Fly: A Queer Haikyuu Podcast
We look at Haikyuu through an intersectional, queer lens.
Fly: A Queer Haikyuu Podcast
S2E9: Vs. Umbrella
"Don't go easy on me!"
This week, em and rainbow cover season 2, episode 9 "Vs. Umbrella" and talk about who you voted as the best senpai from other schools, the beautiful friendship blossoming between BoHina, and the many ways Hinata challenges Kageyama.
52:42 - Spoiler Zone Begins
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rainbow
00:09
hello everyone and welcome to fly a queer Haikyuu podcast. I'm rainbow they she [and I'm em she her.]
em
00:15
And today we're talking about season two, episode nine, versus brella I'm versus an brella every time it rains outside and it's a little windy, and then I embarrass myself. Yeah, you know that feeling.
rainbow
00:28
Well, you know not since I moved to California. It happened to me. It did.
em
00:32
Yeah, we are getting into the rainy season.
rainbow
00:33
It does rain in California, just for only a small period of time we have moved location.
em
00:40
We went from the living room to the bedroom in hopes that our cat would be less annoying, and who knows if that'll work. It's interesting. I'm straddling the desk.
rainbow
00:48
It feels good, yeah, I'm sitting next to our dresser. It's all fine and, dandy, it's real.
em
00:53
DIY up in this bitch, you guys, and I hope you find it charming. We're excited to talk about this episode.
rainbow
00:59
Yes, but first we have a few other things to touch on. We have a few other things to touch on. First of all, for our chit chat section. Today I want to celebrate writers. I was listening to another one of my favorite podcasts Too Scary Didn't Watch a horror movie recap podcast for those too scared to watch for themselves, go check it out. And one of the hosts, sammy, was talking about because every episode they say like, did anything scary happen to you this week? And one of the of the hosts, sammy, was talking about having to write something and how writing is so hard. And I was just over there in my car snapping along, , because that's so true. Writing is really really, really difficult. And, , I art, general creation of art can be very difficult, , but I think, with writing, one of the very unique things about it is that it is literally just you and the words from your brain. Like you don't have any tool that you're using.
em
01:52
I guess you're using a laptop, but it's not quite the same and that transition from brain to page is like the fucking journey to Mordor it's it feels.
rainbow
02:02
sometimes it feels like the words are being literally like clawed from me and ripped out through my fingertips and like it is a painful process. It's so hard to do.
em
02:11
And the whole time I'm writing there's like a sweaty managerial person in the back of my mind going wrong, wrong.
rainbow
02:18
This is so stupid. You're db. This is the worst thing that anyone has ever written. And yet there are so many amazing writers out there. It's amazing that people can be great writers and we know so many of them that are listeners of this podcast.
02:30
So, yeah, I just wanted to shout out all the writers out there and whatever level of writing you do and here's the thing is I have done a lot of like writing, workshops and stuff in my personal and work life and I always hear people say, like well, I'm not really a writer, and it's like, no, no, no, here's the thing you are a writer if you write anything, if you write poems, if you write in a journal, if you write little stories, if you write little thread fix, you're a writer. You might not be an author Authors are published, whatever but you are a writer and anyone can be a writer, and I think that's's beautiful and writing is my favorite art form. So there we go preach it, preaching, all right, , and then I believe emma has something she'd like to discuss this podcast is about haikyuu, but I just need to take a minute because jujutsu kaisen well, not officially ended.
em
03:23
The leaks are out and everyone is losing their fucking mind, before anything official is even out, about how bad it is, how rushed it is. I'm gonna keep it. I could do a whole podcast episode. Maybe I'll start a podcast about Jujutsu Kaisen after this, who's to say.
03:37
But I will just say once again all the Haikyuu fans rose up to brag about how good our ending is, because after like my Hero and Jujutsu, where both endings felt abrupt and kind of rushed, endings are hard. They're very hard. Especially, I can't even imagine that level of popularity where Gege can do absolutely nothing right. I don't know, I can't even get into it, but I've never seen people so obsessed with something but also claim to hate it so much at the same time, seen people so obsessed with something but also claim to hate it so much at the same time. But I just saw a tweet that was like every time a bad ending happens, haikyuu fans have to rise up and remind everybody that they had the best ending, and you know what, rightfully so. I just I have a lot of gratitude for my hometown.
rainbow
04:17
Anyway, I'm going off the rails with this and there's no real point except for that Haikyuu owns everybody yeah, yeah mean, obviously we're not going to get into what the ending looks like because we're not in the spoiler zone yet.
em
04:29
That's true, spoiler alert the whole thing is good. Yeah, up until the end, you will be satisfied.
rainbow
04:36
I think that's the thing is, it's not just that it's a good ending, it is a satisfactory ending. And again, going back to writing, writing in general is hard. I think endings are the hardest thing to write often, unless you like start from the end and you know how it's going to end and you're building up to that. But even then sometimes that can be complicated. and I will say I saw, because I saw that same tweet and I saw in the comments like oh yeah, that's just like a sports anime thing. A lot of sports anime have good endings.
05:03
I don't really. I've only watched a couple of other sports anime and, to be fair, like the ones that I have seen, I feel like the story hasn't gone to completion. The way that Haikyuu does Like Skate the Infinity isn't really over, yuri on Ice isn't really over. So I mean, write in if you know of another sports anime that has an ending that you feel matches Haikyuu. And I will say I think one of the reasons maybe sports animes are open to like those more satisfactory endings is you aren't dealing with people dying and fighting in wars. I think that's a big thing is like you're always going to have people upset about the ending, when you have to kill off their favorite characters or you, or you do kill them off at some point, but then they get brought back and maybe that isn't satisfactory or, like you, just leave so many loose threads that you're gonna trip over them actually.
em
05:51
But anyway, I don't mean to rub it in jjk's people's faces. I know some people are very devastated. I'm lucky because my favorite character had a great ending. All right, let's move on all right.
rainbow
06:00
Yeah, we're moving on because we have some housekeeping. We made a major oopsie.
em
06:11
We try with Akaashi's name. It's a very subtle, like the long A, but we totally messed up his first, his given name. We both assed Keiji was correct and that's why you will hear in the last episode that is not correct. So we did go and listen and it's Kaiji. So we will definitely from now on be better about just making sure we do before just assuming yeah, so, and again I want to say it as well, kaiji.
