Hi everyone, a few days ago I was thinking about starting The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, but I remembered I had something to do with the broadcast order, so I watched an explanatory video (it only explained the order and nothing about the plot, which I appreciate).So I wanted to know what you think is the best way to watch it overall? The chronological version or the broadcast order?
>>288673662>what you think is the best way to watch it overall?You had to be there
>>288673662Broadcast order without a doubt. Chronological is fun for a rewatch but broadcast is far superior overall.
>>288673662Boku no Pico.
>>288673662Always Broadcast order.For all shows.Why do people ask those questions? Only those retards youtubers say you have to reorder series or movies to watch them in chronological order. That just ruins the creator’s vision, kills the experience, makes you miss out on how the show became popular, and spoils the plot twists by making the story linear and predictable.You don’t have to listen to those retards youtubers. Just watch the series in the order it was originally released.
Call me a hipster but I prefer chronological orderJust like it when stories are told in order.Haruhi wasn't written with jumping atound in mind
>>288673662Broadcast. If you watch it in chronological you remove a huge amount of the sense of mystery and wonder that gives it an extra edge. You'll understand too much about the story too early on so you lose the sense of discovery. They broadcasted it out of order for a reason. The only reason people even consider chronological is because on the second tv airing, when they basically stealthdropped s2, they put it in chronological as a different way to experience it
>>288674029The only exception to this is when there's an ova that can easily be slotted in between two episodes of a show narratively, which is the case for most individual ovas. Haruhi is not like that. The order is intentional.
>>288674863It almost sounds like you're overselling the gimmick as if the body of work can't stand on its own
>>288673662Nagisa...
>>288675017It almost sounds like you make this argument in every fucking haruhi thread you dumb as fuck retardJust admit you hate the show and stop coming hereFucking redditor shitdicks I swearYou "people" get more and more agrivating with each passing dayFAGGOT
Always watch shows in the order mandated by a youtuber rather than the show's creator.
>>288675093I didn't make an argument
>>288674029Almost universally true, but skipping episode 1 of Gungrave until after 17 is an exception for example.
>>288674029>That just ruins the creator’s visionDid Tanigawa come up with the order?
>>288673662Chronological. Fuck all these other niggas.
>>288675488No but KyoAni did and the show isn't the novel
>>288675488>>288675797Tanigawa had a hand in picking the order, I'm pretty sure; check the Haruhi anniversary site.
>>288674029>ruins the creator’s visionBut the original creator isn't in charge of the anime and there are too many examples of anime staff ruining creator's vision without my help. And what if the creator is a retard?>kills the experienceI make my own experience.>makes you miss out on how the show became popularWhy should I care about other people's opinions?>and spoils the plot twists by making the story linear and predictableMost of the stories out there are linear and still manage to have plot twists. Was shuffling parts around the only thing that saved this particular story from being predictable?>You don’t have to listen to those retards youtubers.But I do have to listen to you?
>>288675955The best reason to go broadcast is that you can always go chronological (or just mentally rearrange the episodes) but you can never go broadcast after you went chronological
>>288675955CoolSeems like you've made up your mind and just want to watch it chronologically because you're stubborn and stupidThat or you've already seen it and made a bait threadEither way, I am inches away from just posting unspoilered spoilersThe only reason I haven't yet is because I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt and just assuming you're retardedDo not test my patience further
>>288676166Dude, there's no way that's OP
>>288673662Broadcast orderIf you want to appreciate the disappearance movie for the kino that it isWatch endless 8 by watching each episode once, per week
>>288675017It's a gimmick that worksIf you don't like it you'll be gone anywaysIf you really like it it adds to rewatch ability and avoids the slump that is the initial character building and it feels much more natural than plot mandated character exposition and developmentUnrelated but its An issue all gundams suffer from
>>288676166Suddenly spoiling plot twists is okay now
>>288673662I would say broadcast order, but honestly all my (re)watches have been chronological. Broadcast order makes less sense given there exists a second season that fills in gaps, but it seems like it could work.If you will pick the chronological order, still watch the first episode of the broadcast order (the homemade movie). If you pick the broadcast order, the last episode you watch before the movie should be "Someday in the rain" (last episode chronologically). I think most people will agree with this.
