Me who watched it like 20 times 🌝, but although I do with all shows, I watched hxh like 11 times, I watched Naruto like 4 times, I watched aot 6 times…
last time i heard he was surprised that we watched it over and over. Now, he wants to watch it again. 😭😭😭😭 Coach, do it. You'll be amazed on how much to forgot and the moments you missed.
The volleyball girl's "boyfriend" is actually her boyfriend Kanaka calls him Ko-niichan - signifying a family-like relationship between them. He also tells Kanaka that his mom (her aunt) hand-stitched her a good luck charm. So Tanaka miss read the situation.
Fun fact : The inarizaki team are speaking in a kansai dialect which is spoken around the areas of osaka and kyoto. (The voice actors even had to have a dialect coach to make sure they speak correctly)
Great halftime clip to start the match with Inarizaki the foxes (well kitsunes). The team is from the region where is Kyoto so that is why they show the shinto gates. This will be an intense match against the number 2 team of the tournament
😂😂😂 and I love his little chuckle when Atsumu called his own fans squealing pigs. But I remember his heavy eyeroll when Oikawa was actually nice to his own fans. I am always amused. Wish these reactions came daily
Thanks for making the halftime show happen editor-san!! It was perfect!! I'm not surprised you got it on the first try coach, considering Yamaguchi is one of your favorite characters!!
It's Ennoshita's fault cause he made Tanaka realize that he might have a chance with Kanoka x) "Interesting English translations" in regards to Inarizaki players might have to do with translators trying to show that they're speaking another dialect of Japanese (Kansai-ben) as opposed to Karasuno, since Inarizaki are from the Kansai region. Asahi is drawing a "person" 人 on his palm to swallow it later to deal with nerves (think he did it before the Shiratorizawa match too). James, thank you for being the voice of the people!! :"D
For real, James is such a blessing! He is giving us, the fans, what we want to see and is a part of the community himself while being considerate of Coachs perspective. Very cool!
@@ElevateYourselfOfficial In this Kansai dialect, you will hear "ya" more in their accent. Standard Japanese in the Karasuno cast and Tokyo will say "da" instead of "ya", it can be in the start, middle of the sentence or at the end. Like the word, "right?" In Standard Japanese it's "darou?" In Kansaid dialect, it's "yarou?" Like the word, "that's right" In Standard Japanese it's "soudane" In Kansaid dialect, it's "souyane" I love all the dialects in Japanese honestly, it all sounds good
@@ElevateYourselfOfficial You can distinguish with the way they pronounce some stuff. You can compare it to how Inarizaki says sentences with the other characters.
Funny thing is, Yuji Nishida also tried to do the bottle water scene in his UA-cam channel and he wasn't able to hit any bottle waters whereas his teammates successfully hit the water bottles. 😆
@@ari_ed please no English dub. It feels cringe because the voice actors are not nearly as good the Japanese ones. Japanese voice actors are so much better at conveying emotion than the English ones. On that note there was always one good English dub that hit it right. Goku.
Inarizaki's symbolism is connected to "Inari", the god of rice in Shintoism. It's represented by a fox. That's the last panel they show. Inarizaki being the protector of the shrine and the powerhouse, Karasuno the challenger crows on the trees trying to take them down
@@ghendao i can see that. Nekoma being cats and typically flexible and so are the players. Shiratorizawa being an eagle and represents a strong individual, karasuno as crows and crows usually loiter in flocks and is strong by numbers.
@@ghendao yes! the only exception is Aoba Johsai which is not an animal but plants/vines so they're versatile and complex with the imagery of their roots holding down the opponent's feet
@@아뤼-g3c While your speculation may indeed be correct, it may be a coincidence that Seijoh's name contained a plant related word, since Aoba castle (or 青葉城＝Aobajoh) is a nickname of sorts for the castle situated in Sendai. Seijoh & Date-Kou (Date was the name of the Lord/clan) appear to have names that have to do with Sendai/Miyagi rather than animal or plant motifs. & many other schools like Jouzenji don't have a noticeable animal motif either.
I like that they added Tanaka's slight romantic side story, since these are teenagers. Do you come up against issues when it comes to your players (spending more time) dating? 😅
I love that it's Tanaka, too. He's not so young like Hinata and Kags that they only have volleyball on the brain, but not so mature like Suga where you wouldn't be surprised if they just turned up with a girlfriend one day. And Tanaka's a great guy. Honestly, he's boyfriend material.
Inarizaki as a highschool volleyball team is super similar to how STACKED Eric Shoji's highschool team in Hawaii was with the McKibben brothers and Spencer McLachlin. I don't know if you've seen the Mckibben brother's video about "Haikyuu in real life" Coach Donny but you should definitely check it out and maybe react to it if you haven't. It has some great insight on Japanese vs American style highschool volleyball.
Hey coach! I wanted to clarify some things animation wise since I work in the western TV animation industry. One animator is usually not going to animate a whole episode. Pipeline wise, that would simply take too long. Instead, with studios like Production IG, they assign anywhere from 15-50 animators (sometimes more/less depending on the demands of a season) several shots to animate. Some episodes have more shots than others but 250-350 shots per 23 minutes is pretty standard. So whenever you see the camera make a cut like you mentioned in the video, another animator is animating that shot. It’s up to the director and production to make sure the quality remains consistent between shots. However, since some shots aren’t a priority due to time restrictions with productions, you’ll sometimes get one shot that’s a little wonky and another shot(thats really important to the story and the director wanted to prioritize) that’s super well done. Hope that wasn’t too long but not many people know how the sausage is made in my industry and I wanted to share my two cents. Haikyuu is such a big show and sometimes I feel bad for the animators with how hard people are on season 4.
I feel like we need n saying that for ages. I’m still very confused when he refers to animator. Does he mean the group as a whole, director, or someone else? I wish he would clarify what he means.
I mean he's not wrong. Different people do different scenes. So when he sees a notable difference from one scene to another it's safe to assume it was done by someone else. Plus a lot of scenes in the 2nd part of season 4 were outsourced to different studios.