rainbow
06:32
So apologies to everyone who was screaming at us, I know in the last episode, maybe we'll we'll tweet about it. And something else I want to talk about is a poll that I put out on our Twitter of asking who is everyone's favorite senpai from another school, who is their favorite BFO. Who won? So it was a tie and I just did the senpai that we see, kind of helping Tsukishima. So it was just Kuroo, Bokuto and Akaashi, and it was a tie between Bokuto and Kuroo. They both got 38% and Akaashi was right there with 24%. Wow, hard split. Yeah, absolutely. And I did see somebody say like I love Bokuto and he's my favorite character. I want to say it was emby, which makes sense for emby.
em
07:16
Oh, I remember, but like in terms of a senpai yeah.
rainbow
07:19
Kuroo and I think, honestly, after I thought about it, after, like, I saw the results, I was like you know, I think it can be very dependent on who the kouhai is, because, like, Kuroo is a great senpai for Tsukishima, but, like, Bokuto is a great senpai for Hinata and I think Kuroo is like an okay senpai for Hinata but it doesn't quite match up. Like I think it can really be dependent. And then you have somebody like Noya who's just a great senpai, no matter who. You are right, that's fun. I love to do a poll, all right, so are we ready to jump in here?
em
07:52
I think that we are, and it's your turn to do the recap. Would you like me to count you down? Please do three, two, one go. The summer training camp is coming to an end as karasuno slowly but surely improves, but Hinata still feels like he's the only one not improving. Kageyama halts practicing together again as he needs to fine-tune the falling toss on his own. Yachi frets over the pair in their relationship, but never fear. The unshakable trust that two volleyball soulmates have can break through any wall, especially with the help of a delicious barbecue. Oh, I loved that. I. This might be my favorite episode so far of this little arc. I feel like the drama you know, the Tsukki stuff, theuki stuff, the kagehina stuff, kind of you know, we've been dealing with it and I just feel like there's more, a little bit more silliness in this episode.
rainbow
08:29
There definitely is a little bit more silliness and I agree, picking a favorite is always going to be so hard for me, but I really do love this one. There's a few moments in particular that I really enjoy and this is a great dub episode as well. I'll try to call out those fun moments.
em
08:45
Yes, please do. I'm counting on you. Yeah, so we start with Yachi's letter to her mom.
rainbow
08:51
Yes, I always forget that. We have like a strong Yachi POV here.
em
08:54
Yeah, especially this episode. This whole episode is really narrated by Yachi and it's all in a letter to her mom and I have two things to say. First of all, I love the idea of her mom getting this letter that is mostly about the homoeroticism of two boy volleyball players, but also the way I want to write a fic about kagehina, but totally told from Yachi's pov would it be like a like, just like a one a moment in time, or like their whole relationship, from when she meets them to like time skip?
rainbow
09:19
I have no idea. I think either would be really fun. I'm sure I think there are fics out there?
09:24
I'm sure there are, yeah BFOSif you know of any really good ones, please write in and let us know. But also, I'm sure m is gonna write a really great one one day. Yes, we have Yachi pov and I wanted to do a little rainbow learning corner for just a second. I wanted to talk about . She mentions just like kind of offhandedly, like oh yeah, it's way more hot here than it is in tohoku, and I was like, well, what the fuck is that? Um? Because I just didn't recognize it. So I looked it up, , and it is a region in japan, it's the tohoku region. So I was like, well, how is that different from prefectures? Because I know they have prefectures.
10:01
So I looked it up and, according to wikipedia, japan is divided into eight regions. They are not official administrative units, though they have been used by government officials for statistical and other purposes since 1905. They are widely used in, for example, maps, geography textbooks and weather reports, and many businesses and institutions use their home regions in their name as well. So, like a university might be the Tohoku University and that's a university for that whole region. And within the Tohoku region there are six prefectures Akita, amori, fukushima, iwate, miyagi and Yamagata.
10:38
So what Yashi is saying there, and then I think she even mentions the Kanto region, which is the region that has Tokyo in it it and so I think what she's saying is it's a lot hotter here in the Kanto region than it is in Tohoku. And I just thought that was very interesting and I just love getting to like learn a little bit more about Japan through this, and I think it's interesting that they have these. They have these regions, but they're not used to like for like administrative purposes, because, like in the United States, we have towns and cities, we have counties, we have states and we have like the federal government. But I so I guess it would be kind of like saying, like the southeast or New England or the southwest, midwest, pacific, northwest, that kind of thing, so it's not like an official like you don't have like a government of Tohoku and they probably have like similar like weather patterns, that kind of thing. So I just thought that was fun and interesting.
em
11:29
Well, thank you, Rainbow. It's always fun to learn. I love reading like other countries' addresses, because it looks so different. It's so fun. Yes, All right. So anyway, back to our boys. It's been three weeks since the Kagehina fight and they're still not really. They're practicing together but they're not talking really.
rainbow
11:48
They're being still, they're being fucking dramatic. It's so ridiculous that, like you're practicing together, it's like again, it's that thing in their head where they're like, well, we can't talk to each other until we've perfected our new freak quick, you fucking weirdos, yeah, like they are the weirdo combo, like they deserve that title.
em
12:06
Meanwhile, karasuno, overall, is slowly but surely. There's improving, there's less mistakes. Uh Tsukki is is getting better, all except Hinata. Hinata feels like he is still being left behind, and this is the most because right now we're in the middle of a game. It's getting hotter, Ukai kind of comments, things are going to get rough on them and this is the most frustrated we ever see. Hinata Maybe not ever.
rainbow
12:30
But so far I would disagree. I think he was more upset when they lost to Abajosai at the end of season one, but I think this is like the most we see him get frustrated and it's not tied to like the loss of the game.
em
12:43
Yeah, like he's just getting frustrated in practice.
rainbow
12:45
Yeah, and I have a note like I think he's honestly being a little too down on himself. Like he, he learned so much from Grandpa Ukai and maybe that's what it is is because he used he learned so much but he's not really able to apply what he's learned yet. He hasn't been able to show that he's improving the way that his teammates are.
em
13:04
Because they have not been able to get this quick down yet. The biggest thing I think is Kagehina and Yachi is noting all of this is that they just have not been able to make it work yet, and that is getting frustrating for any spiker to not comfortably hit a toss for a while.
rainbow
13:20
I think it's getting to Hinata, which leads to a great moment, because Kageyama notices that Hinata is getting frustrated.
em
13:27
Everyone is noticing. Suga makes a comment. You know, I don't think I've ever seen Hinata this agitated before, and Kageyama sees it.
rainbow
13:33
And then so they go to do a quick. Hinata actually manages to get his hand on it. He's able to like tap it over and get it and everyone is kind of impressed. They're like oh, like you know, Hinata was able to get that. But Hinata quickly turns on Kageyama. He accuses Kageyama of going easy on him. He is yelling at him. You can see like a vein in his face bulging out because he is so mad he's pissed oh my god he said you held back just then, didn't you he?
