Thread 281453371

I still don't get how this got so popular back then, my brother told me that everyone were dancing hare hare yukai and cosplaying as them, like it came out of nowhere and suddenly everybody was talking about it.

It's what we call a genre defining anime and phenomenon.

>>281453371 (OP)
you just had to be there zoomer-kun

>>281453393
>genre defining
what genre

>>281453441
Manic pixie girl recruits random literally me to her club, hijinks ensure, the number of this before and after haruhi is staggering.

>>281453371 (OP)
it can't be explained. you had to be there

>>281453427
I hate being a zoomer, I missed the good days

>>281453371 (OP)
It's called a meme, just like the Harlem Shake and the Ice Bucket Challenge

>>281453441
Highschool light novel adaptation where a witty male protagonist is surrounded by colorful wackjobs

It was a different time, anon, back when hiding your power level was mandatory

>>28145337
do we really need this bait thread up nonstop?

>>281453806
https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/28144961/#28144961

Things that people who only saw the anime don't know: Haruhi and Kyon are gods. That happens in the novel: she is Chaos and he is Order.
And the worst thing is that the other 3 knew it and didn't say anything. In the novel, incredible things happen because of that revelation. If you watch the first volume and the first chapter, they were very obvious and nobody noticed, as much as Suzumiya and Kyon wanted the existence of time travelers, aliens, and people with special powers. That's why it is granted in a perfect way. If only Haruhi had asked for it, it would have been a disaster like the other things. Kyon balanced it out. That's why at the end of the second season, the distrust between the other 3 members is shown.
As he said, Kyon being in the brigade was never a coincidence. The meeting of Haruhi and Kyon is impossible to stop unless they stop being gods who are destined to be together, as Nagato did, a world without their god powers.

>>281454856
The mc is not a random schmock like me? Entire series is ruined.

>>281453441
Slice of life, school life where nothing ever happens

>>281454919
He has 0 personality outside the fact that he grumbles discontentedly when Haruhi involves him in some club activity. The whole arc in the movie is about accepting that he likes those activities

>>281454922
>Slice of life, school life where nothing ever happens
That was lucky star

>>281453622
It wasn't so great. You had to wait for your favourite anime to be fansubbed by some group, always in the dark when the next episode will be released. Then load 170 MBytes on Bittorrent in around five to ten hours, hoping that the last seeder doesn't drop out.

>>281453723
he was right then and now

>>281453371 (OP)
>I still don't get how this got so popular back then
Because it's good

>>281453427
I'm a zoomer(2000 born) and this is one of my favorite anime

The sudden uptick of Haruhi threads since last year is because anon suddenly realized that this anime was in the process of being forgotten, i saw it happen in the threads.
Too late, teh past belongs to Azumanga Daioh.

The broadcast order made everyone go, "Wooooooah, WTF is this, bro? WTF is going on???", which was a lot of fun at the time. That, and yeah, Hare Hare came out in peak AniCon era (before fags/normies ruined it), so it all took off.

>>281453371 (OP)
I was a little late to the party but it's still one of my favorites.

>>281453723
>back when hiding your power level was mandatory
I still do
most because I just get blank stares when I list my favorites

>>281456396
Yu haev nootist liltle gurle.

>>281453371 (OP)
Everything about it was just completely unique and different at the time. The mixed up broadcasting order, Kyon and Haruhi's dynamic, the high quality dance, the pacing, etc. I can't really remember all the details, but I remember thinking it was fresh. It hit all the right notes. You can psychoanalyze each scene and probably come up with something interesting.

>>281454856
This is literally never established at any point in the LNs, the most we get is that Kyon seems to be the key behind granting a person Haruhis powers, as the anti-SoS brigade seems to believe so, but other than that there is not a single point in the LNs where any of the characters think Kyon is a God like Haruhi, and at no point is it ever established that the other 3 members were always aware of this, and literally only Koizumi ever suggests that Haruhi might be a God as a crackpot theory of his, and it is literally never a plotpoint how the 3 members lied to Kyon.

Stop spreading misinformation about how the most popular fan theory (Kyon is God) is totally revealed to be completely true in the LNs, and how the other 3 totally knew this whole time but just never said anything.

>>281458030
Meta humor "am i an anime protagonist or something?" was in vogue and not insufferably stale.

Kyoani had the hugest production value from 2005 to 2010, every animator was paid 1 million dollars a day, the studio had infinite money.

>>281460199
They only had infinite money by the time of keion, after it, they rested on their laurels and began to only make whatever they felt like making instead of projects that would seize the reigns of the times and captivate the market.
Shaft won in the end, Kyoanus faggot.

>>281453723
>>281457756
Same. I don't want to talk about Dandandandan or Jujutsu whatever or BnHA, so I just hide my powerlevel.

