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Should you Volley-Bail on Haikyu!!? - Anime Club · Anime Club Podcast

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  That's fine. That was a real sloppy intro.
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  I did that to myself. Normally Chris tries to distract
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  me, but today I just got distracted, which I love.
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  Welcome to this week's episode of Anime Club, where two
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  professional podcasters, semi professional, not professional
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  at all, I think then two people who should not be let loose with
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  the Internet sit and we talk about anime.
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  And this year we've made a conscientious effort to try
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  anime that we've never seen before.
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  But hello to Tony and hello to Molly in the chat.
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  It's very lovely to have you join us.
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  So, Chris? Yes, yes, Phoebe.
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  How's it going? It's it's going good, good.
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  We're we're finally trying new things and expanding our sorry,
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  my pump was shipping on us, expanding my horizons.
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  of stuff and selling stuff. I think we've we've kind of, you
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  know, kowtowed to the ever marching force that is
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  capitalism. This week we did something a bit
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  different. This is.
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  When we need to talk about snacks.
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  Sorry, just just because you're on your diet and eating healthy
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  and all nice. Hang on a minute, it's not a
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  diet, it's a lifestyle change. That makes it worse.
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  I'll edit that out. You can't we're live, Chris.
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  Do you slowly? Are you Have you got this week?
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  Well, I thought I'd be supportive and I have a cup of
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  tea out of my nice little mug. I also have some tea.
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  Nice. And what?
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  What's a cup of tea without a little bicky?
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  So I've got loads of. Yeah, you gotta have a Bicky
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  with a tea cup of tea. That's allowed everything in
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  moderation. I've got loads of fingers of
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  shortbread next to us, right next to us.
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  Do you know who got? Everything in moderations.
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  I want enough fingers to make a nun blush.
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  Didn't even touch the sides. That's what the nun said
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  blasphemy for one day battery sacrilege.
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  Just disrespectful general this week, I'm glad you've got
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  shortbread and I hope everyone else has loads of fingers.
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  Everyone else has some yummy snacks.
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  That's Molly saying that. I'm just reading the chat, by
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  the way. I would never.
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  This week we're doing something that was, This is one of our
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  first ever recommendations on Anime Club in our comments and
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  is, I think, widely thought of as being like one of the most
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  popular sports anime out there. And it is Haiku.
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  Is that how you say it? I said that, right?
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  Yeah, I assume so. They actually say it very
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  helpfully. They actually say it in the
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  anime because it is Japanese for volleyball, right, which is
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  handy. So that was good to know.
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  And that little fact is courtesy of our good friend Jake, who
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  looked it up because he was like, Oh, is that Japanese for
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  let's go, which is AI think something that he hears on one
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  piece a lot, But that's Haku, which is very similar, but
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  slightly different. So this is an anime all about
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  volleyball. Chris, tell us a little bit
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  about the Sylopsis. Oh.
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  Yeah, I mean, but watch your first.
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  Because I know that you paid loads of attention to it.
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  Right, we'll get into that. But luckily, luckily I can
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  vaguely remember it. So it follows Shoyo, who's a
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  ginger kid and whose dream it is to play volleyball.
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  He tried to join a volleyball club in his first school, but
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  then these teachers were like, look, there is a volleyball
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  club, but you'll be the only member.
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  So I'm not starting that up because I can't be able to look
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  after you. But that didn't stop him.
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  So he started training by himself and he played with.
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  Yeah, training by himself and he also played, practiced with the
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  women's volleyball team, which we love to see.
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  Yeah, has to be, Which seems to be all very Butch women that
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  have been shown so far playing in the women's volleyball team
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  all have arms like bakers. I didn't even think I look at
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  them. I was just like, this is just
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  like a normal healthy mix of like school kids.
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  It's like they're not like sticks and have bug eyes and
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  everything. And so it's just normal, normal
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  girls in it. Yeah, and Jackson Walsh studio
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  in the chat is saying leave the poor nuns alone.
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  Sorry, this is an an official apology on behalf of nun for
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  nuns. Actually, that apology back,
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  they deserve what they get. All the fingers.
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  Yeah. So.
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  So the kids, he's upset. He becomes obsessed with
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  volleyball. He sees a game in which there is
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  a short king called the a short king who's amazing at volleyball
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  called the Tiny Giant. And he wants to become like the
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  Tiny Giant. Did that speak to you, Chris?
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  It's my It's my nickname in secondary school.
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  Tiny giant. I was a basketball star in
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  secondary school, actually. Were you actually?
