{"id":433,"date":"2006-04-07T23:58:14","date_gmt":"2006-04-07T13:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/?p=433"},"modified":"2006-04-08T01:22:37","modified_gmt":"2006-04-07T15:22:37","slug":"the-melancholy-of-suzumiya-haruhi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/?p=433","title":{"rendered":"The Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi – episode 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ll just call this “The Adventures of Mikuru” for ease of use.<\/p>\n

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I don’t see the point in really saying anything about this, other than it takes a lot of effort to write something so deliberately bad. This first episode is not a real episode at all but rather a really amateur “student film” made by the characters of The Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi<\/i>. The film is sometimes amusing but these were among the longest 24 minutes of my life.<\/p>\n

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The first 22 minutes of this episode details the adventures of Asahina Mikuru, a combat waitress from the future who works part time as a bunny girl. Her job is to protect the esper Koizumi Itsuki from Nagato Yuki, an alien witch.
\nThis melts away at the end to reveal it was all a screening, the work of Ultra Director Suzumiya Haruhi. All involved in the production of the film are mortified by what they have seen before them.<\/p>\n

It’s dangerous to do something like this in your first episode: to make fun of crappy anime and films by presenting a crappy anime student film with even greater exaggeration in the shoddy production values. It’s satirical, but a lot of people won’t get that – and a lot haven’t already.
\nThe only real laugh I got out of it – because I found the voice over way too self conscious, pointing out every single flaw before us – was Shamisen doing precisely what he was not supposed to do.<\/p>\n

I will reserve judgement of animation, voice acting and, well, everything, until the next episode: I expect that I will still find Goto Yuko’s voice just as annoying. I suppose I don’t really watch this sort of anime any more.<\/p>\n

So what the heckfire is this show about? I don’t know. You need to give it two episodes to have any clue, I expect. I just hope they don’t make me watch these experimental films again.<\/p>\n

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I’ll just call this “The Adventures of Mikuru” for ease of use. I don’t see the point in really saying anything about this, other than it takes a lot of effort to write something so deliberately bad. This first episode is not a real episode at all but rather a really amateur “student film” made […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[132],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-suzumiya-haruhi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}