Volleyball Couple Reaction to Haikyu!! S1E15: "Revival" 

I love that, throughout the latter part of the episode, Oikawa looks bored in the stands up until Kageyama finally sets Hinata, then he gets excited lol.

I love how Adam loves Oikawa and Sarah just straight up hates him XD

The gym is very real, and the volunteers there even offer Haikyuu tours! I finally got to go on one this fall, and it was SO much fun, I 100% recommend it to anyone coming to Japan! They even have Oikawa's height mark next to the place where he got caught in the "girls' clutches" x)

sarah quizzing adam: "blonde..." "oh takeda" "oh DEAR, we're regressing" it's okay adam you'll get there 😅

Cackling at the idea of Adam waking up in a cold sweat at night because he suddenly remembers first match of the season is a knockout game

Adam's story was truly terrifying. Out of control is one of my biggest fears

I laughed so hard at both of your reactions when Hinata talked to the guy wearing the "To the Top" shirt and said he was "aiming for the top" too LMAO. I still get second hand embarrassment from that scene no matter how many times I've rewatched this episode 🤣

Oikawa lowkey being a Hinata supporter is one of my favorite things about the early seasons. He may call him shrimp at times but he gets excited watching him play and spike 💪

Just an FYI, the voice actor who voiced Haku in Spirited Away is Suga

I love that the editor slid in a picture of Katekyo Hitman Reborn with Asahi’s face over Ryohei’s head 🤣 I hope picking that anime was on purpose since it’s so niche!

Before continuing with the reaction I need to say: we want photos of Adam with EVERY color he dyed his hair 🤣

I love how into the competition Adam is. Can’t wait for him to love Oikawa

Don't worry. Adam is like most reactors with names 😅 That Sarah was so good at remembering them was rather unique.

Adam should call them Salty and Gucci if that makes it easier for him to remember them. 😂😂

This has nothing to do with Haikyuu but I'm reminded of how Sarah commented about Adam's fashion sense and he said he's a top of the pile dresser. I completely believe based on the amount of times we've seen the Big Bear shirt =P

Here I am for a great reaction video from Sarah and Adam as usual and got a 7min-long personal story time. Totally was not expecting myself to be sooo caught up with your stories and I was literally sweating listening to them 😢 both of you are such good story-tellers. Had already got blurbs about it in the Spirited Away reaction but that full car drive story has just created a new fear of mountains in me 😂 I would’ve had weeks of nightmares if that’ve had happened to me!

I really like that exchange between Iwaizumi and Kindaichi at 38:16 and what it says about these characters and their enjoyment of the game. They're watching a team that has beaten them, and that they think they may have to face again so this is research of sorts, but Iwaizumi is really enjoying seeing Karasuno surprise people (and later, genuinely appreciative of how powerful Asahi is). Both Oikawa and Kindaichi have messy feelings about Kageyama (that then extend to Karasuno as a whole) but even then, Oikawa's very interested and entertained by Hinata's point at the end of the episode.

I liked Sarahs first reaction a lot, i thought it was a great balance between volleyball insight and actually reacting to the story, but adding Adam to the mix really takes it up another level. The banter between them as well as Adam's unique insight from being a coach are so hilarious/ interesting and adds so much! GOATed react content, so glad you guys are doing this!

Oh my god the Swiss Alps story was WAY more terrifying than you initially let on! I'm deathly afraid of heights, I would've fainted at the wheel. Adam deserves all the props he got from Mr. Pavan

Lydia putting Asahi with the Katekyo Hitman Reborn cast 🤣 He would shrivel if he encountered them though

The reason why everyone misreads Karasuno is because the kanji used in it is quite similar to the kanji tori 😄 The difference is the itty bitty little line in the middle of the box☺️ 烏(crow) 鳥(bird) Btw, there are plenty of words that is just one stroke different and mean something totally different😉 Example: 大(big) 犬(dog) , 辛い(spicy or painful) 幸せ(happiness) , 休む(rest) 体(body) 午(horse) 牛(cow) , 日(sun) 目(eye) And so much more👍 Also we don’t use all the existing kanjis on a daily basis, just the basic 1000ish we learn in elementary. So it is common to stumble upon unfamiliar kanjis we either were not taught or forgotten😋

