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Originally Posted by Shirobane

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actually Asahina Mikuru no Bouken has a better chance at being ep 11/12 rather than 5/6 if you think about it. The student movie was filmed for the culture festival which if memory serves me right, happens in the fall. The yuutsu arc will end at around June-ish which leads directly into the boredom episode, which is chronologically right before school breaks for summer. That being said, I agree with Pakxenon 100% that there is no way in hell they can pack in the rest of the yuutsu arc into 1 episode without it being a complete mess. Given Kyoani's devotion to the novels, I believe that's the last thing they want to do. I do hope though, that they do not seperate the last 2 episodes of the Yuutsu arc.

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Using chronological notation as opposed to airdate here.

Maybe you're right. In Someday in the Rain Haruhi and Mikuru did talk a bit about the DVD for the movie. Based on that then, episodes 5 and 6 are likely to be Yuutsu V and VI, ending volume 1 effectively. Endless Eight will likely be episode 12.

But if you think about it, inspecting Ryouko's apartment, the closed-space incident with Itsuki, followed by the closed-space incident with Haruhi could just as easily fill one episode. You've seen what KyoAni does if they want to compress an episode; lots of dialogue pressed in. They even forego the opening animation just for that sort of thing.