Agreed, I like slice of life anime but the genre NEEDS good writing and interesting characters otherwise it turns out boring. The actual best thing in my opinion about Haikyuu is that it genuinely shares the love for volleyball to its viewers, and knows how to make the sport, story, and character aspects amplify each other. And as a result, you also end up gaining appreciation and learning a lot about the sport. I grew up in Hawaii and loved watching a lot of volleyball growing up since our University usually has a good team. After watching Haikyuu, I learned even more deeper strategies and techniques that I never even realized while watching the sport. And yes, the characters are so amazing that you end up appreciating or at the very least understanding every single one of them. There are a TON of characters, but somehow the show keeps nearly all of them fairly unique, interesting, and relatable even though you may only see them for 1 or 2 episodes. The character development is brilliant. Sometimes there will be seeds planted early on that doesn't end up blooming until a season later. Needless to say, glad you picked up Haikyuu. I've watched a fair amount of decent sports anime, but this is in my opinion the best one out there. Honestly one of my top favorites of all time for any genre as well.

It's because Haikyuu isn't even a slice of life anime. I don't even know why people are saying that lmao

@@ramenbroth By definition "slice of life" means 'a realistic representation of everyday experience in a film, play, or book'. So yeah. Haikyuu IS slice of life.

@@IvanTheUnholy Haikyuu is not a "realistic representation of every day life." No matter what way you look at it. It's a sports shounen with an unrealistic representation of high school volleyball in Japan.

@@ramenbroth Neither are what people generally call "slice of life". It's not realistic that you go on little self-contained adventures every day, with conflicts that magically get resolved before the next one starts tomorrow. We can agree to disagree or keep arguing about semantics and definitions.

Right, I was like Volleyball anime? bruh who would watch that, but now I even want to start playing volley

I was exactly the same going in but now I have nice kill tattooed on my forehead

Agreed 100%.

big lol

@@jacobb7735 it always amuses me triggered people like you, I'll always have the time

@@jacobb7735 not really if you keep coming to prove point. Keep amusing me

@@aracuscesar this is hilarious, you've been posting videos for 15 years you're an adult on youtube getting entertainment from the only "interactions" you have, thank you for making my day, hope you get treatment soon :)

Thank you!! I'm excited!

I like that there's others who also don't usually watch or like sports anime that still vouch for haikyuu. It means it's genuinely gonna be a good watch I'm excited!

WOOOOP ✨✨

I knew it. 🙌🏻

I hear that too and I'm totally the same so when people say it's still really good then that definitely piques my interest

Hahaha I can feel it 😂 episode 1 already got my heart racing

@@teddymecheto Yeah future volleyball games are going to be insane. First few episodes are little slow but man when it picks up you will not be able to stop bingeing the series. I finished 4 seasons in two weeks with my friends.

the first 7 episodes are a bit slow and then it gets SO GOOD WITH EVERY EPISODE AND SEASON

Thank you for watching!! I hope you are too ☺️

The amount of comments if saying they don't watch sports anime but haikyuu is different is crazy, that goes to show that this is an anime worthwhile! I'm really excited for it

Agreed. I wish more people I follow react to this series. Season 2 is going to be so amazing if they do it justice like they did season 1.

Yay - yes yes yes. Also keen to hear your thoughts on berserk since you are reading it. But haikyuu is one of my favourites and inspired me to start volleyball, which I previously knew nothing about. Almost everyone I play with started cos of it