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[potatonaught]

Wow, can you believe to learn we’re on volume 12 already?

Chapter 99 character sign-ups are live now. See you in the discord for read aloud! You’re welcome to come in and lurk.

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Chapter 100!! Can you believe it?

[JuiceS]

yay! well done, us. ^^

[potatonaught]

Sign-up sheet for chapter 101 is live!

Also note: since the original sheet was getting long with tabs, we created a new vocab sheet starting with volume 12 (chapter 99). Link has been updated in the first post. You can also still access the original sheet (chapters 1-98) in the first post too.

Edit: Also also! USA had its time change on Sunday. Check the first post for accurate read aloud time.

[potatonaught]

Character sign-ups for chapter 102 is up!

Don’t keep Kitty-chan, Tekachuu, and Fujikujira waiting…

[JuiceS]

I came about a grammer lesson regarding name-enders and was instantly thrown back to the beginning where Hinata calls Nishinoya “senpai”. ^^
I think at least part of the reason why Tanaka and Nishinoya are always so happy being called that is because they got so much respect for their own senpai themselves.

[potatonaught]

Chapter 103 sheet is up!

Come learn what causes Hinata to make this face

[JuiceS]

whoa, this weeks chapter is super long: 35 pages!

[potatonaught]

Chapter 104 sign-ups live! A long chapter but also cool spreads

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Chapter 105 sign-ups live. Join us in the read-aloud discord 2023-04-15T14:00:00Z to figure out how this is pronounced:

[JuiceS]

omg, this week’s chapter is already the last one for the volume again. Time’s flying by so fast …

[potatonaught]

Volume 12 Discussion Thread

Start Date: February 24, 2022
Previous: Volume 11 chapter 98

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Reading Schedule

Reading	Page numbers	Reading start date	Read aloud (*character sign up below)
Ch 99	7 - 26	Feb 24	Mar 4
Ch 100	27 - 46	Mar 3	Mar 11
Ch 101	47 - 66	Mar 10	Mar 18
Ch 102	67 - 86	Mar 17	Mar 25
Ch 103	87 - 109	Mar 24	Apr 1
Ch 104	110 - 144	Mar 31	Apr 8
Ch 105	145 - 164	Apr 7	Apr 15
Ch 106	165 - 184	Apr 14	Apr 22
Ch 107	185 - end	Apr 21	Apr 29
Watch along	ep 37 (s2e12) - TBD		May 6

Character Sign Up

Chapters 99

name	furigana	description	ch 99
日向	ひなた	sun boy	–
影山	かげやま	king setter	*–
烏養	うかい	karasuno coach	*dmner
武田	たけだ	busy teacher	*–
大地	だいち	captain	*–
菅原	すがわら	vice captain	*–
旭	あさひ	ace spiker	*–
田中	たなか	energetic spiker	dmner
西谷	にしのや	libero	1–
月島	つきしま	salty MB	*–
山口	やまぐち	jump floater	1–
谷池	やち	candidate manager	*–
一繋	いっけい	grampa ukai	–
十和田	とわだ	ougiminami captain	–
		hallway player A / ougiminami player	–
		hallway player B / spectators / hat-wearing ojisan	–

Chapters 100

name	furigana	description	ch 100
日向	ひなた	sun boy	*–
烏養	うかい	karasuno coach	*–
武田	たけだ	busy teacher	*–
大地	だいち	captain	*–
菅原	すがわら	vice captain	*–
田中	たなか	energetic spiker	1–
縁下	えんのした	back-up WS	*–
月島	つきしま	salty MB	1–
谷池	やち	candidate manager	*–
秋宮	あきみや	former ougiminami captain (torchick)	–
十和田	とわだ	ougiminami captain	dmner
		scorekeeper / audience / coach	–

Chapters 101

name	furigana	description	ch 101
日向	ひなた	sun boy	*–
影山	かげやま	king setter	1–
武田	たけだ	busy teacher	1–
菅原	すがわら	vice captain	1–
旭	あさひ	ace spiker	1Juice
田中	たなか	energetic spiker	1–
西谷	にしのや	libero	1–
縁下	えんのした	back-up WS	1Juice
清水	しみず	girl manager	1–
谷池	やち	candidate manager	1–
秋宮	あきみや	former ougiminami captain (torchick)	–
十和田	とわだ	ougiminami captain	Juice
		audience / coach / grandpa ukai	–
		hat-wearing ojisan / ougiminami player	*–

