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The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya - Episode 28 Discussion / Poll [2006 TV ep. 9]

Welcome to this weeks episode thread for Suzumiya Haruhi (also know as The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya). This week...episode 9!

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Thread Guidelines

No telling or asking for RAWs.
Try to keep spoilers from the Novel or Manga out of the anime thread. If you need to in reply to someone with a reference to the Novel / Manga, either PM them or use Spoiler tags (see example below).
Discuss your expectations of the episode if not aired.
Be polite to your fellow forum members.
Try to keep the discussion on topic and future episode spoilers out of the thread whenever possible.

Spoiler Tag Usage

Using Spoiler Tags is easy. Using this...

[spoiler=Tin Foil Hat]The poll looked fine if you were wearing a tin foil hat.[/spoiler]

....will get you this...

Spoiler for Tin Foil Hat:

What people are most Searching for according to Google Trends [ Home | About ] (very Alpha). The blue line is for Suzumiya Haruhi. In this example, more people are searching for "Fate/stay night" and "xxxHolic" than Suzumiya Haruhi, but Suzumiya Haruhi is more sought after than "Rozen Maiden" or "Higurashi". (Search results are a composite from all Google search domains in multiple languages.)

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(by geographical region & language)

Suzumiya Haruhi's popularity as measured in the "blogsphere" by BlogPulse.com.

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In the above example, I measured Suzumiya Haruhi's popularity against two well know anime names: Naruto and Gundam. As you can see, Naruto was written about (or mentioned) in about 10% or all blog posts over a 2 month period. BlogPulse searches 28,467,481 blogs in multiple languages to make it's trend calculations. Suzumiya Haruhi was about 1% which is pretty good for a new show (IMO).

Technorati tracks 41.3 million sites and 2.4 billion links. Here are the blog post counts for Naruto, Gundam and Suzumiya Haruhi as of the end of this week and prior to Episode 9 airing. (Search results are over a 90-day period.)

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These "statistics" are posted for entertainment purposes only and shouldn't be taken as absolute.

i expect the episode to be phenomenal as usual

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Originally Posted by ApathyEcstasy

i expect the episode to be phenomenal as usual

lol nice 1st post in this thread.

Hmmm somehow I'm a little disappointed with the graphs, surely Haruhiism can do better right? I've been working hard of converting people to Haruhiism. I choose my targets specifically, today 2 friends of mine have been converted lol.

Haruhi is doing very well now...She's no.1 in the most 'moe' anime character from 2ch.net vote...(I have no knowledge what does 'moe' means even after reading all those articles about moeness...so don't ask me about this post---I'm just quoting the facts from another forum)

I see a potential of error for these graphs. A person in Japan would never search for these titles in romaji - they would search for them using Japanese under the search string "涼宮, ひぐらし, ローゼンメイデン, fate stay night, xxxholic" which brings up a different result:

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Then again, it also brings up a slightly different result when written out their full titles: "涼宮ハルヒ, ひぐらしのなく頃に, ローゼンメイデン, fate stay night, xxxholic" as well...

I didn't get everything but the end of the episode was very nice :)

Statistic Up Again
I Hope French User Pub will work...
I Hope More for This Anime
Let"s check the Image Of The 9

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Originally Posted by C.A.

Hmmm somehow I'm a little disappointed with the graphs, surely Haruhiism can do better right? I've been working hard of converting people to Haruhiism. I choose my targets specifically, today 2 friends of mine have been converted lol.

O.o You are scaring me :heh:

Sorry to always keep asking this type of questions, but which episode of the series was 9? Was it 14, according to episode-9 preview in ep-8?

I think it was 14...yeah.

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SOS-Brigade got a few new bookshelves.

I don't want to know how or where Haruhi got them from.

Because we have to discover them by continue to Watching

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I saw it now.
This ep is ennui, melancholy and quite special.

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Originally Posted by kj1980

I see a potential of error for these graphs.

Yep. You're right. There are many ways to tweak the results in these stats. I just put them up for fun. Someone around here was asking about the popularity of this show, so I thought I’d put up what I could. There's reality no validity in most of it other than mild interest. Google Trends is very Alpha and only measures Google searches, so it’s rather limited.

It's only slightly more than amusing when you pit Naruto against Jesus. :)

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Originally Posted by kj1980

I see a potential of error for these graphs. A person in Japan would never search for these titles in romaji - they would search for them using Japanese under the search string "涼宮, ひぐらし, ローゼンメイデン, fate stay night, xxxholic" which brings up a different result:

Then again, it also brings up a slightly different result when written out their full titles: "涼宮ハルヒ, ひぐらしのなく頃に, ローゼンメイデン, fate stay night, xxxholic" as well...

