this isnt half as good as you boomers hyped it up to be
It's unclsop that hasn't aged well.
If Haruhi hasent aged well, i fear at what you think has.
Surpassed by COTE
>>287655312you ok unc?
>>287655265Part of it was the expectation that something epic was going to happen because of her god powers, but it never did.
>>287655265Fellforitaward.png
>>287655265What is with their hands
>>287655338>EpicLike e8, the baseball episode or the movie?Plenty of "epic" occurrences happen with her powers.
Sorry zoomy, but you had to be there. If you weren't, you missed out. Apologies that your generation never got to experience anything like it.
>>287656106so you guys just become obsessed with some flavour-of-the-month back in the day?
>>287655265>>287655289Why do you normalfags even post here besides to just post boring ragebait?
>>287656137>flavour-of-the-monthZommie, haruhi is the farthest anime from something like that.It was extremely unique for the time.
I liked it.
/a/nons have no idea how beneficial this becoming the prevailing opinion of Haruhi among normalfags and zoomzooms is. Literal easiest filter of all time
>2355764 anime where high school mc meets le quirky girl>it's unique because umm...
>>287655265But what the hell did you expect? Why do all the new fans only like action or suspense? You guys have softer brains than Yuki's cheeks. Anyway, the movie is still one of the best ever made.
>>287657022If you can't see how haruhi's unique im convinced you haven't seen a single second of the show.
Someone doesn't want this thread to die huh
>>287655265Youre right, its twice as good.
>>287655312cute
>>287656198>Zommie, haruhi was extremely unique for the timeHaruhi literally is Evangelion romcom alternate universe kek, Tanigawa didnt change nothing
>>287662600
Haruhi is always great.
>>287655265That's like your opinion, unfortunately for you my taste >>>> shit >>>> your taste
>>287655265Fuck you and worship Bunny Haruhi!
>>287664284off-model gomi
>>287655265>>287664284>>287664303Worship Bunny Haruhi and her butt!
>>287664341
>>287664365
>>287664303We love Haruhisky, friendo.
>>287664341>>287664365>>287664394>>287664431>>287664465>>287664493Two decades later and she's still got it.
>>287655265/a/ doesn't care about anything other than waifus.They will say an anime is good just because they like the girls.
>>287655265I can't even conceive of the level of shit taste it took you to make this post honestly
Bunny Haruhi butt...
>>287656195They have no souls
Seinfeld is unfunny syndrome, so many copies and inspired works it seems generic at this point also the concept of "kids in a boring and peaceful life want something more" is much more relatable to millennials who grew up in the 90s/00s than Gen Z
Even back in 2006 I didn't get the hype
>>287655265Like many light novel adaptations the first six episodes are pretty good.I think that's why the show shuffles the order. The last episode is so fucking boring. They all just stand around on a rainy day. The first six, especially the stuff with Yuki was pretty good.
No one born after 1993 will understand this show, its for Gen X and Millennials, truly a product of its time.
>>287655371Kyoani disease.>>287655338This is revisionism. The entire point, no matter what order you watch it in, is making sure she doesn't do anything retarded through the brigade gently nudging kyon to tell her he likes her. It's a romcom, nothing more (despite Yuki being best and only girl worth bothering with).
>>287656137Yes dumbass, its a constant of entertainment. Shakespeare was the Fotm of the time. Same for Doyle, Tolkien and current Sanderson. Something will always be the FOTM of the moment
>>287668948yukifags really are delusional.
>>287655265How did you watch it?Chronological or Broadcast?
I'm hosting a haruhiism panel at Fanime this year. give me some good macros to use.
>>287669431You need to promote Haruhisky's Fanbox!
>>287655265It's mid hence the stupid viewing order, the guerilla marketing tactics, and endless eight. Strip that away and it's just a self-insert highschool romcom with sci-fi terns tossed around to make it seem profound or intelligent.
>>287669431
>>287669588>Strip that away and it's just a self-insert highschool romcom with sci-fi terns tossed around to make it seem profound or intelligent.The reason you get things like this is because of Haruhi.
Haruhi pretty :)
>>287655265Neither is any of the shit you fucks hype up, let's be honest
>>287655265Still aged better than slop like Lucky Star and Steins;Gate.
>>287655265the series on its own is good, god knows is the peak. However disappearance elevates it to a completely new level.
>>287659915Came here to post it.