The second hand embrassment reaction from hinata's "to top" moment is too great lmao

Fyi Adam, Sarah's ability to remember character's name AND pronounce it CORRECTLY is actually quite high level. I never see a reactor able to do that fast, especially for the minor characters.. You're just normal 🤭

Sarah being hash about the names is like us being harsh on any reactor that never remembers any name for the whole 1st season...

naa adam being 6'4 when he was 15 is crazy

THE WAY YOU TWO COVERED YOUR EYES WHEN SHOYO SAID HE WAS AIMING FOR THE TOP TOO 😭

31:05 Absolutely correct! The Gymnasium changed names due to the story been told in a past tense. The name currently is the Kamei Arena, and is located in Sendai. They have special Haikyuu art since many visitors head there because of Haikyuu

I know it was probably said before but the reason why Takeda was worried about it being to poetic is because he is a literature teacher. Well Japanese literature teacher to be exact.

13:32 Is when you know Sarah and Adam are literally on the same wavelength!

I would just like to add that the female manager in Haikyuu, Kiyoko Shimizu, is also a 3rd year student. Keep that in mind for the future. She's in the same boat as Suga, Daichi, and Asahi.

Can't wait for Adam to see and react to the next episode and Sara to do it all over again! One of my scariest experience in my life so far was driving through the Road to Hana in Hawaii when I was 28 or 29 lol.

I totally feel for you Adam😂 I do think Japanese names are harder to memorize when they’re spelled out in alphabets instead of Kanji. As my native tongue is Chinese I feel like the names just sticks instantly when they are in Kanji, especially since many of their names have a specific imagery attached to them.

Adam is rocking some incredible predictions! Even when he is wrong he is right! ;-)

The RESTRAINT Adam must have had to not comment on the ‘no eyebrows’ thing when Aone appeared 😅

11:46 "he is the nicest person in the world" - so cuteeee ❤

I just love how you guys literally look as if you’re Hinata’s parents whenever he comes on screen, your reactions to him is just top-tier 😂😂

hooooly my stomach dropped in that mountain story imagining it, slippery road is no joke

Yes, the banners are a thing in Japanese high-school volleyball. Teams hang them where their cheering section is.

I miss the "Pickle Jinx" 🤣

I love the contrast of moslty serious Karasuno players and Hinata. A kid that wondered into the gym one day XD He does look like he is in an elementary school. I also love the difference between Sarah and Adam reacting to the same scenes. Adam is certainly thinking: "Oh, I remember me or my friends being idiots just like Tanaka and others". And Sarah is dead serious about everything :) The contrast between reactions is so refreshing!

i mustve SOMEHOW missed the whole snow element of the story time when yall told it the first time because all i could recall was the 37 point turn BAHAHAHAH BUT THE SNOW MAKES EVERYTHING SO MUCH WORSE 😭😭 i wouldve accepted my fate and said my last words right then and there

Whenever I see Aone, I always remember Sarah's hilarious first reaction to meeting him in this episode..."Where are his eyebrows?! And I know you're thinking I don't have eyebrows either, but I do! I do have eyebrows! There's a lot of eyebrow hair here - they're just blonde!"

Oooo both those stories were quite scaryyyy. My scariest moment might be when my family took me to an adult horror movie when I was maybe about 7 or 8 years old. The loud sudden jump scare sounds in the theatre were really scary for me at that time. About this episode, I am very curious - whose more competitive Adam or Sarah?? 😁 great episode though, strong start by Karasuno. After the match started, did you observe Oikawa's reaction, he didn't care for any of the plays Karasuno did except for Kageyama Hinata's quick. He was so excited, that's interesting and says a lot about his competitive spirit I think.

