{"id":20,"date":"2010-04-26T14:46:23","date_gmt":"2010-04-26T14:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/?p=20"},"modified":"2011-06-15T11:56:48","modified_gmt":"2011-06-15T11:56:48","slug":"the-mundanocholy-of-haruhi-suzumoocow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/?p=20","title":{"rendered":"The Mundanocholy of Haruhi Suzumoocow"},"content":{"rendered":"

I finished the first series of the Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumongle<\/em>. The last time I commented on it I had only seen episodes 00 and 01 and thus did not have very much to say about it. Having watched fourteen episodes, what do I have to say now?<\/p>\n

Well, it’s not bad.<\/p>\n

Mmm.<\/p>\n

No doubt there are more obsessive fans out there who could explain the plot in greater detail, but in summary, it’s a slice of life show. Yes, the main character is effectively the centre of the universe according to certain implications and the other folks in her school club consist of a time travel, a psychic dude and some kind of robot chick (I think she’s actually meant to be an alien but there’s not enough extraneous limbs for my liking if that’s the case)<\/span>, and a couple of episodes do involve far-out events such as fighting giant cyber cockroaches<\/strong> and watching a city get destroyed by titanic blue monsters<\/strong>, but at the end of the day, it’s mostly slice of life. It does try and add drama to it by how if Haruhi gets bored then NEO TOKYO WILL E-X-P-L-ODE and having an episode where the fate of the world lies on a game of baseball, but, seriously, over half the show is spent just slicing of life-ing.<\/p>\n

Mmm hmm.<\/p>\n

I will say that, if anything, the rather mundane predicament is made quite entertaining by the real<\/em> main character, Kyon. I am quite honest when I say that I really only stuck with the show because of his voice. I have never seen Crispin Freeman in any other works, but just from this I would be quite keen to fornicate with his vocal cords if the laws of reproduction allowed such a thing. The character narrating all the events is really what made the show for me, because otherwise, let’s face it, the other characters would’ve driven me away. They’re not too bad and could certainly have been a lot worse, but… ehhh<\/strong>, y’know? Ehhh.<\/strong> That’s my sound that excuses me for not having to explain myself. Why did I steal forty cakes? Ehhh,<\/strong> my friend. But in all seriousness, yeah, they’re not bad, but despite the fact they’re meant to be inherently interesting based off their odd occupations, Nagato ends up being the only truly intriguing one, if just because she spends one episode talking for a solid seven minutes and then barely speaks a word in any of the others.<\/p>\n

As I no doubt mentioned the last time I talked about the show (for all of two sentences), reading about the show and its fandom tells me the show’s airing order is entirely different from the chronological order which presumably makes everything a little more comprehensible at the end of it. I’m not in a rush to go through it again. It’s neat to finally see what all the fuss is about and I can understand how this sort of thing would attract all manner of fanatics – the animation is quite decent for a televised anime and the dubbing is spectacular, and the mixture of mildly quirky plots with more mundane lifestyle stories leaves it open to more audiences. But, frankly, it’s not for me. Given the tone and pacing, I’d probably have been more comfortable just reading the original source material, though since I wasn’t all that taken with the story in the first place… no thanks.<\/p>\n

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It was worth watching just for this facial expression, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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