[Anime Reviews]
18 May 2006
Posted by Martin [Tags: Haruhi Suzumiya]
If there’s one word that can be used to sum up this show it’s ‘unpredictable’. In this episode there are countless bits of info thrown from all sides, plus a bizarre jump back in time. Remember the baseball game from the last episode? That hasn’t happened yet: this might explain why it felt disjointed and why I felt like I’d missed something because it explains how Itsuki was dragged into the SOS Brigade, in a very literal sense (second pic). But I’m getting ahead of myself…the ep begins with Yuki elaborating on what she explained to Kyon in episode #3. Through a major infodump and some animation work that thumbs its nose at serious science fiction she outlines who she is, why she’s here and so on. After a second viewing and some freeze framing I more or less got my head around it.
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Reading stats: 442 words & 3 images; estimated reading time 1:46 mins
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[Anime Reviews]
11 May 2006
Posted by Martin [Tags: Haruhi Suzumiya]
It’s time for another review of the current Flavour of the Month which by my reckoning makes me the one hundred and first person to blog it. On with the show…
Haruhi’s latest idea is to join the baseball tournament to further publicity of the SOS brigade. I’m sure there are other ways of doing this that don’t involve signing onto an event that they have little or no experience in but, as usual, Haruhi is adamant and her friends reluctantly form a team of family and friends who happen to be free on the day of the event…which takes place the day after next. As poor old Kyon so eloquently puts it:
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Reading stats: 501 words & 3 images; estimated reading time 2:00 mins
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[Anime Reviews]
06 May 2006
Posted by Martin [Tags: Haruhi Suzumiya]
As promised, my next review of The Most Hyped Fansub of 2006. In fact getting the screencaps was less hassle in comparison to trying to stay objective when everyone else is raving about it. With the pros and cons of all that aside in my other recent entry, here goes…
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Reading stats: 502 words & 3 images; estimated reading time 2:00 mins
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[Anime Reviews]
28 Apr 2006
Posted by Martin [Tags: Haruhi Suzumiya]
After the bizarre first episode I was in two minds about this series. It consisted almost entirely of an amateur video which, if it were to be made for real, would be to magical girl anime what Peter Jackson’s Braindead is to zombie films. Only worse. It was not until the final scene that we meet the show’s cast proper; because this little snippet left little to go on in terms of forming an opinion on the show I decided to give it another chance.
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Reading stats: 621 words & 3 images; estimated reading time 2:29 mins
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[Anime Reviews]
25 Apr 2006
Posted by Martin [Tags: Haruhi Suzumiya]
Okay, what exactly do we have here? With a title that for some reason forces me to check I’ve spelt it right every time, The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya is a comedy. I think. For all the overwhelming positive things I’ve read about this (plus some overwhelmingly negative ones) I can’t really form a solid opinion on it. The cast and story of the series is scarcely introduced in this episode because it is actually a show within a show.
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Reading stats: 502 words & 3 images; estimated reading time 2:00 mins
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