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ok so one of my new mutuals has been haruhiposting a lot… and it's christmas…

i try to resist, but it is impossible. there is only one option.

i have to properly watch/rewatch haruhi for the first time in thirteen years. the whole thing, in s2 airing order

let's go

episode 1 here we go

‪“Asking someone how long they believed in Santa Claus is so meaningless that it couldn't even serve as worthless gossip.”‬

KOTAE WA ITSUMO WATASHI NO MUNE NIII

(i'm sorry i'm going to be so insufferable, i'm about to rewatch my favourite anime opening ever thirteen times)

HARUHI
ISM

i got to the bit where they're discussing her hairstyles and i'm realising, maybe, why this anime was a big deal for me. i was assaulted by so many concepts at once by watching it…

need the daily ritual of talking to the insane girl (compliment)

and then, she says it: ”Isn't that more fun?”

(any aliens, espers or time travellers wanna follow me?)

the me who first watched this series didn't know about anime or girls yet but current me does. i'm just going to assume asakura ryouko is a lesbian

全然ない

WAIT WHEN KYON MONOLOGUES ABOUT HUMAN INSPIRATION HE DOES THE FINGER CIRCLING THING THAT HARUHI LATER DOES

need an insane girl (compliment) to force me to form a school club with her fr

i keep forgetting how cute haruhi's voice is in this series. like it's always higher and cuter than i remember it being. she's so powerful

ah, the hostage scene

need to be forced into a club that is an unnamed association yet to be made by Suzumiya that will participate in unknown activities.

NAZONAZO MITAI NI CHIKYUUGI WO TOKIAKASHITARA

MINNA DE DOKO MADE MO IKERU NE~

i haven't listened to hare hare yukai in far too long.

okay i'm loved episode 1, i'm sure you can tell. i'll use a ridiculous hashtag (#光ハルヒHoliday) on subsequent posts so you can mute them

i have rewatched episode 1 before, a few years ago. i think, though, right now i'm in the best headspace to be able to fully enjoy it… it's so good. and there's so many little extra things i can pick up on since i remember some of the big spoilers from s1. #光ハルヒHoliday 1

okay time for episode 2… #光ハルヒHoliday 2

S~O~S~dan!!!

(it's repeated in the recap) #光ハルヒHoliday 2

need to be a mysterious transfer student #光ハルヒHoliday 2

“After the SOS Brigade was founded, the bleakness of the former literary clubroom was replaced by a growing number of items. I mean, is she planning on living here?”

need to live in the SOS Brigade clubroom #光ハルヒHoliday 2

some people say they don't like haruhi, that's she's a bad person, that she mistreats mikuru. i think they just can't handle seeing a true #girlboss who knows blackmail is fine when girls do it. [EXTREMELY LOUD INCORRECT BUZZER]

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‪RT🔐: “Haruhi is a terrible person but that's good actually‬
‪-me, perfectly sane”‬

‪see? this is the way #光ハルヒHoliday 2‬

‪“And I'm concerned about why Nagato-san is here.”‬

‪oh, this is one of the Mikuru quotes i know from my Weiß-Schwarz Haruhi deck, so that's where it's from……… aaah i need local friends i can play Weiß-Schwarz with. New year's resolution… #光ハルヒHoliday 2‬

this was the first anime i watched, and therefore my first significant exposure to the japanese language. what's so cool, though, is it was also the first time i saw japanese being typed using an IME. it's so cool!! i loved seeing this realistic computer use… #光ハルヒHoliday 2‬

‪remember when people would just make websites? i liked making websites. that kyon is forced to make a website is probably another reason i liked this series #光ハルヒHoliday 2‬

remarkable in retrospect that haruhi's repeated uhh severe boundary violations didn't fuck me up somehow. i came out of watching this well-adjusted. rip to other girls but i'm different #光ハルヒHoliday 2‬

“People who plan on a mysterious experience in the near future…” she's just like me fr #光ハルヒHoliday 2‬

‪i didn't notice before how unrealistic kyon and mikuru's interactions are. they're both kind of acting as if they're acting, neither of them fully believing what they're saying (mind you kyon does this all the time) #光ハルヒHoliday 2‬

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reddit dot com slash r slash female living space

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suzumiya haruhi no koto.

[the cool music starts playing]

it's exposition time. one of my favourite shameless exposition scenes.