14:02
did, and Kageyama is offended by this implication. He's like me Hold back Volleyball? I would never, but I think ultimately he realizes that Hinata is right On the sidelines.
em
14:16
Tsuki and Ukai are both kind of you know. Yamaguchi is like did he do that? And Tsuki's like who knows? You need animal instincts to tell, and Ukai can say it's hard to tell, but maybe he was holding back a little bit there yeah, and they talk about like I think because Hinata kind of explains himself.
rainbow
14:31
He's like you didn't do the falling toss, and so Ukai explains, he's like yeah, I mean, I guess like yeah, maybe Hinata noticed that like the ball wasn't like dropping immediately and it had more of a parabolic arc to it and he understands that Kageyama is trying to give Hinata some sort of satisfying hit just to like kind of protect his emotions.
14:48
In a way, exactly in the dub, he says but Hinata, is that really something to get mad about? And I'm like, yes, Ukai, for these two. It is like this is how Kageyama work. Kageyama doesn't go easy on Hinata. He, he doesn't do like, he's not gonna give him a toss. That is gonna to be, I don't know how do I?
em
15:06
Well, we get a really good answer for Hinata's frustration later with the Achi, so we'll put a pin in that.
rainbow
15:11
But yeah, but I did want to kind of say like this kind of made me think. I think one of the things that Hinata likes about being Kageyama's volleyball partner and partner in other things is that Kageyama never goes easy on him. He's always challenging him and I think for Hinata that, like implicit challenge, is almost belief in some kind of way, like you're challenging me because you believe that I can, I can make this work, and so for you to go easy on me means that you don't believe that I'm capable of it and you think that my frustration is going to get in the way yeah, and he says to Kageyama don't quit now.
em
15:46
And Kageyama becomes calm Kageyama. You know he remembers Oikawa's words of like try and give the toss that Shrimpy wants, and you can see like that doubt is now gone. He's like okay, sorry, bae, you caught me slipping, yes.
rainbow
15:58
And so I think this is such a strong moment for Kageyama because he is admitting that he needs to work on his tosses for the free quick that it's him that is having the problem, it's not Hinata.
em
16:10
It's not that Hinata can't keep up with those sets, it's that, you know, Kageyama just isn't able to set it where it needs to go right now because now we are, it's after the game and it is solo practice and Kageyama tells Hinata we're not going to practice together right now and Yachi worries that their relationship is worsening and Hinata's like what the hell? And yeah, as you say, Kageyama just explains like it's no practice for you right now until I get this toss down. And Hinata accepts that. Then he's like okay, I'm going to go see if Kenma wants to toss to me. I love how he's just like Kenma toss some balls for me. I made a note. I'm like kagehina is the most healthy, open relationship. It's like I can't give you what you need, so go play with Kenma until I can, the way I have so many headcanons that are exactly that.
16:56
We have to go to AO3 right now. Right now, we gotta go to.
rainbow
16:59
AO3 right now, right now. I just love how, how, like, Yachi is constantly surprised by them, this episode. It's like she thought she had them figured out and now she's like, oh wait, no, they're even gayer than I thought they were. Yachi is all of our stand-ins for this. Yeah, honestly, and so, and then is this where we go to Hinata peeking in on the practice with Tsukishima? Yes, Hinata joins the BFOs. Yes, yeah, I love that so much and I love that like, and I love that Tsukishima is still practicing with them.
em
17:27
Tsuki has turned a corner, for sure. And Tsuki asks him where's your partner? Where's your little boyfriend? Where is he? They're separated right now and he says Kenma tossed me, but only five times. And Kuroo is like I'm surprised he tossed you five times. Kenhina is real.
rainbow
17:43
Kenhina is real and Kuroo knows it. Yeah, again, another healthy, open relationship, exactly. And then Lev shows up as well and my note is yay, lev is here to practice with Hinata and the others and he's skipping receiving practice to do it.
em
18:00
He was doing important receiving practice with Yaku Off screen where we didn't have to deal with him Is what Rainbow is saying between the lines.
rainbow
18:08
That's the subtext. But no, again this goes to his arrogance where he's like no, I just want to spike, I just want to block Like. He's like I don't need to learn no receives. He's Kageyama thinking he doesn't need to learn English. So Lev is like, so he like, and I guess he like, so he lies to Kuroo. He's like oh no, Yaku said I was done and then it shows Yaku like, asking the others like where's Lev? And they're like oh, he ran out saying he was done and Yaku's like I didn't say he was done. But whatever, they have enough players, the best three on three, ever.
em
18:39
Akaashi immediately points out , is this a fair splitting? Because it's Kuroo, lev and Tsukishima on one team, all extremely tall. And then you have Akaashi, Bokuto and Hinata.
rainbow
18:52
Yeah, who, and Bokuto's like, not like tiny or anything, but he's definitely shorter than the other three and he's the tallest of that group.
em
19:01
And what Akaashi doesn't understand is but you're Hinata's parents and this is making me happy that you're all in a little team together, because Bokuto and Hinata, like they, run off happily together and Akaashi is just the tired mom yeah, that's the thing is like.
rainbow
19:12
Well, first of all, we need Hinata and Bokuto to be together, and Kuroo is just kind of like, hey, man, this is like the one time we're going to make this work and I'm going to make it happen. Yeah, he's like I just want all of us tall blockers on one team and I think I had canon that part of that as Kuroo's like I want to see how often we can shut Bokuto down. Yeah, really. But also, I think, for Kuroo, I think he feels that it's important to teach Tsukishima and Lev about blocking and, you know, maybe there is some like knowing that like Bokuto is going to be a good teacher for Hinata, because this is where we get the like the beginnings of Bohina. Yes, and I love their friendship. They're so. I love them so much in this episode. I love them always. But this is where it starts.
em
19:55
They're really a great pair because Hinata is very flattering to Bokuto and then Bokuto is very affectionate with Hinata and takes him under his wing and helps him learn things, and I I will have things for the spoiler zone, actually yeah, and then so we have a , a cutaway to two of the managers I think they're managers from Fukurodani, Yukie and Kaori.
rainbow
20:13
They're just like chatting, and then one of them is saying something about and then I saw a huge rhino beetle and I want to point out that I think it's in episode seven. We see a rhino beetle like above one of the gym doors and that's just like and I wonder if I should have looked into like whether that has like cultural significance or like what the if there's some sort of inside joke there that I'm not getting. But I thought that was so interesting because I remember noticing the beetle and being like why are we getting the shot of a beetle and then we get them mentioning it in this episode, and I think that's just fun yeah, and I want to say we see it on someone's shoulder at some point.
em
20:45
I don't know if it's before, it might even be after this. I'm going to keep an eye out in the next episode to see if we see that beetle again, because I do believe we see it pop up again okay, yeah, and I think in between now and the next episode I'm gonna look into if there's any significance of that.
rainbow
20:58
Hell yeah, the managers, we see them because they're coming to tell our little BFOS dinner's almost over. And of course it's Yuki because she loves food and she's like if you don't hurry up, the kitchen's going to close and you're not going to get any dinner. And everyone's like OK, we got to go eat, but Hinata clearly doesn't want to go. He's like, he clearly wants to keep playing. Which, it's like, Hinata, you have to eat dinner, you have to take care of yourself, , but Kuroo is like which, he's a great senpai, because he's like no, don't worry, we'll pick it back up the next day. So then we have our little commercial break and then we come back to Noya trying to wake Asahi up. It's so cute, they're so in love my domestic hand cannons are going crazy.
