For the second cours, we are treated with two upbeat songs perfectly fitting the competitive vibe the season promises. SUPER BEAVER’s "Breakthrough" will be serving as the opening theme song, while SPYAIR’s "One Day" will be the ending theme song. Even though SUPER BEAVER hasn’t worked with Haikyuu!! before, they have already worked with Bakemonogatari. You know what? they surely delivered well. Here’s the official teaser from SUPER BEAVER’s youtube channel.

Unlike SUPER BEAVER, SPYAIR has already worked with Haikyuu!! before. Sure enough, they did another splendid job with the second cours ending theme song. Here’s the full version of the song.

For this episode, we were surely given a feast of exciting events. As we've already mentioned earlier, Atsumu Miya’s killer serve immediately brought our hearts to a stop, but we kinda have to immediately perform self-resuscitation or we’ll miss the roller coaster of “Booyah!” moments. Atsumu’s killer serve wasn’t like Ushijima’s, which solely relies on power. Atsumu has mastered both the floater and the jump serve, which he both uses to his advantage. Then, we were shown just how much a team’s cheering squad affects the game: from booing to setting the beat. However, one of this episode’s heroes comes forward. Saeko Tanaka, along with her Taiko team, fights Inarizaki’s cheering beat-to-beat.

That’s not the end of it. Although others may have overlooked this, we did not. In this episode, Hinata was shown to have a sharper sense as to where the ball was going even before it’s been hit. But Hinata being Hinata, he completely missed it using his hands. That, for us, is some huge foreshadowing. Finally, the episode ends just like any exciting episode… with an annoying cliffhanger. Towards the end, we were shown that Kageyama and Hinata’s minus tempo was a technique not only they could use. The Miya twins had successfully replicated the attack. The question is, will they be able to use it as well as our freak duo? Guess we’ll see.