@@gachagenie i'm sorry but he's wrong 90% of the times when talking about animation and thats fine since this is his first anime technically. there's definitely solo animated eps in the animation industry but they are very rare but haikyu had none and outsoursed eps are still made by many animators! idk what is your point! also outsourcing is very common in the industry haikyu had 2 in the first season it wasn't jarring compared to the 2nd cour of the 4th season cause they couldn't handle the designs very well. other than that s4 is pretty good overall
Hey Coach! Regarding good players who didn't go to Shiratorizawa: Shiratorizawa is regarded as a powerhouse school and it is the best one in Hinata's prefecture, but many other schools in the country are on the same level or better (The inter-high tournament earlier that year featured Shiratorizawa, but teams like Inarizaki and Itachiyama did better than them). Also, Inarizaki's very far from the Miyagi prefecture, so kids wouldn't have many reasons to go to shiratorizawa over inarizaki if they ever happened to get an offer from both
Couch, this season was divided in 2 when it was aired. This was the last chapter before a long delay since they were working in the beginning of the pandemic. So the animation may sometimes look a lot worse in some episodes, but not all of them.
I still wish they would have just waited to properly animate this match. This is one of my favorite matches in the manga but it's just so badly done in the anime. I still love the moments but the animation just makes me sad/angry. Especially since so many well animated shows came out at the same time as this and all throughout the pandemic we've had incredibly animated shows.
@@gachagenie again overreacting the season was fine it was only one outsourced ep out of 12 the rest was pretty consistent and remember these are back to back non stop action eps!
You really don’t pay attention to subtitles sometimes lmao. They say something and then you ask the same question second later. For example 24:50 Hinata is saying how Noya look like a star in their switched colours uniforms and then u ask if this is first time they have orange on.
Before the match, Asahi was likely drawing the character for person, 人, on his hand. A common way Japanese people try to get rid of nerves is to draw the character on their hand three times and “swallow” it. It is supposed to symbolize the insignificance of the people watching and affirming that you are in control by swallowing them.
When Atsumu says that he hates playing against people who sucks he means people who aren't trying their hardest. In the moment he saw Hinata day dreaming about something else and assumed that he has a very bad work ethic.
That’s not true at all. You can even see in the flashbacks and everything about atsumu, the results matter the most to him. If they don’t deliver results, atsumu doesn’t like them
I love how everytime a new great player shows up Coach Donny asks why they didn't go to Shiratorizawa. Because they live in a completely different part of the country Coach 🤣. it'd be like a middle schooler from New York suddenly going to high school in California just cause he's good at volleyball. They just go to the nearest schools in their cities or states that have a good program. Or some just go to the nearest school and make that school good by being there. If it was college it'd be different obviously since people do get recruited from out of state all the time. And Shiratorizawa isn't even considered top 3 schools in the country. Only Ushiwaka individually is considered one of the top 3 spikers in the country. Hope that clears things up for you Coach
Yeah, recruiting in high school is very rare, especially out of prefecture. It sometimes happens for more popular sports like baseball (where athletes move from more competitive cities to rural prefectures so they can compete), but not volleyball, definitely.
@@ElevateYourselfOfficial They could, and one of Inarizaki's students (Suna) is actually from the Aichi region and not Hyogo, where Inarizaki is. However, while Shiratorizawa is a powerhouse school, they are not the only powerhouse school. Schools like Inarizaki and Itachiyama are equally good :))
@@ElevateYourselfOfficial Shiratorizawa is kind of a big fish in a small pond. That's why the prefecture where they're from only gets to send a single representative to Nationals, whereas some of the larger prefectures can send two.
@@aime562 Aichi prefecture and Hyogo are not THAT far from each other so it's more believable. They are litterally next to each other. By car it would be 2 hours. By train 1.30 hours. So Suna could still probably commute to school or even stay at school during the week and go home on the weekends if they had dorms. So yes theoretically it could happen but it's so rare in high school volleyball and miyagi and nagano where hoshiumi is are much farther apart. Like some people said, for baseball definitely since it's so HUGE in japan. But volleyball is only recently becoming more popular in japan. Maybe in the future it will be on baseball level and recruiting middle school players out of prefecture will become more common place
I know people said they enjoy the animation asides, but I personally enjoy your life advice mini-lectures on self improvement. Even when talking about specifically workouts or volleyball, I find that you speak it in such a way that anyone can take that concept and apply it to almost any sort of goal they wish to achieve, which I always find very inspiring!
34:34 Actually there is a famous Shinto shrine, Inari-fushimi (稲荷伏見) in Kyoto, and that contains the word "Inari(稲荷)" of Inarizaki(稲荷崎). So "Inari(稲荷)" reminds Japanese of the Shinto shrink and foxes which are messengers of god of Inari-fushimi shrink. That's why symbol of Inarizaki is fox, like crow in Karasuno.
"I'm also exited to see what type of dynamic happens with the two twin brothers. Because when you have that level of chemistry, cool stuff happens." YES IT DOES!
I like the the animation commentary but most of the time coach doesn't really know what he's talking about. The balls scene he described as very hard to do was actually CGI which means it was very very easy to do. This happens often when he talks about panning scenes or other effects that are commonly used in modern anime and are all computer generated.
Finally, the team that I wanted coach's thoughts on /scolding / praise. I'm looking forwards to seeing his reaction to my favorite match in the series.
They're using a 3D animation program for the balls, they'll just need the background and the balls, so it's just a 2 layers. Unlike animations during the 90's which is in 2D, today's modern animation they mix 3D and 2D animation.
Yeah, I was going to say that those balls during the warm up looked pretty CG. And if they used a physics simulation to animate them, then it shouldn't have been hard at all
Inarizaki's school colors are black, maroon and white. The jerseys are black with white details. So Karasuno used alternate jerseys instead of their usual black with orange detail. It's just for the camera, to differentiate them easily, for those watching on tv. I assume since Inarizaki is the higher seed they get to use their main jerseys.