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  I actually genuinely don't know if you're telling the piss.
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  I I did play basketball till till I thought that this is a
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  bit ridiculous. I'm 54.
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  And everyone else keeps growing. Yeah, yeah, I was say the I was
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  in year 11, not year 10. I was just like the year sevens
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  are bigger than this. I'm going to stop.
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  Yeah, so I was always put because I'm obviously I was this
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  height. I was, Can you imagine being 6
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  foot 2 at age 13? Absolutely.
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  Like obviously people ripped the Pierce out of me.
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  But because I was always very tall, I was always put on like
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  netball and basketball teams and I think very quickly the the PE
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  teachers and coaches realised that I I was also very lazy.
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  So while I did have a a distinct advantage, it was not one I was
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  ever going to use. Do you know what?
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  I asked. Because.
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  I just didn't want to run, yeah. Hockey.
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  Yeah, I played hockey too. I actually liked hockey a lot.
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  It was violent, though. Yeah, it's something about being
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  able to hit stuff with sticks, do so.
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  Were you dead quick? I wasn't.
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  I was just very aggressive. Phoebe the Wall.
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  Let's just. Did you just put one arm up, one
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  under the pitch and one arm at the other and just stop people
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  moving? Not today, tiny people.
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  Yeah. So, yeah.
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  So he becomes obsessed. He, like, sets up his own team
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  in middle school eventually and manages to encourage enough
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  people to play volleyball that he can play one, one match only
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  in his entire middle school career.
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  And then he gets to go to high school.
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  And that's where the story really begins.
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  But during this time, he has also made a nemesis who I
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  thought reminded me a little bit of Lee.
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  King of the. King of the Court.
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  King of the. Court, King of the Court.
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  King of the Balls. Kagiyama, yeah.
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  Kagiyama, Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, Kaggy.
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  There's Hinata and Kagiyama Kaggy and they realised that
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  they're now going to the same. So before they were going to
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  different middle schools were on different teams, kind of respect
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  each other's talent, but hate each other because they're very
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  competitive. They now realise they have to
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  work together and that's where the story really begins because
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  obviously magic of friendship. So that's kind of like a brief
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  synopsis. Let's dive into it.
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  Chris, what do you think? What were your give me your
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  broad strokes? So what I thought going in and
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  then what I thought coming out, just like they're not enough
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  fingers. So when I first went in, I
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  thought, well, haiku, it could be interesting.
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  I didn't know it was the Japanese volleyball.
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  I thought it was like a poem thing, the haikus.
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  But that's. All OK.
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  Yeah, that is on you. I saw the cover and I don't
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  know. Have you ever seen Shaolin
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  soccer? I love Shaolin soccer.
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  In my head I thought it would have been something like this.
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  There would have been some crazy powers, a bit of a bit of humour
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  and a bit of everything at that. And then the first episode
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  started and I was OK. And the the Lorna ginger guy,
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  Sorry, I'll just look at his name again.
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  Hinata. Yeah, Hinata.
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  And he was all right. You could tell you had like a
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  little bit of passion and it kind of kept you hooked as in as
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  this, because I always root for another dog.
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  I love an underdog story, whether it be like, you know,
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  the Mighty Ducks or something like that.
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  And. The ultimate of underdog
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  stories? The mighty yes.
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  Side note, isn't it weird how that that guy was a drunk
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  driving and as a punishment got to train kids how to play
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  hockey? But anyway, right, yeah.
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  Start. Start.
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  Going on from there and I was like, oh this, this isn't
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  there's going to be no special powers in here.
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  This is all going to be I don't know.
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  It's very tame for me and animations good.
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  The opening musics fine, but I don't think it's.
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  You wanted more actual violence or magical powers?
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  Yeah, what it is. I don't know if I'm just
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  choosing choosing the wrong sport anime, if there's like a
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  blood sport anime or something or boxing movies or I don't know
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  is what's that M Jung Claude Van Damme film where they go
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  together and he like gets the Talton powder in his eyes.
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  And he's like another one blood sport.
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  Yes, if there was an anime version of Blood Sport, I think
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  I'd be down for that. But this?
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  It's such a bad film though. That's the one you want
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  emulated. Although this is the thing.
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  Fist of the North Star. Terrible live action fucking
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  brilliant anime. Yeah, exactly.
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  Yeah, maybe. But I've tried it.
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  It's it was something new and it was a bit not linear for me as
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  well. I was saying just before we
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  started it here, it's like a Hallmark Christmas film where
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  you look at a character and you get about 5 seconds of what
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  they're about. You're right, like right, this
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  is going to happen. They're going to become friends,
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  they're going to kiss, and it happens 90% of the time.
