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The ‘announcement’ made on Tanabata (7th of July) is actually an ingenious surveillance video depicting images of a school. You can probably guess who the characters are, but don’t expect to understand it unless you’ve read the novels (which are REALLY GOOD). This should also be one (or two) of the episodes to come in the second season of Haruhi, and I have to say this will be an extremely important episode, as it explains why everything started three years ago. Oops, did I say too much? Heh, but if you’re itching to know what the hell actually happens in this 20+ minute video…

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Well, it says here…I foresee some blog aggregator spammage coming up…if this is real. But whatever I think I’ve gotten over haruhi for the meantime and won’t get back into it until it actually starts. As for now I’m desperately awaiting Shana season 2 xD

Edit: Will be announced on the official site on Tanabata (07/07/07)

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I didn’t really know what to expect from the last episode as I knew it would be the 6th episode chronologically, but after I watched it, it made much more sense. This event apparently strengthens Kyon’s and Haruhi’s relationship with each other, which can be seen in the later episodes chronologically. It was a satisfying end to the season (hopefully there’s more). Suzumiya Haruhi was supposedly cut short due to the Kanon remake, but I can’t remember where I got that information from. At first I was pretty pissed but now that I’ve seen Kanon I have realised it is an equally good show (as of episode one at least lol). Nevertheless, the last episode satisfied mainly because of the high amounts of destruction and a lot of Haruhi × Kyon bonding. The kiss near the end sealed the deal, though I wish it was made more romantic as described in the novels. There wasn’t even a good, clean close-up! Ah well, now it just means KyoAni HAS to do a follow up. Well, they don’t have to, but I’m sure all those Haruhiists out there were left wanting more after the last episode.

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Two excellent episodes: 12 with the awesome performance by Haruhi/Hirano Aya, and 13 with heaps of mayhem as well as Koizumi finally showing off his powers as an esper (ESP user). I also tend to like episodes when Koizumi has a large part, as he usually finds a way to make everything so wordy and increase the length of a conversation from 2 or 3 to a dozen, and his lines are always interesting. So are Kyon’s of course with his hilarious sarcasm. But still, the last episode is the best, even though technically it’s not the last one and only the 6th. Oh well.

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Being able to watch a series again without getting bored at all just proves to me that this series IS one of my favourites, even though I don’t really need confirmation of that. Episode 9 was disliked by quite a few people because nothing really happened (there was a full 3 minutes of Nagato reading with voices in the background!), but I for one actually liked it quite a bit. That episode shows how close Kyon and Haruhi have become, which is quite touching. Tsuruya’s appearance in that episode was awesome too, even if it was extremely brief. Episode 10 was definitely one of the most exciting episodes in the whole series, but I almost cried when Asakura ‘died’. I had been wondering why she was never in the previous episodes, which are actually later in chronological order. She was such a good character too…Anyway, the part from episode 11 which I remember most clearly is when Kyon is about to put his faith in Nagato to win the competition, when he sees her trying to move her mouse in the air…LMAO that was hilarious.

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Ah yes, episode 8; my favourite. It was the most interesting and exciting of them all. I was convinced that guy was dead until the last moment when it seemed like Kyon had killed Koizumi. At that moment, I knew it couldn’t have been for real. Such a shame … it would have been good if the series was darker, but that’s about as dark as it gets. I really hope for a sequel, but for now, Kyoto should be busy with Kanon so I’ll watch that for now. Still, Suzumiya Haruhi is awesome and the withdrawal from it that I’ve been suffering from compounded with no bleach last week – sigh … And who was that girl at the start of episode 6? The one tearing up the paper and such. Mysterious…

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Well, er … nothing much to say since the Anime’s finished already. Episode 4 is when my favourite character is introduced – Tsuruya! If only she had more air time … Oh and episode shuffling starts episode 4 (not including the first episode). When I first watched the fourth episode, I honestly did not notice anything wrong with the order of events. I couldn’t remember what episode 3 was about so I thought I just missed Koizumi’s intro. Although Kyon and Haruhi seemed a bit closer at the end of that episode than how they left off of episode 3. It was only until the start of episode 5 did I realise. I’d say for this series, the episode shuffling is a positive thing – otherwise the last episode would’ve been that episode about Kyon getting the heater. Absolutely nothing happened in that episode!

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So, most of the characters are properly introduced – Kyon, whose real name remains a mystery, Suzumiya Haruhi, Asahina Mikuru and Nagato Yuki, as well as Kyon’s two friends (Taniguchi and something else…) I’m still not quite sure as to when I became addicted to the series. Was it this episode? At around this time, many people would’ve started watching the series. Its popularity would’ve risen, but not drastically, as opposed to its popularity of 0 before it aired. No one had been expecting this series would turn out good, and I can say that few people watched the first episode when it aired (outside of Japan, I mean). I hadn’t caught on to this show until the third or fourth episode aired. By then, it was very popular so I had to have faith in random people’s opinions on the internet and watch through the whole first episode. This episode clears a lot of things up and establishes the real story. I think it’s the general, happy and carefree feel of the series that I like, as well as its high originality. I’m surprised a crazy concept as Haruhi being able to make whatever she wishes a reality drew me in, but I’m glad it did.

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