Audience reviews
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johncartieal
Garbage. The time loop was poorly executed and YES it ruins the entire fucking series stop coping just because you're gooned out over a few of the characters. All of the characters are just so mind bogglingly stupid even the ones that are supposed to be smart. Kyon is just a bland stupid cookie cutter mc and the writing is garbage. The show is just Asahina getting sexually harassed/assaulted and Kyon just going along for the ride. Lame as shit.
This is just another filler anime you should leave on in the background while doing something else and has no substance at all but of course the cult fanbase is gonna defend it and try to gaslight you into thinking it's the greatest writing in the entire world! Best anime ever! WRONG.
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** THIS REVIEW CONTAINS MILD SPOILERS**
Well, this is my first review, and I'm going to do what no one else has done: actually give an in-depth review explaining why this series sucked. Not just: The Endless 8 sucks because etc. etc. therefore, this show sucks. Nor will I be "ok, the Endless 8 wasn't very good, but the rest of the series was pretty decent due to *insert quick explanation here*." No, this review will show why the WHOLE SHOW sucks, not just one part. I'm sick of just "Endless 8 sucks so automatically, so the show sucks by default". Forgive my aggravated rambling; I needed that off my chest. Do you wanna know why this show is bad? Do you wanna know why this almost ruined the franchise for me? Then, let's find out, shall we?
To be honest, nothing about this season added to t…
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okay so ill make this short because this was an anime i absolutely will never watch again or think about again.
story
-was mediocre. fair enough i didnt see them in chronological order which made it hard to keep watching, but i expect atleast the episode's to suprise me a little. boring boring boring.
art
- good art i have to say i liked it and it was almost the only uplifting point in the anime.
sound
-fair characters
-now the characters were okay main was the one who i ofcourse liked the most because of his personality of being "smooth" or not fucking around like a twelve year old. the rest were okay highscoolers except the supernatural shit. fukn do it right nothing was ok with the supernatural, esper, alien etc things going on unsatisfactory i could say at least.
combo that with…
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How terrifying is it to know that tomorrow, you won't remember today? Or that you don't actually have a tomorrow... because tomorrow is last week. And that this week is last week as much as it is next week. It's enough to make modern Western philosophy implode. Didn't T.S. Eliot have a poem or four about this?
This is one of the issues that comes up in Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuuutsu (2009). Assuming you didn't just throw a remote at the TV/mouse at the monitor in frustration and said "To hell with this shit."
Retrospect is quite a thing, especially when fans are left to compare a follow-up series to an original that was an undeniable cultural explosion. The first run of Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuuutsu pretty much shook the anime scene so strongly that even today, smatterings of people can still…
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15,532 reiterations, and we've only endured episode length instances of 8. Should we really be complaining? Well, Kyon should have. Better yet, he should have done something productive much earlier to spare us the stupidity, if not the time. But he'll redeem himself yet.
The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (2009) is the next installment (discounting the Melancholy of Haruhi-chan Suzumiya shorts) of an anime series originally based off the light novel franchise by Nagaru Tanigawa. It was directed by Tatsuya Ishihara, scripted by Yasuhiro Takemoto, and produced by Kyoto Animation, the same studio that animated the Full Metal Panic Series, the Key holy trinity, Hyouka, and K-On! Hosting three new stories from the source material set in between the events of the first season, it was aired as a…
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The fanbase for this series is greater than the series itself. Don't get me wrong, this show is reasonably good and the characters are extremely likable. However, that does not justify for the crappy 8 episodes of the same thing.
When you over-analyze anything, there's usually a reason behind it. The main reason for this show is that it wasn't very good. So you'd have to spew some bullshit to defend it. The fact that the "endless eight" is unique does not make it enjoyable. Rambling on about how each episode is different does not make the story deep.
So out of the 14 episodes, there are actually only 6. Out of the 6 episodes, there's no real pacing, because it just branches off the original series.
There's no other way to put it. The 2009 version of Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuuustsu mediocre…
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Endless Eight Arc - Enough Said?
The entirety of the season can be summed up almost in much the same way as the first season, so i am going to focus my attention on the Endless Eight arc of this season. This arc seems to be the part most mentioned in reviews and in most cases negatively so. It is also the most prominent memory we have of the season when you mention the 2nd season.
