Review of Haikyu!! Movie: The Dumpster Battle

If you are expecting manga levels of detail and pacing; you will be a bit disappointed. Otherwise, this was a very enjoyable movie. My biggest gripes in general would be as follows: • The pacing felt very fast (to be expected of a movie with only an hour and a half runtime). • A lot less of the game shown. I would have preferred to see more of the sets rather than constant cuts. The good outweighs the bad though. I loved the animation style with the newer seasons and this movie and it felt very fluid. Seeing more of Nekomata, namely Kenma and Kuroo, was very nice.Seeing their love for volleyball grow as they did was touching and really set in stone how much this game meant to them. While I do wish that we would have seen more of the Karasuno squad, I was left satisfied.