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Jul 14 2009

Categories: melancholy of haruhi suzumiya, responses
Tagged: haruhi suzumiya, k-on:azusa, k-on:dont say lazy, k-on:mio, k-on:mugi, k-on:ritsu, k-on:yui, moe:swimsuits, the world god only knows

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How Haruhi Suzumiya has fallen from destination anime to “thing to keep me occupied as I wait for the return of K-On!.”

(Eh, not quite, but I wanted a dramatic intro. Dum dum duuum!)

CharmedOutlaw: Mikuru’s breasts are like the new gm only concentrating on showing a little bit of the awesome bits whilst cutting away the extra bits even though they are the parts that make the awesome bits look that much better

I must be the only blogger who has readers who equate GM’s bankruptcy with Mikuru’s (lack of) melonpan. The issue really is if Mikuru needs some government-backed bailout of her melonpan. I say “yes.” She’s getting trounced this season by pretty much everyone except Horo~n.

air: Each one of these episodes seems to have been drawn by a different team.
Episode 4 the K-ON staff.
Episode 3 the Clannad: After story: water works staff
Episode 2 the Haruhi-chan/Luck Star staff
Episode 1 the Clannad staff

So who’s left… Episode 5:FMP: fumoffu staff
Episode 6: FMP: Second Raid staff
Episode 7: Kanon staff
Episode 8: Original Melancholy staff

I guess they all want a piece of the trolling action.

Great comment, except Kyoto really only has one animation team. They kinda had a B-team on K-On! (who did better than whenever the A-team work on K-On!). But they have their heavy hitters on Haruhi 2009… Tatsuya Ishihara is directing and Yasuhiro Takemoto (who directed Fumoffu and TSR) is doing the screenplays. But this is kinda like saying, “Karl Malone and GP just joined Kobe and Shaq… will Phil finally get this 11th ring?” (Yes, he did… 5 years later… but with Trevor Ariza and Lamar Odom doing more than Karl Malone and GP ever did in 2004.)

I think the bigger issue is that Kyoto is forgetting who they brought to the dance. My biggest issue is that they stubbornly refuse to do what they did to make Fumoffu and Haruhi originally so enjoyable: keeping it simple and piling on fanservice. There was an entire episode of Fumoffu that revolved around clothing that dissolved! Can you imagine 2009 Kyoto doing something like that? The anime blogging equivalent, of course, is if blog好き became too highbrow to moe at meido and barnacle-avoiding bassists.

Fat Cat Lim: This is the Haruhi episode that doesn’t end,
Yes, it goes on and on my friend.
Some fanboys started praising it, not knowing what it was,
and now they’re raging over it but still watch it just because…

I wonder how many people got that you wrote that in poetry. I wrote about the car flag-waving Haruhi fans back before any reboots happened, and I feel so totally vindicated now. The bandwagon fans were defending the reboots and now they are raging about it. After writing this blog for seven years, I know that most people cannot rationally judge an anime. So be it. There’s nothing wrong with it. So what if I like Umineko and Princess Lover because there’s meido in them? But I’m not going to pretend that Umineko isn’t yet another show that’s going to be butchered by Studio Deen or that Princess Lover is yet another generic harem series. It’s not really the prejudice when it comes to anime… it’s the perspective.

The Silver Sky: Haruhi looks amazingly like a housewife on a soon-to-be-wed female at the obon festival and when kyon asks about homework. Total total turn on. :D

She looked like Mio with shorter hair… is that what you’re trying to get at?

torinostu351: Funny about the K-ON! references, I actually though Haruhi had a lot of Mio facial expressions, like her “confused but somewhat interested in what your going to say next”. (Or maybe I’m just desperately missing Mio.) In fact, I think Haruhi was cutest in this episode. And for me personally, I’m enjoying this. But now I see why it took so long to get this show aired. Every time they animated it, the crew quit, then they had to spend a few months hiring them all back, just to reanimate the same show again. Having not read the novels, I’m excited to see where this all goes. And Jason, stay the course . . . we’re all right here with you.