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  So yeah, it's my opinions of it. I don't think it's a bad anime,
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  but I don't think it's a good one that will grip us.
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  Yeah. And to be fair, Mike, that was
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  also, I had a very similar reaction.
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  I'd felt like it was a bit like anime by numbers.
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  Like you could predict. If you watch a lot of anime, you
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  could easily predict this. I think the animation is is
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  decent. It's on the high end, especially
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  when you've got the kind of action court shots and they find
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  interesting ways of like presenting the back and forth of
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  volleyball, which could actually be quite boring.
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  Like I think they do a decent job of of making the sport sport
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  bits relatively exciting. The but yeah, it is like it's a
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  bit predictable. And I also thought like it was a
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  bit like a Hallmark movie, except for I thought Kageyama
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  and Hanata at some point we're going to kiss.
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  I was like, have I accidentally picked like a some sort of shed
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  and I anime? But yeah, no, it's apparently, I
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  think it's just a competitive edge as opposed to deep burning
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  romance, which is, you know, maybe some notes, but.
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  I was just going to say if it's we're, we're both saying, I
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  don't think we're the target audience for this because I
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  think if we were a bit younger than we are now because we're
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  both young, young hip people. Of course, but if we were just a
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  little bit younger. But who do you think the
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  demographic is for this? Who do you think?
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  I think that. I think if I was 12/13 and
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  watching this I'd be like hooked.
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  Yeah. Yeah.
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  I think someone who's mad into volleyball in 1013.
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  Also, if I you know, I was really into volleyball, but I
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  actually thought they did a good job of making volleyball
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  interesting for someone who's never played or understands
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  volleyball. Like they do a good way they
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  they explain the game, but in in a way that is very like story
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  driven. So you don't just get lots of
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  like rule dumps. You kind of like get you learn
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  the rules of volleyball in like a kind of like as it becomes
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  relevant to the story. And that I thought was actually
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  quite skilful. I think as an anime, it does a
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  good job of like introducing you to the sport, which I think is a
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  kind of what sport anime should do.
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  They should make you kind of excited to understand the sport
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  and see the sport play out as well as like what know what
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  happens to the characters. But yeah, so but with that kind
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  of that's yeah, there's just like we're just getting balls in
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  the live chat. It just made me laugh.
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  I was just being a child and trying to ignore it, but I
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  couldn't. And Chris knew immediately that
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  that's why I was laughing. The bull, LOL.
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  Bull. But with that in mind, I've
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  pulled together a bit of a volleyball quiz to see if you
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  were paying attention to and like, because I would say before
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  watching this you would know nothing about volleyball, right?
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  But now you've watched 3 episodes, you might know
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  something so. Right.
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  I hope it's the same as tennis or something.
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  OK. Good question.
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  Well, this is the first, First thing is that obviously it isn't
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  because there are more people on the court, but how many people
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  are on each team in the court in a game of volleyball?
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  And I've got multiple choice because I thought it's
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  otherwise. It's completely unfair otherwise
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  I was. Just going to slightly Google
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  there, OK? Yeah, so you've got a 6B10C5. 5.
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  Oh no, I'm afraid that's incorrect and I have come with.
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  Sound effects 5 seconds is left on me guessing so I would say 6.
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  No, your second guess is right, but I'm afraid I do have to take
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  your first for the final score. There are 6 people on yeah.
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  Oh my God that would be my absolute dream job to be the
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  mastermind presenter. I feel like it would be the best
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  job ever, but that's a side note.
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  Yes, there are 6 people on each team.
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  Question #2 What was the original name of volleyball?
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  It hasn't always been called volleyball or hayaku in in
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  Japanese. Was it A lacrosse, B volleyball,
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  volleyball but two separate words or C Mintonette?
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  Sorry, what? Oh, Mintonet.
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  Mintonet. Mintonet.
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  What's a Minto? Minto.
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  So MINTONETTE. I'm going to go out for fun.
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  Mintonet. That is correct.
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  Yay. Yay, play claps all round,
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  that's one point. Well done.
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  Get in whatever tire. Yeah, yeah.
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  When was volleyball first created?
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  A 2004, B 1912, or C 18950. It's got to be an older one
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  because when was ball, when were balls invented?
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  So. I mean, that's like chicken and
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  the egg. What came first, man or ball?
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  I'm just thinking, have I ever seen a picture of do you know
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  them Victorian onesie suits at the beach?
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  Yeah, yeah, yeah. Have you seen?
