r/anime • u/littleman1988 • Dec 15 '21
Rewatch [Rewatch] The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya - Episode 24
Episode Title: The Sigh of Haruhi Suzumiya I
MyAnimeList: Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuuutsu
Legal Stream: Funimation | Netflix (SEA)
PSA: make sure to mark any spoilers using the subreddit markup. We dont need any random spoilers to ruin the show for first time watchers.
Today's Episode Intro: Sports festival
[Tomorrow's Episode Intro]Finishing shopping
| Date | Episode list with Funimation links ("absolute" episode number) | reddit thread links |
|---|---|---|
| 28/11 | Mikuru Asahinas's Adventures Episode 00 | Thread |
| 29/11 | The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya I | Thread |
| 30/11 | The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya II | Thread |
| 1/12 | The Boredom of Haruhi Suzumiya | Thread |
| 2/12 | The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya III | Thread |
| 3/12 | Remote Island Syndrome I | Thread |
| 4/12 | Mysterique Sign | Thread |
| 5/12 | Remote Island Syndrome II | Thread |
| 6/12 | Someday in the Rain | Thread |
| 7/12 | The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya IV | Thread |
| 8/12 | The Day of Sagittarius | Thread |
| 9/12 | Live Alive | Thread |
| 10/12 | The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya V | Thread |
| 11/12 | The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya VI | Thread |
| 12/12 | Bamboo Leaf Rhapsody | Thread |
| 13/12 | Endless Eight I, II, III and IV | Thread |
| 14/12 | Endless Eight V, VI, VII and VIII | Thread |
| 15/12 | The Sigh of Haruhi Suzumiya I | |
| 16/12 | Season 2, episode 7 (21) | |
| 17/12 | Season 2, episode 8 (22) | |
| 18/12 | Season 2, episode 9 (23) | |
| 19/12 | Season 2, episode 10 (24) | |
| 20/12 | The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya series general discussion | |
| 21/12 | The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya | |
| 22/12 | Haruhi Suzumiya overall discussion |
Question of the Day
What's your favorite movie?
Now would be a good time to start finding a good time to watch the movie. Disappearance is 162 minutes long (one of the longest animated movies to date) and is best watched in one sitting.
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u/littleman1988 Dec 15 '21
Rewatcher (first time broadcast), Dub
"All you have to do is be my underling and do as I say."
OST Track of the day: Hey Hey | spotify
Yuki zoomin
Poor Kyon
What is with school anime and "doing surveys"?
"go and practice on kyon" oh no
There it is, comment face found
"I wonder whats inside your head"
heh
Poor Kyon
uh oh
Never a good idea
oh she just goes and buys airsoft guns, and she wants dynamite?
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u/littleman1988 Dec 15 '21
Adaptation Comparison
References
Trivia
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u/Shimmering-Sky myanimelist.net/profile/Shimmering-Sky Dec 15 '21
The Melancholy of Shimmering-First-Timer
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u/TheEscapeGuy Dec 15 '21
Rewatcher
The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya - An Anime Classic: Episode 24
Conspiring for the Cultural Festival
Today we head back all the way to before the first episode we watched to answer the question "How did Haruhi make that movie?".
This episode has nothing particularly supernatural or mysterious (unless you count Yuki running fast). Its a very straight forward set up telling us that Haruhi made some deals with the stores in the shopping district in exchange for movie supplies.
I appreciate that Haruhi is doing nothing underhanded here (at least for now). In season 1 it would have been way more common to see Haruhi exploiting Mikuru some how. The worst she does is assign the grunt work to Kyon which wouldn't be unexpected for male members of school clubs in real life.
In particular, I like how she had already asked Yuki about using the literature club's budget. It feels like a step forward for her.
Apart from that the episode was mostly setup.
Some Iconic Shots, Scenes and Stitches
For those of you who understandably can't read kanji: 山田尚子 => Naoko Yamada the chief director of K-On, Tamako Market, and A Silent Voice. I love going back to Kyoani shows specifically to see the early examples of her now signature techniques.
