mob: All right!
sign: Boys' Bathroom
boyA: You're such a freckle face, Tadashi.
boyB: Why are you so puny?
boyB: You've got to bulk up, so you get to carry all of our bags.
boyB: Seriously? You're crying?
boyA: He cries about everything!
boyB: You crybaby.
boyB: What're you looking at?
boyA: Hey, isn't he a sixth grader?
boyB: No, he's just from class .
tsuki: Lame.
boyB: What'd you mean?!
Hey, wait a sec!
tsuki: What?
boyB: Y-You're lame, four-eyes!
Stupid! Stupid! Stupid!
boyA: H-Hey, wait a sec.
yama: "Lame."
yama: At the time, Tsukki might have actually been talking about me, too.
yama: But more importantly,
: the fact that he was able to say that to the bullies who threatened me...
yama: That made him look really cool, and I was envious.
yama: I wanted to be like that.
hina: What about you, Yamaguchi?
hina: What would you say to Tsukishima?
sign: Haikyu!!
title: Episode : Illusionary Hero
tsuki: I'm heading out.
sawa: Okay.
suga: Good work!
tana: Hey, Tsukishima!
tana: We're gonna practice the synchronized att*ck, so help us out for a sec.
enn: I can still go, too.
enn: There'll be three wing spikers, but that's okay, isn't it?
enn: I wanna get the timing down.
tana: Wait... You aren't trying to become a regular, are you?
enn: Don't think I'm gonna be warming that bench forever.
tana: Bring it on!
tana: Daichi-san, let's hurry up and do this.
sawa: Let me rest for a bit.
volley-overlap,suga: Good job!
tana: Daichi-san!
tana: I can't afford to take this so lightly.
tsuki: It's just a club.
sign,sign: Miyagi Prefecture Junior High All-Around Sports Tournament Volleyball
mob: Left! Left!
mob: # !
momA: Oh, my! It's Tsukishima-kun again!
momB: Nothing less from the ace!
aki: Hey!
volley-flashbackoverlap,team: Tsukishima, nice k*ll!
team: All right!
am-jersey,sign: Amemaru Junior High School Volleyball Club
tsuki: Where you gonna go to high school, Ni-chan?
aki: Karasuno.
They're a powerhouse school that rivals Shiratorizawa right now.
aki: I'm gonna go to nationals when I get to high school!
kuro-jersey,sign: Karasuno High School Volleyball Club
aki: I'm home.
tsuki: Welcome back!
tsuki: Were you stay late doing extra practice again?
aki: Everyone's really skilled, so I can't afford to slack off.
aki: Not to mention, Coach Ukai is really strict.
aki: But...
I'm totally going to try to get a regular spot in my first year!
tsuki: There're a lot of club members, right?
tsuki: That'd be awesome if could make regular.
aki: Right?
aki: Mom!
mom: Welcome home.
aki: I need three lunches tomorrow, too!
aki: For morning practice, lunch time, and then right before club.
mom: Got it. High in protein and low-fat, right?
aki: Yep! Thanks!
tsuki: The lady at the butcher shop today said,
"It's amazing that your brother's on the Karasuno volleyball team."
tsuki: Ni-chan, you have a match tomorrow, right?
tsuki: Can I come watch?
aki: Hmm...
ak: I'll get nervous if you watch, so nope!
tsuki: Aw...
tsuki: Hey, what's your position right now?
The same as junior high?
aki: Yeah.
tsuki: So you're the ace!
aki: Yup!
aki: What about you, Kei?
You just joined a youth team, right?
tsuki: I hate receiving.
aki: At first, it doesn't go the way you want it to at all, right?
aki: Here, get into position.
aki: Here we go.
aki: Kei, don't try to raise it with your arms.
aki: See, you lower your hips
and then do it like you're sending it off with your whole body.
aki: Throw it to me a sec.
tsuki: Wow!
aki: Receiving is where everything begins in volleyball.
aki: Connections mean everything in volleyball.
aki: Are you getting along with the other kids okay?
tsuki: Yeah...
aki: Liar!
aki: It's written all over your face!
sign: Karasuno General Sports Park Indoor Gymnasium
tsuki: Hi.
yama: Ah! Um...
yama: Thank you for the other day.
tsuki: Have we met?
yama: The... other day... a-at the park...
tsuki: Oh. So, what are you doing here?
volley-flashbackoverlap,yama: The park...
yama: Oh, um...
