my AUs. Like, if the writing is good and I like the author, I'll read pretty much anything. But I love, like I love a university AU because I think it's a good backdrop for fanfic. It's also and this is a question that comes up later but it is my favorite kind to write because, again, it's just like you can kind of you don't have to know a lot about a niche topic and you can just be like I don't know. It's just like you can kind of you don't have to know a lot about a niche topic and you can just be like I don't know. It's just a relatable AU, I think, and it's a fun one to write. So I like, I like that one too. I also like a good. I wrote a vampire AU, not the self plug, but vampire demons. I like that stuff.
rainbow:Yeah, I love, yeah, same thing. If it's well written, I'll read any au. As far as reading, I love it, you know, and I go through like phases where I'm like I want to read a bunch of soulmate aus or I really want to read university. I love a single parent au. I think that's fun. So lots of different stuff. And then, as far as writing, I talked about it earlier I love gender swap. I love to play with characters, genders and explore different you know ways of them identifying. yeah, so that's probably my favorite to write. So this is from taylor on twitter. And what is your favorite line or moment from haikyuu? And let's talk about the episodes we covered so far what's your favorite line or moment from the first 13 episodes?
em:it's like every meaningful kagehina moment. Yeah, and that's such a predictable answer, I think you talked about in the first episode.
rainbow:There's a moment.
em:Oh, that's right. The first episode when Hinata sees Kageyama for the first time and someone tweeted about this, like how are you supposed to interpret that anything other than romantic? Because the way like the background whites out and like, mind you, the boy just walked past him, but that was enough for hinata to be taken and it's like get out of my face.
rainbow:Yeah, I think he was a love story about these two. Yes, that's definitely one of my favorites. I love that I'm here moment. I love hinata spiking the ball and you see the reflection in kageyama's eye. Yeah, that, I think, is like just a peak moment oh, an honorable mention kenma's toesies I mean we talked about I interrupted you to talk about how cute his little fucking toesies are. So yes, kenma's toesies honorable mention. All right, next question next question is from zale.
em:How did you two get together? Well, we talked about this a little bit in episode zero as well, I think yeah, so we, we initially just started interacting on twitter here and there on the timeline, you liked every single one of my tweets and I thought that you maybe just didn't did that to everybody Like a mom, an overzealous mom on Facebook or something.
rainbow:No, I just liked all of your tweets. I loved everything you had to say. I just immediately I don't know what it was. This is the kind of thing that makes me think that time is not actually linear. We just experience it linearly Linear, actually linear we just experience it linearly, linearly, linearly. Thank you sure is that a word anyway.
em:But it just felt like I was like this person, I want to talk to this person and we, just we started dming about fix and I just had like a vague affection towards you and I don't know if it was just because of that or like well, also, I think you're a massage, a youth right is probably the reason why I followed you, so like I had respect for your writing and then like, yeah, you're just a little sweetie and like we had nice little interactions and I, very early on, I was a little tipsy and I was just tweeting and I was like rainbow's, my best friend on twitter and I was like oh, my god, yeah, and they were just like, and it was just so important to me that I maintained that friendship with you.
rainbow:There was like something that happened that I was worried was gonna like make you not like me anymore, and I remember even saying like I don't want our friendship to be ruined. I really like talking to you and just like that panic of like no, what if this person doesn't want to interact with me anymore? And then we just like and we moved away from talking about haikyuu to just talking about everything we would text all day.
em:I got accused of flirting at work one time yeah, talking to him In the beginning, I kept saying like you snuck up on me because, yeah, I really like we just started to talk about fandom and then it just very naturally just went into just chatting about life and like very and this, all. It all happened pretty quickly with us and like I remember having that realization of like we're talking like with a capital T. This is talking because we would talk throughout the day and then we would say shit like like have a good day at work or like I'll talk to you later, and I'm like we are pre-dating.
