Author Topic: Dont get haruhism (Read 24654 times)

mgz · « **on:** June 13, 2008, 05:38:31 PM »

Ok so i was forced to watch the first season of haruhi and while ill say its OK i dont get the huge support of the show
if someone would like to help plz do

Quadlazer · « **Reply #1 on:** June 13, 2008, 05:40:55 PM »

If you don't like, then you don't like. Why would you want to be convinced?

Xzanith · « **Reply #2 on:** June 13, 2008, 05:53:09 PM »

Quote from: mgz on June 13, 2008, 05:38:31 PM

...if someone would like to help plz do

Help you understand Haruhism?(Not sure if that's what you meant.) If you don't like it you just don't like it. Im obviously infected with Haruhism (ava/sig) but I can understand that it just doesn't do it for some people.

vicious796 · « **Reply #3 on:** June 13, 2008, 05:56:23 PM »

It's a very character heavy show. If you're not one that connects with characters on a personal level, you probably won't really enjoy it.

mgz · « **Reply #4 on:** June 13, 2008, 07:07:58 PM »

no its not that i dislike it, i just dont get the REALLY liking it.
i enjoy the characters but im not like ZOMG NEW SEASON OF HARUHI SOON /PEE PANTS

sunweb · « **Reply #5 on:** June 13, 2008, 07:31:46 PM »

Quote from: mgz on June 13, 2008, 07:07:58 PM

no its not that i dislike it, i just dont get the REALLY liking it.
i enjoy the characters but im not like ZOMG NEW SEASON OF HARUHI SOON /PEE PANTS

As they said, it's hard to explain to people who don't like it.

I really liked the series, but I can't say I'm "infected" by Haruhism either. Different people, different tastes.

Frohike · « **Reply #6 on:** June 14, 2008, 01:28:56 AM »

I don't get it, either. I ended the series thinking... "well that went nowhere." I think the problem was that I entered the series without expecting it to be what it was: a slapstick-heavy, self-referential, character-driven anime, with little actual character development but lots of interaction and "zany" situations. And panty shots $:-\$

On the other hand, it did make me more receptive to character-oriented anime and I ended up watching Honey & Clover a bit afterwards, something I never would have given a second glance at before. And I'm glad I did... I'm a fan of that series now.

I may actually come back to this one, once I acclimate a bit more to Japanese humor.

sdedalus83 · « **Reply #7 on:** June 14, 2008, 04:28:20 AM »

Episode VI sealed it for me. What an awesome ending. It's just refreshing to see a masculine, socially competent, intelligent male lead. The VAs for Haruhi and Kyon are also freaking awesome.

mgz · « **Reply #8 on:** June 14, 2008, 04:49:17 AM »

Quote from: Frohike on June 14, 2008, 01:28:56 AM

I don't get it, either. I ended the series thinking... "well that went nowhere." I think the problem was that I entered the series without expecting it to be what it was: a slapstick-heavy, self-referential, character-driven anime, with little actual character development but lots of interaction and "zany" situations. And panty shots $:-\$

On the other hand, it did make me more receptive to character-oriented anime and I ended up watching Honey & Clover a bit afterwards, something I never would have given a second glance at before. And I'm glad I did... I'm a fan of that series now.

I may actually come back to this one, once I acclimate a bit more to Japanese humor.

yea i think im for the most part in a similar situation but i did expect it to be filled with fanservice i was just hoping for a little more substance which i felt it was lacking quite a bit of. I still am not a huge fan of the genre in general but i did get a small laugh a couple times during the show

ffx800 · « **Reply #9 on:** June 14, 2008, 08:12:09 AM »

Read this post.

ok, as a haruhiist who watched the entire show for the 7th or 8th time already, i can somehow relate to that feeling when i first watched the show.

i was like, "did i just download the right file" if you're talking about that movie they made. episode 2 was great but it didn't affect me YET. up to episode 10 i was like "What the hell? everyone's addicted to this crappy show?!?!? You got to be kidding me!" so here comes the infect-you-with-haruhiism part.

i really liked the LAST TWO EPISODES. i remember watching it on midnight (1am or something) and there was this somehow GREAT feeling that overflows your spirit. (i don't know if it'll affect you but yeah, it's a really great feeling) and after that i feel like every anime i watch looks crappy.

psyren · « **Reply #10 on:** June 14, 2008, 12:51:53 PM »

Quote from: sdedalus83 on June 14, 2008, 04:28:20 AM

Episode VI sealed it for me. What an awesome ending. It's just refreshing to see a masculine, socially competent, intelligent male lead. The VAs for Haruhi and Kyon are also freaking awesome.

