Bring it!
Hina: Ushiwaka's amazing...
Hina: I'm excited.
Sawa: All right, here we go!
Nishi: Well hello, left.
Sign: Haikyu!!
Sign: Karasuno High School vs Shiratorizawa Academy
Sign: Shiratorizawa Karasuno
Guy: Nice k*ll, Ushijima!
Sign: Be Courageous Warriors
Sign: Episode : The thr*at of the "Left"
Crowd: Ushijima! Ushijima!
Take: Nishinoya-kun...
Tana: Don't mind! Next, next!
Nishi: Yeah.
Yama: Don't mind!
Suga: Next, next!
Guy: Nice serve!
Sawa: Out!
Kawa: Yes!
Sawa: Sorry!
Leon: Nice serve, Taichi!
Yama: Kawanishi, one more! Nice serve!
Both: Got it!
Tsuki: Tanaka-san!
Tana: Sorry!
Azu: My bad.
Sawa: Don't mind!
Kage: Are they nervous after all?
Their movements are stiff...
Sign: Shiratorizawa Karasuno
volley-internal-top,Sawa: Damn it.
Sawa: We need to hurry up and regroup or it'll be too late...
Suga: Calm down!
Sug: There's no time to self-destruct!
Hina: U-Um...
Sug: What the hell are you so nervous about?! The TV crews?
Sug: Quit messing around!
Sawa: Got it! We got it, Suga, so calm down!
Ryu: Suga-san's scary...
Sawa: I'm so sorry!
Take: Someone gets far more agitated than the players and it helps calm them down...
Kei: I don't care what the circumstance is.
Kei: I just need them to score once and build momentum.
Suga: Crap... He totally glared at me...
Leon: Nice serve! One more!
Sawa: Got it!
Shima: Yes! It went up nicely!
Taki: Go!
Leon: Nice receive!
Leon: Wakatoshi!
Crowd: All right!
Yama: Don't mind! Next, next!
Crowd: Ushijima!
Crowd: Ushijima! Ushijima!
Nishi: Give me three.
Nishi: I promise I'll get used to it.
Sae: Huh? I thought something was weird!
Ushi: One more!
Sae: Their # is left-handed?
Sae: So that's why he approaches from the right.
Sae: Ryu always goes in from the left.
Taki: Yeah.
Man... talk about a chosen ace.
positions-upper,Sign: Opposite
positions ,Sign: Setter
Taki: Ushiwaka's position is called “opposite,”
Taki: and they're diagonal from the setter.
Taki: On Karasuno's side, it's where Sawamura is.
Taki: Depending on how the player in that position plays,
Taki: the way the whole team plays changes.
Taki: One pattern is to have a player like Sawamura there,
Sawa: Got it!
Sawa: All right!
Tana: Nice, Daichi-san!
Taki: who's a player that's skilled all-around, and good at defense.
Tana: Left!
Taki: That's pretty common on high school teams.
Taki: The other pattern is to have a cannon like Ushiwaka there.
Leon: Nice receive!
Taki: They don't serve or receive,
and are always prepared to att*ck,
Taki: from either the front or back line.
Aki: A while back,
they were called super aces.
Guy: Nice k*ll, Ushijima!
Crowd: Ushijima! Ushijima!
Sae: I get that Ushiwaka guy is super tall and super strong,
Sae: but does the fact that he's left-handed make him that—
Tana: Bring it!
All: All right!
All: All right!
All: All right!
Suga: Tanaka, nice k*ll!
Crowd: Go, go, Karasuno! Push it, push it, Karasuno!
Sign: Shiratorizawa Karasuno
Crowd: Go, go, Karasuno! Push it, push it, Karasuno!
Yachi: We finally got a point in...
Sae: Way to go, Ryu!
Sae: So, what's so special about the lefty?
Shim: Since they go up against people who are right-handed way more often,
Shim: playing against someone who's left-handed is unbelievably difficult.
Taki: For example, when a single blocker goes up,
Taki: they jump up facing their opponent's dominant hand.
Taki: Which means they're about a shoulder's width away.
Taki: So unless the att*ck is a very simple one,
Tana: Asahi-san, nice serve!
Taki: the showdown is over in a moment.
Taki: If they jump up in a way their body is used to...
Tsuki: Time difference...
Taki: ...they'll end up missing, no matter what.
Crowd: Nice k*ll, Ushijima!
Old: What the hell are they doing?
Karasuno's blocks are full of holes!
Crowd: Ushijima! Ushijima!
Shim: It's not just the fact that he's left-handed that makes him strong.
Shim: Not only is he left-handed, but his strength is also top-tier.
Tend: Wakatoshi-kun, nice k*ll! I see you're as sharp as ever.
Ushi: Yeah.
