[Anime] The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya

If Dollhouse has taught me anything, is that good plot arcs come to those who wait. Its an attitude you gotta have with alot of shows and anime, Haruhi defintly one of them.

So if non- novel readers found it boring, be patient, good stuff should come in the next episodes.

Though I can see that a week by week wait may be annoying to some. Most shows I end up enjoying are usually shows where I practially marathon a season on a DVD set, then eagerly wait for it week by week when the new season rolls around. I watched Dollhouse in one go for several nights and it was a blast save for that mediocre pilot, (which Fox made Whedon reshoot). I personally think it would be easier for people to get into certain shows with long arcs if they watch it in sequence over several nights in a roll, as oppose to a week by week basis.

But if people don't watch it week by week, then ratings will go down and the show will probably get cancelled... Argh.

Anyways, the arcs following up should be interesting, but its the Vanishment arc (AKA Disappearance depending on which translation group) that will be the truly epic one.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Well while I understand that they want us to feel how Yuki feels throughout this ordeal, what with the frustration all the fans are feeling the same way she does in the show, it IS a risky move and its probably gonna make people wanna drop the show.

But please don't, cause Disappearance arc is gonna be so mind blowing. And Endless Eight is the trigger to Disappearance.

Hopefully next week, what with it being the 15500 loop, will end the story. Cause that's a good rounded up number to stop.

I would also like to quote this post from animesuki regarding people who are complaining.

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Few others animes would have the courage to do this but Haruhi is so popular it can afford to take risks. I think it's fairly interesting and original. Most times when people complain about a show being cliche they just complaining that they actually wanted a different cliche to happen. Here we are presented a fairly original approach and people are throwing a tantrum. It just goes to show people actually want cliches not matter how much they profess they want originality. Originality is a bigger risk because you don't know how people will take it.

http://forums.animesuki.com/showpost...&postcount=266

It's frustrating that we are also stuck in the loop, I know, but that's the entire frigging point.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Jeez... This is defintly getting ridiculous, especially since I am concerned if there will be enough budget left for them to get to the Disapperance arc.

Their viral marketing took them 3 years, an important number in the Haruhi universe, so I doubt they wanna throw all that way now, but this is definitely annoying. The lack of previews is obviously done to keep the schedule under wraps and thanks to Endless 8, all episode scheduling speculation is moot, since we have no idea when Endless 8 will end.

My theory is... and this is the worst case scenario, Endless 8 will end... When OUR summer ends. The story will keep looping untill the start of September.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Suzumiya Haruhi 2009 - 15 (Endless Eight) | Random Curiosity

Read that blog for images and info, Shenlon.

This may not end till the end of our summer if they keep this up.

And to people who think KyoAni is to blame, don't, they answer to the producers aka higher powers, which happens to be Kadokawa Shoten.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Watch all 4 episodes of Endless eight at the same time, only two audio streams from episodes 14 and 15. Hearing Kyon's dialogue echo is rather creepy.

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Endless 8 in 38 seconds!

http://dic.nicovideo.jp/v/sm7588791

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Originally Posted by zzeroparticle

This has been making the rounds post-Otakon and while it doesn't say a whole lot, it does shed a bit more light about the matter. Still doesn't reveal whether this is Kyo-Ani's doing or whether Kadokawa is behind the shenanigans. Just hoping for a decent payoff.

KyoAni then responded with a press statement of sorts, saying that that director is no longer part of their company and his words do no represent KyoAni in any way.

On the matter itself, Kadokawa and Kyo Ani are still silent.

FELIPE NO

Most people are under the optimistic assumption this will end on the 8th Endless Eight, which is the one after next week's.

I however am under the more cynical one, the one where it won't end till Semptember, the end of summer, fucking arrives.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

OH THANK GOD ITS FINALLY OVER !!!

Now the question is whether or not they will animated Sighs before Disappearance.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Dark Nation

I'll go with that then, thanks.

--Edit--
a.f.k. took down the first two episodes, does someone have an different download location?

or alternatively, who's a good sub group besides them? I don't follow current seasons enough to keep track of sub group quality much.

a.f.k does the best work cause the translator is really good at his work, he is also translating the official Haruhi English light novels. His comprehension on Japanese and English is the best I've seen in fansubs, along with his vocabulary.

I've uploaded Season 2 episode 1 and 2 by a.f.k here:

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There's nowhere I can't reach.

Its official, we are going into the Sighs arc.

Something Not Endless | Random Curiosity

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

If any of you have seen all of Endless 8, its becomes apparent that Kyo Ani has a few animation teams in their company. On certain episodes on E8, Haruhi looks fine, whereas in others she channels Yui from K-ON a little too much.

