That does make a lot of sense
That's true. It is a good way to be different than most of the sports genre wherein, there is no story to tell after the main team wins in the national tournament. But I still want to know what happened for those years in detail though cause, as you say we all love that characters. But, that was really a smart move to continue the story by the mangaka.
No no, if you calmly think it was the right move. Having third years in every team was the peak for every team and seeing the team without them would be very uncomfortable.
Yeah true. And I feel like the story would feel dragged if sensei showed their progress all throughout second and third year too. Kinda like diamond no Ace, it felt great at first to see nee characters and the old ones get even better but now it just doesn't feel as good as it did.
Am I the only one who thinks the time skip was a very logical and reasonable solution? This entire manga built it up for the third years to have their first nationals and it ended in Karasuno’s loss with the 3rd years retiring. At that point, there is no longer any point in continuing their high school lives. Third years in every other tram also graduated: Oikawa, Iwaizumi, Ushijima, Kuroo, Bokuto, etc.
Without these solid characters that have been built throughout these 300+ chapters, it would be hard to continue an equally entertaining story with a ton of new characters that replace them. It would be a totally NEW haikyuu with nothing that resembles the haikyuu we originally came to love. With so much attachment to these third years and the old first years and second years, it would be hard to make any new characters more interesting than them without making the new first years the main characters. And what other growth could there possibly be in the next 2 years? They already grew so much. There’s nothing left for them to learn mentally and emotionally, hence the timeskip is necessary.
It just isn’t going to work with how emotionally deep and realistic Haikyuu is as a story. You only get one chance in life sometimes, and that spring was everyone’s peak. What Hinata and the others need isn’t more development at 2nd-3rd years. We all already KNOW and EXPECT they’ll be better than before. What we need now is their future. How are they going to take what they learned in highschool and use it in their future? What is their future going to be like? Are they all still invested in volleyball? A fitting climax for this story is a match between Hinata and Kageyama with all the other characters watching their match. The story will then come full circle - back to where it all began: with Kageyama and Hinata facing each other once again.