03x02 - The thr*at of "Left"

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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."