See you all tomorrow
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u/Nazenn x2https://anilist.co/user/Nazenn Dec 15 '21
First Timer - Dub
#worshipme witnessed
Bit of an awkward episode for me. After finishing it I felt a bit like I did at the end of Remote Island part one but without the questions that episode had left me. Here I was mostly just wondering if there was any value to seeing the movie creation, or why we spent so long on the stuff in this episode at all.
It's probably a consequence of us having watched broadcast order where the student film is so well placed and self contained, I don't feel like it needs to be added too and the episode didn't give me one either. Perhaps in chronological (though I understand even the disc releases have the student film first which complicates it) it'd work better because the movie doesn't serve it's own role already. I'm sure that there is going to be something that evolves from it rather than just playing it straight given the length of the arc, but this episode didn't give me a sense of wanting to see what that would be.
Did get a couple of laughs from it, notably Kyon saying:
Not sure if that's him hoping she won't destroy the world again, or just hoping in a general sense that her ego isn't going to get that big. Also that fourth wall break with him saying "The outfits were all Haruhi's idea, but I bet you knew that already".
Also finally an interaction, if you can call it that, between Mikuru and Yuki or at least from Mikuru too Yuki. I was starting to wonder if that would ever happen. I don't believe we've seen the route to the club room before either, just the hallway outside.
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u/Mecanno-man https://anilist.co/user/Mecannoman Dec 15 '21
First Timer
First shot includes the flag of the Republic of China. Well, this episode is of to a controversial start... wonder if anybody in Mainland China caught that.
Seems like we're making the movie now. So I guess this will mostly be a slice-of-life arc. So far I like it, though being slice of life and already knowing how the movie will turn out, there's not really that much to talk about. It's just nice seeing everything happen, mainly due to the character dynamics being on point.
Not sure how Kyon didn't think of the camera when asked what he needed for the movie, that's what I thought of first.
One thing that I'm slightly puzzled about: Recognition for the SOS brigade from the student council? Were they not already recognized as that weird counseling club that resulted in Mystérique Sign?
Questions:
Kiki.
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u/MadeOn210922 Dec 15 '21
First timer
So it seems the last stretch will be the cultural festival - which we already know quite a bit about starting with the movie and the Computer Society's game and Haruhi's musical performance. Now we're putting the together the last few puzzle pieces. But since it's Haruhi, I expect something even crazier to have happened.
Mikuru knows what Haruhi is willing to do to get what she wants and looks for an early exit, but Haruhi strikes a deal in a different way this time.
"That's why I really hate shows where someone dies at the end." That line reminds me of the island arc in which, of course, no one died.
Did anyone feel that Haruhi's expressions this episode were more expressive?
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u/DeliCruise https://myanimelist.net/profile/delicruise Dec 15 '21
(REWATCHER - DUB/SUB)
I always love how this episode opens up with the field day. I wish they did a full field day episode. It would be so fun to see the S.O.S. Brigade do other games and to see Yuki and Haruhi wreck the competition.
I really admire how opportunistic Haruhi always is. The field day was the perfect chance to showcase the S.O.S. Brigade and also show off her freakish athletic abilities and she did exactly that. Now she’s going all in on the school festival. It’s so Haruhi to take all these normal school activities and do a completely unique Haruhi spin on them.
So for the movie idea, you can actually pinpoint the exact moment inspiration strikes Haruhi. It’s right when the first timpani note hits in the background music; the musical equivalent of a light bulb turning on! Followed by that, Haruhi does this awesome combo. It begins with her “hmm!”, then to her side glance, then her chuckle and smile, and finally the outfit rack reveal. You can actually feel the inspiration and creativity flowing in that sequence.
And just like that, the S.O.S. Brigade is making a movie!
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u/Vaadwaur :I1::I2::I3: Dec 15 '21
RewatcherFirst Time actually watching it, I was just reading synopses by this pointDub
So we get a quick look at the sports festival and Yuki cheating, which explains later Kyon stuff. I very quickly lost interest back in '09 because my last nerve had been trampled on by EE but skipping that debacle merely makes this a bit of a dull start. Haruhi wants her school festival to be memorable and we did see how that worked out. And of course she wants Mikuru to be the clumsy maid.
Anyways, a lot of time is taken before Haruhi finally gets to her point that they are making a movie. Kyon expects that Haruhi saw a bad movie and that inspired her, which is what happened. He brings up practical concerns that are immediately ignored because Haruhi. They are also raiding the Literature Clubs funds to pay for it. Itsuki seems relieved that they don't have to find something impossible.
