https://youtu.be/_gJ8n-YJL2s?si=QRnkNdlqTLC1CAWY

Why will japan do every single possible thing with this series besides a new season?

New books, new gacha collabs, new figures, pop up shops, collabs with baseball teams, orchestral concerts, new songs/music videos. Every single tweet on the official haruhi twitter gets millions of views, but no season 3? I understand KyoAni can't/won't do it, but why cant Cloverworks pick up the license? Theyve been doing multiple new seasons of Black Butler which is another ancient 2000s series with way less cultural cache than Haruhi. I'll even settle for Passione at this point.

anime is gay and way too expensive for what it is (merely giving illiterates the opportunity to engage with what everyone else already read a decade and a half ago)
I hope they spend all the money they would have spent on anime on more meaningful things.

The Yuki anime was them testing the waters to see how a non-Kyoani Haruhi would go. It flopped and here we are

I’d like a new Noizi artbook too. Do we have enough new artwork for it yet?

Imagine how something as wasteful and extravagant as E8 would be received today.

>>280369387 (OP)
Tanigawa would actually need to write if anime were to be continued, he is out of ideas.

>>280370275
he has written two books in the past 5 years
well i guess technically the past 14 years

>>280370241
Imagine doing it with a Netflix full season dump
People would just skip ahead

>>280369387 (OP)
just let haruhi s1+s2 and movie be, it's a testament of a different time, you had to be there and all that. if anybody wants to do haruhi stuff again, they ought to start from scratch and do a new adaptation of it/remake it.

>>280369387 (OP)
If a girl were sitting like this I'm fairly sure I should be seeing her underpants.

Following any anime right now Haruhibros?

>>280370991
no

>>280370991
sono bisque is the closest thing ive felt to haruhi in a long time, just because marin is such a commanding force in every scene and very sexy. The shows energy is also very frantic and fun like haruhi's. Takopi also has an endless eight adjacent plot going on.

>>280371233
I was about to pick up Takopi, it looks funny.

>>280370991
I'm reading dies irae

>>280370991
I don't watch seasonal anime. Hell, I don't watch much anime. Haruhi are among one of my very few exceptions.

>>280370991
I don't watch seasonal anime. Hell, I don't watch much anime. Haruhi is among my very few exceptions.

>>280369387 (OP)
>>>/c/

>>280371508
I'm more of a manga guy myself

>>280371621
Fair enough. I really fucking hate manga. Give me moving pictures, or just text/audio. I feel that manga is the worst of both options. I love the light novels, by the way.

>>280369387 (OP)
Because I am rewatching rn and this thread will silently die anyway, I will tell you know a personal story of mine

>be 2009
>be 15
>have a long distance relationship (300km apart)
>she is like 1 or 2 years older than me
>is in love with me
>even goes out and visits me (we fool around no sex)
>parents against the relationship
>she is not super pretty, but not super ugly either
>she gets clingy, I kinda start to don‘t care about her
>tell her need to learn and can‘t be online (but I was watching anime)
>one day I watch haruhi
>I realize this all I want. A cute gf that I like, not a girl I don‘t find attractive.
>break up with her

And that is anons how I broke up with my first gf (for the second and final time), because of haruhi suzumiya. I am still virgin though

Is Kyon a Mikuru/Yuki shipper?

>I feel that if you fall asleep when you're really tired, you will have a whole lot of weird, happy dreams. Thirty seconds after I woke up, I forgot everything about the dream, but the lingering mood told me everything I needed to know.
>A time traveler and an alien peacefully steeping tea together will leave this kind of a mood.

[...]

>"Nagato, how's Asahina?"
>I was the one who had made her stay at Nagato's place, so I thought I should make sure everything was okay.
>Nagato turned her lowered gaze up to me, silent as though contemplating the meaning of my question.
>"What do you mean by 'how'?"
>"She's not causing you any trouble, is she?"
>"No."
>Thank goodness for that, I thought. I imagined Nagato and Asahina having a pajama party. My heart swelled.

>The corner-loving alien left a large space open on the mat, so Asahina hesitantly sat down as well. The two very different but nonetheless beautiful goddesses sitting in a pair like that made for quite a spectacle. Whoever sat between them would seem like a significant person indeed.
>"Hey! Kyon, quit spacing out! Go help Koizumi!"
>That "significant person" yelled like a construction foreman making sure nobody was slacking off. She sure did enjoy bossing people around. If some boss somewhere had Haruhi for their subordinate, they'd probably stop coming to work because of the stress. I picked up my shovel, reflecting on the fact that I'd probably never have that problem, and hurried over to Koizumi's side, where he had already started digging into the wet earth.

>>280369387 (OP)
in the future when people asks what haruhi was about they would say it was dancing

>>280372048
I just saw someone on X dot com (formerly Twitter) basically saying that.

>>280371890
were all looking for our haruhi

>>280371890
Kinda sad but reasonable. I ghosted a semi ugly girl while playing MGS back then, but now I regret it.

>>280372029
He's just moehorny, so I guess he'd appreciate yuribait between them.

>>280372095
X seems to have a resurgence of Haruhi, including novelfriends, since that hoodweeb called it diddy.

>>280372186
I like them, and I understand the point, but on the other hand, creating a dance music video is much, much cheaper than creating a animation with a proper plot. Not to mention that people have different standards for both, and music videos are on the lower end.

>>280372186
I don't think we'll ever have an anime be as unanimously loved on this board as Disappearance was when it came out

I don't know if you guys already knew, but the licensed TDoS3 game for iPhone was finally preserved.
https://archive.org/details/the-day-of-sagittarius-iii-1.02-i-os-3.0
It uses cocos2d. I don't know gamedev, but I know that OpenBSD users were able to play closed-source games made with open-source game engines on their system (as long as they don't use proprietary middleware).
So that makes me wonder if a Windows port could be possible without much issues, besides the binaries being really, really old.

>>280372280
I agree but it's definitely a start. We got money flowing, we have a product coming out. Could lead to a book. Could lead to an anime. Of course it could lead to nothing. So expect nothing but take small victories.

>>280372355
Wow, kind of insane that it's still around. I wonder if anyone here has gameplay.

>>280372446
Sadly, the Drill Edition is still missing, but this is way better than nothing, at least.
https://web.archive.org/web/20101001180033/http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/tdos3-drill-edition-for-iphone/id381277646?mt=8

>>280372097
>>280372153
It‘s kinda funny though. It‘s not like haruhi was my waifu or something. I just saw the kissing episode and was like, that‘s what I want. A girls heart got broken, just because of a fictional 2D character I would not even have a chance with in universe lol

>>280372668
inspiration can arrive from anywhere

>>280369387 (OP)
>but why cant Cloverworks pick up the license?
I will never understand, it's a series that's sure to generate alot of money and bring visibility to studio adapting it, even if kadokawa forces 10 month deadline and takes 90% of the revenue for themselves. It's a golden egg everyone refuses to hold.

>>280373460
I dont get it either, especially when the industry is turning towards remakes of older series lately.

I wish I had the skills to create a Haruhi Suzumiya video game, and the money to license the IP.

>>280373879
what kinda game?

>>280373981
A 2D point-and-click graphic adventure game.

>>280374031
This would actually be fucking kino

>>280374094
Thanks. I really loved Leisure Suit Larry: Love for Sail!, it was very funny, competently voice acted and well animated (at least for me). The fact it doesn't use pixel art is another plus. That's what most modern graphic adventures use nowadays. The big exception (Return to Monkey Island) isn't really any better, tho.

>>280374342
I still don't know what went wrong with Return. Knights And Bikes has the same artist, but it looks way less ugly.

>>280370671
I feel like a fullblown remake would inevitably fail to properly live up to what made Haruhi special in the first place, and as such I am strictly opposed to such an endeavor. However, I do believe how a partial remake of the season 1+2 episodes would be a good thing, as a more natural prelude towards the eventual season 3. These partially remade episodes would still practically be the same episodes as before, with some differences here and there to improve on the weaker aspects of the episodes that existed within the original series.

However I do not believe how a change of dramatic arts style would be a good thing, like the Yuki-chan anime attempted, and if a remake of the Haruhi anime occurred in any regard, and the original art style could not be maintained, my preferred option in this regard is for the new art style to be drawn up in such a way where it would be viewed as the natural evolution from the original art style, the same way that the Noizi Ito art style evolved from the past to the present one in a natural way that preserves and improves upon the charm of the characters that the original art style had.

However when it comes to remaking Disappearance in any capacity, I am entirely opposed to it being remade in any capacity, considering how the anime adaptation of the story is damn near perfect, not simply for being an incredibly faithful adaptation of the original work, but also because it managed to significantly improve on an already great story in a lot of areas, something that I feel like is absolutely not worth attempting to remake in any capacity beyond simply re-shooting the movie beat for beat how it originally was in the new art style, something that I do not believe is a worthwhile endeavor, and as such it is preferable if the focus on whoever was in charge of the remake simply skipped over Disappearance and let it remain as it already exists in its legacy form, a testament to it holding up to this very day.

What's up with this guy's smile?
Why does it produce so many conflicting emotions in Kyon?

The Melancholy:
>After Koizumi left with that annoying grin of his, I discovered Nagato had left already.
The Sigh:
>I was speechless for a moment, and only came to my senses when I heard someone giggling besides me. That could only be Koizumi.
>“Oh, I see.”
>He seemed rather pleased; I really am envious of him.
>“How I should say this? As expected of Suzumiya-san perhaps? Only Suzumiya-san could have come up with such characters, simply amazing.”
>Don't smile at me like that, you're making me uncomfortable.
The Boredom:
>I glared at Koizumi's increasingly irritating smile. This was the big announcement you were talking about?
...
The Dissociation:
>Next to me was Itsuki Koizumi, smiling like always. Unlike the airplane contrail I'd been looking at, his face was neither pleasant nor unpleasant, merely normal, and there was nothing to be gained by gazing at it. I looked forward once again.
...
The Surprise Part One:
>Koizumi's light smile was like a serene May sky after days of continuous rain.

Isn't KyoAni part of the production committee of the anime? It wouldn't surprise me they own those character designs. Meaning that a change in art style is inevitable, shall a new season be produced.

>>280376202
Like I said here >>280376096 any change in art style should be done in such a way that the new designs feel like a natural evolution/polishing of the original designs, as opposed being a significant shift like Satelight did.

>>280376344
Yeah, but KyoAni could argue you're infringing on their copyrights, if that's indeed the case.
I think there's a reason why Kadokawa makes original art based on the Ito designs (besides the fact she's creating them), instead of trying to imitate the KyoAni style.

I’ll be getting my copy of the new book pretty soon. I hope it’s good.

>>280376202
>own those character designs
But i don't remember them having or selling any haruhi related products with their materials atleast not until last 2-3 years. I heavily doubt a studio like kyoani can have any kind of power over likes of kadokawa and as for the character designs i doubt even kyoani can replicate them, ikeda and nishiya were the best of the studio and one of the best in the industry.

>>280376096
You put it better than I could. Well, I'd still be against the idea of a remake. How about an experimental """AMV""" showing a lot of the series events in a montage spanning a few episodes, not more than 3? With of course some experimental style of dialogue, something fast paced and bold, think some tricks like Yuki's first crazy monologue and others

>>280376136
>first three
Tsun.
>last two
Dere.

>>280376727
>i doubt even kyoani can replicate them, ikeda and nishiya were the best of the studio and one of the best in the industry.
Fair enough. I just don't think it is a coincidence that both Satellight and Kadokawa for their modern official art clearly avoid looking like art that could've been made by KyoAni.

>>280376755
I think that regardless of anything some sort of hype building method prior to the release of season 3 based upon revisiting the original series would serve well in terms of reintroducing the series to the modern audiences, done in such a way where we are shown either new scenes of remakes of old scenes that have new dialogue, either by completely original or making them more in line with how they were in the LNs, for instance I much prefer the version of Kyon and Nagatos conversation during Day of Saggitarius in the LN as it much better shows how difficult she finds it to simplify concepts to other people.