I wanted to play some kind of sport...
yama: There are a lot of scary guys in baseball and soccer,
yama: but this seemed safe.
yama: Ah!
yama: Those shoes are awesome!
I still only have the school-issued gym shoes.
tsuki: Mine are hand-me-downs.
These were my older brother's, and I'm using them until I get my own next week.
yama: Your brother plays volleyball, too?
tsuki: He plays at a really strong high school called Karasuno.
tsuki: He's like the ace.
yama: H-He's the ace of a powerhouse school?!
Th-That's awesome!
tsuki: N-Nah... It's not that big of a deal.
He's been one ever since junior high.
yama: Wow!
yama: How long has he been playing?
Did he play on this team?
yama: Aces are totally cool!
aki: I'm home.
tsuki: How was your practice match today?
aki: Yeah, it went great!
I got a lot of spikes in!
tsuki: That's cool.
tsuki: Let's practice passing.
aki: After we're done eating.
tsuki: Yamaguchi.
boy: What's the next class?
boy: Japanese!
tsuki: I'm gonna go to Karasuno's match tomorrow, but do you wanna come?
tsuki: My brother told me not to come because it'll make him nervous,
tsuki: but since my brother's a third-year,
this is his final match in the prefecture.
yama: I'll go! I've never seen Akiteru-kun play.
boy: Tsukishima, your brother's in Karasuno's volleyball club, too?
boy: So's mine.
friend,sign: Friendship
boy: What position does your brother play?
tsuki: Wing spiker.
boy: Hey! So does mine.
boy: That team practically has a caste system, so it's rough.
boy: If you can't even play in matches,
you really have to wonder if going to a powerhouse school is worth it.
yama: Tsukki's brother plays in the matches.
boy: Wha? No way.
boy: I saw a match recently,
and none of the regulars were named Tsukishima.
tsuki: That can't be true.
tsuki: I hear about the matches all the time.
It's gotta be some kind of mistake.
boy: You can see for yourself at the match.
tsuki: Yeah, I can.
yellow,sign: South
miyagi,sign: Miyagi Prefecture High School General Sports Tournament Volleyball <Boys'>
team: One more!
team: Nice receive!
team: They're going left! Left!
boy: That's awesome! # did it again!
He's only around cm, too!
boy: And he's only a second-year, right?
boy: See?
boy: The one of the left is the third-year, Kawada-kun,
and on the other side is the second-year ace who they call the Little Giant.
boy: For about a year now!
yama: We get it!
yama: We can see that...
boy: My brother's also a third-year and hasn't been in any matches.
tsuki: Slice.
tsuki: It wasn't like a movie or drama, where there's spurts of blood and heads go flying.
tsuki: This was far more shocking.
tsuki: My brother wasn't on the court.
karasu: One more!
aki: Nice serve!
fly,banner: Fly
tsuki: How lame.
tsuki: It was only a club,
but it was everything to my brother.
tsuki: In the end, it made my brother tell pointless lies.
tsuki: So you're the ace!
aki: Yup!
tsuki: But my brother probably believed...
tsuki: ...that he could be the ace if he tried hard.
suki: But so what if he did?
tsuki: Would it be worth all of that trouble?
yama: Tsukki!
tsuki: What?
yama: Tsukki, you were always able to do anything while being cool and smart,
yama: so I've always been jealous.
tsuki: And?
yama: But you're being lame lately, Tsukki!
yama: Hinata might become the Little Giant some day.
yama: That just means you have to b*at him, Tsukki!
yama: You just need to become an even better player than Hinata
and prove your skills!
yama: You have the height, brains, and instinct,
tsuki: so why do you decide that getting any better is impossible?
tsuki: Even if...
