Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya - Ep.#00

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It's a good thing someone on my flist warned me strongly about the first episode, because it is very bad. Incredibly offensive and fairly stupid. But, once you realize the joke of what you're really watching, and WHY it is so bad, there is a kind of demented humor in it. Every time the fourth wall is broken (about every 45 seconds) you get a clearer idea of what's really going on and, more importantly, the kind of "people" who would actually go to lengths to make it, and make it this bad. I like how the one boy keeps accidentally showing up in the wrong scene, and the narrator's rambling tangents and narrative skips. The main girl (Haruhi presumably?) is really a terrible actress.

"Combat waitress" puts me in mind of Ranma 1/2's Ukyo and Shampoo. The product placements are kind of amusing too.

::halfway through::

Actually, the narration is getting fairly funny on a consistant basis now. It's a blatant but amusing commentary on all bad anime tropes. The comment about the villain appearing in the window made me chuckle out loud, which is more than a lot of anime gets out of me.

This whole thing reminds me of this history project I had to do in high school where student teams made a video "news report" from a historical era, and one guy who was doing his scene started going off on this long, improv monologue about a runaway horse and cart that was running over serfs right and left and leaving in its wake a path strewn with adults, children, pets, farm animals, produce, etc. We had to record it three times because the rest of us, behind the camera, kept breaking out into belly-laughter off-screen.

Comments

[jade-sabre-301.livejournal.com]

Ah-hahahahahaha. Somehow I've only gotten halfway through the series, but I absolutely adore it. But I remember first watching the first episode the first time--my friend and I watched it together, chatting over AIM, and he's said "you'll love this!" and I spent almost the entire episode saying variations on a theme of WTF. Ah-hahahaha it is so brilliant. And Kyon is love.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

How could you stop HALFWAY? I watched all the way until #8 last night, then the rest this morning!

[jade-sabre-301.livejournal.com]

Well, I started watching them with my friend from high school last year, when we were both really far away from home at different colleges where we didn't have many friends, and then gradually I got out more and actually had stuff to do, and we just never finished. I think we're actually going to watch them this summer, but...I was able not to finish them because I didn't need them as much? Or rather the companionship they provided? Ah, freshman year of college, how happy I am that you are over...