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[HARUHI SUZUMIYA] E13 & 14 Reaction & Thoughts/Review
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Episode 13: Google Drive or Dailymotion
Episode 14: Google Drive or Dailymotion
Even though I didn't have the most positive finale experience, I still really like the stories and most of the characters, and I'm definitely excited to watch more!
Comments
Sweetie, here is your comment, i get emails of every single one, it’s not my fault your comment got swallowed by patreon. Even YouTube sometimes does the same to my comments on my own channel. Calm down and ask what happened before you start accusing people. “I don't know if you're someone that reads Patreon comments, but I feel the need to disagree with a few of your points regarding the show. The main one is the assertion that Haruhi doesn't progress as a character, which was your main complaint with the finale. However, your reactions themselves are proof that this is not the case. You say you had "ups and downs" with Haruhi as a character. But every single episode where you liked Haruhi was set, chronologically, after Kyon kissed her (for the sake of simplicity, let's call all of the episodes that take place before that "the first six episodes" and the ones after "the later episodes). One of the big reasons for the weird episode order is that the viewer is constantly flip-flopping between two very different characterizations of Haruhi. In the first six episodes, she's constantly grouchy, discontent, and does not give a shit about anyone else. In all of the later episodes, she still has those traits, but they're toned down significantly. The show's finale wasn't the end of her character arc. It was the BEGINNING. The incident in closed space was the catalyst that caused her to begin changing as a person. I'd also like to talk a bit about the kiss and what it means. Your interpretation was that the act was "giving Haruhi what she wants", but I feel it was the complete opposite. Haruhi made it very clear in the first six episodes that the ONLY thing she cares about is discovering the supernatural. In the finale, she even outright throws away the rest of the SOS Brigade in order to find it. The ONLY exception is Kyon, who she tries to bring with her into the new world. She spends the entire finale ignoring his protests and just going "no no, it'll be great!". Kyon kissing her wasn't a case of "if she's happy, she'll go back to the normal world". The kiss was a super mundane romantic gesture. It was his way of saying to Haruhi "Which do you like better: The exciting world full of supernatural stuff or a chance at an ordinary romance with me? You have to choose, because you aren't getting both". He put Haruhi on the spot and forced her to re-evaluate what it was that she really wanted out of life. You can see a VERY drastic change in her character after that. Before, the only activity the SOS Dan did was looking for supernatural stuff (with Haruhi getting pissed because nobody was finding anything). Afterward, Haruhi knows she'd choose an everyday life over a supernatural one, so she shifts to more mundane activities like baseball or making a movie. The whole concert episode was Haruhi realizing she's started changing as a person and is finding these mundane things fun, something she'd have never considered before. Compare the season 1 finale to Someday in the Rain (the heater episode and the last one, chronologically). Both episodes are lazy days where she gets bored and starts playing dress-up with Mikuru to try to entertain herself. In one, she's frustrated, wearing a provocative outfit to try to get Kyon's attention, and is pissed the whole time she's playing with Mikuru's hair. In the other, she sends Kyon away, turns "dressing up Mikuru" into a constructive group activity, and has a lot of fun just doing mundane things with her club with or without Kyon. She's changed a lot as a person between those two episodes. You can even see her relationship with the rest of the group change. When she was making the new world, she was ready to throw them away. But after spending time with them doing mundane stuff, she's slowly starting to see them as friends instead of minions (although she does still do stupid shit like trying to gamble them away, but that episode still ended with Haruhi acknowledging that Yuki is a person and letting her make her own decisions). Hell, in the murder mystery episodes, she nearly has an emotional breakdown when she thinks one of her SOS members was guilty of a murder and started subconciously trying to alter reality so her friends were innocent. While you're entitled to your own review of the show, I feel like you were reviewing the show as if the climax was the end of Haruhi's character development, when the rest of the show had already illustrated that it was the beginning. (also, if you do end up continuing to season 2, please keep in mind that those episodes take place in the middle of the series, so Haruhi hasn't developed into the character she is in Someday in the Rain yet) Thank you for taking the time to read this if you do.”
Animaechan
2022-02-08 19:44:42 +0000 UTCI joined patreon to post a response to your review of the series. It was immediately deleted. You've lost a patreon and a twitch subscriber.
None None
2022-02-08 18:45:17 +0000 UTCAs I said when you started to watch Haruhi you will be dissapointed, and yeah you probably disliked my comment, but NO CHARACTER progression, NO DEVELOPMENT made this anime bad for me, and for you too. Basically we get character development only in first two episodes and then BUM nothing at all. I also decided to check out novel about Haruhi, and well...it was exactly how anime ends in terms of character progression, even after few arcs they stayed same. Even when story comes to end, there was no real end. Characters didn't grow at all. So again I'm not recommending you to continue watch this story, case it's waste of time. 5 of 10 will be best score, but I believe even it will be too good to rate this story so hight. It would be better if you watched Wolf and Spices, at least there we get romance, we get great character development and great story
Jack Shadow
2022-02-07 06:05:06 +0000 UTCI think you once mentioned you were concerned Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions would have a similarly unlikeable main character. since it's Kyo-Ani and an eccentric character. But without giving away too much I would more compare it to K-on! meets Okabe, way more likeable than Haruhi as a character. Plus its Fischl :)
Csel
2022-02-06 22:49:29 +0000 UTCMy reaction to Haruhi generally corresponds with yours. I think she was written to be a bratty, unempathetic, generally unlikelable character. And its more about other's reactions to her. But it would have been nice to have some character development or acknowledgement to anything. I think it was more about her subconscious development, she secretly wanted an exciting world with aliens etc, but part of her just wanted a normal world with the classic highschool boyfriend/girlfriend experience. And in the end her subconscious chose that over a new more exciting world. But at the same time if its all subconscious and she doesnt learn anything for real and nothing changes it didn't seem like there was an overall point. I havent seen season 2 or the movie, so there's still potential they build off this and do something different I guess.
Csel
2022-02-06 22:45:04 +0000 UTC