Chapters 102

name	furigana	description	ch 102
日向	ひなた	sun boy	dmner
影山	かげやま	king setter	*–
烏養	うかい	karasuno coach	1potato
武田	たけだ	busy teacher	*dmner
大地	だいち	captain	*–
菅原	すがわら	vice captain	1–
旭	あさひ	ace spiker	1–
田中	たなか	energetic spiker	1–
西谷	にしのや	libero	1–
月島	つきしま	salty MB	*–
山口	やまぐち	jump floater	*–
清水	しみず	girl manager	*–
谷池	やち	candidate manager	–
百沢	ひゃくざわ	2m man	1–
		audience / kakugawa coach / grandpa ukai / akiteru	–
		hat-wearing ojisan / kakugawa players	potato

Chapters 103

name	furigana	description	ch 103
日向	ひなた	sun boy	*–
影山	かげやま	king setter	*Juice
烏養	うかい	karasuno coach	Juice
武田	たけだ	busy teacher	*dmner
大地	だいち	captain	dmner
菅原	すがわら	vice captain	*–
旭	あさひ	ace spiker	1–
西谷	にしのや	libero	*–
谷池	やち	candidate manager	*–
百沢	ひゃくざわ	2m man	*–
		grandpa ukai	–
		hat-wearing ojisan	–
		volleyball adviser Mikako-sensei / kids next to yachi	Juice
		glasses-wearing kakugawa player	dmner
		kakugawa players	–

Chapters 104

name	furigana	description	ch 104
日向	ひなた	sun boy	–
影山	かげやま	king setter	potato
烏養	うかい	karasuno coach	–
武田	たけだ	busy teacher	*potato
大地	だいち	captain	–
旭	あさひ	ace spiker	1–
田中	たなか	energetic spiker	1–
西谷	にしのや	libero	1–
縁下	えんのした	back-up WS	*–
谷池	やち	candidate manager	1–
百沢	ひゃくざわ	2m man	–
		kakugawa players	–
		grandpa ukai	dmner
		volleyball adviser Mikako, surprise Bokuto	*–
		kids next to yachi	–
		crowd, scorekeeper, kakugawa coach	potato

Chapters 105

name	furigana	description	ch 105
日向	ひなた	sun boy	Juice
影山	かげやま	king setter	*–
烏養	うかい	karasuno coach	*–
大地	だいち	captain	1–
田中	たなか	energetic spiker	*–
西谷	にしのや	libero	*–
縁下	えんのした	back-up WS	*–
月島	つきしま	salty MB	–
山口	やまぐち	jump floater	1–
清水	しみず	girl manager	–
谷池	やち	candidate manager	*–
十和田	とわだ	ougiminami captain	*–
		grandpa ukai	*–
		volleyball adviser Mikako, kakugawa coach, Tsukki’s mom	*Juice
		kids next to yachi, hat ojisan	*–
		akiteru	–
		crowd, punks bothering shimizu	–

[JuiceS]

Volume 13 Discussion Thread

Start Date: May 19, 2023
Previous: Volume 12 chapter 107

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Reading Schedule

Reading	Page numbers	Reading start date	Read aloud
Ch 108	7 - 26	May 6	May 20
Ch 109	27 - 50	May 19	May 27
Ch 110	51 - 70	May 26	Jun 3
Ch 111	71 - 90	Jun 2	Jun 10
Ch 112	91 - 110	Jun 9	Jun 17
Ch 113-114	111 - 152	Jun 16	Jun 24
skip week	skip week	skip week	July 1
Ch 115	153 - 172	Jun 30	July 8
Ch 116	173 - 194	July 7	July 15
Ch 117	195 - end	July 14	July 22
Watch along	ep 39 (s2e14) - TBD		July 29

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vs. Jouzenji
Some personal thoughts:

Summary

I consider playing against a team like Jouzenji a personal nightmare. ^^’ Not so much because they’re particularly strong but because of their unpredictability.
Especially at a certain level of playing you’d expect some “rules” of how people are playing. It’s definitely not some fixed rules but more of a level of technique and various plays that get used, like a constant block, relative regular use of a quick attack, jump-serving, combination play … stuff like that. Mostly teams wouldn’t stray too much from what type of play you’d expect. All of Karasuno’s attack combinations for example are still way inside that “norm”, even Hinata’s and Kageyama’s special quick isn’t too outrageous (if you break it down it’s still a quick attack at the core, just super fast).

