Review of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya

I gave 10/10 to this anime not only to raise the overall score, but because it deserves it. If you read the comments, the response is highly mixed, with people giving it 4-5 or 9-10, I will give you reasons this show should get full score. The good aspects are Art and Sound, well this is a product of KyoAni so I will skip this part as we all know what they are capable of, the bad aspects, which I will talk about, is mainly Haruhi and the characters and the plot. Let me be clear, I have watched this show first in normal order, then in broadcastorder, and I liked the broadcast order more (ofc), but again, I really don't get why story is boring for some people, in any order to speak of. The story is one of the more intricate ones, I mean it's on par with Monogatari Series, which is like hell of storytelling. The weirdness, quirky-ness as well as unpredictable outcomes of whatever the hell is happening in the show. The broadcast order make it more spicy, and more weird, interesting too, but then people say it's boring and predictable??? Have they even watched it?

Second reason they give is Character tropes and cliche scenes. Well Haruhi was made in 2006 and using character tropes was not overused at that time, it was the normal thing, but the point of the series is to not develop the characters. Yuki got a lot of it in the later chapters, but yea, others don't. But again, we don't need character development, like Konosuba, the current character we have is enough, as the motive is to save the world while hearing Kyon's b*tching about it, not see Mikuru growing from a soft to idk what, Tanya the Evil? It's all right, they struggle to take care of Haruhi and save the world while shit happens among themselves.

Talking about character, I believe people are annoyed with Haruhi, well in the infamous violent episode, it's understandable why she suddenly became annoying if you look at the broadcast order, in normal order even I felt weird with both Kyon's and Haruhi's reaction. Haruhi, actually doesn't grow much, even in the Manga, but that is fine as again the show is not about that, it's the story of Aliens, Time Travellers and ESPers. Again, people who just watches it and talk shit about it, haven't seen episodes and saw small details, for instance the warping in the Island Episode where Haruhi supposedly changed reality when she figured that Kyon maybe the culprit.

At last, I will include Disappearance Movie in this Anime as it was supposed to be together with this series, which single handedly gives the series 10/10 score. After watching the whole 28 (-6 episodes), the movie act as a perfect closure to 2 important characters, which is amazing. The character development complaints then vanishes as we get to see 2 main characters grow. Haruhi was left to create nuisance and that's the point of whole show, let Haruhi be a b*tch and hear about Kyon's b*thing while the whole world goes into chaos.