21:38
Yes, Noya canonically wakes up first and Asahi is like because he you know, asahi is usually so nice and polite, but you can tell he is not a morning person. He's so grumpy and he's like I'm sleeping. And then Noya does something that would make me want to punch him in the face and would probably earn him a stern kick to the shin. He opens up the blinds and lets the sun come in and em if you ever do that to me while I'm trying to sleep.
em
22:04
One of the few times I felt you were genuinely angry at me is when I tried to kind of get you to wake up and start the day when you weren't ready one morning, and I'll never forget it and I'll never try again, I look because it was a weekend and we didn't have anything to do.
rainbow
22:21
Like, here's the thing if I have to get out of bed and do something, there's something that I need to do. I have an appointment, I have to go somewhere, I work, I have school, whatever it's like. Yeah, whatever, I'll grumble. But if it is a weekend and I am looking at an empty morning and there's nothing for me to do, I am staying in that bed until I am good and ready. Listen, I okay. Here's the thing and it's probably a trauma response Because sometimes on the weekends, if I wasn't up early enough, my dad would come in and play his fucking guitar.
em
22:49
That is sounds correct. That's amazing. You've met my dad. You know he would, and my dad was a rip open the blinds type of father?
rainbow
22:57
No, absolutely not. I get to to sleep. And here's another thing is currently I have to be out of the house. I like I get up for work and I'm out of the house by 6 am, which I don't like. That I don't want to do that. Make it until 5 59 am. Listen, I get to the bus on time every day out of the bed at 4, at 5, 42, maybe on a good day?
23:18
no, that's on a bad day on a good day. No, that's on a bad day On a good day. I'm out of the bed by like 5.39.
em
23:23
5.28. It is down to the second when it comes to the mornings.
rainbow
23:26
And I'm always on time.
em
23:28
We're getting off track.
rainbow
23:30
Yeah, anyway, who's that one person who always says they feel like they're in our kitchen when we're on the timeline? Anyway, what were we talking? Okay, no, we're on the timeline anyway. what were we talking? Okay, Noya? Oh yeah, we just got back from the commercials. Okay, moving on, . So then we see they're eating breakfast again and Tsukishima is trying to be a jerk to Hinata and be like oh, you're eating so much, but it's not gonna make you tall, and Hinata's like I use it all for volleyball, ddo they give him something to say when he's oh, does he just grumble he literally, in the summer thing it's like, because it's when his mouth is full of rice, oh, okay.
24:04
And they don't give you anything in the subtitles. No, okay, yeah, no. In the dub he's basically saying like well, no, all this energy that I'm like from this food, I use it for volleyball, not towards growing interesting and then, yeah, Tsukishima, and it is. It is interesting that they have him actually say something, because Tsukishima and yamaguchi are like I did not understand that. I'm like it was pretty clear and then I think we just have them like playing again.
em
24:29
They're still not winning any games against anybody Ukai is training with Kageyama and he tells Kageyama to visualize the spiker, so he starts to visualize Hinata instead of the water bottles, and it seems to help and, I think, for the rest of his life.
rainbow
24:42
Whenever Kageyama is trying out a new set, the first thing that comes to mind is he pictures Hinata and I think he has to really like tell himself like no, I need to picture the spiker I'm actually going to be spiking towards anyway, that's my habit he never breaks. Bokuto is teaching Hinata about the rebound yes, we also get some good Kuroo, dropping a lot of blocking knowledge and it's very sweet because Tsuki-kun is like you know, we are technically opponents.
em
25:07
Why are you being so helpful? And Kuroo's funny. He's like I've always been nice, but he's like no, honestly, he wants to make the battle of the garbage dp happen for his coach.
rainbow
25:16
I love it. Yes, first of all, we have another great dub moment, because Kuroo's like what's so wrong with being nice and helping my volleyball brethren? Oh Jesus, it's great. It's because I think it's great and I think it totally fits, because they're like uh-huh, okay. And then, yeah, Kuroo wants to make Nekomata's dream come true, and I need more fix with like Kuroo and Nekomata and with the way that Kuroo clearly looks up to Nekomata and like cares so much about him and I think has learned a lot from Nekomata about what it means to like help others, and so he wants to give Nekomata something in return. Yeah, yeah, okay.
25:53
So we have BFOS Kuroo being a blocking teacher, and then we have Bokuto, Hinata and Akaashi on the same team, and so Hinata is really impressed by Bokuto's rebound because you know there's a big block in front. Have Bokuto, Hinata and Akaashi on the same team, and so Hinata is really impressed by Bokuto's rebound because you know there's a big block in front of Bokuto and he can't get over it, and so he purposely hits the block to kind of do a reset. And Hinata is very impressed and Bokuto is like yeah, it's pretty cool. He's like, but you know, sometimes the ball will like it'll fuck you over and like hit you right in the face and Akaashi is there with the yeah, that sure seems to happen a lot to you. Bo kato and book shows like that was your cue to say it hasn't been happening as much and Akaashi will have none of it. I love them.
