…um. if puppy will let me

use the computer…puppy

puppy i know you are sleepy but i've only been awake a few hours, and i need my hands for things so can you just--

…understood

PLEASE HOLD

volleyballs coming at some point

Chapter 12: Normal Movements

AHAHAHA SOMEHOW I MISSED THIS ON THE FIRST READ-THROUGH

using 'kouhandler' as a username for sugawara ten million years ago was really prescient of me wasn't it

Chapter 13: An Interesting Team

omg yahaba, kindaichi, cutes

cute friends

Fun fact: I do actually transcribe characters' dialogue word-for-word when I'm saving for canon review/reference and so far as I've seen, this is manga's longest recorded ellipsis

clocking in at fifteen straight dots, kindaichi yuutaro is the victor in BROODING SILENCE

"Anything you can do, I can do better."
"Ha!!"
"I can do anything better than you!"

"No you can't."

"Yes I can."

"No you can't!"

"Yes I can!"

"No you ca--" "YES I CAN YES I CAN"

quaility Softboiled

8 )

Chapter 14: VS. the "Grand King"

He looks at me and I look at him...

Chapter 15: Chemical Reaction

if you don't have a lot of unwanted kitagawa daiichi feelings rn then you are reading the manga wrong SORRY

also, and this happens every time there's a reference to or I go out of my way to review/remember anything involving kageyama/his junior high teammates' history, but it still chafes me so goddamn bad

when ppl in fandom take away from the middle school drama re: kageyama and his teammates that kageyama was the victim in all that, or else that the blame was somehow shared equally

like, the flashbacks are meant to humanize kageyama and they do, and to an extent make him sympathetic, but in the end more than anything else they're supposed to set a meter for how much he grows from that

because just showcasing a huge emotional impact in the moment his teammates abandoned him doesn't mean it was something they did to deliberately be mean

(even though it was)

and it definitely doesn't excuse kageyama from being absolutely horrible to his teammates because he was, and ppl jumping to place more/equal blame on kindaichi and the others for the ending of it isn't…fair

because they literally tried every other avenue first--fighting with kageyama, reasoning with kageyama, everything up to and including asking the coaches to intervene but the verbal abuse didn't stop

so making a statement by refusing to play was an absolute last resort to make it clear that there was no way to keep playing under those conditions

i love kageyama but it's important to remember!! he is coming from a very opposite place in his character development from this point!!!! and learning to connect w/his teammates is less important

than the BIG takeaway from his past junior high drama, which is that he should try to at all

end rant, sorry. ONTO THE NEXT CHAPTER.