Then Oda and Subaru headed off partway through, leaving just Aoki and Ochi, and with their boyfriends captains gone, they dropped the niceties and bared their figurative teeth at each other lol so yeah, I want an expansion on that antagonistic, guard-dog relationship they have. I specifically hope there’s interaction between Aoki and Fukuhou (I already know Oda, Yuni, and Chika all definitely interact with Subaru), particularly Ochi, because one of the mini anime was set I think at the practice match at Fukuhou, and it had Oda, Aoki, Subaru, and Ochi.
Speaking of comparisons, I can’t wait until we get some interaction between Fukuhou and Seiin. I should definitely finish that sometime. I read all of 途中下車の海, which is about the captain of Fukuhou’s jūdō club, but I only read a handful of pages of 強者の同盟. He’s still the tallest at 190 cm, but Subaru’s just about caught up. And now he’s coming in second to Subaru in a lot of respects. Takasugi has always been first in everything, from the oldest in his year to the best on his middle school volleyball team-including being the tallest. The first story in the side novel 空への助走, 強者の同盟, is about Takasugi during their second year of high school, after the third-years had just retired and Subaru had been given the captaincy and the ace position. Huh, so that means Takasugi was taller than Subaru in middle school. They play different positions (Subaru a left/wing spiker, Chika a setter) and their personalities are pretty much the complete opposite (Subaru carefree and gregarious and Chika more reserved and withdrawn, though they’re both very driven and focused), but they’re pretty similar in a lot of other ways, it seems.
So far we haven’t learned anyone’s height pre-main-timeline aside from Yuni’s and Chika’s.) And they were both born early (between Jan 1 and Apr 1), Subaru in March and Chika in January. (Granted, I don’t know how tall Subaru was as a first-year, but quite likely at least 175 cm. That’s another similarity he has with Chika, then, since Chika also was really short as a kid (none of Chika’s family is particularly tall, either) but then by first year of high school he’d surpassed 180 cm. But the scene where Ochi and Subaru run into each other at the hospital, both there for routine checkups, is set in July their first year of high school, and the narrative talks as if Subaru’s not short now or indeed since the school year began (中学時代の三村は、たしかに決して身長に恵まれてはいなかった。) so he must have already grown a fair bit even just in the few months between the Hokushin’etsu Tournament in August and the start of high school in April. Come to think of it, during the awards ceremony scene in 1-1, he was described as being short, too. Huh, so though Subaru, at the current point in time (third-year in high school) is the third-tallest character at 189 cm, he was pretty short in middle school. I read 6 pages of 2.43, putting me on pg 42. Makoto likes her back, and we get a kiss! And Wako’s in a daze for a good while afterwards lol (Grandma: Just what in the world did you do to Wako-chan?! / Makoto: *telling silence and blush *) Nozomi likes Wako too and fabricates a lie about Makoto being gay (and confessing to him in HS) to try to get her to give up on him lol Nozomi is 4 years younger than Makoto (and 1 year older than Wako), and they would play together as kids when Makoto would visit his grandparents every summer, though they’re not particularly close anymore. The two of them don’t seem to have a very good relationship, but they don’t seem like they truly hate each other, either. We meet another of the main characters, Nozomi (spelled 希望, which until now I didn’t realize could be a name, much less that のぞみ could be a masculine name), the prettyboy idiot son of the Seiwa Grape Plantation who acts like he doesn’t want to succeed his father but actually still loves grapes and the countryside and does want to take over. Hmm, do we get the first indication that Wako-chan’s feelings aren’t one-sided? Makoto teases her, saying that since she’s here he’ll take a summer vacation too and stay with his parents, because he enjoys seeing her reactions. Wako declares that, as she doesn’t have class, for the next month she won’t be returning to Tōkyō no matter what they tell her.
Seems that, nope, ch 2 took place at the beginning of summer, not the end, as it’s summer break now.
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