#i'm suddenly so invested in these canonverse sports fans

[eurydicees]

things volleyball fans in haikyuu canon would lose their goddamn minds over, an incomplete list:

when youtuber, progamer, and known non-athlete kenma kozume gets tickets to the olympic volleyball games, and is on first name basis with almost every player on the japanese team ("wait is that THE kodzuken? why is he HERE? does he even know the game rules???")

when a documentary about chocolatiers comes out and it features wakatoshi ushijima ("i put on this for background noise and.... WHY IS THE CHOCOLATE GUY BESTIES WITH JAPAN'S CANNON.")

when little known comedian shouhei fukunaga starts casually telling a joke about how internationally ranked libero morisuke yaku used to work cologne model lev haiba to death trying to get him good at volleyball. a video of him telling the story goes viral and gets him a netflix special, in which he tells plenty of stories about said internationally ranked libero ("oh my god he always seemed to put together but he's literally just some guy")

when hinata and kageyama wear #10 and #9 to the olympics ("guys according to this research, those are their high school jerseys" "i'm gonna fucking kill them")

when japanese international tooru oikawa becomes an argentinian citizen and then plays as starting setter for argentina at the olympics ("suddenly rooting for argentina just bc of the POETRY of it all" "traitor" "look. it's just. i. what are sports for. if not for this kind of drama. i'm basically legally required to root for him.")

when 19yo tobio kageyama jumps onto the world stage on the national team absolutely unknown, only to absolutely decimate other teams via service aces ("NO ONE is doing it like him!!!")

when ali roma and asas são paulo play each other, and national teammates shoyo hinata and tobio kageyama take it personally ("y'all..... are seeing this, right.")

when the all-star match happens and atsumu miya and tooru oikawa are on the same team ("tetsurou kuroo i would die for you thank you for making all my dreams come true")

when the interview between udai, bokuto, and akaashi is released and they see bokuaka together and being Just. Like That. ("uh it's kind of a crack ship but i'm gonna start a new ship channel in the discord ok guys" "stop abusing your power as mod" "they're in LOVE")