With a team like Jouzenji you have to expect anything however ridiculous it might be. Like what Terushima is doing on p. 37/38. You’d normally expect an underhand toss (like Tsukishima did expect) as that is just the safest option in that situation. Running after the ball, jumping and turning yourself around to attack from the back of the court is extremely difficult to pull of.
He’s also halfway swinging his arm above his head to the side which you can sometimes see in players trying to hit a straight instead of a cross for the first time: they’d just turn their arm instead of their body/approach. But fundamentally it’s bad technique because you can’t hit the ball as high and hard as if you did it properly. That being said it can sometimes be effective because, as I said before, at a certain level you’d expect a cross from the direction the approach run/body is facing (because you’re expecting a certain level of good technique) and instead suddenly get to deal with a straight.

Jouzenji is just hitting the ball over the net however they want. No predictability on their play and what to expect next (where to block next or line youself up for a receive) at all. It’s awfully frustrating and nerve-wrecking because you have to be even more alert than usual. Yachi and Takinoue on p.63, Ch.3 probably descibe it best. And often you can find youself being roped into that kind of play because the receive gets more difficult and you can’t bring the ball to the setter as you want, therefore also hitting the ball over the net however well you can in these situations. Somtimes down-right turning into “ping-pong” where you’d basically abandon the three-touch-play and almost constantly hitting the ball over the net at first or second contact, overall making the game faster. It’s like that saying: “Never argue with a fool: they drag you down on their level and beat you with experience.”

I’d definitely prefer playing against Shiratorisawa. Because while they’re definitely strong, they’re way easier to read and counter: good technique and reliable/consistent playing style. You can certainly train against strength but you can’t really train for unpredictability.

Of all the teams we’ve met so far, I think, the one most suited to counter Jouzenji would probably be Nekoma. They have a strong and quick defense and are used to bringing the ball to the setter in a reliable and consistent way no matter the attack. Datekou might be quick to block the more confusing attack-plays but they’d probably still have to do quite the running on the receiving end.

[JuiceS]

Volume 14 Discussion Thread

Start Date: July 30, 2023
Previous: Volume 13 chapter 117

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Reading Schedule

Reading	Page numbers	Reading start date	Read aloud
Ch 118	7 - 26	Jul 30	Aug 5
Ch 119	27- 46	Aug 6	Aug 12
Ch 120	47 - 66	Aug 13	Aug 19
Ch 121	67 - 86	Aug 20	Aug 26
Ch 122	87 - 106	Aug 27	Sep 2
Ch 123	107 - 128	Sep 3	Sep 9
Ch 124	129 - 148	Sep 10	Sep 16
Ch 125	149 - 168	Sep 17	Sep 23
Extras	169 - end	Sep 24	Okt 30
Watch along	s2 e17-18		Okt 7

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In light of this chapter’s short little scene (ch. 121, p.69)

I thought I’d give a bit more of an in-depth explanation as I got the experience of playing both positions.

Summary

In theory playing Wingspiker (WS) or Opposite (O) looks like the same, just mirrored: one is attacking from the left, the other from the right. When you’re actually on the court though it’s completely different and not just from the new perspective you have to get used to.

The most obvious difference is in the receive.

In the back row the WS is usually moving to the middle (at least on higher levels) and the Middleblocker (M), who gets replaced by the Libero (L), to the left. (I think that has to do with the M mostly getting replaced by the L (bc M are mostly the tallest players so it’s harder for them to get down on the receiving level ^^') who is a bit quicker to catch short balls and balls coming down from the block.) For the WS this means he’s mostly responsible for longer balls from the cross attack and those that get tossed to the far back of the right corner. Anyway, to react to the attack he has comparativly more time wether the attack comes from the WS, M or the O of the opposing team. As most attacks come from the WS-side, the O is mostly covering the straight attack and short behind his teams block on that side. As he’s on the same line as the attacker, the ball will get to him much quicker thus giving him less time to react.
For bringing the ball to the setter the O also has to be more precise as the distance is shorter as well. Coming from the WS, the setter has more time to adjust to any errors as the ball travels for a longer time.
It’s also more difficult, especially as someone right handed, bringing the ball to the setter when you’re standing on the right side. A small excurse on technique: when receiving it’s important to bring your body behind the ball and face your front towards the direction you want to play. For standing on the side of the court that means you’re putting your outer foot slightly more to the front. For right handed people often feels more natural to bring your left foot forward. But as an O you’d have to bring your right one in front, bringing the ball slightly to the left of yourself.