>>288673662>trying to watch Melancholy for the first time>want to watch the 2006 version in the original broadcast order>every streaming site I try the episodes are in different orders and have different names>like I click Remote Island Syndrome and it plays the Asahina Time Travel episode>2009 episodes are also sprinkled inGuys I don't want to get filtered but I'm getting frustrated not knowing if the episode I'm watching is even the one I'm meant to watch. I know I could try torrenting but how would I know for sure that'll be any different?
the best way is to never watch that fucking piece of shit
>>288678237Just pick a torrent (Okay-Subs and many others are in chronological order), then look at this spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1JWY_VFaF_NAxlmPkYsOAZdWrLLGykBTRHQNz4d8w-Uw/edit?gid=0#gid=0
>>288673693fpbp>>288673662The show was broadcast outside of the chronological order. Watch it in broadcast order, while chronological order makes sense easier as an overall show, it has 2 great problems solved by broadcast order:1. You're expected to know, or not know, certain stuff, at certain times, because of broadcast order. So an early episode, that is set late in the chronological order, may tell you something that would be more impactful when you watch a following episode, that is ser earlier in the chronological order. This happens a bit, and you'll miss a few nuances in the order they intended you to get them2. Chronological order is astronomically tone-shifted and boring. You get a few early episodes of balls to the walls weirdness, and a bunch of later episodes of SoL in a row. You'll either be too weirded by the early episodes in a row to properly enjoy later ones, or too bored that the weirdness basically ends for so many SoL episodes in a row. In production order they are, IMO, perfectly spaced and balanced out for a great experience, but, once again, you had to be there.tl;dr: Broadcast order, because it is the order they intended you to watch in.
And this is why the anime flopped and was canned, because they thought they were being witty chucklefucks by doing the out of order shit and then topped it up with endless eight. kyo ani were full of retards.
>>288678237There you go friend. Make sure to watch Mikuru Asahina's Adventure first, the episode that starts with this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7nk1dLGMtkMost torrents are chronological order so you'll probably have to reorder.To be fair it doesn't matter that much but still, broadcast better. The biggest payoff is the movie and there's only one way to experience it
>>288678237>streamingNigger fucking torrent the fucking show fucking nigger niggerImagine being this niggerNIGGER
>>288678461>EE still filtering tardos to this dayYou love to see it
>>288678237The high sneeded torrents will tell you on their nyaa pages what order they're in, or at the very least they'll have the episodes named properly so you can look at the spreadsheet >>288678485
>>288675017It already did stand on its own is the thing. The novels were released in chronological order, and the novels were what attracted enough attention to warrant the anime. The story is worth experiencing either way.
Hi, this is OP.I already read the comments and I've decided to watch it in order of release, and maybe later I'll watch it chronologically. Thanks for the help.Except for the guy who confused me with another comment and was saying things... okay, never mind.It's not that big of a deal, he probably just got confused, right?Anyway, thanks for your help. I'll see if I remember when I finish and I'll upload my experience (although maybe nobody will care, lmao).
>>288680945Please make a thread to share your experience! Always like to discuss Haruhi with fresh viewers
>>288680945Please make threads as you watch or when you're done so we can discuss itI do this with all animes I watch and regularly get actual discussion, including with haruhi which I watched for the first time two years ago
>>288680213>The novels were released in chronological orderThey were not.
In this particular case, I think chronological is better, they fucked up with this time skip thing. It was quirky and novel on release but 20 years later there's no shock factor to mikuru beam and the talking cat
i just finished watching the whole thing for the first time the other day and didn't know about this. The only part i thought was weird was the school festival part, where it looks like the festival is done and Kyon go on a date with Haruhi and then the episode ends, but then next episode we're now back at the festival.Anyway what did i missed out on by not watching in broadcast order?
>>288682122Under spoiler tags for OP but basically they air the baseball episode before Koizumi is introduced and Koizumi is just standing there without you knowing shit about it, then he talks about Haruhi ending the world during the baseball match in weird terms and you're questioning what happens since it only gets explained quite later. It's an interesting ride.The episode you're talking about (the slow one where nothing happens) is quite important since it comes at the end of the timeline right before the movie
>>288682648During my own rewatch a few months ago I fully intended to do broadcast order.But then I got to episode, like, four where Koizumi is there before he'd been introduced and noped right out over to chronological And I had a very nice time for the of the watch
>>288683491I think chronological on rewatch is pretty good because that's where you piece some of the nuances together, like how some things evolved little by little, character progression and such, but for a first watch broadcast makes sense
>>288673662You should watch the show in every possible order.
>>288683624I actually saw a reel about it, and that's why I remembered I'd never seen that anime.
>>288678280brown hands made this post
>>288683744It's a must watch
>>288680945>I already read the commentsDid you read them in the chronological order or you started with the ones with most (You)s?
>>288682067Well of course it can't be in true chronological order, the story literally has characters time travel back to the past on multiple occasions. But in the novels, there is still a pretty strong linear narrative, with only occasional diversions for side stories. You don't get things like Remote Island Syndrome where the plot is just broken up for no reason.
>>288678237>streaming siteTorrent the show instead and watch it in whatever order you want.
I wish I had more things to talk about regarding Haruhi, but I don't. Namely, I really wish I could buy The Dissociation.
The End of Suzumiya Haruhi when?