I like how Haruhi is surpassing Mikuru in terms of moe due to Mikuru’s shrinking melonpan and Haruhi’s now Mio-like features. But we all miss Mio… I think the next countdown won’t be for Indignation of Haruhi Suzumiya but for K-On! Encore. I mean… lesbian stalker for Mio, a Kyoto class trip where Mugi and Mio take a bath together, a “training” session for Mio that involves meido, and the Sawa-chan Meido Fuku Mark II… just a murderer’s row of stories. I just hope that when K-On! Encore comes, they won’t replace Don’t say “lazy” with something that induces seizures.

Mr Jones: Worst possible outcome: Fans will deny that there was ever a second season at all. It’s more likely that they show all eight and fans bicker about which episode was the one that wasn’t worth deleting. If you’ve seen one, you’ve seen them all–but which one? Best outcome: Kyoto denies there were any more than one “endless eight” episodes, gives us seven bonus episodes for being a good sport. You’re a better man than I for slogging through this.

If I can make it through Mai Otome, I can make it through anything. But I don’t agree with either of your scenarios: worst possible outcome is that fans riot and Kodansha pulls Haruhi Suzumiya from Kyoto and gives it to… drumroll… Studio Deen! Best possible scenario is at the end of episode 14, there’s an ad, much like for Gundam 00 Jupiter, that just shows five instruments: two guitars, one bass, one keyboard, and set of drums with “2010” written underneath with a little mini-top hat on the “2”.

boo: Might be just me, but I don’t see to be bothered by the reboots at all… Could be my horrible memory making me able to enjoy the episodes each time lol It’s like I forget all the recurring parts, but remember all the bits that show up only once.

Boo, it’s called “rum”. I liberally use it too.

Niles: I’m in despair that Gonzo nabbed the animation production privileges to The World God Only Knows!

This had better be the fake one, or I will hang myself. Never in a million years did I consider the possibility of Gonzo snatching this- I thought at the worst it would be SHAFT screwing it up with a million camera cuts and dumb references. I just got through the awesome K-ON ripoff chapter, so this even being a possibility is like having my toes smashed with a hammer.

You mean the awesome K-On! arc. Only good thing happen when Elysee started playing the bass. The World God Only Knows is the #1 overall draft pick. It’s like Steve Strasburg, Matt Stafford, and Blake Griffen all rolled up in one. Of course, those three went to the Nationals, the Lions, and the Clippers, arguably the three worst franchises of the MLB, the NFL, and the NBA respectively. I still think Kyoto is the best choice for Keima. They can get the moe down, and TWGOK doesn’t rely heavily on fanservice, so that doesn’t accent Kyoto’s current major failing. Plus, I’d love to see Aki Toyosaki voice Elysee with maybe Daisuke Ono as Keima. Hakua… Aya Hirano. And if there’s any studio that can do justice with red fire trucks, I know it’s either Kyoto or Production IG (but since there’s no governmental conspiracies, let’s leave them out).

(The other acceptable choices, I think, are Madhouse and HAL. But both are still hit or miss, but TWGOK wouldn’t be out of their league. Horrible choices still include Sunrise, Shaft, Studio Deen, JC Staff, Worldwide Pants, Gansis, Gonzo, GoHands, Feel, Manglobe, Bee Train, Bones, PA Works, and AIC. All of those studios can do certain types of anime, and TWGOK isn’t one of them.)

(I also hope that when Kyoto does do TWGOK that they reprise Don’t say “lazy” as the ED, but with the TWGOK haremettes. And I consider the K-On! arc Tamiki Wakaki’s way of trying to get Kyoto’s attention.)

(I’m looking forward to seeing Nora in TWGOK.)

(Apparently, Tamiki Wakaki likes Meido Detective. At least he’s blogged about it. It’s not certain, but he just might be my long, lost twin.)

Nexas: The worst/best part about a series starring Haruhi as a semi-lesbian assassin is that while she is winking at Mikuru, she has stuffed in her a frog out fit most likely and already has her to taped to a wall near said stripper pole.

Yep… these are my readers.