Review of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (2009)

[Interesting direction and good ideas, but VERY VERY mediocre execution]. ⪻- Review | Comment and Reflection -⪼ I won't extend too much, this was one of the worst sequels I've had the opportunity to see, it's incredible how the strongest point of the series (the supernatural) becomes the most tedious and boring. Not only because of the horrible design change that ruins the great aesthetics of the series, but also because they wasted an idea with so much potential. The series already had a more than good direction, it had those details that broke the fourth wall in a subtle way and nothing heavy or dense, thesimple fact that the chapters are disordered is a tremendous detail that makes you clear the two order that is in space time. Even that season had its good things, I highlight the idea that the frames are lagged to simulate the danger of being erased when Haruhi gets bored of the world and them, this actually builds well what Kyon must avoid in the future, but the August infinity arc was one of the worst things I've seen in a long time. I understand that the author/director wanted to convey despair so that we can identify with Yuki for everything she suffered, but there were ways to make it more dynamic without being so dense, instead the author/director decided to go easy by repeating the same chapter to generate despair in a mediocre way. The worst of all is how he uses this arc as an excuse to do as much fanservice as possible, it literally seemed that every time the characters went to the pool, the whole budget was spent on animating new sequences focusing on the ass or boobs. At the end of it all this arc was so irrelevant that the ending added nothing to the plot, even the mansion killer arc added more than this garbage. After this attempt to replicate Tatami Galaxy, the series comes back with some interesting chapters in which we can feel again that feeling of danger so endearing that managed to capture a minimum interest in knowing what would happen, or those discussions between Haruhi and Kyon that transmitted an incredible tension that kept you attentive to the screen, and the detail of the final chapter in which we see why Kyon told her to repeat the phrase that this is not real, it's all fictional, connects everything perfectly. Oh, and as for the first episodes, I didn't talk almost nothing about them because literally nothing happened.

A season that in the final stretches went up quite a bit, but in general had a rather mediocre direction and a too slow pace. With this I'm going for the movie, I hope it's totally worth this shitty trip.