It will probably always be one of my favorites, but I think Haruhi, while being special, isn't unique. A few shows have tried to replicate it in a way, and some somewhat successfully. Compare that to something like Death Note, which is still a unique experience. It is similar to the situation where people call LOTR bland fantasy, when most fantasy they've enjoyed is probably some kind of derivative of it
Endless Eight went on for two months, it's funny to look back at but was fucking maddening at the time
>>287667684>The last episode is so fucking boring. They all just stand around on a rainy dayThe last episode is both meaningful as a slice of a slower day and for the narrative surrounding Yuki before Disappearance. Notice how Yuki is ignored for the entire episode and Kyon falls asleep before being able to bond with her.
>>287670153>A few shows have tried to replicate it in a way, and some somewhat successfullyWhich ones though? Because I find they always fail. Shimoneta was so egregious.
>>287668960>Shakespeare was the Fotm of the timeNo it wasn't and please use a better example.
>>287656106It's just as good in 2026 than in 2006 though. There's a reason why people still cling onto it.
>>287670459Yes he was, you motherfucker. Do you know who Ben Jonson was? Its like how Mozart made Salieri seethe in Amadeus. There will always be some new hotness. And like Mozart it will fade until there is some nostalgia among the uncs. The Haruhi nostalgia you see now echoes the kind of nostalgia Mozart uncs got ages after his passing and Globechads celebrated after the end of Cromwell's tyranny and the restoration of the arts.
I (re)watched Haruhi recently and had a very nice timeIt's the first anime to make me actually want to read the novels. So I have them downloaded at least
>>287670555It's one of those few stories that really speak to (You). The specifics might change but that idea of an undying passion is timeless.Anyway if you pick the novels start with the new story from the fifth one.
Unlike OP, I'm not baiting when I say that while I liked haruhi the series, I did not think that highly of disappearance, which everyone seems to treat as one of the greatest anime movie.
>>287670586I think Disappearance is a masterpiece but I don't like this idea that Haruhi started tackling these big themes and ideas in this movie. It's just that the movie is a nice tight package with lots of these but the TV series went in arguably more different directions than the movie.
>>287655265>boomersBasedlennials actually, 2005–2015 was a terrible period, and expensive production alone were enough to make people remember the title>>287656195>ragebaitGo back
Stein's Gate, then Welcome to the NHK, now Haruhi. What Millennial classic will Zoomers target next?
>>287670722it seems they also targeted azumanga. the next is clannad
>>287670586I can't name 5 better anime movies, it's really really good
>>287670178I'd always viewed Kokoro Connect as an "almost copy". Also I need to clarify, I didn't mean that the shows themselves were successful, just that the content imitation was somewhat successful.However, no show has ever captured that feeling of existentialism baked into SOL ever again, imho. In that regard I have to correct myself, that makes Haruhi unique. It is also why I fell in love with in in the first place, usually I don't enjoy SOL.
>>287670817>existentialism baked into SOLYeah that was my point, Haruhi distinguishes itself quite well on that regard. You'll get other good SOLs for sure, you'll get interesting characters and such but few really fill that niche Haruhi went for.
>>287670722>Stein's GateWhat could they have against Stein's Gate? A bit of the charm is how it deals with 2010s otaku culture, but the main plot is great on it's own
>>287670863There was a thread here yesterday about how it isn't deep enough and is overrated.
>>287655265fortunately haruhi herself is twice as hot as boomers hyped her to be.
>>287656106endless eight sucked ass
>>287670722Imagine caring what Zoomers think about anything.
>>287655265Joke's on you. I am older than 90% of posters itt. I never watched Haruhi because I instinctively recognized that it is cringe and that it would have no staying power. And I was proven right. Same goes for Lucky Star and similar "haha le epic /a/ cultur xD" slop from the cringe days of /a/. The only anime from the tailend of that era that's still semi memorable is K-On! thanks AzusAttack.
>>287670722SlopsGate is new enough for zoomiedditors. It's also trash, worse than Haruhi. Welcome to the NHK is the best anime of the 2000s, but it triggers brown "people" and brainwashed kids who think working for a living is because cruel capitalism exploiting their bodies.
>>287670626>I think Disappearance is a masterpieceGenuine mental illness.
>>287670722Reddits;gate is absolute shitNhk aka failed normalfag the show is annoying, but has its bright momentsHaruhi Is a nothingburger with disjointed narrative and boring story/characters, but high-quality prodAzumanga is fine>t. zoomer
>>287672181>t. zoomerI could tell.
