UPDATE- This review sucks so I'll probably re-edit/re-write it later or delete it. My stance still stands though that Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuuutsu is awful.
Well, hi. So this is my first anime review ever on MAL, so bare with me here Haha, I bet you've heard this a thousand times if you've been on MAL awhile, huh? Especially since I am new here on MAL. Anyways, I'm definitely going to have more reviews in the future. Okay so where to start? I guess we can start off by saying NO, I didn't like TMoHS and I don't (in my opinion) think it deserves nines or
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tens, and here is why.
NOTE: IT HAS BEEN AWHILE SINCE I HAVE SEEN THIS ANIME SO PLEASE CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG ON SOME THINGS! Also sorry if I jump around a lot. I should also mention I'm going to try to make this short and simple Although might end up lengthy. Okay let's just dive right in!
STORY: 3
I won't brother having a long ass intro to what this anime is about like most people, clearly you can read the synopsis MAL has provided for you. Moving on.
Without saying, as I'm sure you know the episodes are not in order. Who on earth came up with that idea? I can tell you right now that turned me off the anime big time when I learned this. No, it isn't the worse that could have happened but it definitely isn't a plus in my book. I think remember this actually have some meaning though, I can't recall, anyways. As far as the story itself goes it is pretty interesting, and that's what drew me to this as well as the hype, but it fails miserably to execute, and overall kids joining and making clubs is nothing new at all not is a character having some sort of powers.
I just usually give the anime I'm watching a good chance, as one should. With, TMoHS I tired the best I could to give it a chance without exploding with confusion, from the fact this series is so popular and a headache of being disappointed. I think that's all that happened for me while watching TMoHS, DISPOINTMENT, and a lot of it! I literally struggled to get though each and every episode.
With all the high praise and scores for this anime I thought, "I really need to watch it, I've heard about it and know of it, and have seen GIFS floating around, defiantly need to get to watching it". Whelp, I did. All I can say is I am baffled why this series is so popular and I'm, again, disappointed, I expected a lot more. It's just random in my opinion, and very strung together. There's not much more to say. The story premise is mediocre at best and could have been more, but wasn't.
CHARACTERS: 2
The main characters I want to address are Suzumiya and Kyon, so let's do that.
First off we have Suzumiya Haruhi. She's, as another person, greatly described her, aggressive. That's all she is, aggressive. She also is so touchy-feely. She touches everyone and everything as far as I can remember. Suzumiya is really obnoxious and really is just this character who is oblivious to consequences and repercussions and is bossy and very control driven. I think people try to make excuses for her behavior to some of the other characters, calling her eccentric. No, I don't think a lot of what she does is okay. Moving on.
Then there is Kyon, the main protagonist. He's just your typical average school boy for an anime and pretty generic and quite cliche to the core, IMO. Although out of all the characters he was my favourite and the most appealing. To be honest he wouldn't have even been a bad character necessarily if he had more character development. The one shining thing about his character though was that his presence fit well with all the other characters.
The other characters played their part, but overall they were mediocre. I won't spend time babbling about them because you can read character bios.
ART: 7
Whelp, I'd be lying if I said TMoHS had bad art. It doesn't fail in that respect at all. It defiantly drew me to this anime. Although it in it's self isn't out there crazy, never been done before style. I mean don't get me wrong, it is quite lovely in my opinion, some of the better art I've seen, but I've also seen better. I actually really enjoyed the toning and colours used though, they're beautiful, and work well together, and they stand out, but at it's core the art is highly mediocre.
SOUND: 4
The opening (from eps 2-9, 11-13) is okay, it's catchy. I have heard anime openings though and literally gasped at them. Zetsuen no Tempest for example has a kick-ass opening, if I do say so myself. I have no opinion on the ending (from eps 1-13). The sound effects, etc, throughout the series was average.
SIDE NOTE: (JUST AN OPINION)
I felt like the series tired to tried to pull "deep" quotes out of random to be honest. At some point in the anime, Itsuki was saying something, I believe to Suzumiya, and I can remember what episode it was so the many of you have already seen this anime might know what episode I'm talking about. Anyways it seems like there was some forced "deep" quoting there. Not many will agree or maybe even caught on to this, but this is just my opinion.
OVERALL: 4
I think personally TMoHS is highly overrated and poorly constructed. It was anime that could have been so much more but wasn't, and that's the sad part. I think I more or less just didn't feel this anime lived up the the hype it was given. I won't say don't watch this, watch it for yourself and make your own opinions on it, but this a anime for me was hard to get through and didn't stick at all. We all have animes, even really popular ones we don't like, it is just that simple.
This being my first review it was probably bad, I'm sorry for that. Anyways, Fair winds everyone.
Nov 25, 2012
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UPDATE- This review sucks so I'll probably re-edit/re-write it later or delete it. My stance still stands though that Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuuutsu is awful.
Well, hi. So this is my first anime review ever on MAL, so bare with me here Haha, I bet you've heard this a thousand times if you've been on MAL awhile, huh? Especially since I am new here on MAL. Anyways, I'm definitely going to have more reviews in the future. Okay so where to start? I guess we can start off by saying NO, I didn't like TMoHS and I don't (in my opinion) think it deserves nines or ... |