26:28
They're so married I have a feeling that Akaashi is a lot sweeter when it's just the two of them we know, listen, I can't get into that right now because it's spoiler zone stuff, but we get answers to many questions. Listen, it's like it is. It does kind of feel like I kind of, because I like I am a boko aka shipper. I read a lot of their fics. I do love boko aka and I think they're great. And like I think the first time I ever watched haikyuu and I got into fics and stuff, I was reading a lot of boko aka and then when I went back and re-watch, I was watching Boko Aka stuff in the very beginning and I was like wait a minute, why, why do we ship them so hard again? Like, why are they such a big ship? And then you get to later stuff and you're like, oh my god, yeah, okay, no, I remember. Now I remember there's a reason they are one of the pillars of Haikyuu.
em
27:16
I mean I'll ship anything where one of them is a little mean to the other one.
rainbow
27:19
Yeah, I mean, that is all you need, but then, oh, there's just so much more. There's layers, there's layers here, and I can't wait to talk about them as we continue with this series.
em
27:31
So now moving on, Karasuno has record keepingly done the worst. They have about three wins and 61 losses, but they have something to keep up their spirits.
rainbow
27:41
It's the morning again and we see Yachi getting up. It's the morning of the last day, yeah, she's very sleepy, and kyoka's like oh, are you gonna make it? And like I like how she kind of teases Yachi a little bit. Anyway, I have to go to a03 right now so we get confirmation that Hinata is in fact a morning person, which we kind of already figured. But he's you know, Yachi and him run into each other and she's like oh, Hinata, you have so much energy. And he's like well, yeah, I just got up and, as we just discussed, BFOScould never be me. I can't imagine, because there are people out there like that, who they wake up and they feel energized and ready to start the day. And then there's people like me and I think Yachi and it sounds like Asahi as well who need time to really feel like a full han being. Like I get to work around 7 am. I don't feel really ready to be doing work until about 8 30.
em
28:30
Yeah, Hinata's definitely jumping out of bed and there's a song playing and he's like it's great to be alive.
rainbow
28:37
Yeah, but then we have Daichi comes out of I don't know some sort of room and hears whispers around to the corner. You see him peeking and it's nakamata talking to the sunglasses coach, who is wearing sunglasses in a dark, shadowy hallway, and I'm like, how do you see? And so Daichi overhears something and it's I love the way it's like. It seems almost sinister what's happening.
em
28:59
I know I'm like wait a minute. Are they about to like reveal an insane plot point in the middle of this slice of life?
rainbow
29:04
volleyball anime no, no, no, it's just. It's just some fun comic relief. So then we go back to the, the gym and everybody's you know practicing and stuff. And I made a note here. I always forget because I think of Kuroo as really tall and kind of lanky, but he, he's really not. He's actually kind of thick, like his thighs are pretty insane.
em
29:26
I was just looking at him like compared to other characters.
rainbow
29:28
This, just in Kuroo, is dummy thick he is. So then you know, karasuno loses again, and I do have a question, because they do flying laps around the gym instead of running up the hill.
em
29:37
I got really excited because I was going to go over this in manga versus anime. They do say in the episode how hot it is, but I feel like it's a little bit more emphasized in the manga and they move the punishment from running up the hill to back indoors because it's so hot.
rainbow
29:51
Oh, okay, yeah, so no, they definitely at least. From what?
em
29:54
I they don't address it in the anime.
rainbow
29:56
I didn't see anything that really addressed that. I mean, they definitely talked about it getting hot, but really like, and you know, so karasuno is doing the flying laps, and then the other teams are commenting of just like, wow, they've done so many laps, well, they're good at them now. Yeah, they're very good, yeah. And I think we have Yaku making a comment about how Hinata is being so intense about it and like a jerk, and he's like Yaku, you don't have any room to talk. You're also a short king, . And then Yaku kicks him in the ass because he does not want to hear that and a ship is born. I mean, it was in my mind, .
em
30:32
Yaku Lev is pretty. it's a pretty popular ship, I think it is, and it's the only thing I like about Lev so Fukurodani is set to play Karasuno next and surprisingly the teammates are not that excited, even though Karasuno doesn't win a lot. They're a hard team to play against because you just don't know what they're going to do next. They're just so unpredictable. But thankfully it's hot. They probably have to be exhausted, except.
rainbow
31:03
Daichi comes up and he's like don't worry guys, he's like I I overheard something and I was gonna keep it to myself, but you know it's clear, you need your spirits raised. So today, after all the practice matches are over, the coaches have prepared barbecue for us. Bar, yes, and in the dub it's's meat, meat with a side of meat.
em
31:24
I enjoy the dub version of that the meat meat with a side of meat.
rainbow
31:27
And listen, if you're a Haikyuu fan, you know it. You've seen the gif, you've seen the video, the way they're dancing. So we have the three idiots. Well, it's all four of the idiots, but we have Noya Tanaka and Hin Hinata and they're doing the same. Hinata tanaka's like leading them and raising their arms up, yeah he's like he's leading them in some sort of dance, but autistic Kageyama can't quite follow, so he's doing his own version.
em
31:49
I had another theory was born when I was watching this and maybe his arms are tired, because his arms would be the most tired out of anybody's, so maybe he can't even like he's doing the motion just without lifting the arms.
rainbow
32:00
Pretty much, yeah to like, yeah, to save his, because he is the one he has to lift his arm both of his arms above his head all the time. Oh my god, no, I love that. That's my new headcanon stealing that, and then we get back into the game, right is this where Yachi says she wants to see the Tosquick? Yes, she tells Hinata she wants to see the Freakquick at least once.
em
32:23
I fucking love this moment because she says that to him. A moment goes by and for some reason, Hinata really reminds me of Luffy here, just like. I don't know why, don't ask me why, but just the way that he's like, yeah, I do too. And then he goes up to Kakiab and he's like hey, hurry up with that toss, I want to do it. And he's just like it's the energy of like when you're at a friend's house and they ask if you're hungry and you say yes, and then they're like hey, mom, my friend's hungry.
rainbow
32:48
Like honestly, yeah, I love that. Also, eli's gonna love that, but no, I agree, I love that. He just is like so demanding of Kageyama. He's like, yeah, give me that freak toss.
em
33:02
and Kageyama's like I told you, it's not like we shouldn't do it right now until I can do the set better yes, because Yachi gets a little nervous when Hinata goes up to Kageyama and like demands for the, the toss, and Kageyama's response is very calm and he's like don't rush, it's no practice for you if I'm not ready yet. And then Yachi starts to have realizations here that are really important. She realizes that Kageyama has been trying to kind of be respectful towards Hinata and what he wants this whole time, and then she realizes that the reason Hinata got so mad at Kageyama is because Hinata has no doubt that Kageyama will eventually get this toss. It's just a matter of time. So when Kageyama doubted himself in that moment, that's why Hinata got mad and it's like yeah, the answer is just it's gayer than you thought.
rainbow
33:43
Yeah, it's just at every level. The deeper you go it's just getting gayer. It's like an inception if every time they went into a different level of dream there was like more rainbows, and I fucking hate Hinata.
em
33:58
He goes to Kageyama. He's like you're creepy when you worry about others.
