Tear the Iron wall like boss scene 2; Haikyu episode 18 impression

Today episode was straight to the point with the match took almost the entire air time. In regard to last week initial fight againts Dateko, Karasuno started to gain advantages over the opponent. The “freak quick” proved effective against Dateko, which still recovering their shock from the sudden technique. The episode started with Karasuno gaining the lead and they were at the match point of the first set. 

Girls where are you when the bald guy started to cosplay as fairy^-^  Tanaka: WHATTT!!

If you love an episode without too many background information or character development but focused mainly in the volley match, you will definitely love this episode. There was one character who took the spotlight in this episode and he was Azumane Nishina. For your information, Nishina have confidence crisis against dateko because they totally blocked his attack during their previous match.  This episode mainly focused on him tearing apart the fear that he had after losing the ability to score in the previous encounter.

The guy in the middle thought "OMG I can't do anything but gasping"

Both teams kept adding point with the Dateko having a stronger defense while Karasuno patch up the missing points using the “quick freak” formula. If Dateko scored, either via blocking or spiking, Karasuno later on would create a decoy spike to get another point. They kept exchanging blow and the atmosphere turned heated as the game was getting closer to the match point. I must admit that Dateko spirit was admirable. Even if they were at disadvantages they still worked hard to block the spikes. For instance; when Karasuno performed another fake spike, one of the Dateko's member; Kamasaki could reacted to the fake shot by jumping and bending his body to the right to block the real smash. Then Hinata used another of his quick spike and while this time Aone could block the shot, it ricocheted to Dateko's inner net area, which made the Karasuno high obtained their match point.

You got it wrong I am not kicking I am tackling with style

Yeah you are right. I am not smashing either; I am performing shoryuken

 

The main part of the episode was when Karasuno only need one more point to win the match. At this stage, Aone played as the main blocker while Hinata have to take the formation change that means Karasuno was at their disadvantage position. The one and only person who must make the winning shot was the team's ace Nishina. If they lose the second match, Karasuno might be in disadvantages due to Dateko knowledge to the freak quick formula so It was a very intense moment for Karasuno members. When Aone deflect Nishina's spike, Nishinoya saved the ball using his left foot and sent the ball back to the air. This time Kageyama tossed the ball in the air and Nishina with his overall power send the ball like a guided missile down to Dateko's territory. I was gasping when the Dateko blockers once again threw the ball in the air. It landed just in the net and with fortune goddess smiling to the crows, the ball fell to the Dateko's side and this time around; no Dateko player could reach it. With Karasuno winning the match, the episode made Nishina the star of the game and it helped him regained his confidence as the team's ace

No matter how jerk he was, I could not hate him. He just reminded me of myself :D

I admitted that this episode was a bit of challenge to write. I mean the episode was interesting to watch and the match was tense. However, I found it difficult to find any peculiar events that I can note for writing.  I merely hoping that the battle with Aoba Johsai will have lots of interesting events like new tactics or how the Karasuno could take advantages of their limitation with receiving. Probably a good episode for other viewers but for me I think it could be better