The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (light novel)
What did you think of this episode?
5Loved it!
62.6%
733
4Liked it!
23.2%
272
3It was OK
9.8%
115
2Disliked it
2.1%
25
1Hated it
2.2%
26
Average 4.4
1,171 votes
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| THIS IS AN ANIME ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS THE MANGA BEYOND THIS EPISODE. ---------------------------------------- Uhhh... all I can say is WOW. That was definitely an interesting episode.. I wonder what the rest of the series is like O_O |
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| Which Episode one is this? The brodcast version? Or the US market hack? |
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| this show is weird. very weird. although i did like seeing Harui change her hair style every day. that was cool i wish she do that agian |
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| On the DVD (which is what I'm watching) the first episode shown is Episode 00 and it's the amateur movie that Haruhi makes with Mikuru as the battle waitress. Very funny episode. I watched this with both the Japanese audio/English subs and the English dub with the subs still on. I have to say it's probably the best dub I've seen so far although I haven't seen near as much anime as a lot of people on MAL. At least on this episode, the narrator's English voice actor really did well imo and it added to the show. And the English phrases the used to make it sound more like common English didn't change the meaning of the original Japanese at all. I've seen some dubs where they seemed to put in sentences that were completely different and even changed the meaning of the scene. I'll probably keep watching this both subbed and dubbed since it's a short series. |
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| Hey, I didn't hate this episode! =O Yeah, going into this show with an already biased opinion, based on what I've heard. Um, and the plot. (Probably not smart.) But, this episode was actually quite funny! ^^ |
| Classic... starting the rewatch in chronological order now... Haruhi and Kyon are two of the best characters in anime ever. End of conversation O_O |
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| Mi-mi-miraku-mi-mikuru-run~! Best opening line ever. |
| That was pretty scary... I guess the first episode is trying to display the rest of the series? Randomness? |
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| Honestly, I just started to enjoy after 7th episode... |
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| wow that was kinda dumb... i thought i had downloaded the wrong series. w00t for corny midi music... gotta love that stuff |
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| L0L Maybe the funniest opening episode ever. I was like "Wow, this quality is really bad AND ITS NOT IN WIDE SCREEN! Man... now I have to download it all over again" They sure fooled me. Hehehe I loved the AK-47 part at the market. |
I almost went over to the friend of mine that recommended to me to ask if he was clinically insane. Though I must admit, it was a really interesting choice for an opening episode. After watching a few 'real' episodes I found myself going back to watch it, and laughing at the little things the characters did that showed their true personalities. |
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| It was interesting that's putting it mildly lol. No I was wondering if I had the right series and then i started noticing that it was obviously "filmed" it was an neat way to start and hooked my attention right away. |
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| Lol so funny, combat waitress sounds so funny and the special effects during the "battle" scenes cracked me up. This is sure gonna be one hell of a unique and completely weird show. Bring on the lols. |
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| it was real good, the opening made me wanna see more, as matterfact iM downloading more right now hehe what do you think?! (n_n) |
| I laughed so hard when Haruhi was holding up the script written on the notepad within the frame so Mikuru could read it. |
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| i thought that this show would be retarded after reading the synopsis, but i was bored and found the first ep hilarious... i also noticed that the voice actor of kyon sounds like sakata gintoki from gintama, come to find out, they are the same voices (gintama is more funny though). |
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| i dont know what was going on but lol at the movie they made.. hilarious but i was confused thru the entire episode |
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| :) it was really odd, but i liked it. i was just really confused at the beginning, haha. |
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| When I saw this the first time, I was totally dumbfounded. xD Must be the funniest opening episode ever! I enjoyed it even more after watching the rest of the show in chronological order... :3 Because there are so many references you can't possibly understand before that. |
| I just started this series yesterday. I don't think I've laughed so hard in a while... :) Kyon's commentary was hilarious. "It was still an incomprehensible conversation..." |
| Okay, that was... really weird. Kinda funny though. |
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| The hell? It has some good amount of laughs but nothing extraordinary as of yet. |
| im going by this was the chronologically released episode1 the movie they made was hilarious XD loved it!!! |
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| Weird Episode! It took me about 5-6months before I continued to watch the 2nd and the rest of the episodes. And there I realized that it is such a good anime... its just the first episode that was kinda weird. |
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| Wow the cat talked. And it was falling off the shoulder the whole time. Not necessarily hilarious, but interesting! I'm sure I'll appreciate it later. |
| Ehh..what a movie inside an anime.. |
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star_lit said: It was interesting that's putting it mildly lol. No I was wondering if I had the right series and then i started noticing that it was obviously "filmed" it was an neat way to start and hooked my attention right away. I felt the exact same sockcreature said: I just started this series yesterday. I don't think I've laughed so hard in a while... :) Kyon's commentary was hilarious. "It was still an incomprehensible conversation..." I had to pause it I was laughing so much |
| ~May you continue being the Messiah.... |
| Haha. Wow that was crazy! What a way to begin! |
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| I think something's wrong. You're all talking about some movie or something and the episode I saw was Haruhi making her club. am i doin it wrong? |
| what did i just watch?O.o |
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| Wow. Yuki's blandness is major win. lol @ Mikuru hitting her nose on the pole. Haruhi puts Tim Burton, George Lucas, and Mel Gibson, with their powers combined, to shame. |
| Which episode are we discusing here? 1 or 00? I watched 00 anyway... :P at first I was like WTF am I watching?! lol xD but when the creepy quality video ended I realised why it was like that and Haruhi turning around like this in that scene was really amazing! :P yay can't wait to see more <3 |
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| Kyon's narration was hilarious. But what really had me laughing was all the firecrackers and when the teacher burst out in the background while they were shooting the scene. And all the odd zoom-ins and pan-ups... rofl. This was an interesting start. |
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| this anime is something else, mainly haruhi is something else |
| Awesome, one of the best first episodes I've watched! |
| Sounds like fun ;) |
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