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Prep Episode! Newly established rivalries and sneak-peeks at more teams we will be facing soon... And they have my attention!

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Margaret

i had a grin on my face this whole video! thanks for all your work and get ready for hypekyu!!

Ryan

The shade on Yamaguchi for the first half, haha. (I think it's great. There definitely is a "Gucci gang," but I think they'll respond more like "just you wait!" than with negativity) 2:17 I imagine YouTube commenters will clarify this, but just in case, the character for "Karasu" (crow/raven, 烏) looks very similar to the one for "Tori" (bird, 鳥), so the schtick there is the players from Tokonami High didn't know the Karasuno team (because they're not super famous anymore) and misread their name as "Torino" instead of Karasuno, and then "Torino" sounded like the Olympic host city Torino, and then he thought Torino was in the UK... yada yada. On that note, you're right: Karasuno's first-round opponent is "Tokonami." The name literally means "average waves," which is kinda like the author telling us "minor characters," haha. The individual players' names, like Ikejiri (Daichi's middle school friend), are all stops on a subway line from the suburbs south of Tokyo into downtown Shibuya (where the Nationals are played). No other meaning, so it might be just the author imagining the players as the "first steps" on a journey to a higher place? Not canon or confirmed. Just my impression. 4:15 Yep. 60 teams for a below-average-sized prefecture like Miyagi is actually even smaller than the number today (Haikyuu caused a spike in volleyball popularity), and "single elim" is the norm for almost everywhere except big centers like Tokyo and Osaka. There's a yearly discussion over whether schools should change the format to give people more chances to play. Right now, only 14 players from one school get a jersey, so for big schools, lots of club members don't even get a uniform, let alone game time. If they only get to play as "seniors," then they get one tournament (Regionals) in March and then Inter-High in May/June, and with single elim, that means a lot of players get a grand total of 2 "official" matches for their whole high school career. It's an incredibly unforgiving system, but some people like the whole "all for this one brief moment, and then it's gone" kind of nostalgic feeling and think that the short-lived nature of it all is an important part of the Japanese high school experience. Hard to say, and not really my place, either, but I'm glad I played in sports that had a regular season and round robin tournaments. 13:38 The Kageyama vending machine meme, haha. Kageyama always pushes two buttons at the same time on drink vending machines, leaving which one he gets to fate. It started a trend in Japan a few years back. The banner Shimizu cleaned up (飛べ) is pronounced "tobe!" It's a command, so like, "take flight!" Usually, schools will have flowery, highfalutin mottos or Nishinoya's favorite 4-character compounds ("yoji-jukugo") on their banners, but Karasuno's is just a single word: "fly," which is pretty cool. This might come up later, but the words for "to jump" and "to fly" are written differently (跳ぶv飛ぶ) but pronounced the same way ('tobu'), so "jumping vs flying" wordplay is a thing.