Obsessively detailed clash between two rival high school teams has done massive box office in Japan, but it won’t make much sense to the uninitiated
, but unless you’re a teenager, an anime junkie or really, really care about volleyball, you’re unlikely to get much out of it. Storywise, it feels a little like walking into a play halfway through – which in effect you are, unless you’ve followed Haruichi Furudate’s huge-selling, long-running manga, from which this is adapted, and the 85 episodes of TV anime it’s already spawned.
With very little preamble we’re thrown straight into a high-stakes match between these teams – a third-round playoff in Spring National tournament – and that’s where we stay for the duration.
The animation is more your standard commercial product than Studio Ghibli-level fine art; stylised, often perfunctory and rough around the edges, but amped up with graphics, extreme closeups and super slo-mo shots of boys hanging in mid-air for eternity before smashing the ball across the net with all their might. If you’re up for it, the level of this story’s commitment to the minutiae of volleyball – the play-by-play tactics, the strategies, the rituals – is admirable.
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