03x01 - Greetings

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Hina: A tall, tall wall looms in front of me.

Hina: What's the view on the other side?

Hina: What does it look like?

Hina: It's a view I could never see on my own.

Sign: The Japanese National High School Volleyball Tournament Miyagi Prefecture Qualifiers (Boys) Finals Shiratorizawa vs. Karasuno

Sign: The View From The Top

Hina: The view from the top...

Kage: Let's go, Hinata.

Hina: Yeah!

Sign: Haikyu!!

Sign: Karasuno High School vs Shiratorizawa Academy

Epi: Episode : Greetings

Mich: Sawamura!

Mich: We came to cheer you on!

Sawa: Michimiya! You really came.

Mich: Wow! You're really going to play in the finals!

Mich: That's amazing! It's so... insane!

Suga: All right. Let's go, everyone.

All: Yeah.

C-ko: What's insane is your lack of vocabulary.

Aya: Yui...

Mich: U-Um...

Mich: So, here!

Sign: Certain Victory Charm

Mich: Well, um, it's not just for you personally.

Mich: It's for all of you guys, and for us, too... so it's not like...

Sawa: Oh, thanks!

Sawa: You're the best, Michimiya! You're so thoughtful.

Mich: Huh? I-It's not a big deal...

Sawa: I'll put it on the bench.

Sawa: Hope you'll cheer us on!

Mich: Leave it to us!

c-ko: I'm impressed you were even able to give it to him.

Sign: The Japanese National High School Volleyball Tournament Miyagi Prefecture Qualifiers (Boys) Finals Shiratorizawa vs. Karasuno

Tana: Wow...

Tana: So this is the finals... There're so many people.

Nish: Ryu, this is no time to be scared!

Tana: I'm not scared.

Nish: Listen, Ryu. Picture this.

Nish: The finals... Our opponents are Shiratorizawa.

Nish: What do you think is going to happen when we play to a crowd this big?

Tana: What's going to happen?

Girl: They always look so much cooler when they're good players.

Ryu: Hup.

Ryu: Bam.

Both: Yeah!

Girl: Nishinoya-kun! Tanaka-kun! You're amazing!

Shim: Nishinoya-kun, Tanaka-kun.

Shim: D-Do your best out there.

Tana: Noya-san, I'm gonna do this!

I'm gonna become a hero after this match.

Nish: I'm not gonna lose, Ryu!

Kino: They seem more hyped up than usual.

Enn: Hey, you're embarrassing us, so stop screaming!

Both: Guts! Guts! Guts! Guts!

Nari: I'm glad those guys never change.

Sawa: Shut up, you two!

Enn: As expected...

Sawa: Come on, let's go.

All: Yeah!

Tana: Hinata, do you need to go to the bathroom?

Hina: I just went!

Izu: Sho-chan!

Hina: I-Izumin! Koji!

Who: Hey, it's been a while!

Hina: Oh! They're from my middle school volley... I mean...

Hina: They're the people who helped me during my volleyball match!

Izu: I was on the basketball team.

Koji: I was on the soccer team.

Tana: I was wondering why there was someone with really good footwork.

Koji: He's...

Why's he here?!

Hina: I said the same thing at first.

Hina: He had a lot going on before.

Guy: Isn't that the King?

Guy: Are you sure you'll be okay, Shoyo?

Hina: Just watch.

Kage: Hey, let's go, Hinata.

Hina: Oh, well, I hope you cheer us on.

Koji: Do your best.

Hina: Yeah!

Koji: We texted, but only about what I was up to.

Izu: Who knew they'd have a reunion...

Kage: Who are they?

Izu: So Sho-chan finally made some friends.

Hina: They were in the match with me in junior high.

Kage: Shut up. Like I remember everyone I played against.

Koji: Yeah...

Hina: And that's exactly why you don't have friends, Kageyama-kun.

Kage: Why, you...

Sawa: Hey! Stop it, you two!

Tsuki: You're wasting energy before the finals?

Are you guys completely stupid?

Tsuki: Well, we might immediately lose anyway.

Sawa: Good grief. Come on, let's go.

Sawa: All right. As soon as we put our stuff away, we're going to warm up...

Suga: Ow! What the heck, Daichi?!

Guy: Up until recently, they couldn't even get past their second match.

Guy: Karasuno couldn't fly or crow.