rainbow:And then I remember there was a weekend where we didn't talk to each other and I think I had been the person to reach out to you last. Like you know, whenever you're like texting with somebody frequently and like you, you feel like you're always the one who's texting first. And that wasn't necessarily the case. But I didn't want to seem too eager and like freak you out or creep you out or anything, so I didn't text you at all first that weekend. And then you texted me like Monday morning and I was so excited I was like, oh my god, I remember, and I don't really know exactly why.
em:I think maybe because I could feel it happening and I was like, this might be getting out of my control, so I let that weekend lie same. But I remember being like I want to talk to her.
rainbow:Yeah, and you asked me how my weekend was and I almost said it would have been better if I could have talked to you, but again, I wasn't sure. Like it was just. Like you know, we didn't know what each other looked like, we hadn't like really talked outside of Twitter at all. Like you, just you never know. You want to be careful as well. Like you know, like you seemed like a perfectly normal individual, but you just never know what's going to happen. Yeah, exactly, and then, and then the confession happened, and so I had a cute I think I still technically have a curious cat.
rainbow:I haven't checked it, but somebody had left a question that was not even a question, just basically confessing like I really like you, but I'm way too nervous to say anything to you. And here's the song that makes me think of you, and I just remember being like I have no idea who this person is and like I don't know if that person is still out there. Like I have no idea, they have never said anything. I have no idea who this person was, and I just I think I responded with just like oh, that's really sweet.
em:Like you know, I don't know who you are though. So, like I, you know, I don't know. Yeah, yeah, I know I wonder about this person. Maybe they listen to the podcast, maybe they hate us because rip to you. But that was the catalyst for our confession, because I was a little sneaky sneak and I saw that happen. And then I like just was like asking you about it, and it was mostly innocent. But then I was like, hmm, I wonder what she'll say if I kind of ask her more about it and if she brings me up at all, because I basically was like, do you have any idea who it could be?
rainbow:And then I said no, I was like no, I really have no idea. And then I think you asked me is there anybody that you would want it to be which?
rainbow:is a very goading question of me, like I was really and we've used this metaphor where I set that up for you to spike down and I spiked it down, yeah, and actually wrote a thread based on that and I was at work and she had like sent me that message and I was at my desk and like we'd been texting, and then I was like I went to the bathroom to like hide, because I was like freaking out and I was like OK, and so I like, I was like I was like, well, actually I hope this isn't too weird, but it was you.
em:You, you were the first person I thought of and then I think I send another thing that was like if I don't answer, it's because I've thrown my phone across the room, hinata style and it wasn't like it was kind of just implied that you were hoping it could have been yeah and I remember, because it's so funny, because I my old job, I worked like 60 hours a week in an office, in a production office, and I had my little work bestie with me next to me and I would refer to you and a couple of other friends early on in that Twitter time as like my Twitter girlfriends, jokingly.
rainbow:But then I remember, when you said that, I turned to my my work bestie and I was like it's happening, it's happening for real, yes, and then and that, and so like I just kind of confessed and I was like I hope this isn't weird, like you can just pretend this never happened. If it's like too weird for you, can just stay friends. And you were like no, no, no, like I kind of like you too, but we both were just like we're so far away, like we had like I knew she lived in New York City, she knew I lived in California. We were literally on opposite ends of the country. We were like this couldn't work.
em:Like we're long distance, let's just like stay flirty friends yes, it was very much like oh well, this is a fun thing to know. Cue the next day.
rainbow:The next day we're getting hot and heavy with it. It just very quickly like we're, just like this. We cannot be casual.
em:I think now that it was out there, it was hard for us to ignore. Neither of us are those type of people and we just liked each other and we were gravitated to each other. So that's why we kind of have a two day anniversary where the 11th is when you confess and then the 12th is when we consummated the marriage. But like, yeah, and then it just was very natural and like we just acted like girlfriends from then on and it was like maybe a few weeks in where we were like and it was funny to graduate from like the Twitter messages to texting, to our first phone call and our first FaceTime.