rainbow
34:02
Yeah, he's. Yeah, he says you being considerate is freaking me out. Just say you love him. Just I love it so much. And then Yachi has a moment where she says you know, suki and Hinata always call Kageyama king, but I feel like today Hinata is the king.
em
34:19
It looks like the crown is on Hinata's head and he's like I demand the best toss and he which is totally how that fucking works.
rainbow
34:26
Anyway, Royal TAU, where they're both kings. We actually wrote a little, a little. We had an idea together early on in our Twitter.
em
34:33
That was very early on. We were riffing on the timeline.
rainbow
34:36
We were, and I think we both had the thought of like, should I reach out and see if they want to write this with me? And me personally? I was like no, because then I'll drop it.
em
34:44
And then I knew I, like I, have commitment issues when it comes to writing fic. So I didn't want to, but, oh my God, don't riff with me on the timeline, I might fall in love with you.
rainbow
34:55
Look out everybody and we're open, so there's a possibility.
em
34:58
OK, so and that's so. The episode's about wrapping up here.
rainbow
35:09
Yeah, we really just kind of get a lovely montage of all the hard work they've put in during this camp. We kind of get every, every single one of them. except for the, except for two of the npcs, because we get a note. Well, no, the npcs aren't really included in this. We kind of see everybody. You know they're like watching. You know they're practicing the synchro attack, they're practicing their spikes, noah is practicing his sets, we get Kageyama and Hinata in the practice they were doing, we get Tsukishima in the practice he was doing and yamaguchi in the practice he was doing, and they have just been working so hard. And I think the next episode is this the last one.
em
35:35
yeah, so I think we're about to get into the game against fuKuroo donnie and that'll be the last one of our training camp arc and we have great moments coming up in the next episode. But that was this episode Fun, real slice of life, real comedy heavy, which I think we needed after all of the drama and flashbacks of the last few episodes.
rainbow
35:52
Totally agree. I again really love this episode. There's a lot going on and it looks like you have some stuff from Manga vs Anime.
em
35:58
It's Manga vs Anime Today we covered Manga chapters 90, yeah, yeah, 90, about halfway through 92, and I just wanted to note. So in the sub I do notice that in the beginning Yachi refers to her mom as okasama instead of okasan, which is like the most respectful way one can refer to their mother. But in the manga it gets translated to dear mrs mother.
rainbow
36:23
Mistakes were made. Mrs Mother, mrs Mother have you ever called your mom, mrs Mother, mrs Mother, I'm sure she'll love it.
em
36:31
So I just thought that was a funky little translation, okay. So they move things around a little bit. Rather they combine these scenes from the anime. So when Kageyama tells Hinata they can't practice anymore, and then Hinata in the manga, immediately we go into Hinata telling Kageyama to hurry up and get good with his tosses and they have that moment instead of one scene is like in the beginning and one's kind of at the end of the episode.
36:53
And then what's not in the anime at all and what kills me because I wish it was is Kageyama finds out Hinata trained with Grandpa Ukai and he gets mad at Hinata. He says you sneaky little scrub, you got training from Coach Ukai all by yourself. And Hinata says it's not like I meant to sneak out there without you. It's kind of cute, that's gay, it's gay. And they cut it out entirely. And then another thing they cut out another Kagehina moment which pisses me off. That scene where Yachi and Hinata talk on the staircase, that didn't happen. That happens with him and Kageyama in the bathroom. And Kageyama, in his very Kageyama way, is like you better be practicing like good on your own. And I said why couldn't this have been in the anime. They shorted us on Kageyama content, so yeah, a few a few notable changes.
rainbow
37:34
Yeah, I love you better be getting real practice in, because, again, I think we're still seeing. Because one thing I do like about this episode is we are seeing such a growth in Kageyama, yeah, and Yachi's really kind of spotlighting it for us, because we're seeing back. You know, when they had their fight, you know to, was demanding a certain kind of toss from Kageyama and he wasn't willing to budge. He was being very stubborn about it. You know it's, it's what started the fight, and now that he's learned so much more and he's grown so much more, he's very different and so I just really like that we get to see that change. But we still, I think, are seeing Kageyama still worrying that Hinata isn't going to get to the level he needs to go. He doesn't have, he still doesn't have quite the same trust in Hinata that Hinata has in Kageyama growing pains of a relationship.
38:21
But it's okay, he'll get there one day all, all right.
em
38:23
So now on to our character spotlight. What short king are we talking about?
rainbow
38:27
today we're talking about Yaku Morisuke. I do love Yaku, and we picked him today because we get to see him a little bit and we couldn't think of anyone else. But no, I really do, I love Yaku. I do do love his ship with lev. I think they're really fun, and so I have, of course, a note about his personality from the wiki we have about his personality quote overall, Yaku is a rather honest, straightforward and hard-working person who's very confident about his skills as a libero and looks out for his team, especially first years lev and shibayama and Kenma. He will frequently engage in light-hearted scuffles with his juniors and will sometimes eat their food. Despite this, he can also be incredibly short-tempered, especially concerning lev, and that's where the ship comes in.
em
39:13
I'm gonna start. I'd say that I don't ship it.
rainbow
39:15
I just don't really like, I'm very neutral, but I'll start shipping it with earnest I mean honestly, if I can talk about I can't remember the name of the fic at all it's like post time skip. They're adults, it is canon divergence and I think it's like Kuroo was living with Yaku but then he couldn't really. They weren't really getting along. So he finds a new roommate and it ends up being Kenma and then Lev ends up moving in with Yaku and somebody makes a joke about Yaku doming Lev to Lev and this is like later on in the fic and it's completely a joke. They don't think they're together whatsoever. And then Lev like calls out to Yaku and he's like, hey, Yaku, weren't we not supposed to talk about the doming stuff with anybody? Oh, my god.
39:54
And it is, I think, one of my favorite moments of all time in any fic. It's so funny, that's amazing anyway. But yeah, but Yaku, and just like on his own, without the ship, with lev. I just think he's a fun character. I like that he has so much respect for Noya as a libero, but like he is also an amazing libero. I think the fact that Noya looks up to him so much is a very telling thing about him and his skill, so getting into his name, meaning his family name is Yaku and it means long ago night which is probably not a lot of meaning there?
40:24
No, I don't think so, but I like it. It's a very poetic name, I enjoy that. And then his given name is Morisuke. It means protecting help, which I, yeah, I think for a libero. Yeah, totally agree, especially for the libero of Nekoma. Moving on to his character sheet, which is the colored version I don't know if you the illustrated version, true, not illustrated, it's colored. It's always illustrated, isn't it? Yes, okay, so Yaku is. He's a third year. He's in class 3-5. His position is Libro. We talked about that. His height is 5'5", so he's a little bit taller than Hinata and Noya, but still short for volleyball. His birthday is august 8th, which makes him a leo. I think that's very fitting. I think that makes a lot of sense for Yaku. his favorite food is stir-fry vegetables, which love, love me some stir-fry. Yeah, his current worry is there's just something kind of off about some of the juniors on his team is there is there really love, or do you want to give him a little kiss?
