Over the span
of about a week and a half, I blew through all 60 episodes of three seasons of
Haikyu. I have seen Karasuno High
overcome challenge after challenge, some resulting in resounding victory, and
others in crushing defeat. But as I sat
through the third season, something began to dawn on me…a lot of their opponents
piss me off. Seriously, looking at some
of these guys and seeing how they act, I cant wait to see Karasuno put them in
their place, especially when Hinata and Kageyama are still so sorely
underestimated. So, as a way for me to
wrap up my watching the series, I’m looking back at my Top 5 Most Infuriating
Haikyu Characters. Many of the opponents
Karasuno faces are actually good sports, willing to give credit where credit is
due and even help out their opponents in training sessions. The guys on this list…would rather watch
Kageyama, Hinata and their friends burn in defeat…what a bunch of team players
(except for one but I’ll explain in a sec)
#5-Kei Tsukishima
It was
actually hard to come up with 5 guys for this list and sadly, Tsuki made the
list soley on his attitude in the first two seasons. The know it all and not giving a damn
attitude made me wonder why he was even on this team in the first place. Now sure, all players get a bit of backstory
as to how they got into volleyball, a lot of it is kind of sad. Tsuki is no different. It just took him a long time to get his mess
worked out. There’s a reason he sits at
the bottom of the list…and that’s because he does end up getting one of the
best moments of the show in Season 3, a real F*** YEAH moment. But why, OH WHY, did it take him so long to
get to being so likeable?
#4-Kentarō “Mad Dog” Kyōtani
The name says
it all and makes me wonder…WHY THE FRAK IS THIS KID ON A VOLLEYBALL TEAM? Better to ask why he’s allowed to play a sport
at all. This kid clearly has some anger
issues and is prone to even getting his teammates injured in order to pull off
plays. It’s a risky call, even if he can
score points. Mad Dog is like Tanaka
without the restraint, it’s no wonder they became rivals and I couldn’t wait to
see Karasuno’s lovable wild card put this poser in his place.
#3-Wakatoshi Ushijima
For two
seasons, we’d heard whispers about this guy and his unstoppable team,
Shiratorizawa. By the time we got to
Season Three, the rumors were proven true and they pissed me off right
away. If Hinata and Kageyama together
make up Rocky Balboa, then Ushijima is easily Ivan Drago from Rocky IV. Seriously, the way he stares down Hinata
after the kid pulls off a successful play, you know he is dying to say “I must
break you.” He never let up on the team,
had one of the most arrogant attitudes of anyone in the series. Ushijima is an example of my least favorite
kind of nemesis: highly overpowered and nearly impossible to take down. So when it does happen to him (and it does),
wow was it such a good feeling to watch.
#2-Tōru Oikawa
That smug
freaking look. That hollier than thou
swagger. I easily wanted to slap Hinata
over the head for nicknaming him “The Great King.” Now there’s “Great” and then there’s Joffrey
from Game of Thrones and Oikawa is definitely a punk I wanted to see choke on
poisoned wine (spoiler alert if you havent seen one of the most satisfying
moments of Game of Thrones EVER). He’s
so determined to prove he’s the greatest…that he allows Mad Dog onto the Aoba
Joshai team with full knowledge that kid is going to go full psycho at any
moment, even when he scores points. Were
this a fighting Anime like DBZ, you know it would be awesome to see Kageyama
pummel the mess out of this Frieza wannabe…if Kageyama is Vegeta (which yeah
makes Hinata Goku but I’m getting off topic).
I loved it when Karasuno managed to piss this guy off…he needs more of
this shoved in his face.
#1-Satori Tendō
This…freaky…as
hell…gahh this guy. Tendo looks like he
is the Anime version of a character from a Tim Burton movie: shrivel, lankey
and with body motions that look more like Jack Skeleton than human. And man you think Oikawa and Ushijim had
issues with arrogance, this guy is something else. Tendo almost makes it his mission to be right
in his moves, predictions and his judgement of his players. Talk about a bad sport, he loves watching his
opponents squirm with that nightmare fuel look on his face. Everytime this guys attack got broken, I gave
a middle finger to the screen. And yes,
he had a tragic backstory…and I didn’t care even after seeing it. I just eagerly awaited the smackdown the
whole collective team of Karasuno High needed to lay down on him.
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