Audience reviews
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Im_Stuff
Overall rating: 5, further review below
"Getting too much is almost as bad as not getting any." If you don't know where this quote is from, it's because I read it from a doujin, but it might just hold true for this cour of Haikyuu:To the top. That is because, who decided to have the whole cour dedicated to a single match? And so let me introduce the undesired younger sibling of the Shiratori Zawa match.
Well, Shiratori Zawa was more the undesired sibling, since the match itself wasn't as good, but the build up was much better. Like, a match that lasted 14 episodes (note that the average length of a volleyball match, according to Google goes from 60 to 90 minutes. This match was easily double the length), surely, the opponent was some fated rival or some other shonen bullshit right? Nop…
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Haikyuu!! To the Top 2nd Season
If anyone has seen my other reviews, they know I like Haikyuu. This anime had everything for me to be entertaining and engaging. But this all started to crumble after the third season came out and now it's over. Watching this season was honestly a disappointment and a painful one at that.
The relatively fast pacing died, the scenes just didn't have any dynamics anymore, except for the last 5 minutes. And to make it worse, the animations went down the tubes. More than half of the faces this season looked like they were drawn by an amateur who had just been thrown into the studio. Episode 9 in particular... uhh ohh.
The actual game itself wasn't any better, it was boring and very sluggish. Even though the 2 twins as opponents weren't that bad. I thought t…
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Roughly three years after the last proper season of Haikyuu!!, the production staff for the series underwent major changes, such as replacing its previous director as well as animation director. The changes to its staff as well as the impact of COVID-19 have both been detrimental to the once consistent and energetic quality the series had boasted in the past. Unfortunately, Haikyuu!!: to the Top's greatest enemy is its own series' legacy. While there are glimpses of brilliance over the course of this arc, it largely lives in the shadows of preceding seasons' stellar animation, pacing, and character development.
The most notable difference on the surface is the decrease in animation quality and the roughness of To the Top's art style. While viewers could occasionally catch some awkward-lo…
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To The Top season 1 was already pretty bad, but I held out knowing that season 2 would have more volleyball. Then To the Top season 2 came out... utterly gormless. It pains me to say, as someone who really enjoyed the whole series up until To the Top, but what little enjoyment I got was from laughing at it and laughing at how bad it was. Personally, the two main issues were the story/characters and the art.
1. Story & characters:
I haven't read the manga, so I don't know how much it differs. The overarching story was pretty lackluster but nothing too offensive. It felt like a generic sports shounen which made me feel less invested in this season as a whole, but it did have more action/volleyball than To the top season 1. The pacing left a lot to be desired, but it was better than To the…
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Story : outstanding!! the storyline is just AMAZING, it's very inspirational, funny, cheerfull, and emotional. boring and overused? NAH original? ABSOLUTELY YES
Art : i LOVE it, i love the camera angles and the smooth animations <3
Characters : good character development? YES totally attached to the characters? YES simp?? OFC can't hate a single character? YES gets really attached to the characters? YES
Enjoyment : absolutely hooked!! i have never been so emotional and inspired by an anime, it didn't have sad backstory or sad ending so why am i crying?? i'm just touched by their struggle and hardwork, i love their character developments, how they improve and learn from their mistakes, their strong friendship, how they never give up, and how they can finally achive their dreams.
i love eve…
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This is my first review and i hope it's ok
Gave this season a 7/10 and gave Haikyuu!!: To The Top first season a 8/10
I don't know for me my enjoyment on this season was not consistent, There is episodes that i really liked and some episodes are just "meh" and the biggest reason is definitely the animation.
I know there's a side of people who doesnt care as much on the animation and find the animation fine, And there's a side of people who doesnt find the animation good as first 3 seasons of Haikyuu and im on that side. Dont get me wrong there is some parts of the anime that really animated well for example Kageyama triple jump serves,Tanaka cross cut,Hinata perfect receive,etc. but it wasnt that consistent honestly especially for the Inarizaki team, Specifically speaking Atsumu,Osamu,…
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My fav anime of all time. I'm so glad that I am alive to watch this anime I mean it's jst a masterpiece 🥺 and I'm so proud of hinata. My baby have improved so much and I can't wait to see the next season (karasuno vs nekoma). Also I hope they animate msby black jackals match too.