#光ハルヒHoliday 2‬

wait i was already thinking that i should probably read some ratfic about this show but now i got to the Data Integration Thought Entity and it's Extremely… like… a thing that people would project… things onto. ahhh. please give me your haruhi takes!!!!!!! #光ハルヒHoliday 2‬

hare hare yukai time again…

warainagara HAMINGU

this phrase. that capitalisation. that foreign-word-integration (maybe it was written HUMMING?)… that is a thing that's been stuck in my head forever, i think it's why i wanted to learn japanese #光ハルヒHoliday 2‬

time for exposition part 2 (episode 3) #光ハルヒHoliday 3

I BELIEVE~ #光ハルヒHoliday 3

‪she believes me 🥺 #光ハルヒHoliday 3‬

ok so about the actual exposition: wow this has monogatari-like insert-card stuff going on. this is actually a good exposition sequence #光ハルヒHoliday 3‬

‪i know it's potentially a very superficial plot device type thing but i still want to come up with some sort of real-world explanation for what the Data Integration Thought Entity might be. it's more fun that way #光ハルヒHoliday 3‬

“Survey says that a student who transfers in halfway through the year is practically guaranteed to be a mysterious transfer student!”

• oh my god, “survey says”… that takes me back, people don't say that now
• she's doing the kyon finger circling thing again

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(Steve Ballmer voice) Reversi #光ハルヒHoliday 3

time for me to meet again the character i liked best 13 years ago (i'm telling on myself here, right?) #光ハルヒHoliday 3

^^ #光ハルヒHoliday 3

i regret to inform you that i am still a koizumi itsuki fan. i will resist the urge to make him my profile pic though because my taste in characters already makes people mistake me for a guy, #光ハルヒHoliday 3

also mikuru tripping and falling genuinely made me burst out laughing #光ハルヒHoliday 3

the way koizumi smoothly handles all of haruhi's bullshit is funny. i mean it's obviously an act, but that doesn't make it not funny. #光ハルヒHoliday 3

honestly one of the most interesting things about watching this thirteen years later is i'm a lot less autistic, i actually realise when characters are meant to be weird and aren't authentic. i don't think the me that originally watched it had this awareness #光ハルヒHoliday 3

what i'm wondering now is… how much kyon realises it. i know, he's the narrator and constantly comments on the other characters' behaviour, but… hmm. #光ハルヒHoliday 3

oh, the mikuru exposition scene is good too, but… wow, these scenes are so much shorter than i thought they were! #光ハルヒHoliday 3

禁則事項です。禁則事項です。禁則事項です。禁則事項です。 #光ハルヒHoliday 3

ohh, the library shots in this episode are beautiful… i'd post screenshots but i wouldn't be able to do them justice in the alt text. #光ハルヒHoliday 3

this show has gone through so much in such little time, without it being too little… it has good pacing so far. #光ハルヒHoliday 3

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don't you hate it when, three years ago, something happened #光ハルヒHoliday 3

“Perhaps this world is but a dream a certain being is seeing.”

this show is even more my shit than i thought it was #光ハルヒHoliday 3

what is the “Agency” that itsuki works for. i also want a real-world explanation for this. again, it's more fun that way #光ハルヒHoliday 3

oh my god ベター is a real japanese word that itsuki used. the english word 「better」. #光ハルヒHoliday 3

he loves saying wareware. #光ハルヒHoliday 3

ah, so the whole… premise… is set up by the end of the third episode. cool. i'm enjoying this rewatch a lot :3 #光ハルヒHoliday 3

ok episode 4 let's go #光ハルヒHoliday 4

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wait, this episode skips the full OP? #光ハルヒHoliday 4

A BLOOD-RED SUNSET #光ハルヒHoliday 4

ryouko feels so… early-2000's visual novel character, to me. this scene feels so early-2000's visual novel, to me, in how it looks… hmm… (i haven't read any vn's from this era, this may be superficial) #光ハルヒHoliday 4

OH SHE'S AN ACCELERATIONIST #光ハルヒHoliday 4

[rot13] UNUN LRF V JNF EVTUG JURA V FNVQ ELBHXB VF N YRFOVNA ORPNHFR ABGUVAT VF ZBER YRFOVNA GUNA ZHEQRE (… znlor) #光ハルヒHoliday 4

fuck what a great action sequence. i remembered from thirteen years ago that it happened, i'd heard the music, but i hadn't watched it again in that time, so i couldn't remember any of it. i love this series. #光ハルヒHoliday 4

oh, and now something fun i had completely forgotten about before rewatching. this is great. rewatching something you haven't seen in 13 years but which means a lot to you means you get to rediscover its joy. i recommend it. #光ハルヒHoliday 4

like a visit from an angel… #光ハルヒHoliday 4

great regrets of my life: never learning the hare hare yukai dance. well, there's still time…

(good episode) #光ハルヒHoliday 4

episode 5 now #光ハルヒHoliday 5

BOUKEN DESHO DESHO
HONTO GA USO NI KAWARU SEKAI DE
YUME GA ARU KARA TSUYOKU NARU NO YO
DARE NO TAME JA NAI

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~three years ago~

i love it when an anime story has an inciting incident a specific distance in time from the current events, and so characters keep speaking dramatically or not-so-dramatically about “three years ago”

