About the Mangaka Tanigawa Nagaru is rather unusual as a manga-ka or even as a writer, in that he didn’t train as one. Rather he is a law school graduate of all things >.<. While he is best known for The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya series, which won him the grand prize at eighth annual Sneaker [...]
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What's the saying, "It takes a village to raise a child?" The equivalent saying here would be "It takes a SOS brigade to keep Haruhi's head on straight," or more aptly, "It takes one jealous Kyon to nearly end the whole world." Haruhi's one of those people if you give an inch, she'll take a mile. So it should be no surprise for any of the SOS-brigade members (or us, the viewers), if Haruhi takes her eccentricity and megalomaniacal behavior to the limits if no one bothers to stop her, much less empower her. I've noticed a lot of anger towards Haruhi on blog posts, on forums, but I think a lot of that anger's misplaced. I'm not going to deny that this episode featured Haruhi at her petulant worst, but it also featured Kyon and the SOS brigade (sans Koizumi who shines) at their worst as well… since E8 at least.
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Doooooramaaaa...
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Kyon goes through Haruhi’s two week repetition again. Impressions: Ok, we get it. Although I like the concept of this whole arc, I think they are using way too many episodes to do it. This episode was practically identical to the previous one as far as no new information as to what exactly Haruhi wants or how [...]
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This post only exists because I'm a completionist and don't want to leave any episodes out. I'll put up with several more iterations of Endless Eight, before I skip posting about it.   I noticed there was a particular K-ON influence on the girl's designs this week.
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Casting spells are fun… Before watching the next heartbreaking episode of Clannad ~After Story~, since Haruhi-chan 7-8 and Churuya-san 4 is out, it’s that time again… Synposis Suzumiya Haruhi-chan Episode 7 - Youtube Link Haruhi organizes a SOS-dan field day. Participants draw from the box on what team they are on. The first event starts, and everyone draws what they do [...]
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Nagato the otaku, Achakura the pet
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Phail Or, rather, I didn’t get any SP stickers this time around, just the regular sticker sheet 19. Bah. The cover this time around is bit character Kimidori – still no Yuki or Tsuruya yet, which seems kind of weird - particularly because Mikuru has had two covers thus far. I suppose one of the Mikuru covers [...]
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