Story:
The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya story was a lot better executed the the original series itself it takes place Following on from the events of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya anime series, the story takes place from December 16 until December 24, a month after the cultural festival. The SOS Brigade, led by Haruhi Suzumiya (Aya Hirano), makes plans to have a nabe party for Christmas. However, on the morning of December 18, Kyon (Tomokazu Sugita) arrives at school and finds that the very nature of his reality has changed; Haruhi and Itsuki Koizumi (Daisuke Ono) are missing, Ryoko Asakura (Natsuko Kuwatani) has mysteriously returned, Mikuru Asahina (Yūko Gotō) does not recognize him and Yuki Nagato (Minori Chihara) is an ordinary human. Only Kyon is aware that everything is different and no one else remembers anything about Haruhi or the SOS Brigade. The only clue Kyon manages to find is a bookmark left by the alien version of Yuki before everything was changed, telling him to gather "keys" to run a program. While wondering about this clue, he gets to know the new Yuki, who appears to be quite fond of him. As December 20 comes, Kyon learns from Taniguchi (Minoru Shiraishi) that Haruhi was at another high school the whole time, along with Itsuki and others formerly from his school. By revealing his identity to her as 'John Smith', an alias he had used when he travelled back in time to assist a young Haruhi, Kyon manages to convince Haruhi to believe his story. With her assistance they gather the SOS Brigade together in the club room, thus bringing the keys necessary for a program built by alien Yuki.
Characters:
Now i'm going to give KyoAni tons of credit on the characters, they decided to put character development, yes, character development, Kyon, Haruhi, Nagato, etc all act different in a serious way we never seen them before and this was very refreshing. Kyon not acting so sarcastic and taken life more serious, Haruhi acting more mature and not so much as a hyper active 12 year old girl and I would have loved if the original series would have incorporated this element in the series too.
animation/sound:
Now this is KyoAni so you can expect the best of the best with them. Scenes where animated very well, some scenes where breathtaking and beautifully well done.Sound was also a plus with well orchestrated music and ballads that I thought fit the movie very well.
Overall The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya is actually in my opinion a lot better then the original series itself and thats saying a alot, Characters being well develop, story taking itself more serious and showing how a moe anime can be just as good as some other anime movies. Yeah, this movie may have flaws and its NOT PERFECT, but if you hated the original Haruhi series this movie stops all your bad opinions about go away, well maybe not but you get what I mean.
