Review of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya

ATTENTION: MINOR SPOILERS - Don't waste your time with this one. I don't usually rate anime, but this one forced me. It was that terrible. Everything up to episode 13 was mind blowingly good. It had everything I liked in anime, intrigue, mystery, sci fi, good story and characters. Then I got to the Endless Eight story arc ... if you could call it a story arc. It was an eight episode arc which wasted about 2 hours of my life when I realized that it would be eight episodes long, hence the name Endless Eight. This is just gawd awful lazy story telling. They spent eight episodesrepeating the same junk when they could have done something good like develop the characters more. You could just tell that the writer had nothing to write about so he did the same episode eight times when he could have got his point across with just a few.

The worst part was when I finally got to the end of the story arc, I thought something poignantly profound was going to happen to make it all worth it and it turns out to be something just ridiculously trivial. I got very mad and irritated, I could no longer find enjoyment in this anime and all the "slice of life" events of the characters.

Seriously, don't bother with this one.