The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya Movie Discussion

Arvis_Jaggamar said:
Still not sure what the issue is. But oh well. The important thing is that Haruhi and Kyon still share the memory of Tanabata three years prior.

-Arvis

robertogl said:

Why Haruhi remembers the Tanabata but Koizumi doesn't remember his powers?

Arvis_Jaggamar said:
Ah, I see the issue now. There are any number of possible explanations (Koizumi's memories are more easily altered than Haruhi's, strength of emotion affects strength of memory, Kyon Slider Alternate Dimension nonsense, Koizumi still has his powers but keeps them secret, etc) but it would be nice to have official word. Likely it's just an oversight on the author's part.
I'll wager this guess: the events of Tanabata are what caught the Data Integration thought Entity's attention in the first place, and Nagato needed to leave that memory alone in order keep her reality alteration stable. *shrugs*

-Arvis

Arvis_Jaggamar said:
Then perhaps it's just a matter of having the power to make Koizumi and others forget, but not powerful enough to make Haruhi forget.

I'm sure if I wanted to think hard enough about it, I could find all SORTS of issues with why Asahina is just a normal girl who thinks nothing of being in the present day with seemingly no recollection of living in the distant future, even though only a year of her memories have been altered.

-Arvis

tsudecimo said:
This was really meh and forgettable. I only even continued watching through this boring, bland and mind numbing movie because I didn't have a lot of anime in my HDD and I'm out of the country and can barely get a stable internet connection.

Maybe I would have appreciated it more if I actually liked a single character. It was interesting to hear Sugita in a mostly serious tone though.


6/10

Arvis_Jaggamar said:

It sounds like you didn't watch the series. :(
Still, you could have and still not liked anybody. That's possible. There's no accounting for taste.

-Arvis

avengersaint said:
A critique of mine is the fact that Kyon and Haruhi are so hush hush about their love for one another but hey, what can I do.

JetNZ said:
Yuki was kind of hot in this movie. She can grab my shirt any time.

ExiledZebra said:
Or is there something I'm missing?

TakezoKensei said:


I don't know if it helps or not, but you might be pleased to know that this actually marks a pivot in Kyon's relationship with Nagato, as we see in the later novels of the series.

After this, he does everything in his power to allow her to be as normal as possible, to be as emotionally free as possible, and he stops relying on her like he once did(which is half of what caused the movie in the first place -- Kyon's over-reliance). He dosen't really blame her at all, and beautifully acknowledges that this was partialy his fault. Him and Nagato's boss.
Not only that, but it's only after Dissapearance that Kyon really starts developing some incredibly deep feelings for Nagato herself, but that's off-topic.

I mean, really, Nagato was desperate, and that roof-top scene is so beautiful because it concludes that with Kyon not only choosing the Nagato he knows, and understanding her pain, but threatening her boss, just so that she could continue to exhibit emotions, because the Data Entity sure can't do shit to her now.
In the end of the movie, I can't feel tooooo bad for Nagato, because after seeing Kyon promise her that he'd never let her go like that, and putting his coat over her, she kinda gets what she wanted in the normal world: care, consideration, understanding, and the ability to be emotional. without having to completely alter her own personality.

Beautiful scene. Beautiful movie.