The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya Season 2

Haruhi being cute

I’m seriously starting to lose count of the episodes. Mazui has this listed as the 16th episode, but wait there were 14 episodes in the first season alone? Are they referring to the chronological order of the show? Anyway, I thought I’d read that Mazui was dropping Haruhi (apparently I was mistaken), so I downloaded [...]

Haruhi hits a homerun

This post only exists because I’m a completionist and don’t want to leave any episodes out. I’ll put up with several more iterations of Endless Eight before I skip posting about it.   I noticed there was a particular K-ON influence on the girl’s designs this week.

haruhi-suzumiya-1

Having waited a couple years, put up with incessant trolling and numerous false starts, before finally getting a second season of Haruhi, only to have it air with a random schedule, should we be surprised that KyoAni and co. (I don’t even know if the enemy is KyoAni or Kadokawa at this point) have decided [...]

bored Yuki Nagato

I wonder how much Nagato really cares that time is repeating? Or is her boredom in the eye of the beholder?

Nagato Yuki watching a snake

If Haruhi Suzumiya were just a regular ole’ slice of life, would you watch it? If Haruhi Suzumiya were just a regular ole’ slice of life, would you watch it?

haruhi-no-suzumiya2

I figured I’d try something different with my episodic write-ups on the new season of Haruhi (or at least I’m going to try. This post took me forever to write.) Less focus on standard summary and impression, more focus on a tangential issue that piqued my interest. Haruhi’s one of the few shows that has [...]

haruhi-no-suzumiya1

Beautiful. So beautiful. A few days ago I found out Haruhi light novel #1 had been translated and released it in the US. So I immediately ordered it. Yesterday, I got it and read it all in a few hours. It reminded me of everything I loved about Haruhi all over again. So I was [...]

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