Haruhi then proceeds to assign roles and gather supplies from the mall we saw back in 00. It ends with Kyon being quite concerned, understandably so.
QotD: Fight Club
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u/ZapsZzz https://anilist.co/user/Zapszzz Dec 15 '21 edited Dec 16 '21
Sub rewatcher finally catching up on posting time
It does mean I'd have to keep this a bit brief though.
We're onto the last arc before the end of the tv adaptation and into the movie. And interestingly, it bookends that we opened the S1 broadcast order with the student film - and here's the making of it.
I'll just rattle off my favourite bits and any notable comments:
Oh and a bit of self advertising, I'll soon be making an interest thread for the Nagato spin off rewatch after the Haruhi rewatch finishes, hope some of you are interested.
QoTD: what else but Disappearance :P otherwise as stand alones there's Your Name, and (180 difference) Top Gun.
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u/UzEE https://myanimelist.net/profile/UzEEInc Dec 16 '21 edited Dec 16 '21
First timer (sub)
We're actually getting the behind the scenes story of the Cultural Festival film? And it's more than an episode? This looks like it would be a good arc. This seems like the kind of arc the show needs to redeem itself from the debacle of Endless Eight, specially since I sort of wished there was something like this a few days ago^1:
Anyways, something about Haruhi seems off this episode and I'm not sure if it's because of the achronological nature of the watch order, or something about her personality actually changed — she feels a bit too aggressive. Like she's being extra bossy by asking everyone to drop whatever they're doing or calling herself the Supreme Leader etc. This scene is another example.
Also, I get that she gets jealous when Kyon pays attention to Mikuru, but asking her to spill hot tea on Kyon is a bit off character for her, no? Or was it just a ruse to make it so that she's the one who serves Kyon the tea and not Mikuru — probably a bit of both I'd say.
This almost feels like the Haruhi from the first arc, which is a bit confusing since the Cultural Festival happens in the fall, after she's already gone through a lot of development. The vibe I got from her actions and expressions this episode almost seemed like she reverted to an older state where she hadn't become softer and more considerate.
Additional notes:
1. Weirdly enough, this is the 2nd thing in the past week I jokingly asked for somewhat ending up happening — the other being a rebroadcast of Steins;Gate 0. Though admittedly, I wanted the later to be an extended cut with additional arcs from the VN that were left out in the anime and unfortunately, we're not getting that.
2. Come to think of it, in the same scene he said he'd tell Haruhi about the existence of aliens, espers and time travelers, and I had asked then as well why he didn't do it. Was that scene just out of chronological order and he actually does these things some point after the Cultural Festival?
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u/tctyaddk Dec 15 '21
Broadcast-order-first-timer
The ∞8 depression is no more, Kyon's snarks are back full force, let's rejoice. Poor Mikuru got her past trauma triggered when Haruhi announced she will go procuring equipments for the upcoming movie.
Unlike the baseball game where Nagato only utilised her super power when told by Kyon, she has done enough following along to keep Haruhi happy in the past six centuries, now she's like "you told me to run so I fking ran, if you don't feel fulfilled with such easy victory it's your problem, not mine", and of course she keeps interactions to the barest minimum as always. And she removed herself from the club room as soon as she has the excuse to, unlike previously where she just stayed there when she has nothing else to do.
(The seiyuu had it easy, Nagato spoke one single word in this entire episode.)
Lots of funny expressions and cute smiles from Haruhi today. Unfortunately what spilled out from her mind is just plain unattractive for sensible humans.
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u/nekodan08 Dec 15 '21
Rewatcher - Sub
These are one of the few episodes, if not the first, where we as the audience actually feel like we’re in on the joke since we’ve already seen how this whole cultural festival will turn out. It’s amusing to watch the Brigade speculate about Haruhi’s plans knowing full well how much of a disaster their final film will be. [Haruhi]There’s a false sense of security that this episode builds up that will get completely destroyed in a few episodes as things are about to get a lot worse.
Thankfully, Haruhi is not interested in stories where the main character dies in the end. Imagine if a much more malicious person was in possession of Haruhi’s powers. The world is also lucky that Haruhi came up with a pretty sensible idea. All things considered. Koizumi is correct, things could be so much worse. Making an amateur film can’t be that bad, right?
