AnimeSuki Forum - View Single Post - Haruhi Suzumiya as the founder of the Chuunibyou genre?

TheRealNepgear · 2019-02-14, 08:22

So far as I can tell, all of the content in anime falls into two categories:

(1) Topics that appeal to Chunnis: (special powers, violent events that didn't actually happen, plus subcultures to get into), and
(2) Girls

In Haruhi, the protagonist gives up his interest in (1) and then the girls show up (2). Then the (1) topics come back with a vengeance, but it is really about girls.

Seen that way it is an allegory about growing up. You reach "a certain age" and all you give up your childlike preoccupations and get into girls. If you are a guy that is about heterosexuality, if you are a girl, well...

I talked this over with my tenth-grader son and he told me he started getting interested in girls around the 7th to 8th grade, but I figure there is always a transition time...

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TheRealNepgear Junior Member Join Date: Feb 2019	So far as I can tell, all of the content in anime falls into two categories: (1) Topics that appeal to Chunnis: (special powers, violent events that didn't actually happen, plus subcultures to get into), and (2) Girls In Haruhi, the protagonist gives up his interest in (1) and then the girls show up (2). Then the (1) topics come back with a vengeance, but it is really about girls. Seen that way it is an allegory about growing up. You reach "a certain age" and all you give up your childlike preoccupations and get into girls. If you are a guy that is about heterosexuality, if you are a girl, well... I talked this over with my tenth-grader son and he told me he started getting interested in girls around the 7th to 8th grade, but I figure there is always a transition time...