Cherubicallyyours - Hopeless Imaginator

Kageyama's backstory only being revealed near the very end of the series is really interesting from a meta perspective.

For reference, his chapter is 387 out of 402. That's 96% of the way in.

To contrast, other characters like Tsukishima and Yamaguchi's backstories are shown in Chapters 87-88.

Now, we do get the explanation for his "King of the Court" title in Chapter 6, at the start of the series, but we don't see how he got to that point, or why he started playing volleyball in the first place like Tsukishima's and Yamaguchi's stories show.

It creates this situation where, despite being the deuteragonist, the character our protagonist, Hinata, is practically glued to the entire series, we barely know anything about him.

We don't even know he has a sister until that point whereas other characters' siblings like Natsu, Saeko, Akiteru, Alisa have all made appearances way before then. Even Oikawa's sister, though we don't see her, we at least know she exists because of Takeru.

He's both closed off to us (the audience) as well as the other characters in the series, and this results in them finding him rude or disliking his character in general (see: the "Kageyama is abusive" discourse that somehow keeps popping up even now).

Chapter 387 takes place in 2018 and was published in 2020 so it takes him 6 years of in-universe time and 8 years of irl time to really open up.

And the catalyst for all of this is Hinata fulfilling his promise of beating him.

You see, another thing to note is that, whenever Hinata thinks of Kageyama, he's always looking at him from behind.

His internal image of him is someone who's always up ahead, someone he needs to catch up to, meaning Hinata can only see one side of him, he cannot see all of Kageyama until he catches up and passes him.

Which he finally does here.

In this shot Hinata is finally the one who's looking back at Kageyama. At this moment, Hinata (and by extension the audience) can see him for all he is, can see how he was just a lonely boy who's been waiting for someone to meet him where he is, to keep running alongside him and not quit the race.

Someone he doesn't have to go easy on. Someone who would actually tell him to hurry up instead of slow down for a change.

His someone better.

Imagine how famous these bbys are gonna get by the end of the year asfkl;

When in actuality they’re just dweebs 

#reblog

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I MADE HAIKYUU TALKSPRITES!!! bc maybe i’m still homestuck trash so what

#is this real? #gorgeous #so much talent #one of my favorites #patrochilles ##tsoa #reblog

This musical makes me feel so many things.

I can't believe I did it. It's amazing that I was able to do it in such a short amount of time.

And I hope you're not disappointed. It's still more like a storyboard (just with more frames) than a full animation.

Thank you all for waiting 

Art by  transgend_er 

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yk guys i don't really care anymore i just want the manga to end so i can focus on fics&art because these characters are STUCK to my soul forever. It's like they've transcended the pages and now they're part of me until i die

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