Love or Hate It...
Haruhi Suzumiya is an
unique series.
Having saw it without any previous knowledge, the
marketing made me believe that it was a highschool echi-romcom. Oh, how wrong I was.
The first three episodes looked like one, but then...
Haruhi Suzumiya is the best Anime I have watched in my whole life. Haruhi Suzumiya is also the worst Anime I have watched in my whole life.
The first season constantly swap between Incredibly Funny and Incredibly Boring. Some moments are brilliant, and I found myself laughing like I never had done in years, but some others episodes made left the TV, go to eat cookies, and then go back to see if something interesting happened. Heck, I even fell sleeps 3 times while watching the series. But then again, I also fell of my seat of laughter two times in the series.
After finishing the anime I started reading the books. Thet added mystery, psychological, complex science-fiction and
Character Development plus the comedy and fantasy that had before, making an unique and Wonderful mix, IMO. It was so good for me, that I took again Literature and Drawing studies, activities I had left after believing that everything was cliché and boring.
Now, a balance:
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- Clever mixing of genres, clichés and stereotypes, reconstructing them into an interesting story.
- Wonderful narration, really reflecting the way that a cynical teenager thinks.
- Great development that takes characters that looked uninteresting to complex beings.
- Gorgeous animation and great use of colour in the Anime.
- Full of mathematical, philosophical and psychological references.
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- Illustrations on the books vary between great and mediocre
- Humour will be great for some people, meh for other and offensive for others.
- Music can be either very annoying or great for dancing, depending on your tastes.
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