I worked really hard and became the best player on Karasuno's team,
tsuki: what would happen after that?
tsuki: Even if there's a tiny chance we might make it to nationals,
what happens after that?
tsuki: No matter how high you climb, there's always someone better.
tsuki: Even if you are able to show some results somewhere,
you'll never actually be number one!
tsuki: You're gonna lose somewhere!
tsuki: You all know that, so how can you keep going?!
yama: What else do we need besides pride?!
tsuki: To think this day would come...
tsuki: When did you become so cool?
tsuki: You're actually cool.
yama: T-Tsukki? What's wrong?
tsuki: If anything...
It's at least better than my worn-out train of thought.
tsuki: But I can't accept that.
yama: Huh?
tsui: I'm gonna go ask something.
yama: Tsukki?!
suga: Hey, Daichi.
sawa: Yeah?
suga: You sure it's okay to leave Tsukishima alone?
sawa: If you force someone to do it,
it's not actually free practice.
suga: I know, but...
sawa: Ever since we had our first -on- ,
I haven't been that worried.
sawa: But if there's even the slightest chance that Tsukishima says he's gonna quit,
sawa: I'll do whatever I have to to stop him,
sawa: so I might need you to help me out then.
sawa: I don't understand how Tsukishima thinks.
sawa: We're basically developing at this point,
and we don't know the limits of our potential.
sawa: Even if we felt those limits, we would still keep aiming higher.
sawa: I can't see any logic or reason in his behavior.
suga: True...
volley-eyecatch-b,sign: Haikyu!!
volley-eyecatch-b,sign: Haikyu!!
gym ,sign: Gymnasium #
yachi: Yamaguchi-kun said something in a weird voice as he ran off,
but I wonder if he's okay.
hina: Weird voice?
yachi: "Tsukki!"
yahi: Like that.
hina: Oh, so he went to see Tsukishima.
yachi: Did something happen?
hina: Yeah... He seemed a bit worried about Tsukishima.
yachi: I see.
hina: Tsukishima never does anything that's lame.
hina: He never fails at tests.
He always does things like whoosh!
hina: And swish!
yachi: Yeah...
yachi: What exactly is the difference between "whoosh" and "swish"?
hina: So I think he'll be okay.
hina: Being good in volleyball or sucking at it,
I think it's obvious which one's cooler.
gym ,sign: Gymnasium #
red: Oh?
boku: What's this?
kuro: What's this? What's this?
tsuki: There's something I'd like to ask you. May I?
both: Sure!
tsuki: Thank you very much.
tsuki: Both of your schools
tsuki: are sometimes considered powerhouse schools, right?
uro: Well, yeah.
tsuki: Even if you were able to make it to nationals,
actually winning there would be difficult, right?
boku: But not impossible!
aka: Now, now, let's hear him out.
This is just a what-if.
tsuki: I seriously can't figure out how everyone can be so determined.
tsuki: Volleyball is just a club,
and maybe you'll get to write,
tsuki: "I worked really hard in my club in high school,"
on your resume, right?
boku: "Just a club"?
boku: That almost sounds like someone's name.
kuro: Ooh, like Mary Club?
kuro: No wait, I guess it was "just some club."
boku: Aw, man! So it doesn't sound like someone's name.
Man, I was so close!
boku: Damn it!
tsuki: Are you basically asking me to retort?
aka: Nah. There'll be no end to it.
boku: Say, four-eyes.
tsuki: It's Tsukishima.
boku: Say, Tsukishima-kun...
