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All right folks, are you ready for one extravagant unpopular opinion? This is Oikawa-thought #1.
This has been weighing on me for a month, so Iâm posting it here though I expect everyone to ignore this completely and I certainly donât expect a single person to agree with or understand this, since this is my most unpopular Haikyuu opinion.
I've never once seen anyone say that they feel the same and that's fine. If anything, I hope this opens up a conversation and maybe people can convince me to change my mind.
Even though I wrote an ode to the family quarrel line, itâs a line that's been lowkey bothering me since 402 came out and I think Iâve come the realization that, while I love and accept everything about Oikawa, I donât particularly like his petty side.
I didnât start liking him at all until the end of seijoh2, when I saw more of his inspirational captain side (talent bloom), intensely serious side (worthless pride), and deeply caring side (thank you for the last three years).
And he only overtook Tsukki as my absolute favorite when I saw his soft side in Brazil. Iâm glad he got an iconic final line but the part of him thatâs a dramatic, somewhat petty ass isnât even close to being my favorite part of who he is.
I know he said heâd come back and beat everyone in Brazil but even the tone of that didnât feel quite so petty. More like a declarative statement that stemmed from his newfound confidence and belief in himself and his chosen path.
And the rest of the time in Brazil, he pretty much had two moods: idiot face planting in sand & yelling at the wind, and caring senpai. His over-the-top dramatics were largely gone. Then again he also wasnât standing on the court during a formal vb match against genuine rivals+
of his, so I suppose there was no real cause for him to pull out his theatrics. But at the end of the day, the person I love most is the fierce, intelligent, passionate, deeply caring and painfully loving person who lies underneath all those theatrics and pettiness.
And a lot of his pettiness, mostly the kind his displayed around Kageyama, seemed like an act built upon his crippling self-doubt and insecurity, which isnât relevant during Brazil. Hoshiumi, Kagehina and Kurooâs final lines will always personally hit harder, I imagine.
I feel like this side of him should have been left behind once he grew up and gained confidence in himself (though I don't expect him to toss away all of his personalty traits). It seems more like a force of habit, especially since he said it while standing against his rivals on+
the world stage. Anyway, I do like what this line means under the surface of it all, and Iâm glad we saw confident Oikawa, soft Oikawa and serious vb monster Oikawa in 402 as well, because it makes me feel less bad about this line.
I believe in what I wrote when I analyzed that line and I recognize the depth of it and what he was trying to convey, but I still don't particularly like it, especially compared to every other Oikawa stan, for whom it was perfect. I still love him more than anything, though.