Guy: Hopefully them making it to finals isn't some fluke, either.

Kei: Oh, that guy's here again?

Sawa: Do you know him?

Kei: Nah, he would just show up to matches every so often.

Kei: I don't think he's someone's relative,

so I think he might just be a high school volleyball fan that likes Karasuno.

Kei: He'll cheer for plays he thinks were good, and boo the bad ones.

Guy: Where's Karasuno's cheering section?

Guy: You should at least make that clear.

Kei: He's always been easy to read.

Kei: Have you guys seen him before?

Suga: Yes. When we were still first-years,

he came to one of our games...

Sawa: We'll never let him say that we're grounded crows again.

Sign: Japanese National High School Volleyball Tournament

Sawa: All right, here we go!

All: Yeah!

Sign: Certain Victory Karasuno

Taki: So they finally made it this far...

Sign: Huge Bargain Sale

Shim: Yeah. Let's give it our all, too.

Taki: Yeah.

Taki: All right!

Ladies and gentlemen from the Karasuno shopping district,

Taki: Karasuno Alumni Cheer Squad, and cheer squad hopefuls!

Taki: First, let's b*at Shiratorizawa at cheering!

Sign: Fly

fly ,Sign: Karasuno High School Volleyball Club

Guy: Listen up, everyone!

Sawa: Two, three,four...

Guy: We need to cheer as loud as we can so our cheers

All: Five, six, seven, eight...

become the players' strength!

All: Right!

Student: The vice-principal sure seems worked up about this, suddenly.

Vice: Come on. We need to practice once.

Vice: Ready, and...

Student: Was he always like that?

Vice: Go, go, Karasuno! Push it, push it, Karasuno!

Crowd: Go, go, Karasuno! Push it, push it, Karasuno!

Vice: Hey! We just practiced this yesterday!

Ono: Sir, you say we practiced, but it was just a little bit after school...

Taki: A-Are they going to be okay?

Shima: We can't panic!

Shima: Look at them! Look how confident they are!

Hina: I'm going to the bathroom again.

Yama: I-I need stomach medicine.

Azu: Me, too...

Kage: Center court...

Tana: Noya-san, cheer! Cheer!

Yach: Are you okay, Yamaguchi-kun?!

Nish: So jealous! Damn it!

Sawa: Tanaka, Nishinoya, shut up!

Tsuki: You guys are panicking way too much.

Take: E-Every... Everyone, calm...

Izu: This is Karasuno?

Aki: I'm not anyone suspicious!

Sae: I saw this suspicious guy wandering around.

He ran when he saw me, so I caught him!

Aki: Hey!

Sae: I thought he might be a Shiratorizawa spy.

Shim: What?!

Aki: W-Wait! I'm a relative!

I'm Tsukishima Kei's older brother!

Both: Tsukishima's older brother?!

Aki: Shh! Shh!

He told me not to come to the match.

Taki: Those two are nothing alike... especially their personalities.

Sae: Huh?

Shir: Shiratorizawa!

Shir: Shiratorizawa!

Shir: Shiratorizawa!

Guy: All right, here we go!

All: All right, here we go!

Sign: Be Courageous Warriors

Guy: All right, here we go!

All: All right, here we go!

Guy: Our opponent today...

All: Our opponent today...

Guy: ...is Karasuno High School!

All: ...is Karasuno High School!

Guy: Nice to meet you!

All: Nice to meet you!

Guy: All right, here we go!

All: All right, here we go!

Sign: Be Courageous Warriors

All: All right, here we go!

Suga: Wow...

Azu: Yeah, they definitely feel like a powerhouse school.

Tana: Come to think of it, the other team hasn't shown up yet.

Azu: Yeah, they're late.

tana: Damn it. They must be taking their sweet time.

Sign: Shiratorizawa Academy

Azu: Maybe it's their dignity as champions, or something.

All: All right, here we go!

Nish: Are they underestimating us?

Hina: They're here!

Sign: Shimada Mart Everything % Off

Sign: Haikyu!! Karasuno High School vs Shiratorizawa Academy

Sign: Haikyu!! Karasuno High School vs Shiratorizawa Academy

Kei: All right, let's start our meeting.

Sign: Shiratorizawa Academy Countermeasure Documents

Kei: Hey, I know you're tired from already playing two matches today,

Kei: but you'd better listen.