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⚾️ #光ハルヒHoliday 5

oh no #光ハルヒHoliday 5

did itsuki's discussion of the anthropic principle make me an atheist. (no, but it's funny to consider because there is a significant overlap with the ideology that did make me an atheist a year later… it's a credible lie) #光ハルヒHoliday 5

this series is good at exposition sequences. i won't say it's as good as monogatari (that's an incredibly high bar), but it's good at them. the fact the scenes feel familiar when rewatching them is a good sign. #光ハルヒHoliday 5

i like them for the same reason i like the ones in monogatari. listening to a character monologue while enjoying pretty, regularly-changing scenery… this is anime #光ハルヒHoliday 5

and that scenery is, at the same time, mundane. it resembles the real world. it is everyday. but it is still beautiful.

it feels very unlikely that this anime could have influenced my tastes in that direction, but it does align perfectly with them. huh. #光ハルヒHoliday 5

need a guy who is exactly like koizumi itsuki in every respect to take me on a cab ride and then ask me to close my eyes for a few seconds #光ハルヒHoliday 5

i finished episode 5. is episode 6 going to be… that episode? there's a concept from a particular episode that's been on my mind a bunch recently… i'll have to see if it's the one i have in mind. don't spoil me! #光ハルヒHoliday 5

ok let's find out what episode 6 is. (btw i'm using the series 2 airing order for all my numbering, i can't be bothered to translate. wikipedia's list uses column D for it at the time of writing afaict) #光ハルヒHoliday 6

“I'm a 100% genuine ordinary high school student.”

uhuh. that's what they all say

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ohhh when he explains to Taniguchi what happened with Nagato… cool sequence #光ハルヒHoliday 6

as an aside… i'm watching dvd rips for the s1 episodes (apparently, the blu-ray for s1 wasn't so good). and they look beautiful! dvd offers very good picture quality for progressive widescreen standard-definition content, which haruhi is #光ハルヒHoliday 6

windows xp windows explorer hidden folder preferences… #光ハルヒHoliday 6

i probably liked how realistic the computer use is in this series. it isn't usually animated realistically but it's edited together from real screenshots with a realistic flow, and it's obviously windows xp, not some fake operating system. #光ハルヒHoliday 6

oh, when itsuki enters the clubroom and he isn't visible yet, his voice actor is recorded such that he actually sounds distant and behind us. that's a nice detail! i'm not used to it. #光ハルヒHoliday 6

oh, i see how it is. this is another anime with constant narration about what is 「普通」, about being normal. the last time i watched an anime about that, the girl wasn't normal ( = heterosexual). i think kyon might not be normal ( = … uhh) #光ハルヒHoliday 6

YES!!! THIS IS THE EPISODE I WAS REMEMBERING SO FONDLY. IT'S THAT INCIDENT. ahhh i'm so excited, it's been so long since i've watched something with this premise and i barely remember it #光ハルヒHoliday 6

need a girl to [rot13] jnxr hc jvgu zr genccrq ng fpubby vafvqr n Pybfrq Fcnpr [/rot13]. genuinely want this, it's such a cool concept. #光ハルヒHoliday 6

need a girl to [rot13] svanyyl tvir hc ba gur pheerag jbeyq naq qrpvqr gb perngr n arj jbeyq #光ハルヒHoliday 6

🖥 #光ハルヒHoliday 6

fuck, these sequences… while we have to read the text appearing on a computer screen, the background is constantly changing… it's once again an example of making exposition interesting. i did not realise i would find this series so engaging. #光ハルヒHoliday 6

wait, this is the premise of Blue Reflection isn't it. wish i'd consumed these works closer together in time #光ハルヒHoliday 6

ahh, that was satisfying. this episode, the 6th in the 2009 broadcast order (i'm referring to it as s2 order because it's the order s2 aired in) was the last one in the 2006 broadcast. not sure what order i saw it when i watched it on dvd. it's a good climax. #光ハルヒHoliday 6

i think a work has succeeded in some way when i'm actually grinning while watching the conclusion. the ending segment of this episode has that kind of charm. #光ハルヒHoliday 6

seven time #光ハルヒHoliday 7

marvelling at how they've been careful to avoid weird discontinuities when reordering episodes #光ハルヒHoliday 7

