2.43: Seiin Koukou Danshi Volley-bu

Genius setter Kimichika Haijima moves back to Fukui from Tokyo after an incident within his school's volleyball team forces him out. There, he is reunited with his childhood friend, Yuni Kuroba, a member of the Monshiro Middle School Boys' Volleyball Team, who is unaware of his own talents. Haijima notices Kuroba's abilities and is determined to form a new volleyball team with Kuroba as the team's ace. At the prefectural tournament, Kuroba crumbles under the pressure, which causes the Monshiro team to fall apart after losing. The loss also creates a rift between Haijima and Kuroba, leading the former to quit the team.

Now, as students at Seiin High School, Haijima and Kuroba find themselves on the same volleyball team once again. Having learned from his past mistakes, Haijima helps Kuroba overcome his performance anxiety to become the ace and carry the team to the prefectural championship. With support from team captain Shinichirou Oda and vice captain Misao Aoki, Seiin aim to win the prefecturals and become Fukui's representatives at the Spring Tournament. To do this, they will need to beat Fukuho Technical High School, the reigning champions of Fukui. Will Haijima's team defeat the odds, or are they doomed to repeat his history of losing?

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Haijima, Kimichika Main

Ono, Kensho Japanese

Kuroba, Yuni Main

Enoki, Junya Japanese

Mimura, Subaru Supporting

Ishikawa, Kaito Japanese

Aoki, Misao Supporting

Umehara, Yuuichirou Japanese

Ochi, Mitsuomi Supporting

Amasaki, Kouhei Japanese

Kanno, Akito Supporting

Aoi, Shouta Japanese

Oda, Shinichirou Supporting

Itou, Kent Japanese

Ookuma, Yuusuke Supporting

Kimura, Subaru Japanese

Uchimura, Naoyasu Supporting

Kajiwara, Gakuto Japanese

Jinno, Ryuudai Supporting

Eguchi, Takuya Japanese

Cook, Justin Producer

Otokawa, Masashi Producer

Inoue, Megumi Producer

Herek, Samantha Assistant Producer

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Aug 7, 2021

i-am-boss

Recommended

This anime was at least a 7. I think this anime got compared to you-know-what instead of people watching it for what it was actually worth.

The story was fine and even set up for another season if they wanted one, but was fine with just the one as well. The characters had growth, although there was a little drama at the beginning that did not get a decent enough explanation, which i docked points for. But overall, the story did what it needed to do fort he plot points they used.

The art and sounds were great! They did that little click-power up sound effect ... that i like a lot and that definitely added to the effects during the climax of the show. They didn't execute It the cut scenes as well as I'd have liked to see, but they did a decent enough job with the time they had considering it was only one season, so i don't feel like it was really lacking as opposed to wishing it was a little longer.

I think they did what they set out to do for the character development in this story and did it well enough. They explored facets of two particular character tropes and i didn't feel like they were missing anything. They did do a lot of BL baiting though (if you know you know). I'm not really mad at that as a queer person, but some ppl take offense when characters are set up to have some kind of ambiguous more-than-friends feelings and the audience is left hanging with ambiguity.

As a lover of sports anime, this was enjoyable overall for what it was meant to do and convey, and i think it earned its 7 fair and square.

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Sep 16, 2023

PokerHeel

Mixed Feelings

I love sport, it’s a huge part of my life. So obviously, any anime that talks about sports interests me.

Volleyball is a really interesting sport, very fun to watch. Alas, 2.43 is not necessarily. It's not bad.. Just not very interesting. The pace is not inspiring and the relationship between the characters leaves something to be desired.

The matches aren't very intriguing, even if they're still quite fun. The “rivalries” are fairly well run, but everything goes way too fast, which is a shame.

I wouldn't go so far as to say it's bad, but it's forgettable. There was potential, like all sports anime, but it seems ... like they wanted to move too fast, I wonder why.

Reviewer’s Rating: 4

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Jun 26, 2024

CBMiura

Not Recommended

2.43: Seiin Koukou Danshi Volley-bu it's not a sport anime. It's a drama anime that have as a background the sport called volley.

There's nothing good in this anime. The characters are mid and underdevelped, the story doesn't go anywhere. I genuinely think that anime it's a waste of resource, time and everything you can possibly think of. Maybe the novel it's better, I don't know, but watching this anime I don't have even a little interest of reading the material that made possible this catastrophic "thing".

I've watched some sports anime that also have drama in it, but this isn't good. Don't watch it.

Reviewer’s Rating: 2

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