Haikyuu!!, doujinshi shopping, etc.

[wednesday_10_00]

Before I talk at great length about Haikyuu, I want to talk about deputy shopping services. I have been using Noppin for years (since they were Crescent, even) and have been happy with them. At the end of December, however, just as I was getting ready to place a bunch of bids on Winter Comiket doujinshi, Noppin closed for a week for the holiday and

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[mangaroo]

Helpful Crunchyroll link: http://www.crunchyroll.com/haikyu

Prompt: when I watch a crunchyroll show with (*cough* after) w_10_00, I send an episode-by-episode email hitting the episode's highlights for me. All squee, very little insight (though I am a very insightful viewer, as long as you think Haikyuu!! is a romance). Anyway, I've already done that for Haikyuu!! (mostly. I'm on episode 24), so if anybody picks this up from the start, please consider doing the same here in the comments. It's so much fun to watch with you. And I won't spoil!

Spoiler: they're totally in love.

[wednesday_10_00]

Good idea! Aww, I just remembered when I did that for Avatar. That was so much fun. Remember when LJ was awesome? (She says, still stubbornly using LJ.)

Spoiler: they're totally in love.

I think the spoiler is that everyone is in love.

[wednesday_10_00]

OMG, amazing! I just found the icon that makes these a matched set. (What was I just saying about them and their adorable identical expressions?)

I love these dorks so much.

[mangaroo]

I see this as a huge problem. From now on, you're going to have to split your comments in two and post half the reply with Kageyama and half with Hinata.

...pause.

What's a "nata"? Kageyama is like "dark mountain" and Hinata is "light..." what? (OMG, they are so destined for each other. It's fiction, mangaroo. Someone chose their names. SHUT UP!!! It's love.)

[sara_tanaquil]

Hee! You've convinced me. I will check it out.

[wednesday_10_00]

Yay!!! This makes me very happy. I hope you like it! (Please report back.)

[mangaroo]

You will quickly regret that it is not the focus of your cinema class. (You teach cinema? Multi-hatted!)

[sara_tanaquil]

Well, the ancient world in cinema. Which basically means a lot of chariot races. And in the 2000's, extra amounts of bare chests.

(I don't even remotely have an icon suitable for this.)

[mangaroo]

I confess, I got all excited when I saw the comment count was 22 because I remembered it as 20 and thought we had another fan to play with. *sadface*

Anyway, I just cried my way through chapter 40 of the manga (like I do), and this has nothing to do with chapter 40 at all, but as I've been reading, I was thinking how clear the pairings seem to me. In a "of course X goes with Y" way, like [Spoiler (click to open)]the way Noya is always chiding Asahi, or interacting with him in the background of a panel. I briefly fell into the trap of wondering how fangirls could pair X with Z when it's SOOO obvious who everyone belongs with. And then I remember, oh, yeah, yaoi. Plus, manga is really exceptional at making powerful connections between rival characters. I can see where those who like to heal rifts (or enjoy a little sadism) would be attracted to [Spoiler (click to open)]Oikawa and Kageyama even though it violates the natural order of the universe. And it's hard to miss how meeting Hinata invigorated Kenma (yeah, I'm leaving that one in the open), so I can really understand why that

[wednesday_10_00]

I confess, I got all excited when I saw the comment count was 22 because I remembered it as 20 and thought we had another fan to play with. *sadface*

Awww. :(

(This is why we stalk posts.)

I briefly fell into the trap of wondering how fangirls could pair X with Z when it's SOOO obvious who everyone belongs with.

I'm impressed that you only "briefly" fell into that. I find it hard to get myself OUT of that mindset. I really want to be a "to each her own" kind of person, but I also feel that my ships are the "right" ones, and those other fangirls are just some weird aberrations (even when those ships might be the more popular ones).

(Even though I know the dress is blue/black, I can only see white/gold. The brain is a funny thing.)

