We're all so sad too Mikuru, we're all so sad too...

OK.

We’re in August (8th month of the year), it’s the 8th episode of this “arc”. So is this enough KyoAni?

So, to those wondering… what’s going on? Well, there’s this  anime series called Haruhi suzumiya no yuutsu, which aired back in 2006, it was quite popular and fans have been expecting its sequel season since then.

So after starting a second season this summer in the middle of a re-airing of Season 1, making events happen chronologically, making a questionable direction this will give toward DVD releases.

Let me explain this first. At the very least, in North America, the Season 1 episodes were released in chronological order isntead of their airing orders, which kind of ruined part of the plot not even half-way through airing. You see, the anime originally did like the original material, the light novels, and put the events happening in disarray.  It wasn’t actually following fully the novels’ order, but it followed the concept.  And now, with this new season, we’re seeing episodes that are aired in-between season 1 episodes.  The first new one was in-between season 1 episodes.  Are they going to re-release the whole series together or are they going to sell the new episodes separately? Well, I was hoping for the latter. But at that point, it wasn’t such a big deal, really.

Bamboo Leaf Rhapsody, that first new episode was quite good and revealed a ton of interesting information about the story and the characters.  So we were expecting a lot of the second new episode.  But it wasn’t quite the case, that episode, titled Endless Eight was the beginning of a lot of Haruhi fans’ nightmare.  It starts on August 17th and ends on the 31st of that same month, covering many activities the SOS Brigade (Haruhi and friends’ club) from going to the swimming pool to an evening at a festival to a part time job, etc.

Well obviously it wasn't... (though notice the K-on! art style here)

Well, the next week, the episode starts at August 17th, and covers the same activities the SOS Brigade went through the previous week.  The difference? The animation was re-done, the angle shots were different, the dubbing was re-recorded and the clothes they were wearing were also different.  The most obvious difference though, is the revelation that they have gone through the two weeks of this episode 15,498th times, with slight variations of events.  And only one person of the group completely remembers what happened on each iteration. That’s about 595 years of time spent doing the same things over and over again. That person must be bored to hell. Fast-forward to last week and we went through the same episode with slight variations 7 times. Yes. 7 times.  And tomorrow (or today in Japan), the 8th loop will start, hopefully with a solution to break out of it.

Actually, you still have to watch at least 2 more to get this achievement... (The achievement should go to KyoAni for trolling its fanbase so hard, though)

KyoAni and Kadokawa must be financially suicidal.  Who will buy DVDs for 8 episodes that are the same thing happening over and over again, with slight variations.  Consider also this.  Anime DVDs in Japan are sold with usually between 1 and 2 or 3 episodes on each. So 4 DVDs, with 2 episodes each of the same damn thing? I doubt a lot of people will buy into this, especially given the price of each Volume being more expansive than what we pay over here.

Yuki has been bored to no end for the last 595 years, and we've been bored for the last 8 weeks... WE GET IT NOW!Â

While I’m not personally enraged over this, a lot of people are.  I mean, they’re probably trying to give us the feeling of boredom Yuki (that person that remembers everything) has been going through. But most people didn’t get through the boredom and gave up after 3 episodes of it, probably at average.  I mean, that would have been plenty.  From the look of it, unless there’s some other plans to keep going for a long time with more episodes than what was announced for the whole second series, we’re not left with much more important and interesting content to cover in the few episodes left to the airing attributed to Season 2. There’s 9 episodes left I think to air, 4 or 5 of those will be of season 1, 1 is the conclusion of Endless Eight. That leaves us something like 4 episodes to cover other content, not much to look forward to.

Anyway, I’ll end my somewhat pointless rant with the question I started with. So is this enough KyoAni? Or are we going to wait until August 31st to go by before seeing some new content? So is this enough KyoAni? Or are wegoing to wait until August 31st to go by before seeing some new content? So is this enough KyoAni? Or are we going to wait until August 31st to go by before seeing some new content? So is this enough KyoAni? Or are we going to wait until August 31st to go by before seeing some new content? So is this enough KyoAni? Or are we going to wait until August 31st to go by before seeing some new content? So is this enough KyoAni? Or are we going to wait until August 31st to go by before seeing some new content? So is this enough KyoAni? Or are we going to wait until August 31st to go by before seeing some new content? So is this enough KyoAni? Or are we going to wait until August 31st to go by before seeing some new content?

Bonus content: Hitler explains what the hell is going on…

David A. Anime