I don't watch anime. I don't like the pacing, I don't like the artwork, and I find it all painfully boring except for two shows, Evangelion (I'll talk about that later) and this. This show is hard to describe properly but I will give it a chance.
Kyon is a high school student, generally bored with life. One day a new student comes to school (Haruhi) who promptly declares if anyone is an alien or otherwise paranormal being to please let her now as she has no time for anyone else. Kyon decides one day to speak to her, and this seems to get her in motion as she makes a club with him and several other people (she practically kidnaps people to do her bidding) to make a club, the S.O.S. brigade whose mission is to really find paranormal things but often becomes just to serve Haruhi's whims.
Through the club Kyon meets other paranormal beings, the club's members who range from Time Travelers to interstellar police to robots. Oh, and Haruhi may or may not be a god, and may or may not be controlling the universe and all the occurs in it. So Haruhi getting upset may cause the entire universe to be destroyed, which at times isn't even Kyon's most pressing problem.
The entire first season was shown not in order, with each episode being an event within the school year culminating in the final act, Kyon trying to keep Haruhi from destroying the universe and starting it over, which he may or may not have done. Just great stuff.
It sounds heady but it's generally funny and manic, with Haruhi being simply insane in a wonderful way. (It's got a bit of the MY SASSY GIRL vibe with Haruhi pulling Kyon all over to do her current whim.) More for guys than for girls though, as a lot of what Haruhi does to get attention from the outside world is fanservice.
Haruhi got a lot of attention for the dance the characters did in the closing credits which became a youtube hit, with people copying it all over the world, making videos of other characters doing it, gathering hundreds of people to do it, etc. This has been removed from the second season ending, probably to put the focus on the show instead of the dance.
Opening Theme
Kyon is a high school student, generally bored with life. One day a new student comes to school (Haruhi) who promptly declares if anyone is an alien or otherwise paranormal being to please let her now as she has no time for anyone else. Kyon decides one day to speak to her, and this seems to get her in motion as she makes a club with him and several other people (she practically kidnaps people to do her bidding) to make a club, the S.O.S. brigade whose mission is to really find paranormal things but often becomes just to serve Haruhi's whims.
Through the club Kyon meets other paranormal beings, the club's members who range from Time Travelers to interstellar police to robots. Oh, and Haruhi may or may not be a god, and may or may not be controlling the universe and all the occurs in it. So Haruhi getting upset may cause the entire universe to be destroyed, which at times isn't even Kyon's most pressing problem.
The entire first season was shown not in order, with each episode being an event within the school year culminating in the final act, Kyon trying to keep Haruhi from destroying the universe and starting it over, which he may or may not have done. Just great stuff.
It sounds heady but it's generally funny and manic, with Haruhi being simply insane in a wonderful way. (It's got a bit of the MY SASSY GIRL vibe with Haruhi pulling Kyon all over to do her current whim.) More for guys than for girls though, as a lot of what Haruhi does to get attention from the outside world is fanservice.
Haruhi got a lot of attention for the dance the characters did in the closing credits which became a youtube hit, with people copying it all over the world, making videos of other characters doing it, gathering hundreds of people to do it, etc. This has been removed from the second season ending, probably to put the focus on the show instead of the dance.
Opening Theme
If you are a anime fan, or a sci fi fan who has a bit of appreciation of strange japanese things, then this show would be something you probably should check out. Haruhi is right now in the beginning of its 2nd season. The 1st season is self contained but you probably should watch that prior to watch the 2nd, as there isn't any explanation in the first two episodes really of what came before.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haruhi_Suzumiya#Anime - Wikipedia page
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