Haikyuu! S4 Episode 7
Added 2025-03-12 16:47:12 +0000 UTCThe new king is born!
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actually the language kageyama used was pretty rude for talking to senpai haha
mamimumemo
2025-03-18 08:19:31 +0000 UTCGreat example of turning a negative into a positive. Kageyama always saw the title as a derogatory term and it always made him feel negative but Hinata is trying to tell him that he needs to start taking power from it by saying "No, you are a King... Be a King." Hinata trying to tell Kageyama that he isnt in middle school anymore.. he is with a mature team who isnt going to throw a hissy fit if he has something to say. They want to be the best and to be the best, they need "The King of the Court". It helps that Hinata and Kageyama had their massive blow out in season 2 and have come back from that to where they now trust each other implicitly, but Kageyama has not had that with the team yet, both the team and Kageyama are tip toeing around each other. It's actually not entirely Kageyamas fault, both Asahi and Tanaka were trying something new and neither told Kageyama that at all.. the person who is setting them. Kageyama thinks his tosses are shit as he has been doing the same thing but they are missing.. and Kageyama is his own harshest critic so that it would be extremely frustrating. If Kageyama knew, he can help them by setting the ball in a better position for them. It goes both ways.
rudy_nightangeL
2025-03-15 02:32:25 +0000 UTCKageyama was so confused and irritated about the goody two shoes thing because he misunderstood and took what Oikawa told him in season 2 very literally and to the extreme. "Give him(Hinata) the sets he wants" but at that time, Hinata was really pushing himself to become better, to reach a new level, so if Kageyama gave him the sets he wanted, it would ultimately make him better. But then Kageyama just took that advice and applied it to all the hitters, all the time. Just giving them the sets they felt most comfortable, instead of drawing out their potential and pushing them to become better. He basically overcorrected from his kingly ways, hence him being a goody two shoes. But that's really not how Oikawa plays. We heard time and time again that Oikawa is a setter that brings out the best in his hitters, and you can't do that without a bit of pushing. We've seen it with Kunimi, Maddog and Kindaichi. But he's also very good at comunicating to his team what he wants from them and what he thinks they are capable of. So even though he's not as "extreme" as Atsumu, he's not a "goody two shoes" either. I love this episode so much. Kageyama always felt so bad about being called king, whereas Hinata always thought it was so cool, even after learning what the nickname actually meant. So Hinata crowning him the "new king of the court" and turning the title into something Kageyama can be proud of and then his little smile..it's such a good full circle moment. What's funny is, Kageyama was always his kinglyself with Hinata, so him becoming the king again literally makes no diffrence to Hinata. Kageyama's been pushing and yelling at him since the very beginning so he's used to it lol
Ai
2025-03-13 15:41:57 +0000 UTCI love this episode so much because of how it portrays Kageyama’s character development and inner conflict. When he visits the training camp and meets Atsumu Miya (the "goody two shoes" setter), suddenly he becomes caught between what he perceives to be two extreme sides of being a good setter: Oikawa tells him that the best set is the one that a spiker can easily hit, while Atsumu tells him that anybody who can’t hit his spikes suck; in reality, both setters have nuances to their playing style, and are able to bring out the best in their teammates in their own way, but Kageyama doesn’t realize or understand that (he basically takes what they say completely literally and to the extreme). Throughout Kageyama’s character development in the first three seasons, we see him move away from that “king” mindset. The show even makes it seem that him being less of a “king” means that he’s becoming a better setter, which in Season 4 becomes only partly true. Because of his fear of being abandoned like in middle school, Kageyama has been metaphorically walking on eggshells around Karasuno; this means that he has been accommodating their skill levels instead of pushing them to get better (with the exception of Hinata). So, while the other Karasuno players have trouble nitpicking Kageyama’s plays, the same can be said of Kageyama. In this episode, Kageyama realizes that the playing style that works for him doesn’t mean that he completely rejects the “king” mindset that he has. It’s clear that he is objectively better than a lot of the team, experience and skill wise, which means that when he has something to say, it’s good for him to express his opinion to help the entire team improve (albeit his communication skills obviously needs a lot of work). That’s the “king” side of him, the part of him that pushes others to be better because he knows they can be better (we see him very poorly express this in middle school where he can see the potential of his teammates, but isn’t able to actually help his teammates fulfill it because of his terrible communication). In the end, Kageyama’s version of himself that is the best setter is a balance between what Oikawa and Atsumu have said to him: be a setter who follows what the spiker wants, but also pushes them to be better. If you can’t already tell, Kageyama’s one of my favorite characters in Haikyuu!! and I love his character arc so much, I could probably talk forever about his character development but I’ll leave it at this 😅
marshmellow_puff
2025-03-12 22:53:39 +0000 UTCPrez nailed it with the goody two shoes explanation. I love seeing Kags trying to find the balance btwn complacent G2S and tyrant King. Tanaka has played the entirety of every game, telling him to sub out is wild (esp since its a 1st yr, and Tanaka loves being Tanaka-senpai). The play Hinata gets blocked and it goes out for Date point: they blocked it hard enough that it slams right back off Hinatas head. That drove me crazy 1st time I saw this ep, and had to watch it in .5x to realize what happened.
Goose
2025-03-12 19:33:59 +0000 UTCIt was the way he told Nishinoya he was in the way. It’s a little lost in translation but, the phrasing he used in Japanese was kind of rude, especially to someone older than Kageyama. “Get out of the way, idiot” would be a very rough translation.
Jonathan Perry
2025-03-12 18:30:50 +0000 UTCbro when i tell u that not even one minute ago i checked your patreon whether i missed a hq notif the past few days and then u post!! it's fate i swear
Julia
2025-03-12 16:49:09 +0000 UTC