Wow.. it really looks like Haruhi is an unknown entity up until mid 2006............

*go to check the Episode*

And Now The Big Mystery will being Discover? We'll see...

This is the first anime episode I have ever given a perfect 10.

Hilarious. Touching. Atmospheric. Subtle. Daring.

And definitely the best animation I have ever seen in a TV anime -- or maybe anywhere.

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Originally Posted by Kaoru Chujo

And definitely the best animation I have ever seen in a TV anime -- or maybe anywhere.

Have you watched AIR or Kamichu! ?

Episode 09 Screencaps and Summary

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Originally Posted by arias

Have you watched AIR or Kamichu! ?

Yes. And this is definitely -- IMO -- better than either. And more overwhelming to me than even the previous episodes of Haruhi. It is KyoAni with a year's experience over their work in AIR. I have never seen hands done as well, or the variety and exactness of various walking movements. Like Kyon hitching up the box as he started up the hill.

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Originally Posted by Kaoru Chujo

Of course. And this is definitely -- IMO -- better than either. And more overwhelming to me than even the previous episodes of Haruhi.

Okay; I'll look forward to it.. ; ) If you didn't watch it on TV, you'd better be participating in its dissemination now.. because it's so slow. :~<

What arc does this cover, though?

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Originally Posted by arias

Okay; I'll look forward to it.. ; ) If you didn't watch it on TV, you'd better be participating in its dissemination now.. because it's so slow. :~< What arc does this cover, though?

Sorry, I don't have the same file that's being torrented, and my file isn't good enough to make a new torrent for. As for what arc: darned if I know. It's after the movie, and it's wintry and raining. Check out Random Curiosity.

Slow seeds makes Haruhi cry. :sad:
I'm really looking forward to this episode since the reviews have been extremely mixed from extremely positive to disappointingly low, plus it's the "last" episode.

Does this episode give any indication at all for a 2nd season? I'd be sad to see such a wonderful production given such a short run. *Gets shivers imagining a new OP and ED for Haruhi*

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Originally Posted by arias

What arc does this cover, though?

From what I've read on blogs (I haven't really read the novels myself aside from some light skimming), this story appears to take place right before the contents of volume 4.

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Originally Posted by eVaX

Slow seeds makes Haruhi cry. :sad:
I'm really looking forward to this episode since the reviews have been extremely mixed from extremely positive to disappointingly low, plus it's the "last" episode.

At this speed it'll be at least 2-3 hours before peers get complete files. They just don't have a sufficient distribution backbone to handle BT file dissemination; I'm not sure why people haven't learned how to fully utilize BT.

Gah. Gah. Gah. Guess I'll just watch it in the evening.

Maybe somebody forgot to turn on Superseed.

On 2channel, SHnY has just passed triple the number of posts of Fate/Stay Night:
~251064 to ~83330 = ~3.013x. I think I started watching this tally when SHnY had around half the number of posts. In the 7.5 hours since the episode started airing, there have been approximately 3000 posts.

I haven't read much of what people are posting there, but opinion appears to be split, as I expect it will be here. The kind of humour in this episode is just what I like -- even the excruciating (and excruciatingly funny) scene of Yuki reading alone in the club room with voices filtering in from next door. But other people's mileage may justifiably vary.

For me, this and episodes 1 and 2 are the best of the series so far (in that order).

Wow. 1 seeder and 2000 leeches. I've never seen anything like it.

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Originally Posted by Kaioshin_Sama

Maybe somebody forgot to turn on Superseed.

Ya know what... I ****ed up... I forgot to turn it on. I usually have it off because I don't need on my LAN connection at school.

I'm home for the week on a crappy 15Mbit/2Mbit cable connection... GIVE ME A BREAK.

I'M SORRY!

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Originally Posted by Starks

You know we still love you :D

Wow that was a Budget Buster.

Spoiler:

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Originally Posted by Starks

Don't you check the progress (at least at the start)?

PS Poor-mans super-seed: deliberately limit max number of connected peers to very small number (like 10-20).

Of course, it'd also help if all clients had automatic detection of when they should optimise for seeding, and good config for that.

PPS Best line of this week's ep: Kyon: Mikuru changed while I was asleep? Damn! I really was asleep - I should have pretended to be asleep!
(or something like that)

Let's see...
I cant' identify the cardgame, can anyone?
Tsundere Gunslinger III?! Interesting taste these ppl have.
The animation quality is really great...
cosplay freak Haruhi shows no reservation whatsoever. In the words of Kyon from previous eps... like some evil fedual lord.