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  One of them play people playing volleyball or some kind of
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  people play football. Back then, that was 1890,
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  whatever that was 95. That is correct.
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  Volleyball was first created in 1895 in Holyoke, MA.
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  It was up by Miss Mr. Minto. My Mr. Minute Minute Internet
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  number 40. So that's, you've got 2 correct
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  so far. Yeah #4 who created volleyball?
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  Was it? So talking of Mr. Mintonet, was
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  it a John A Bellstrad, B William G Morgan or C Elijah C Camp
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  would? Oh I hope it's Elijah C Camp
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  would just for the Lord of the Rings reference.
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  Is there a Lord of the Rings reference there?
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  Yeah, Elijah Wood, he was in Lord of the Rings.
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  OK. And he's very camp Wood.
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  Don't judge, Don't judge I'm. Not judging, I'm just saying I'm
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  afraid it was actually B William G Morgan who was a YMCA director
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  and created the sport of volleyball. 5:00 I've got ten of
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  these. Oh.
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  That's fine. That's fine.
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  When were the first volleyball Volleyball.
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  When were the first volleyball World Championships held?
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  A 1949 to 1952, B 19801872 to 1918 or C2 thousand 2004?
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  Oh no, that's the first. Oh, OK, so that's the first date
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  is the men's. The second date is the women's.
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  So I'm going to go with it's not the 1870 because it was invented
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  in 1890 odd like you said before.
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  So that's the middle one gone. Oh.
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  That's good. I'm glad you're paying
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  attention. I am unlike the show the I'm
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  going to guess the 2000s one just for fundsies.
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  OK, so it was actually 1949. That's when the first men's
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  world championship was held, while the first women's
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  championship was held in 1952. And I imagine they were wearing
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  the full bathing suits rather than the bikinis.
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  How? OK, so number six, how is the
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  serving team chosen? Is it A a coin toss, B the
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  referee gets to choose, or C the first team to catch the
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  volleyball when it's thrown up in the air?
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  Thrown up in the air. I know this one.
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  A do what is not my answer. I'll choose the coin toss.
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  That's, I mean, I'm taking pity on you because so far you've
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  only got 2 out of 6, right? So I'm going to give you that,
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  but it is, yeah. It's a it's the coin toss.
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  Yeah. 7:00 What are the points in called in volleyball?
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  Are they called goals? Are they called points?
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  What are they called? Scores.
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  So when the team do do the thing and when they win a thing,
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  what's going up on the board? So it was first the first one we
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  was in. Molly's saying not the pity
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  points. Yeah, it's very much that.
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  First one was in the 60s Abraham Lincoln 4 score and seven years
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  ago big volleyball man score. I'm afraid they are simply
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  called points fixed. But on that note question #8
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  it's OK, you've only got a couple more to go.
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  If you score a point in volley volleyball doing a spike which
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  is where you hit the ball down over the net, what is it called?
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  Is it a a kill, BA down or CA hit?
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  A down is not my. I got that wrong.
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  Yeah, no, it's, it's a kill. Oh no #9 penultimate chance to
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  redeem yourself. What is the number of times a
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  team can hit a ball without passing it over the net?
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  Is it A1B4 or C3? 4 3.
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  Yeah, a maximum of three times without passing it over the net.
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  Otherwise it becomes a fault. Last question and I'd like to
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  say thank you to welovequizzes.com for all of
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  these questions because I wasn't going to write them myself.
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  Then what is the player who specializes in defence called?
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  Is it a a libero, BA, freestyle or CA blocker?
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  They they do what? Sorry, they concentrate.
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  On they specialized in defence on the team, so you've got six
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  players, they all have a different role.
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  Blocker. I'm afraid that is sad Horn.
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  Oh no. It's called the libero, a
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  volleyball player who specialises in defence can be
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  substituted in at any time as long as the ball it's not in
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  play. So you Chris, you've got 4 out
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  of 10. I can safely say that you have
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  learnt nothing from the first 3 episodes of.
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  Volleyball over before it began. Volleyball careers even before
• 26:08
  you even started it. Sad horns all round, but you
• 26:13
  were a terribly good sport. And really, isn't good
• 26:15
  sportsmanship truly the greatest thing of all time?
• 26:20
  I mean, it's not better than winning.
• 26:24
  It's not better than winning in terms of like characters though.
• 26:31
  Did you have any favorite characters at all?
• 26:33
  Did you connect with any of the any of them?
• 26:36
  Who were you rooting for? You know me.
