{"id":530,"date":"2006-06-05T19:08:25","date_gmt":"2006-06-05T09:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/?p=530"},"modified":"2006-06-05T19:39:13","modified_gmt":"2006-06-05T09:39:13","slug":"the-backlash-of-fans-episode-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/?p=530","title":{"rendered":"The Backlash of Excitable Fans &#8211; episode 9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Someday in the Rain&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/batrock.net\/animeimages\/sh09-01.JPG\" alt width=\"600\" height=\"338\" hspace=\"2\" vspace=\"2\" border=\"1\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hilarious just how much fan backlash there seems to be surrounding this episode. Almost enough hilarity to make me sick!<br \/>\nOur beloved studio Kyoto Animation outdoes themselves by not having enough script to fill 23 minutes, and thus they literally give three of them away. All air time must go!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Haruhi sends Kyon off to pick up a heater, so that she may perform covert Mikuru harrassment tactics. <\/p>\n<p>So what happens in this episode? We wait twenty two minutes for Haruhi to show that she might just have a modicum of concern for the welfare of our increasingly boring narrator Kyon. The detours along the way include intensely disinteresting long shots of the club room filled with members with absolutely no detail in composition or animation, several blocked Mikuru changing scenes and Itsuki going along with whatever he&#8217;s told.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a lot of work for such a little pay off: the sort of TV desgined for people who live in small boxes so that they may watch a girl in a small box turning pages while catchphrases are shouted from another small box across the way. I don&#8217;t know how many subscribers to Haruhiism live in boxes, but I have only this to say:<\/p>\n<p><b>Where&#8217;s your Messiah now?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>In reality this episode isn&#8217;t actually bad, but it&#8217;s certainly far from good. It&#8217;s a story so light that it pads <i>itself<\/i> out. If you&#8217;re going to be so cynical, KyoAni, expect cynicism in return.<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/batrock.net\/animeimages\/sh09-02.JPG\" alt width=\"300\" height=\"170\" hspace=\"2\" vspace=\"2\" border=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/batrock.net\/animeimages\/sh09-03.JPG\" alt width=\"300\" height=\"170\" hspace=\"2\" vspace=\"2\" border=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/batrock.net\/animeimages\/sh09-04.JPG\" alt width=\"300\" height=\"170\" hspace=\"2\" vspace=\"2\" border=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/batrock.net\/animeimages\/sh09-05.JPG\" alt width=\"300\" height=\"170\" hspace=\"2\" vspace=\"2\" border=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/batrock.net\/animeimages\/sh09-06.JPG\" alt width=\"300\" height=\"170\" hspace=\"2\" vspace=\"2\" border=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/batrock.net\/animeimages\/sh09-07.JPG\" alt width=\"300\" height=\"170\" hspace=\"2\" vspace=\"2\" border=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/batrock.net\/animeimages\/sh09-08.JPG\" alt width=\"300\" height=\"170\" hspace=\"2\" vspace=\"2\" border=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/batrock.net\/animeimages\/sh09-09.JPG\" alt width=\"300\" height=\"170\" hspace=\"2\" vspace=\"2\" border=\"1\"><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Someday in the Rain&#8221; It&#8217;s hilarious just how much fan backlash there seems to be surrounding this episode. Almost enough hilarity to make me sick! Our beloved studio Kyoto Animation outdoes themselves by not having enough script to fill 23 minutes, and thus they literally give three of them away. All air time must go!<\/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-530","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\/530","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=530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/anime\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}