Haikyuu!!: Tobio Kageyama (ENTJ)
Te:
โThe setter is the teamโs control tower. Plus, itโs the position that gets the most contact with the ball. Itโs the greatest position there is because you get to be the ruler. Without a setter to toss the ball, there wouldnโt be any spikes for you to hit.โ
โOnly those who win get to stay in the court, only the strongest. So if you want to keep playing, you have to become stronger.โ
โIโll set to whoever I have to win. Itโs justโฆ I highly doubt that person is going to be you.โ
โI hate your sets because itโs like youโre forcing people to play it your way instead of their own.โ โ Tsukishima
Kageyama from Haikyuu possesses the controlling and domineering nature of a Te dominant. He comes across as very intense, harsh, and demanding right from the start of the show. He has no issues calling out complete strangers, like Hinata, at the time, for things like a queasy stomach. He constantly yells at his teammates for not taking the game seriously, and is bound and determined to win. Heโs blunt and abrasive, not hesitating in the least bit to tell someone what he believes to be the cold, hard truth. He also starts out the series with a bad reputation for refusing to adapt to other people. He is constantly called out for making impossible sets, and of course, gets incredibly angry whenever anyone doesnโt perform to his standard. In addition, he prefers the position of a setter, because he deems it the teamโs โcontrol towerโ, which lines up with the controlling nature of a Te dominant. Of course, as any thinker, he keeps his emotions to himself, and rarely displays anything beyond anger or coldness. Lastly, he has the typical rigid and stiff posture of a high Te user.
Ni:
โYeah, thatโs cause youโre the same way! Itโs all sound effects! Youโre like โwamajam!โ and โkablooey!โ and stuff. Youโre like a bunch of five year olds.โ -Tanaka
โYou have lightening fast reflects! You just need to give it more pow, more oomph!โ
โItโs just a hunch.โ
Kageyama is known for acting on instinct. When watching another teammate attempt to explain something, Tanaka explains that โPeople who act on instinct really suck at putting stuff into words.โ Kageyama then declares that he can actually understand the guy, which Tanaka follows up by proclaiming that Kageyama is the exact same way. Of course, what Tanaka said was completely on point, explaining something thatโs often misunderstood about Ni/Se. As many Ni/Se users, Kageyama canโt always produce words to explain something, and has this tendency to rely on demonstrations or sound effects, since he hasnโt internalized specific details like an Si user might. In addition, he struggles to learn from past mistakes, and repeatedly sends impossible sets, unable to get it into his head that no one can hit those. Lastly, going right along with the abstract way Ni users internalize data, Kageyama is shown forming a strategy mid-game based purely off of a hunch. He is unable to specifically explain why, but simply warns that a certain technique of theirs was not going to work with a certain member of the opposing team now in front.
Se:
โItโs the most important, cool, and challenging position on the court. Okay?โ
โThis guy thinks things through, and heโs in tune with his surroundings.โ โ An opposing setter about Kageyama
Kageyama is very explosive, and quick to get physical when angry. Heโs constantly lashing out. When being mocked, heโs shown grabbing the guyโs collar and threatening him. Heโs constantly laying hands on Hinata. He grabs him, yanks him, throws him, and etc. In an attempt to encourage Hinata, Kageyama even tries to incorporate a physical pat type thing, which then prompts Hinata to ask Kageyama to stop hitting him. Kageyama overall just as a very short fuse, which can easily be the case for someone with both Te and Se. Of course, heโs also highly competitive which is a trait tied strongly to both Te and Se, making it just that much more intense in Kageyama. As the show develops, so does Kageyamaโs Se, and he learns to better adapt to his teammates.
Fi:
Kageyama is very uncomfortable with his own emotions. Toward the end of the first season, the team catches him smiling for the first time and it basically freaks them out. Tanaka sometime later makes a crack about him being emotionally constipated. The day after losing a big game, Kageyama just retreats into his schoolโs volleyball court and practices setting over and over again, not having shown much emotion by this point. It isnโt until Hinata shows up and then starts running around the room screaming in frustration that Kageyama decides to outlet some of his own emotions. Lastly, Kageyamaโs high standards can easily be tied both his Te and Fi, as anyone on this axis are known for having high personal standards for themselves and others. A teammate is shown specifically getting angry at Kageyama for his perfectionism.
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OMG YES. THIS GUY SCREAMS Te I WANNA KILL HIM BUT I LOVE HIM AT THE SAME TIME. Yeah, heโs pretty much the ENTJ stereotype. His expressions in the manga are so funny sometimes he looks like a cute sheep but then his dom-Te appears like the devil, heโs so precious TuT. I read once that inf-Fi people can be secretly hopeless romantics, I just want him to act like that around Hinata, is that too much to ask for? TuT
Anyway, your explanation really helped me understand why heโs an ENTJ. I used to think of him as an ESTJ, but what you said makes much more sense.
LOL. Thanks! Heโs certainly an amusing character. I noticed a lot of people type him as an ESTJ, actually.