What is special about this anime?

BHancock said:
Don't listen to the detractors here. Quite a few of them don't know what they missed, or maybe were too young to see it. I know my join date doesn't reflect what I'm saying but I actually have had an account here since 06.

BHancock said:
If you read the source material, you'll see that Haruhi as a series is quite deeper than what is presented. It delves into philosophy, theories of time warps, teachings that destroy one faction yet bring up another. Each faction's view of Haruhi would mean the destruction of the other. All of them struggle to maintain that delicate balance and status-quo currently in place. I can also say that TMOHS logic of time warp and dimension travel has a lot less holes than S;G does.

ssjokg said:
Even if they explain the personalities of the chars,the plot and sub plots,chars relations,music and animation it wont change that you were bored and didnt see anything of all that in the series or saw them and didnt care.

ExtendedRenegade said:
I disagree, for the most part. For time travel, I'm sorry, but this show brings absolutely nothing new to the table. In fact, short of the movie, time travel isn't even really used in an interesting or unpredictable fashion. I will admit that on the philosophy side of things, it does a better job, though still, it isn't exactly a completely new and fresh idea. Well...I'm not sure about anime to be honest, but the world changing and forming in response to a single person's wishes has been done before, a lot. Off the top of my head, the best example I can think of is the "Emperor Joker" DC comics event... Actually...thinking about it now...that arc has quite a bit in common with The Melancholy, and it came out 5 years prior... Anyway, regardless, HS did a good job with the concept. As for the different factions goals meaning the destruction of the others, I don't know...I just didn't find that to be all that intriguing. If anything it only made sense if you ask me.

What I will agree with though, is your view on how it presented the sci-fi aspects of the show. Short of a few rare scenes, you'd never really know it had a pretty heavy focus on all those topics. Again, trying to mask these sci-fi elements isn't anything new, but I've never seen anything pull it off while managing to still keep them interesting. For that, I have to applaud the series.

cub said:
Some people like tomatoes. Other people like potatoes.

Kolle said:
I see that many people absolutely love this anime enough to give it a 10 and put in favorites. Every time I see this I feel as if I did not watch the anime correctly because I really didn't think much of it. This anime in my opinion is no different from any other school comedy anime, but with a different story and minor differences.

Am I missing something? Is this anime highly rated because of its movie? What was so good about this anime that would make people think of it the way that they do?

LordLagann said:
The newer generations will dislike it regardless. It's like NGE or TTGL. You just have to be there to witness what an incredible impact it had on the industry. The young'ns can stick to Fairy Tail and Titans, they don't know what good shit it.

Arararraragi-kun said:
Nothing because it's shit.