ANIME REVIEWS

The story is about 18 year old Takumi Fujiwara who is an average high school  kid. His father, Bunta Fujiwara, owns a tofu  shop and Takumi is the delivery boy. He uses his father's Panda 1983 Toyota Sprinter Trueno GT-APEX AE86  to do the deliveries. Takumi hated driving because he was forced to drive since he was in middle school . The deliveries train his extraordinary driving skills. His friends learn about his skills, and introduce Takumi into the world of Touge racing . Takumi eventually loves street racing , and driving altogether, and then he has only one priority: To become the best driver in the Gunma perfection   . Shortly after the story begins, the Red Suns, a highly experienced racing team from Mount Akagi  led by Ryosuke Takahashi, challenge the local Speed Stars team to a set of races on Mount Akina. Dispirited after watching the Red Suns' superior performance during a practice run, the Speed Stars expect to lose. La...

Haikyuu!!, or High Jump in English, is about Hinata and Kageyama, two players who originally stand at the opposite side of the volleyball net – plus are personality-wise polar opposites too - and are, due to the fact that they attend the same high school, forced to work together. During that process, they learn the importance of a team and that you don’t lose or win alone. The show eventually does focus on the entire Karasuno volleyball team (and on other teams too), but it’s still obvious who the main characters are.   As with most sports anime, the plot starts with Hinata and Kageyama meeting (and fighting), then joining the Karasuno volleyball team, and the team battling others all the way to the Inter-Highs. The volleyball aspects are well explained though and nicely weaved into dialogues. We learn about the libero when the libero appears. We learn about Quick As when Kageyama and Hinata perform a Quick A. The viewer is pretty much spoonfed with ...