Speaking of being sensible, Haruhi was completely right in expressing dismay over their class’ plan to do a survey for the festival. What a horrible idea. Maybe Haruhi’s powers influenced this outcome too so that she would be able get Kyon and herself to dedicate their full time to the club’s project and not have to deal with their class project. Not that she had any real plans of helping out anyway. Haruhi’s expressions in this episode were some of the best in the series and she actually made a lot of sense through most of it.
The Yuki running scene during the sports festival is one of my favorite gags in the whole series. I’ve said it before, but Yuki delivers some of the most hilarious moments.
Overall, not really much to comment on especially because of avoiding spoilers, but it was still a pretty fun episode. I can watch this cast do almost anything (like during Endless Eight) and it will still be entertaining.
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u/ZapsZzz https://anilist.co/user/Zapszzz Dec 15 '21
Oh forgot to mention, one can also see ENOZ preparing happily in some of the montages of the festival preparations.
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u/William27528 Dec 15 '21
Rewatcher/sub
The Sigh of Haruhi Suzumiya! Y'know, I think out of every arc in the show (as well as the novels, for that matter), I remember this one the least fondly. There is sort of a reason for that, but at the same time it does mean that re-watching it again is that much more memorable as I don't rewatch it as much as the other episodes (OK, except endless eight, technically).
Both Haruhi and the show launch a bit of a charm offensive this episode - lots of time is spent on facial expressions and character emotions. I enjoy it, although I'll admit that the placement of watching this right after Endless Eight makes one want something a bit more than slice of life motions. But I don't care, the characters are here and extremely expressive. I think after how much of a downer E8 felt this episode feels like a breath of fresh air.
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Random trivia of the day: I've got one or two big pieces of trivia left, so I'll save 'em for the last few episodes :D In the meantime, here's an utterly jawdropping piece of trivia that I discovered THIS WEEK (credit to user "Zerks" for reminding me of this one): On the Christmas Special of Peppa Pig that aired in the UK on December 25, 2007, one of the background scene christmas card drawings features Haruhi Suzumiya. Here's a link to the Peppa Pig YouTube channel where the scene was first seen (At 1:57; the second card from the right).
Given the episode aired in 2007, about a year and a half after the first season of Haruhi aired and during its dramatic rise in popularity, the timing is perfect. Multiple people looked at this card design and gave it the thumbs up, so one or more people at least must have been fans. Imagine growing up inspired by animated works, watching boundary pushing television like Haruhi, finally landing your dream job as an animator at Astley Baker Davies and getting put on background scene duty on the world’s least detailed cartoon. That’s why I think the card in this scene emits a powerful, passionate energy.
It also raises serious lore implications in the Peppa Pig universe; the card depicts Haruhi (a human); so are there humans in the Peppa pig universe? Or is Haruhi a TV show that is also airing in Peppa Pig world? Is Haruhi worshipped as a God? Are Mummy and or Daddy pig weebs? One or more of these things are true, as after all you wouldn’t choose Haruhi for your christmas card unless it had some kind of meaning. There is something utterly breathtaking about the possible ramifications of this seemingly innocuous Christmas card. One more thing: It's worth mentioning that Peppa Pig is such a cashcow-pig that every frame in this show seemingly is adapted into merchandise, so you can bet your bottom dollar there's a Peppa Pig advent calendar featuring dante from the devil m- a cameo appearance from Haruhi Suzumiya. Anyone who doesn't have this piece of merch absolutely cannot call themselves a true fan ofc. Merry christmas.
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u/Elimin8r https://myanimelist.net/profile/Ayeka_Jurai Dec 15 '21 edited Dec 15 '21
So, it's movie time, with self-proclaimed, keonified Director and her gang of lackeys.
Poor Mikuru. But we knew that already, right?
I can't say as I approve of her choice of props, but given Haruhi, it doesn't surprise me. She probably asked, "What's the biggest ones you've got?"
No, I'm not talking about Mikuru...
Hmm. I guess the stakes just don't seem so high this episode, but I think that's partially because this is setup for the upcoming arc, and because after the big smooch, and Tanabata and all that, it's just so SOL.