Kei: Tomorrow's the next match.

Kei: First, I'm going to start with my honest opinion...

Kei: If the most complete team in the prefecture is Aoba Johsai,

Kei: Shiratorizawa is the most incomplete team in the prefecture.

Sawa: Incomplete?

Kei: Do you know why I think that?

Kei: That's because I looked at the file your managers made

after they found out everything they could about Shiratorizawa.

Both: Kiyoko-san did that for me?!

Shim: No, it was for all of you.

Shim: That's about all that we can do, so...

Shim: Right, Hitoka-chan?

Yach: Oh, yes.

We wanted to be of some use to you all...

Hina: Thank you, Yachi-san!

Kei: You guys had better not let it go to waste!

Kei: You'd better clean out those ears and listen!

All: Right!

Sawa: Um, so what do you mean by "incomplete team"?

Kei: If you'd call the att*cks we and most other teams do multiplication,

Kei: Shiratorizawa is addition.

Kei: Their addition consists of adding powerful strengths together.

Kei: We use speed, the differences in positions,

and time as techniques to get through blocks.

Kei: Shiratorizawa also uses the difference in time,

but when their receives are a bit off,

Kei: or in cases where they want to score, no matter what,

Kei: they set really high to their wing spikers, especially Ushijima.

Kei: There is only one reason for that.

Kei: Because they can absolutely get a point that way.

Gosh: Sorry!

Kei: They'll come out hitting without thinking twice about our guard,

Kei: with power we've never experienced before.

Kei: You'd better be prepared!

Mich: He managed to hit that all the way up here?

C-ko: He hits so high!

Kei: They're simply destroying everything

with their one ultimate spear.

Kei: That's the kind of team Shiratorizawa is.

Kei: Though Ushiwaka is their best,

Kei: it's not like the rest of that team is ordinary, either.

Ten: Here!

Yach: They look like they're hitting it so lightly,

but it looks like it would break my arms off if I tried to touch it.

Crowd: Fire it up, Wakatoshi!

Hina: Ushiwaka's amazing...

Crowd: Fire it up, Wakatoshi!

Hina: I'm excited!

Yeah.

Crowd: Fire it up, Eita!

Both: Yeah!

Hina: Thanks!

Crowd: Fire it up, Wakatoshi!

Hina: He's Benkei...

That guy's totally Benkei.

Crowd: Fire it up, Wakatoshi!

Gos: Leon-san.

Tai: What's up?

Hin: Leon?!

Ten: That little kid totally gave Leon-kun the nickname "Benkei."

Leon: Sorry to shatter your dreams.

Semi: So that's one of the guys from Karasuno's first-year quick combo.

Ten: Oh, it was?

Azu: Bring it!

Shira: Look! There's a tiny kid!

I wonder if he's a sub.

Both: Nice k*ll!

Shira: I sort of feel bad for him.

Girl: I always feel like I want to cheer for the underdog.

Both: Nice k*ll!

Tana: Hey, you two. Do that thing you did yesterday!

Kei: But I can say the following with confidence...

Kei: We definitely won't lose when it comes to scoring points!

Kei: First...

Kei: Conquer this fight.

Semi: That shrimp sh*t straight down!

Ten: More importantly, he's fast!

Ten: Did the setter even touch it?

Yama: I was surprised that Seijoh didn't make it this time,

but Karasuno's pretty fun.

Leon: Yeah.

Gosh: It doesn't matter who we're up against. We'll shut them down!

Shir: Talk big when you can actually back it up.

Ten: Now, now, now...

Ten: I see that your bangs and your words are as cool as ever, Tsutomu.

Gos: Thanks!

Kawa: And I think you babying him is exactly the problem.

Ten: Harsh! You're so harsh, Taichi!

Ten: I'm just counting on him.

Ten: I mean, he's a first-year and a regular

and the one who's going to become the ace.

Gosh: I'll do my best to not let you down!

Semi: Right. Do your best, future ace.

Shir: His head will get even more inflated, so please stop.

Ushi: First, receives.

Ten: We're counting on you yet again, Wakatoshi-kun.

Leon: You need to work harder.

Don't just rely on Wakatoshi.

Ten: What are you, his right arm? Are you Benkei?

Gosh: Ushijima-san!