As such I do find your suggestion of having a recap of the original series, having 1 episode cover each of the 3 LNs pre-Disappearance, plus I suppose either a 4th episode for the Rampage and Wavering stories that were chronologically pre-Disappearance, or perhaps finding some way to shove them into the 3 episodes instead, as this would serve as a much simpler and smoother prelude into season 3 and the potential new art style as opposed to remaking the entirety of seasons 1 and 2 that would take a lot of money, effort and time that could be better spent on season 3, as well as serving to preserve the original series as the definitive way to experience the stories of seasons 1 and 2.

If you were to do that, then I suppose also doing a recap of Disappearance would be perfectly fine as the recap regardless does not seek to match the original in quality, but rather it simply seeks to accomplish what I have layed out in the first 2 paragraphs.

>>280370991
I'm catching up on kyoani's 2009-2019 catalogue of stuff that I never watched before, and watching the three cloverworks anime this season.

>>280377295
Wait, you'd summarize new stories instead of covering them? Love at first sight is big and an important development from Disappearance. Where did the cat go goes with Snowy Mountain Syndrome. These are part of the main course

>>280379234
I specified that the PRE-disappearance stories from rampage and wavering should be summarized, ie. Endless eight, Day of Saggitarius, Live Alive and Adventure of Mikuru Asahina, of course I wasnt talking about summarizing the stories from those volumes that werent covered by the anime that would be absurdly stupid of an idea.

>>280372355
WTF??????
HOW?!?!?!
HOLY SHIT

>>280381491
I mean, someone was bound to have it

>>280381674
This is lost media the fandom had been trying to recover for over a decade

And then I find out on a random /a/ thread some rando had uploaded it to IA without telling anyone 10 days ago.
Anyway, I've sent this along.

Nontheless whoever uploaded it made a great contribution to both the haruhi fandom and lost media in general.
I salute you

Kadokawa is just twisting the knife.

Does Haruhi count as a genki girl?

>>280382947
Genki tsun

I wish I had as much sex with girls as Hirano has with guys. She has had a fun and enviable sex life.

If the bassist was a girl I would have done her too.

>>280369387 (OP)
haruhi pretty:)

I wish I could afford more light novel volumes. They're plenty of fun, and give me ammo to ask things like "Why is X like this?" or "What did Y mean by this?".

>>280369387 (OP)

>>280369981
Of Haruhi exclusively? I can see a 40~ pages long one, though I think it goes easily over 100 when she makes as the official illustrator
Doujin ones are as short as 10 pages or so
The answer is yes

>>280376727
>selling any haruhi related products with their materials atleast not until last 2-3 years.
They kinda stopped in 2014 iirc, but the old stuff is making a comeback and there's new merch, kinda.

Season 3
Snowy Mountain Syndrome
Any day now

>>280369387 (OP)
I've become too picky about my fan made anime art. Those hip/leg proportions are atrocious.

>>280386456
Only Haruhisky is allowed to draw her

>>280372029
You don't have to ship two girls to want to see them kiss each other.
While looking for more adorable art of these two, I found out that there's only been seven new yuri uploads of Mikuru to danbooru over the span of the past twelve years.

>>280386732
Thankfully you're wrong

>>280386744
>You don't have to ship two girls to want to see them kiss each other.
But he doesn't think about that, tho. He wants to see them having a pijama party, steeping tea, or simply being next to each other.

>I found out that there's only been seven new yuri uploads of Mikuru to danbooru over the span of the past twelve years
Yeah, sadly there's not much yuri art made for the Haruhi characters.
There's some yaoi featuring Kyon/Koizumi, which is cool, but even that has rare as of late.
Fun fact: Check if the tags of this pic of Yuki kissing Mikuru. Tell me if you notice something odd.

Nagato is my wife.

The worst fate possible: I think that the Koizumi/Mikuru is cute.

>>280387090
I wanna fix it for convenience sake but it's funny to leave it as is.

>>280387226
There's a few people like that, only one active nowadays though.
I think they're working on a new doujinshi

I used to mock the idea of writing fanfiction, but I've been obsessed with an honestly retarded idea of having the SOS Brigade being part of a student exchange program to a third world country sponsored by an American NGO, in which I would include local political/economical commentary, homesickness as a metaphore used to criticise Kadokawa (that would only actually work if this was an oficially licensed work), and the international relationships between the country they went to, the United States and Japan; as well as the bant betwen the third world country and its neighbours and an European country. Besides the idea being retarded, I'm unable to pull it off. And within that setting, I've been obsessed with the idea of remaking They Shoot Horses, Don't They? with Mikuru and Koizumi, exploring their relationship in a relatively extreme enviroment, with a somewhat tragic ending involving homesickness.

Mikuru quite literally cannot have a long-term romantic relationship with any SOS Brigade member.

>>280387527
Yuki transcends all borders, physical and temporal

>>280387423
If I wrote one it would just be about a yandere Yuki that won’t let me leave her apartment.

>>280387560
Ackchyually, this is mentioned within the light novels... which made me feel a bit sad. Kyon even foolishly tries to convince her to allow the SOS Brigade to travel to the future, Mikuru tells him to stop joking around, and he says that it was just a joke, indeed.

what if you accidentally impregnated yuki?

>>280369387 (OP)
Haruhi's anime ended perfectly, watch endless eight

>>280387621
Here it is:
No spoiler because you can't really get spoiled from the thumbnail.

>>280372311
>cinema chart on the right
>#2 Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya
>#1 Invictus
I guess Clint Eastwood is honorary /a/ now.

>>280387639
accidentally?

>>280387702

>>280387721

>>280387226
I kind of find it odd just how much less relevant these 2 are compared to Nagato, considering how they are all meant to be the representatives of each of the 3 groups that Haruhi wanted to meet (outside of sliders obviously), to the point that this is even directly acknowledged in-universe by Koizumi as he said to Kyon during Love at First Sight that Nagato is just as important as Kyon and Haruhi to the other factions.

Even ignoring the obvious of her just having miles more character development and growth than the other 2, her role in the story is simply more important than the other 2, being the primary defender of the SoS brigade without whom the entire SoS brigade starts to fall apart in Surprise, having by far the closest relationship with Haruhi outside of Kyon, and vice-versa, and being at the center of a potential revolution within her own faction as she inspires other HDIs like Asakura to take action according to their own will, whereas the espers and time travelers have no such conflicts outside of the anti-SoS brigade members.

And of course she is the only person outside of Kyon to come up with solutions to any of the problems they face, Koizumi at least helps along with the process even if he doesnt get to solve it, so he is at least a bit relevant in that regard, but Mikuru is just completely useless 95% of the time. She is so useless in fact that she is replaced by her future self in the climaxes of both Disappearance and Surprise.

>>280387832
>but Mikuru is just completely useless 95% of the time. She is so useless in fact that she is replaced by her future self in the climaxes of both Disappearance and Surprise.
Yeah, I think that's a waste.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6fhYT_enQU

>>280369387 (OP)
I miss her

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwN_aV_AlqI
>moans and then melts
Why is Mikuru like this?

>>280387683
The movie makes for a good enough ending. The novels they didn’t cover are fine, but it’s the kind of story that’s got nowhere left to go. The anime explored the characters pretty well, and the outstanding mysteries are mostly just set dressing at the end of the day.

I want more animated Haruhi because I simply enjoy seeing the SOS Brigade having adventures and fun in general. It's like iyashikei for me.

>>280369387 (OP)
TRUST
HARUHI SEASON 3 SOON!

I actually supported the campfire fund raising of the music video. Pic related is one of the digital thank you notes as reward

>>280381897
>>280382050
It's sad that no one cared about it. Not a single person on Twitter mentioned it.

>>280370991
Tokipi

>kyoani now selling a small selection of Digital Paint pictures of Haruhi
I WANT TO BELIEVE

>>280372355
Holy based. Thanks anon, downloading now!

It's interesting how Chipmunk was really popular during the early iOS era, but now simply died, being replace with Box2D. cocos2d didn't die, but the "official" editor is proprietary now.

Re posting here since the last thread died about this

I need them to release these official 3d models so I can turn them into VRC avatars
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gJ8n-YJL2s

>>280389013
3D modern Noizi Ito art style Yuki my beloved

>>280389013
Can't you just make those models on Koikatsu? I sure it's not that hard and then you export from koikatsu using something like KKBP(https://kkbpwiki.github.io/) into Blender.

>>280389013
You can purchase the models and use them in the HoloModel app but I think they're encrypted.

>>280389113
The koikatsu ones don't have the magic dust of kadokawa, Noizo ito, Tanigawa.
It being official is it's charm.

I already have good quality models for vrchat of the brigade I've frankesteined myself. I want an official model that does not suck ass like the old ps2 ones. Way too dated.

These modern noizo ito ones is weird but it is fresh and new plus official.

>>280389279
God I really want the model data. I supported the campfire crowdfunding thinking they'll release them as MMDs.

Teh yuki became the machine god due to 3000000 repetitions of the Endless Eight summer, and eventually proved capable of being the human god's equal by forcibly disappearing Haruhi.
Mikuru (Big) still held unexplained secrets, but she was still just a normal person. Albeit a time-traveling one. If the series had continued to be written maybe at some point Mikuru would've done something besides be a sexy bitch with such big titties you wanna get molested doncha?

>>280389579
Mikuru is both useful and useless. I like it

>>280387226
It's cute but Koizumi is for Kyouko

>>280387423
Interesting ideas actually

>>280387621
Which novel is it from?

>>280387832
I would argue Mikuru is closer to Haruhi than Nagato is. Maybe even Koizumi. In a casual sense. Haruhi is very protective of Nagato and her wellbeing so she'll go from 1 to 100 in a moment for that.

Aside from that I think this gets balanced by Koizumi being the more active member with Kyon (dialogues wise) and Mikuru having her future self and time travel shenanigans

>>280388321
Based anon playing his part. Thankfully we'll get a few songs this time.

>>280389816
Thanks yuki!

Finally a Haruhi thread. Been waiting for a decent one for a while.
Going to try and revive some discussion here:

I came across an interesting topic a while back, one that I NEVER see discussed on /a/ threads about Haruhi, or even formal discussion about the series as a whole, and that the Haruhi series is actually a disaster trauma story. See, Tanigawa was a survivor of the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Hanshin_earthquake

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/322310897_A_Study_of_the_Description_of_Actual_Disaster_in_Light_Novels_A_Focus_on_the_Series_of_Haruhi_Suzumiya

The depiction of closed space in Volume 1 matches the kind of emptiness you get when a city is cleared out for an incoming disaster. And the Shinjin/Celestials are likened to such disaters, how they destroy buildings. Likewise, the Disappearance arc ties to the real grief in seeing a different world, a world where a person, especially a friend, may no longer be around, and you have to cope with the possible new world you might have to live in.

>>280391183
That's an interesting take. Closed space is a disaster but I always saw it as an inner turmoil disaster.

>>280391183
Very interesting paper anon, nice find. Urban horror has always been one of the strongest themes for me, Haruhi delivered some of it. Maybe Haruhi's arc and anxieties naturally involve this motif

>>280370991
Modern anime sucks, so I just watch old stuff
I’m looking forward to the next Madoka movie and I guess the 1-2 remaining GuP ones but that’s about it

>>280391400
Dubs of truth

>>280372311
Man I held back from watching the camrip and somehow avoided all spoilers until december when the BD rip was out.

>>280390878
The Intrigues, IIRC.
>>280387702
>>280387721
>>280387738

>>280391183
Cool find, anon.

>>280391183
Wow that’s super interesting, I never knew that

post your favorite haruhi ost right now

>>280388235
I disagree on the principle that the future stories do still expand on the characters a lot more than they already were in what was covered by the anime, we get to see Haruhi character growth at its fullest with her acting rather selflessly multiple times and refusing to get jealous in situations where she previously would, we get to learn more about Kyon and his past, as well as him trying to live up to the promise he made to Nagato, we get to see Nagatos character explored even further by seeing her desires, frustrations worldview and personality fleshed out to new highs, and we get significant development for other characters like Tsuruya, and introduced to great new characters like Sasaki.