em:I was visiting home and I was sitting in my childhood bedroom and I was like, can I call you my girlfriend? Like is that? And you're like, yeah, yeah, like we were just very much kind of on that same page from the get-go and like my only hesitations were just like I didn't want to be that like stereotypical, like rushing into a relationship type thing, but like with you. I remember our very first phone call. After I hung up I was like, is she the one? And then I stopped that thought in my tracks. I was like don't get overexcited just because you have some stuff in common blah, blah, blah.
rainbow:Yeah, there was a lot of like so and we just so we got together in April, yes, and then your birthday was is in November and we decided like, okay, I will come and visit you in November and we can kind of test things out. That ended up being too long, way too long, because I ended up coming to visit you for the first time in June, 4th of July weekend and that, for me, really sealed the deal, where I was like, yeah, okay, yeah, this is exactly how I thought it, this is exactly how it is over the phone.
em:It's just better because it's in person yeah, because we were definitely, I think, starting to feel the strain of long distance.
em:You're also, you know we were. We were like I was tackling the whole like poly versus monogamous thing and like you didn't really you went on like one or two dates very early on when we were talking and I was very much like, listen, we just started talking, you do what you want. But I think there was, I was starting to feel some insecurity about that and then like just the strain, like being long distance is fucking hard For those of you that are out there doing it. I give you props because it's just like. It just feels like your girlfriend my girlfriend lives on my phone like, and it almost doesn't feel real in a way. And so by the by the time we were getting to the summer, we just like I think we needed to at least make sure that in person it would work out and it it was like nothing was different well, and I think we were both ready to say I love you pretty early on, like even before we'd met in person, but like I refused to say it until I'd met you in person.
rainbow:I think we had a conversation we were talking about like I really want to come and see you, and I was like I think I said something along the lines of like there's things I want to say to you that I don't want to say over the phone. You were like yes, yes, yes, me too, yeah, and it's just like it was so, it was just so nice, because I had that like like surety, that like yes, she feels the same way. And then getting to see you in person was just amazing. And now, like you live with me, you moved out, we live together, we're building a life together, we have a cat together.
em:It's really to think about.
rainbow:It is really wild that you were just like an oomph two years ago, yeah, and now like I want to spend the rest of my life with you, yeah, it's just. You know it's like and you know like in like made me believe in true love again. I kind of had like not really thought it was a real thing and I kind of just thought romantic love wasn't something that I was ever going to get.
em:Well, you're definitely a soulmate of mine because just the way that it just feels like like if we had known each other, like we would have been friends in school, like you definitely you just and the way that you fit into my life and with my other friends, like it is a whole thing of like time is not linear and we've we've known each other before, like you just have always felt like a familiar comfort to me and like we're just so. It's funny because we are different in a lot of ways. We have different tastes and things in some ways, but in a lot of fundamental, like just the way we like to go about life, our temperament, like we are so ridiculously compatible. Yeah, our day-to-day life is very copacetic and like being with you is healing for me it's healing and it's easy yeah, absolutely.
rainbow:So.
em:Yeah, really really great now that we've rubbed our relationship in your faces. for those of you who are still single, hold on hope. Or if you're not interested, that's cool too.
rainbow:Yeah, whatever, yeah, and you know what? Yeah, and in my experience, when you really are like looking and dating a bunch, it's harder to find that person.
em:You just have to find somebody you vibe with, [but I'm also demi] so that's how that works, that's yeah, and, like before you, I was in like a three year dry spell, like I'd broken up with my boyfriend three years before that and then in life, life kept just either, offering me like fuck buddy opportunities, which, like I think I think it was a really good period of time where, like, I knew what I wanted and instead of just saying yes to anything that would come along, which I used to do, like I think, I really got to be rooted in who I am and, like being in the haikyuu Twitter it might sound silly, but I was really being my authentic self and I think, when you know, that was my way of putting myself out there and that's when you're going to attract the right people is when you're just doing your thing. So that's my, that's my TED talk.