>>281453371 (OP)
Internet

>>281457756
I do it too because most of the time even when they say like anime they mean normie anime (Naruto, Chainsaw Man, Jujutsu Jaisen). When they hear other names they get a short circuit, and they get another one when you tell them is not available on Netflix or Crunchyroll

>>281460787
All my enemies are inside it.

>>281453723
>>281457756
>>281460445
If anything the older I've gotten the more I hide my power level now than when I was younger and it was seen as "weirdo shit". Anime, video games, comics, etc all manner of geek shit becoming hyper popular among normalfags has made my interests in entertainment something to avoid signaling all together so I don't have to talk about bad shonen slop, live action adaptation trash, capeshit movies, woke feminists takes on fan service and characters etc. I actually preferred it in the 90s and 2000s when it was just outcasts that liked it.

Kuyou scary

>>281461463
Kuyou sex hair

>>281456396
This just reminds me I haven't read Yotsuba since before Corona. Haven't seen a thread here for it since either. The only time I see Yotsuba is when I come across a nuked thread.

>>281455033
Kyon has tons of personality but it's more subtle and subdued

>>281458053
Wtf?! She can’t say that!

>>281462718
>>>/g/

>>281462718
I want to generate 15490 endless 8 episodes and insert a random assortment of them in my releases, i will toil to spread them far and wide on every torrent sites and streaming sites, youtube, forums, archives. I'm only waiting for the tech to catch up.

>>281462326
NIGGER

>>281462718
Is this a fanimation? I don't remember that scene, or that's the uncensored scene.

>>281463084
Thanks, Yuki!

>>281463083
More like computermation.

>>281463084
rub-a-dub-dub thanks for the grub

>>281453371 (OP)
I agree with you. I think it's one of those things you just had to be there for.

>>281463525
Wrong. According to my reaction folder's metadata i apparently joined /a/ mere moments after the film had begun to be a "thing that happened" in the eyes of this board. None the less, i perfectly understand everything related to this anime.

>>281463666
Satan let go of my cock!

>>281463689
>You had to be there to get it
>No I was there and I get it
Okay.

Also, this post is about Haruhi's popularity and cultural impact, not what the anime itself is actually about.

>>281455347
Lucky Star came after Haruhi and built on top of its slice of lifeness, and kyoani's earned credits from Haruhi's popularity, also helped that Haruhi's VA was the same as Lucky Star's Kona-chan

>>281463838
What are you talking about. I don't understand what you mean.
I understood everything just through /a/ threads and watching the anime since it seemed like a big deal but i didn't like it much at first, now i do because my tastes have grown.

>>281463838
The movie came out 4 years after the anime first aired, he was not there when it was big.
For the record, neither was I. And still, I regard Suzumiya Haruhi as a great anime.

>>281463956
>>281456650
>>281453500
basically you had to be there. but at least you can experience HOW we watched it right here: https://archive.org/details/the-melancholy-of-haruhi-suzumiya-2006/The+Melancholy+of+Haruhi+Suzumiya+-+01.avi
in broadcast order, with the og yellow subs.

>>281463525
That it's good by itself, great animation, great soundtrack, great acting, everything was great.

>>281463666
if ai is bad why my pp hard?

>>281466706
Excuse me sir, but it is against /a/ policy to get a boner from AI-generated media.

>>281466728
I see, what is the punishment?

>>281463138
Ainimation

>>281464028
I still remember when anon downloaded the first camrip that was real and streamed it for the rest of us.

>>281453371 (OP)
For many in the west Haruhi was the first show that really embraced moe characters, waifus and slice of life. Before that most westerners exposure to anime was DBZ, Pokémon, Yugioh etc. Heck the Yugioh 4kids dub was only about a year before Haruhi.

>>281467397
The show had also lot of meme-able clips and stills which contributed to it's spread.

A pedobear edit of Haruhi groping Mikuru on some forum was what got me to check the show out.

>>281454922
Were School Rumble and Azumanga Daioh that unpopular?

>>281467397
Moe was all the way back in the 90s

>>281453371 (OP)
you don't get it because you've been constantly bombarded with internet and anime culture since you were born, much of which happened as a result of shows like haruhi exploding onto the scene when they did

none of that shit existed anywhere near mainstream or even in terms of general knowledge in the west before then, anime was a truly niche hobby for weird nerds (not even normal nerds) in the west

if you asked a random person to name an "anime" in the 90s or early 00s, they either would have said "pokemon" or "spirited away" or maybe "dragon ball" and that's fucking it

>>281469439
God shut up. You know what people mean when they say this.

>>281453441
Piss and rape genre. The Haruhi doujins were truly a work of God.

>>281453371 (OP)
It was fun and different

>>281461463
I like her

>>281453371 (OP)
I never hear anyone even talk about this show outside of /a/.

>>281474177
God knows has 130 million views on yt.