Hey Coach, just a clarification. Some seasons in japanese animations are split in the half part, few months apart (almost two different seasons, but since most animes are renewed per season no matter what, these breaks helps the studio prepare for the other half, or realocate staff to other running shows for the time being). The thing that happenend is: season 4 part 2 of Haikyuu started production on the begining of lockdown in Japan, because of the corona virus, so their schedule got really messy, and they started outsourcing some chunks of episodes, and one entire episode (the infamous bad animation one), this made season 4 become more inconsistent in the latter half, but was mostly cause of the pandemic. And not some trend about the show, and even tho, there are some greatly animated scenes and moments yet to come
25:18 : it's a Japanese "trick" to get over stage-fright. You write the character for person in kanji on your palm, which is 人 and then mimic swallowing it. Asahi does this several times throughout the show, even back from season 1.
COACH!! YES PLEASE REACT TO THE WHOLE SERIES AGAIN PLEASE!! EVERY SINGLE EPISODE! even after rewatching this for 5-6 times, I always find out new things I have not noticed/seen/analysed before. it's really deep
coaaaach!! i'm really excited for you to meet one of my favourite characters of all time and from inarizaki too!! without giving too much away i think you will really like his character !! I look forward to your reaction videos coach!! though s4 is nearly coming to an end it feels like only yesterday when i found your reaction videos to s1 of haikyuu!! time flies
Yes! Finally we're at the point where we'll be seeing Coach's reaction to Inarizaki. I actually held off on commenting on the "what would your starting lineup be" because there's three players from Inarizaki that I'd want on my personal team.
just saying... the clip of the little fat crow that appears in every episode is a reference to hinata ... u know a crow (karasuno´s pet) and orange hair. anyways enjoying a lot ur reactions so keep the good work coach !
Not gonna lie, I WOULD LOOOOOVE to see you react to the entire series again, with new comments, new perspectives and noticing things you didn't before!!
The commentary about the ball animation starting at around 14:30 is a bit funny to hear, since it was probably one of the easiest shots to make, rather than the hardest like you imagined. Throughout the series, any moving ball will almost always be a CG element done in 3D. Setting up a few physics simulations for 20 or so spinning objects that only have to worry about gravity will be hundreds of times easier than drawing it manually. I'd be willing to wager the background art probably took more time to complete than everything else in the shot, and that would have likely been done with photographic or CG reference too.
There is a thing in Japanese culture, when you nervious and you want to get youtrselfs calm you need to write "human" kanji on your palm and swallow it. That is exactly what Asahi was doing in that scene.
Any chance at the end of this series you could do like a top 20 favorite moments throughout the entire anime? Would love to see something like that Coach.
Hey Coach, since you do seem to have a pretty big interest in the animation process and how anime compares with your own animation experience, you may be interested in a show called Shirobako. It's literally an anime about a company that makes anime, and it goes into a fair bit of depth about the behind-the-scenes process and the logistics of putting together a whole show. It doesn't really fit at all with the theme of the Elevate Yourself channel, so it's probably not something that makes sense here, but it's such a great show that I felt I should recommend it anyway. Thanks for the video as always!
Kanoaka exists to highlight some of Tanaka's better qualities. She shines a light on how genuine he is despite having a personality that makes it difficult to take him seriously. For instance, most teenage boys would have jumped at the "chance", with a pretty, athletic girl but Tanaka feels an obligation to turn her down and quickly, to both spare this girl dwelling on him and to remain loyal to his longtime crush on Shimizu.
I really like inarizaki, their motto of "we don't need the memories" is both very cocky but confident in a way that show how they play in a way that they wont regreat, they are never to safe or sure about themselfs even if they are confident that they are going to win. Very fun team, as you will see in the next episodes
23:58 Coach, it isn’t a strange translation, they are coming from a different prefecture. Hyogo is a mainly rural prefecture on its northern coastline and central hinterlands and predominately industrial along the north-west coast. So they just talk differently, think Georgia or Alabama for dialect.
The scene with the balls maybe are made in 3D? You only have to make one, clone it in the scene changing the rotation and placement of each one, and finally you combine the intial and end positions with the time and some keyframes for get the animation of all of them..
Hey coach tried to go through all of your comments to not be redundant, but the way the subtitles are copied at the bottom of the screen for the viewers means they are in white with you wearing a white shirt in this video it was harder to read along with the subtitles. Thanks again for the excellent videos!
Ok, after my comment on your last episode, I think this episode is perfect! The amount of focus on the show’s story, characters and what’s going on AND the focus you put on the animation was perfect. This is what keeps me coming back and watching the show with you. I’m glad you’re enjoying it and things are going well for you. Wishing all the best, keep it going!
Hi coach! For the bouncy ball scene you have mention at 16:17, I believe it is made by 3D. As a student of 3D animation, I can tell that Japanese animation sometimes mixing 2D and 3D animation to save some time :D Typical 3D scene would be driving car.
As a Japanese, we hardly ever boo for opposing teams. So booing is quite rare but there’s one exception. Hanshin tigers(Japanese professional baseball team) is famous for booing.
Coach. I like all the insight you give, but the timing ist not so good. It would be better if you waited for a scene to end and then pause and go back to talk about it. An example pf this is when they present the twins and you stop the video missing it, when the half-time of the episode was just one second away. You miss a lot of little details because of this. Its just my opinion and I really like the commentary, otherwise I wouldnt be watching you every week for so long :). Just think letting the scenes play out a little more would make for a better experience
Coach, just one thing... It's a little bit hard to read the subtitles with your white shirt on the background, with my trashy monitor. Thanks for your considerantion!
not trying to hate but i cant really enjoy these reaction videos as much as i used to, mainly because of how every scene was interrupted by commentary on animations, which just doesnt appeal to me personally. I also feel like coach talks alongside the animation quite a lot, resulting in him not really the subtitles i think (which is necessary for us non-japanese speakers), and thus results in him just missing a whole dialog altogether or having to replay scenes over and over again. Imo it would be much nicer of he pauses less often and just provide longer commentary afterwards in these pauses, compared to keep breaking up the flow of the anime.
It seems like Coach Donny is being a little too focused on the animation. I'm not saying that it's a bad thing, but the fact that he's pausing the video to explain this things but not to talk about the details about the content of the show is a bit annoying. Is like he's missing some key dialogues or exchanges for the wrong reasons. Anyway, that's just my opinion. I still enjoy watching this reactions
25:17 Asahi is drawig the human kanji (人) on his palm. Japanese belief used to relieve anxiety. You have to draw 人 three time o your palm, and then eating it.