Is volleyball fun?
tsuki: No, not really...
boku: Maybe that's because you suck.
boku: I'm a third-year and I've been to nationals,
and I'm better than you. Like way better.
tsuki: You don't have to tell me that.
boku: But I only recently starting thinking that volleyball was fun.
boku: Ever since my straight became usable in matches.
straight,sign: Straight
boku: Because my cross hits that I was really good at kept getting blocked,
vids,sign: Cross
boku: I got frustrated and practiced the hell out of straights.
boku: And...
boku: At the next tournament, the same blockers couldn't touch it.
boku: I got right past them.
boku: Just that one sh*t made me feel like my time had finally come.
boku: It all depends on if you have that moment or not.
boku: It doesn't really matter what happens in the future,
or if you can win your next match.
boku: The joy you feel b*ating the guy in front of you,
and when you're able to pull out % of your potential, is everything.
boku: Well, at least that's how it is for me,
and it doesn't mean that applies to everyone.
boku: I don't really understand why you say it's "just a club,"
boku: but I don't think you're wrong.
boku: But once that moment arrives for you,
boku: that's the moment you'll be hooked on volleyball.
boku: All right. I answered your question, now help with blocking.
kuro: All right, now. Come on, hurry it up.
tsuki: Wait, what...
Yachi: Ah, Yamaguchi-kun came back.
hina: Yamaguchi, where's Tsukishima?
yama: It looks like he got caught by the Nekoma and Fukurodani captains.
hina: What?! I'm so jealous.
hina: Maybe I'll go, too.
yama: Hinata, do you think of Tsukki as your rival?
hina: Huh?
hina: Of course I do!
hina: We play the same position, and he has everything I don't.
hina: But I'm not gonna lose to him!
hina: I've gotta practice!
hina: Captain! I'm coming in!
yachi: If Hinata and Tsukishima-kun are rivals,
sawa: Sure.
it's like the sun versus the moon.
yachi: "Hi" means "sun" and "tsuki" means "moon."
yama: Yeah, you're right!
hina: Yeah!
yama: I hope that happens...
hina: # !
yachi: Eek...
some: All right!
yachi: That # is really intense again today.
ukai: Sensei.
chalkboard,sign: Fukurodani Karasuno
fukuro: All right!
ukai: Even if you're not able to stop # 's spikes,
at least try to touch it.
all: Right!
yachi: I see... So even if they aren't able to stop it,
if they're able to touch the ball, it reduces the momentum?
shi: Right. There are usually two goals in blocking.
shi: There's the soft block that's used in order to make the ball easier to receive,
shi: and the k*ll block that's used to completely shut the ball out.
yachi: k*ll... as in, k*lling something?
shimi: Yes.
yachi: Eek!
tsuki: We don't have to stop it?
ukai: Well...
ukai: If you're able to actually shut the ball out, there's nothing better.
fuku: All right!
chalkboard ,sign: Fukurodani Karasuno
boku: Nice receive!
Give it to me!
sawa: Left! # , # !
kuro: First, you need to visualize it.
kuro: Concentrate your strength to your fingertips,
: so you're not blown back.
kuro: And put your hands in front of you, instead of over your head.
kuro: In front.
kuro: And then, make this annoying owl shut up!
boku: Just try it!
yachi: Um... a soft block that reduces the ball's momentum, and...
yachi: The one who kills the spike...
tana: Feint!
nishi: Damn it!
take: Wow, I totally thought they were going to come with a full-on att*ck there.
take: To think it was actually a feint...
take: I guess that's what you get with an ace that went to nationals.
tana: Daichi-san, that was...
sawa: Yeah.
aka: Bokuto-san just ran away.
boku: I did not! I just got around it!
And really well! I got around their block!
person: You let your guard down.
boku: Ugh! Yeah, yeah, I'm sorry!
neko: Well, now...
neko: Perhaps the troublesome little baby bird is starting to come out of his shell.
yachi: Oh...
yachi: The sun versus the moon?
boku: Tsukki! Jump some blocks for us!
tsuki: Could you please not call me that?
boku: Then... How about Glasses-kun?
boku: All right, let's do this thing, Akaasshi!
aka: Now somehow I'm involved.
sign: Episode : "VS "Umbrella""
aka: Next time on Haikyu!!: "VS "Umbrella"."
02x08 - Illusionary Hero
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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.