If the movie were to be where the anime ended, that would be fine, however I absolutely believe how the stories left to be told are worth animating, and have plenty to add to the experience of the series beyond what was already done by what was covered by the anime.

>>280390910
What I meant by that was that from what we are shown Haruhi seems to be care a lot more about Nagato than she does about the other 2 considering how fiercely protective she gets over her 3 times, and this is bolstered even further if you believe the theory how the reason Nagato was able to take Haruhis powers whereas the anti-SoS brigade failed was because Haruhi subconsciously was able to sense that Nagato was deeply depressed and in need of an escapist fantasy, which is why she let her take her powers.

And I dont think those things balance themselves quite to equality, those conversation are pretty much the only things Koizumi ever does with a few exceptions, though they are numerous enough to at least make him simply not quite as important as Nagato but still important, but Mikuru is only ever tangentially useful only when a story involves time travel, and even then she is barely helpful in there and is constantly needing to resort to Nagato to deal with the problems at hand, and the future Mikuru being so relevant is part of the problem as she makes present Mikuru redundant in a lot of stories, most egregiously having her be absent from 2 of the 3 most climactic moments in the series, with the 3rd one being the end of Melancholy.

The picture I posted that shows the number of mentions each character gets throughout each story makes my point well, where the number of mentions over the course of the series Koizumi gets is far lower than the others, which makes sense of why he feels less important as he gets 700 less mentions than Nagato, and whilst Mikuru does get around 300 more mentions than Nagato, she pretty much completely wastes that screentime.

As a matter of fact seeing how much of the screentime Mikuru hogs makes me genuinely think how she actively drags the quality of the series down.

>>280386125
>C-cough any moment now c-cough

>>280395438
Hope dies last

>>280395265
Yes

>>280395438
I look like that, say that and own stuff that looks like that

>>280395265
>this is bolstered even further if you believe the theory how the reason Nagato was able to take Haruhis powers whereas the anti-SoS brigade failed was because Haruhi subconsciously was able to sense that Nagato was deeply depressed and in need of an escapist fantasy, which is why she let her take her powers
I kind of believe that but more in a retroactive sense: if Yuki's move ended badly then Haruhi wouldn't have let her take her powers in the first place. Who decides how and what? It's automatic

>Haruhi seems to be care a lot more about Nagato than she does about the other 2 considering how fiercely protective she gets over her 3 times
She's definitely more protective of her than the others but I don't think that means she cares more for her, she just has a bit of a different relationship with her. Yuki is, in some ways, the little sister of the group. She's also vulnerable in some ways the others aren't. You'd usually think of Mikuru for the vulnerable club member but... well it's not that simple and Mikuru enjoys herself to a good extent.

>they are numerous enough to at least make him simply not quite as important as Nagato but still important
Nagato has a bigger presence as "the muscle", the one they rely on for everything (Kyon highlights that) but Koizumi is the companion, the guy walking Kyon through the steps and having the usual back and forth with him.

>future Mikuru being so relevant is part of the problem as she makes present Mikuru redundant in a lot of stories,
You could see it that way, we often trade Mikuru for her future self depending on the story (Disappearance has a lot of future Mikuru) but I feel like this isn't a strict dichotomy. Future Mikuru is Mikuru, she knows a lot more but everything she goes through is just as relevant.

>mentions
Mentions are different, Kyon always talks about Mikuru for random descriptions. Koizumi has far more screentime than Mikuru with his dialogues.

>>280394760
I'll post some underrated kino
https://youtu.be/_Y8VYyBRbFQ?t=5439 Beautiful one imo
Give me https://youtu.be/_Y8VYyBRbFQ?t=3061 for Snowy Mountain Syndrome
Give me more unsettling tracks https://youtu.be/_Y8VYyBRbFQ?t=4734 https://youtu.be/_Y8VYyBRbFQ?t=3713
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUd3TBYbVJ4

>>280397087
I really do like the last one, it was the track that ended ||endless 8||

fertility goddess

>>280400926
perfect cum dumpster

>>280388515
would you cream pie the loli

>Ctrl+F Tsuruya
>1 result
Disappointing.

>>280404471
Nyo-ron

https://youtu.be/wn2Tt4pWv8k

we can never go back...

>4chan traffic has finally slowed down to the point we can have long last haruhi threads

>>280405923
The issue is that the discussions in Haruhi threads come in sporadic bursts between a few individuals which then usually dies down for multiple hours as either the discussion comes to an end, or one or a few of the participants leave the thread for a while to go sleep or something, which then leaves only the sporadic random comment bumping the thread and keeping it alive.

In simpler terms, there simply isnt enough active users to spark conversation within Haruhi threads, I would assume only around a dozen people total participate in active conversation during the entirety of any given threads timespan.

Which is a shame because there have been threads where there is very active discussion at length, that ends up spawning new threads that continue the discussion, which is another issue which is that Haruhi threads are spawning less and less, to the point where nowadays I rarely see one, let alone one that lasts over 100 replies.

>>280405923
what do you mean, I remember back in 2018 so when that Nagato thread thread lasted like a week

>>280407270
Anon, that was 7 years ago
5 years after suprise released, 8 after the movie came out

>>280369387 (OP)
Honestly, the new music video is kinda bad, even by CGI standards. It’s a shame, because the models themselves look good.

Even the Tomadoi version of the Hare Hare Yukai dance looked better. And that was over 17 years ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoCvBfVrPSM

>>280369387 (OP)
The series has peobsbly not gotten a third season because of the sporadic and long ass hiatuses of the light novels. Hard to keep the hype of adaptations with that. Of course the "Endless Eight" arc in the second season was grating and killed some of the hype. There was no need for eight repetitions to get the point across.

>>280369387 (OP)
The series has peobsbly not gotten a third season because of the abrupt and long ass hiatuses of the light novels. Hard to keep the excitement of adaptations with that. Of course the "Endless Eight" arc in the second season was grating and killed some of the hype. There was no need for eight repetitions to get the point across.

I’m getting this tomorrow. I’m interested to see how it turns out. I saw that Barnes & Noble had the paperback out early when I went a couple days back, and I took a peek. I saw the girls in those ecchi space suits that I figured were just for promo art all this time. It must’ve come from the first parts of this volume that were only in the Sneaker for however many years. I hope the next volume is a full, brand new chapter book to follow up Surprise. Tanigawa’s only giving crumbs as far as actual new stuff goes. But at least this volume will be 100% new to me as an English reader.

Why are there no doujins of haruhi in her bunny suit? Hundreds and hundreds of haruhi doujins and not a single one of her in the suit...

>>280369387 (OP)
The series has peobsbly not gotten a third season because of the abrupt and long ass hiatuses of the light novels. Hard to keep the excitement of adaptations with that. Of course the "Endless Eight" arc in the second season was grating and killed some of the hype. There was no need for eight repetitions to get the point across.

>>280409247
The better question is why Nagato never wears the bunny suit outside of figures and promotional art.

>>280409338
Because Haruhi has two

>>280409420
Haruhi needs to get her one. She won’t complain. Nagato would wear a micro bikini if Haruhi asked her.

>>280409011
It just shipped for me, same edition too. Cheers, LNfren

>>280369387 (OP)
Because they simply can't reproduce a show like that anymore and they know it. Better to end a series on a high note.

>>280409311
Honestly i don't buy this excuse.
Dissappearence was successful despite E8.
They had enough time to adapt more.

>>280409750
Dissaperance was sucessful partially because of E8

>>280409750
Mishandled franchise

>>280369387 (OP)
Because they simply can't reproduce a show like that anymore and they know it. Better to end a series on a high note.

>>280372355
I don't have much experience with reverse-engineering either, but a proper port looks like it would be quite a bit of effort (it heavily relies on the Objective-C runtime so everything looks very annoying in Ghidra).
Maybe if someone manages to build the newest version of touchHLE that might work. 2.2 crashes immediately, but it seems like they implemented some of the required functionality.

>>280409931
The Haroohie translation club is on it, they found out yesterday

2 more haruhi games released for the GREE and the drill edition of this are still lost media

For reference

>>280410150
How do you get 0.9 game translated

>>280409931
What about a macOS (x86) port?

>>280410531
4/5 episodes, constituting ~90% of the total text
It's available here https://haroohie.club/chokuretsu
To get the original file that needs to be modified on the website, look here https://nyaa.si/view/1509697

Imagine

>>280410150
>Just sort of turned up one day
The best kind of fan translation

>>280410812
It's TDoS3, the only game released in english, found yesterday

>>280410150
Of all the Haruhi games, this is easily the best one. It's also the least likely to ever be translated.

>>280411229
It will be

>>280411229
I miss when controllers had cords instead of batteries. It was a simpler time.

>>280411229
This one is cool as hell. Basically, Haruhi randomly decides the SOS-dan is going to spend the next month making a video game and sticks Kyon (you) in charge of pretty much everything. So it turns into a dating sim-ish game where you have to spend the week building up friendship with the other members to motivate them, then distribute parts of the game making process to them based on how motivated they are (but Haruhi sometimes barges in and changes the schedule just because).

And at the end you get to play the game they made, but its quality is based on how badly you fucked up. If you do really bad, it's full of developer graphics and feels like a flash game. If you do okay, you can also screw up specific elements of it, like the game balance getting thrown out of whack (like enemies being super underleveled) or certain graphics obviously being half-finished.

It's a REALLY cool idea for a Haruhi game. But it has such an obscene amount of text I doubt it will ever be translated.

>>280411608
>So it turns into a dating sim-ish game where you have to spend the week building up friendship with the other members to motivate them
I want to motivate Nagato with a kiss, which leads to us sleeping together in her apartment, resulting in her pregnancy if you catch my drift.

>>280411229
SOULful art

>>280404530
Nyo-eron~

>>280411229
Thank god I got my company

>>280411608
Maybe with MTL someday? That sounds incredibly fun.

>>280411969
I like this image set

>>280412064
If mean, if you just want to play it with MTL, it's perfectly possible to run a translation app over it. The translation just won't be... good.

Too many artists forget to draw the mole on Asahina’s boob. This is a serious matter.

>>280412110
I was thinking about the possibility of automating the script extraction, MTL with some good LLM and replacing the script in the files. I guess that tool doesn't exist but it would be an easy way to handle some of these cases

>>280411608
The timeline for it is 2029/2030
Chokuretsu is being finished this year,
heiretsu late 2026/2027,
Tsuisou 2028
Tomodoi ~2030
Mahjong sometime in parallel with another game

>>280412083
I like how it says that you're not supposed to masturbate to it.

>>280412325
Let’s just say I’m a bit of a rule breaker.

>>280412286
I heard Tanigawa was a mahjong freak himself

>>280369387 (OP)
I've never been a huge Haruhi fan. I don't dislike the anime or anything, I think it's okay. However, I really like the movie, it's like its own thing for me. I don't know exactly what it is or how to describe it, maybe its "other-worldly" nature, or the atmosphere, or the "fish out of water" feeling it has, but I love it. Or maybe it's because I love time travel and the story kind of feels like other series/movies in this genre (though actual time travel is involved in the movie but you know what I mean), like the mc somehow fucked up and it's now stuck in an alternate version of his everyday life. I don't know, it just feels like a special kind of media to me. Thanks for reading my blog.

>>280409338
>>280409475
It because Haruhi views Mikuru as the club mascot that needs to be paraded around, whereas Nagato is the kind, quiet girl that is lending the SoS brigade her clubroom, and as such does not want to parade Yuki around the same way she does/did with Mikuru. On the contrary she is fiercely overprotective of her, and hates the thought of boys messing with her, as can be seen from this quote of hers from Love at First Sight.