So they dont describe it in the anime but they mention Asahi’s process in the Manga. But Asahi has his own pre serve mantra. He thinks about how much power he’s going to into put into his swing to control where it’ll land. He also squeezes his fist extra tight so it relaxes so that his hand won’t be as stiff when he serves to make it easier to flick his wrist.
If you watch it all again, watch (listen/read) to after the credits, The parts where it would show spoilers, because the little interactions between characters are pretty funny.
So excited to see Coach's reaction to this match!! It's definitely one that deserves to be hyped up, and I can't wait for you to get to know the players from Inarizaki as well and get your insight on them, especially since you've already picked how the twins could do some really cool stuff with their chemistry. This one's gonna be awesome, I can't wait. Also, I'm so glad to finally see you try the waterbottle scene, it's super cool u got it on the first try, and I love how the waterbottle hit the camera just like in one of the animated scenes 😆
I liked first seasons of watching there reaction videos, but lately its very hard to watch with all the interruption every minute. No momentum, and the coach also seems distracted and misses details
Hey coach love your videos! My favorite part of the week. Just wanted to say that the birds, cats, owls and soon foxes are animal representations of the characters 🤣 you can tell who they are meant to be by their hair or eyebrows like this one with the orange hair is meant to be hinata. In official artwork you see them holding them sometimes.
Hey coach, hope you see this, but the weird facial expression you see from the conductor of the band is a bit more accurate than you think. Sometimes when conducting really good bands that make some really good sounds, the conductor or director can get a bit lost in the music and they end up exerting their emotions in a way that you can physically see, hence funny faces and whatnot :P Just a cool little band thing for ya :D
I would love to see you react to everything ones again Coach, but I cannot recommend it. What I recommend for your second watch is to sit down comfortably and just watch everything while being relaxed and not get distracted by it being a video. You will see much more and be able to enjoy it on another level. You could even binge episodes if you have the time. If protentional new reaction videos will have to wait so you can enjoy yourself that extra bit, then that is more then enough reason for us to wait :)
Love the half time and that was real awesome! Thank you Coach! This is the one of the best arc of Haikyuu! and you will definitely love Karasuno much more and love Inarizaki as well.
Each animal during intermission scenes represent a character from the anime that you can identify by its hair coach, as you can see on this one, orange hair = hinata, while on the previous episode one, there were two cats (which are nekoma's animal) one being kuroo and the other one kenma.
hey coach, I think re-watching haikyuu is a great idea. If your willing to watch something else run with the wind is a great anime made by the same studio that worked on haikyuu, it's much shorter only about 20 episodes. it focuses alot on training, working with a team and other topics id love to hear ur opinions on. thanks for another great episode.
Coach: "i'm very tempted to watch the anime again"
It finally happened. Coach is now officially one of us lol
Me who watched it like 20 times 🌝, but although I do with all shows, I watched hxh like 11 times, I watched Naruto like 4 times, I watched aot 6 times…
One of us!!!! One of us!!!! 😏🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳
last time i heard he was surprised that we watched it over and over. Now, he wants to watch it again. 😭😭😭😭 Coach, do it. You'll be amazed on how much to forgot and the moments you missed.
He should rewatch the eng dub version. That's would be nice 👍
He should react to the dub this time;) please
The volleyball girl's "boyfriend" is actually her boyfriend Kanaka calls him Ko-niichan - signifying a family-like relationship between them. He also tells Kanaka that his mom (her aunt) hand-stitched her a good luck charm. So Tanaka miss read the situation.
Fun fact : The inarizaki team are speaking in a kansai dialect which is spoken around the areas of osaka and kyoto. (The voice actors even had to have a dialect coach to make sure they speak correctly)
that half time clip was epic coach!
Atsumu's serve routine is annoyingly badass
Next episodes gonna be 🔥
Great halftime clip to start the match with Inarizaki the foxes (well kitsunes). The team is from the region where is Kyoto so that is why they show the shinto gates. This will be an intense match against the number 2 team of the tournament
Nii-chan is how someone would address their older brother, so that's where we learned it was her cousin.
omg omg omg omg i can't wait for this match TT_TT
Coach: "Atsumu's going to do something dramatic"
*watches Atsumu's serve*
Coach: "...okay that was cool"
😂😂😂 and I love his little chuckle when Atsumu called his own fans squealing pigs. But I remember his heavy eyeroll when Oikawa was actually nice to his own fans. I am always amused. Wish these reactions came daily
Thanks for making the halftime show happen editor-san!! It was perfect!! I'm not surprised you got it on the first try coach, considering Yamaguchi is one of your favorite characters!!
@@ElevateYourselfOfficial next time get James to serve!
@@glenng1555 Lmao
Okay okay, hear me out now, we need ALL the halftime scenes, please! that was great content!
@@ErickKirei True, that too first try oh my god the chances!!!
@@glenng1555 don't tempt me 😈
It's Ennoshita's fault cause he made Tanaka realize that he might have a chance with Kanoka x)
"Interesting English translations" in regards to Inarizaki players might have to do with translators trying to show that they're speaking another dialect of Japanese (Kansai-ben) as opposed to Karasuno, since Inarizaki are from the Kansai region.
Asahi is drawing a "person" 人 on his palm to swallow it later to deal with nerves (think he did it before the Shiratorizawa match too).
James, thank you for being the voice of the people!! :"D
For real, James is such a blessing! He is giving us, the fans, what we want to see and is a part of the community himself while being considerate of Coachs perspective. Very cool!
@@ElevateYourselfOfficial In this Kansai dialect, you will hear "ya" more in their accent. Standard Japanese in the Karasuno cast and Tokyo will say "da" instead of "ya", it can be in the start, middle of the sentence or at the end.
Like the word, "right?"
In Standard Japanese it's "darou?"
In Kansaid dialect, it's "yarou?"