Gosh: I'll prove that I'm the one who should be called the ace

in these finals.

Ush: Yeah. Do your best.

Yama: He's actually honestly saying that, so he's sort of a jerk.

Kei: Their starting lineup is just as we thought.

Did you memorize their characteristics?

All: Yes!

Kei: We're not going to let Ushijima decide how this goes!

Kei: If they score, switch gears and get the ball back! That's all you need to do!

Kei: They aren't machines over there.

Kei: They'll mess up sometimes.

Kei: You know what you need to do, right?

All: Yes!

Take: All right, everyone. This is the finals.

Take: Since we got this far, let's win and go to nationals!

All: Yeah!

Sign: Japanese National High School Volleyball Tournament

Lady: We will now begin the Japanese National High School Volleyball Tournament,

Lady: Miyagi Prefecture Qualifiers, Boys' Finals.

Lady: Miyagi Prefectural Karasuno High School

Lady: versus Shiratorizawa Academy.

Hina: It's finally starting...

Izu: Ah, Sho-chan. He's really standing on this stage.

Koji: Yeah, but really, are his opponents actually high school students?!

Sae: Wow, there're tons of TV crews here.

Lady: We will now introduce the Karasuno High School starting lineup.

Lady: # , Sawamura Daichi.

Lady: # , Azumane Asahi.

Lady: # , Tanaka Ryunosuke.

Sae: Ryu!

Tana: Yeah!

Lady: # , Kageyama Tobio.

Lady: # , Hinata Shoyo.

Lady: # , Tsukishima Kei.

Sae: Kei!

Aki: Hey, stop!

Aki: # , Libero, Nishinoya Yu.

Yu: Yeah!

Lady: Coach, Takeda Ittetsu.

Lady: Next, we will introduce

the Shiratorizawa Academy starting lineup.

Lady: # , Ushijima Wakatoshi.

Girls: Ushijima-kun!

Girl: Waka-kun!

Lady: # , Ohira Leon.

Lady: # , Tendo Satori.

Ten: Yay!

Lady: # , Goshiki Tsutomu.

Lady: # , Shirabu Kenjiro.

Lady: # , Kawanishi Taichi.

Lady: # , Libero, Yamagata Hayato.

Yama: Yeah!

Lady: Coach, Washijo Tanji.

Lady: Ladies and gentlemen,

please cheer on both teams and wish them the best.

Sae: I'm totally starting to feel their nerves.

Shima: I thought they were doing okay when I saw

the one sh*t Hinata took after their warmups.

Taki: This is a path they've gone down many times.

Taki: On the other hand, our guys are facing their first finals,

Taki: and their first center court.

Taki: You can't blame them for being nervous.

Aki: Since it's their first finals, is this their first five-set match, too?

Sae: Five sets?

Shima: Up until now, they played three-set matches and whoever got two sets first won.

Shim: In the finals, they play a five-set match and whoever gets three sets first wins,

Shim: just like the top-level games you see on TV.

Sae: What?! That's gonna be super tiring!

Shima: Yeah...

Shima: I'm worried about their stamina.

Sae: We can't be the ones who are down!

Shima: This is a different start than usual.

Cheer: All right, let's go!

Taki: They usually start with a strong server or Hinata on the front line.

Taki: Aren't they going to try to match up

the highest wall possible against Ushijima?

Taki: They'll have to see how they handle their serves, too.

Taki: Shiratorizawa Karasuno

Gosh: Bring it!

Ush: ...but words from someone who lost to Aoba Johsai

Ush: and couldn't even stay in the prefectural finals mean nothing to me.

Tana: Daichi-san, nice serve!

Gosh: Got it!

Shir: Ushijima-san!

All: It's coming!

Nish: I got it.

Sign: Be Courageous Warriors

Cheer: Nice k*ll, Ushijima!

Ushijima! Ushijima!

Yama: Don't mind!

Suga: Next, next!

Sign: Shiratorizawa Karasuno

Nish: Well hello, Left.

Sae: So, what's up with your disguise?

Aki: A cap and huge sunglasses are like the classic disguise!

Yach: Oh, yeah. Kageyama-kun had a similar disguise before.

Aki: See?

Sai: That just means you're both equally simpleminded...

Sign: Episode : The thr*at of "Left"

Sae: Next time on Haikyu!! : "The thr*at of the "Left."