“I thought for sure you’d teamed up with that moron Taniguchi to give Yuki a hard time. It’s the kind of thing he’d do, and Yuki’s so quiet. She’d be easy to fool.”

Outside of that I believe how out of universe Tanigawa simply wanted to make Nagato the polar opposite of Mikuru in a lot of ways, and that included the fact that whilst Mikuru is heavily oversexualized, Nagato is likewise non-sexualized to a ridiculous degree as well, and this aspect of her character is pretty much the first clear giveaway that the alternate Nagato is a fundamentally different person than the original Nagato, because she was sexualized in that first scene when Kyon confronts her.

If anything the fact that there is even merch of her in a bunny suit is the weird part to me, since it completely goes against the way in which she is depicted in the actual series, though I suppose the reason as to why it exists is the same reason as to why bunny suit merch exists of characters outside of Mikuru and Haruhi, and its simply due to wanting to cash in to the market of fans that would see Mikuru and Haruhi in bunny suits, and would likewise demand/want to see the other girls in bunny suits, regardless of the fact how this is anachronistic with the actual series.

>>280414623
Ironic because Nagato is 100000000 times hotter than Asahina

>>280414623
This is a correct analysis

What a great thread

>>280413534
im not saying youre a zoomer, but your opinion overlaps with them. Haruhi s1 is just as amazing as the movie and the movie wouldnt be as amazing without s2.

>>280369387 (OP)
dirty harlot

>>280394834
Haruhi really calms down. She becomes quite reasonable after a certain point, which would probably be surprising for anime only people.

>>280416916
Outside of just wanting to see these stories brought to life in a more dynamic/expressive medium (especially when it comes to narration/scenery/exposition), THAT is literally the primary reason as to why I want to see future stories adapted, as I am so fucking sick of seeing people shit on Haruhi and the series in general because she dared to have genuinely detestable traits that were brought forth as a result of the entire universe literally bending to her will, and completely failing to acknowledge the fact that we do in fact see her change to become a lot more empathetic already in the anime, with Live Alive in particular.

I am especially excited to see her conversation with Kyon about why hes constantly looking over to Nagato in Snowy Mountain Syndrome, because the way its framed initially you are led to believe how this is just Haruhi being jealous, only to then show Haruhi actually being genuinely very considerate and caring towards Nagato after Kyon explains the situation metaphorically, managing to rather conclusively show just how much Haruhi has grown, and then the future stories build on this by showing Haruhi prioritizing others needs over her own time and time again, this simply being the first major one.

>>280417327
Even at her worst, I interpret her as being somewhat blinded to how negative her actions can be. She’s shown to be quite the egotist, and will justify things to herself without thinking of others. But there’s a purity to her when it comes to this. She truly believes in herself, so it leads to moments like the movie filming debacle where she steps out of line. I like how the anime showed her easygoing attitude during that scene where she’s lightly bopping Asahina’s head after getting her drunk. The whole room has an awkward air and it just fails to register for her until Kyon nearly hits her. And she’s clearly shocked and hurt when this happens. It was a pivotal moment for her.

>>280413534
I get your opinion but the anime has a lot of these qualities of the movie, just more subdued and subtle imo

>>280415641
I mean, I *am* a zoomer I guess, but I'm also my own person and I don't let a label define me. Regardless, I don't think the anime is bad at all, I enjoyed it (endless eight included), I just enjoyed Disappearance way more. Actually, just for nostalgia sake I ended up reading a fanfic I found a while back (about Haruhi finding out she has powers and all that), and it was quite good (at least for me).

>>280394834
In a way I would say season 1/2/Disappearance are leaning more towards Kyon development while the remaining novels have more of Haruhi.

Everyone gets a really good share of development, so we're missing out on a lot. I remember thinking Haruhi grew so much it felt unreal, starting with the Intrigues climax.

>>280416916
>>280417327
The best trait the novels highlight about Haruhi is confirming she seeks to search for supernatural events with her friends, rather than finding it, it's all about the thrill.

>>280418381
youre not so bad, zoomer kun

>>280418533
Yeah that the one complaint I have about the novels past Disappearance, Kyon is a quite a static character throughout until he becomes more dynamic again in Surprise, and to an extent Dissociation, like yeah we definitely see the fruits of his development in terms of how he views his place as an SoS brigade member with pride and his relationship with Haruhi being a lot more positive, as well as him living up to his promise to Nagato in Disappearance to help her work out through her issues, but its a little disappointing seeing how much his character growth was a major driving point of the early novels.

Wheras the later novels are entirely carried by Haruhi and Nagatos continued character growth, with a few bits of character growth from Koizumi and Mikuru here and there, though those 2 are nowhere near the former 2, Mikuru gets character growth in 2 places, Melancholy of Mikuru Asahina, and Intrigues, and the total amount of character growth and development she receives in those scenes combined, is equal to a single scene of Haruhi and Nagato, and both of them have 10-12 scenes each, whereas Koizumi receives character growth and development in quite a few more scenes, since he has quite a few prominent scenes of him just talking with Kyon, but since those scenes are primarily concerned with discussing the plot rather than characterization, the amount of character growth he receives is comparable to Mikurus in fact.

And with Intuition, I would argue that Tsuruya has decent shout for having more character growth and development than either Mikuru or Koizumi, and none really come even remotely close to the amount of character growth and development that Haruhi, Kyon and Nagato have.

>>280413534
>>280418009
>>280418381
The reason as to why you might prefer Disappearance over the rest of the series, is due to the fact that Disappearance is essentially an entirely different genre of story compared to the series, as it places far more emphasis on powerful emotional beats and character moments than the series did, ie. it adds significant drama elements to its atmosphere that werent present in the original series, whilst cutting almost entirely on the comedic elements present in the original series.

This results in the overall themes of the series becoming a lot more clear and pronounced in the movie than they were in the regular show, despite the fact that all of those themes were already there to some extent even as early as the first few episodes in chronological order, corresponding to the first LN, and which were fully established and fleshed out by the final episode of the regular series, Someday in the Rain, which does a great job of helping you transition from the more comedic atmosphere of the regular series, to the more dramatic, melancholic atmosphere of the movie.

And capping things off, what I can say is that you will certainly enjoy quite a few of the stories in the later novels in that case, as the future stories do retain quite a bit of the dramatic atmosphere that was established in Disappearance, which are mixed in with comedic elements. The by far best example of this is Surprise, which I wont go into to detail for the sake of spoilers, however there are 2 concurrent plots within that story, one of which is quite comedic and slice of life, whereas the other is quite dramatic and serious.

Haruhiism was peak culture

>>280369387 (OP)
Did you miss the fact that the 2015 anime was a flop?

>>280369387 (OP)
Yesterday I was at a small con and there was 3 Haruhi cosplayers

>>280419786
Because it was a spin-off, as opposed to being the actual continuation of the series. It is very clear that there is immense interest in Haruhi even today, let alone in 2015. and the success of Disappearance proved that any notions of the general audience losing interest in Haruhi becasue of Endless Eight were vastly exaggerated.

>>280419489
I'm fine with the comedy tone of the series, I just feel like the moment the characters truly shine is when presented in a more "serious" context. But hey, I'm not an expert in anything Haruhi so that's just my >opinion, and you guys seem to know more about it than I do, maybe I'm just being filtered. I never got into the novels because my english was garbage back then and also didn't know how to torrent, but ever since reading that fanfic I sort of got the itch for more text-based Haruhi content, so I'll give the novels a try one of these days. By the way, you probably already know which fic I'm talking about, but if not, it's called "The Coin". I can't even remember how I found it, probably in another Haruhi thread, things truly do come full circle.

>>280411229
>It's also the least likely to ever be translated.
Sad.

>>280420421
I've seen it mentioned at other places, and apparently here once last year.
I'll probably get around to it when we don't get a new season next year

I'm going to elaborate in this obsession I've with TSHDT?, mostly to kill it for good, because there's no way I'm revealing my power level in a public fanfiction website.
Loose spoilers for They Shoot Horses, Don't They?, of course. Warning, it fucking sucks, and I could've benefited from reading more of the source material.
At one point, the SOS Brigade has a conflict with a local gang, they win, but one of the local gangs, taking advantage of an oversight, manage to leave the SOS Brigade members without their passport, with their local bank accounts drained, and even without their cellphones.
With the only advantage being that they don't need to pay rent, and that services had already being paid, they need to work in odd jobs until they can get both their passports, and their monthy allowance.
By chance of fate, a MrBeast expy called ReamsTB (who used to be a PC gamer advocate) travels to this particular third country to make a dance marathon, and decides to start casting local subscribers. While walking downtown, a representative of Donaldson asks the fairest members of the brigade if they feel like entering the contest, with chances of winning $100,000 dollars.
Feeling the brigade could really use that money, Asahina and Koizumi decide to enter the competition. Upon signing a very restrictive NDA, that doesn't allow anyone to bring their any kind of phone or camera, they go to a nearby small town where the contest actually takes place.
Here, they meet other people, as needy as they are. The TB crew deliberately notes that there's an unlimited supply of coffee, cream and Monster cans. There's a total of 500 people. Loners are paired at random, regardless of gender. The weakest couples give up very soon, and as they're ejected, they're reminded that there's an hotel nearby to rest for three days, and they they cannot ever disclose anything about the contest until the video is released.

I'm writing this right now, so it is extremely unpolished.

>>280421680
Tired of watching people simply dancing, ReamsTB decides to spice things up by switching couples seemingly at random. Mikuru and Itsuki are separated. At this point, 100 hours have passed. ReamsTB actually used his highly sophisticated CCTV system to pair people with their most hated person in the contest. Every single second of their lives there is recorded on video, and most of it also features audio. Upon increasing the conflictivity on set, ReamsTB decides to initiate a daily derby to eliminate a couple per day. Itsuki's partner suffers a seizure and is promptly disqualified, and Mikuru's suffers a nervous breakdown and is retired from the competition. Once again, they're paired.
Upon 4 hours of dance, a new challenge is introduced. At this point 250 hours have passed. A votation for most popular couple is held within the contestants, the winning couple ends up in position 25 in a board, and they're asked to select position 24, the couple in position 24 is asked to select a couple to be in position 23, and so on until position number 1 is filled. Mikuru and Itsuki are in the fifth position. The challenge is walk across a 250 ft beam placed 100 ft above the ground. The challenge ends when five couples are removed from the contest. Both partners must complete the challenge to not be removed from the contest. If one of them falls, both are removed from the contest. Both Mikuru and Itsuki complete the challenge, and the challenge itself ends when couple 18 is eliminated. At this point, 300 hours have passed.

>>280421680
Tired of watching people simply dancing, ReamsTB decides to spice things up by switching couples seemingly at random. Mikuru and Itsuki are separated. At this point, 100 hours have passed. ReamsTB actually used his highly sophisticated CCTV system to pair people with their most hated person in the contest. Every single second of their lives there is recorded on video, and most of it also features audio. Upon increasing the conflictivity on set, ReamsTB decides to initiate a daily derby to eliminate a couple per day. Itsuki's partner suffers a seizure and is promptly disqualified, and Mikuru's suffers a nervous breakdown and is retired from the competition. Once again, they're paired.
Upon 4 hours of dance, a new challenge is introduced. At this point 250 hours have passed. A votation for most popular couple is held within the contestants, the winning couple ends up in position 25 in a board, and they're asked to select position 24, the couple in position 24 is asked to select a couple to be in position 23, and so on until position number 1 is filled. Mikuru and Itsuki are in the fifth position. The challenge is walk across a 250 ft beam placed 100 ft above the ground. The challenge ends when five couples are removed from the contest. Both partners must complete the challenge to not be removed from the contest. If one of them falls, both are removed from the contest. Both Mikuru and Itsuki complete the challenge, and the challenge itself ends when couple 18 is eliminated. At this point, 300 hours have passed.