>>281461720
There was a daily that just ended, it probably overtook good chunk of discussion

>>281474471
https://youtu.be/5QNaSMiZ_-o?si=PjGGTCACRdp1rlYk only 49 million

>>281461463
>>281472690
Wasn't she supposed to appear in Season 2?

>>281474471
And 129m of those views are from the 2000s,the other part is from nostalfags.
You can even see in the comments, there are no "I'm new to this franchise" or something.

>>281474577
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWB01IuMvzA its literally the first result.

>>281474577
Zoomer-kun...
https://youtu.be/WWB01IuMvzA

>>281474590
There's just chingchong there, a bunch the past day. How am I supposed to tell if someone's new there?

>>281474471
And Idol has over 600 million, doesn't mean that Oshi no Ko is suddenly good

>>281474613
>>281474616
meh, demon slayer has better music

>>281476912
Who?

>>281469711
They should be saying new moe, a new wave. There's even a great difference between moe in 2003 and moe in 2008.

>>281453371 (OP)
Do you know how moe is a popular genre of anime and how doing dances in OPs or EDs is a common thing these days?
Haruhi was basically the pioneer.

Is it still the best? No. But it is still a hall of famer

in retrospect such a sex design had maybe five minutes in the show & movie in total.

>>281474613
I remember buying a guitar just to learn to play yuki's part in 2010.

>>281477866
personally i liked the yellow one better

>>281477866
tsuruya hairjob

>>281453371 (OP)
>>281453441
It's a show about nothing.

>>281478506
Seinfeld is also good

>>281460407
>Shaft won in the end, Kyoanus faggot.
lol, Shaft are even worse than the burned out husk of KyoAni.

Also lol @ all the newfags claiming Haruhi was popular for reasons of moe. I guess they haven't even watched it since Haruhi is tsundere and Yuki (the series' most popular character) is kuudere. Don't mention the blob that is Asahine because no one gave a fuck about her.

>>281468164
Dunno what you're trying to get at. Azumanga was obviously popular but is a 4-koma gag manga. School Rumble was a romance/comedy series, not slice of life or one of those series where, say, Harima joins the literature club and learns about old authors.

Side note: School Rumble is great and would be giga-popular if Tenma was removed.

>>281453371 (OP)
this was back when unless you had a computer that could handle downloads for anime and you knew where to get them where a virus wouldnt be given to you, or knew someone that was deep into otaku culture to recommend obscure stuff, you were watching the same shows as everyone else because streaming services weren't a thing yet and all you had were Youtube vids in 3 parts, or a block on toonami/adult swim if you were lucky enough.

Its not that Haruhi was this masterpiece, its that the community at the time came together with help from anime like it, lucky star, FMA, etc. It was era defining. Kind of like cowboy bebop.

>>281479708
No. It's because the series was creative in its execution; people weren't into reading LNs in those days, so most fans weren't familiar with the source material leading to a lot of discussion and speculation; and in the pre-social media era when people weren't bombarded by new content every 10 seconds, people actually had time to properly discuss the series.

>unless you had a computer that could handle downloads
You weren't there. Fansubs weren't released like games where you needed a cutting edge PC to play them. The question was whether you had the literal bandwidth/good enough connection to download episodes then. Though you're right in a way. This did mean people had to be picky about what they downloaded because it did take more time in those days. (And plenty of people weren't willing to go into IRC chat rooms to try and download stuff)

>>281474177
I heard a zoomette talking about Haruhi once with her boyfriend.
The boyfriend was like 40yo and she was (let's hope) 18yo.

>>281479694
School Rumble is dogs hit, it's end Stil hunt me these days.

I remember discovering k-on through a vocaloid parody of the first opening back in 2009. Wish discovering anime was that SOVLful again

>>281480851
I discovered K-On mainly through /pol/. It apparently radicalized a lot of people.

>>281453371 (OP)
It wasn't, only virgins in their virgin circles who think their little virgin circles are all that exists in the world is “everything”
Most people never heard of it till this day and those that enjoyed it were virgins back then, and are to this day.

>>281480851
It was genuine

>>281480922
that mustve been during the 10's. I dont remember k-on being a magnet for /pol/tards until ironic weebs started joining in. shame, I miss when it was just a bunch of cute retarded girls playing guitar instead of some cringe LARPing catholic nazi on trying to rage bait on the bird site

>>281482024
truly. now people only get into shit when everyone else claims its good. I liked Doremi back when no one gave a shit about it, now that fanbase is filled with the same irony cancer you see with modern day Azumanga tards

just a little more....

>>281467397
Uhhh azumanga daioh though. Hell ADV was releasing plenty of moeshit long before Haruhi. It's not like Haruhi aired on TV or anything

>>281467397
which came first again? Lucky Star or Haruhi? I do remember that was really when moe became mainstream

>>281482745
Haruhi. It was referenced a few times in Lucky Star, with Konata being shown to be a fan.

>>281480851
and here you have idiots claiming k-on was the hottest thing back then and an influence on all anime after