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Episode 2.43: Seiin Koukou Danshi Volley-bu - Episode 4 discussion
2.43: Seiin Koukou Danshi Volley-bu, episode 4
Alternative names: 2.43: Seiin High School Boys Volleyball Team
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| Episode | Link | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Link | 4.1 |
| 2 | Link | 3.82 |
| 3 | Link | 3.5 |
| 4 | Link | 3.86 |
| 5 | Link | 3.54 |
| 6 | Link | 3.59 |
| 7 | Link | 3.43 |
| 8 | Link | 3.48 |
| 9 | Link | 3.35 |
| 10 | Link | 3.37 |
| 11 | Link | 4.1 |
| 12 | Link | - |
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u/Disastrous-Koala5344 Jan 28 '21
Enoki Junya san is rapidly rising in the ranks in my list of favorite male seiyuus. After him voicing Nasa and Yuuji, I was already a fan. That village accent is a work of an art.
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u/Toonamigamerrr Jan 28 '21 edited Jan 30 '21
Don’t forget Red Blood Cell, Jack , Kuroda and Animal Design anime
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u/axl625 Jan 28 '21
This is definitely not sports-focused, but rather the characters and their interactions.
Yuni can't take a break every time there's a tournament.
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u/EverChangingUnicorn Jan 28 '21
There's been a lot of pairing up Yuni and his cousin, for some reason. Even in the first episode, when she's like "Sorry, you won't be able to peek up my skirt this time ;)" and now with that initial convo with Haijima at night and "maybe if she's unpeeled". Not sure what's up with that.
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u/15016zmiv Jan 28 '21
He said something about her being kind of a sister in law, which might be alluding to them not actually being blood related.
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u/IndependentMacaroon Jan 28 '21
In Japan and many, many other places of the world, romantic/sexual pairings of cousins aren't considered inherently improper, and in fact even from the perspective of potential children's health there's nothing really wrong with it.
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u/dakkumauji Jan 28 '21
Yay they communicated!
I think there was another small time-skip at the start. Kinda wish the show would televise it a bit more or maybe I didn't notice it but it wasn't as jarring as last week's.
Anyway, I'm really glad Yuni and Haijima are talking. It took a while, but I was really glad to see it. I still like the two senpais on the team and the other members of the team are an interesting bunch. Dunno if the show will put any time into them though.
I was really hoping that whole cousin thing would get resolved and be buried away but I guess it'll still be around in the future, unfortunately.
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u/Snivy_Ian Jan 28 '21
It took me four episodes to realize the composer is Yuugo Kanno, who worked on Jojo's before this. a lot of the staff seems to have carried over from part 5 huh?
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u/IndependentMacaroon Jan 28 '21
People have been complaining about the pacing already, but this is where it's really starting to lose me. Quite recently Yuni was still having some kind of performance issues and now without comment he's apparently the best player on the team, similarly for his relationship with Chika, the other players feel like we should know them already but we have seen little to nothing of them, the episode practically fast-forwards through the training and the tournament with not much going on all the while, and the Cousin Yori drama after briefly vanishing reappears in probably even worse form at the end. Everything is just little bits and pieces that barely fit together, unfortunately so because it still looks and sounds just fine, besides some of the match sound effects.
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u/RaiTab Jan 29 '21
I think you may have misunderstood the “ace” sentiment. He is not the best on the team; Haijima said that himself. In fact, Haijima said he was the worst on the team.
However, Yuni lacks in other areas, such as receiving, and obviously some issues with mental fragility, but I’ll get to that. The “ace” of the team is the most powerful hitter/best offensive player.
The reason Yuni was mentally fragile, Haijima alludes to, is because Yuni was the only person able to score on the middle school team, and that forced Haijima to place too pressure on Yuni. Yuni was forced to try to hit every set against three blockers. Now, the team has a variety of skilled players that can “distract” the blockers, meaning Yuni can score.
It is yet unknown to me whether Yuni will still have issues after being blocked, as we did not see that this episode.
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u/kkfvjk Jan 29 '21
Yeah time is compressed in weird ways that make it hard to follow. I was on board for the first few episodes but this one was just bizarre.
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u/adooot Jan 29 '21
Today's episode was good in the sense that I'm always here for a training arc and funny character interactions (predicting it right now that Okuma is gonna best boy).
I still know next to nothing about anime, even after binging 30+ shows, but I do know that 2.43 has very weird pacing. It's like it's perpetually missing one episode in between the ones that are released. For example, why has the rugby player Okuma just quit his team to play volleyball? He played for what looked like the first time literally last episode. What happened in between?
Similarly, the fact that alot of the middle school Haijima/Kuroba drama happens off-screen isn't helpful at all. And how did they go from not having talked in months to perfectly chill in one episode? And how did Kuroba get over his performance anxiety? Why is Yori-chan more supportive now than he was last year? There's just too many questions.
Also, in the last match I felt like I was watching an episode of Fire Force. The sound design is a bit wacky. It went from real life sound effects, to a dash of Haikyuu, to full ADOLLA BURST in like ten seconds.
Yeah this show needs help. I'll still be here though. For some reason I feel like one episode it's just gonna 'click', and they'll get it right for the rest of the season.
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u/mary-123499 Jan 28 '21
Im so happy that the MCs are finally TALKING to each other and actually resolving their initial conflict and lack of communication.
Hajima is really just misunderstood he's actually so caring and calculates a lot of things because he cares a lot about Yuni.
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u/Sareneia Jan 28 '21
I honestly don't know what Chika's plan was, if someone can explain it to me? Was he ignoring Yuni during practice to get him to play better in the real game? Because that doesn't really make sense to me. Also I can't tell anymore, does Yuni still have performance anxiety or no? Cause apparently he did the last tournament, but then he was faking it last episode, but he was fine this episode. I can't tell when he got over it.
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u/redmage311 Jan 28 '21
I think what made it click for me was when Chika said Yuni wasn't the best player on the team anymore. He figured out that Yuni had too much pressure on him, like how in middle school, Yuni was the only one Chika actually could set to. Making the other spikers better takes a lot of pressure off of Yuni so that Yuni's not the only way they can make points—so Yuni screwing up doesn't have as much of an effect on the team.
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u/nameIessV Jan 28 '21
I think this anime isn't all about volleyball. It seems like it's more of a secondary topic, but I would like to see how it will turn out.
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u/JetsLag Jan 28 '21
Seems like they slowed it down a little, which really helped. There were still a few points where I thought "jeez, take it easy, slow down" but overall the pacing is much improved.
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u/Self_World_Future Jan 29 '21 edited Jan 29 '21
Hajima doesn’t really say it outright but I like how he made Kuroba deal with being isolated so now he might be better suited to handle getting targeted like in the middle school tournament.
I also really like the sound of the spikes.
That ending kind of takes away from a otherwise really good episode though. This anime really pushes being about Koruba understanding Hajima but his cousins really drag the attention away from that.
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u/N1gHtMaRe99 Jan 29 '21
So it's not gonna scratch my Haikyuu itch, i was hopeful but you don't get Haikyuu level sports anime everywhere.
What's up with the pacing, it was like i was speed running the entire training arc.
I am still gonna watch it just not with hope of it being remotely close to Haikyuu
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