>>280421788
Meanwhile, Haruhi, Kyon and Yuki are trying to find out where are Mikuru and Itsuki. No one in the big city knows anything meaningful, and but then there's a witness that says that he saw a series of suspicious buses going to a nearby small town south of the city, but that he doesn't know which one of the three there are. They decide to split up, with everyone going to a different nearby town. At this point, 310 hours have passed. In the living quarters, everyone who managed to take the challenge and survive decides to get intimate, as much as they can while there's a big CCTV system recording every single thing. Situational couples, be they male/female, male/male and female/female, feeling adrenaline for having completed such a challenging feat snuggle and/or make out under the sheets. All of them, except for Mikuru and Itsuki who not even dare to hug each other. They both decide to grab a coup of coffee and go to the backyard, which is the designated microphone-free zone. There they talk about their gripes, Mikuru talks about how impotent she feels by being left in the dark by her adult version, Koizumi talks about his jealousy of Kyon, and how he gets to do fun things while he, at beast, can only hope for nothing happening, until he almost mentions the time travel trips, at that point he decides to stop, and go to sleep. Mikuru tries to tell him to continue, until she realises it is pointless, and also goes to sleep.
This is the last post I've written, so the rest will come out much, much later.

>>280421825
During the contest, ReamsTB tried to convince couples to stage fake marriages where applicable, or to make them exaggerate their issues. The five couples who refused his suggestions the most, among which Mikuru/Itsuki are included, are included "at random" in a trivia contest along with other five couples that did obey him. The challenge ends when five couples are removed from the competition.
Of course, the couples who complied with his requests get really easy questions, mostly related to the local culture, while the rebel couples get asked really obscure questions, an example being: A recording is played, the transcription being: "So they take me in on a chain down to Long Beach, and now they lock me up in the cell behind the courtroom in Long Beach while I'm awaiting to be heard on my traffic offences!". The contestant is asked to name the performer, track, album, label and catalog number of this recording.
Mikuru gets this very question, and she correctly replies "Murray Roman, Freedom, Busted, United Artists Records, UAS-5595". Koizumi is surprised, to which she says to him she really digs plunderphonics and sampledelia. Mikuru and Itsuki eventually manage to survive this sub-contest, while two of the favoured couples are disqualified, much to ReamsTB's chargrin, one of them because they were unable to say what number MCMX was supposed to represent. 302 hours have passed.
In order to rise the stakes, ReamsTB divides the remaining contestants in five groups, and offers them the chance to flip a coin to double the prize. If the person they pick to flip the coin fails to guess whether the coin will show head or tails, not only the prize will not be doubled, their entire group will be disqualified from the contest. A member of their group decides to take the risk, for which our unlucky protagonists start sweating bullets. This member manages to win, however. Thus the groups are broken up again. 303 hours have passed.

>>280422657
I just realised that the dance contest stopped being the main driving force, but whatever, too late now. Moreover, I want to finish this, but I realised I forgot to properly set the latter half up, and I'm running out of time. That's what boredom, and a lack of research & thought gives you.
Meanwhile, Yuki (who went to the right town) is trying to find them, but she's finding opposition from the police, and the ReamsTB crew, who give her red herrings in order to hinder her efforts. Many portions of the town are starting to get closed down, mostly to motivate her to waste her time looking in seemingly suspicious places, but that are actually irrelevant to her search. While she violates one of the obscure local town norms (namely, illegally transporting litter), she's placed under arrest for 24 hours. She doesn't have a right to a phone call, as this is not America.
A new challenge starts, properly named Insomnia. In it, every couple is forced to have at least a member up all night long. Koizumi offers himself for the challenge, while Mikuru goes to sleep. Koizumi drinks absolutely insane amounts of Monster cans in order to stay up. Koizumi does pass the challenge, althought he's visibly exhausted but cannot sleep due to the amount of caffeine in his blood. Meanwhile, Mikuru is given a strange gun by a member of the crew. You'll have to use it, they say to her. 310 hours have passed.
Meanwhile, the groups are divided again in three groups, and there's yet another lottery. The first group to win can afford to pick between testing their strength, their intelligence or their luck. The second group can pick between the remaining two, and the last one (where Koizumi and Asahina are) don't get to choose anything. The first group chooses to test their intelligence, the second group their strength, and the third one their luck. The luck group are placed in a grid where two lights are rotating.

adaptations purely as advertisement for the source material will always be an incredibly gay concept

>>280423605
All contestants have a panel to vote. When all people vote, the two lights stop. The bastards that were in the wrong place, and the wrong time not only are eliminated, so are their partners. The voting panels are reset, and so the process starts over. The eliminations will continue until half of the group remains. Koizumi was one of the unlucky two bastards, and so Mikuru is also disqualified.
Koizumi smiles and cries a single tear. ReamsTB then starts talking about the benefits of TurboTax™ while Mikuru and Koizumi, followed by the rest of the eliminated contestants, fall to the void. Around that time, Haruhi and Kyon go to town Yuki went to because they're really worried about her, while having lunch on the taxi. Upon arrival, they're arrested for a day for eating in a car, and sent to a (different) police station.
Mikuru and Itsuki are seating in a beach next to the river. Both think about how they failed the SOS Brigade, with Asahina thinking specifically about Kyon, and Koizumi about Haruhi. 313 hours have passed.
Yuki continues her search, and she finally founds the complex where the contest is taking place. She tries to find out a way to break in. Meanwhile, the contest switched back to a dance marathon, and a barman is brought to prepare flaming drinks. Koizumi mentions to Mikuru about how he really, really wants to sleep, but is unable to, because he has 900 mg of caffeine in his blood. Then he mentions the gun the crew gave to her, and asks her to put him to sleep.
She feels conflicted about it, but he tells him that it's fine. He would do it himself, but he's too tired to properly handle the heavy gun. She points the gun to his right arm. She asks him if he's ready, and he says that he is, indeed. Before she shoots, he tells her "I like you, Mikuru". In tears, she says "I like you too, Itsuki" and shoots. Koizumi starts dreaming having a somewhat violent fall but relaxing in Kitayama Park, far away from where he's now.

>>280424029
316 hours have passed.
Mikuru tries to accommodate Koizumi so he can rest better on the bench near the river.
Yuki finally manages to break in the complex, and she sees this scenario. Smoke also goes up. Mikuru feels she's being observed, and raises her head, without looking directly at Yuki. 317 hours have passed. The End.

The barman screws up a drink, and lights the main building on fire. The avenue was poorly equipped, and cannot cope with such a disaster. All of the crew starts fleeing away, except for the unlucky souls still dancing, who decide life is not worth living after having wasted more of 300 hours of their lives here. 316 hours have passed.
They went here because that was their last chance. Thus, they're the only victims of the fire.
The video is cancelled, and never released. Public servants are bribed to never acknowledge anything. Most people find it hard to believe that a world celebrity was in a small town, and NDAs and legal threats make it sure this won't affect the channel brand.
A bunch of them didn't have any families, so no one fought for them. A few families could obtain a monetary compensation, but not much else.
As far as the official history is concerned, ReamsTB never set foot in that third world country, let alone a small town.

And that's it. It took way longer than I expected.

>>280424007
Anon, that's pretty much all of anime.

>>280424319
what the hell did I just read?

>>280424543
A poorly thought retelling of an American classic.

>>280424404
and its fucking gaaayyyyyyyyy
i hate suits

>>280424633
For better or worse, this is why anime is much more diverse than animation from the rest of the world.

>>280389335
Hi Y!

>>280424543
>>280424582
Read the book or watch the movie, they're really, really good. It's also very tragic, evidently.
The author of the source material was a bouncer at those dance marathons, so he had first-hand experience in the topic.

>>280424709
heyo fellow VR anon. What brings you here
We're all excited for the new MV revitalizing the franchise and potentially Season 3

There's one thing that I wish I've done, and that would be giving an esoteric interest to Koizumi, just like I did with Mikuru.

>>280424752
>heyo fellow VR anon. What brings you here
you guys grilled me about my browsing habits to vet me so much I started browsing more again.
>and potentially Season 3
I've been hurt too many times before. But let's have a watch party when the stars align.

>>280425084
Naisu. Well glad you're back here with us anon.
Definitely let's have a watching party and even invite /a/ in. Technically they can just come along in desktop and hopefully we can convert some /a/nons into VR too.

>>280419934
>3 Haruhi cosplayers
Do you have photos of them?

>>280424824
Koizumi is way under appreciated. He does so much even when he is mostly just human powered most of the time except on the special haruhi spaces. Lots of planning and leg work goes with him

>>280411229
I need to play the haruhi games

>>280370241
>>280370625
>normalfags skip it
>YouTube gets flooded with 15-hour long essays about E8
>"how endless 8 breaks you"

>>280385042
>I wish I could afford more light novel volumes
It's very cheap to buy 2nd hand from Zenmarket

>>280394760
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVrERq4OfAw

One of my favorite stills

“About that…” Asahina tucked her chin down, her eyes upturned and looking at me. “I don’t think I should stay at Nagato’s place.”

Why not? I asked.

“How should I put this…” The winter wind tried to disturb her chestnut brown hair; Asahina smoothed it down with her hand. “When I’m alone with Nagato, she just can’t calm down.”

I’d gotten the same line from Nagato. But no, forget that—I couldn’t imagine what Nagato would do that would indicate anxiousness to Asahina, I said.

“Um, well,” said Asahina, as though explaining something to a small child. “It’s just a feeling, really. When I’m sleeping at night… I mean, we’re in separate rooms, I’m sleeping in the spare room, but it’s like she’s standing right beside my bed, staring down at me…”

C’mon, she’s not like a ghost, I said.

“… It’s just a feeling, but it’s like she’s conscious of me.” Asahina exhaled whitely, staring at my chest. “I don’t feel it when we’re all in the clubroom, but it’s really strong when it’s just the two of us at her place. It happened last month too. When we returned from the past, I woke up and you were gone, and I just had the feeling that she’d been staring at me the whole time I was asleep.”

What was that supposed to imply? I couldn’t imagine Nagato ever doing anything to hurt Asahina, I said.

“I know. That’s not what she’s thinking. It’s just an impression I get… but I know. It’s like she’s hung up on me somehow.”

This was completely incoherent. I certainly didn’t understand it.

Asahina looked at me accusingly. With a lonely tone to her voice, she said, “It’s like… she wants to be like me.”

>>280432933
“…?” was my only reply.

“Like doing all kinds of crazy stuff with you, Kyon. I’m always doing stuff like that, right? But Nagato just watches. It was like that on Tanabata and during the endless summer too.”

The seal of the SOS Brigade was all over my memories of the previous year. One of them was that Nagato was always the hardest-working member.

“I wonder if that’s part of why she changed the past. She’s always watching over us, instead of always getting saved, like me.”

Asahina breathed into the palm of her hand, then nodded decisively.

“When I think about it like that, it makes sense. What I feel from Nagato, I mean. She might want to become like me, in a way…”

.........


“Nagato, it’s me. I’ll make this short. It’s about Asahina.”

I gave her the highlights of what Asahina had told me. Nagato listened to my explanation with her usual silence.

“Understood,” she said, without any particular regret, adding, “That is for the best.”

“Really? That’s a relief.”

“Why?”

Why? Even I had misgivings about relying on Nagato too much. And this time we’d unilaterally decided to impose upon her, then unilaterally left—it was really selfish of us.

“Needless worry,” said Nagato, her voice calm. “I can understand her position.” Then, after a short pause: “I do not wish to become like her. However, sentiment to that effect is valid.”

Valid how? I wanted to know.

“If I were in her position, I might have come to the same conclusion.”

So, uh, that meant that Nagato could imagine being in Asahina’s place, and worrying about Nagato in the way that Asahina currently was? I asked.

There was silence for a while. Then: “I think so.”

>>280428228
There's a bit of a problem. I don't know Japanese.

>>280432933
>>280433000
I like the underlying sadness of the relationships between SOS Brigade members.