>>287655265Mikuru isnt the main character and the endless eight should have been Mikuru in the shower for eight episodes, 0/10 show absolute garbage and wasted potential
>>287667129Everyone has a soul.
>>287655265Haruhi is a timeless masterpiece. If you don't like it, you don't like anime and should gtfo.
>>287671444What makes it so bad in your eyes to where considering it a masterpiece would be considered as being mentally ill.>>287670586Is your reasoning for this that you liked the fast-paced, somewhat manic energy that the main series brought, whilst the slower, more serious atmosphere of Disappearance put you off?I can understand why you would think this, however Haruhi was always quite serious theme wise, its just that the disjointed broadcast order makes people think of the series as being less story and character focused than it is, which becomes rather blatant if one watches the first 6 episodes in chronological order, and in particular with Haruhis monologue in episode 5, which encapsulates this. Like the other commenter below you said, its not as if the themes that the Disappearance explored didnt exist in the TV series, it is just that they were more hidden/subtle then, whereas Disappearance allowed them to come out fully into the limelight.
>>287670178Shimoneta isn't really a Haruhi ripoff, in my opinion.>>287670722I'm gonna guess Full Metal Alchemist, Eureka Seven, Black Lagoon (or any girls with guns series), or Serial Experiments Lain.
Reminded me of this slav bootleg shop.
>>287670722Steins;Gate was never good. I do genuinely like NHK though, and Haruhi I also like up until Endless Eight torpedoes the whole series.
>>287670660no nigger (you) go back
>>287655265unc here, currently watching this for the first time, almost finished, and I have to agree. it's solid but nowhere near the masterpiece it's portrayed as. the time loop arc ended is such a wet fart I almost wanted to drop it.
>>287670167Sounds boring.
>>287665528I think Kyon is funni
>>287670586I didn't like that they hit Kyon with the retard stick in the beginning of the movie>>287671419>man talking in room about how ronery he is is best anime of all of 2000s
To be honest even 20 years ago I was just going with the crowd and didn't really think it was that amazing.
>>287674270>>287655265The Light Novels are better.
>e8 is so transgressive that people are still upset by itArt.
>>287675989nice
>>287670863>2010s otaku cultureStein's Gate takes place in the 2000s and is about 2000s otaku culture
>>287655265A lot of series copied it so it isn't as novel as it once was.
>>287668894gen x stopped watching anime after 2000 something they couldn't handle the little girls
>>287676013I meant 2010s as in "of the year 2010", because the anime is set in 2010 and was released in 2011. I didn't mean "the 2010s" as in the decade.You are correct of course, that it is about the otaku culture of the 2000s decadeSorry, should have put the apostrophe there
>>287676461I think both the visual novel and anime adaptation take place in 2009
>Haruhi, aka one of the most experimental, artistic, and legendary anime ever made, is actually LE BAD because the main girl doesn't act like a boring, submissive, quiet, and nice moeblobhow do you respond without sounding mad?
>>287676557"boomer uncslop"
>>287676557I thank the computer scene for filtering gay zoomers.
>>287676557Well everyone loves the boring submissive quiet and nice moeblob girl Yuki so I would say they are absolutely correct
>>287676505I never played the vn, so I don't know about that oneThe anime is set in 2010 though, this is from the first episode
>>287676622No we fucking dont, only the stupid normalfags who think alien Yuki was emotionless/had no personality, and are convinced how alternate Yuki is her true self think think that.The rest of us appreciate alternate Yuki as the embodiment of original Yukis desire to be normal, to be able to express/share her thoughts and feelings with others, and to not be neglected/ignored by others, but vastly prefer original Yuki for all her qualities as a character, in contrast to alternate Yukis completely generic qualities as a character when viewed independently from her connection to original Yuki.
>>287676622Yuki indirectly stabbed Kyon twice
wow replace boomers with faggots and it's like it's 2006 again
>>287676757>we
>>287655265Haruhi is like, fine? There's certainly worse anime out there, but there's plenty of other anime from the time period that are far more enjoyable imo
>>287676618Haruhi wants to lick pussy?