41:25
okay, his ability parameters on a five point scale, his power is only a one, which I think makes sense for a libero. His jumping is a three, and then his speed, technique, intelligence and stamina. All fours makes sense. Yeah, I think that makes a lot of sense for him. Do you have anything else to say about Yaku before we move on?
em
41:41
respect short king. Climb that man like a tree. Now for this week's who and haikyuu scenario. this week's scenario, we meant to do this months ago. This is going to be quite a niche one, so if you want to skip ahead, I wanted to be mad at you, but I really urge you once again to go watch the boyfriend on netflix.
41:59
It is a dating show that is exclusively japanese men. It's really great because you Japanese culture still has a ways to go with embracing LGBT culture. So it was a really interesting, funny, cute little show that we really enjoyed, and we wanted to do a who and Haikyuu scenario because this aired back in like July and we just kind of forgot about it. So now we're going to do it now. So if you want to watch it and then come back and listen to this part, I'll be waiting right here for you. So for this week's episode, we are going to discuss Hinata, Kageyama, Kuroo, Kenma, bokuro, Akaashi, Tsukishima and Yamaguchi, and we're going to kind of just focus on, maybe, what character they're most like or what scenario that happened in the show would they have found themselves in, and we'll try and give some sort of brief description so that you guys who haven't watched. It aren't totally lost, but again, this is a niche one, so sorry, it's our show and not yours.
rainbow
42:49
Yeah, and there will be spoilers for the Boyfriend. So if you really want to watch it and you don't want to know what happens to any of these guys, definitely skip forward, because we're gonna get right into it. So, starting with Hinata, what kind of which of the characters do you think he's most like?
em
43:02
Hinata is Alan, yes, for sure. So Alan is like the, he's half Brazilian and he's the one who has the most personality hands down out of all of them. They're all pretty like quiet, demure, reserved, very, you know, your typical kind of Japanese man.
rainbow
43:19
Yeah, they definitely yeah, and that's something I think we kind of learned a lot from this show is like what people look for as far as personality in Japan, and it is not loud, it is not boisterous.
em
43:31
It was such a switch because with US reality shows everything is so over the top. I mean, everyone knows Americans are known for being loud and obnoxious, yeah, and so this was such a tonal shift for us to watch. But Alan kind of comes in a bit later and he's just very like he hugs everyone right away. He's very warm and you can tell him. I think he's one of those people that makes the whole group a little bit more at ease, because finally someone is kind of there to take that attention spotlight that none of them are very comfortable with yeah, I totally agree.
rainbow
43:59
And they comment on it because he comes in and he like I think he does like a bow to everyone, but then he hugs each of them individually and a couple of them come in content, comment on it like, oh, you're like hugging each of us, like when you first meet us, and I think that kind of familiarity is just not something that they're used to. but it's, that is who Alan is, , and and to be, and to kind of explain a little bit with this show, the format is very interesting because we kind of have characters who come and go. We have some characters who are there for all 10 episodes. We have some that are only there for like a couple. There's some that come in more towards the back half and Alan came in later. Did he come in after? Yeah, he came in after Usopp.
em
44:34
Oh, really, I think that's what happened. It's been a while now and I can't remember.
rainbow
44:37
It's been anyway, but Alan does come in a little bit later. Yeah. So alan comes in later, which I think is interesting and I think for alan I think that's kind of okay. I'm sure he felt a little awkward about it, but I could see some of these other guys if they had come in like after there was so much established already they would have a harder time kind of slotting themselves in.
44:54
But alan because again that's why Hinata is alan, because Hinata would also have no problem just sliding right in and making friends with the group yeah, Kageyama I think Kageyama would kind of be like a Ryota I saw him more a little bit of Shun I I kind of see him more as like the Shun, like fruity doesn't really smile a lot, like you don't really like, not good at talking about his feelings not good at opening up. I could see like and just like, and with like, Shun and Dai, which Shun and die are like the couple, the successful couple well successful is an interesting word to use for them, I would say but they're the ones who like end up together and like confess to each other and like say that they love each other and like.
45:36
I think, just with the way that like there's like this, like kind of like coming together and separating thing, I think you could kind of put kagehina into a Shun and Dai situation.
em
45:46
I agree with that, but I will make my argent for Ryota because I just I feel like they have a similar look and I also think that Kageyama would also totally miss the social cues from What's-His-Face, from Gensei that he was getting and I think he would be kind of oblivious, because Ryota's kind of frustrating to watch.
46:03
He like never likes the persons who actually like him and he like hangs on to people that he shouldn't hang on to and he's a little like kind of oblivious in my mind and he's just like the, the airheaded model one, and I think that that could be Kageyama.
rainbow
46:16
I get that, I think, for you know, obviously it's never going to be a one-to-one with any of these, because I think, BFOSKageyama would have like been shut down the first time and understood that, whereas Ryota, that was the most annoying thing about Ryota is like you have kind of been told outright, yeah, and you're still like it's that kind of it's persistence to the point of it being like this is a problem, yeah, , but you know Ryota's fun, no, I totally get that and there's really nobody else I can see him being.
em
46:46
Kuroo is if Usak and Alan combined, that would be Kuroo.
rainbow
46:51
I could kind of see that. I also kind of could see him as a, as a Taehyun, yeah, like kind of the wise one. Yeah, Taehon, who deserved better. Yeah, , Taehon, who was so, so, BFOSjust like really great and he is. I think he's originally from south korea and so I think that was, I think for him he felt that was a barrier. he's not a native japanese speaker. Taehyun deserved better, and, and just the way that Taehon was very good at like talking to the others and helping through them, talk through their problems, I could see Kuroo taking that role yeah, I.
em
47:23
I think Kenma would kind of be a bit of a Shun.
rainbow
47:27
I think I agree the complicated, one who can't make up his mind yeah, okay, well, yeah, okay. So Kuroo Ken as Dai and Shun, that also kind of works.
em
47:36
That does too. Dai is another one. Dai was a big favorite amongst all of them.
rainbow
47:40
Another one who I think had a little bit more personality, was a lot more outgoing, had a group of girlfriends, had a group of hags that he hung out with. Yeah, I could definitely see Kenma as like, yeah, and I think particularly with Shun it's the kind of like he clearly doesn't feel comfortable in the social situations, that kind of stuff. Right, Bokuto Usak yes stuff right.