9:20 a note on the translation: the sketchy-looking Asahi actually said:"50k would be okay" , as in "i am fine selling you this with 50k yen" 😂😂

I loved the storytime. Keep em coming. 😂

Sarah I believe you have an other-worldly skill for remembering names 😂 Adam deserves a break from getting the names right! Haha. Love you both.

I love when you guys share your own experiences in related with whats going on in the episode. It's amazing, funny and interesting. Super great. Keep doing!

Loved this week’s reaction, loved the scary moment stories! Both stories freaked me out 😅. Can’t wait for next episode, as this is the first of a series of very interesting and exciting matches and some great at character building and unexpected friendships.

I got my driving license this year, and honestly if i even think of putting myself in Adam's place in that story I'd probably have a heart attack that is legitimately terrifying

It's so funny how Sarah and Adam will react the exact same way sometimes ( 13:34 lmaoo) and the exact opposite in others, especially Oikawa and the Aone pointing scene. Iirc, Sarah was so offended by the pointing in her first watch haha. Adam seems to appreciate the swagger (obnoxiousness?) though. I think he'll have opposite feelings than Sarah for Tendo, Terushima, and Atsumu. Is that a spoiler? Guess it doesn't matter since Adam won't remember the names... My scariest experience was also a near car crash. It's funny how cars are prominent in so many of our stories here in the comments. I suppose it's the scariest thing that average people en mass will access to.

Nice life stories! While listening to your story Sarah, I was thinking that the person approching was actually the one who you're looking. But that situation as a prank is very terrifying! I'll cry and have PTSD if it happened to me.

You two always post RIGHT when I need it! Cant wait to get into this one! Also they misread the Kanji as Torino. Im not super well versed on Kanji, so I cant explain WHY they misread it as Torino though. 😅

Thank you for your always wonderful videos. The reason why Karasuno is mistaken for Torino, Italy is because the kanji spellings for the first words ``Karasu'' and ``Tori'' are very similar, making it easy to read them incorrectly. As for how to remember Tsukishima's name, the kanji "Tsuki" in the name "Tsuki Shima" has the same meaning as "moon" in English. So Tsukishima's hair color and the color of the moon are similar, so it might be a good idea to remember it by associating it with the color. I'm looking forward to next week.

Love that ending sequence with Hinata, very moving 😭

loved the storytime. Great stuff.

The most scared/creeped out I've ever been: When I was 15 my dad, brother and I went to the Appalachian mountains for spring break. We were mostly hiking, but driving from holler to holler. My brother noticed that there was a place on the map labeled "Poor Valley". Being eleven, he found that very amusing. My dad asked a park ranger about it and the guy suddenly gets sooo serious. He told us not to go there. People go missing there. "We never find them". Next day, we're driving on the tiny mountain roads that switch back and forth on the mountains' edge. No gaurd rails. Occasionally we would see signs that said "break in pavement". I thought the meant the road would be gravel for a bit, but it actually meant the edge of the road had crumbled down the mountain. We see a huge coal truck coming in the opposite direction and realize there just isn't enough space for both of us. Like, no way. We pulled off the main road as soon as possible onto a little dirt path, practically falling down the mountain, no way to turn around. There is no choice but to keep going... and going, and going. We end up lost in, you guessed it, Poor Valley. It's hard to put into words just how creepy this place was. It was so dark, like the sun never reached down that far. We passed by a deliverance church (snake handlers) that had no parking lot and was a quarter mile from the nearest road, meaning people just walked through the woods to go hold snakes as a worsiph practice. We saw a huge cluster of cars halfway up the mountain. No road. No idea how they got there. Even the little shacks were scary. We saw one now and again. They were so ridiculously isolated it seemed impossible that people were actually living there. There was a constant feeling of being watched. We spent about four hours navigating our way out and nearly ran out of gas. The whole time, all I could think about was how grave that park ranger looked, how serious his tone of voice sounded when he told us, "People go missing there. We never find them".

Adam's been bracing himself for episode 16 . Please relax 😅

I was worried you guys weren't going to post this week! The characters get to look cool this episode and show off a bit! It's fun watching you both!