When it comes to art I know many people have complains about it but I don't I mean art is similar to manga and that's totally fine coz old art used to be smooth and soft (kinda?) But recent art is more focused on their movements and they look more mature now( their smirks are scary and intimidating). Also thanks to some studio who ruined 2 episodes (pfftt kageyama looked totally different) but then it came back to its old art style. I was more focused on the game to notice the art and I am so glad they didn't mi…
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So, this time I'm going straight to the point, as I think you can see from my profile Haikyuu is one of my favorite animes and I easily consider the best manga I've ever read, but as for Haikyuu !!: To the Top 2nd Season I have a lot to talk about so I'm going to divide this into 4 steps here. 1- General review about how much fun I had and the new characters; 2- Review about animation and the new drawing style; 3- Review on the adaptation of this manga arc for the anime; 4- I will generalize everything and give it a high grade because I love Haikyuu at the end of everything.
1- General fun
Look, this can be a bizarre topic, especially for Haikyuu who was reputed that no episode was just "boring" or made you think "please episode, finish and give me a very good next", but unfortunately th…
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Haikyuu!! To The Top 2nd season did not disappoint. It was real Haikyuu. And Haikyuu is absolutely incredible.
The 2nd part of To The Top was basically the payoff of all the training done in the 1st part. Let me go through the players 1 by 1.
Hinata made the most impressive strides. The ball boy arc was amazing, I really don't understand why so many people thought that Haikyuu got worse because there were not as many matches. Hinata learned so much about volleyball. It was so exciting and emotional witnessing Hinata receive that ball in the last match, it showed so well how much Hinata has progressed. Just compare the current Hinata to Hinata in season 1. He is so different now, the only thing that didn't change is his burning passion for volleyball.
Kageyama was always amazing as a voll…
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It was sensational and it's to no surprise. Haikyuu has been the best sports anime of this decade, maybe probably of a time.
There was nothing wrong, and oooh the battle for the last set was chilling, thrilling and absolutely killing. It was just magnificent and the more you speak about it's brilliance, the more you will love everything about it. Intense battle rallies, thrilling background and an amazing character development adds cherry in the cake. The animation was as usual superb and nothing could have been asked more out of it
Waiting eagerly for the next season where Karasuno will take on Nekoma in what can be called as the 'Garbage Dumpster Match' to battle against their long time rivals...
HAIKYUU!!!!!!! 5/5
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*Overall score: 8.75*
No spoilers for this season up until I note, so just keep an eye out.
Haikyuu has quickly risen up my rankings ever since, and to be completely honest it seems to just age better. When I first caught up with the series, which was around September, so. before season aired, I made a review on the first cour of this season. It was a passive review wherein I praised stuff but I just felt overall underwhelmed. I still think some of my complaints there are valid, although a large majority of them were remedied once I caught with the manga as well as furthermore when I watched this season. While it did have 10/10 peaks, such as the King of the Court's return and the ball boy arc, most of the second half was unfocused, and considering it didn't even end right before the Ina…
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One of the weaker seasons of Haikyuu, which is still pretty good compared to all other anime.
It delivers on everything that a fan has come to expect from Haikyuu, albeit with less consistency throughtout the season. This season focuses on the match between Karasuno and Inaruzaki for the most part (with some of Nekoma’s match sprinkled in), but it is not done as well as in season 3.
The character backstories were not as intersting as they were with Shiratorizawa, with this season giving the backstories of 5 players from the opposing team. On top of that, only around 3 of them were actually memorable, so spending all of this time on a team that we all believe is going to lose is unnecessary and a waste of screentime.
Another thing that was noticeably worse than the previous seasons was t…
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I mean, I knew what was gonna happen, but it was funny and awesome anyway.
I don't know how to review an anime when I've read the manga because Haikyuu!! is a first for me in that regard. I guess I can start by saying that the animation was mostly phenomenal, though there are some frames that come off as really weird. The score for Haikyuu!! is always gorgeous. Beyond that, I'm mostly just going to talk about this in comparison with the manga.
I did this with the first half of To the Top as well, but looking at what they decided to pull from the manga is always interesting. There was a section in this season where they kind of pulled away from Karasuno to set up for what comes next, and though it happened in the manga, I believe they restructured it in the anime. I don't know that it was…
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Overall: 6/10
Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the most mediocre and disappointing season in a stunning anime's history; let's take a look at what happened to our beloved Haikyuu.
Much of Haikyuu's success this season is riding on the glory of its past 3 seasons. While Haikyuu did have it's peak moments this year, they often didn't stand out enough to compensate for inconsistencies riddling the entire season.