BASEBALL EPISODE BASEBALL EPISODE BASEBALL EPISODE

野球
野球
野球

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it's hard to fully appreciate in this dvd rip (why is it always this which suffers…) but there is some lovely background art in this series #光ハルヒHoliday 7

the sweet little girl that kyon knows is called “kyonkun denwa” right? i know my haruhi, #光ハルヒHoliday 7

haruhi is such a girlboss she's not even consciously aware of it #光ハルヒHoliday 7

itsuki x kyon is a good ship. just going to throw that out there, #光ハルヒHoliday 7

dlkfdlkf;ldkf;lkdf ITSUKI KNOWS

HE FUCKING KNOWS ABOUT [rot13] fabj juvgr #光ハルヒHoliday 7

i had forgotten just how much fun this show is. it's a perfect subject for the “explain your favourite anime badly” meme because at a certain level it is just a slice of life, but also it's extremely not that at all, everything has high stakes #光ハルヒHoliday 7

in case it wasn't obvious i'm absolutely loving this. rewatching this was an excellent decision. i don't have enough time today to finish it but i'll probably be able to get like halfway (i.e. halfway through 2009 order) and finish in the new year #光ハルヒHoliday 7

haruhi rewatch update: my gf is watching the first episode now. i'm spreading the good news of our lord and saviour,

while she is introduced to the gospel, i'll continue my rewatch :3

time for episode 8~ #光ハルヒHoliday 8

tanabata! oh, this is the first one i'm watching that originally aired in season 2. #光ハルヒHoliday 8

ah, “that's […], altair, vega”. this is just like monogatari /s #光ハルヒHoliday 8

hd haruhi… #光ハルヒHoliday 8

禁則事項ですから、 #光ハルヒHoliday 8

i love how John Smith [rot13] nyernql xabjf jung ur unf gb qb orsber rira orvat nfxrq gb qb vg. cresrpg gvzr ybbc #光ハルヒHoliday 8

this is exactly like when you knock out an npc in hitman and then they're found by security and woken up,,,

mikuru is so… pliable #光ハルヒHoliday 8

further thoughts about mikuru redacted to avoid sounding like i'm suzumiya haruhi or something #光ハルヒHoliday 8

god i love how he solves the predicament he's in. always have an oomfie who can fix your causality problems #光ハルヒHoliday 8

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oh my god they make THIS EPISODE be the first one where you hear 『止マレ!』, and the lyrics and presentation are Highly Thematically Relevant. fuck, i've really been missing out by never watching this series in 2009 broadcast order before now!!!! banger ED btw #光ハルヒHoliday 8

such a good episode… i already thought this but the ED was the cherry on top #光ハルヒHoliday 8

time for episode ⑨！！

涼
宮
ハ
ル
ヒ
⑨
憂
鬱

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mojibake <3 <3 <3 #光ハルヒHoliday 9

look at this shot!! it's so pretty. a home with many computers… #光ハルヒHoliday 9

gf update: she's watched three episodes now (which establish the premise of the show), about to watch the 4th. she commented that it's interesting how between three different characters you get three different explanations of the “three years ago” events.

i liked that observation. it kinda ties into how i want to read fanfiction elaborations on this setting, because i think it's unusual for a series to give you this kind of… diversity of thought about its own premise, and leave a lot open?

i love this type of mystery-of-the-week. i don't think i remember this episode at all, except for the corrupted homepage part… i'm enjoying it like it's new. #光ハルヒHoliday 9

i think i need to read more fiction from this kind of era, because there's a lot of similar themes/concepts here that probably felt novel the first time i encountered them, but it's obvious now that lots of works share them, so i want to know their origins #光ハルヒHoliday 9

like uhh… haruhi, blue reflection, dennou coil, nanoha, and surely a bunch of other series i've consumed that i forgot, have very similar sci-fi elements. i think, hmm, i need to consume more non-anime stuff, i wanna see how vn's handle this for example #光ハルヒHoliday 9

haha, you gotta love it when they decide that the anime episode is just a video game now #光ハルヒHoliday 9

SEO alien (canon concept in haruhi) #光ハルヒHoliday 9

“Mystérique Sign” is an incredible haruhi episode. #光ハルヒHoliday 9

how did i forget this series? i never like, forgot about it. i never forgot the whole thing. but it's like my memory of it from thirteen years ago is very superficial… so much about it is stuff that i really like now, yet it's that which i don't remember… #光ハルヒHoliday 9

on the one hand, i don't think i give my past self enough credit for liking this series. i'm glad 13-years-younger me liked it. 13-years-younger me probably liked it for similar reasons to present me. but, maybe the 13-years-younger me lacked the vocabulary…? #光ハルヒHoliday 9

on the other hand… i don't know, maybe my taste in anime is like this because it all started with haruhi? did all those moments absorb into me, not fully appreciated at the time, but forming those connections in the graph that became what i now call taste? #光ハルヒHoliday 9

i can't stress how utterly strange it is to rediscover an old series i liked like this and discover that i actually still really, really like it. perhaps like it much more than the first time. you have no idea how much my personality has changed in that time. #光ハルヒHoliday 9

i can say with complete confidence that me liking this series is not out of nostalgia. there's a bunch of other things i watched similarly long ago that i wouldn't get this experience from rewatching. naruto would be a slog, for example, fun as it is… #光ハルヒHoliday 9

i… i went into it knowing there was the possibility of this, i mean it's part of why i wanted to do it, but it's still so… idk. “me the first time i saw haruhi” is the oldest version of myself in my memories i can still meaningfully recognise. that's why it's such a big deal…

this breaks the rule of “do not reveal your age on the internet” but the time i saw haruhi for the first time thirteen years ago is at roughly half-way through my life so far. it will not be very long before i have spent half my life as the version of me that has seen haruhi.

