I am not interested in normal anime. If you know of any anime like Perfect Blue, Shoujo Kakumei Utena, or the Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi, please see me. I recall the first few weeks of the Spring Season, where the inevitable “OMG NEXT EVA” comparisons were made for MoSH. Oh, I don’t recall them [...]
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WE INTERRUPT THIS POST FOR VIDEOS OF AYA HIRANO COSPLAYING AS HARUHI (from the omake on the asahina mikuru no bouken ep. 00 dvd) There’s only one thing to say about the final episode: CHIKYUU O SUKUU AIKOTOBA WA ‘AI’ TO ‘YUUJOU’ DA ZE!. I always love when love, friendship, courage, justice, honor, chivalry, and/or peace [...]
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True to the series' namesake, SHnY wraps up riding on the cresendo of Haruhi's melancholy. While I enjoyed its last installment very much (despite the non-closure of many a plot-thread), I could not help but feel sad for Haruhi. Mikuru has to be Haruhi's worst fear. (Sometimes I wonder if Mikuru was deliberately sent from [...]
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I’m not going to summarize the events of this episode nor are the screencaps a balanced set - the hard work’s been done by Omni and Garten already. Suffice to say that this episode was almost identical to Ch 7 and epilogue of the volume 1 of the novel. I think only Haruhi’s demand that [...]
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And so the noble prince kissed the sleeping beauty… And they lived happily ever after. And here’s the kiss scene from the novel: Personally for some reason I thought the kiss in the novel was more exciting than when watching the episode. Perhaps because the novel spoiled me and I already knew what was going to happen about [...]
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Well, this is it: the final episode to what I feel is one of the best series that was released last season. Despite the fact that the series ends on one of those 'life goes on' note, I feel that the series fulfilled most of my expectation and did not disappoint me unlike Fate/stay night. To me, the main attraction of the series are its characters, who despite representing several stereotypes, still manage to be interesting and unique. It's rare that I actually like all of the ensemble characters even down to supporting types like Taniguchi and Kunikuda. The storyline, while not exactly a heavy hitter, is entertaining in its own right. I am going to miss this series and I hope it'll get a second season in the near future. Anyway, I'm going to write down a longer impression later on and add the large version of the screencaps after I can get a decent copy of the episode. In the meantime, enjoy the following links: Cover of DVD 1 Euro Mix version of God Knows Photos of Nishinomiya Kita City (thanks to Jun for pointing this one out)
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The series is almost at an end and perhaps because of the awesomeness of ep #12 this instalment, on the face of it at least, is a bit of a non-event. It's one of those exposition, 'infodump' type of episode that delivers little action and comedy but the explanations it offers pretty much make up for all that. The long-awaited explanation as to why Haruhi is the way she is finally is revealed to us, which finally gives the viewer a reas...
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AKA The Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi Episode H11/K1/Y1. Yes, that’s Y1 - for some strange reason, they’ve decided to confuse the continuity even more by having Yuki re-dub the next episode preview (which amounts to about “Next Time. The Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi, Part 1. Watch” - blunt as ever ^^;). Presently its thought that [...]
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“Remote Island Syndrome (Part 2)” Much better than the first part. Nothing laugh-out-loud funny but the fact that it carried itself as a serious mystery episode until the ending was entertaining enough. It almost made me wish that it WAS a real mystery because I [...]
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