From pacing and animation to storyboarding, Haikyuu took a really hard hit compared to the last 3 seasons: even S4 Part 1, in retrospect, was wayyyyyy better than this one.
Ultimately, you'll take this season in one of 2 ways:
1. You'll love it for it's 'hype'
2. You won't love it because it didn't live up to its potential as being one of the best seasons to date.
Trigger w…
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"Give me the next one too!"
TL;DR: If you felt like not watching the season because of some bad reviews or the art style or whatever, you are wrong and WATCH IT. It does not disappoint IMO.
I couldn't wait for this season since the last one was more than half filled with the training arc. However, If you look at the 4th season as a 25 episode season, You'll see why I gave it a 8 overall.
(idk if I'll have spoilers in this, probably not tho, but beware)
P.S.: This is my first review on my newly created MAL account, but I have been using MAL for a while.
I always give Haikyuu the "Haikyuu bias" as I call it. Where essentially anything that can be rated in the show is usually bumped a point or two higher simply because it is just such a great show that I LOVE!
This season revolved arou…
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Short and sweet. Overall being a Haikyuu Stan, I give this an 8/10, mainly since the second half carried this season.
Don't get me wrong, I understand that each season needs its fair share of exposition, however, the first half of this season left me feeling uneasy with the little inconsistency of the pacing.
The animation and music towards the finale was nothing short of breathtaking; the contrasting themes of Karasuno and Inarizaki, the final team-play that won them the game and so on.
One more thing I wanted to touch on was the Perspective: As usual, us viewers are not only drawn towards Karasuno, but also the other teams that exist. We see Inarizaki dealing with their own share of expectations forced on by others, especially by their own fanbase, which fortunately learns to understand…
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This won't be a super long review as to avoid any spoilers :)
Overall 9/10
I personally, am a big fan of the Haikyuu series (both anime and manga), so I went into this with high hopes, and I wasn't disappointed. Overall, the story was good and the manga was adapted pretty well, the animation was a bit off in a few episodes but that can be overlooked due to the circumstances. This season kept me on the edge of my seat even though I knew what happened. I loved seeing the different characters change due to how the match progressed, as well as seeing the way different characters who had honed their skills be able to use them in a match!
Story 10/10
I am a major Haikyuu!! fan, so I obviously enjoy the story, I think its an amazing story with plenty of interesting things to keep you interested…
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Haikyuu, one of the best sports anime ever, and a personal favorite of mine, being an athlete myself. Im a swimmer, so youd think I would be able to relate to Free! more than Haikyuu. Nope. Haikyuu is every bit as relateable and motivational for me as a swimmer than free couldve been. Which is why i favor haikyuu over free. Now without further ado, lets get into my review.
story: 8/10
As someone who finished the manga completely i can say, ive been enjoying the anime just as much as i did with the manga, and of course the manga had great storytelling, theyve adapted it quite well from what ive seen, with some minor things i wouldve liked to see done better. The match was really exciting and had me on the edge of my seat all the time, even though i knew what would happen next. For every e…
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“Al—right!”
One word. Just one, single word. Yet, Haikyuu!! manages to encapsulate thousands of indescribable feelings, emotions into it. There’s no need to fabricate it, choosing right inspirational terms, at all. When each and every player inside Karasuno hear that shout amidst the chaos, and look up to the ceiling that is almost blinding, eyeing the floating ball—they know, they don’t need a miracle.
Haikyuu!! has always been the embodiment of unyielding friendship, unbreakable team-work, positive rivalry and adrenaline gushing down the veins of the players, and the non-players. But, ‘To the Top ‘arc changed that. Maybe it’s considered boring, monotone at first, but it has captivatingly achieved a turning point for the main characters, where they learned and discovered something more…
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Haikyuu: To the Top, or the 4th installment to this series, was painful to watch--especially the first four episodes. What this season suffered from what the last three seasons excelled on was the pacing. Haikyuu has always been a series that delivered its character growth, memorable moments, and most importantly, hype through its volleyball practice, games, and playoffs. This season, the series decided to change the formula by having training and character backstories that served no purpose.
For the 1st half of the 2nd season of the 4th season, you were overwhelmed with boring expositions about some characters’ motivations and personalities that felt daunting. This season was building up these characters as if they were the key components to the overall narrative. But they weren’t. Almo…
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