Like the word, "that's right"
In Standard Japanese it's "soudane"
In Kansaid dialect, it's "souyane"
I love all the dialects in Japanese honestly, it all sounds good
@@ElevateYourselfOfficial You can distinguish with the way they pronounce some stuff. You can compare it to how Inarizaki says sentences with the other characters.
omg re-reacting to the whole series!!! YESSS PLEASE!!! I bet you will know a lot of the side characters at first sight now!
#RewatchWithCoach
I suggest you rewatch the series with eng dub version instead. It's hilarious 🤣.
Funny thing is, Yuji Nishida also tried to do the bottle water scene in his UA-cam channel and he wasn't able to hit any bottle waters whereas his teammates successfully hit the water bottles. 😆
#rewatch
@@ari_ed please no English dub. It feels cringe because the voice actors are not nearly as good the Japanese ones. Japanese voice actors are so much better at conveying emotion than the English ones. On that note there was always one good English dub that hit it right. Goku.
Inarizaki's symbolism is connected to "Inari", the god of rice in Shintoism. It's represented by a fox. That's the last panel they show. Inarizaki being the protector of the shrine and the powerhouse, Karasuno the challenger crows on the trees trying to take them down
Ugh everything about this series is so poetic its beautiful
@@spiralwhirlpool2366 pretty much every school is represented by an animal and their core philosophy is often something related to the animal itself.
@@ghendao i can see that. Nekoma being cats and typically flexible and so are the players. Shiratorizawa being an eagle and represents a strong individual, karasuno as crows and crows usually loiter in flocks and is strong by numbers.
@@ghendao yes! the only exception is Aoba Johsai which is not an animal but plants/vines so they're versatile and complex with the imagery of their roots holding down the opponent's feet
@@아뤼-g3c While your speculation may indeed be correct, it may be a coincidence that Seijoh's name contained a plant related word, since Aoba castle (or 青葉城＝Aobajoh) is a nickname of sorts for the castle situated in Sendai. Seijoh & Date-Kou (Date was the name of the Lord/clan) appear to have names that have to do with Sendai/Miyagi rather than animal or plant motifs. & many other schools like Jouzenji don't have a noticeable animal motif either.
Haikyuu: building up to reveal that Miya Atsumu has a twin bro-
Coach Donny: let's go back and look at Hinata's hair
😆 🤣 Right....
He totally missed the momentum 😂
He doesn't even read the subs lol
@@riruru3608 yes he doesn't read the subs sometimes and he's missing alot of info.
hahahah i was thinking the same thing. I had the same reaction as when hinata missed hitting the ball....
The middle bottle hit is so freaking cool!! I missed them so much in the newer seasons of Haikyuu. Thanks for bringing them back!
I agree with you so much
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the “hey hey hey” after coach donny’s half time😂
ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA!! XD
That half time was SO GOOD!
I like that they added Tanaka's slight romantic side story, since these are teenagers. Do you come up against issues when it comes to your players (spending more time) dating? 😅
@@mura_saki I literally came here to say this! That's not her boyfriend, is her brother!!!
@@ErickKirei cousin but yes lol
I love that it's Tanaka, too. He's not so young like Hinata and Kags that they only have volleyball on the brain, but not so mature like Suga where you wouldn't be surprised if they just turned up with a girlfriend one day. And Tanaka's a great guy. Honestly, he's boyfriend material.
Any manga reader here...
@@trelos7431 👋
Inarizaki as a highschool volleyball team is super similar to how STACKED Eric Shoji's highschool team in Hawaii was with the McKibben brothers and Spencer McLachlin. I don't know if you've seen the Mckibben brother's video about "Haikyuu in real life" Coach Donny but you should definitely check it out and maybe react to it if you haven't. It has some great insight on Japanese vs American style highschool volleyball.
Coach Donny actually left a comment on that video before he watched Haikyuu!
How did you comment before the video is even posted? a time traveler?
@@agrapanambunan5288 Patreon. We get the videos a bit earlier.
@@gachagenie don't lie to us, you are really a time traveler
@@agrapanambunan5288 how do people still not know about unlisted videos lol
Hey coach! I wanted to clarify some things animation wise since I work in the western TV animation industry.
One animator is usually not going to animate a whole episode. Pipeline wise, that would simply take too long. Instead, with studios like Production IG, they assign anywhere from 15-50 animators (sometimes more/less depending on the demands of a season) several shots to animate. Some episodes have more shots than others but 250-350 shots per 23 minutes is pretty standard.
So whenever you see the camera make a cut like you mentioned in the video, another animator is animating that shot. It’s up to the director and production to make sure the quality remains consistent between shots. However, since some shots aren’t a priority due to time restrictions with productions, you’ll sometimes get one shot that’s a little wonky and another shot(thats really important to the story and the director wanted to prioritize) that’s super well done.
Hope that wasn’t too long but not many people know how the sausage is made in my industry and I wanted to share my two cents. Haikyuu is such a big show and sometimes I feel bad for the animators with how hard people are on season 4.
I feel like we need n saying that for ages. I’m still very confused when he refers to animator. Does he mean the group as a whole, director, or someone else? I wish he would clarify what he means.
Great insight! Up you go
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I mean he's not wrong. Different people do different scenes. So when he sees a notable difference from one scene to another it's safe to assume it was done by someone else. Plus a lot of scenes in the 2nd part of season 4 were outsourced to different studios.
@@gachagenie i'm sorry but he's wrong 90% of the times when talking about animation and thats fine since this is his first anime technically.
there's definitely solo animated eps in the animation industry but they are very rare but haikyu had none and outsoursed eps are still made by many animators! idk what is your point!
also outsourcing is very common in the industry haikyu had 2 in the first season it wasn't jarring compared to the 2nd cour of the 4th season cause they couldn't handle the designs very well. other than that s4 is pretty good overall
Hey Coach! Regarding good players who didn't go to Shiratorizawa: Shiratorizawa is regarded as a powerhouse school and it is the best one in Hinata's prefecture, but many other schools in the country are on the same level or better (The inter-high tournament earlier that year featured Shiratorizawa, but teams like Inarizaki and Itachiyama did better than them).