• 26:43
  Yeah, it was Hinata, wasn't it? Because he was plucky and
• 26:46
  optimistic. And he was technically the the
• 26:49
  underdog. So the two main characters in
• 26:51
  this is Hinata and Kagiama. Kagiama is the absolutely
• 26:56
  miserable as balls lone wolf, and it's weird because when they
• 27:00
  try out for the the high school team, isn't it?
• 27:04
  They're kind of like, right, He's he's promising, but no, you
• 27:10
  need to do this set challenges, but you need to do it together.
• 27:14
  So and then I think they're on in the second episode, it's
• 27:17
  revealed about why did you do that?
• 27:18
  Why you being hard on these two kids, the kids.
• 27:21
  And he's like, well, Kagiama has got real potential, but he's an
• 27:26
  asshole. He's a lone wolf and he kind of
• 27:28
  be a team player and this is a team game.
• 27:31
  So he needs he needs to kind of learn that.
• 27:33
  And then you get Hinata who is just like a full of enthusiasm
• 27:40
  but not as much skill. Yeah.
• 27:43
  So it's kind of like I think he use he hasn't got his full
• 27:48
  potential yet, which is code for is he's not there quite, quite
• 27:52
  there yet. He needs he needs more training
• 27:54
  and they'll kind of balance. Each other.
• 27:55
  He has like all the he has like all the raw athleticism, but
• 28:00
  because he's never played consistently with a team or with
• 28:04
  people who are, like, skilled at his level, he's never been able
• 28:10
  to unlock that. Yeah, yeah.
• 28:12
  Yeah, so I I do like that dynamic in it and that I think
• 28:16
  that was the driving thing, that goddess to episode 3.
• 28:21
  But I've got a out of them too, you know, just because I love a
• 28:25
  puppy dog character full of energy.
• 28:27
  He's kind of innocent and yeah, what about you?
• 28:32
  Yeah. I liked Tanaka who was the like
• 28:36
  shaved head upperclassman who so at one point in in the game, so
• 28:42
  when they're told to like go work together, their final
• 28:46
  challenge is that they have to come back and play a three on
• 28:49
  three-game with the other new players to kind of show off
• 28:55
  their skill and that. And Kagiyama is told that if he
• 29:02
  doesn't, if they don't win, then Kagiyama will not be able to be
• 29:04
  a setter. And a setter is the person who
• 29:07
  sets the ball up for other people to hit it over the net.
• 29:12
  And but because there's only two of them, one of the
• 29:16
  upperclassmen gets put in to help them.
• 29:18
  And it's Tanaka. But he kind of is like he's like
• 29:23
  kind of doing it on the slide because he's been told he's not
• 29:25
  allowed to, like they're not allowed to practice in the gym
• 29:27
  and stuff. So he's like being really brash
• 29:30
  and sorry, there's another balls just got in the chat.
• 29:36
  Ball, ball, ball. I didn't know that that was
• 29:42
  going to be a fun game we were going to play today.
• 29:44
  Thank you very much. Jackson Wolf and Tanaka is like,
• 29:51
  so he's like this kind of very brash.
• 29:53
  He's super judgmental. Like the first time he meets
• 29:56
  everyone, he's like just like really ragging on them.
• 29:59
  But he actually turns out to be like really like wanting to help
• 30:03
  them in a way that the other upperclassmen may like.
• 30:07
  He seems to have like a bit of a soft heart.
• 30:09
  So I think he's one of those people that has like a quick
• 30:11
  temper, is a bit judgmental, but like inside is distinctly gooey.
• 30:14
  And those are my favorite type of characters.
• 30:18
  I love her like like a rough around the edges but like heart
• 30:22
  of gold kind of character but. Yeah, I get.
• 30:30
  I see them. Both.
• 30:36
  There's more balls in chat then points I got for the quiz.
• 30:40
  There is officially you've been overtaken by the chat.
• 30:44
  If this was a game of volleyball, the chat would be
• 30:46
  winning against us. Yeah.
• 30:50
  So that's I, you know, I thought he was great.
• 30:53
  So yeah, that was that was my favorite character.
• 30:57
  Was there anything else, like anything else that kind of you
• 31:01
  think it's worth mentioning about this anime that you as you
• 31:03
  you were thinking about as you watched it?
• 31:07
  And yeah, I was, I couldn't help think while I was watching this.
• 31:12
  I think I need to find, I need to try another sports anime
• 31:16
  either on here or by myself that has a sport that I know a little
• 31:21
  bit about. Because obviously from the quiz
• 31:25
  we know we know nothing about volleyball.