when i say “oldest version of myself in my memories i can still meaningfully recognise”, i mean emotionally. i do have small memories, interests, childhood traumas persisting from then to now, but haruhi is the start of all the emotional threads that lead to my present self.

it's the start, in particular, of my relationship to art as i know it. it's not the first piece of art i encountered in my life, obviously, but like… you know, all of my current taste in art has some relationship to anime, right. it all starts with haruhi…

my life and sense of self went through some drastic changes in my teenage years, and for a long time i was embarrassed by the contrast, not able to admit to myself how much the person on both sides of such changes was fundamentally similar. i knew i was in denial, but still

by the time i reached maybe five years ago in my life, i was starting to be a bit more chill about it. by the time i reached this year or maybe last year, i think i was almost completely chill with it. i could see that, yes, i was still the same person in many ways.

stuff like… my current haircut, the result of a long process of evolution, is actually just the one i wanted maybe eleven years ago? i think about it in somewhat different terms, but it's the same haircut. the core of that taste has been there all along.

still, though, i did feel a bit distant from my past self in terms of taste in art. there are certainly some things from that time i can appreciate, but like… 2010 me seems a lot more boring in some ways.

but now, well, i've used my one-time opportunity to revisit my 2010 self.

by rewatching haruhi, i think the distance in my mind between 2010 and 2023 me is healed. i can feel a strong connection to the me that watched this back in 2010. i don't know quite what that version of me thought and felt, i only remember small bits, but… they were right.

they liked this series back then, and they were right to like it… and of course present me would think that, because that may as well have been the moment i started to exist. ahh. i don't need to be embarrassed.

i am very glad that suzumiya haruhi no yuuutsu was my first anime.

for a while i've not been sure how to feel about the fact haruhi was my first anime… i didn't remember it well enough to know whether it was “good”, only that it was meaningful to me. the fact it's such a “meta” show also made me wonder if it was an appropriate first anime…

but uh, nine episodes into my rewatch (which incidentally covers not just s1 but s2, which i didn't watch back in 2010 because it wasn't on dvd yet, and i'm not sure if i ever properly finished watching later…), i think i can safely say: no, it's an excellent first anime.

its premise is playful but it plays it straight, so it's not going to confuse you if you've never seen anything it's referencing before. and its premise allows it to give you a flavour of… so much of what anime can do and can be. it's no wonder it inspired a lifelong love in me.

also it's just technically excellent in many ways. it's just, actually good, in ways even someone who's never seen an anime before can appreciate. watching haruhi as my first anime didn't fuck me up; it prepared me, i guess. i'm glad that chance played out in this way for me.

i don't know if i've ever outright said it, but a theme of the things i've celebrated in recent times is that “good art” is not a rare thing, in my opinion, and that popularity doesn't mean something is bad (it doesn't necessarily mean it's good, of course).

i think i was afraid haruhi was not going to be that good, because… as you may know (younger folks might not), haruhi was absolutely fucking everywhere in anime circles circa 2010. it was an extremely big deal. it was impossible to ignore. it was mainstream within anime at least

and there are quite a lot of popular things that i don't really care so much for! i'm not a snob about it, i don't have anything against a thing being popular in itself, but it's not uncommon for something to be very popular but kind of average at best so far as my tastes go?

so, yeah, it's just wonderful to be able to wholeheartedly embrace it neither because of nor in spite of nostalgia, but simply because… it's good. that i'm nostalgic about it only makes it better, but i'd love it either way. that's cool!!!