>>280432933
>>280433000
What are peoples interpretation of these exchanges, because my interpretation of them is that Mikurus assessment is rather accurate, its just that she came to the wrong conclusion that Nagato wants to become like Mikuru, when instead what is most likely the case is that Nagato is envious of Mikuru, and wishes to even if subconsciously to be able to have/do things that Mikuru might take for granted, such as social skills, which we known Nagato is deeply resentful for not having been born with them, even if she came to accept that as an essential part that contributed to her being the person that she is.

>>280412190
VLC chose to bug out on that frame in particular the other day.

>>280412286
>heiretsu late 2026/2027
out of all of them that's still the one I want to see the most, though now that I'm actually reading what Tomadoi is that's easily #2.
I don't even care if you can't hard translate it and you have to go through it like you did Sakura Wars with a separate guide for each line of dialogue, I wanna play the thing!
Was even gonna buy the big wii box of it too but then I lost my job...

Real talk. Who actually watched this in 2006 and isn't a poser?

>>280433659
Well I was 3 then so
Watched it in June 2024

>>280424007
>>280424633
as opposed to adaptations made to cash in on the source material?
The main benefit of the advertisement way of going about things is because putting more eyes on something takes a lot of creativity to create any buzz. Think about all the cool directorial things in Haruhi, then think about how it would've been handled if it were done by the no-fun-police-chart-driven suits that do the same thing in the U.S..

>>280433635
I'm sorry anon, good luck

>>280433855
I was one then and saw it sporadically from probably the premire of season 2 until I sat down and watched all of it in 2020 (because my dad is the same as Konata's), am I less of a poser than him
>>280433659
Am I less of a poser than him?

>>280433922
Sorry to say but Haruhi did not air on croat television in 2006, and I has no internet then

By the time I got a flip phone dissaperance already came out

>>280369387 (OP)
500k views already.
And it's not even the full version.

>>280419711
yes

>>280433659
I watched s1 on youtube in parts somewhere around 2007 because lucky star was already airing and I remember watching that too. Haruhi s1 moved me deeply back then but I didnt watch s2 or the movie or rewatch the show till after the kyoani fire.

>>280429594
kino

>AI will get good and cheap enough to render a personally tailored s3 for each anon that made it until today
feels good

Just got this. I’ll find out how it compares to Intuition soon. I’m glad they’re still printing them in hardback so they match the old ones, but I think you’re shit out of luck if you have the old paperbacks where they replaced the cover art.

>>280432115
>hey Kyon lets go back in time to 1999 and stop those faggot kids Eric and Dylan from shooting up that school in America.

>>280437221
>but I think you’re shit out of luck if you have the old paperbacks where they replaced the cover art
No true Haruhist could be without three collections of the light novels;
One for use (Yen On),
One for Display (Little Brown hardcover)
and one for lending (Little Brown paperback).

>>280437443
I’ve only got the hardbacks, but I have been tempted to get the new paperbacks. I’ve almost bought a couple at Barnes & Noble a few times. I wish they’d reprint the hardbacks. There’s no reason for them to be so rare.

Asahina seems to have went up like three cup sizes

>>280370671
Why would there ever need to be a remake? The original is great

>>280373981
Haruhi Suzumiya Ultimate SOS Storm - the 3d tag team haruhi fighting game

>>280414623
Having Yuki's "uniform" be the witch is a strike of genius imo. It's cute but it really reflects how different she is

Also, pic related shows genuine sadness on Yuki's part. Tons of subtle moments like this in the anime, thanks to KyoAni

>>280419075
>Kyon is a quite a static character throughout until he becomes more dynamic again in Surprise, and to an extent Dissociation
Is he? Because him coming to terms with the fact he's become more Haruhi than Haruhi herself (at the end of Indignation) is quite big. And then there's a lot of important bits showing his reactions to other characters, whether it's Yuki giving him advice on how to sort his life (!), or him being moved to great lengths by Haruhi's plot at the end of Intrigues. And of course the window scene where he tries to cushion Haruhi's fall with his own body in what sounds pretty gruesome.

You're right that he got his biggest character beats though. I still believe the way he was handled in Surprise is foreshadowing that he is way more involved in the powers and the inception of all of these events than it seems, and he's avoiding the subject just like he avoided telling the watcher he liked being with Haruh back then.

>Mikuru
I think the best part about her development in the novels is the theme of graduation and moving on, which was always quite important to the journey depicted in Haruhi. It can be pretty powerful.

>>280419489
>This results in the overall themes of the series becoming a lot more clear and pronounced in the movie
That's really the gist of it. The movie doesn't add that many new themes (it does, though, just not all of them. It has more focus on communication, family/companionship, responsibility... it basically adds a bit of that Christmas movie outline to the existing setting). But for these existing themes they're repackaged and put in another setting with similar but still different stakes and implications.

>whilst cutting almost entirely on the comedic elements present in the original series
I would say the only thing I regret about the movie isn't that it removed some comedy/made the overall tone more serious and solemn but rather that it lacks the "episodic creativity" explosive energy of the anime. It's a more conventional type of story, which comes with pros and cons

>>280437940
that's literally what I mean though, you can't continue the story and expect a similar experience without sullying the original. so don't touch the original, don't try to continue the original, etc.

I watched Haruhi 2006 for the first time last night. I liked it but I was expecting a monumental ending with how much the 2006 watch order gets hyped. Pic related was very cute. I look forward to watching the 2009 series and movie next.

>>280439912
Mikuru's graduation seems to be the ending point for the story, at least hers (I'm not that sad to see her go honestly).

But Kyon woun't be moving on, this he made clear in suprise.

Btw good video https://youtu.be/JyP-Rcz7r0Q

>>280440524
Avoid this thread until you complete it.

>>280440524
Kyon saving the world was not monumental enough? Cos thats how big the broadcast ending got

>>280440538
>video
Nice, time to watch it. Haruhi always had some killer quotes, she's a force of nature.

>>280440524
Dodge the thread for now yeah. Enjoy the direction.

>>280440139
Right I forgot that the whole theme of the Kyon feeling guilt over being neglectful towards Nagato was only ever established in Disappearance, although even then there were small hints towards this during endless eight with him asking her and wondering how shes doing, but it was definitely by far the least established theme out of all of them because it needed to remain dormant in order for Kyons sense of guilt to truly hit.

>>280439912
The reason is that other than that part at the end of Indignation which I just skipped over, but even then it just moves it 1 LN back, is that those moments arent a result of dynamic tension/struggle within him, but rather are simply him reacting to those things in others. Its simply that he doesnt have a proper character arc for a large chunk unlike the others.

She’s so silly

>>280441003
He doesn't have big struggle sessions like in Melancholy or Disappearance (except, arguably, for the parts in Surprise where he seems lost and gets help from Koizumi, Sasaki and others) but I don't think he needs those at all times. As long as someone gets that kind of more "dynamic" development Kyon can get the more subtle reactive changes.

I want to see all these expressions animated. Kyon describes her having all these funny faces. Kyoani was good at bringing her to life for the material they did cover.

whoruhi

2004. Damn.

>>280441681
>Act Three: World Tour
>Final Act: Escape
>All New
Huh...

>>280441960
That’s more than just one new section like Intuition. We’re getting closer to a totally new book. But I’m not sure how many short stories the Sneaker has that remain uncompiled in a proper volume.

>>280441681
Yeah, only one official short story remains unincorporated now, bishop exchange tempo loss, and that one wasn't written by tanigawa and is the only LN not from Kyon's perspective (Koizumi's)

>>280442160
You sure are hopeful, it could be this is the final book now that tanigawa's bassically run out of unintegrated material

>>280441217
Didn't know maoists liked Haruhi

>>280442388
I had always imagined Koizumi’s inner monologue to just be a lot of internal screaming in contrast to easygoing smile and attitude.

>>280442438
The next volume will be a new major story arc. Trust the plan.

My guess is that, knowing how the Haruhi IP became as big as it is thanks to the anime staff doing their magic, and seeing how the Yuki spinoff adaptation was a failed project in terms of reviving franchise virality, whatever group of people has the decision to greenlit a new anime have made up their minds that, if any new anime project were to happen, it has to involve a big portion of the anime cast (I'm aware not everyone can be involved for reasons).

A decision that, makes the chances of a third season happening really low. A similar case of what happened with Madoka, they had to wait a decade just for the busy key players to finally be available (mainly Urobuchi)

>>280442609
I’d like for a new season by the same people, with the same animation style and quality. But I feel like it would be pretty different from the original run even if it was made by the same lineup. Although I’m unsure which of the staff for the show ended up dying in 2019’s arson attack, if any. I don’t meant to be grim and treat them like they’re just puzzle pieces for making a TV show, but who survived that is also a concern for a hypothetical third season.

I liked Nagato's anime, even if it went against everything that made Haruhi good, the cast is so good that it just carries the SoL shenanigans

Also seeing her with glasses is nice.

>>280443964
I haven’t seen this yet, mainly because I prefer regular Nagato. But I do like that there’s a spin-off showing her desired world playing out.

>>280443964
I feel the same way, anon. I just wish Nagato was still a bookworm like in the movie, but on the other hand, it was made by Puyo.

>>280442160
Tsuruya's Challenge was longer than the new acts combined, though. Long enough to be a stand-alone volume.

If there's something that I'd have liked to see, was having the SOS Brigade going to a record shop to buy music.
I initially thought this would horribly age the work, but on the other hand, I remembered that Haruhi already referenced somewhat contemporary music, like 18 Till I Die in The Sigh, along with less contemporary music like the theme of Tengoku to Jigoku (1963, Akira Kurosawa; released in the West as High and Low, and localised in both the Yen Press and Baka-Tsuki translations as Heaven and Hell, the literal translation), and the Piano Sonata No. 11 by Mozart (a.k.a. Turkish March).
The anime uses unrelated music, the overture of Orpheus in the Underworld, and the Ride of the Valkyries.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gGPXZ-KlFc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpmhGm9Rd20

I just checked, and 18 til I Die predates the light novel for seven years.

>>280444101
Well, what would you expect from the creator of haruhi chan...

Asakura is so silly...

>>280447198
That's what I said.

Cute Asahina

>>280447808
I love to see girls wearing suits.

>>280442818
>if any
Disappearance dir. Takemoto, CD nishiya and tv series CD Ikeda. Not to forget Kigami, his layouts were the reason disappearance looked so good and color design Ishida. Ishihara is still on but his directing skills are not what they were in 2009, it would be better for the new season to be contracted with other studios and chances of kyoani working on haruhi is practically 1 percent at best. Nothing should be stopping kadokawa to hand over the license to other studios or contract them but i'm not sure why they aren't doing that.

>makes a play where Kyon and Koizumi kiss
>makes a movie where Yuki and Mikuru fall in love
Why is Haruhi like this?

>>280448012
>Nothing should be stopping kadokawa to hand over the license to other studios or contract them but i'm not sure why they aren't doing that.
>>280442609 has a pretty accurate answer to that, in my opinion.
In any case, Kyoto Animation has plenty of prestige, yet.

Yuki tummy

Has Kyon caught a cold here?

>>280448539
The creepiest damn thing about the Disappearance movie was the whole virus thing, its like it predicted the pandemic ahead of time. They had on masks and everything.

>>280448917
>They had on masks and everything.
Anon, I...
https://www.voanews.com/a/science-health_coronavirus-outbreak_not-just-coronavirus-asians-have-worn-face-masks-decades/6185597.html

This article is from 2016.
https://web.archive.org/web/20160211091502/http://www.nippon.com/en/features/jg00084/
Posting an archived version because the article was edited in January 2020.

>>280433659
I watched it like 2007 iirc. Before season 2 was a thing but a few seasons after season 1 aired fully.

I didn't even know that you can torrent anime back then. Haruhi was one of the first anime I torrented

>>280433659
I only watched it in mid 2021, especially thanks to an anon from >>>/v/. Since then, I've bought the remaining (out of print) light novels, imported one from overseas, and even bought a Haruhi album straight from Japan.