(The warmup lines are just hilerious to hear)
Tsuruya-san needs even more role... I agree.
This episode in some way is redemption to lack of Mikuru... although Haruhi continues to surprise me... despite having read about the exploits.
Haruhi not anticipating Kyon waking up was interesting.
When Haruhi was getting dressed to go home... I noticed what Kaoru Chuko was talking about with the hands. Kyon and Haruhi's movements are detailed... very well done.
The last scene of course seals the deal.

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Originally Posted by Kaioshin_Sama

Wow that was a Budget Buster.

Spoiler:

It also explains why there was the 3 minute reading scene!!!!!!!!!!!

You don't need much money for that. They probably relocated funds proportionately.

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Originally Posted by Kaoru Chujo

scene of Yuki reading alone in the club room with voices filtering in from next door. But other people's mileage may justifiably vary.

That's the radio.
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Anyway, one sentence to describe this episode for me:
I have never seen such an interesting episode where absolutely nothing happens. :heh:

Really, it's almost as if they took a page right out of the SOS-dan's daily life and animated that. There are no supernatural events, heck, there are no events, period.

In return, the episode was very soothing to watch, the "ordinary-ness" of SOS-dan's one day makes it much easier for us to immerse ourselves in the characters' lives.

There's no mistake that this episode was meant to be an "epilogue", since it's the last episode in the time-line series. In that respect, I think it was very well done. This episode served as an important reminder that "this is what our daily lives are really all about".

(Also, notice how the camera become fixed in the club room when Kyon's no longer aound ^^; )

Spoiler for highlights:

Wow, this episode reminded me of the last episode of Gun Parade March: they set in about the same time of the year, and have very similar atmosphere. Oh, didn't I mention that I like this episode a lot? (Except for that three minute Nagato reading thing though...) The Haruhi-deredere scene convinced me that she's the best Tsundere ever. (She beats Shibamura Mai by a notch.)

By the way, Sushi-Y, seriously, why don't you keep an anime blog?

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Originally Posted by Cardcaptor

Best tsundere ever? .. mmm.. :D

**COUGH WHEEZ COUGH**SOUNDS LIKE A GOOD TOPIC FOR POLL**COUGH WHEEZ COUGH**

She is teh pure awesome, though. If this episode doesn't convert Kaioshin, I suggest he be strung and hung :D The part where she hands Kyon the umbrella without directly looking at him is incredibly adorable. Like many others, I think I've contracted the tsundere virus..

Excellent "final" episode. It felt really calm, melancholous, and moving. This episode will have people anticipating season 2! XD

Melancholy IV will ROCK (hopefully)!

Oh ya. Downloading the raw took 6 hours with about 400 people finishing within 10 minutes. That's how bad it was. XD

Yeah it was a nice episode, except for the whole reading thing (I kept hearing that piece of classical music where EVA-01 and the dead Kaworu stand there for like 2 minutes and I thought my computer froze). I really liked seeing Haruhi gradually turn into a more caring person (although she seems really embarassed about it). She does a lot of the things she did earlier on in the series (dressing up Mikuru and bossing Kyon around), except this time you can tell its not mean spirited and more like a nostalgic trip through the past before she crosses over completely into the dere phase.

This and episode 8 showed me that Haruhi isn't really a cruel sadastic bitch after all, she's just confused and disoriented like most teenagers that age. I never went through that phase personally when I was 15, because I've always enjoyed a lower High-Class lifestyle where everything I wanted always seems to come my way. I had a fairly stress-free high school life and always had free time on my hands, so I guess I couldn't see what was going on with Haruhi wasn't her being mean, but that she needed some guidance and friends who understood her. I admit I misjudged her character greatly, possibly due to the first impression she gave in episode 2 which really stuck for a long time. I'm glad it turned out this way. Finally, I'm not converting to Haruhism, I have no religion and I can't possibly have one that doesn't even have a foundation other than ambigous text that appears in the opening animation, but I like to talk about them because religious texts make for some of the most interesting reads I've ever experienced. However, I would like to see a second season.

I've warmed up considerably to this type of anime, I never thought I would enjoy a semi-romantic romp through high school life, but here we are, it makes me somehow satisifed to see the evolution of Haruhi's character. If anyone has any other reccomendations of anime like this, I'll listen, PM me.

just watched the raw, it's sad but it really does look like a FINAL episode...but its a good thing that ep 4 is up next where...

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