>>287670660You are a retarded zoomer
>>287676557>Joey always said that he loves 2000s anime>All of his friends also talked about how kino 2000s anime is in the previous episodes of their podcast>The newest episode of "Trash Taste" released on youtube is literally called "Anime peaked in the 2000s">Watch it>They shit on 2000s anime for 30 minutes straight and say that the 2010s are better out of nowhere>They all talk as if their entire expensive knowledge about 2000s anime (that they proved they have in the previous episodes of the podcast) disappeared from their minds and was replaced with the most basic bitch "top 10 2000s anime" reddit list>Like literally, in the 90s and 2010s section of the video, they talk in-depth about 40 different shows, but during the 2000s section, they talk about like 3 in the most surface-level possible>They whine about the 2000s not being the 90s 2.0 and having popular high school series about teenagers with heavy emphasis on waifubaiting, but praise the 2010s to high heavens despite it being a decade overstarueted to hell and back with popular high school series about teenagers with heavy emphasis on waifubaiting>They whine about 2000s anime looking wanky due to inexperienced animators using digital technology, even though all animators had adjusted to it by 2004, and you had tons of beautiful looking series in the mid and late 2000swierd as fuck. at least everyone rightfully shat on them in the comments section
>you just had to be thereI was there and still back then I didn't get it. what was good about haruhi, the story separate from haruhi, the character design?
>>287679813who cares?
>>287680329me
the only thing that this series is known for is that the voice actress slept with everyone but the bassist.
>>287681104Haruhi on the other hand slept with her entire all-female band including the bassist.
>>287681541Bassed.
>>28765526510 times better than the best anime released in the last decade
>>287681050stop listening to podcastsmake your own goddamn opinionsfaggot
streaming and MAL really ruined anime. gatekeeping eternally vindicated
>>287679813Hate cancer youtubers in the first place. But ESPECIALLY them.
>>287655371It's an AIslopped imageFor some reason AIgroids think they need to upscale everything
>>287676557Joey, stop posting yourself everywhere
>>287670863>the main plot is great on it's ownS;G's plot is questionable at best especially if you've seen multiple other time travel shows.
>>287655265It's kino.
>>287655265>listening to moefags
Man I fucking love Haruhi
>>287670722I watched all those and liked them since I got all my recommendations from millennial boomers when I first started watching anime as a teen in 2015.
>>287655265you are a faggot
>>287662600just saying shit
>>287670740do NOT let zoomers find the key seasonal works
>>287675989endless eight is the banana taped to a wall of anime
I really wish I had a copy of The Dissociation.
>>287687441In a sense, yeah. E8 took skill though.
>>287688235I have one but sadly it's the cucked cover. I used to be self conscious of these things back then...
>>287667571Why do you think that is? Why would that not be relatable to gen Z? (I'm a millenial).
>>287688351depending on whether they are a younger Gen Z their childhood would not exactly be peaceful
>>287688397In what way?
>>287687425I would end it all if people I knew started talking about Clannad and Angel Beats and acted like its a trend or something, thank god those fuckers only like garbage like one piece
>>287655265t. r/titanfolk/ user
>>287688450I'm really glad that the Clannad fever died down. I never liked that shit but the fans of that were the most fanatical I've ever seen of anything somehow.
>>287688635Where'd they all go? Sounds funny as hell, I have personal spite for shonentards so maybe im biased on that
>>287671444it really is overhyped, people need to watch more fucking movies, read more books or some shit. seriously. a fucking haruhi movie is not a masterpiece unless you cannot experience a story through "le cute girls filter, le quirkiness, le no stakes"
the great filter
>>287655265Every thread on this shithole site is now just>X Old thing isn't that good now give me three million repliesFrom /vr/ to /a/
>>287688838They'll never bring up any actual discussion either. I'd welcome some. Guess I can still post cute art though.
I've been watching anime for 30 years and I didn't care much for Haruhi. I think it's an acquired taste.
>>287676557>>287679813>watching ecelbsyou're almost as bad as those faggots
>>287655265You had to be there.
>>287688838They just want reactions in the form of quasi " downvotes " these threads should just be ignored but faggots can't help but get ragebaited or the OP will just continue bumping the thread themselves>>287657313
>>287655265It was made back in a time where anime fans had like 5 shows to pick from a season. Of course boomers are obsessed with it since practically nothing else aired back then. We've got more anime airing per season now than they got in a year, 20 years ago.
>>287690038Yet a is dead. Curious…
>>287689792>>287690004spamming garbage to keep this thread alive, zoomers are embarrassing
>>287690038According to LiveChart, 63 shows premiered in Spring 2006.https://www.livechart.me/spring-2006/tvAlso, 2006 is widely considered one of the strongest years for anime ever.
