It’s interesting to see what kind of block Hinata found the most frustrating to deal with as that was the last block I expected him to name. So he more than redeemed himself with that block. He was probably frustrated by his failure to beat Otsumu in height and strength when trying to push the ball over the net. But his shining moment had to be when he mimicked what Matsukawa did to him in the Aoba Josai match, forcing him to spike where he wanted him to spike, sending Otsumu’s spike over to Nishinoya. Hinata on the other hand probably saw it as another challenge to overcome and I’m glad to see him actually make some shutting out blocks, especially since we generally see him only do one-touches. Tsukishima gives a snarky comment on how much he wanted to shut them down after seeing it done so many times. Which I’m sure gave both a thrill in their own way. Due to the Miya twins being able to copy Hinata and Kageyama’s quick, both were given chances to feel what the other teams had to experience when going against them. Speaking of which, both Hinata and Tsukishima had very liberating moments this episode. And with the amount of stuff that was crammed into this episode, his actions felt a bit overlooked due to Hinata and Tsukishima’s moments being a lot more memorable. He’s no Yamaguchi, but he did fine for his first national play. Unfortunately, due to the pacing and production quality, it didn’t stand out to me as much as I would have wanted it to. So having him finally be given a chance during nationals would be a really big thing for him. Ever since the 2nd and 3rd seasons during qualifiers, I had hoped that Kinoshita would have some development since he was literally the only one who didn’t get to play at all during those two seasons. Which is a shame, because there were some spotlight moments for particular characters like Kinoshita, Tsukishima, Hinata and Yamaguchi at the end.
There was A LOT going on this episode and I found it difficult to really follow most of the time. So not only was a small studio responsible for the drop in quality, but they fit 6-7 chapters in one episode when they typically only have maybe half of that amount in a typical episode. And I am aware that this was done due to the Covid situation, but it was still a difficult episode to watch not only visually but the pacing was very off as well. Looking into it, this episode’s animation was outsourced to a smaller studio, which explains the extremely clunky and wonky animation. I’m going to be honest, I had a lot of trouble watching this episode because of the very apparent drop in animation quality. Well I certainly have… a lot to say about the episode and it’s not necessarily what the episode is about.
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