‪aha, it's funny that i start watching haruhi not long after switching away from my haruhi profile pic. i'm glad though, it means i don't feel like i'm betraying all those people who followed me thinking i'm a haruhi fan… because i am indeed one, i'm just not, haruhi,‬

ok one more episode before i go to bed. unless this happens to be the beginning of endless eight, in which case No #光ハルヒHoliday 10

oh no this is the deserted island episode, and that's a two-parter!! i remember that much. okay i guess it'll have to wait, tragic. #光ハルヒHoliday 10

haruhi rewatch resumes now, with the deserted island two-parter, part one. :3 #光ハルヒHoliday 10

need a girl to, in recognition of my achievements, specially promote me two ranks and name me sos brigade deputy chief #光ハルヒHoliday 10

need a girl to want me to be trapped me in a closed-circle mystery #光ハルヒHoliday 10

need to walk into a house where it is immediately established what type of architectural style it has and whether the doors to the rooms can be locked #光ハルヒHoliday 10

oh, does this count as s1's beach episode? i think s2 has one also. #光ハルヒHoliday 10

i love nagato yuki #光ハルヒHoliday 10

damn, you'll never guess what happened, #光ハルヒHoliday 10

time for part 2! #光ハルヒHoliday 11

oh, so this is the scene where the ace attorney poses happen! #光ハルヒHoliday 11

how did i remember the fact the cutlery was significant all these thirteen years and not the actual solution to the mystery. ahahaha #光ハルヒHoliday 11

good episode :3 #光ハルヒHoliday 11

alright everyone

IT'S TIME

I HAVE EIGHT EPISODES CUED/QUEUED UP

ENDLESS EIGHT, IN ONE DAY, I'M GONNA DO IT

#光ハルヒHoliday 12

the feel of the opening scene already has that exhausting summer feeling to it and this is just the first one. #光ハルヒHoliday 12

the feel of the opening scene already has that exhausting summer feeling to it and this is just the first one. #光ハルヒHoliday 12

oh my god is this when you first hear Super Driver (the new OP)? this is also lyrically amusing #光ハルヒHoliday 12

the foreshadowing is so funny #光ハルヒHoliday 12

‪oh was this the first time i saw yukatas? i don't remember when i started watching haruhi s2, it wasn't right after s1… i think #光ハルヒHoliday 12‬

nagato's mask, the goldfish, i remember these ‪#光ハルヒHoliday 12

why didn't that get hyperlinked wtf

the background music in the diner is also already exhausting #光ハルヒHoliday 12

what a boring episode where absolutely nothing happens. good thing it's over now right, #光ハルヒHoliday 12

kyon-kun, denwa #光ハルヒHoliday 13

Super Driver has a bit of a “you can just do things!” feel to it #光ハルヒHoliday 13

god i'm 4 minutes into the first loop episode and already i have that uncanny feeling where, though the plot progresses as i remember from last episode, i'm certain things have changed, but i can't be sure, and i don't want to check #光ハルヒHoliday 13

one thing i am sure of is that, so far, this episode has much more intense summer visual effects, which is nice #光ハルヒHoliday 13

okay god this episode really has a lot of significant differences from the previous one. it's really enjoyable noticing what they are. it'd be much more subtle if i was watching one a week as god intended #光ハルヒHoliday 13

oh so that's why i didn't remember that specific mask of nagato's #光ハルヒHoliday 13

god i'm already struck by the beauty of this concept. since it's the first episode where the characters are aware of the loop, there's some plot changes, but if you ignore those, it's still a very different episode from before… it's like a different “take” #光ハルヒHoliday 13

wareware wa onaji jikan wo eien to ruupu shiteiru no desu yo #光ハルヒHoliday 13

“i love you” #光ハルヒHoliday 13

yeah, the tonal contrast between the first two episodes is beautiful in itself, i'm hyped for the next six #光ハルヒHoliday 13

kyon-kun, denwa #光ハルヒHoliday 14

oh yeah i should've said this at the end of last episode: i feel like i understand the impulse to repeat summer vacation forever until it's not missing anything. having a day of summer vacation which feels wasted has always been the worst feeling. #光ハルヒHoliday 14

the music changes… the differences in visual emphasis… the way things don't actually proceed in exactly the same way… it's so good. #光ハルヒHoliday 14

wareware wa onaji jikan wo eien to ruupu shiteiru no desu yo #光ハルヒHoliday 14

ooh a cool ellipsis effect #光ハルヒHoliday 14

“could the whole world be feeling the same way [déjà vu]?”

you know, the second time i hear this, i start to wonder if it's a nod to the audience #光ハルヒHoliday 14

the dialogue isn't even the same between episodes! #光ハルヒHoliday 14

“i love you” #光ハルヒHoliday 14

three episodes in, i am not sick of endless eight yet. #光ハルヒHoliday 14

kyon-kun, denwa #光ハルヒHoliday 15

this episode might be my favourite so far. the way the characters are drawn in it is so different…

endless eight is such a beautiful project #光ハルヒHoliday 15

wareware wa onaji jikan wo eien to ruupu shiteiru no desu yo #光ハルヒHoliday 15

“i love you” #光ハルヒHoliday 15

i'm glad i'm in this… receptive… state of mind, while watching this. i don't know if me a decade ago could have enjoyed watching this or not (i can't remember if i did, but i do have a feeling i may have skipped it in the past), but present me certainly does #光ハルヒHoliday 15