Eight episodes of the same events, over, and over again. Everyone can agree that this was not a cheap measure to save money. since the animation, clothing, and scene of every event were unique to each of the eight episodes. But hatred still seems to fill the hearts of the viewers about this arc.
Indeed it is long and boring over time. But like how FLCL must be completely confusing to get it's point across, so…
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honestly I don't understand all the animosity toward this season. I thought it was brilliant. the endless eight was brilliant.
What's the point in showing the same story eight times? to piss you off.
It achieved its point so give back its points.
In the entertaining world, nothing can be repetitive or it wouldn't be entertaining.
As a work of entertainment, the endless eight broke the boundary, just like episode 1 of the first season did. I enjoyed getting tricked and tortured because it was intended that way, and because it's intended that way, in the end it's no longer trickery or torture for me but simply enjoyment. If you only feel torture, I'm sorry, but you have been tricked and fell into the trap of the entertainment world. The show is only trying to pull you out of it.
Give back…
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After the first season of Haruhi Suzumiya, fans couldn't get enough. In 2009, a second season came out. And what were the fans' reactions?
"THIS IS THE WORST SHIT EVER! PHUK HARUHI! PHUK KYOANI! I'M NEVER GONNA BE A FAN OF HARUHI AGAIN!"
Pay no heed to these people, for they are butthurt fanboys, or trolls, or both. Having just finished the second season in preparation for the film version of The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya, I can say that the second season . . . is definitely a disappoint compared to the first. Was it a waste of time though?
Story: The antics of the SOS brigade continue in three story arcs. The first arc is the first episode. It's a clever episode, more mysterious than funny, but it intrigues you. The second arc, and where most of the complaints come from, is abou…
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T: Watching Haruhi, I see. The first season again?
NK: I'm trying to forget that the second season exists.
T: It couldn't have been that bad. What went wrong?
NK: They made a second season.
T: Come on. A little more detail would be nice.
NK: That is the true mistake, though. The first season of Suzumiya Haruhi was enough. The characters were designed well, the stories were all the right length and really helped show how the characters developed over the course of the series. It ended on a very good note and nothing needed to be added.
T: The ending was open, though. It would make sense to add more after the events after the first season.
NK: Yes it would. They didn't.
T: Wait, do you mean that the second season takes place during the first season?
NK: Correct. And there were only three st…
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After three years (of what seemed to be a long time of waiting) the second season of Suzumiya finally came out. What we weren't expecting was a troll from Kyoto Animations. But hey the message boards were extremely fun to go on when this show premiered.
What made this Suzumiya season so "special" was that there was no announcement about it. One day I was surfing the web and people were screaming all over the message boards. "OMG NEW SUZUMIYA." I laughed and quickly scrolled down, until someone told me it was actually true. I was like, "WTF KYOTO ANIMATIONS WHAT." And behold a new season of Suzumiya was brought to the face of the earth. Of course it was bundled with the first season, so sometimes you had to wait like a month for the next episode. But at least we got something, right?
Whic…
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I'm going to say right now that my general review for this will be negative. Don't like, don't read. Everyone's entitled to their own opinion.
Now as far as I'm concerned, people that reviewed this with an 8, I can only assume they reviewed each Endless Eight episode with a 1, totaling the entire review to an 8.
Well, that would be funny anyways.
Story 3/10: Like most people, I'm going to rate this very badly. There was no story as far as I'm concerned. Aside from the few episodes that were different, the repetition of Endless Eight had no good excuse for even happening. So what if they included different outfits each time, different camera angles, and maybe a few seconds of extra scenes. IT'S STILL NO EXCUSE. To be honest, I'll admit that I didn't bother to sit through the entire 24 mi…
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Story: 8
I'm writing this review with great fear and trepidation. In the end I'll either get shot by those who behead anyone who insults Haruhi, and on the other I'll get shot by the people who are simply overreacting giving this show a 1. Let me start off with the fact that the story was superb! The writing didn't drop at all in quality. The second season instead gave us far more insight into Haruhi's character and mysterious forces working behind her. Her powers were shown to a much greater extent as well. It is really quite amazing how well this series seemed to have such excellent continuity with the rest of the series and the attention to detail did not disappoint.
Now before everyone starts thinking this review will be just rainbows and lollypops, that ends here. The Endless Eight w…
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I actually watched The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya(2009) (but never felt compelled to write a review until now) a long time ago and I've seen a lot of negative thoughts about it. I do agree that this anime wasn't all that good but at the same time I don't think it deserves a 1 that a lot of people give it.