Now onto the attack:

The most obvious one here’s as well the time you have to prepare. The ball for the WS has to travel across almost the whole court and has a relatively high arch making it pretty easy to do your approach run (start about when the ball is at it’s highest point) and gauge where you can best hit the ball. When playing with three attackers, setter in the back row, the setter is standing roughly between the M and O for the toss. Therefore the ball’s flight-curve for the O resembles more that for the M which is way shorter. So the O has to start their approach run much earlier (start about at the moment the setter tosses the ball) than the WS.
Another difference which is probably a bit less obvious, is the arm with which you’re hitting the ball. Most people are right handed which for the WS means the ball needs to be a bit more inside the court and for the O that the ball needs to be a bit more to the edge to be able to hit well. For a cross attack that does not make that much difference but for a straight attack you’d be way more close to the line and consequently to hitting the ball out. If you’re also not turning your body properly towards the net you’d have to twist your arm at an unnatural angle to hit the ball straight.
Lastly is about facing your opponents: in general attackers tend to be on the taller side while for setters it’s ok to be a bit shorter. As a WS you’re facing your opposing S/O and M as a block, as an O the opposing WS and M. So the block on your teams right side tends to be a bit taller, especially on the outside for the straight attack. As an O you’d also be more frequently involved in blocking yourself, as I said before, most attacks will be coming from the WS.

So while technically you’d know where to stand and what to do, switching from WS to O does take some adjusting to do.

[JuiceS]

As we’re getting started with the semi-finals match between Aobajousai and Karasuno, I thought I’d remind everyone of their last official match by trying to fill out a score sheet for that match.

Summary

Definitely wasn’t easy with some points getting skipped either because they were happening in the background while people were talking or to move the story along faster.
So, this is about what it would have looked like (though nowadays they seem to do those electronically): the game goes from Vol.6 Ch.49 to Vol.8 Ch.68

I added some annotations for reference points:

1. This part is for general information: what type of match (event, league), where is it taking place, who ist playing …; who’s team A and B is decided by which side of the court they’re starting from, with Team A starting left to the score keeper.
2. List of players and coaches. The players are sorted alphabetically (I skipped on the names in kanji here to make it better readable) and usually the number of the player’s pass is added as well. Though I’m guessing they won’t have those for games between schools. The libero gets noted down extra again. P/T actually stands for physio therapeut but I thought Shimizu deserved a spot here as well.
3. Here the starting positions of the players are noted, as well as who’s currently serving (at the bottom of the box) and until which scoring point they have their turn.
4. Seijoh’s first timeout when Oikawa figured out Kageyama/Hinata’s code which toss they’re going to use (くれ・こい). For the timeout the points of the team who is taking the timeout are listed first.
5. Already Karasuno’s second timeout when Oikawa was targeting Tanaka with his serves and Tanaka hit himself to get his focus back.
6. This was really difficult and as you can see I couldn’t actually figure it out even though I checked it four times. It seems Furudate-sensei accidentaly skipped Asahi’s and Hanamaki’s serve here. On p.181 (vol.6) Seijoh makes the point to 18:11 and Kunimi starts serving (No. 13). Seijoh makes another point to 19:11. Tsuki is in the front row and misses his combination play bc Kageyama is getting frantic. Another point to Seijoh: 20:11. Karasuno changes their setter and we change to vol.7. Tsukishima is still in front and changes position with Sugawara for the block which results in a point for Karasuno to 20:12. The rotation on p.16 (vol.7) notes Tsukishima as the new server and Hanamaki already in the back (when Tsukishima looses his serve, next would be Mastukawa for Seijoh). So between Kunimi doing the serve @18:11 and Tsukishima doing the serve @20:12, there’s no extra point for Karasuno which would have meant them and Asahi taking the serve.
7. Sugawara is changed in for Kageyama. As with the timeout, the points of the team who does the player change are listed first.
8. On p.27 (vol.7) it should have been Hinata blocking with Sugawara as Tsukishima would still be in the backrow from his serve (or actually switched out for Nishinoya).
9. They skipped some rotations here to move forward faster with the game and I got no idea who made how many points at their serve so I left it blank.
10. That’s the timeout where Sugawara tells Kageyama to properly talk Tsukishima.
11. And here he actually does (took them long enough ^^') resulting in Tsukishima gettin to fool Seijoh’s libero with his feints so Karasuno can take the lead.