• 31:28
  I yeah, I also, I'm curious, what is the sport that So if you
• 31:33
  were going to pick a sport that you know enough about to be like
• 31:39
  drawn to an anime, what sport would that be?
• 31:42
  So you'd never ask feed, right? So this, this, this, this sport,
• 31:46
  right? It's a German one where there's
• 31:51
  forklift competitions where they lift things and they go for
• 31:54
  obstacle courses and then they nail them down.
• 31:56
  It is addictive. You've got to watch it sometime.
• 31:59
  The competitions are like 10 hours long or something, but
• 32:02
  it's amazing. There's another one which I
• 32:05
  think is a segment from a game show where basically they get
• 32:10
  irregular shaped objects and they have lives and have to put
• 32:14
  them in the middle exactly in the way them afterwards.
• 32:18
  And honestly, you can get proper into it.
• 32:24
  I should have known. I should have known it would be
• 32:26
  that or like like big weed of cheese down the hill or
• 32:29
  something. I knew I should have known it
• 32:31
  would have been something obscure and wild.
• 32:34
  They've raised something else right And I'm not, I'm not a big
• 32:37
  fan of like MMA and fighting, stuff like that, but have you
• 32:40
  seen the one where they dressed in armour and they use weapons?
• 32:45
  What, like night jewels? Yes, basically.
• 32:48
  It's like skin arms. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 32:52
  They'll be in a in a ring and they'll have like a Mace or a
• 32:55
  sword. I don't think they'll be sharp
• 32:57
  because they clash of each other's armour, but the brick
• 33:00
  bones and stuff, which I like watching, to be fair, I like
• 33:03
  people hurting and I'm watching this happening.
• 33:07
  So. Oh yeah, lighter sports.
• 33:10
  I like the part in the Olympics where they carry that big
• 33:13
  lighter to the to. The massive it, which is
• 33:16
  basically a giant lighter, yeah. But there's no like competition
• 33:21
  in that. Yeah, it's amazing that even as
• 33:25
  Molly says references lighters in the chat, I can hear a
• 33:28
  bitterness to her tone. Yeah, Molly doesn't like as
• 33:32
  collecting lighters. I think she she sees the joy in
• 33:36
  the eye and thinks why? Why?
• 33:41
  Why is that allowed? Yeah.
• 33:48
  Nice. I think if I was going to pick a
• 33:50
  sport, do you ever remember one man and his dog?
• 33:57
  It's a weird thing, no? One man and his dog was a sheep
• 34:04
  herding competition that used to be on telly in the 90s.
• 34:07
  And it would be amazing. And you know, you'd have, you'd
• 34:11
  have the guy in the field like whistling and being like come
• 34:13
  by, come by. I can't, I can't whistle right
• 34:17
  now under pressure. I'm I'm a nervous Whistler,
• 34:22
  which is why I could never do it And my dog doesn't obey me, so I
• 34:26
  can't do it. But I used to love watching it
• 34:29
  and I genuinely I get emotionally moved by the bond
• 34:34
  between shepherd and sheepdog. I think it's one of the most
• 34:37
  magical things to watch. OK.
• 34:41
  Because the dogs are so skilled and they're so like that, like,
• 34:46
  when you have like, those people, like in a zone together,
• 34:49
  like the dogs in the zone, the shepherds in the zone.
• 34:52
  And you watch them just like wrangling all these sheep that
• 34:55
  also all have a mind of their own and want to, like, be off.
• 34:57
  And you watch these dogs, like, do it with such skill.
• 35:00
  They're so, so clever, like the cleverest little border collies
• 35:04
  in the whole wide world. And I find it amazing.
• 35:07
  And I'd love to see an anime. And you can imagine it, can't
• 35:10
  you? Like, like, imagine all of like
• 35:12
  the Studio Ghibli style European kind of nostalgia art but with
• 35:20
  the exciting action of magical dog whistles.
• 35:26
  Do you know what I'm thinking of?
• 35:28
  All these sheep will have different personalities.
• 35:30
  One of them will die and they'll be like, I don't know, a buddy
• 35:35
  Wolf comes over from the neighboring village or
• 35:37
  something. Do.
• 35:38
  You know in Naruto where Kiba and his dog are fighting and
• 35:42
  Kiba's dog comes in and tries to save his life Akumaru and then
• 35:46
  gets hit and nearly dies and Kiba has to like run off with
• 35:49
  Akumaru to save his life. That bit makes me cry all the
• 35:52
  time and I think an anime of one man and his dog would have so
• 35:56
  many moments in that where like the dog gets trampled while it's
• 35:59
  in training by like a really mean ram.
