Review of The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya

In a circle of best friends, typically, the most significant, yet least noticed friend is the one who never talks. The quiet friends just eat their two-dollar lunches, type away on their computer, or read a book while the others have fun chatting. Therefore, expecting the quiet friend to destroy the world and create a new one would be similar to questioning the possibility of an alien’s existence in one’s neighborhood. The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya is about a quiet friend. North High student Kyon’s world changed abruptly a week before Christmas. He woke up early, walked up the hill to school, and met his classmate,Ryoko in homeroom. Later, he discovered that the leader of his club, Haruhi, was absent, along with his fellow club member, Itsuki. Mikuru, his crush, even forgot his name, and in bewilderment, punched his face. Furthermore, his best friend, Yuki, has started to wear glasses again. To a normal student, it’s only a bad day that coincidentally involves the whole of the SOS Brigade, but to him, it’s a global scale dilemma. As quoted from one of the prequel novels, “Freud would have a field day with this.”

Ryoko was supposed to be dead by Yuki’s hands. Itsuki was an esper. Yuki was an alien who lost her glasses while killing Ryoko (who was trying to provoke Haruhi by killing Kyon). Mikuru was a time-traveller. Each of them were supposed to keep Haruhi Suzumiya from destroying the world.

Why watch The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya? Yes, the story is a 10, the characters are a 10... everything's a 10. However, none of these alone make Disappearance memorable. The moral is the most important part.: the loudest scream is the scream of silence.

The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya is quite possibly the best movie I have ever watched. The characters, ranging from sarcastic Kyon to dangerous Haruhi, are lovable on various degrees. It is well worth the one-hundred sixty-three minutes of time, and the time that the next movie, The Disappearance of Yuki-chan Nagato, will take up. No matter how much the viewer knows about Haruhi, he or she will have their heart touched by this melancholic tale of a boy and his strange friends.

10/10 for everything, and deserves to be mentioned alongside even Miyazaki movies.

(Note: This is written all by me. It looks like the one written on LoidNerdy101's DeviantART, because I am him. Ask him for proof, and you'll see that it's me.)