em
48:08
Bocato Usak yes, it abso-fucking-lutely Usak is the one who drank chicken. The Usak is a go-go dancer and he is a beefy daddy amongst all of these twinks and he is so cute and sensitive and awkward and he was my favorite and I think that Bokuto is Usak, but also with more of a personality, because Usak was a bit awkward and quiet. Yeah, again.
rainbow
48:27
He's kind of like an Usak, with alan mixed in there as well. and yeah, Usak, what created probably one of the biggest dramas of the early on episodes? Because they had like a, they had like a stipend for food, they all shared finances and they had to like grocery shop together and they had like worked it out pretty perfectly. But then Usak came in and was like well, I have to buy like a certain amount of chicken.
em
48:50
And it was blowing the budget open wide and he was blowing people out.
rainbow
48:55
He was yeah, and then it was like such a like, it was such a triph when he managed to buy the amount of chicken he needed within his budget. They even, like, changed the budget for him. They were like, okay, you can spend a little bit more on your chicken. And then it still wasn't enough. And then what he did with the chicken is he took it home. Was it raw or did he cook it?
em
49:13
He has to cook it. He would die. But he would just that and water and he would mix that up into a shake.
rainbow
49:20
He would blend it, he would blend it he blend no seasoning, unseasoned cooked chicken and water and he blended it up in like a little nutribullet thing and then we had to watch him drink it multiple times and I think Bokuto would do that for his craft, absolutely, , and that that is why he's the Usak. But then, also, kind of moving on to Akaashi, , I kind of see Akaashi as a Kazuto, like the really pretty, really nice one. Everybody wants a ride, everyone wanted Kazuto, everyone, every single person. But alan was the one who, like, again, with a big boisterous personality, he ultimately ended up kind of like they don't end up like as like end game, but they end up as like a couple who, like they, you know they, they became friends and they got to know each other. So, yeah, so I kind of can see Akaashi as a Kazuto, in which case Bokuto would be the Alan. And I think that's why we waited to do this, because we wanted to talk about Boko Aka, because we saw Kazuto and Alan and said this is Boko Aka.
em
50:18
Yeah, Tsuki's a hard one. I don't really have a person he would be. Um Sookie's a hard one.
rainbow
50:23
I don't really have a person he would be. I kind of want to give him Shun again, Because he's such a bitch yeah because, he's, yeah, he's, like the bitchy part of Shun, because, ooh, Shun Shun sometimes pissed me off. I had, I had a lot of feelings about. Shun. He drew me back in a couple times, but , just Shun is an orphan boy with abandonment issues shoes.
em
50:40
he was left at a bus stop, when he was three.
rainbow
50:42
Just kidding, that's roxy andrews.
em
50:43
But and the him and him and Dais dynamic is very toxic, honestly, , but we don't have time to get into all that.
rainbow
50:50
Yamaguchi's definitely gensei, just like a sweet boy who is not appreciated yeah, yeah, gensei not appreciated, does hair and makeup very sweet and you know, but didn't get what he wanted. And yeah, that's the thing is like. I think with this show and I think with the boyfriend, I think there I could see a lot more of like if this were an American show, I think there would be a lot more of like the producers like pushing them together and kind of making certain outcomes happen and it really seemed like they were giving these, these boys, a chance to really get to know each other. And it wasn't necessarily about them finding an actual boyfriend. It kind of ended up like them finding community and just like getting and getting to be around other queer people.
51:32
I think can be so fucking magical when you are a queer person, especially if maybe you come from a place where you felt like you couldn't really be yourself. Like you know, I come from the south in America, like the southeast, and it's not as easy to be gay there as it is in other parts of the country. And coming from a place like that and you know, leaving a place like that and coming to a place where you are around other people, other queer people, and like that's the only people you're around. There's like a safety in that and a comfort in that. That just is really nice and I think that's kind of something all the boys talked about was like getting to experience that and they had.
52:06
Originally I thought it was just going to be all like gay men, but some of them talk about like being bisexual and like having been with women and at first I was like, oh no, are we going to get into biphobia? But they had a very nice, like inclusive conversation about that that I really appreciated so go watch the Boyfriend on Netflix.
em
52:21
It's a great show. Thank you for bearing with us with this high one, hq scenario that maybe two people will enjoy before we lose some of you with the spoiler zone. You can catch us on our socials. We're on twitter, instagram, Tumblr and blue sky at fly hq pod. That's fly hq pod. You can also send us an email at fly hq pod at gmailcom. That's fly hq pod. And now spoiler zone time. and now spoiler zone time. I really don't have much, except for again. I just love Bohina's friendship and I'm just really I love to think about them in the Black Jackals together and I like to imagine that if anyone even looks at Hinata sideways, Bokuto steps up to them and says are you disrespecting my brethren?
rainbow
53:03
Yeah, absolutely, are you disrespecting my disciple? I think it's really beautiful that they get to play together. I think that makes a lot of sense. I think Furudate was probably, you know, just rubbing their little hands together, thinking about like, oh, everyone's gonna love Bokuto and Hinata and guess what, they're gonna be the bestest friends.
em
53:18
And I think Hinata needed someone like Bokuto, because who else does he have? Atsumu and Sakusa? Yeah, oh my god, yeah on the black jackals, and yeah, and you need, Hinata needs someone that can match his freak a little bit, anyway yeah, and Bokuto definitely does, and I've definitely read some really cute fics about , like somebody, Boom.
rainbow
53:34
Turkey has a great like series. That's like all of the characters like just loving Hinata and like little vignettes. And there's a cute one of when Hinata like tries out for the black jackals and Bokuto like really wants him to join and is so excited. And then when Hinata comes out and is like I made it, made the team, because you know what that means, right, and they're like barbecue and it's really cute. And then I've seen some other cute ones of like Hinata like staying with boko ako when he's like trying out for the jackals team and then like something about like and I heard them having really loud sex and it was uncomfortable oh my god, please, .
em
54:07
I need a fic where Hinata is actually their biological son I stat oh my god fucking for real.
rainbow
54:13
I send daddy the link. Yes, and I will say like I, because some people do ship them romantically and sexually and it's not my favorite. I really do see them more as a platonic ship. But I've read a couple of fics. It's it's not bad. It's not my favorite, I really do see them more as a platonic ship. But I've read a couple of fics. It's not bad. It's not a bad ship. I like it, I get it, especially once they join the Jackals together.
em
54:31
Yeah, I'm with you, I feel you, and with that we are going to wrap up this episode. Thank you everybody. We'll see you next week and until then, fly high Woo.