>>280433659
I did, I was still in high school back then. Watched Lucky Star as it was airing too. Doesn't feel that long ago, but looking at the time, I guess it really was. Just got the hardcover of the latest light novel yesterday, can't wait to read it when I find the time. I've given up on season 3, but it's fun to pretend.

>>280450180
Will delete in three minutes.

>>280451810
>>280451840
/u/ hijack!

>>280437931
She's perfect. Her boobs are mandated to be at least x5 bigger than any other in the universe she inhabits. If the other girls in the artwork somehow has an inflated boob size then Mikuru's will inflate x3 over.

Post your Haruhi hot takes. My most controversial opinion(?, dunno if I can call it that) is that, while I have my particular preferences, I support any ship between SOS Brigade members.

>>280442509
>a lot of internal screaming
That would be hilarious. He's the guy that tries to solve everything with the organization in terms of social finesse and getting everyone moving in the day to day world. Gonna be great to hear his inner thoughts

>>280442609
>Yuki spinoff adaptation was a failed project in terms of reviving franchise virality
It failed cause it sucked.
Why didn't they just make season 3 and hired kyo ani I do not know

>>280454664
Not them.
>Why didn't they just make season 3 and hired kyo ani I do not know
Maybe they wanted to do other things, and then the relationship with Kadokawa ended in bad terms?
Wasn't Hyouka a passion project for Takemoto? I swear I heard that somewhere, but maybe it was wrong, or I made it up, somehow.

>>280454933
Searching in the archives, I discover this post: >>185609135. It turns out I became an AI.

bump

Tsuruya and Mikuru are so cute together.

>>280456572

>>280456676
Eye see...

https://x.com/wakiwakiwakiko1/status/1268822366441750528

https://x.com/kk_kumin/status/1404044939441295365

I've never watched Haruhi, is it any good?

>>280457270
I like it a lot. Give it a shot.

https://x.com/AkiraKogam26929/status/1942982555420311783

How come nobody likes it these days

Of course you should still give it a watch in current year. It's like if Hannah Montana met Heroes.

>>280456663
>>280456572
They're made for each other. I like their energy together. I wish we had more scene of Mikuru getting fawned on by the whole school as the school idol of sort

>>280458476
With tsuruya as her body guard

>>280458618
When I was younger I disliked how seemingly useless Mikuru was. But now that I am older, I appreciate the target demographic Mikuru is aiming for.

Would protec Mikuru

>>280443964
Based honesty

>>280458358
saved

>>280388321
Where can I find more scans like this? Very little media has been shared of Haruhi.

>>280454623
I want to somehow brainwash her into believing she's about 10 years younger with the assumption that if she claps her hands and believes she really will turn into that age. Is that how her goddess powers work?

>>280370991
I rewatched NieA_7 a week ago. Mainly for a project. And yes, I'm the one who usually posts the copypasta about the similarities between both anime. Its actually more uncanny than I thought - there was a huge topic that NieA_7 almost tackled with, but they left it to the final episode And they touched on it so briefly. It's so frustrating when seen in hindsight because it could have been something brought up earlier. Or better yet, more time spent on this particular theme and the associated character instead of all the poorly-aged slapstick and the over-focus on Mayuko
But I can't hate NieA_7. It was important to me as the series that introduced me to yoshitoshi aBe, namely Lain and Haibane Renmei (the latter which I hold in the same regard as Haruhi). And, NieA_7 is the reason why I love the Haruhi series so much.

>>280454623
I think the SOS brigade is haruhi's desire to have friends who likes her for what she does for and with them. A loyal group of friends

It's the biggest piece of dog shit that I've ever watched

>>280461373
Bait used to be belivable

>>280460583
I think that was very evident with the ending of Season 2. Also, with all due respect, I doubt a single soul on Earth would find that theory controversial to any degree.

I doubt this thread will reach bump limit.

It's funny how Koizumi, despite saying to Kyon Haruhi's the only god, likes to tease Kyon about how deep down loves the activities she makes them do.

>>280454623
the sigh arc is the worst part of the series and endless eight is great

>>280464696
I started with the books in 2015, and I even bought them all at once in a risky move (which turned out to be a good idea since those hardbacks became rare.) And Sigh gave me a bit of anxiety that I might’ve made a mistake at the time. I think the plot is fine, and it has good moments, but it’s so long. It reads like one of the short stories, but it’s among the full length chapter books like Disappearance and Surprise. I think it’s an especially bad fit for the second volume. Boredom would be a better volume 2. It feels like he didn’t fully know how to follow up the first book until Disappearance. And I found it unsurprising that they waited until season 2 to adapt it. It feels like a story that should happen later on.

>>280369874
fpbp

>>280369874
true

>>280454623
Kyon is for Yuki

>>280458476
hoee~!
https://files.catbox.moe/skw1at.mp4

>>280370991
Just watched the panty and stocking ep
that and this thread and im 16 in 2010 again

>>280372668
>>280371890
Eh I was in a relationship for 8 years with a girl
I love, but always had repressed desires to fuck around
eventually i got depressed and so I broke up and got with her friend non exclusively
had weeks where I fucked 3 women
had days where i fucked 2
Now im tired, its friday and i'll play Valorant, TF2 and maybe doom all night
Was it worth it? Yeah, finally feel like I experienced what I wanted
Kinda sucks since I want to continue watching some shows and anime we watched together, but can't really get myself to finish them alone
Also porn addiction lead me to this
thanks for reading my blog

>>280372311
Sucks that recommending the movie means recommending homework of watching 2 seasons of anime in a random ahh order with 8 episodes of which meant to mind numb you into feeling like an alien android

>>280466517
don't take off your trip, vert

>>280466751
I literally came to this board for the first time in years due to getting nostalgic after the new PSG episode

So... what art movie did Haruhi watch? Kyon apparently mentions it at the end of the light novel, but I couldn't find anything with such vague titles. My local version wasn't any better, either. Does anyone know what the Japanese version says?

>>280464696
Agree
>>280465151
I think Sigh should of taken place inbetween Remote Island syndrome and Endless eight, Kyon confronting Haruhi at her worst is too significant of a moment in her character arc for it to make sense to have happened after Disappearance, but it is much better IMO for Endless Eight to serve as her relapse period after her behavior in Sigh and being confronted by Kyon, which also leads into why she kept the loop going until he asserted and activity for the SoS brigade to do, and it makes the jarringness of having her act so selflessly in Live Alive right after her behavior in Sigh, as well as fixing the pacing from Endless eight into Disappearance, where Sigh essentially serves as an extended period of time that we see when Nagato is supposed to be quite depressed, where she doesnt seem depressed at all, which completely fucks with the otherwise great pacing of her character arc, the literal only potential moment where we might see her being depressed is some of her expressions in this scene >>280439724 , which is a shame considering how great Endless eight was with this, and how the rest of the episodes fit well into the theme (she plays a cameo role in Live Alive, in Day of Saggitarius she is momentarily distracted by finding a new thing she is passionate about, and Someday in the rain just straight up shows her being isolated, bored, and clearly depressed.

>>280433129
It could also just be Nagato developing enough empathy to understand Mikuru's perspective. I think Mikuru isn't completely wrong and that Nagato is evolving to be a different person, and that also comes with some frustration here and there, but she's on her own path and it doesn't spill in unhealthy ways.

>>280433509
>filename
Absruhi sounds like it'd be a treat.... I want her to smother me too.

>>280433659
I'm a 2011 guy. Watched Disappearance on Youtube and it was a really nice time.

>>280433635
Damn that looks good. I wish I had collected some of that merch when I could, I barely managed to grab some recently.

>>280437221
Just got mine too, feels good just seeing Noizi's art there

>>280429594
That was such a cool fight. Asakura gives me an invincible fearboner

>>280467919
Ronnie Rocket, she though it was actually made to so it was.
Now that I think of it, does that mean no one dies in Haruhi's world if she doesn't know they have yet? Is David Lynch still alive?

>>280442509
I can definitely imagine Koizumi being frustrated during Sighs seeing Kyon not handle Haruhi... But on the other hand he also enabled her, the only difference being that Kyon is the one Haruhi will listen to. The talk between Koizumi and Kyon in Sighs 5 is one of my favorite scenes, and I still don't understand why they showed drunk guys on the street in it.

>>280468235
Chronology has always been an issue with the series. The books are pretty fast and loose with ordering, and the anime had its own order. It makes sense why modern streaming and home video releases just put in chronological order. It makes the character development easier to follow. But it also sacrifices the flow they crafted using the short story episodes to compliment the volume 1 arc. I like how the baseball game introduced Nagato’s abilities after she revealed her nature to Kyon in the last episode.

>snatched the God Knows album from Japanese store
I'm happy

>>280447808
Don't get me wrong she's really cute but this Yuki face is where it's at

>>280468681
Koizumi is certainly an enabler, which is why Haruhi doesn’t acknowledge him on the same level as Kyon. He’s kind of a simp. Kyon hits a good middle ground where he’ll bitch about her actions and argue with her, reaching a compromise. But he ultimately wants the same thing she does, and Haruhi can feel that. But she knows Koizumi will just do whatever she says.

what are your top 3 kyoani shows haruhibros?

>>280451810
It's natural to check

>>280468829
The face of a girl who just wants to read her /lit/-core and play on the computer, but has to babysit someone who can destroy the fabric of reality.

>>280469002
She should step on my dick.

>>280469072
That’s more Haruhi’s territory. The best scenario for Yuki is emotionless sex where she sits on your lap and reads, treating you like a chair.

>>280456572
I really really like the Mikuru/Tsuruya friendship.

>>280458658
I wouldn't call Mikuru useless. I mean, what is she expected to actually do? She follows her orders and participates to SOS Brigade things. She's not a force of nature or someone who calls the shot (unless you count her future self who does that) but she's still there and shows as much personality as anyone else, even if a big part of it is being a softie.

>>280460516
Would you recommend watching it as a Haruhi fan? I'm kind of interested nowadays.

>>280469244
I would count her future self, since she’s the same person. It’s a roundabout way of giving her as much influence as the other factions surrounding Haruhi, albeit without her knowledge. It adds a certain degree of mystery to Asahina, making you wonder what happened between her future, and the further future where she’s an adult. Even in her whiny baby young form, she still holds a lot of big secrets. In Intuition she recognizes the bio computer technology that Tsuruya reveals in her story. Which gives one more clue to what the future is like, and makes more sense of the technology described in the past.

>>280464696
I think Sighs is great, but

>>280465151
>I think it’s an especially bad fit for the second volume

is right. It's meant to be frustrating in some ways. It's a "relapse" arc. It has tons of friction between the characters. It says a lot about them and the ending is a simple but practical and fitting solution. Of course I can't really speak for the LN since I haven't read this one, but in the anime I think it's really solid save for a slow startup, since it comes after season 1 + bamboo leaf rhapsody + endless eight rather than being immediately after Melancholy.

>>280468235
>it is much better IMO for Endless Eight to serve as her relapse period after her behavior in Sigh
I don't know about that since Haruhi's behavior during Endless Eight isn't meant to be particularly bad escapism. It had some heavy consequences on Nagato but that's more of an accident than Haruhi losing her way like she would do during Sighs or Melancholy: in Endless Eight, Haruhi had some noble intentions, mostly for Kyon to be his own man and not just a follower.

>the jarringness of having her act so selflessly in Live Alive right after her behavior in Sigh
Understandable. Sighs really is her worst relapse. On the other hand, I really like seeing Live Alive as an apology of sort. If you look at the lyrics of God Knows, they directly reference Melancholy 6, for which Haruhi seemingly "apologizes" to Kyon and declares her trust in him. Looking at this like that it wouldn't be too jarring to see that happen right after Sighs where she had her biggest fight with him.

>>280371233
>sono bisque
it's cute
anything else similar?

