“One step”
“You don’t get better at receives overnight”
That part brought back in chapter 82 /I don’t see you as essential to winning/ “that hasn’t changed”
—>282’s hinatas receive, the one step brought back again...
basically!!
*Hinata receiving well=Kageyama setting to him*

/you don’t get better at receives overnight/
Hinata toppling in 282 but it being stated that now he doesn’t
“If you want to go far, you have to take things step by step”
“Right now, this is still volleyball”
‘A 0 step approach of all of his experience’ (smthn like that)

That leading into this chapter..Hinata has taken the steps. And he’s made it. And he is on equal footing to Kageyama. 399 is a test from Kageyama of hinatas skill...”if I get good at receives will you set to me”...”let’s keep doing it. Volleyball. Let’s do it more.”

And so that is leading into chapter 400...alongside all of this taking into account chapter 4...”if I get good at receives will you set to me” hasn’t been brought back yet. And it was specific to Kageyama serving at Hinata. And that serve receive remained constant throughout hs.

Yet Kageyama hasn’t acknowledged his receiving skills yet. Because they haven’t BEEN “up to par”. And this chapter and next are the ultimate tests of that. Melana said this already and I’ve repeated it already too, but what would be the greatest acknowledgement to Hinata...

...if not Kageyama asking to set for him?
And the two, Hinata’s receiving and Kageyama’s setting, have been put in tandem w each other repeatedly. It’s a narrative reflection (wrt Hinata’s skill and Kageyama’s acknowledgement) of how touches work on court: receive, set, spike.

Example one: chapter 4. Note the “ don’t see you as essential to winning” callback too—

—because example 2: chapter 82, or their fight...it gets called back AGAIN. This time it isn’t directly related to hinatas RECEIVING, but it IS about kageyamas setting to him. And IN PARTICULAR the standards to which Kageyama holds Hinata to wrt whether he’ll set to him or not.

“I won’t let go until you toss to me”
‘Their serve and receive and hinatas receiving is repeatedly compared to kageyamas setting for Hinata’
“Kageyama is going to foreign leagues, what, next year?”

And one of the most glaring examples and one that WE SHOULD BE PAYING ATTENTION TO ():
282. 82 is important because of the chapter 4 callback (and, though perhaps more superficially, the numerology of 82/282 IS arguably there).

(Ik I said this in the first tweet but!!) Directly after Hinata receives properly, and Kageyama notes in his head that it was “perfect”, and hinata says that Kageyama better be watching when he does it again, the next page has ANOTHER CALLBACK TO 4, THEIR FIRST ATTACK TOGETHER!

And in 282, Hinata asks him if he saw. Kageyama lies and says he doesn’t, BECAUSE *he knew Hinata wasn’t at the point where his acknowledgement would be able to fully land.*

And that is because again, *that acknowledgement is Kageyama asking to set for Hinata* And Kageyama doesn’t “set to anyone who isn’t essential to winning”.

The “you better be looking when I do it again” was brought back in 396 with ‘hunger 2’ as the title. Hinata’s hunger to improve—>Hinata getting stronger...strong enough “to fight on my own”....i.e what he says in chapter 82, clashing w Kageyama bc of his ‘hunger’ to push forward.

(And it’s that hunger, or more accurately in this instance GREED, which lead to his fever, which lead to him learning self maintenance, and that self maintenance was brought back in 398 which was specific to Hinata’s receive...do you see what I’m getting at here)

The callback was specifically in response to Hinata pulling off another stunt that showcased his skill and growth: his turning a set into a spike, which scored the set point. This was also done with 386, which triggered 387s tobios backstory and the “someone even stronger” line.

...and if, as aforementioned, 282’s Hinata telling Kageyama that he ‘better be watching’ is followed with a page talking about that ‘one step’ (and in relation to this part from before about ‘connecting’ followed by the ‘nice receive’

...then it has also been established that alongside receives its hinatas ability to be an “all-rounder”, or more relevantly “a decoy for himself” (something that was his goal from the beginning and which is achieved through KAGEYAMAS dubbing him “the greatest decoy”)...

...that determine Kageyama’s standards for acknowledging, I.e SETTING for him.

And so...if (again lol) previously stated...399 is the ultimate test from Kageyama of Hinata’s skill, of his receives in particular...

...then I’m sure something big will happen in (4)00. I will say it again:
-“If my receives are up to par, will you set for me?”
-/perfect, but I won’t say it, I won’t say it yet!/
282 having these two pages next to each other...

And whatever happens in 400 will be followed with something that will hint further at Kageyama’s acknowledgement of Hinata. An action and an equal and opposite reaction if you will (that’s been the pattern this entire match)...and boy was this a big action from Kageyama.

And that will continue until this match ends (戦いは常盤にー asf) wherein Hinata will have fully proven himself to Kageyama and Kageyama’s acknowledgment will be realised in his asking to set for Hinata, and by extension for him to
/stay with him/.

I.e this, but out loud, and in a parallel to the post match stair scene in ch1 or something of the sort.

Also, I don’t doubt there’ll be a callback in some way to 37, because
-“even if that’s at the top of Japan? *the world*?”
—>they’ve already broken into v league div 1.
—>Kageyama breaking into FLs “next year?”
—>asking to set for Hinata being, again, Asking To Stay Together.

Stream stream stream!!!! https://twitter.com/tobishouist/status/1265474836077457408