[Source Material vs. Adaptation] ハイキュー!! - Character Omissions in ハイパープロジェクション演劇 「ハイキュー!!」

Wow, such a mouthful for the blogpost title!

Basically, this is me giving my two cents on the character omissions (in whatever forms) that happened in the engeki adaptation of the manga ハイキュー!!. I first published this via Wikia/Fandom as I love wikitext, but unfortunately, if there's a way to use it on Blogspot blogs, I'm not yet aware of. I will continue to first format the content there and copy & paste it here; trust me, you'd think switching back and forth between "Compose" and "HTML" on Blogger/Blogspot wouldn't do any damage, but it did; while the "Preview" holds, I'm not even sure the format would actually be kept, so fingers crossed!

P.S.: At the time of this posting, I'm not yet privy to the exact content of production 06 最強の場所チーム, so the stuff that mentions it may not be completely accurate, and will be updated when I'm able to verify.

• 泉Izumi 行高Yukitaka & 関向Sekimukai 幸治Kōji (production 01)
  The match where they helped out was featured, so technically one can argued that they were "represented", just like, not actually seen lmao. I mean, I get the decision, since I was actually quite surprised that those 2 weren't too relevant later on in the series, but I think it still would have been nice to showcase friends not always having the same interest, and still are friends.
• 教頭 (name unrevealed?) (production 01)
  The dude with the wig; Daichi replaced his role being the one who got hit. BUT, he was heard "off-screen" reprimanding Noya's outburst, or at least I think it was him, as I don't see why it wouldn't be lol.
• 成田Narita 一仁Kazuhito & 木下Kinoshita 久志Hisashi (missing from all productions so far)
  "Narita" was referenced in production 01. I'm actually somewhat disappointed about this omission because they did become more relevant later in the series. Chikara replaced Kazuhito in production 05 (likely in 06 as well, sad).
• 入畑Irihata 伸照Nobuteru & 溝口Mizoguchi 貞幸Sadayuki (productions 01-03, and likely 06)
  I'm sad about not at least including the head coach, since I appreciate decent-behaving adults lol. His speech was largely delivered by Seijoh team members.
• 滝ノ上Takinoue 祐輔Yūsuke (every production after 01)
  I felt absolutely horrible because I totally get the omission D;. His character type is so similar to Keishin's that it'd just feel repetitive(?), but at the same time I do miss the banter between a duo, rather than just one person doing the talking.
• 森Mori 行成Yukinari & 内沢Uchizawa 英紀Hidenori (production 01)
  The match with OB was featured, so technically one can argued that they were "represented", just not actually specified who's who. If Mori was name-dropped in production 03 for his role of providing Seijoh's DVD, I missed it.
• 猫又Nekomata 育史Yasufumi & 直井Naoi 学Manabu (productions 02 & 04, and likely 07)
  IMHO the omission of Nekomata sensei is the biggest blow Dx. His speech was largely delivered by Nekoma team members, though some responses were different from the source material.
  • 芝山Shibayama 優生Yūki was omitted in productions 02 & 04 but will appear in 07 (IKR? Thank Gawd! It'd really suck if that entire drama was omitted); 犬岡Inuoka 走Sō appeared in production 02 but was omitted in 04 and will continue to be omitted in 07. I'm not sure if either of them were at least name-dropped in 04.
• 道宮Michimiya 結Yui & 相原Aihara 真緒Mao & 佐々木Sasaki 千鶴Chizuru (production 02 & likely 06)
  To be fair, I actually only remember one name but I do remember all of the 3 characters. If they were name-dropped, I missed it. I can understand the omission because it was all-male cast up until production 04, and rather than cross-dressing, there's no real harm in just not featuring them.
  • BTW, I'm not counting 清水Shimizu 潔子Kiyoko because even though she was not physically shown in productions 01-03, the productions made it very clear that she was with the team and present.
• 小原Obara 豊Yutaka (production 02 & 05)
  Poor dude was the only one missing from the roster from his team, he wasn't the only one that was cut the same way though; because the stage play made sure to always include the Libero position when portraying a complete team, it seemed like for production reasons, they'd just omit another player, even though if counting the Libero, a team needs 7 players not 6. I mean he at least had more presences than some of the newer Datekō members, and his input on Johzenji's 2-on-2 method (brought up by 作並Sakunami 浩輔Kōsuke ) was omitted, in fact, Datekō's discussion and observation on the matter was omitted; if the 2-on-2 was in fact mentioned (and that I wasn't just imagining it lol), it was Kiyoko who delivered it.