• 36:03
  I'm just thinking. I think it's a goer.
• 36:06
  But with a with an old man former, he starts saying come
• 36:12
  back, come by but. Sadly, like come by, come by.
• 36:19
  It could be from the point of view of the sheep.
• 36:22
  It could and then and then it's a whole different thing, isn't
• 36:25
  it? Because there's these sheep are
• 36:26
  being constantly, constantly terrorized by something that
• 36:29
  they think is a wolf. Yeah.
• 36:35
  So that's what I would go for is like a one man and his dog vibe.
• 36:41
  Weirdly, they do. They do that up here in Glendale
• 36:45
  show. Today.
• 36:47
  Every August. Stop.
• 36:51
  Love it, absolutely love it. I also think it's amazing, isn't
• 36:56
  it, that we've created that we've taken wolves and over like
• 37:01
  centuries have created little farm hands.
• 37:06
  It's I think it's just kind of magical, that story.
• 37:09
  There's a Co evolution between man and dog.
• 37:11
  I think it's glorious. So I don't know if that's a
• 37:18
  sport. The other option I thought would
• 37:20
  be like kite surfing or windsurfing or something because
• 37:23
  I can imagine that being cool as hell.
• 37:25
  And there was like a cartoon I remember from my childhood about
• 37:30
  surfing, like kids surfing. And I can't remember what it was
• 37:32
  called, but it was it was good. And I can imagine an anime would
• 37:35
  be awesome. It was it.
• 37:37
  Was it an American one? Yeah.
• 37:40
  Yes, and Rocket. I think it looks a bit like the
• 37:43
  Wild Thornberry's, the way it was animated.
• 37:46
  Yeah, yeah, with. The backwards cap on.
• 37:49
  Yeah, and there's a chubby guy who has a long board.
• 37:51
  Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 37:53
  Rocket something good friends or yes or.
• 37:56
  Yeah, something it was had it had like a it had a not surfy
• 37:59
  name I think, but it was great. So I was also thinking like a
• 38:04
  surfing type anime would be fun because you can imagine like
• 38:07
  some great like stills of waves and things that'd be cool.
• 38:12
  So I don't know if that's. A sport?
• 38:16
  Volleyball. Yeah, so big question, will you
• 38:24
  be watching past episode 3? Nah.
• 38:29
  It's it's not for me. It's it's, it's not bad, but
• 38:35
  it's not good. Nothing's gripping us to come
• 38:37
  back. I think I've predicted the, the
• 38:42
  the series. So I'm guessing that they've
• 38:46
  become friends, they find a new enemy, they become friends,
• 38:51
  friends, a new enemy, they become friends, etcetera,
• 38:55
  etcetera, rinse and repeat. An enemy where it doesn't become
• 39:00
  friends and it becomes a reoccurring enemy.
• 39:03
  It's one of them things. Yeah, and you can already see
• 39:08
  that starting to happen with the, well, Cisco.
• 39:11
  There's like Takashima, who's even taller than Kagiyama.
• 39:14
  Oh my God, now I agree. I also won't be watching past
• 39:19
  episode 3. I thought it was a decent anime,
• 39:22
  right? I have no qualms about how it
• 39:24
  was made, but I I do feel like it's a little bit anime by
• 39:28
  numbers. It's like paint by numbers
• 39:30
  version of anime. You can see it mapped out in
• 39:32
  front of you and it might be that the journey that it takes
• 39:36
  you on is is worth it, But it's not like some other animes that
• 39:40
  we've watched where I'm like, oh, this is the journey it's
• 39:44
  going to take me on. It will be weird and wonderful.
• 39:47
  I think it will just be a bit predictable and maybe there are
• 39:49
  times when that's nice as well as like a way of escapism.
• 39:53
  So I think if you if you need like a kind of something that's
• 39:56
  not going to really challenge you, it's going to like fill you
• 39:59
  with a sense of warm fuzziness and teamwork and give you that
• 40:04
  underdog story, this might be for you.
• 40:07
  I also think it might be if you're a parent and you have a
• 40:10
  child who's around like 8 or 9 and just starting to get into
• 40:15
  anime, I think this is a safe bet as well.
• 40:19
  If they're a bit sporty or even if they're not a bit sporty, but
• 40:22
  you kind of want to like encourage a bit of like
• 40:26
  athleticism, I think this might be a fun anime to to put on for
• 40:30
  kids. But I agree, I think we maybe
• 40:32
  aren't the target audience. Bit too old, bit too cynical,
• 40:37
  seen too many animes. But that leads us on too.