Interesting thing I've noticed: all my ships stay within teams. I'm not sure if this is just a coincidence, or if I really don't want couples to have to play against each other.

opponents (because I have a memory like a sieve)

[mangaroo]

I know it sounds like I'm going to be all Scott Pilgrim no Basketball for the next few weeks, but I wanted to record the opponents Karasuno has faced so far, because I really do forget these details. High fives? All over them. Matches? Not so much.

[games you haven't seen are spoilers, people! NO PEEKING]
Club Training
• 3 on 3 (Hinata/Kageyama/Tanaka vs Tsukki/Yamaguchi/Daichi)
• Aobajousai
• Neighborhood Association
• Nekoma

Inter High Prelims
• Tokonami (features one of Daichi's former middle school teammates, not a strong team, some fairly meta observations re: winners and losers)
• Datekou (breaking through the iron wall)
• Aobajousai

[there's a mention in the manga of "a practice match with Hinoyama" (a local team) before we go to Tokyo...we don't see the actual match, do we?]

Tokyo training camp
Fukurodani, Shinzen, Ubugawa, Nekoma (I remember nothing about Shinzen and Ubugawa. Bokuto x Akaashi 4ever! Also, meet Lev.)

Spring High• Ougiminami (they were crushed by Shiratorizawa during the Inter High

Re: opponents (because I have a memory like a sieve)

[wednesday_10_00]

Oh, this is awesome. Thank you!

[more spoilers]
there's a mention in the manga of "a practice match with Hinoyama" (a local team) before we go to Tokyo...we don't see the actual match, do we?

I did not even remember that it was mentioned! No, I don't think we see it.

ETA: I haven't found Hinoyama (or even the mention of them), but we do briefly see a practice match with Ouginishi in chapter 75. (Final score of the second set is 25-16, Karasuno.)

I remember nothing about Shinzen and Ubugawa.I don't think we see any matches with them (or meet any of the characters, really). In the tankoubon, the author introduces characters between chapters (quick profile things), but I don't think there were any players from Shinzen or Ubugawa even there

Re: opponents (because I have a memory like a sieve)

[mangaroo]

You're re-reading? Did fanfic hurt you?

Re: opponents (because I have a memory like a sieve)

[wednesday_10_00]

Yes and no (to both parts). I was reading one where they were bickering all the time, and I was thinking, "jeez, they don't bicker this much in canon, right?" So I went looking for evidence one way or the other, but then got distracted by the practice match I found, and now I'm watching ouat so I can get it over with and back to Haikyuu.

[mangaroo]

I figured it out. Haikyuu!! is the BL series I've always wanted: the one that's structured like a long-running shoujo series like Love*Com or High School Debut.

[wednesday_10_00]

Oh, that's perfect. It totally is.

Also, re: your comment yesterday that all sports anime is BL...it pretty much is. Because possible sports anime themes are generally 1) teams 2) partners 3) rivals.

[vague spoiler]I'm dying to read chapter 148, even though I think it's going to make me sad for Oikawa and Iwaizumi. I KNEW this was going to happen. A whole week between chapters is horrible.

[mangaroo]

Because possible sports anime themes are generally 1) teams 2) partners 3) rivals.

Based on my exposure to three* whole sports series, it's all three simultaneously. You're partners AND rivals with the people on your team.

* Hee! I initially typed "two" (Haikyuu!! and KruBasuke) because I apparently forgot swimming is a sport.

[wednesday_10_00]

Sure, I never said there was a limit.

...now I'm trying to think how many sports anime I've seen, but I don't know if I can because I count stuff like Hikaru no Go and Chihayafuru because that's basically the same format even though they're not sports. (Well, Chihaya says karuta is a sport, but I'm guessing anyone who actually plays sports might take issue with that.)

And then there's stuff like Touch, which doesn't fit anywhere in with BL or my nice themes, but we'll just pretend that doesn't exist because it's stupid and sad anyway.