>>280468831
For me, it's
>Haruhi (not counted)

>K-on season 2
>Nichijou/Lucky star (can't decide)
>Clannad AS

>>280470461
Read Yokohama Kaidashi Kiko. Mono no aware themes are very relevant to Haruhi

>>280468235
>the jarringness of having her act so selflessly in Live Alive right after her behavior in Sigh
Oh what, you mean after Kyon tries to punch her in the face over it?
Anyway, depression is a thing that brews over time. Most depressed people don't go nuclear after a big thing like that, that's what normal people (like Kyon in the drunk Mikuru scene) do. Instead, they sit and take it because they hate themselves and break later down the line when they think nothing will change (and during the events of Sigh, Yuki observes no reason to believe anything will change). Someday in the Rain really hammers down that feeling of a perpetual stasis, especially because of how much time has passed since. And again, a normal person like Asakura was outwardly destructive to break said stasis but a depressed person like Yuki caved inwards instead.

>>280468658
Really? Do you have a Japanese quote?

>>280460538
what is that homura from

>>280471952
>Oh what, you mean after Kyon tries to punch her in the face over it?
It's more about them making up after it I would say. If Taniguchi didn't trigger Kyon with what he said, Kyon wouldn't have been the bigger man and his relationship with Haruhi would be stained, but thankfully they avoided the worst.

>>280454623
>while I have my particular preferences, I support any ship
I'm like this with practically every anime.

>>280471952
as a follow-up, I will say that I think Day of Saggitarius should chronologically be before Endless Eight because, not only does it make more sense for the Computer Club to retaliate much sooner and then just accept things the way they are, but also mainly because it throws Yuki a bone at a point where realistically she should be stadily declining to her lowest. Now sure it can be soul-crushing for you to perk up at something and then nothing ever comes of it and it's back to the usual nothing again but something I think works really well with Sigh and Someday in the Rain is how everyone's side-tracked and focused on Haruhi while Yuki festers in the background. In Sigh sure she's used but she's not as actively important as she is during the match nor does she enjoy anything she's doing. So even just tonally it fits pre-Endless Eight more.

>>280471952>>280469588

I just feel that her going from acting completely possessive towards Mikuru, to being genuinely happy to hear random schoolmates being grateful for helping them with their concert in the timeframe of a week at most to be too quick. Having a month where she lets things brew and her negative aspects are more positive/noble rather than purely toxic, as she is stuck inbetween her old ways and improving makes a lot of sense to me, the fact that her actions during endless eight are less malicious, and even noble to an extent is the point as to why it makes sense to place Sigh before.

As for the Nagato depression part, I completely agree on that, I wasnt even thinking that she should have some major crashouts, and consider the fact that she is bottling up her negative emotions to be one of the main things that make her character arc so compelling and personally relatable to me as I too did the same thing as she did, I bottled up my negative emotions and retreated within myself.

The issue is that in Endless eight we can see that she is depressed just from her expressions and actions, when she goes from slurping down the juice in ep1, to having the straw in her mouth but not drinking in ep4, to going to take a sip but then pulling away in ep7, THAT is exactly what I want to see from her, for us to be shown that she is suffering despite the fact that she is trying to hide it and isnt saying anything, Show don’t Tell, and then we go from this masterpiece in visual storytelling to Sigh having her make the same blank expressions she did before this whole thing, that really frustrates me, as it makes it so that I essentially need to ignore Sigh if I want to be fully immersed in her arc from Endless eight to Disappearance.

And this became an even sourer spot when I read through the LNs, and saw constant mention by other characters how Nagato began acting differently ever since the summer, clearly referencing Endless Eight.

>>280473015
No, I was joking, but David Lynch is huge in Japan so if it was an American film specifically then in all likelihood is was one of his.

>>280473154
Same anon as here>>280473176

I agree, whilst it is fine to have her experience a small moment of joy at a time when she is deeply depressed that then vanishes making her even more depressed than before, it just works so much better if she we were in a constant down-mood from endless eight onwards.

And particularly the reason why is because this is too big of a positive deal, Nagato had just discovered a new passion/special interest outside of reading in this, it would realistically take her a year of being somewhat upbeat indulging the new and exciting thing before she relapsed into depression, as opposed to essentially committing suicide a month later.

If it were instead a minor curiosity that would be much better, such as her fortunetelling, its clear shes interested in it, but its a minor positive deal, and as such it fits well.

Day of Saggitarius is just way too important for her character development/growth though for me to have even considered changing something as drastic as its timeline placement in such a way, but youre right it just makes more sense to have it take place before endless eight.

>>280473154
At first I thought this sign completely ripped out the beauty of the piece but considering that the last time I was in a position similar to Yuki's was when I had a debilitating problem with that, it fits pretty well.

Thoughts on yasashii bōkyaku? The lyrics were written by Tanigawa iirc, they might not be the ones on pic related but it's a fantastic way to have Yuki express herself in a meta way

>>280469279
Yes I do.

As the guy who kept posting the copypasta about comparing NieA_7 to Haruhi, to me this is the series that I feel is the closest to how I felt when I watched Haruhi Suzumiya. A lot of aspects of Haruhi reminded me of a typical aBe anime, which sounds weird when we consider Haruhi is from the moeblob era (and yoshitoshi abe hated moe). But there's a certain level of narrative and theoretical depth to the Haruhi series that you won't get from most anime, but you will from an aBe-related series. To me NieA_7 is the best fit because one of the key themes of NieA_7 is how the extraordinary becomes the ordinary, and vice-versa. Also the dynamic between Haruhi & Kyon is very similar to that of Mayuko & Niea.

>>280473098
https://danbooru.donmai.us/posts/884022

>>280474569
I like it, the early part is a bit confusing as to what its trying to say, but you can ultimately discern from it that she is talking about her emotional outburst that resulted in Disappearance, and how the fate of what will happen is entirely now within Kyons hands, with her only being able to observe.

And the second part is a lot more clear, it is talking about Nagato returning to the way she was before, and wondering whether someday she will be able to express herself, just as she forcefully made herself able to.

It pretty clearly asserts the alternate world as something she truly wanted, and that she does seem to bear a lot of self-hate for the way she is now, unable to express herself or to freely act in accordance with her own feelings and desires, which is why Kyons guidance is so important for her, as through him she is able to learn love the person that she is right now, and that she is able to fulfill those wishes by remaining as herself rather than trying to change herself, and this last part does seem to be acknowledged by her at the very end, when she acknowledged how the fragment that vanished is there, ie. that the what she sought for herself by creating the alternate world, is still there even if she was unable to realize it before.

>>280470854
I've been meaning to watch this series for a while now., now that you mention that

>>280469279
To add on to my previous endorsement - I think mono no aware is very important to understanding NieA_7.

Bump

>>280371233
I started Sono Bisque Doll for a dumb reason, and I was pleasantly surprised.

>>280369387 (OP)
Worship HER holy BUTT or you are an infidel!

>>280476606
kill yourself clammy

>>280466517
Faggot

>>280429594
I am not a fan of fighting scenes, but this one I like. In every other scenario Yuki appears so meek that you forget that she is in some sense the most powerful person in the room.

>>280477728
Who?

>>280473176
You have to think about the circumstances of Sighs, she was having a trip, so much that she even lost her sense of reality and spawned some weird things. That never happened outside of Sighs and highlights how special this situation was.

>>280473176
>then we go from this masterpiece in visual storytelling to Sigh having her make the same blank expressions she did before this whole thing
I guess you could attribute it to the story actually advancing instead of her being in the middle of her 15000th loop. Well I get what you mean, it's not a linear buildup that only goes "up". I think it's fine given we have the exchange posted above where Nagato looks really broken from not being able to convey her situation to Kyon (as she tells him), which is quite significant, and of course Someday in the Rain which encapsulates the entire issue with how people treat her..... If I had to nitpick I would say Day of Sagittarius is the episode that would work a little against her crashout in Disappearance, but >>280473154 made a good point for it.

Speaking of Day of Sagittarius, we know Nagato spends time at the computer club after that, but we don't know exactly when. It would be really interesting if she didn't do that before Disappearance but was able to do so after it.

>>280475211
>watch this series
You should read it, it's not fully adapted in anime anyway. Check out https://alpha.cafe/ for a little introduction if you have time, it's a really good starter.
It's not exactly Haruhi but the themes of self-actualization and finding meaning in a lonely world are pretty important in both.

>>280474943
>A lot of aspects of Haruhi reminded me of a typical aBe anime
I can see some of those traits in the direction, more subdued of course.

>But there's a certain level of narrative and theoretical depth to the Haruhi series that you won't get from most anime, but you will from an aBe-related series. To me NieA_7 is the best fit because one of the key themes of NieA_7 is how the extraordinary becomes the ordinary, and vice-versa. Also the dynamic between Haruhi & Kyon is very similar to that of Mayuko & Niea.
Interesting. I might have to rewatch Lain someday to try and make more sense of it too.

>>280478160
What I like most about that scene is how raw but somewhat toned down it is, in the sense that the choreography doesn't go TOO crazy, you can feel it's a bit of a programming battle between two interfaces, and the parts where Nagato has to save Kyon are also pretty down to Earth. And of course the great ost.

>>280440524
>Pic related was very cute
her nape?

>>280482104
Napes are very hot.

he wasn't a tripfag thank god but I miss mikuru nigga
>>280482104
>>280482122
post napes or gtfo

>>280482213
I hope he's happy seeing his waifu on a new book cover!

>>280387721
>The Bamboo-Cutter's Tale
That means Kaguya, right? Or is there another one?

>>280396339
based

So has /a/ agreed on a watch order? I personally think the homemade movie should be the first episode, followed by the rest in chronological order. Mainly because it's funny how there is no real showcase of supernatural stuff until Shamisen suddenly starts speaking.

>>280484011
Episode 00 should ALWAYS be first and Someday in the Rain should always be last, that we should all agree on

>>280389816
Thanks, Yuki!

>>280483854
Yes, the ending is exactly that.

>>280482104
Ooh lookie, my Steam avatar!

>>280484011
I always go with the broadcast order. I think it’s paced better.

>>280369944
A non-kyoani non-tanigawa story anime. It was fucked from the start.

I don’t treat it as part of the franchise. They fucked up so badly.
They need to hire kyoani for season 3 or we riot

>>280484011
Broadcast order is just the best

>>280484703
go back to >>>/v/ now, NOOOOOOW

Will you go to the concert or watch it online?

>>280485494
I couldn't figure out how to make an account because it asks for a jp number

>>280485494
Any link for online?

>>280460175
A lot are basically lost media stuck on various people’s storage

>>280460175
Isn't that the question of the day?

How much longer will the translation for this take? I kinda want to jump in now even though it’s not at 100% yet. I want more new stuff after I finish reading the new light novel.

>>280465955
t.Puyo

>>280486906
The better question is when the fuck I'll finally find an eBay listing for this thing.

You will purchase the reasonably priced bunny Yuki figure, and you will be happy.

>>280488045
>e-bay
My guy you are living in the past and not actually getting proper haruhi goods.

Go to ZenMarket, thank me later
Bought that hand puppet haruhi there

>>280488122
I have! Now the desire to buy ten copies of the ridiculously cheap but amazing looking figure is the challenge since shipping will kill the price.

What are the chances that Mikuru is Kyon’s daughter?

>>280488328
how the fuck are her hair and eyes brighter than his and haruhi's
if those are recessive then they'd have to be purely on Haruhi's side because Kyon's sister doesn't exhibit them. Her eyes are a little brighter but that's it.

>>280488122
WHY ARE YOU HOLDING THE DEATH NOTE?

>>280488389
nta but kyon's sister's hair

>>280485494
No.

>>280488180
>Go to ZenMarket, thank me later
I can also confirm ZenMarket is very cool.

>>280488454
it's still much darker than Mikuru's and most girls get darker hair as they get older

>Gets scared by something
>Slips and calls Kyon “daddy” by accident
It’s far too late for this to be a twist, but that would be funny.

>>280488756
Would be a funny twist

I forgot the new book released this week. I guess ill have to go to b&n tomorrow.