Shim: That's what Ushiwaka is.
Take: So they already scored four straight points because of Ushijima-kun.
Kei: Yeah.
Kei: Their setter seems to have solid hands,
Sawa: Rotate! Rotate!
All: Right!
Kei: and I'm sure he'd like to get some in from the get-go.
Sign: Japanese National High School Volleyball Tournament
Sign: Shiratorizawa Karasuno
Sae: Huh? What's that buzzer for?
Yachi: Oh, this is a technical time out.
Crowd: Shiratorizawa!
Sae: What's that?
Crowd: Shiratorizawa!
Yachi: It's a time-out that only happens during five-set matches,
Yachi: when one of the teams hits or points...
Crowd: Shiratorizawa!
Yachi: Apparently.
Crowd: Shiratorizawa!
Sae: Huh...
Kei: Blocking all comes down to timing!
Crowd: Shiratorizawa!
Kei: If they get through the top, it'll be difficult to prepare to receive, as well.
Crowd: Shiratorizawa!
Kei: You need to touch the ball, even if you can't stop it!
Crowd: Shiratorizawa!
Kei: Make Ushijima feel that there's a wall.
Crowd: Shiratorizawa!
All: Right!
banner ,Sign: Japanese National High School Volleyball Tournament
fly ,Sign: Fly
courage ,Sign: Be Courageous Warriors
Sawa: One touch!
Tana: Damn it!
Guy: Wow...
Sign: Shiratorizawa Karasuno
Guy: Ushijima!
Guy: Ushiwaka's unstoppable.
Crowd: Ushijima! Ushijima!
Yama: Don't mind! Get the next one!
Kei: That's it! Just keep that up!
Kei: Keep letting him know that there's a wall there.
Kei: Then a path will open up!
Nishi: Shiratorizawa has Ushiwaka.
Nishi: Then...
Nishi: Karasuno has me.
Kei: Right.
Kei: Stopping all of Ushijima's att*cks,
Kei: or even picking them all up, is impossible.
Kei: But...
Sign: Ushijima Block Nishinoya
Kei: All you've got to do is make those impossible spikes possible.
Hina: Hm?
Kei: Total defense.
Sign: Ushijima
Sign: Block
Sign: Nishinoya
Kei: Ushijima's really good at angle sh*ts, as we've seen in past games,
Kei: so we're going to tighten up our block on those,
Kei: and place Nishinoya where the now opened straight path would be.
Kei: We're going to set it up so he's hitting to our libero.
Kei: Nice timing!
Sign: Be Courageous Warriors
Crowd: Nice k*ll, Ushijima!
Sign: Shiratorizawa Karasuno
Crowd: Ushijima! Ushijima!
Sae: If Yu can't pick those up, he's going to be impossible to handle.
Aki: I think it's because of the spin.
Sae: Hm?
Aki: Spiking left-handed means
the ball will spin differently than spiking right-handed.
aki: Volleyball is a sport where you can't hold the ball,
Aki: and the space to capture it is extremely narrow.
Aki: So the moment you capture the ball,
Aki: if the way it hits your hands is even a tiny bit off,
Aki: it causes a huge deviation.
Yama: Chance ball!
Tana: Damn it! I'm sorry!
Tsuki: Our timing was too fast...
Sign: Shiratorizawa Karasuno
Crowd: Nice k*ll, Ushijima!
Tsuki: It may be called total defense,
Tsuki: but even just getting our timing down isn't easy.
Crowd: Ushijima! Ushijima!
Enn: Concentrate on number one!
Yama: Do you think you'll be able to stop Ushiwaka's spikes?
Tsuki: There's no way that I can b*at Ushiwaka.
Kawa: All right!
Tsuki: I've been focusing too much on Ushiwaka.
Sign: Shiratorizawa Karasuno
Crowd: Kawanishi! Kawanishi!
Old: Is that kid with the glasses even trying?
Old: He needs to show some more of that fighting spirit!
Old: Fighting spirit!
Shim: They're sneaking in some quicks really well.
Sae: They've gotta hurry and do something about the left-handed guy.
Yach: I guess there's not much they can do about how much they're used
to right-handed sh*ts.
All: All right!
Kawa: Sorry!
Leon: Don't mind.
Aki: At the very least,
Aki: he's the exact opposite from the kind of player
that moves based on sensations.
Tna: Nice serve!
Aki: He doesn't believe in his own strength.
Aki: And he doesn't trust the senses he's built up.
Gosh: Nice receive!
Se: How could you say that?! You're his older brother!
Aki: I'm complimenting him!
Aki: You see, with my brother,
the more he feels let down, the calmer he gets.
Aki: He only believes in the information that his eyes can see.
Tsuk: Got it.