Also, Inarizaki's very far from the Miyagi prefecture, so kids wouldn't have many reasons to go to shiratorizawa over inarizaki if they ever happened to get an offer from both
Well said, it's kind of like asking why a high schooler from Michigan didn't go to a school in Tennessee.
Couch, this season was divided in 2 when it was aired. This was the last chapter before a long delay since they were working in the beginning of the pandemic. So the animation may sometimes look a lot worse in some episodes, but not all of them.
Couch: Noted.
I still wish they would have just waited to properly animate this match. This is one of my favorite matches in the manga but it's just so badly done in the anime. I still love the moments but the animation just makes me sad/angry. Especially since so many well animated shows came out at the same time as this and all throughout the pandemic we've had incredibly animated shows.
@@gachagenie again overreacting the season was fine it was only one outsourced ep out of 12 the rest was pretty consistent and remember these are back to back non stop action eps!
Pandemic or not, the schedule was tight.
I like how Coach was like, "Alright that was pretty badass" when Miya stopped the marching band. 😂 Our thoughts exactly
The “boyfriend” isn’t actually her boyfriend. From the line she said when she mightve got her heart broken, she indirectly said brother.
Niichan means brother, coach.
@@egrassa1480 may also be used for a close male cousin or friend that's seen as a brother.
And, yes, I'm aware "itoko" is cousin.
@@Juice1984 you're right. Volume 28, Page 83, official english translation has cousin there.
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You really don’t pay attention to subtitles sometimes lmao. They say something and then you ask the same question second later. For example 24:50 Hinata is saying how Noya look like a star in their switched colours uniforms and then u ask if this is first time they have orange on.
Before the match, Asahi was likely drawing the character for person, 人, on his hand. A common way Japanese people try to get rid of nerves is to draw the character on their hand three times and “swallow” it. It is supposed to symbolize the insignificance of the people watching and affirming that you are in control by swallowing them.
When Atsumu says that he hates playing against people who sucks he means people who aren't trying their hardest. In the moment he saw Hinata day dreaming about something else and assumed that he has a very bad work ethic.
I think he meant what he meant. U can understand it by Kageyama's words. So Atsumu said about skill
Totally false, he meant players who sucks wheter they're trying hard or not
That’s not true at all. You can even see in the flashbacks and everything about atsumu, the results matter the most to him. If they don’t deliver results, atsumu doesn’t like them
I love how everytime a new great player shows up Coach Donny asks why they didn't go to Shiratorizawa. Because they live in a completely different part of the country Coach 🤣. it'd be like a middle schooler from New York suddenly going to high school in California just cause he's good at volleyball. They just go to the nearest schools in their cities or states that have a good program. Or some just go to the nearest school and make that school good by being there. If it was college it'd be different obviously since people do get recruited from out of state all the time. And Shiratorizawa isn't even considered top 3 schools in the country. Only Ushiwaka individually is considered one of the top 3 spikers in the country. Hope that clears things up for you Coach
Yeah, recruiting in high school is very rare, especially out of prefecture. It sometimes happens for more popular sports like baseball (where athletes move from more competitive cities to rural prefectures so they can compete), but not volleyball, definitely.
@@ElevateYourselfOfficial They could, and one of Inarizaki's students (Suna) is actually from the Aichi region and not Hyogo, where Inarizaki is. However, while Shiratorizawa is a powerhouse school, they are not the only powerhouse school. Schools like Inarizaki and Itachiyama are equally good :))
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@@ElevateYourselfOfficial Shiratorizawa is kind of a big fish in a small pond. That's why the prefecture where they're from only gets to send a single representative to Nationals, whereas some of the larger prefectures can send two.
@@aime562 Aichi prefecture and Hyogo are not THAT far from each other so it's more believable. They are litterally next to each other. By car it would be 2 hours. By train 1.30 hours. So Suna could still probably commute to school or even stay at school during the week and go home on the weekends if they had dorms. So yes theoretically it could happen but it's so rare in high school volleyball and miyagi and nagano where hoshiumi is are much farther apart. Like some people said, for baseball definitely since it's so HUGE in japan. But volleyball is only recently becoming more popular in japan. Maybe in the future it will be on baseball level and recruiting middle school players out of prefecture will become more common place
This is my favorite match. I can't wait for you to see Inarizaki especially the captain
Same!
The captains back story might be my favorite of the whole show
@@svgftw351 honestly yeah very subtle but strong scene. He is also really going to dig the twins dynamic.
Also he once said i want a captain that on the bench
Hyped with anticipation for Monster’s Ball!!!
I know people said they enjoy the animation asides, but I personally enjoy your life advice mini-lectures on self improvement. Even when talking about specifically workouts or volleyball, I find that you speak it in such a way that anyone can take that concept and apply it to almost any sort of goal they wish to achieve, which I always find very inspiring!
21:20 the smooth sword at Kita's back is flawless!! 😂😂
OMG I LOVED THE WATER BOTTLE HALF-SCENE. It made me laugh so much and I'm just impressed!! ROFL
I loved it too!!! awesome!!!
34:34 Actually there is a famous Shinto shrine, Inari-fushimi (稲荷伏見) in Kyoto, and that contains the word "Inari(稲荷)" of Inarizaki(稲荷崎). So "Inari(稲荷)" reminds Japanese of the Shinto shrink and foxes which are messengers of god of Inari-fushimi shrink. That's why symbol of Inarizaki is fox, like crow in Karasuno.
"I'm also exited to see what type of dynamic happens with the two twin brothers. Because when you have that level of chemistry, cool stuff happens." YES IT DOES!
i always love how dramatic atusmu gets with stopping the band when he begins his serve, he's so funny yet so cool
I like the the animation commentary but most of the time coach doesn't really know what he's talking about. The balls scene he described as very hard to do was actually CGI which means it was very very easy to do. This happens often when he talks about panning scenes or other effects that are commonly used in modern anime and are all computer generated.
Finally, the team that I wanted coach's thoughts on /scolding / praise. I'm looking forwards to seeing his reaction to my favorite match in the series.
Me too!!!
They're using a 3D animation program for the balls, they'll just need the background and the balls, so it's just a 2 layers. Unlike animations during the 90's which is in 2D, today's modern animation they mix 3D and 2D animation.
