After finishing the anime adaptation, I guess the light novels are the place to go? The Yuki spinoff makes me uncomfortable because I don’t like the idea of it ending without Yuki or Kyon expressing feelings for one another.
After finishing the anime adaptation, I guess the light novels are the place to go...
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Benjamin Sullivan
>inb4 a Haruhisky thread
Kevin Perry
Yes. Proceed.
Dominic Garcia
I just wish Kyon and Haruhi would just fall in love for gosh sakes. It was a bummer not to see those feelings be revealed at the end of the 28th episode of the Melancholy anime.
Easton Hughes
they're both too tsundere to be so open about it
Jace Ross
Haruhi is too energetic to be tsun and Yuki is too shy though. I just want to see characters I like find love ;_;
Zachary Cruz
Does anything happen in the light novels?
Henry Edwards
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David Russell
Looks like the books are generally pretty cheap if you wanted physical copies, although tracking down all 50+ probably isn't going to be fun these days.
I'm currently watching for the first time but I'm surprised the show had enough viewers left after the endless summer arc to get a second season. Surely they didn't need more than three episodes to tell that story.
Thomas Miller
Ty for keeping the thread alive. I hated Haruhi while first watching it. It was until the 26th episode (Live Alive) that I ended up feeling very happy about the show.
Jordan Cook
>The Yuki spinoff makes me uncomfortable
It's Foxworth approved though.
Ryan Butler
>but I'm surprised the show had enough viewers left after the endless summer arc to get a second season.
That was in the second season
Ethan Parker
>Surely they didn't need more than three episodes to tell that story.
Yes, 5 of the episodes are literally the same episode with different clothes and slightly different narration/background music. I chose to watch Haruhi blind without knowing that this was going to happen and just assumed that Haruhi had to be a really trashy/poorly produced show that isn't well regarded if it was going to reuse content that flagrantly. However, it wasn't until Live Alive (the 26th episode) that I felt pretty happy about the show. But the fact that Endless Eight contains five identical episodes is almost like Marcel Duchamp (putting a urinal in a museum) tier antics. It almost seems like the series creator was trying to make some artistic statement with it... I don't understand how they got away with broadcasting that and it honestly blemishes an otherwise great series.
Daniel Cox
>Foxworth
>youtube.fandom.com
Not sure if this is a reputable opinion...
Austin Gray
I certainly empathise with Yuki but it does feel excessive. The anime was pretty good until it ground to a halt, all because Kyon ignores the solution that worked last time Haruhi trapped him somewhere and Yuki has her weird alien reasons for not slapping sense into him.
Jeremiah Turner
NTA but you're right that Endless Eight was in the second season when broadcasted, but Blu Ray releases of Haruhi have the episodes in chronological order "split up into two separate seasons of 14 episodes a piece" meaning the first four episodes of Endless Eight show up in the Blu Ray release's "first season" (of chronologically ordered episodes).
Any person who has found the show online has almost certainly come across it in the same release it appears on the blu ray (chronological) which is why so many people appear confused about this.
Were you someone who originally watched it on Sun TV?
Nolan Smith
For sure. That whole sequence could have just cut together montages of the same events playing out repeatedly. This was something the Bill Murray movie Groundhog Day did. Since the show's creators seem really savvy, one has to assume they didn't condense these five episodes down for the sake of padding (which is unfortunate).
Luis Jones
No I watched it online with my sister a long time ago. Whichever website we used had it in Haruhi order, so that is how I remember the series.
Gavin Cox
>Haruhi order
Ah I see.
There are technically three orders: the original broadcast (Kyon), the "sort of chronological within the first season" order (Haruhi), and the "actual chronological order" once the second season started running. That confusion created a lot of mishaps for me over Discord with some people I know.
Leo Green
Wait my mistake, I thought Haruhi was broadcast. I watched it Kyon then, achronological first season.
Robert Torres
>I watched it Kyon then, achronological first season.
Yup that's what it sounded like but I didn't want to harp you about it. The existence of three orders creates confusion like this.
Jace Fisher
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Evan Carter
what about the manga?