As someone from Switzerland that story cracked me up 😂

Man, seeing Hinata fly and come down just straight up brings so many manga panels and every single one of them are chill inducing. It doesn't matter if I watched the anime years ago or read the manga long ago, it just brings back those emotions, feelings, the breathlessness I've experienced during my journey. It's like having a revelation every time I watch it. Deep respect for Haruichi Furudate and his team of editors and people who've helped him make this masterpiece. Again, Sarah and Adam, I urge you to read the manga. It's been worth every moment of my time and I'm sure it'd be yours as well. About "Torino", I'm not Japanese to give exact details but the name was written in Kanji. Japanese language is written in three different scripts, Hiragana, Katakana and Kanji. While Hiragana and Katakana are phonetic and direct, kanji is pictorical. The symbols can mean different things at the same time, and so it is very difficult to read since you have to pick the correct meaning according to the context of the whole sentence. The characters of Karasuno are written totally in kanji, only two symbols are used and people sometimes have trouble finding the right meaning of the symbol, these people are highschoolers. Again, my knowledge is from the basic japanese I've learnt and I've not learnt kanji, I apologize for any mistakes. Please feel free to correct me or provide more information.

I loved the story time in this episode! And am excited for future ones!!

I did not miss it, Sarah. I enjoy both your stories with Adam that of course only comes up when you guys are together!

I'm pumped!

One more episode before... you know what 👀

sarah still as excited as when she watched it the first time

i love the little tid bits we get here and there of Adam and Sarah's lore 🤠

it’s 1am here and sarah’s story made me actually scared😭 i had to turn on the lights lmao

I didn't 'fastforward' it Sarah and Adam. 😂

I've had a few experiences similar, but the one that sticks in my mind the most is the time I was driving with a friend back to college in January. It was around 6 PM, we are on the interstate, traffic medium, snow is pouring, and the roads are already icy, a car in front of us hard brakes, my friend panics and turns his pickup slightly while also pressing onto his brake, we fishtail somehow in a 180. We can literally see all of the headlights facing toward us that were just behind us, we 180 again and somehow are just barely on the side of the road with traffic passing us while we are parked. We were both so scared that we didn't say anything for a good 10-15 seconds, and didn't get back on the road for another 5 minutes while my friend gathered himself and we waited for a good point to rejoin the traffic.

Adam casually being the Ramona Flowers of club volleyball in his youth is somehow fitting

Everytime beach volleyball is mentioned i always take a deep breath lmao

8:25 They call them ‘Torino’ because the kanji for tori (鳥, meaning bird) and karasu (烏) look very similar - there’s just an extra line in (what I imagine is) the ‘head’ part of the bird kanji. I’ve been on a rewatch streak of your reaction videos! Work has been really busy lately, and I’ve loved just coming home and de-stressing with the good vibes of your and Adam’s reactions to my favourite comfort anime!

I’m super late but I wanted to say that I think the reason Ukai went with Kageyama as their setter is because there is no time to let the players try out stuff and see which ones match with who. There is so little time before the preliminaries that you want to start with the best team possible, so putting Kageyama as the official setter was the way to get a good team in such a short period of time, because he can evolve quickly.

My scariest moment was when I was 7 years old, I was learning to roller skate and as you'd excpect I was stumbling and falling a lot. Then I fell square on my butt and I don't know if it was the height, the angle or whatnot but it took the breath out of my lung, litterally. I'm not sure of the physiological cause, but for a few seconds I was unable to breath even if I wanted to and it scared the shit out of me as I was feeling myself suffocate even if it was just a brief moment. I've never been able to get back on Rollers since then, I can ride a bike, a board, ski, but the memory of getting blocked from the most essential thing necessary to live that I had taken for granted all this time prevents me from trying again.

This video is barely about Haikyu and it's great.

oh man I'm so excited for the next episode ❤

I love your reaction. I almost feel like watching a comedy show😄

Adam is one of my new favorite people... loves IPA's and also played hockey like I did. Adam the GOAT!

