The following post is all about the recent horrors surrounding the sequel to The Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi.
[To those of you who aren't oblivious to the anime industry, this first part will be review]
Kyoto Animation, the japanese animation studio that could do no wrong. Every television anime it produced were instantly massively successful and their fans were the most ravenous in the industry.
It was about time they cashed-in on those poor fools.
Among their greatest successes was the juggernaut that is "The Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi". KyoAni teased their fans on and off with a new season of the title, and some three years later a new "season" did eventually arrive. However this new "season" was not what fans were bargaining for.
Have you ever seen the movie Groundhog Day? Yes you. Have you seen it? It is that movie from 1993 starring Bill Murray. In it he is stuck in a time-loop of sorts; he wakes up everyday to find the previous day has simply started-over. This is the basic premise of Suzumiya Haruhi season 2, except with the critical missing bit that when Kyon (Bill Murray's replacement) wakes up, he does not remember that his day (or week in this case) has started over. This has caused essentially the same episode to be reanimated and reaired 7 weeks in a row with only very minuscule random differences to differentiate the episodes. In fact, the episode count is something I am simply taking someone's word for because I can't tell which episode is which.
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The top 5 things fans thought would happen:
- It ends next week. It ends next week. It ends next week. It ends next week...
- An entire season of Endless Eight
- Yuki gets fed-up and kills everybody
- The ark ends at nine episodes
- Endless Eight remains unconcluded and is resumed at a later date
The 5 most interesting thoughts from the mouths of random fans:
- Endless Eight is called Endless Eight because it takes place in August and a side-ways eight representing infinity, not because it is supposed to be eight episodes...
- In the novels Endless Eight is ONE chapter or ~30 pages!
- If these episodes still sell like hotcakes I am giving-up on humanity
- Bandai, do NOT release these episodes like normal episodes. No one is buying an entirely Endless Eight disc or two... At least I hope not
- Quoted from poster penguintruth on ANN:
The damage, as far as I'm concerned, is done.
They wasted this season with this nonesense, and dragged the name of this program through the mud with it. How can one even justify being a fan of the show after this crap? They've scuttled their own best title.
I know I'll probably end up watching whatever comes next out of interest in the other storylines of the books, but the show just feels a little dimmer now.
The nightmare may be over, but the melancholy of the fans of Suzumiya Haruhi will remain. Zing!
As usual, I believe Hitler says it best:
If you'd still like to watch the episode(s), may I suggest you save some time and watch them all at once XD
http://dic.nicovideo.jp/v/sm7686292
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