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if the only sports anime you think is talked about is Haikyu, you don't talk to people who talk about sports anime. https://twitter.com/UncleJaylean/status/1264022893740134407
anyway, its not remotely surprising the previous tentpole sports manga in Jump isn't as much discussed. Slam Dunk went for YEARS being unappreciated in the West, and Kuroko's slapstick humor, female characters, and melodrama perhaps don't suit some modern tastes in sports stories
Run with the Wind literally just had a fanweek hosted here on twitter, Stars Align and Tsurune both have dedicated followings, Chihayafuru just had a new season and, not to be kind of dick, but pretending Free! and YOI don't exist is silly at this point.
In a lot of ways Kuroko was a transitional series for how people perceived sports as a genre, but also was simultaneously the first one a lot of American kids were familiar with. I'm still fond of it, but dissing HQ will alienate people & make the differences harder to swallow.
The comedy is distinctly gag-heavy compared to Haikyu's comedy bits, and the Generation of Miracles are characters made with a very different intent in mind. Basketball and volleyball are both tactics-heavy games, but they don't exercise them the same way.
Anyway, I return to my main point: throwing shade at the series that followed it in Jump as a tentpole sports comic is not going to make the generation for whom -Haikyu- was their first sports series like. Want to read it because they'll feel like you're dumping on their taste.