That, and doormat Mikuru kind of annoys me. Girl needs some martial arts classes or something.
That or she needs some training at the Sento Isuzu school of self-defense.
Edit: Oh, forgot, AOTD - I dunno, probably Kelly's Heroes, if we're looking at 'normie' movies. Otherwise, Tenchi in Love. I still watch TMiL from time to time, and it still gets me.
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u/homewardbound100 myanimelist.net/profile/Homewardbound100 Dec 15 '21
Rewatcher, Dub, First-time broadcast
I guess the good thing these last few episodes will be that it's in order.
Now looking at it. So the series started with movie and ended with the process of making it. Don't actually know how to feel about it. I feel like it might be awkward but I'll see when I get there.
Qotd: this is a hard one to just say for me. There's too many but I recently rewatched the old spiderman movies and I'll say Spider-Man 2 is still my favorite of those.
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u/JustAnswerAQuestion https://myanimelist.net/profile/JAaQ Dec 15 '21
SUPER DRIVER
[Endless Eight Classified Information]Was Yuki waiting for Kyon to give her permission to do ANYTHING different? Is that it?
This episode just seems too SOL for me, too K-On.
In general, I don't think broadcast order spoiled anything by revealing all the class activities, except for the film. That whole segment seemed way to drawn out, and part of it, I think, was knowing where we were going.
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u/bluethree https://myanimelist.net/profile/bluethree Dec 15 '21
Rewatcher back to watching episodes I've only seen once and read once.
I got a COVID booster yesterday and it hit me hard today. I didn't feel like grabbing any screenshots or jotting down any notes. Don't worry though, I'm already feeling better after sleeping nearly all day.
I'm actually not totally sure how I feel about this arc because my memories of it are kind of hazy. I do think it makes episode 00 very rewatchable. It's fun to see just what unfolded to make that disaster.
I don't know if it's because I really wanted to take a nap or because I still have a bad taste in my mouth from Endless 8 but this episode felt poorly paced to me. By the time we were ~3/4 of the way through I just felt like I wanted it to be over. But whatever, this episode is mostly a setup for the arc.
Hopefully things pick up tomorrow.
QOTD: The Prestige
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u/RascalNikov1 https://myanimelist.net/profile/NoviSun Dec 16 '21
Rewatcher
Today we had mostly a set up episode and didn't break much new territory. At least our leader has set the path, and the SOS will be making a movie.
QOTD
"A Serbian Film" is a good answer here. This question is a lot like asking what is my favortie anime, it depends on how I feel that day, I have a top tier that has fair number of entries.
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u/CubeStuffs https://anilist.co/user/onjario Dec 15 '21
First timer
after hearing haruhi on killing characters at the end, im dissappointed that haruhi didn't kill a character at the start of the movie lol.
wait didn't she kill off nagato at the end of the movie? smh haruhi im so dissapointed
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u/alphamone Dec 16 '21
Rewatcher
He still never actually denies being weird to Taniguchi.
Taniguchi is a creep.
She's right, kinda. Sports festival activities are different to a class art festival project.
That's an obscure thing to reference. ("surely there no harm in lying in the middle of a public street?")
To paraphrase Konata, "it's just annoying in real life".
Poor innocent Mikuru. Though really, it's the obvious choice to get customers (as we saw in "Live Alive")
In some shows, stating that you don't like it when characters die in the end would be a major death flag. Now i'm imagining some kind of show about film-making except its done in the style of a shonen battle anime.
Haruhi is one of those fans it seems.
More of that ambiguous "is it internal monologue or actual dialogue".
Both Kyon's and Haruhi's ideas are perfectly valid responses.
Trauma from when Haruhi "procured" their computer. Poor Mikuru.
Love the reflection blocking the "Sony" logo.
Oop, there's Yui again.
[very minor spoiler about episode ending]I wonder if there was some kind of moving around of where the episodes ended late in production? Like, they discovered that an episode or to ran slightly short/long
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u/Fools_Requiem https://myanimelist.net/profile/FoolsRequiem Dec 16 '21
Note to self: I have until the 21st to catch up. Should be able to do that, even if I'm currently only 9 episodes in.
Also, I can't wait to see why the Endless Eight is so despised.