Suzumiya Haruhi no Musubi, and A 2nd Take

So, chronologically, after the whole closed-space dream, and ending up back in the real world, Kyon, Haruhi and everyone else plays baseball, goes on a cruise and plays virtual battleship with the computer society. Without a care in the world. Hmm. A teensy bit surreal that.

I cannot get enough of Asahina's voice. When they said moe, they really meant it, huh?

Does it not affect Haruhi that she had such a weird dream? Kyon did say he was going to tell Haruhi about aliens, time-travellers and ESPers at the end there, which wasn't really the end. Then, are we supposed to assume he said something about Nagato, Koizumi and Asahina? Okay, maybe some things are best let unanswered. It was a great show which was a nice departure from our everyday anime. And episode 9 (which is really the LAST episode) sort of ties in to episode 14 (S.Haruhi no Yuutsu VI), with Kyon and her walking home, and a bit of her feelings for Kyon.

I liked your ponytail. Oh, boy.

I really liked Nagato, alien, yet human all the same.

I guess that's the reason they put all those messed-up episodes in the middle of the series. I think if we were to watch those after episode 14, and see the 'real' ending from episode 9, we'd think "what the hell was wrong with that?". So, screwed up chronological order justified there, I guess. Too bad I couldn't see more of the 'grown up' Asahina. I think from what Asahina says throughout, one can make an educated assumption that 1) Kyon's supposed to end up with Haruhi in the 'future', 'cos she keeps saying that Haruhi shouldn't see them 'close' together and 2) Asahina likes him too. =)

You know you want to hug her.

Oh well, a pity it was only 14 episodes long. But there's quite a lot of the 14-part Haruhi novel yet to be shown. So maybe a 2nd season in the offing? After the ending (meaning S.Haruhi no Yuutsu VI) though, which I really liked, I thought I'd bump up my review score for this from a 7.5 to a 9...but I'm still pissed that it was so short, and not too taken by the 'play baseball after celestial encounter' part. So, an 8.5 will have to do. ^^

Edited Ratings (*)

*Out of 10*
Animation (Quality of): 9
Story (Depth, twists, and extras): 8(9)
Music (Songs, Suitability): 6(7)
Characters (Dynamism, Background): 9
True to Genre?: 7(9)

OVERALL RATING: 7.5(8.5)/10

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