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 Suzumiya Haruhi No Yuutsu

Original Creator: Nagaru Tanigawa, Noizi Ito

Director: Tetsuya Ishihara

Total Episodes: 14

Vintage: 2006-04-02 to 2006-07-02

Production Group: Kyoto Animation

Summary: First day of School, as the students introduce themselves, a young girl, by the name of Haruhi Suzumiya introduces as having “no interest in ordinary humans”. She then continues with the comment “if there are any aliens, Time travelers, espers, please come and join me”. As she ends her introduction, Kyon the bystandar who sits in front of Haruhi starts to wonder. Kyon then became the only person who would speak with Haruhi, he unwittingly gave the idea of her starting her own school club. Then from there the Save our world by Overloading it with fun Suzumiya Haruhi’s Brigade (the S.O.S. Brigade for short) is formed. Kyon and others soon become a part of Suzumiya Haruhi’s world.

                                       Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuutsu, more known as Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya became like a symbol in the world of Otaku or Anime. Just that type of character displays so much and affects the otaku culture in so many ways. The way the story is told is by Kyon(bystandar), the main male role in this series, is narrorating through the episodes and being the Tsukomi character it really serves  a great way to interest the viewers. Haruhi, as I mentioned above, really has no interest in ordinary human and she then unkowingly is claimed as a ‘god’ and is watched by espers, time travelers, and aliens. Nagato Yuki(alien) is a humanoid interface created by the Data Integration Thought Entity, whose responsibilities is to keep an eye on Haruhi and investigate the unexplained “explosion of data” three years prior to the present year. She possesses an ability to manipulate her surrounding environment. Asahina Mikuru(time traveler) from the future who is assigned to investigate the reason behind the inability to travel to any point in time before three years prior to the present story. Koizumi Itsuki(esper) who is also another member who is investigating Haruhi, and has the ability to explore Closed Spaces and destroy the Celestials, created by the anger of Haruhi. As these characters go on about investigating Haruhi’s life and going through day by day events that Haruhi proposes. They go through events such as movie making, field baseball tournaments, searching for aliens, and much more.

                                       The Visual of the series is very beautifully done, Kyoto Animation is probably one of the most recognized animation production group, that displays a great visual for all the other animations they have created. Their style of animation art, really puts a Moe feel to the characters, the simplistic, loosy, drawings really gives the animation a great sense of style that you dont really see in any other animations. The use of the vibrant and light colors really makes the characters and the scenery really stand out.

                                       “Bouken de-show de-show” the Opening theme song  for this anime series, has a nice upbeat that really catches on to the viewer, bringing the livelyness to characters and displays a great use of vector graphics thats flow throughout the song. The Ending song “Hare Hare Yukai” must be the most influencial song ever in the history of Anime. The song consists of in and out screen caps, and occasioanly scenes of the characters dancing, by the end of the song all the characters would be doing full dance sequences, which became one hella popular dance steps in the world of Otaku. If you go to anime conventions or just youtubing, you can find great amounts of people dancing the steps from the song. Very interesting indeed.

                                     Suzumiya Haruhi  no Yuutsu, is definetly a must watch for anime fans out there, some may think its overrated, but thats just their oppinion and their just missing out. If you have a chance definetly check it out, I assure you you wont get dissapointed.

                                      For those who have already watched Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuutsu,  you may already know, but SHnY has a Second season which is currently airing right now and it is airing episodes that are from the light novel of SHnY.

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Ratings:

Story: A

Animation:A

Art: A

Music:A

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Youtube video of the OP/ED will be posted, so please go and watch them if you are interested.

Thanks again for reading and if there are any suggestion/comments/questions, please feel free to ask.

Jya~ne see ya later

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