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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.

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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

this is probably a worthless comparison but this series is a lot more like monogatari than i realised. i don't mean they're similar series, but that there are things i like that they have in common that i did not know of, before #光ハルヒHoliday 5

@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