I'm not surprised that Miyuki is the #1 character on Ao3, but Chris-senpai seems way too low.

I also had to look Kuramochi Youichi on the wiki because I am still terrible with names.

The wiki also has heights though, so I can now determine what ships have the cutest height differences.

Disappointed the Mei is not as short as I thought, he just stands next to tall people a lot.

Also anime Mei is way less cute than manga Mei, this is unacceptable.

In any case it looks like volume 9 is going to get sexy so here goes.

Literally children.

Furuya is now sneaking off to nap in weird spots because it's too hot. He is virtually indistinguishable from a kitten.

I think I'm going to start a folder of just Furuya being cute. His face is so great.

But I hit the sexy part at last.

This is opponent feel really Death Note-y.

Sorry, did I say Death Note? I meant romantic comedy. This opponent feels like a romantic comedy.

haha def one of the things i enjoy about daiya is when they introduce some new opposing team and at first present them like

THEY'RE SO EVIL. THEY'RE SO SKILLED. THEY'RE SO SKILLED AND EVIL! EVIL LAUGHING. HOW WILL OUR HEROES EVER TAKE THEM DOWN

and in a more ridic disconnected from reality sports manga maybe they would actually be ttly evil

but then the narrative goes to develop the opponent's POV and it just turns out all of them are ridic dorks. EVEN RAICHI. WELL. SORT OF. lol

Yeah, I am definitely starting to warm up to this opponent more that Furuya got to sit down. I'm much more into people being mean to Eijun.

OH COME ON

hahahahahha

that reminds me of my fave anime episode title of all time, hikago ep 74 "FOREVER INSIDE YOU"

I should get around to checking out Hikago someday, it seems like one of the classics of the overly dramatic sports rivalry genre.

omg yes, u have not truly experienced overly dramatic sports anime rivalry until hikago imo

a while back i made some videos of early super gay hikago rivalry moments, HERE HAVE SOME 2 TEMPT U

these moments are like, from super early on: pw for all vieos=hikago

HOWEVER THIS IS MY ABSOLUTE FAVORITE EARLY MOMENT OF THE SHOW GOD: Private Video on Vimeo

like i can never get over it, the fucking cherry blossoms blowing in the wind while making impassioned declarations thru the window after stalking hikaru to this classroom

"NO MATTER WHO I PLAY, I'M CONSTANTLY THINKING ABOUT YOU."

"HOW YOU WOULD RESPOND TO EACH OF MY MOVES." cherry blossoms blow while shindou remains speechless

INTENSE EMOTIONAL MUSIC SWELLS WHILE THEY EYEFUCK EACH OTHER

i have some other videos of later super gay bits but i wouldn't want 2 spoil u too much hahaha

this might interest u tho, the time several dudes gangbang, i mean, gang up on touya with sensory deprivation/humiliation go: Private Video on Vimeo

actual screencaps:

Oh my god that's a lot of gay cherry blossoms.

I had always assumed people were exaggerating the dramatic gusts of wind thing.

NOOOOOOOOOOPE

That's amazing.

I've now hit the parts with Raichi the feral child batter. I am finding him delightful.

haha raichi is gr8. they made a horrible voice casting decision for him in the anime tho, it's the dude who does kuroko from kurobasu, his voice is wayyyyy too mellow

That's a bummer, I'm way into how frothing at the mouth he seems to be. Also his terrible coach dad using him to make money.

Also the three first years are super cute as a unit.

Though I am still forgetting what vowels go where in their names so they're just Ei, Fu, and Haru in my head most of the time.

Sorry kids, I love you but this series has a lot of characters with a lot of syllables.

yeah I could get behind a 1st years threesome, except I don't think they could manage to pull one off probably, lol losers

I was going to say they could pull it off it Haruichi was coordinating but that's a lie, Eijun would ignore him and fuck it up immediately.

Someone is getting injured, that's for sure. Maybe everyone.

yeah haruichi would TRY to make it work but eijun and furuya would star fighting (possibly about something ttly unrel8d) and it would all go 2 hell

Poor Haruichi. I'd say he deserves better, but he has Chris-senpai as a roommate so he's already won the Daiya good luck lottery. Can't have it all, kid.

Actually, is he Chris's roommate? I thought he said so in the manga but the guidebook seems to say otherwise. That's sad, they would be cute roomies.

i have no clue haha