rainbow:All right. Going back to Haikyuu, zale has another question, which is what was your first experience watching Haikyuu? You go first, yeah, so like I watched it, it was still on. The first two seasons were still on Netflix and I watched it on there and initially I was like, well, I'll just watch whatever's on Netflix and then I'll wait until they put more on there. And then I finished season two and I immediately got a Crunchyroll account. I had not had one before, but I was like I have to watch more, more, and so then I just burned through seasons three and four and then I immediately got a shonen jump subscription so I could read the rest of the manga on my phone and I just like, it was just like passion, it was just, it was like I have to know what's going to happen, I need these characters, and then just constantly re-watching my favorite episodes. So that was my, my first experience.
em:Yeah, I feel like I can't remember too much detail. Like I said, the first season I was like, not, I wasn't totally hooked. Like I remember my first reaction. I remember being like, oh, this is, this is Bakugou's voice actor for Noya, when he came along. And then you know, season two, episode one really grabbed me by the pussy and didn't let go, and then I burned through it all. I don't think, I think I just watched illegally and then found the manga illegally, but I finished all of it and so, yeah, I don't know, it just like really grabs you by the throat and takes you for a ride hi, hello, baby.
rainbow:No, that's my water. No, that's my water. Thank you. We've been recording for too long.
em:I guess the kitty wants attention okay, so from mb this question comes from what? What we think the characters hypothetical majors are, or what their favorite song is I could see hinata I mean hinata and kageyama.
rainbow:They don't seem like they're college bounds, but I can see them doing like sports medicine or something where it's just like you know, or like physical education, something where, like, they could be a volleyball coach something that that keeps them involved in sports, for sure, yeah I could see like yachi being like an artist, like a graphic designer yeah tsuki, I think would make a really good librarian.
em:yeah, something like that, and then I don't really have a lot of her favorite songs yeah, song wise, like I could see hinata being really into like very classic, like pump ups, like gets him pumped up for games like we are the champions by queen, like stuff like that, and then, like kageyama might be more into like instrumental type stuff.
rainbow:Yeah, I don't think he's a big music person yeah, so sorry, mb, we don't have a ton for that, but any of these questions, if anyone wants to give their own answers for them on twitter, instagram, tumblr, whatever you want, send us an email. We'd love to hear it. yeah, so we just have a few more from june and then we have a few things for the spoiler zone. From sailor juniper on twitter hi, june. they asked, they're curious about a full kin list from both of us in and out of Haikyuu, and I know you don't have a ton of kins.
em:I was gonna say I'm really not the bit like when the kinning thing became really hot. I just like don't really relate. I think more about who I want them to kiss more than like who I really relate to. But I will say, like in Haikyuu, if I and I've thought long and hard about it, because you know it's always a discussion out on the twitterverse if I'm being real, I think a combination of, like Yamaguchi and Suga are for sure a little bit of Kenma. Those are my, those are my kinny, kinny girls.
rainbow:I think a little bit of Kuro for you too. I'm not gonna lie, that's a compliment, thank you you're welcome yeah. So for me I would say I also a little bit ken suga, I also a little bit ken oikawa, unfortunately, but then also like tendo, u and then non haikyuu, I would say like atsushi from bungo stray dogs, tamaki from ouran high school host club .
em:I'm
rainbow:Is it because you're both redheads? [Yeah], I don't know who I'd be in the office. Um, probably jim, honestly, so that's kind of my again. I'm also not like a big kinny person. I also am more like you know. Who do these characters want to kiss? And then we've got another non-spoiler question from June, that last one, if you want to ask.
em:What is the largest amount of Haikyuu you've ever consumed in one sitting? I don't really have like a specific number for you, but I will say whenever I go back to like if I ever wanted to rewatch a specific episode suddenly, I'll be halfway through the season. Season like Haikyuu is very bingeable, so I've probably gotten through a majority of one season in one sitting yeah.
