HAIKYU!! The Dumpster Battle

HAIKYU!! The Dumpster Battle

Shoyo Hinata joins Karasuno High's volleyball club to be like his idol, a former Karasuno player known as the 'Little Giant'. But Hinata soon learns that he must team up with his middle school nemesis, Tobio Kageyama. Their clashing styles form a surprising weapon, but can their newfound teamwork defeat their rival Nekoma High in the highly anticipated 'Dumpster Battle', the long awaited ultimate showdown between two opposing underdog teams?

  • Released: 2024-02-16
  • Runtime: 85 minutes
  • Genre: Animation, Drama
  • Stars: Miyu Irino, Yoshimasa Hosoya, Mark Ishii, Shinnosuke Tachibana, Soma Saito, Toshiki Masuda, Koutaro Nishiyama, Kaori Nazuka, Sumire Morohoshi, Hiroshi Kamiya, Hisao Egawa, Hiroshi Naka, Takanori Hoshino, Seigo Yokota, Ryuichi Sawada, Kyousuke Ikeda, Takumi Watanabe, Fumiyoshi Shioya, Nobuaki Fukuda, Kanehira Yamamoto
  • Director: Susumu Mitsunaka
 Comments
  • teetoh666 - 15 June 2024
    Very nice but...
    Great quality anime but it requires to know the backstory in order to fully appreciate it, as most of the reviews on this site seem to indicate. Should have checked them in details before I decided to watch it.

    I'm not an expert of the genre. Went to the theatre with my family (2 kids aged 8 and 10). Neither of us know the manga. My eldest liked it. My youngest didnt. I reckon it is difficult to get into it fully if you do not know the manga beforehand.

    This being said the story was good and character development is well done.

    This reminded me a lot of the anime from the 80s titled Attacker You! (Atakka Yu!). I'm not familiar with volleyball but the players who watched this movie seem to have found the experience very pleasant.
  • TreeFiddy53 - 2 June 2024
    GOOD but not what I expected it to be.
    If you're a Haikyuu!! Fan, I'm sure this one has been on your watchlist. Had a chance to watch it yesterday, my 2nd Japanese movie in a theater.

    There's this troubling trend of anime makers releasing a movie before the beginning of the next season, then breaking the movie down into episodes as a part of the season when it releases. Happened with Db Super, Attack on Titan, Mugen Train, and now, sadly this. Capitalism over content, I guess. If you can sell tickets and not release the episodes online, might as well make some money if it's there to be made.

    Haikyuu IMO is one of the best written shows - ever- and I was afraid that they'd skimp out on the details in the movie. Folks familiar with the manga said they've covered everything they're supposed to but the film did feel rushed.

    Haven't read the manga - I enjoyed the film but I felt something was missing. The focus is on Nekoma - i didn't necessarily mind that, leave it to Haikyuu to tell the story from the opponent's POV and still do it well, right!? I guess the emotions and the excitement (with the game) that one's used to in the anime had to be cut out for the sake of runtime, this entire match could have been a whole season. But of course, you can do that with a film.

    The game itself wasn't as thrilling as the ones I'm used to in the anime, but I guess that was also expected...? The animation was nothing mindblowing, but first person POV in the game was WELL DONE! The sound design was still GOOD but I've been blown away from what the anime has had vs what was in the film.

    Subs were BAD, at least for me. There's a lot of going back and forth in time, players 'thinking' in the present and talking to each other. This happens in quick succession and the flashback subs stayed on the screen for longer, there wasn't any difference between the subs for the Internal monologue and the actual interaction. The scenes cut back to back, and so does the audio but the subs just kept stacking on top of each other and it became hard to heard but knowing the context you didn't need to read and could follow along.

    All that said, it still amazes me how they're drop a movie not in the Heroes' POV and still make good content out of it. That's been one of Haikyuu's strengths and they played it well. Kenma's character development was impressively shown and if he were the star of the show, this would have been a great film. Still felt something was missing - for me. Not sure if it was the POV. But it still ended up being a good film in my books. Just not what I expected it to be. Enjoyable movie still, can't wait to see what the anime's got. Quarterfinals with Kamomedai beckons; just hope it's not another movie because I want 20 episodes and not an 85min movie.
  • sanchay-01272 - 16 February 2024
    Haikyu
    Karasuno High School made it through the Miyagi prefecture preliminaries for the Harutaka Volleyball Tournament, which was crowded with strong teams, and advanced to the third round by defeating Hyogo Prefecture representative Inarizaki High School, which was considered one of the favorites for the championship. Their opponent, Nekoma High School, used to have a rivalry with Karasuno, and although their interactions with each other decreased at one point, after Hinata and the others joined the club, they once again became good friends, working out together at training camps and practice games. The battle is called the "Battle at the Garbage Dump'' because of the "crow'' and "cat'' names in the school's name. Their play styles are completely opposite; Karasuno is super offensive, while Nekoma is a defensive team with a motto of "connection." They will finally face their first official match with the current members, and they will engage in a heated match on the stage of the national tournament.