Awesome! thanks for the detailed thoughts. I also like your translation as well. I always get tripped up by 自分, and to whom it refers, and it made this section tricky to understand. Appreciate the help!
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Hi all, thread-lurker here. I’d love to get involved in this book club.
Big Haikyuu fan. My friend and I had a watch party once a week for months where we watched the whole anime. Finished season 4 by the end of February. Since then I’ve nearly caught up to the end of the anime in the English-language manga. 
Trying to savor the last bits, so figured I could start over in Japanese.
I still need to figure out how I’m going to purchase the Japanese version. And some personal life stuff won’t be resolved until the end of the month. So I don’t know if I can commit to the read-aloud this weekend, but I’d love to listen in and get the vibe if that’s okay with y’all?
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In the homethread (link in first post) are two links where you could by the manga; either a physical or digital copy.
Feel free to just listen in. We’re always having a lots of fun. Usually we start with reading the chapter aloud with allotted roles, then have a short intermission with various topics and then will translate the chapter.
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Yea, that’s a good point. Not sure why Kageyama doesn’t start at server…
One thing I could think of maybe he needs to be between Tanaka and Tsukishima who are the best scorers for the team, so when Kageyama is at the front row at least one of them will be eligible for net attack?
Or maybe Ennoshita is their most consistent server?
Or… ??
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Anytime. Glad that helps 
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Or maybe it’s not so much about the attack but rather the defense as they got no libero. Hinata is quite obviously the weakest in that regard while Daichi is pretty strong and Tanaka is quite consistent as well. So they could cover for him. They also wouldn’t start with Hinata in the back for the same reason.
In this formation Kageyama would be called “runner 5” (meaning the setter “runs” from “position 5” to “his place” between positions 2 and 3 for the toss). For defending the serve he’d stand next to Tanaka, while Tsukishima and Ennoshita move up a position to the left and Daichi moves to Ennoshita’s former position for the defense.
Hinata and Tanaka are already on their right position for attacking and you’d have Daichi for a strong defense. And they’d still have the maximum of possible attack-positions. The only one for whom that position is pretty s*** is Kageyama 'cause he’s got to run the most for the first toss.
Personally I (WS/D) hated that formation most 'cause the setter has to pass by two spikers in the front to get to his position and you can get quite the confusion with who is moving where esp. when the defense doesn’t go well.
EDIT: graphic for better clarification of the defense
sorry for the long rambling. ^^’
Onto a short grammer questions:
ス at about the end of a sentence.
p.59 2nd to last panel Tanaka: ていうかデカさが重要なポジションに日向スか！？
p.66, 2nd panel Kageyama: １年も部室使って良いんスか？
Is that some specific grammar point or just a shortening of です?
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amazing analysis 
About スか, I think it’s what you said and it’s just a shortening of です！
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Ah, totally agree with you. I’m always impressed by the agility of setters moving from one end of the court to the other, never missing the sight of the ball. Sometimes it’s feels like the setter has a clone or two playing on the court.
So, you’re a volleyballer! 
WS/D. Do you actively play?
I used to play for my HS team (not a competitively strong team tho) and co-ed intramural in university (casual leagues). I miss it. I found some local evening leagues, but never really taken to it. So I’m reliving it through Haikyuu for now…
For the grammar, yep, I also read ス as です.
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yeah, being a setter is definitely a tough job. It really seems like they’re always everywhere on court.
What position did you play?
I played competitively for 18 years for my hometown. Started when I was ten 'cause a colleague of my mum was managing the club. “You’re tall; don’t you want to play?!” boom - next friday i was in the gym. The last years I was having problems with my knees though, so I had to stop when it was getting too much. Also it was taking a lot of time going back and forth when I switched cities for uni and i was at a point where I thought i wanted to try some other sports as well.
Haikyuu definitely reminded my though why i played for so long and love it so much, so i’m back to playing a bit at my uni’s sports programme (not right now though 'cause corona -.-).
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thanks for having me, that was fun! I’ll be ready next week to help with translation
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Ooo, that’s cool. You must have lots of great stories from the 18 years you played competitively! And the “You’re tall, don’t you want to play?!” 
I totally get you.
I played DS (I also call it ‘digging specialist’ 
). The teams I played were not very competitive, so I got to play front row a bit and enjoyed that too. But since I’m short, I was better at digging and diving.
Btw, Tokyo 2021 is starting soon, maybe we could follow the volleyball coverage and do a watch party sometimes for fun.
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added this week’s sign up sheet. Grouped together the crowd and single-line aoba josei players (just kunimi and yahaba i think) and marked everyone with less than 5 sentences of dialogue. We’ll have to double up again this week, but I’ll wait until people claim their first choice.
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So I just got to this part (p.103): オープン攻撃:山なりに高く上げたトスを打つオーソドックスな攻撃
And I thought I’d give a bit more of background info:
Summary
What’s happening here is, that their receive wasn’t really good and Kageyama will have to do the toss from an unusual position. Because the ball from the receive won’t come to his usual setting position between 2 and 3. So what you usually do is to play it safe and do a toss which the spikers can still hit relatively easy even if it doesn’t get to them perfectly. Usually you’d set it in a high and long arch to one of the wing spikers (when you’re far enough in the back sometimes also to position 6), so they got enough time to adjust to the toss and probably still have some flexibilty on how they hit the ball over the net.
But with that easier toss it’s also pretty clear to the opposing blockers where they might expect an attack and, due to the long and high toss, have some time to plan where to set their defense.
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question when it comes to the sign-up sheet: what’s the difference between the part 1 and part 2 columns?
Honestly, they’re a holdover from when we had more people than manga characters to read for, so we’d split characters into two halves. Now that the cast of each chapter has expanded to where there’s more characters than readers, they don’t really serve a purpose but I just haven’t bothered to remove them.
However, if you did want to read for one of the characters already taken, you could sign up for part 2, and that would mean you’d read that character for the second half of the chapter.
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@caraage @BarelyFragile Thank you both!
Different question, to the group or to @rainysunday, I tried to fix the poll but couldn’t figure out how to make it display within the details panel. Do we still want the poll, and does it have to be behind the Hide Details panel?
That’s actually an old poll from before we started Vol 2, everyone who voted to join the read-alouds chose to keep the same time schedule.
So no worries about fixing the poll for now, thanks for checking. For Vol 2, we’re all set. For Vol 3, we may repoll if there’s any request.
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