rainbow:So for me, the first time I ever got COVID, the like last couple days of my recovery, I just watched all of Haikyuu. so I would say, like in one sitting, like without going to sleep, I probably watched like, maybe like a season and a half, but I I think I spent maybe possibly three days, but maybe even only two days, just watching all of Haikyuu just sick, not feeling well, and it was like it just gave me, it healed me. It's the reason the COVID went away, not just because I've been quarantining for 10 days and just naturally worked its way out of my system, but it was the Haikyuu. So now I think we're going to go back and we're gonna do some spoilery questions. So, for those of you who don't want any spoilers, this is where we leave you. Thank you for joining us for this q and a.
rainbow:Like we said, next week we'll be back to our regular episodes and we'll be doing episode 14. You can follow us on social media Twitter, instagram, tumblr and Blue Sky, flyhqpod. That's F-L-Y-H-Q-P-O-D. You can also send us an email, flyhqpod at gmail dot com.
em:All right, let's jump in the spoilery pool of zones, yeah, okay.
rainbow:So Nico's question what's your favorite Haikyuu episode?
em:And so for episodes that we haven't covered so far, so I have two season two, episode one, which I talked a little bit about earlier, I just like, like I said, I just feel like I like where Kagehina are at this point and that whole moment where Hinata grabs the ball from Ushijima and shocks him and Kageyama just looks at him with like this pride. I just like, like it just does things for me. And then another episode I really love and I don't know if I'm gonna remember exactly which one it is, but it's the one at the near the end of season one where they're playing against oba josai and suga comes to help and because because oikawa is really like pushing kageyama to the edge and suga comes in, and I just like, really liked, I like what tsuga brings to the table, I like how it affected the whole team. I think kageyama learned some good things.
rainbow:So, yeah, those are probably my favorite episodes yeah, I definitely love season one, season two, episode one. I really like the episode in season three where we have tsuki's moment where he blocks ushijima. That's just a fantastic. That's like a good episode overall, but then that moment is really good. There's honestly so many moments in haikyuu that I really love. And then in season four, I really like the last episode, with the inarizaki match, when kage hina block the twins. Freak, quick, I just oh, no, no, actually, not that one I'm. It's when hinata does his receive and he like flips backwards. Oh, oh, my god, I love that and I just love him being like give me the next one too, and just like him like he's really like bringing the whole team up and he is like the reason they win that game for multiple reasons.
em:And then back to one favorite Haikyuu arc. For me there's a few. Everyone loves the training camp arc in season two and it is. It's just like a comfort arc. You know it's summertime and all that good stuff. And then I really like, I like the Brazil arc and specifically the chapter where we learn about Kagehama's backstory.
rainbow:But like well, that's well, that's so.
em:That's not the Brazil arc, that's like the Jack Adler's arc so I guess the Jack I think maybe the Jack Adler's arc is a phase, just because, like all of the hard work of the whole show comes down to this face off between Kagehina. So that's always an automatic fave. What about you?
rainbow:Yeah, I love all those that you mentioned. I love the Brazil arc. I love Oikawa coming back and he and Hinata like becoming friends and Oikawa like developing this respect for Hinata. I really love. I actually love the ball boy arc in season four when you know when Hinata is at like the first year training camp, that he snuck into. And then Kageyama I like Kageyama being at the Tokyo training camp arc and I love that part where he goes to set the ball for Hinata oh my god but.
em:Hinata isn't there and he's like, oh sorry, that's out of habit, and it's just like, yeah, because you're always thinking of Hinata it is like it's fun to watch them be separate sometimes and see how they operate and how and how it still all comes back to how they can come back to each other with their improved skills and shit yes, yeah, and I love, and I love the end of that arc when Kagehina like raced to the club room together and then Kageyama's like hey, you better not have been slacking off, like what were you doing?
rainbow:and Hinata says he was being a ball boy. And Kageyama immediately understands that like okay, good, you were improving.
em:That's good for you Because you know they highlight that, like Hinata, you know just kind of jumps in with these with this talent, but he still needs to like he doesn't know a lot of basics and so the ball boy arc is very important for like setting a foundation.
rainbow:Is there any favorite line or moment, from like later episodes? I know you've already mentioned, you know, the the season two, episode one with hinata catching the ball from ushijima. Is there any other, any other moments from later seasons that you want to highlight?
