Karasuno?? what team is that?? Haikyuu!! episode 19 impression

I think it was time for Haikyuu!! to break a little and after two intense matches behind, the episode focused on the team preparation to fight Aoba Johsai. They did defeat Aoba during their practice match. However, they only did that because the main setter, Oikawa played in the last moment of practice. In addition, they did not show their standard formation for playing in the international match. Frankly, I accidentally read the outcome of the battle between Aoba and Karasuno from a Haikyu!! manga readers who spoke about the match in an anime forum. Nevertheless, I would not spill the outcome as it might spoil your anticipation regarding to the winner of the match.

The killing tension omg :D

Speaking about the episode, this episode genuinely had a smart joke implemented in it; especially in the part where the Karasuno's team watched the local television news regarding to the volleyball preliminary matches.  For example, the local television showed the favorite team result. It seems that the local television only took interest on Aoba Johsai due to Oikawa's good look and popularity. The funniest moment was when the TV wanted to show the team of Karasuno, instead of displaying the team Karasuno played a match against Dateko, it showed Oikawa instead who later on commenting about his lack of interest in battling Karasuno. The team's reaction was splendid as they were pouting over the fact that even local television did not take any interest in their team let alone the girls XD.

when he done this pose, his deductive thinking was raised by 60 %

I admitted that high class player like Oikawa must have a special traits that made him different with the other players. Under his laid back personality, he had a winning attitudes and a serious disposition that only few people could understand. He played a mind wars against Karasuno as if he took them easily while in reality, he took the video of their match against Dateko. Before the main match, he watched the Karasuno's previous game while calculating about the team strengths and weaknesses intensively. 

You got owned bad

The episode followed with both Karasuno and Aoba Johsai prepared for the match. Like usual, Oikawa showed his laid back comments and provoked some of his team members along the way. However, before the match he said one words that completely changed the team's atmosphere “ I'll believe in all of you”. Just like any fierce warlord, his charisma and his word told the viewer that when he played a match, he would not pull any jokes and he would completely put his trusts to his peers. This quality was obviously the thing that Karasuno high still lacking off. While technically getting better after Ukai taught the team, compared to the more mature Aoba Johsai, the Karasuno still lacked the spirit of cooperation and trusts between the team members.

I just need a sloooooow mowwwwwtion

Oikawa made a strong jab for the Karasuno with his dump technique. Instead of sending the ball to the spiker, he jumped and performed a normal spike to send the ball down to the opponents area. He even taunt Karasuno that he might replay the same technique in order to shake their motivation. Then, he fake another jump spike and turned it into a pass to another member, which make the Aoba Johsai led the game by two points. However, the best stunt was made by Kageyama. In order to taunt Oikawa, he also performed the same trick that Oikawa made in the beginning. He performed a quick dump attack when most of the Karasuno's spiker were preparing to take the shot. In addition, he even mimicked Oikawa's statement about using the same trick again, which made the later felt infuriated.

Honestly, this episode was a good episode although it was not as intense as the previous episodes. In fact, I considered this episode as a special tribute episode for Oikawa, Aoba Johsai's charismatic setter and Kageyama former teacher. Watching this episode, we could see what kind of person Oikawa was as his laid back personalities hide a very dedicated volleyball players who very much hate losing. The next episode will take the battle in a more serious tone and right now Aoba Johsai led the game by one point .