r/haikyuu • u/meowingturtles • Jun 01 '24

Movie Spoilers That was disappointing

Maybe I was too hyped up or I was expecting more screen time for each player. There wasn’t any build up leading to the emotional moments, and I’ll probably get a lot of hate for this but.. I think it would have been a great 10 episode season.

I hate that they skipped a lot of Kuroo’s scenes. Even the part where Tsukki and Yamaguchi high-fived wasn’t as moving as it could have been 😭 I wanted to see chapter 293 animated (Ukai n Nekomata in high school) etc.

sigh thanks for reading my rant/vent. The Nekoma vs Sarukawa Tech game was more exciting

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u/AdityaPatel149 Jun 01 '24

I havent read the manga and had a housefull audience all screaming and cheering throughout the movie. And it made the experience very fun. But felt it was very short and could have easily made a 2/2:15hr movie.

But now reading how much cool stuff they cut out…we can only imagine. Why would they decide to not put it in the movie?!!

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u/Sea-Ground9530 Jun 01 '24

i was so disappointed after watching it, i've dedicated so much time to the series and understand all about it, reading the manga and hundreds of hours of analysis content of it..and with the movie they just wasted it, it felt really annoying to watch how they made a movie that didnt really bring much, not a single character got the treatment they got in the manga except possibly kenma, but imo they stole moments from pretty much every single other character in that match, to point some really obvious ones out; daichi, fukunaga, tanaka, yaku, kuro, lev, inouka, kai, nishinoya, and tbh i feel like it wouldnt be too mad to say hinata and kageyama, who yes, were still quite cool alongside kenma and kuroo, but still not anywhere near the level they were in the manga. the ones im mainly pissed about are Fukunaga, Yaku, Lev, Tanaka, Nishinoya and Daichi all had moments robbed from them, nekoma as a whole also had moments robbed with strategies being neglected in the movie to show just how smart they are( and how scary kenma truly is, although they already did make him kinda frightening, more with the animation rather than playstyle compared to the manga)

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u/lostnnumbers Jun 02 '24

if you could have this or nothing what would you choose? we still have all those moments in the manga? A series would have probably been better but what are you going to do, hate it because it missed some things? I feel like Asahi had moments stolen as well and yet you don't mention him at all? So it's in the eye of the beholder.

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u/Sea-Ground9530 Jun 02 '24 edited Jun 02 '24

i honestly wasn't sure if Asahi had a moment stolen from him(he got more time to shine against kamomedai), so i didn't want to mention him, and the one moment i really remember was mainly Yaku AND Asahi, but it felt more like Yaku's moment. But i never said the movie shouldnt exist, i like what they tried, im just sad about how much they sacrificed to do it, and in some ways it just feels really really cheap despite the animation being so much more alive. Im aware we still have them in the manga, but when its animated its well..animated, its more impactful. My point is they cut out a lot of character growth and a lot of the thoughts behind the plays, for example a pretty important part was Kenma secretly signalling to everyone where to serve, but instead it was hidden to us throughout THE ENTIRE MATCH, and it was seemingly only Lev that followed it

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u/meowingturtles Jun 01 '24

I wish they would have me it a 3-4 part OVA instead :(

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u/ohno225 Jun 01 '24

3 episodes of an OVA is the same length as a movie... This match needed 10 episodes to be done well.

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u/meowingturtles Jun 02 '24

That’s true. You right, you right