• 40:43
  So this year our new format is each week we challenge each
• 40:47
  other in some way. This year we this week we kind
• 40:50
  of copped out and just were like, should we roll dice for it
• 40:53
  because we didn't have any other ideas of what other challenges
• 40:56
  to do. So I have dice and a dice.
• 40:58
  Tray, do you? Have a dice?
• 41:04
  Yeah, great. And we're going to roll for it.
• 41:07
  And whoever rolls higher gets to pick next week's anime.
• 41:09
  Are you ready? Yes.
• 41:12
  So I'm going to you're going to have to trust us and out to
• 41:15
  this. So I'll note mine first because
• 41:16
  yours is sunscreen. That makes sense.
• 41:19
  That makes sense. I've got a 17.
• 41:24
  Nice, that's a good roll. I've got a three, Chris, what
• 41:31
  will we be watching next week? So next week and I've actually
• 41:36
  just found out that this has been re released or it's got a
• 41:39
  continuation on and I loved it watching the original series and
• 41:44
  I'm excited to see how good it is next.
• 41:46
  And you've never heard of this? It's called Bartender Glass of
• 41:51
  God. Yeah.
• 41:53
  So from from what I remember of it, I haven't looked it up since
• 41:56
  and it was a episodic thing, so I think it was a very loose
• 42:01
  timeline story going between them, but.
• 42:04
  I'm into an episodic anime lately.
• 42:06
  It's like I'm I feel like I'm done with big arcs for a little
• 42:09
  bit. Yeah, I mean, I'm watching One
• 42:11
  Piece, so yeah, Yeah. Yeah, you're deep in the big
• 42:15
  arcs. Yeah.
• 42:16
  So basically what happened is what would happen is a customer
• 42:20
  would come in and order a drink and if I remember rightly, he
• 42:26
  asked them about their day or their life story and he decided
• 42:29
  their perfect drink and it would just go through their life and
• 42:33
  what they've been through and it was a very slice of life.
• 42:37
  Sit back and relax. You don't have to.
• 42:41
  Even if you don't like an episode by saying I don't like
• 42:44
  this customer, go to the next one to be something completely
• 42:46
  different. So I am, I'm looking forward to
• 42:52
  that. We haven't done a lot of slice
• 42:54
  of life, really. So that'll be a fun, no.
• 42:58
  So that'll be fun. The only, in fact, I think the
• 43:01
  only slice of life we've really done is I want to eat your
• 43:03
  pancreas. Yeah.
• 43:06
  So. And it has to be a step up from
• 43:08
  that. Yeah.
• 43:09
  Hopefully no one. Dies.
• 43:12
  Hopefully no one dies or has a creepy moment in the hotel room.
• 43:15
  Fingers crossed. We'll find out.
• 43:21
  We'll find out next week and I thought of a challenge if you're
• 43:23
  up for it. OK.
• 43:26
  So I think we should both create a short video plugging a choice
• 43:34
  for next week and whoever gets the most like on Across Fin,
• 43:39
  Facebook and Instagram wins. OK, so.
• 43:43
  Sounds good. Friday now with deadline for
• 43:47
  releasing them is Monday, Yeah, we'll post them from the same
• 43:51
  account so nobody can tell who's this who.
• 43:54
  Yeah, except for if we might actually be in them, but that's
• 43:58
  OK. Yeah, it's probably going to be
• 44:01
  obvious, but yeah. Maybe we'll wear wigs.
• 44:12
  Yeah, yeah. But go, so like, go to Facebook,
• 44:14
  go to Instagram, go to both. If you want to help us rig this,
• 44:17
  rig the results and we'll post and we won't, and we'll do it 5
• 44:22
  minutes apart and we won't say when we're going to do it.
• 44:24
  So we'll kind of leave it a bit organic.
• 44:26
  But so keep an eye out, make sure you've joined, make sure
• 44:29
  you've got notifications on so that you can keep up to date and
• 44:34
  help decide who wins next week. Yeah, yeah, cool.
• 44:43
  You've just won. Anyway, thank you all so much.
• 44:49
  And thank you so much for the chat.
• 44:50
  And also, yeah, Mama didn't need a new pair of shoes, but looks
• 44:53
  like she's going to have to walk to the bar barefooted.
• 44:57
  We'll see you again next week for bartenders and life stories.
• 45:01
  Until then, look after yourselves.
• 45:04
  Love you. Bye.
• 45:04
  Bye.