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Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuutsu 2 — Is It Over Yet? — Episode 5

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Because you’ve experienced the same thing for the past 597 years.

I opened up Episode 5, feverishly praying that it was the finale of the Endless Eight, but alas, my prayers weren’t answered and we’re still stuck with what happened since Episode 2.

Same thing, over and over again. Endless Eight proves to be an extreme case of a filler, or just a way of Kyoto Animation to troll us. I mean, seriously, it’s 4 episodes of the same content, repeated again and again. Who the hell wouldn’t get bored of that?

However, Episode 5 does show some rather significant change from the last 3 episodes. Kyon gets closer and closer towards realising the time loop each episode, although he still has not figured out what is the thing that Haruhi had wanted to accomplish before the Summer Vacation comes to an end.

The episode ends with a slight change, as Kyon doodles a paper plane on his homework, knowing that the time will keep looping. Ladies and Gentlemen, this might signify the end of the Endless Eight. While I’m not exactly a fan of repeated stuff, there’s something telling me that Episode 6 will finally be the end of this repeating crap.

Congratulations Kyoto Animation, you’ve just attained god-level of trollhood. You just trolled everyone who watched the show for a good 4 episodes, so just get on with it and move onto the next story, please.

The good thing about this particular episode is that Kyon’s sister gets more lines! That inspired me to grab screencaps!

And oh, the first time we get to see Kyon in a cap. Looks pretty decent.

I wonder how much hate these 4 episodes can generate. I mean, seriously, 4 episodes is a lot of content, and to think that all of them are wasted on a single story that is only one single chapter in the book. Geez.

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Written by: Netto and posted at: July 10, 2009, 10:18 PM.
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  1.     Netto on July 18th, 2009 at 12:50 PM

    b.N: oh toward the end the end of episode 5 I found a scene that sums up my feelings. please feel free to add it to the top of scenes from episode 5 (your preview thumbnails):http://img355.imageshack.us/i/suzumiyascene.jpg/

    Bloody genius. Used for Ep6 (episode 5 of endless eight) episodic. Muahahahaha!

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  2.     b.N on July 18th, 2009 at 2:46 AM

    oh toward the end the end of episode 5 I found a scene that sums up my feelings. please feel free to add it to the top of scenes from episode 5 (your preview thumbnails):

    http://img355.imageshack.us/i/suzumiyascene.jpg/

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  3.     b.N on July 18th, 2009 at 2:37 AM

    well if you’re going to keep repeating the same episode and slightly changing the art each time, the least you should do is add slightly more significant pieces each episode so the viewers stay interested or add different little pieces seperately in each episode and somehow have those little pieces come together toward the end for whatever the end result might be.

    I think this was a poorly played out idea by such a (formerly) innovative anime team to handle things this way. I’d rather watch One Piece fillers at this point. GOOOOOO shrine race!

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  4.     nn on July 17th, 2009 at 2:05 PM

    I imagine they will continue the “endless eight” episodes up untill episode 8.

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  5.     Netto on July 14th, 2009 at 4:47 PM

    Don’t worry about hotlinking. It’s all cool with me anytime.

    I’ve read your blog and I find the view you’ve posted there rather interesting. Should get a more insightful post once the next episode of Haruhi is subbed.

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  6.     Onibaku on July 14th, 2009 at 2:14 PM

    Well it isn’t kyoani who is “trolling us”. Kyoani merely animates what is given to them. It is actually kadokawa who is holding the strings. Rumor has it that the looping will continue for two more episodes because kadokawa had ordered 6 episodes of endless eight. Since i’m not sure if u can hotlink here you can just click on my name to visit my blog. The full details to the rumor are in my haruhi post

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  7.     Netto on July 11th, 2009 at 6:11 PM

    Ah, I see where you’re getting to. I know what would happen, but I feel that it’s a little ridiculous that 4 episodes are dedicated to such a story.

    However, I do agree that the quality of animation was the same throughout the whole 4 episodes. It does show that KyoAni is not just repeating the story for no reason. Now that I know what you mean by art, I’ve taken a completely different point of view in this particular “arc”.

    But still, since there’s only 10 episodes worth of fresh content for viewers, spending 4 episodes on a particular arc is quite the luxury to spend on D:.

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  8.     sam on July 11th, 2009 at 2:54 PM

    ahhh i don’t think that this is bad at all. i really think it is art, because kyoto animation is basically making the viewers feel exactly what nagato is feeling. you’re pissed and you want it to end, so that why its really leading up well to what going to happen. The fact that nagato is going to do something drastic because of all of this. i would feel disappointed if they did the endless summer thing in just one episode because thats not what haruhi is about. Also, even though i am watching all of these episodes on youtube, i don’t think the quality of animation has gone down at all. What would kill me is if they tried doing this and then the animation team got lazy. I think the fact that we get to watch the same scene play out 4 different times, each in stunning animation is just exactly what i would expect from kyoto animation for the haruhi series

    now if this really does keep going on for 4 more episodes, i will definitely get tired of it though!!! lol

    and just because it wouldn’t sell in america doesn’t make it good or bad, all anime starts in japan, and some of the best stuff never does come to america, and some stuff, like naruto, i wish had just stayed there :P

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  9.     Netto on July 11th, 2009 at 12:10 PM

    Yeah, I agree. It’s really stupid that they have to waste so much content on something that is barely of any significant value. We know Haruhi has something that she wants to accomplish, but does it warrant 4 episodes worth of the same content?

    It’s really ridiculous. :/

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  10.     acnyc2000 on July 11th, 2009 at 11:30 AM

    Well, as the original post stated, it is a let down compare to season 1 for me. I would laugh if the entire season 2 is based on this endless summer loop, because it will certainly be, endless…
    in the 3rd episode (ep 13 in correct number) it stated it has already looped 15498
    in the 4th episode (ep 14 in correct number) it stated it has already looped 15499
    in the 5th episode (ep 15 in correct number) it stated it has already looped 15513

    I just hope they dont show those missing loops in the future episodes considered they wasted4 episode out of 10 on this topic already.

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  11.     Haruhism on July 11th, 2009 at 6:44 AM

    This repeating is annoyng but thers no way i would drop this anime, i think some from the drawing/animation responsible people got sick or somthing happend so they try to make somthing from nothing by repeating the episodes. Its way better then just stop making any episodes at all. I mean hardcore Haruhi fans (like me :P ) still watch even if its repeating itself. And they get the cash :)

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  12.     Cooro on July 11th, 2009 at 6:25 AM

    Cosplay:
    How far into it did you get before dropping it Cooro?

    I watched up to this episode. I’m honestly infuriated with this supposed “art”. It won’t sell in america doing that crap.

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  13.     Chikorita157 on July 11th, 2009 at 3:30 AM

    Kadokawa is probably having fun trolling all the fans… I’m for one am not amazed, but appalled by Kadokawa’s “evil” schemes, so I ended up putting the series on hold indefinitely until they forgive me with 6 strawberry sundaes (you want to know, why six… because there is going to be 6 episodes of Endless Eight hell)

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  14.     Cosplay on July 11th, 2009 at 3:22 AM

    Cooro: I dropped the series. That is really crap. -_-

    How far into it did you get before dropping it Cooro?

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  15.     Cooro on July 11th, 2009 at 3:13 AM

    I dropped the series. That is really crap. -_-

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