it's all about the little things. you're not watching the exact same episode eight times. you're watching eight episodes with almost exactly the same synopsis, but differently directed. so the entire experience is about the little things, and i love those. #光ハルヒHoliday 15

kyon-kun, denwa #光ハルヒHoliday 16

“i love you” #光ハルヒHoliday 16

the thing they do in the “then that's it, you can just rest at home” scene in this episode is cool #光ハルヒHoliday 16

oh, the clock, the clock is great too #光ハルヒHoliday 16

kyon-kun, denwa #光ハルヒHoliday 17

not many people know this but kyon from haruhi is actually the original sigma male #光ハルヒHoliday 17

wareware wa onaji jikan wo eien to ruupu shiteiru no desu yo #光ハルヒHoliday 17

“i love you” #光ハルヒHoliday 17

ok i'm not going to actually finish endless eight today due to [externally imposed time constraint] but six out of eight isn't bad and i've loved this so far. disliking endless eight is a skill issue, #光ハルヒHoliday 17

continuing now. two episodes of endless eight left. #光ハルヒHoliday 18

wow this one is stylish. those shots of the glass objects on the table… #光ハルヒHoliday 18

kyon-kun, denwa #光ハルヒHoliday 18

god. i love endless eight. it's so pretty. i'm glad they did it.

would i have loved it if it was once a week? i think with my current mindset, even that would've been fun, though the fallibility of human memory would make the differences harder to spot… #光ハルヒHoliday 18

(swedish person voice) you see, endless eight is a bit like ”kalle ankas julafton”, #光ハルヒHoliday 18

endless eight is the “dinner for one” of anime, send tweet #光ハルヒHoliday 18

rewatching endless eight should be a new european holiday tradition imo #光ハルヒHoliday 18

SURII DEIZU!? #光ハルヒHoliday 18

wareware wa onaji jikan wo eien to ruupu shiteiru no desu yo #光ハルヒHoliday 18

“i love you” #光ハルヒHoliday 18

oooooh this episode's “if i let haruhi leave now” scene is super cool #光ハルヒHoliday 18

endless eight is so good. the haruhi fandom was blessed by not just one, but two feature-length productions: disappearance, and endless eight. #光ハルヒHoliday 18

OK HERE WE GO, LET'S END THE LOOP #光ハルヒHoliday 19

kyon-kun, denwa #光ハルヒHoliday 19

crying mikuru reaches her ultimate form, no longer even speaking words #光ハルヒHoliday 19

wareware wa onaji jikan wo eien to ruupu shiteiru no desu yo #光ハルヒHoliday 19

“i love you” #光ハルヒHoliday 19

one of the things i keep finding myself remarking on with endless eight is how the directors are constrained by the locations in the world having to stay on-model in all eight versions. and yet, despite this, they can sometimes get them to feel different… #光ハルヒHoliday 19

i wonder what endless eight would look like if it had been part of monogatari. that series is a bit more liberal with how it presents its world. #光ハルヒHoliday 19

oh, the ending is wonderful. i think i'd rewatched (or just watched?) the climax at some point before, but not what came after. ah. i enjoyed endless eight :') #光ハルヒHoliday 19

ok that was too long a break, let's watch… the first episode after endless eight. #光ハルヒHoliday 20

the way the light scatters through this static bottle… so pretty. #光ハルヒHoliday 20

oh no. this is a multi-parter. “the sigh of suzumiya haruhi I”… #光ハルヒHoliday 20

ah, god, the comfy old sos brigade clubroom. when kyon heads there in an episode, it's like i'm returning to a deeply familiar place. i can't think of another anime location that feels like that #光ハルヒHoliday 20

someone must have created it in like vrchat or something, right? but without the characters in it, it's not the same. #光ハルヒHoliday 20

i was starting to fear this entire episode would be filler, but half way through they do establish what it's about? #光ハルヒHoliday 20

the sos brigade is always

haruhi: WE ARE GOING TO THE FUCKING MOON :D
kyon: she is insane. what does she think we are, astronauts? -_-;;
itsuki: Ah, isn't it wonderful that Suzumiya-san has picked a reasonable idea? I am fascinated to see what she plans to do on the moon. ^_^

mikuru: wehhh please don't put me in the zero gravity testing device ;_;
nagato: [expressionless]

this episode feels like filler but it serves the purpose of explaining episode 0 of the original broadcast order, i suppose. #光ハルヒHoliday 20

i keep looking at kyon's facial expressions and they remind me of other kyoto animation girls… i don't know what any of the other ones are called but they're good face shapes

kyon is like a kyoto animation girl but he's a boy. he looks the same. i hope this makes sense

watched the second episode of the film-making arc with my gf. kyon's normie friend taniguchi remarks "the other guy [itsuki] creeps me out" and i've been thinking about it. itsuki is kind of weird right? only a pervert enjoys being haruhi's minion. #光ハルヒHoliday 21

nagato's stigmata #光ハルヒHoliday 22

nagato x mikuru biting fic #光ハルヒHoliday 22

the Incident from this episode is maybe the only thing i remember from the filmmaking arc… #光ハルヒHoliday 22

this fucking episode is so much #光ハルヒHoliday 23

so far it was just “the sos brigade makes a movie” but now it's,,, oh god, poor kyon, but that's not even the right word.