YES!

<3 Mahler's 8th Symphony to seal the climax of ep VI.

Frohike · « **Reply #11 on:** June 14, 2008, 02:09:53 PM »

Quote from: ffx800 on June 14, 2008, 08:12:09 AM

i really liked the LAST TWO EPISODES. i remember watching it on midnight (1am or something) and there was this somehow GREAT feeling that overflows your spirit. (i don't know if it'll affect you but yeah, it's a really great feeling)

I had the opposite reaction. I sat through them thinking, "wow, I wonder how they're going to wrap up some of the plot threads before the show's over."

Turns out, they didn't. They just sort of... dropped most of the plot ideas they had in the first few episodes concerning Haruhi's "powers." Dropped them much like Haruhi would I guess

It actually feels like much of the show was written by a similar personality to hers, lol.

But I'll definitely give this series another shot later.

Tatsujin · « **Reply #12 on:** June 14, 2008, 02:39:25 PM »

Quote from: mgz on June 13, 2008, 05:38:31 PM

Ok so i was forced to watch the first season of haruhi and while ill say its OK i dont get the huge support of the show
if someone would like to help plz do

she's evily pretty, she's weird so it makes the anime pretty damn interesting, she likes to get attention just doesn't wanna admit it, and who wouldn't wanna huge such a cute girl? unfortunality, that'll never happen IRL since she is an anime character! ha-ha-ha-ha-ha. but that's the beauty of it ~

KoC · « **Reply #13 on:** June 14, 2008, 09:31:40 PM »

The show is all about jacking off at the characters. That's it.

lithanas · « **Reply #14 on:** June 15, 2008, 02:23:57 PM »

i think we can kinda compare us to narutards...

since i didnt have the possibility to DL when i first heard about this show i read the novels first so i kinda got hooked there. when i saw the series i feelt they emphasised too much on mikuru fanservice. (im a tsuruya-chan fan my self... i feel left out) what i liked about the series was the charachters and how kyon sees on the story, and haruhi her self.

i think haruhiism is something you either got and either dosent. so dont try to force it on you.

Hadouken · « **Reply #15 on:** June 15, 2008, 09:04:39 PM »

The main part I liked about the series was Kyon's narrating, I'm not obsessed with the series, although I really enjoyed it.

yellowbook · « **Reply #16 on:** June 15, 2008, 09:54:52 PM »

Ummm excuse me, but it had bunny girls in it okay? Did he miss that part?

BakaBT · « **Reply #17 on:** June 16, 2008, 09:53:36 AM »

Originally posted by Malus:

They're just addicted to animu lolis >_> all excuses!

kureshii · « **Reply #18 on:** June 16, 2008, 09:59:42 AM »

What's wrong with lolis? Don't people watch anime only for... they don't? Really? O_O

Malus, every time I see your name i can't help but pronounce it "mah-loos". In the local dialect it means something along the lines of "embarassed (in a public situation)", but is usually said without the "s" sound, i.e. "mah-loo". Not that it says anything about you, but sorry anyway =P

AceHigh · « **Reply #19 on:** June 16, 2008, 10:53:02 AM »

Quote from: kureshii on June 16, 2008, 09:59:42 AM

Malus, every time I see your name i can't help but pronounce it "mah-loos". In the local dialect it means something along the lines of "embarassed (in a public situation)", but is usually said without the "s" sound, i.e. "mah-loo". Not that it says anything about you, but sorry anyway =P

He is Nah and will forever be Nah. Malus is his drug lord name (or pimping name)