To continue adding to the request I'm now doing Haikyu.
So yeah it's fine.......
Alright, alright.
Hinata is obsessed with Volleyball having witnessed a guy with his same height excel at spiking leading Hinata to do the same. Having had a difficult time getting support in middle school, he finally gets a game against a top team led by a setter called Kageyama who earned himself the nickname King for constantly berating his team for mistakes or not even keeping up with him. Despite losing, Hinata hopes to join the Karasuno High School Volleyball Squad only to reunite with Kageyama as teammates. Although they have difficulty working together, they start forming a team with the other Volleyball club members as they aim to get Karasuno back on top with all the trials that come with it.
This is a sports anime alright, the only way this looks any different to the others is the fact that Volleyball is under used as a proper sport outside Beach Volleyball, so actually seeing it properly without the bikini clad waifus distracting me is actually appreciated for once as I wasn't that bad a player myself.
But we need characters and thankfully Haikyu delivers with a decent selection of them, while some borrowing heavily from well established archetypes but not being too similar to the point that none of them stand out.
I only have two complaints, it's length being one as I feel that long sports shows really struggle to stay interesting after achieving the initial goal. The other is that I really wanted to know more about Hinata leading up to High School. It's hinted at many times that he had to practice with the girl's team and they look like really good characters, so a prequel or maybe that should've been season 1, then I'd probably be a lot more into Hinata's character.
The dub is decent and well cast.
Final Verdict: it's decent and does it's job fine, it's hardly groundbreaking and has gone on longer than it maybe needs to but it's still a good watch. I may add to this as I go through the later seasons if anything pops up that alters my opinion.
