Haikyuu Season 2 Episode 2

*Warning Spoilers Below*

If any of the members fail their finals, they will have to give up their weekends and summer, putting the team's future activities in jeopardy. Oh man, literally every reaction shot in this beginning is gold. I can't stop laughing! If Hinata has never had a double digit score on quizzes how the hell has he been moving on to higher grades? It seems captain Sawamura has an idea for them to succeed though. 

Since they're in the same grade, Hinata proposes the idea of asking Tsukishima for help studying to Kageyama. Of course Tsukishima is the kind of fellow who wants to hear Kageyama beg before helping. Manager Shimizu is still looking for new club members and reminds us of the third years leaving soon. Nishinoya and Tanaka are also candidates for failure. They set up a study session at Tanaka's house.

In an exercise where Ennoshita advises that you can find the answer in the passage, the question was "In the passage, identify the sentence that best reflects Norio's contradictory feelings." Nishinoya's response was, "Live more like a man, Norio!!!" ROFL, He ignored the question and Norio. We also briefly see Tanaka's sister Saeko. Meanwhile at Hinata's house, we get a glimpse of him getting motivated while exchanging messages with Kozume from Nekoma High, their rivals. 

Here is the (temporarily) new manager Shimizu recruited, Yachi Hitoka. After visiting all of the club members she escapes in fright. We see more of Hinata and Kageyama's dedication when they ask Tsukishima for more help outside of their planned schedule to which he refuses. Before fully exiting in anger, Yamaguchi recommends the duo asks the new manager Hitoka for help since she's in a higher skilled class. While teaching them, Hitoka and Hinata go back and forth on the volleyball club and really gets Hitoka interested. She begins to understand the passion behind the sport and team. 

Afterwards, Hitoka attends a club meeting (practice) and watches the members in action with amazement. Takeda sensei comes in at the end of the session to announce that he has scheduled a practice match against Ouginishi High. The episode concludes with a shot of Hitoka's nervous face.

So many classic funny scenes. Albeit this episode's focus was on studying and meshing in Hitoka's character, I feel the execution was well done.

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