When I first started watching Volleyball Boys, I thought the whole painting style was pretty good, but because I watched Slam Dunk and The Prince of Tennis before, and watched a lot of Japanese hot-blooded anime, I was already very immune to this kind of anime. So I didn't have too much expectations, and I felt that I didn't waste my time if I could meet the rules. I didn't expect to get so many surprises in the end.
Mainly at two points.
A novel character
The volleyball boy's dual male protagonist is actually a rotten character configuration used in general anime, which is mindless and unhappy. Mindless is responsible for trusting the blood, unhappy is responsible for ensuring the excitement of the game from the beginning, and it needs to be inspired by Mindless by showing the enthusiasm in the unhappy heart to guide the audience's middle two plots.
But the difference between the characters is that the characters of the two male protagonists are full of talent and blood when they leave the factory, and they feel like soulmates. It is only because of the lack of teammates and mentors that the skill value is low, and the other is isolated because the emotional intelligence is not high enough and the skill value of the former teammates is far different. There is very little difference between the two people's early settings and the perfect ceiling.
This kind of character design ensures a certain degree of novelty, but also for the plot advancement and opponent configuration settings, burying a lot of bugs (I have only watched the first season, at least the first season did not collapse, still very happy). That is, the advantages and hidden dangers depend on how the author solves it later.
Two perspectives
Many of the hot-blooded anime I watched before were basically centered on the protagonist or the protagonist team, just like the Milky Way watched from the center of the earth, expanding the world view circle by circle. As for other teams, they are like other planets, although they have their own orbits, and they intersect with the protagonist team in the process. But the core is still the protagonist team as the center of the anime world view. And the volleyball teenagers started out as a team in a drop in the ocean.
All teams are working hard to show ups and downs in each game, and Wuye is just one example. One of the more obvious places is that after the protagonist team fails, the team for the next game appears, with the same smile and passion as Wuye Gang entered the field, everything seems to be a reincarnation, in fact, Wuye is only one of many competition teams. one of. In addition to bringing novel senses, this setting fits the cruelty of society and fits well with the slogans that keep appearing in the plot. Only the strong can stand on the field all the time. It gave me a sense of sight that is not a single-line development, encountering gods and killing gods, encountering Buddhas and Buddhas, but a group of teams constantly evolving and fighting to snatch the top of the pyramid. It's just that one of the teams I'm focusing on at the moment is Karasuma, which adds an extra sense of competition. This more realistic representation gave me a novel feeling. And since I'm already a young and middle-aged man in his thirties, in addition to recognition, there is more resonance.
In addition to these two places, the plot rhythm of the volleyball boy's painters is interesting and excellent. Aside from its own characteristics, it is also very good in terms of the basic plate of a hot-blooded anime. And it's not too long, I recommend it.
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