Sign: Shiratorizawa Karasuno
Aki: Kei was in the path of the spike right now.
Aki: He was also positioned correctly on the left.
Aki: So why...
Enn: You were so close, Nishinoya!
Enn: You're actually able to react to Ushiwaka's spikes!
Nish: The spike that I was actually able to touch
Nish: is definitely not his full strength.
Nish: He's probably still warming up his engine,
Nish: and concentrating on getting his spikes over our blocks.
Ryu: I remember in middle school,
getting passes from a guy that was left-handed was really hard.
Sawa: So apparently with Ushiwaka's sh*ts...
Sawa: his off-speed sh*ts are k*ller, too.
Yama: Tsukki, man, you jammed your finger? Are you okay?
Tsuk: Did you have to rhyme that?
Enn: I'll do it. Let me see.
Tsuk: Thank you.
Tsuk: This isn't any different from the usual.
Tsuki: Actually,
Tsuk: if it just stays like this, we'll be lucky.
Enn: There you go.
Tsuk: Thank you.
Tsuk: Did I hesitate back there?
Tsuk: No... I thought that I would lose.
Tsuk: As if that was without a doubt.
Take: Guys! Your faces are stiff!
Take: Relax! Relax! Rel—
Tke: ...a*.
Take: Ushijima-kun's serves were pretty amazing, too, weren't they?
Kei: He doesn't have monster precision or control like Oikawa,
Kei: but his impact speaks for itself.
All: Nice serve!
Sae: I don't get it...
Sae: What's with that guy?
Taki: If they get any farther ahead of us,
Sign: Shiratorizawa Karasuno
Taki: it'll be hard on them mentally, too.
Swa: Sorry! We'll get the next one!
All: Right!
Tsuk: Thank goodness I'm not in position to receive a serve.
Tsuk: Trying to get that serve head-on is crazy,
Tsuk: and it's like the whole gym is cheering for Shiratorizawa.
Tsuk: We're probably going to have to give up this first set,
Tsuk: and then...
Nishi: Bring it.
Nishi: Bring it! Bring it!
Nishi: Bring it! Bring it! Bring it!
Yama: One more!
: Bring it to me!
Nishi: Come on, bring it!
All: It went up!
Sign: Haikyu!! Karasuno High School vs Shiratorizawa Academy
Sign: Haikyu!! Karasuno High School vs Shiratorizawa Academy
All: It went up!
Enn: All right! Perfect!
Suga: Finish it!
Ten: Is he planning to hit it?
All: All right!
Sug: Nice toss, Kageyama!
Hina: I totally thought Kageyama was going to spike it...
Azu: He definitely did what he said he'd do.
Sawa: We can't just stand around.
Shir: He went to set from a spike motion.
Shir: Nothing less from Oikawa's junior.
Ten: Huh? He is?!
That sucks!
Tna: You seem pretty relaxed, considering we're playing against Shiratorizawa.
Kage: Well,
Kage: no one scares me more than Oikawa-san for the time being.
Tana: I see!
Hina: All right! Time to fight back!
Sae: Shoyo came out!
Yach: The first time he came out,
he was immediately rotated out.
Sae: Get one in there!
Hina: Nice serve!
Ten: Man, he's really short.
Ten: And he's somehow a middle blocker despite that.
Gosh: Nice receive!
Sae: You're right! He really won't go for serves.
Shim: He's getting ready for a back att*ck.
All: All right!
Kge: One person's time difference...
Ten: Yay!
Tendo! Tendo!
Sign: Shiratorizawa Karasuno
Gosh: Nice serve!
Azu: Out!
All: All right!
Kei: Nice call!
Take: It's not that Shiratorizawa isn't making any mistakes.
Take: We can break through!
All: All right!
Take: Yes!
Kei: The fact that Kageyama and Nishinoya are playing like they normally do
Hina: Nice serve, Kageyama!
is nothing less than amazing.
Take: Yes.
Shira: Goshiki!
goosh: All right!
All: All right!
Gosh: Did you see my super straight sh*t?!
Ushi: Nice receive.
Leon: Nah, I wasn't able to return it properly.
Shira: Don't you get tired of competing for attention?
Leon: That kid's pretty strong for a first-year.
Hina: Let's go, Kageyama.
Kage: Yeah.
Sign: Shiratorizawa Karasuno
Gosh: Ushijima-san!
Sae: All right! He got it!
Nish: Damn! I didn't catch it completely.
Tana: Hinata, get the last!
Shim: He hit it against the block!
Taki: That was a great rebound!
Azu: Once more! Once more!
Ten: Huh?
Hina: I'm Hinata Shoyo, from the concrete.
Hina: I'm going to b*at you, and go to nationals.
Sae: So he knows how to receive, too?!
