Haikyuu!! gets incredibly appropriate reference at 2024 Olympics Haruichi Furudate\/Production I.G.Haikyuu!! fans are losing their minds after the beloved anime got a homage at the 2024 Paris Olympics. On Wednesday, July 31, Japan faced Argentina in the men\u2019s volleyball tournament at the Olympics. During the practice sets, the Haikyuu!! theme can be heard in the background. In fact, whenever the Japanese team scored a point, they played the music. When Japan finally won the match by two sets (3-1), the anime show\u2019s opening song \u2018Tobe Fly\u2019 (\u2018Fly High\u2019) was playing in the arena. This is a clear nod to the popular sports anime and proves the influence of Haruichi Furudate\u2019s franchise. However, it\u2019s not the first time we witnessed the series\u2019 incredible influence as Haikyuu!! has been cited as the reason for the rising practice of volleyball in Japan. Clearly the series has already found its way into the Japanese national men\u2019s volleyball team. Not only have the characters from the series appear as the team\u2019s booklets but the manga\u2019s creator has also drawn real-life players from the national team alongside Hinata and Kageyama. Needless to say, the anime show\u2019s fans are ecstatic with this development. As one fan wrote on X\/Twitter, \u201cPerfection. OMG THIS IS GIVING ME SO MUCH FOMO!\u201d \u201cI hope Furudate knows how big the impact of Haikyuu!! to the volleyball industry,\u201d commented another, while a third said, \u201cA historic moment.\u201d A Reddit user shared, \u201cLoved that \u2018Fly High\u2019 started playing right as Japan won!\u201d Aside from Haikyuu!!\u2019s historic presence at the Olympics, there\u2019s another reason behind fans\u2019 excitement. Like today\u2019s match, the fictional Japanese national men\u2019s volleyball team, consisting of Hinata, Kageyama, and others, also played Argentina, with Oikawa in the team, at the Olympics. To have reality imitate art on such a level is thrilling indeed, especially for the fans. And while we don\u2019t know the result of Haikyuu!!\u2019s Japan vs. Argentina match, we know the real one\u2019s. It\u2019s undoubtedly helping the imagination of fans. For more on the beloved show, check out how to watch Haikyuu!! in order and how Haikyuu!! The Dumpster Battle ignores its two best characters. You might also like to check out our Haikyuu!! The Dumpster Battle review.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Haikyuu!! gets incredibly appropriate reference at 2024 Olympics Haruichi Furudate\/Production I.G.Haikyuu!! fans are losing their minds after the beloved anime got a homage at the 2024 Paris Olympics. On Wednesday, July 31, Japan faced Argentina in the men\u2019s volleyball tournament at the Olympics. During the practice sets, the Haikyuu!! theme can be heard in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}