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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]
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
#光ハルヒHoliday 2
reddit dot com slash r slash female living space
#光ハルヒHoliday 2
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
#光ハルヒHoliday 3
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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
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
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
~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”
⚾️ #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
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
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
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
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
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?
@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