Ush: Give it to me.
Shir: Ushijima-san!
Sign: Be Courageous Warriors
Sign: Shiratorizawa Karasuno
All: All right!
Ten: Wow, Wakatoshi-kun, who's only interested in himself,
is actually competing with someone.
Ten: How amusing!
Sae: It's not over yet! It's just the beginning!
Yach: Switch it up!
Tana: Next, next!
Ten: Wakatoshi-kun, do you know Karasuno's # ?
Ushi: I met him on the street.
Ten: The street?
Ush: He said that he was going to b*at me and go to nationals.
Ten: What?! In the street?
Ush: No, not in the street.
Shira: Come to think of it, Ushijima-san,
Shira: didn't you get in trouble for letting outsiders onto school grounds?
Ten: Karasuno's # is so amusing!
So that's why you like him.
Ush: No, I dislike him.
All: Huh?
Ush: I hate confidence that has no basis.
Ten: Oh? This is even more rare.
Ten: Considering he's making Wakatoshi-kun say such things,
Ten: sounds like he'll entertain me.
Ten: I guess I'll work hard, too.
Kei: There's no reason to panic.
Kei: They just happened to take the first of five matches.
Kei: And about this match...
Kei: Ushijima scored eleven points,
so he scored almost half of the points.
Kei: But the fact that the ball is going to Ushijima so often
Kei: means that you're frustrating Shiratorizawa that much.
Kei: Ushijima is also human.
Kei: He'll eventually reach the end of his stamina.
Kei: He'll eventually start to feel even the att*cks
that he's not making himself.
Kei: Don't forget that!
Kara: Right!
Sign: Shiratorizawa Karasuno
Nishi: Bring it!
Ym: You better get one from the start, Tsutomu!
Gosh: Right!
Gosh: Good.
All: Synchronized att*ck!
Leon: The four of them are attacking at once?
All: All right!
Swa: Yes!
Crowd: Go, go, Karasuno! Push it, push it, Karasuno!
Leon: So they tricked us.
Kawa: That's troublesome.
Sign: Shiratorizawa Karasuno
Tana: Daichi-san, nice serve!
Leon: Got it!
Shira: Nice receive!
Shira: Nice.
Kawa: Yup.
Kei: In the case of Shiratorizawa,
Kei: the fact that they're going for the center line without using Ushijima is showing
Kei: that they have the upper hand.
positions,Sign: Ushijima (WS) Kawanishi (MB) Goshiki (WS) Ohira (WS) Tendo (MB) Shirabu (S)
Kei: And if the center line starts functioning,
Kei: we're not going to be able to handle Ushijima, or their other wing spikers.
All: All right!
Sawa: Nice k*ll!
Kei: Our most difficult problem in this match is, of course, Ushijima.
Kei: We need an anti-Ushijima strategy first, or we don't stand a chance.
Kei: And for that, we need to break down our opponents.
Suga: Asahi, nice serve!
Kei: We need to just keep serving up powerful att*cks, one after another.
Suga: All right! It's off!
Shir: Ushijima-san!
All: All right!
Nish: Damn it...
Sawa: Don't mind! Don't mind!
Take: Even if they get a point,
we just have to keep doing what we just did, right?
Kei: Yeah.
Sae: Ugh.
Sae: That guy's serving again.
Yama: Wakatoshi, nice serve!
Tana: It's just as I planned!
Tsuk: You're tearing up.
Sign: Shiratorizawa Karasuno
Sawa: Well done, Tanaka!
Tak: All right. They're keeping up.
aki: If they can get used to Ushiwaka's left-handedness, they have a chance at winning.
Hina: I'm gonna go show Ushiwaka who's boss!
Suga: Did something happen with Hinata and Ushiwaka?
Yama: Apparently they had some kind of scuffle.
Suga: What?! He keeps causing trouble with other schools without us knowing.
Kei: Don't hold back.
Hina: Bring it!
Kei: Just keep on attacking.
Kei: That's the only strategy we have.
Tana: Chance ball!
Hina: Give it to me!
Shira: It's that diagonal jump again!
Ten: If you want to b*at Wakatoshi-kun,
you're gonna have to b*at me, first.
Ten: Ya know?
Ten: The more that Wakatoshi-kun gets attention,
Ten: the more impactful it is when I appear.
Shir: Tendo-san, your personality really is trash.
Ten: Stop! No spoilers!
Sign: Episode : GUESS-MONSTER
Sae: Next time on Haikyu!! : "GUESS-MONSTER."
03x02 - The thr*at of "Left"
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Follows Shoyo Hinata, a boy determined to become a great volleyball player despite his small stature.
Follows Shoyo Hinata, a boy determined to become a great volleyball player despite his small stature.