Naming characters is an art. Knowing the meaning of the names can help you understand them better. Haikyuu names keyword translation: Karasuno乌野→crow field Ukai乌养→raise crows Hinata Shoyo日向翔阳→fly towards the sun Kageyama Tobio影山飞雄→shadow mountain fly great Sawamura Daichi泽村大地→pond village earth Sugawara Koushi菅原孝支→filial Azumare Asahi东峰旭→east mountainpeak sunrise Nishinoya Yuu西谷夕→west valley evening Tanaka Ryunosuke田中龙之介→dragon Tsukishima Kei月岛萤→moon island firefly Yamaguchi Tadashi山口忠→mountain pass loyal Shimizu Kyogo清水洁子→clear water clean Yachi Hitoka谷地仁花→valley benevolence flower Nekoma音驹→sound horse (neko猫→cat) Nekomata猫又→cat again Kozume Kenma孤爪研磨→lone claw polish Kuroo Tetsurou黑尾铁朗→black tail ironman Yamamoto Taketora山本猛虎→fierce tiger Haiba Lev灰羽リエーフ→grey feather lion You'll find how interesting the names are. Such as Daichi is as solid as the earth. Asahi and Noya's names have exactly the opposite meanings which also reflects their different characteristics. I'll write about the names of other members of other teams later on. (Please reply to my comment since I've worked so hard to explain these to you and I'm a huge fan who has watched every episode of your reaction videos for at least three times.)

Just want to say i love the story time

Hinata: "that guy has no eyebrows" Sarah: * immediately feels her own (lack of) eyebrows *

Love the story time, it's one of the greatest additions to this rewatch with you Sarah, the whole interaction between the two of you and getting to know both of you better! 😁

i never comment on youtube videos but ive been loving your and adams insight and stories! i love the pauses!

If only you could watch few episodes in a row, Adam will remember everyone's name for sure..;)

The other teams sometimes say Torino because Kanji often have two readings. So the kanji for karasu can also be read as tori, which is honestly the more common way to read it!

I am all for a story-sharing livestream with the two of y'all... horror stories or not! Both of your guys' stories had my heart racing lol. It's tournament time! Now we await the fated episode 16 next week.

The in sync second hand embarrasment in 13:35 I just love it

Yeah, Sarah's scary story definitely checks out, haha. As a native Nebraskan, I've had similar stories like that, both as the pranked and the prankster. Just the wind and chilly night air alone can make for an eerie Nebraska night, but that rain and lightning had to have been icing on the cake. It's the perfect horror movie setting. Also, Nebraska volleyball in the Elite 8. GBR.

I ain’t gonna lie that story time was fun to watch lol

Not even gonna say anything about the episode. I'm just commenting because I know Adam will read it since he apparently reads all of the comments lol. Hi Adam!!!

Love watching Sarah bob her head to Dateko's cheer at 36:05

So, Adam used to be Mad Dog and became Daichi. Does not compute. I liked the story time, the moment when the door was locked I was like "You just entered a horror movie cliche".

Hey Sarah and Adam! Really love watching this series. I've watched almost all of Sarah's previous let's watch and let me tell you this Adam, no one has yet to match Sarah's on-point predictions. It's insane how accurately Sarah predicts almost every play and thought a minute before it happens and that's not even an exaggeration.

omg your storys were really terrifing... Sarah's sounded like a horror movie and Adam's ....I'm glad you all survived and that at least your father in law gave you compliments! Thanks for the reaction, and can't wait for the next, hope you enjoy! Now let me go and watch your reactions for spirited away 'cause I love that movie>

I cherish all the moments here, with you and with this show. With and without the rails 😅

ALWAYS A HIGHLIGHT OF MY WEEK 🫶🏻

Adam if you read this comment you should ask Sarah if she thinks she bears any resemblance to Aone

8:25 Because Karasu and Tori have very similar kanji character! Karasu=烏　Tori=鳥 Japanese often read them wrong because they look alike.

Those stories were spooky. 👻 Glad you all made it home in one piece.

I can't say this for everyone, but at least for me the fun of watching reacts includes the unrelated stories that come back with it, so I'd say keep the memories coming!