May I try some of your tasty beverage? After a couple of weeks of repeats we finally get a new episode of Haruhi V2.0, although it had little to do with plot advancement in a significant way. In the most widely circulated guess as to the order of airing of new episodes, it looks like the next couple of weeks should be new as well, but nothing has been made official.
Whenever I see pools like that I always think “how many little kids are peeing in that?” Needless to say I don’t go to public pools, I am strictly a private pool guy.
This is pretty much exactly what I look like when people wake me up in the morning with a phone call.
The alien mask, how appropriate. And I think this was unfortunately Yuki’s only spoken line the entire episode. I was quite disappointed at the lack of any major Yuki content this episode. However, as someone who has read the novels, I can say that the future bodes well for those of us who enjoy Yuki.
He should have asked for a reroll.
Bug catching? Seriously, that’s disgusting.
Wow, that’s pretty fucked up. Making them work in those retarded outfits all day in the summer just so she can nab a frog outfit. All while she hung out eating popsicles.
What I did find interesting about this episode is that the raw amount of “fun” activities they shoved into one episode gave me some perspective on what anime portrays as activities young Japanese people enjoy. I have know way of knowing how much of this is true in real life as entertainment mediums often do not reflect reality. But when I was in high school I would have found most of what they did incredibly boring and/or a stupid waste of my time. But then again I was a nerd, and I’d have rather gone to a LAN party or stayed home and played CS…
The episode was alright, but I’ve seen random slice of life stuff in tens of other shows although it was actually one of the top generic slice of life episodes I’ve seen. However, the reason I watch this show is for the other, stranger aspects of it all. I know most of this stuff was in the books, but that doesn’t necessarily make it amazingly interesting. Although it sure did look really nice, KyoAni definitely knows how to make quality animation.
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it’s slice of life/fun episode… not too bad but not too good… but my predictions will be that the next two episodes will almost be exactly the same with the last one closing off the story… at least thats what i would do
it feels like haruhi has a terminal illness or will leave to france soon, so she desperately tries to have some more fun filled times.
i completely agree with Tenryu
Illic est nusquam vere subinfero , praeter loquor ut, ego sum laetus video vidi visum sulum tergum iterum , pro verus , acsi scilicet vigilo lemma operor inanis estas strenuus.
Laus ut Deus Imperatrix!
This episode pretty much makes me downright loathe Haruhi. Screw this the-world-is-created-by-her-3-years-ago… the whole world can blow up if it needs to, just make sure it brings Haruhi down with it.
(Is there ever going to be a character that will do everything opposite of what Haruhi wants?)
olivia: The answer is, no. “Screw existence” is just something you’d say, as you’re just an observer looking into their situation. I’d think that, if YOU were in same circumstances, you’d value your survival, or even the survival of the people around you, than imminent and VERY real destruction/reconstriction. Each and everyone of the SOS-dan know this, which is why they keep with the appeasement game
If we want to try to get more out of this than filler, I did notice at the end she seems to act like she hadn’t finished her list. They did just about every typical Japanese summer activity, and I can only think of one thing left a young girl would want to have over the summer. What do you think it might be?
olivia: Um, isn’t that basically what Kyon is for? He hasn’t gone against her as much as some people would like (choosing more for passive opposition by having little motivation in all activities), but, then again, I’m pretty sure he doesn’t want his world to end as was made obvious in the end of the first major story arc as a very real possibility.
Anime and Haruhi has taught me that most Japanese teenagers don’t have parents.
This episode quickly teaches you what real teens in life don’t do over the summer. Perhaps this is a sign that Haruhi wanted to experience normalcy in the Japanese tradition before her mind starts to think about other things.
Also, off topic, I liked Yuki and her alien mask.
I thought Endless Eight was the story where the same day repeated some 40,000 times. Looks like Kadokawa is fucking with its fans again!
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