i hadn't seen this episode before, that's for sure. #光ハルヒHoliday 23

philosopher cat??? #光ハルヒHoliday 24

competing theories…

also goddamn the way this episode is directed #光ハルヒHoliday 24

dark koizumi #光ハルヒHoliday 24

what a great arc, god. levels of itsuki/kyon tension never before seen. this is not the most remarkable thing but i can't really express the rest. #光ハルヒHoliday 24

time for me to watch asahina mikuru no bouken, together with my gf, who has never seen it before. #光ハルヒHoliday 25

update: asahina mikuru no bouken is the greatest film ever made and i think my girlfriend might have died #光ハルヒHoliday 25

will haruhi's musical performance be good? god knows #光ハルヒHoliday 26

how did hirano aya's career just die. I mean i know how but :( #光ハルヒHoliday 26

hell yeah space battle episode #光ハルヒHoliday 27

nagato yuki op pls nerf #光ハルヒHoliday 27

someday in the rain…

i didn't realise it was so uneventful, if it weren't for having played haruhi weiß-schwarz i'd not even know its name…

anyway, we finished haruhi!!! yay #光ハルヒHoliday 28

culturally educated my girlfriend by showing her nyoron~ churuya-san

apparently a previous version of myself incorrectly rated nyoron~ churuya-san as a 4/10. i have corrected this injustice

this took longer to happen than expected but it's that time of year again, and i'm on holiday again. time to rewatch Disappearance! #光ハルヒHoliday D

aaaa it's like haruhi never ended and i'm right back where i was last year, i'm really happy #光ハルヒHoliday D

with the OP and everything! ;_; #光ハルヒHoliday D

it's the haruhi unpacking christmas gimmicks gif yessssss #光ハルヒHoliday D

SHE'S BACK #光ハルヒHoliday D

nagato… #光ハルヒHoliday D

mom! kyon has gone crazy! #光ハルヒHoliday D

kyon! they've been co-ed for a while! #光ハルヒHoliday D

even if it's not the koizumi i know, it's so reassuring to hear him repeat the events… #光ハルヒHoliday D

WAIT I AM SO FUCKING HARUHI-CODED oh deary me #光ハルヒHoliday D

holy shit. am i sure i've watched this before? i didn't remember anything about the second half of the film. what an incredible adventure #光ハルヒHoliday D

thoughts:

• nagato…
• ryouko…
• kyon…
• KOIZUMI LMFAO

i will not be posting why these are my thoughts at this time #光ハルヒHoliday D

@hikari Donald duck's Christmas... Something?

@canteen Christmas Eve!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_All_of_Us_to_All_of_You

the annual tradition of watching the same fucking disney clip show, more or less completely unchanged, a fossilised television program that reairs in essentially identical form every year, and has done for decades

@hikari "broadcast every year since 1959" jesus

@hikari@social.noyu.me The only valid way to enjoy Endless Eight is one episode a week for a total of two months, don't @ me /s

@hikari be me, watching it first time blind not knowing about endless eight, watching each one extremely closely because I thought there was minor variations that were "clues"

@hikari she’s great

@hikari imagine being the character in your avatar… sounds impossible……

@demize 🎵 I BELIEVE

@hikari part of why I enjoyed the original light novels (though the fan translation you can no longer find online was far superior to the official one, it managed to do a lot more nuanced)

@helle oh no! hope someone has saved it

@hikari 「止まれ！」 is *highly* underrated imo

And like fair enough when Hare Hare Yukai is your competition, but it's *such* a banger

@hikari it is a really cool concept for sure

@hikari *Kyonko memes intensify*

@hikari idk, 6 is next in my queue, but I’m probably not picking it back up for a couple weeks

don’t spoil me either :p

(okay fine I’ll probably read your whole thread anyway, spoilers never bothered me, especially for something I already saw… even if I remember very little)

@hikari it feels a lot like kyoani’s take on shaft’s style, especially monogatari

it’s not that the series are similar, or the stories, or even the animation… but the atmosphere? the atmosphere is surprisingly familiar

@demize that's a good way of putting it!