The first episode of Sighs IS a set up, though things will get alot more interesting in the coming episodes when they make that silly movie.

Besides, the sports event day stuff in the beginning was hilarious, watching Yuki go ZIIIIIIPP on the race track.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

a.f.k subs are out!

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The spoiler happens in chapter 4, so it may take a couple of episodes to get there.

I was speaking idiomatically.

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Ep 12 is out. Spoilers of episode below.

Spoiler:

FINALLY get to see Mikuru Beam, and its good of KyoAni to do their research on how real heat lasers actually look and act in real life.

Also another awesome factor, this is one of the rare times I've seen Koizumi faltering his "constant smiling yes man" facade. He gets that chill up his spine when Haruhi states he will get more screen time as his rewards, his reluctant words of gratitude was hilarious. Also his expression after Mikuru cuts the reflector board in half is also priceless.

Nagato is her bad ass self as always, zipping to Kyon to protect him from the beam.

While I was annoyed with E8 being so long, I always found that Haruhi is even more enjoyable in the visualized anime form as oppose to the book, despite having alot of Kyon's hilarious narration cut out. The Sighs arc is a bit of a bore to read than it is to watch, so watching it is a huge improvement.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

We still got 4 weeks of old episodes from the first broadcast.

The Adventures of Mikuru Asahina Episode 00" (The film they made.) Live ALive, The Day of Sagittarius, and Someday in The Rain.

After that... Let us hope they announce Disappearance.

EDIT: Ep 00 aired, along with a commercial for a friggin Endless 8 box set. Four Whopping Disks.

I wonder how THAT is gonna sell in Japan.

FELIPE NO

Goddamit, that means it takes even longer for fans in the West to see it. You can't fansub a film untill its out on DVD.

Well at least they announced something this time around instead of making us wait. And a movie budget Disappearance will make it even more awesome. That book is the most mind bending volume I've seen in the series.

These posts I found on Animesuki did make interesting points on the previous marketing schemes however:

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On another note, if Disappearance was determined to be a movie long ago, it explains two things:

1. Why Haruhi was entirely reaired with extra episodes, in order to make sure as many people as possible know the Haruhi backstory before Disappearance starts. Hell, even Endless Eight offers some official explanation for the movie's plot.

2. Why Newtype claimed that Haruhi season 2 was rebooted/cancelled; it could have been true, if the decision to make a movie means things have to be shuffled around.

http://forums.animesuki.com/showpost...2&postcount=32

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You're right that we can't know, but this fits all the evidence. It may very well have been that they were planning on doing a second season in the style of the first, with Disappearance as the centerpiece. But then, a decision was made to make Disappearance into a movie. In order to set the stage for the movie, and to keep the story fresh in people's minds, they came up with the idea of the re-airing. Note that, at the same time, they announced a staffing change. It may very well be (we'll see), that the director of the first season was assigned to work on the movie, while they appointed a new director to work on the TV series that would accompany the re-launch. Also of note, possibly, is the way that they cut the 5-episode closing arc of the re-airing as if it were just one giant movie split into arbitrary episodes. Perhaps, from a production perspective, they worked on it in a similar way as a sort of experiment/training ground -- who knows...

Anyway, it's fun to speculate, but I think we can probably agree that this announcement helps bring some sense and logic to the re-airing on a whole (specific details about how they did it aside).

Edit: You know, now that I think about it, let's say they had already planned/booked for a new 14 episode season under the premise that Disappearance would be included as a 6-episode arc. And then someone from on high said "you know what, we're going to make Disappearance a movie instead". Now all of a sudden they have 6 episode slots to fill that have to be chronologically prior to the movie (which is going to be the "big reveal" at the end of the re-broadcast). What to do to fill the time? Hence... Of course there are some obvious problems with that theory (like, they could probably have just shortened the broadcast run, unless it was already set in stone I guess...) but as I said, it's fun to speculate.

http://forums.animesuki.com/showpost...0&postcount=35

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The puzzling recent Newtype article on Haruhi makes sense in retrospect. It was the one with both normal and alternate Yuki in the graphics. At first it looked like an announcement for Disappearance, but instead it was reiterating the existence of the novel version of Disappearance... The novel that has been available for years, and as such did not warrant advertising space.

Now we know, the article was indirectly promoting the movie, except the NT magazine wasn't allowed to talk about it until AFTER the last episode of the re-run finishes

http://forums.animesuki.com/showpost...5&postcount=36

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