The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (light novel)
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| I love festivals, and who knew haruhi could sing so good <3 i loved "god knows" need to get that mp3 a.s.a.p really really liked this episode =] quite a memorable one too |
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EmiyaShirou said: For me this was an "The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya 11 - Live Alive" episode Very much enjoyed the music in this episode. I have an odd feeling that this would have been the chronological final episode. Not looking to finish this series cause I am enjoying it and I hear the 2nd is not good. |
| Such junk... |
| I love the way that no matter what order you watch this series in, this episode is the 12th. This is the defining episode of the series! |
| Well, that was a pretty good performance given the fact they only had like an hour to practice. The only actual scene I liked from this episode had to be Kyon and Haruhi's conversation under the tree. |
| She's truly incredible. |
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| wonderful lyrics |
| Another wow! This show started pretty average for me, but these last couple of episodes were sweet! Especially this one, which is the festival episode. The bassist was kickass and Nagato with that hat was badass! |
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| This episode was a piledriver of a show. And the two songs are probably the best non-background music ever in an anime. And Haruhi and especially Yuki are dressed to kill. If someone else tried to play dressed as a bunny girl, it would have been lame. But they were entirely in character. I was visiting some fansub site today and there was a youtube video of some video game, where you have to hit stuff to the beat. Anyway, the song in the game was God Bless. Hearing the music out of the blue has called up all kinds of memories from the show. I feel like watching this episode now. |
| Getting mad K-ON vibes from this ep |
 Anyone else notice Taniguchi drinking a Ramuné soda? :D I know it's a popular drink in Japan, I'm surprised I have not seen this before in anime. |
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| Keep hearing "God Knows" on a radio station online from requests frequently, and yeah it's a pretty good song, but now after watching this, I think highly of it now. |
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insan3soldiern said: One of the best episodes i've ever seen in an anime. Not just the music, but because of the character defining moments in the last half of the episode, where we delve into what makes Haruhi tick. That's why I like this episode so much. I agree with this. I am impressed by the way the handle the characters such a subtle way to grow them. |
| Yuki Nagato is my anime guitar idol (screw Yui :p) and that was some sick performance definitively one of my fav episodes |
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| epic nonthing else just epic... |
| Zen mood charging.... <img src="http://myanimelist.net/signature/Lugaro.png" /> |
| AHAHAHA X'D they actually showed the movie X3 thats awesome! and yay she preformed so well =D i love how Yuki was telling the future XD this epi was great ^^ |
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| I may go lesbian for Haruhi. |
| Al right, this episode helped me realize that I only felt "attraction" towards Haruhi up until now. It has now evolved into Love :) The concert was awesome and I really like how Haruhi (Aya Hirano) sang their own songs. Just what can Haruhi "not" do? Yuki was pretty good with the guitar as well, it was funny seeing her keep her poker face while going insane with the guitar ^^ I really liked the scene with Haruhi/Kyon under the tree. We got to see her sensitive side again and the development between them is taking fruit. This episode will definitely be the most memorable, it's right up there with the "Island Vacation" and "Someday in the rain" for me. Haruhi! :) |
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| Great episode! Loved the band scene allot :D |
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| best ep ever :') the ending was super cute ^^ |
| So good episode, it gives so much build-up to the anime. And I actually started liking Haruhi a bit more now. This one goes to my favorites :P |
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| Great episode. Loved the music and the scene with Kyon & Haruhi under the tree :3 |
| Loved the DMC reference. :D |
| Great episode. The music scenes were awesome and the bit under the tree was nice too. Can't wait to see how it all ends. 8.5/10. |
| The second song was great, the first one was good too, but it was hard to get into it because I didn't think that the voice fit Haruhi at all. I liked the scene near the end with Kyon and Haruhi talking under the tree. She's come far from not wanting to do anything normal with normal people to wanting to do her best (and I guess being praised?) in things that wouldn't have interested her before. |
Demivee said: Loved the DMC reference. :D what exactly was a DMC reference? this episode was great, I think it's the lack of Yuki or Koizumi's mysterious theories that makes it quite enjoyable. It seemed like it was Kyon's day off from Haruhi lol he actually went and hung around with his male friends, but was bored as hell very soon. And I think that's what makes him go day after day to the club, without Haruhi his life would be just so boring, lol that's what I think at least |
| Since noone posted this earlier, I really enjoyed the reaction to Asahina's maid costume: |
| best episode of the series! |
| I felt like i heard "God knows" in some other anime before, because i had heard it that often long before i ever started watching Haruhi, guess that shows it's popularity. |
| So going by the chronological order, this was the beginning of endless 8 of season 2, it was okay, will just skip the other 7. After endless is Sigh of Haruhi followed by episode 0 with Mikuru then ep. 12,11, and 9 of first season broadcast order....so complicated... So episode 26, Haruhi during the cultural festival was awesome. Doesn't seem like such a selfish person anymore. |
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| Ahhhhh, "God Knows" in particular was just great. I love when I'm watching an English dub and it dubs the songs with the English voice actor as well. Wendee Lee can sing! |
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| The infamous Endless Eight (the chronological order) ~I can't say I was really bored, but I wasn't impressed either. I didn't expect much from this arc anyway. |
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theeggman85 said: I have finally seen the legendary scene. I AM COMPLEEEEETE I remember finding this clip on YouTube and being like :o :o I need to watch this anime NOW xD now it's :o :o I need to download those songs NOW So they're forming a band, huh? Is the product of that perhaps the dancing we see in the ending theme then? nostripe361 said: did anyone notice the guy/girl dressed up as a pink cat and acting like an animal at the front gate or was it just me. because that freaked me the heck out I totally noticed this LOL |
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| they are enjoying summer , and I am having here cold winter unfair btw this is the Endless Eight ep 12 (the chronological order) |
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| My favourite episode so far Haruhi sings like a goddess, plus she made me laugh so much when she threw the grass and it came back in har face xD |
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| [Watching in broadcast order] Holy ... Haruhi has a beautiful singing voice, absolutely LOVED the song. Yuki's solo was pretty good aswell. Haruhi is so cute :D Kyon tapping his finger to the beat. This has got to be one of my favourite episodes so far. Love how excited Haruhi got when she decided to make a band with Kyon. |
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| [Broadcast order] Really liked Haruhi's performance (more so God knows over the first song). Also like the ending scene with Haruhi and Kyon. |
| Endless 8 I dont like Haruhi in this episode because she is too selfish without asking their permission to go out with activities. Slice of life episode. All the different activities contained in just one episode. Talking about wasting no time. 3.25/5 |
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| Ok, I love the song God Knows and am enjoying the anime but which episode/season does it appear? I watched ep 12 the other night and didn't see it. I am stuck in the time loop arc. Let me know ... thanks |
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| The infamous endless 8 at episode 12? Oh boy, time to strap in. |
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| Not bad. Kind of uneventful. |
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| Lovely episode, one of the best in the series. Season 1 is sooo much better than s2, this was the Haruhi everyone wanted to see. The performance was a pleasant surprise 😊 What I loved was the continuity between the seasons, especially with Kyon remembering Asahina's invitation for soba. |
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| Wow so many positive comments, for me this was the worst and very pointless episode (the only one I didn't like so far), felt like they ran out of ideas, so they just made *something* for 20 minutes. Giant waste of time, only last 2 minutes were nice and served some purpose. 1/5 |
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