The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya

[Buffalobiian]

Well, watching them all simultaneously didn't work. Because there are actual variations between the episodes, nothing matched up completely, and I would have had scrambled brains from it all.

It actually wasn't so bad if you dropped it for a few weeks, then watched it all in one go. Maybe I wasn't big enough of a Haruhi fan to check every week, but noting the differences in each reiteration had some amusement in itself.

Granted, I was tired of it by Episode 18, so good thing it's all over.

And don't I feel sorry for Nagato.

[Nadouku]

Are they better than Mazui?

I can't tell ya because I haven't watched Mazui's subs. a.f.k. subs, though, are pretty good but that's because I kept up with them since the first season of Haruhi, so I might be biased. Still, check them out if you like archiving Haruhi.

[David75]

I was very angry at first with the idea, but in the end I think this was kinda fun.

Also think of the anime team that had to work on each variations for each ep, feeling like they were working 8 times slower than usual Poor them.

[Archangel]

I was very angry at first with the idea, but in the end I think this was kinda fun.

Also think of the anime team that had to work on each variations for each ep, feeling like they were working 8 times slower than usual Poor them.

This post angers me >_>

Fun? No, anything but.

Poor them?? It was their own fucking idea.

Or was this the famous indiscernible Internet sarcasm?

[shinta|hikari]

The people who actually have to make the animation, the most tedious part of it at least, probably don't get a say on what goes in or out of the show. The director (or whoever came up with this idea and everyone who agreed to it) should be the ones blamed.

[David75]

The people who actually have to make the animation, the most tedious part of it at least, probably don't get a say on what goes in or out of the show. The director (or whoever came up with this idea and everyone who agreed to it) should be the ones blamed.

I guess I figured that out, I was just having compassion for them for their job on endless eight

[Kraco]

If you think about the number of episodes wasted on this and how we could have had a few normal Haruhi arcs instead, it's really sad.

[shinta|hikari]

Only now do you feel sad about it? I've been crying inside for all those 5 repeats. The 1st repeat was still fine, I think.

If Disappearance actually disappears...

I will end my rant before it gets too crude for this site.

[Kraco]

Only now because I watched two repeats back when they started, and didn't catch up before now. It was a very fast catch up, though...

[Buffalobiian]

As I mentioned before, I also caught up on this all at once like Kraco did. One good thing that came out of it was that I no longer had to focus on the subs when I've read the dialoge a few times already. It allowed me to focus on the actual screen instead of just the bottom section (like most native audiences would) and actually check out the detail and changes that took place every week. I won't go into saying how well it redeems such a decision, if at all, but that was sort of fun.

I wonder if we'll ever see a ponytail hairdo again.

[Archangel]

I wonder if we'll ever see a ponytail hairdo again.

I'm still waiting for her to grow her hair back

[shinta|hikari]

I watched the raws, so I did focus on just the screen, but I still don't understand what is so interesting about watching minor detail variations that have no real substance or meaning behind them.

If it had a purpose, a message, anything actually excluding blind fanservice, I would have watched it. I am a Haruhi fanboy after all, even with this ruckus.

[Buffalobiian]

What's funny is that I don't believe I'm as much a fanboy for Haruhi has half the forum is, but I seemed to be in the group who didn't mind it so much. I think the backlash has to do with the relative disappointment (for those who waited 3 years).

So this is how many new episodes of the allocated 13 used up now? (<-actually, after typing that, I wished they didn't spend so much time on it. That's more than half of it gone. In terms of content, this is turning out to be as bad as Shana II was.)

[shinta|hikari]

It's funny how you said the same thing as Kraco a few posts above.

I agree with you about the backlash thing. It gets even greater for people who have read the novels, and are expecting some important parts to be animated.

[Marik]

[Mazui]​ Suzumiya​ Haruhi​ no​ Yuuutsu​ (2009)​ -​ 20 - mkv | avi

[Archangel]

Out of curiosity, was that a new or old episode?

[Buffalobiian]

This should be a new episode, since the new episodes air with the new OP/ED, and likewise the old ones.

[Marik]

It was new, actually. Pretty much a setup episode, for hopefully better things.

[Archangel]

10 bucks says haruhi is getting equipment by telling everyone that Mikuru is staring in a porno

[narutosharingan]

Or that Mikuru will advertise for those stores. Sounds like good business for them.

Looks like a setup to the very first episode