Yeah, I was going to say that those balls during the warm up looked pretty CG. And if they used a physics simulation to animate them, then it shouldn't have been hard at all
Was looking for this comment, it also wouldn't make sense for them to spend that many frames on a not plot significant scene
Inarizaki's school colors are black, maroon and white. The jerseys are black with white details. So Karasuno used alternate jerseys instead of their usual black with orange detail. It's just for the camera, to differentiate them easily, for those watching on tv. I assume since Inarizaki is the higher seed they get to use their main jerseys.
Hey Coach, just a clarification. Some seasons in japanese animations are split in the half part, few months apart (almost two different seasons, but since most animes are renewed per season no matter what, these breaks helps the studio prepare for the other half, or realocate staff to other running shows for the time being).
The thing that happenend is: season 4 part 2 of Haikyuu started production on the begining of lockdown in Japan, because of the corona virus, so their schedule got really messy, and they started outsourcing some chunks of episodes, and one entire episode (the infamous bad animation one), this made season 4 become more inconsistent in the latter half, but was mostly cause of the pandemic. And not some trend about the show, and even tho, there are some greatly animated scenes and moments yet to come
At the end of season 4 we need a starting Line Up from you coach
25:18 : it's a Japanese "trick" to get over stage-fright. You write the character for person in kanji on your palm, which is 人 and then mimic swallowing it. Asahi does this several times throughout the show, even back from season 1.
COACH!! YES PLEASE REACT TO THE WHOLE SERIES AGAIN PLEASE!! EVERY SINGLE EPISODE! even after rewatching this for 5-6 times, I always find out new things I have not noticed/seen/analysed before. it's really deep
the halftime water bottle thingy is super cool, coach. well done!
coaaaach!! i'm really excited for you to meet one of my favourite characters of all time and from inarizaki too!! without giving too much away i think you will really like his character !! I look forward to your reaction videos coach!! though s4 is nearly coming to an end it feels like only yesterday when i found your reaction videos to s1 of haikyuu!! time flies
Which one?
@@vailble8103 i dont want to say because it might be a spoiler for coach
Yes! Finally we're at the point where we'll be seeing Coach's reaction to Inarizaki. I actually held off on commenting on the "what would your starting lineup be" because there's three players from Inarizaki that I'd want on my personal team.
just saying... the clip of the little fat crow that appears in every episode is a reference to hinata ... u know a crow (karasuno´s pet) and orange hair.
anyways enjoying a lot ur reactions so keep the good work coach !
Coach has now met the Miya Twins! You’ll love the whole Inarizaki team. Especially the captain! And new intro next episode!
Not gonna lie, I WOULD LOOOOOVE to see you react to the entire series again, with new comments, new perspectives and noticing things you didn't before!!
Inarizaki are an amazing team, probably my favorite in the series.
OMG THE HALF TIME HITTING THE BOTTLE HAHAHHA, not gonna lie i missed that half time too
The commentary about the ball animation starting at around 14:30 is a bit funny to hear, since it was probably one of the easiest shots to make, rather than the hardest like you imagined.
Throughout the series, any moving ball will almost always be a CG element done in 3D. Setting up a few physics simulations for 20 or so spinning objects that only have to worry about gravity will be hundreds of times easier than drawing it manually.
I'd be willing to wager the background art probably took more time to complete than everything else in the shot, and that would have likely been done with photographic or CG reference too.
There is a thing in Japanese culture, when you nervious and you want to get youtrselfs calm you need to write "human" kanji on your palm and swallow it. That is exactly what Asahi was doing in that scene.
Any chance at the end of this series you could do like a top 20 favorite moments throughout the entire anime? Would love to see something like that Coach.
oh coach buckle up your seatbelt you are about to have the most greatest anime volleyball match ever
Hello, coach! I don't know if someone already said this but the crow at the commercial is actually Hinata. It has orange hair like him ^^
I love the way Kanoka's friend Naruto runs out of the way at 22:30. That's a good friend right there!
Hey Coach, since you do seem to have a pretty big interest in the animation process and how anime compares with your own animation experience, you may be interested in a show called Shirobako. It's literally an anime about a company that makes anime, and it goes into a fair bit of depth about the behind-the-scenes process and the logistics of putting together a whole show. It doesn't really fit at all with the theme of the Elevate Yourself channel, so it's probably not something that makes sense here, but it's such a great show that I felt I should recommend it anyway. Thanks for the video as always!
That show shall be watched during free time.
Coach Donny, the wisdom you drop randomly throughout the reactions is undefeated. Thank you for all that you do!
HERE WE GO.
One of the best matches of the Nationals.
Can't wait for more.
The irony of Atsumu's first impression of Hinata is hilarious to manga readers.
OMG! And so it begins... I love this match!
Kanoaka exists to highlight some of Tanaka's better qualities. She shines a light on how genuine he is despite having a personality that makes it difficult to take him seriously. For instance, most teenage boys would have jumped at the "chance", with a pretty, athletic girl but Tanaka feels an obligation to turn her down and quickly, to both spare this girl dwelling on him and to remain loyal to his longtime crush on Shimizu.
I really like inarizaki, their motto of "we don't need the memories" is both very cocky but confident in a way that show how they play in a way that they wont regreat, they are never to safe or sure about themselfs even if they are confident that they are going to win. Very fun team, as you will see in the next episodes
23:58 Coach, it isn’t a strange translation, they are coming from a different prefecture. Hyogo is a mainly rural prefecture on its northern coastline and central hinterlands and predominately industrial along the north-west coast. So they just talk differently, think Georgia or Alabama for dialect.
The scene with the balls maybe are made in 3D?
You only have to make one, clone it in the scene changing the rotation and placement of each one, and finally you combine the intial and end positions with the time and some keyframes for get the animation of all of them..
I'm still not over Coach Ukai saying Suna is "shorter than most middle blockers" when his own middle blocker is one Hinata Shoyo 😂
It's just an observation, I don't get why this is a sticking point for people. MBs are usually tall
Hey coach tried to go through all of your comments to not be redundant, but the way the subtitles are copied at the bottom of the screen for the viewers means they are in white with you wearing a white shirt in this video it was harder to read along with the subtitles. Thanks again for the excellent videos!