>>287690120Again, zoomers are embarrassing retards
>>287655265Yea its really bad>>287655312Strawberry Panic is 2000s kinos
>>287688863There's no actual discussion for this show other than "le Kyon is the real god". You can't even start one.Cope
>>287675962Light novels are dogshit. It was so bad the author stopped writing it without any meaningful conclusion. Maybe if he actually wrote a story instead of basing plots off the premise of "this bitch is a goddess and is totally in love with me and I'm the tardwrangler" for his novels.
I rewatched it recently and the knowledge that there could be more but will never be lessened my enjoyment.
>>287690120They weren't all instantly subbed.
>>287690038Anime fans back then also weren't seasonalsloppers, they actually rewatched episodes and bought the DVDs, so it's no wonder that older shows have more staying power than whatever FOTM the zoomies are currently into.
>>287688776Disappearance is neither quirky, nor does it have no stakes, and the cute girls thing is a subversion as THE cute girl of the movie, alternate Yuki, is born as a result of the mental anguish of original Yuki.And the thing is neither is the series as a whole, I am fucking sick of people seeing Haruhi as this wacky show with no depth beyond “Haruhi does crazy shit and everyone else enables her”, because that just isnt true, the first volume corresponding to the first 6 episodes tells a quite serious story, but people let their opinion of Haruhi be formed the memes surrounding it, which are completely inaccurate to what she show is actually like.Like the anons earlier in the thread said, Haruhi is quite existentialist in its themes, as it explores finding your own personal meaning in life through both dreams and the mundane, and it also explores not dismissing those who dont speak/express themselves as being completely fine and having no needs, as just because someone doesnt outright say that they are hurting, doesnt mean that they arent, and how its the responsibility of those more socially capable to take the initiative in taking care of them, instead of expecting them to take the initiative.
>>287690384There is plenty of discussion that is able to be had, Ive participated in quite a few of them, its just that either most of the discussion has been done to death/resolved, so people dont bother, or when people are willing to revisit a talking point, it gets drowned out in the waifuposting.>>287690401The most recent Light Novel came out in late 2024, thats pretty recent, far more so than the last volume of ASOIAF, which must be truly awful considering how long its author has refused to conclude the story, if we are to go by your logic.>>287690384>>287690401So stop making your opinion of a series upon memes and bingewatching without actuallt paying attention.
>>287671380>>287671419>>287671444Best posts itt/thread
>>287670722Haruhi is the only good anime that your listed. S;G is overrated chuuni slop and NHK is woe is me wankery.
Seeing how many people itt are under the impression how Haruhi is a “le hecking random xD” show has convinced me how the broadcast order is genuinely just bad for peoples impression of what Haruhi is like as a series, Haruhi is has a quite tight-knit, linear storyline, but because peoples only impression of it is from watching it in broadcast order, people just assume how the entire series must be about Haruhi causing random events that the SoS brigade has to fix, when Haruhi hasnt been the cause of any problems since Sigh, which is 1/4th of the way through the series, and instead the focus is on character development, and new threats, not cleaning up Haruhis mess.Although you count theatre, which you should, Haruhi was the cause of that event, which would push her last causing problems right before Disappearance, but that is still only 2/5ths of the way through the story, meaning that over half the series has nothing to do with Haruhi having a god complex, since the entire point of her character arc is her moving away from how she was earlier on, which people who only care about agendaposting never bothered to learn, even though its obvious just from the anime alone, Live Alive is a great episode because of how it shows Haruhis growth, not because of the meme song.
>>287655265>BoomersYou mean millinials you dumbfuck! Boomers didn't even watch anime back then.
>>287670478Correct. This thread is a proof of staying power, not a refutation of it
>>287690384There's tons of discussion surrounding Yuki's personality, Haruhi's growth as a person and such, but if we're being real the discussion that surrounds this show has to be "closer" to the actual show itself, eg you need someone to have rewatched it to discuss some of the SPECIFICS, it's closely linked to visual direction, dialogue choices and such. The overall point of the show (which revolves around many things but mostly self actualization, healthy individualism, melancholy of time passing and such) has lots of things to develop but it's also pretty high effort, nobody's cold writing these kinds of essays, there needs some context.>>287693843"le heckin silly and quirky" is the stupidest attempt at criticism possible and a blatant refusal to engage with the show on any level. For some reason it really gets under some people's skins for that lmao. To be fair I doubt chronological would've made them any better.
>>287691824You need to be ensouled to get it though