a) When playing a maximum of three sets (two winning sets) on this sheet, you’d normally skip the boxes for 3rd and 4th set and use the one for the 5th set because the teams change sides halfway through (you also coin-toss again to choose serve/sides, though naming A and B for the teams stay the same). For the 5th set you see a third box:
b) The notation for the team who’s starting on the left side continues here. Their points at side change get noted down extra and the “starting order” is noted down as the one they currently have. As the 3rd/5th set is usually only played up to 15 points (with a change of side when the first team gains 8 points) there wasn’t enough space so I just wrote everything down in the box for the 3rd set.
13) The teams must have switched side sometime at 13:14 (Seijoh leading) as the names on the scoreboard got flipped then which to me seems quite unusual.
14) Here Ukai’s a bit at wits end until he spots Yamada in the crowd resulting in
15) Yamaguchi getting changed in for Hinata as a pinch-server and getting subbed out again right away when he misses his toss.
16) Here Oikawa misses his serve for gaining the lead because he was already thinking about the next game against Ushijima.
17) At the end all points, timouts, playerchanges and the winning team get noted down here.
18) This part is for additional notes (Daichi getting injured against Wakutani Minami resulting in a brief halt of the game probably would have been noted here) and in the last line also the use of the libero.

As you can see the 3rd set must have really been taxing for both teams as they’re basically (with a few exeptions) loosing the serve again right after gaining it.
Furudate-sensei is really amazing for being able to keep track of all that. My brain is certainly mush by now.

[potatonaught]

Whoa, Juice, this is so cool! That’s amazing you were able to map the game to a real score sheet as closely as you could. It’s also my first time seeing a volleyball score sheet, so thanks for sharing that as well!

[JuiceS]

Volume 15 Discussion Thread

Start Date: Oct 15, 2023
Previous: Volume 14 chapter 125

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Reading Schedule

Reading	Page numbers	Reading start date	Read aloud
Ch 126+127	7 - 48	Oct 15	Oct 21
Ch 128	49 - 68	Oct 22	Oct 28
Ch 129	69 - 88	Oct 29	Nov 4
Ch 130	89 - 108	Nov 5	Nov 11
Ch 131	109 - 130	Nov 10	Nov 18
Ch 132	131 - 152	Nov 17	Nov 25
skip week	skip week	skip week	Dec 2
Ch 133	153 - 172	Nov 26	Dec 9
Ch 134+135	173 - end	Dec 10	Dec 16
skip week	skip week	skip week	Dec 23
skip week	skip week	skip week	Dec 30
Watch along	s2 e19-21		Jan 6

@Mods unfortunately the one who created this thread doesn’t seem to be active in this bookclub anymore and none of us remaining have the rights to change the title. We don’t create threads for individual volumes anymore but just add to this and edit the first post accordingly. So could you maybe delete the “Vol. 11” after the volleyball-emoji? That would be great, thanks!

[WaniConti]

Hey JuiceS! Sure, it’s done!

-Nick at WK

[potatonaught]

Thanks for cleaning up the thread, Juice!

[JuiceS]

Volume 16 Discussion Thread

Start Date: Jan 07, 2024
Previous: Volume 15 chapter 135

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Reading Schedule

Reading	Page numbers	Reading start date	Read aloud
Ch 136	7 - 26	Jan 7	Jan 13
Ch 137	27 - 46	Jan 14	Jan 20
Ch 138	47 - 66	Jan 21	Jan 27
Ch 139	67 - 86	Jan 28	Feb 3
Ch 140	87 - 106	Feb 4	Feb 10
Ch 141	107 - 126	Feb 11	Feb 17
Ch 142	127 - 148	Feb 18	Feb 24
Ch 143	149 - 168	Feb 25	Mar 2
Ch 144	169 - end	Mar 3	Mar 9