Ukai: Suna Rintarou is short for a middle blocker
Sunarin is like 6'3" 🤣 my short ass is crying
Ok, after my comment on your last episode, I think this episode is perfect! The amount of focus on the show’s story, characters and what’s going on AND the focus you put on the animation was perfect. This is what keeps me coming back and watching the show with you.
I’m glad you’re enjoying it and things are going well for you. Wishing all the best, keep it going!
Hi coach! For the bouncy ball scene you have mention at 16:17, I believe it is made by 3D. As a student of 3D animation, I can tell that Japanese animation sometimes mixing 2D and 3D animation to save some time :D Typical 3D scene would be driving car.
Thank you coach for extra efforts you’ve done, the halftime is definitely appreciated
Male bath scenes aren't uncommon in anime. They just aren't memed on like female ones are
FIRST TRY! nice one, coach. now you have to recreate other halftime cuts!
Honestly hitting that bottle was so cool, but even if you slightly missed it would’ve been great since you can’t fully control a float anyways
As a Japanese, we hardly ever boo for opposing teams.
So booing is quite rare but there’s one exception.
Hanshin tigers(Japanese professional baseball team) is famous for booing.
Coach. I like all the insight you give, but the timing ist not so good. It would be better if you waited for a scene to end and then pause and go back to talk about it. An example pf this is when they present the twins and you stop the video missing it, when the half-time of the episode was just one second away. You miss a lot of little details because of this. Its just my opinion and I really like the commentary, otherwise I wouldnt be watching you every week for so long :). Just think letting the scenes play out a little more would make for a better experience
Coach, just one thing... It's a little bit hard to read the subtitles with your white shirt on the background, with my trashy monitor. Thanks for your considerantion!
not trying to hate but i cant really enjoy these reaction videos as much as i used to, mainly because of how every scene was interrupted by commentary on animations, which just doesnt appeal to me personally. I also feel like coach talks alongside the animation quite a lot, resulting in him not really the subtitles i think (which is necessary for us non-japanese speakers), and thus results in him just missing a whole dialog altogether or having to replay scenes over and over again. Imo it would be much nicer of he pauses less often and just provide longer commentary afterwards in these pauses, compared to keep breaking up the flow of the anime.
It seems like Coach Donny is being a little too focused on the animation. I'm not saying that it's a bad thing, but the fact that he's pausing the video to explain this things but not to talk about the details about the content of the show is a bit annoying. Is like he's missing some key dialogues or exchanges for the wrong reasons.
Anyway, that's just my opinion. I still enjoy watching this reactions
25:17 Asahi is drawig the human kanji (人) on his palm. Japanese belief used to relieve anxiety. You have to draw 人 three time o your palm, and then eating it.
So they dont describe it in the anime but they mention Asahi’s process in the Manga. But Asahi has his own pre serve mantra. He thinks about how much power he’s going to into put into his swing to control where it’ll land.
He also squeezes his fist extra tight so it relaxes so that his hand won’t be as stiff when he serves to make it easier to flick his wrist.
If you watch it all again, watch (listen/read) to after the credits, The parts where it would show spoilers, because the little interactions between characters are pretty funny.
So excited to see Coach's reaction to this match!! It's definitely one that deserves to be hyped up, and I can't wait for you to get to know the players from Inarizaki as well and get your insight on them, especially since you've already picked how the twins could do some really cool stuff with their chemistry. This one's gonna be awesome, I can't wait.
Also, I'm so glad to finally see you try the waterbottle scene, it's super cool u got it on the first try, and I love how the waterbottle hit the camera just like in one of the animated scenes 😆
I liked first seasons of watching there reaction videos, but lately its very hard to watch with all the interruption every minute. No momentum, and the coach also seems distracted and misses details
Hey coach love your videos! My favorite part of the week. Just wanted to say that the birds, cats, owls and soon foxes are animal representations of the characters 🤣 you can tell who they are meant to be by their hair or eyebrows like this one with the orange hair is meant to be hinata. In official artwork you see them holding them sometimes.
oh my god coach is finally meeting my fav team!! i've been waiting for this for so long TT
I replayed the water bottle scene 6 times, too perfect!! Love it
Kageyama called Hitana human tangerine coz he's all way down orange...haha..
Hey coach, hope you see this, but the weird facial expression you see from the conductor of the band is a bit more accurate than you think. Sometimes when conducting really good bands that make some really good sounds, the conductor or director can get a bit lost in the music and they end up exerting their emotions in a way that you can physically see, hence funny faces and whatnot :P
Just a cool little band thing for ya :D
nextt episode came after a year for weekly watchers.. so u might feel it bit repetetive...
Just to clarify Coach, it's not one animator that does one episode, its actually teams of animators that do different episodes
They blame Ennoshita because he is the one who said Tanaka has a chance a gave him the conflicted emotions
I would love to see you react to everything ones again Coach, but I cannot recommend it.
What I recommend for your second watch is to sit down comfortably and just watch everything while being relaxed and not get distracted by it being a video.
You will see much more and be able to enjoy it on another level. You could even binge episodes if you have the time.
If protentional new reaction videos will have to wait so you can enjoy yourself that extra bit, then that is more then enough reason for us to wait :)
Love the half time and that was real awesome! Thank you Coach! This is the one of the best arc of Haikyuu! and you will definitely love Karasuno much more and love Inarizaki as well.
So are we just waiting for him to realize who the halftime crows, cats, etc. are?
you forgot to do the Tanaka shirt pull-off & spin when you hit the bottle lol
Each animal during intermission scenes represent a character from the anime that you can identify by its hair coach, as you can see on this one, orange hair = hinata, while on the previous episode one, there were two cats (which are nekoma's animal) one being kuroo and the other one kenma.
hey coach, I think re-watching haikyuu is a great idea. If your willing to watch something else run with the wind is a great anime made by the same studio that worked on haikyuu, it's much shorter only about 20 episodes. it focuses alot on training, working with a team and other topics id love to hear ur opinions on. thanks for another great episode.