em:every kagehina one, yeah yeah, really every kagehina moment, and the tsuki from that that I remember like losing my fucking mind. I think like tsuki's arc is so satisfying in that way because he puts on this whole show of not giving a shit, but he is so, he is very good and he does go on to be, you know, a semi pro. Like I think it's just such a, such a big defeat to to block Ushi, like that is no small feat and I just think it's really impressive and it's so like everyone freaks out and you kind of freak out with them, like it's fun.
rainbow:June has one more question. Oh, and the favorite line and favorite line or moment, that was again from Taylor. We already talked about non-spoiler stuff, but we wanted to bring in some spoiler stuff. And then June, sailor, juniper, they have one more question. That's very spoilery and are there any time skip careers that you think could be different or that didn't really match the character?
em:I thought, like all the pics were interesting. There's that one guy from oba josei who turns out to be works at a funeral home, which I thought was really random.
rainbow:[I think you have a specific thing you want to talk about] yeah, and we won't get too deep into it because this episode is already going pretty long. but Daichi being a cop, I do think we need to do some research on like cops in Japan. But like here in the United States, like I think just in general, I think all over the world, I think like the institution of policing is just wrong. I think it's bad. It's about punishment and persecution and it's about like controlling like the lower classes and like so and because of like capitalism and money, like rich people really don't have consequences for their actions, no matter how big they are. It's very rare for them to actually be punished. But then poor people, for even like the smallest infraction, they could be like fined really heavily or they could spend a long time in jail and like that's how it is in the United States states.
rainbow:I don't know how that how it is in japan but, just daichi being and like he's like, I guess like a community person which like maybe that's like the least harmful. But I just feel like the police in japan like it. From my view it seems kind of militarized and that's never good.
em:Well, I also think it would have been more fitting, because I don't know if any of them end up being like coaches yeah, that's weird.
em:I think daichi would make a great coach I think that would have made a lot of sense. Like daichi is very similar to hinata with his love for volleyball and I think he was such a good captain and like I feel like his like authoritativeness is what's supposed to translate into his now cop, which I don't like that again, we don't want like cops who are scary, like yeah, we don't want, I don't want any cops honestly.
rainbow:Like obviously I want people to like solve like violent crimes, but often the police are committing violent crimes.
em:So so I just feel like it would have been more fitting if he ended up as, like the coach, maybe for Karasuno or something like that, like I think that would have made. I think that would have made more sense and you know, we would have enjoyed that more. Suga being a kindergarten teacher, I think is really cute.
rainbow:I was just going to say that makes perfect sense for him because he's chaotic, but he's also so loving and he's such a good teacher. Do we know what Tanaka does for work? He's like a personal trainer, which is perfect for him. Oh, OK.
em:Yeah, like I'm not too mad.
rainbow:Like, aside from the Daichi thing, I'm not really mad about where anyone else ends up. I think it makes sense, I think, aoni becoming like a construction worker like a contractor is perfect.
em:He's like building walls. Yes, oh my god, I don't think this is really he's. He's like one of my favorite side characters and I'm so pissed that we get absolutely no fucking backstory from him. I don't understand why we don't.
rainbow:We're about to get into some date tech stuff in the next, like several episodes that we talk about and we will.
em:We will release our frustrations, yeah yeah, they, tech was robbed for no fucking reason. They're like one of their main teams that they go against too. Yeah, but yeah, okay. So I think that that about wraps it up.
rainbow:Yeah, that's, we've answered all of the questions. I hope you all enjoyed listening to this. I hope, for those of you who sent in questions, I I hope we answered them satisfactorily. We really enjoyed doing this. This was a lot of fun. We love getting to talk about ourselves and about Haikyuu but, like with you know, kind of an unstructured discussion.
em:Yes.
rainbow:So this was really fun. And you know, we'll do another fun episode after season one and I don't think maybe it'll be another Q&A, maybe it'll be something else We'll see. So, yeah, I think that's it.
em:We love you. Thanks for stopping by and until next time, fly high.