Hey, everybody, it's me, or I'll do it all on my own, king of the court rival Kagayama, the Seta, the bruiser.

And it's me, Shoyo Hinata. I may be small, but God damn it, I love volleyball so

fucking much. It's pretty much my entire personality is that I love volleyball. I'm a jump.

I'm a jump real high. I'm a jumpy jump boy.

You're like, oh, there's no way that little guy is going to be able to block my spike because he's so

little, but then I jump like a fucking freak of nature. You're too small to play volleyball, kid.

I'm going to spike this fucking thing so hard. You're going to doubt every major life decision

you've ever made. I have regretted my

words and my deeds. The end. That is our episode on Haiku. Thank you everybody for joining.

That's right. We're doing Haiku today. The sports manga, the volleyball, manga and anime,

to be exact, illustrated by Haruchi Furudate.

It was adapted to a popular anime series produced by production IG, and it centers around a boy who Jake was weirdly being just now, who attempts to rise above his tiny stature to become a world-class volleyball player.

Jake, I have a statement and admission to make to you.

Oh, great. I think I like sports

anime better than Shonen. Honestly, the fact is, is that sports anime has been around for almost the

entirety of anime's history. Sure. Like literally one of the first pieces of homegrown Japanese

animation had to do with the Olympics.

In fact, the Olympics really like affects, like Japan has always been this weird little island

with these strong global ambitions that like...

Are you saying that Japan is our protagonist?

I mean, always.

Is that what you're saying?

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