Lets start off with some pros the artwork and animation was very good, the sound was awesome with one of the best openings I've ever heard and the characters are as lovable as ever. Because these departments in the anime do so well I cannot see why anyone could rate this a 1.
Now time for the dreaded endless eight arc. I agree with most people on this one, this arc just plain sucked (although I do the like the idea). Although there were some minor changes through-out each episode in…
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For all the otakus out there who were waiting and waiting for Haruhi 2 to come out, this was a dissapointment. We all heard rumors about how Endless Eight was bad, but God, actually sitting through it made you want to drop the anime right then and there. The first episode was great, then we hit Endless Eight, then we have five episodes which are the making of the movie (episode 00 of season 1). So, overall, it seemed as if there were only 7 different episodes. I usually try to be fair with reviewing anime, but this actually was one of the worst I've seen. Sorry to all you Haruhi fans, but this one gets an overall 4. I know, I'm dissapointed too...
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Let me say something up front here, I laugh at everyone who insists on griping like a child over Endless Eight. Also, my art and sound scores may be a bit high. That's because as long as it falls within reasonable parameters I don't really care.
That said, I found the series as a whole very enjoyable. The Endless Eight arc added to that for many reasons, not the least of which was my amusement at how badly everyone seemed to overreact to it. In addition to this, however, there were also the many minor variations made in each loop. In one case, they even granted Itsuki a line almost on par with his "Oh, it looks like we're going to get some rain" comment in Someday in the Rain in terms of downright hilariously purposeful blandness. Aside from that, Mikuru Asashina and Nagato Yuki were able…
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“I'm getting bored and just fed up watching something that doesn't seem to be changing at all.”
- Asakura Ryoko, chronological Episode IV of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya
In 2006, Kyoto Animation made a simple little anime called The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya. It was based on a popular series of light novels written by Nagaru Tanigawa. Even still, nobody expected it to be very big. Kyoto was not trying to make a popular anime. All they wanted to do was make a good anime.
And maybe that’s what went wrong with its 2009 sequel of sorts. That they forgot what Haruhi truly was. That they, rather than wanting to make a form of art, made a capitalistic envoy instead.
Story/Enjoyment
The story is entertaining, but nowhere near the levels of the first season. The first story was Bamboo L…
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There have been a lot of negative reviews on this site, which I can agree with to an extent. However, most of them focus entirely on the Endless Eight arc, while disregarding the rest entirely.
I can't say I disagree that the Endless Eight arc sucked; Having to sit through so many episodes of what was, for the most part, the same thing was somewhat annoying. The first time it happened, I had to check to make sure I didn't accidentally rewatch an episode. The changes are subtle enough to miss if you don't watch the episodes back to back.
However, I do like the fact that the producers tried to do something different, which a lot of others do not. If experimentation like this never occurred, we'd likely never have had the pleasure of watching greats like Cowboy Bebop, or even the original s…
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Alrighty, let's cheer up Haruhi Fans.
The second season of Haruhi has been seen as a failure by a lot of anime fans.
But frankly I don't understand it.
The art work is very good. VERY VERY GOOD guys, the animation is fluid and the characters are nicely designed. While it is not the same as the first season and there are certain things I dislike compared to it, there are also quite a few things with the artwork in season two that I think have lived up to season one's creativity, and in some ways surpassed it. I noticed a more detailed animation as far as hair and clothes and also a more unique use of lighting. I think most would agree that season two's artwork deserves at least a 8, but personally I give it a 10.
The sound is, once again, golden. The seiyuu are giving a tremendous amoun…
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I've enjoyed the first season of Haruhi very much. The original 14 episodes have a cult status for me, and the story of Haruhi had a huge influence on me... no, I should even say that it changed my life. The story by Nagaru Tanigawa, which KyoAni decided to animate, had everything which a good story should have - a very original, very well thought-up story, well defined personalities of the main characters, and an epic climax. To all this, KyoAni added good art, well done voice acting, great soundtrack (I think that "Bouken Desho Desho?", "Hare Hare Yukai", "Koi no Mikuru Densetsu", "God knows..." and "Lost my music" are among the most recognizable and remembered anime tunes today)... and an interesting ordering of the episodes, with the main story from the first book going after the "what…
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