Review of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (2009)

7/10

Recommended

February 14, 2010

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I loved the first "season" of this series. The ending left me wanting more. It started well with the brilliant "Bamboo Leaf Rhapsody." Then came Endless Eight. When I watched the first episode of Endless Eight, I actually quite enjoyed it. This time there's nothing going wrong! It's just the last week of summer and everyone's having fun. After that I watched the second episode of Endless Eight. Well, this doesn't seem so bad. I've only already watched the first one and I don't mind seeing it again. Then the third one, and the fourth one. Pretty soon it got really boring. Instead of actuallywatching the fifth and sixth, I just played free cell while listening to the dialogue. "Kyon-kun, Denwa." After that, it just got boring. For the seventh and eighth ones, I just watched the first three minutes and then skipped to the end. When I heard Kyon shout "I HAVEN'T FINISHED MY LIST YET!" I cheered. It was finally over. However, that was the biggest waste of 3 hours and 15 minutes of my life. But I guess this season can be redeemed by The Sigh of Haruhi Suzumiya, as I found that especially interesting, because this time I had actually read the book before watching. The only problem I have with this is with Endless Eight. If they had taken Endless Eight and made it into Endless Two, or even Endless Three, then I would have been much happier. However, Endless Eight takes up more than half of this "season," so that constitutes one major glaring flaw of this series. But I probably wasn't as pissed as some other fans of the series, because I had only found out about the series this January, not in 2006, when the first "season" was originally aired. Now, despite the fact that I hated Endless Eight with a passion, the one other redeeming quality is the voice cast. Yūko Gotō, Minori Chihara, and my absolute favorite Seiyū ever, Aya Hirano all performed quite excellently. Super Driver was a great opening theme (although I do prefer Bouken Desho Desho from the first season) and I liked the ending theme.