Fuck this show. I hate it from the bottom of my heart. It was a disappointment in every regard.
I'm not going to pretend like the original series was a masterpiece, because it isn't. But it was entertaining and charming (exept for Haruhi being a bully sometimes)
Everything that made the original series fun is missing here.
I find Nagato the most interesting in the original series. She's so mysterious and kicks ass when it needs to be kicked. Her usual self and the version in the alternatetimeline of the movie are both endearing. So when i heard that a Spin-off with Nagato as the central character was coming up, I was soooo hyped. Exept for the movie, Nagato didn't get much screentime which i found particularly unfourtunate.
When i heard it was going to be a romance, taking place in the alternative timeline and saw the new characterdesigns I was less hyped but still excited. I am completly open to the idea of making a lovestory with that version of Nagato.
It's just that the character called Nagato in this series isn't Nagato, it is a hollow shell of a character. The Nagato from the movie isn't that fleshed out, but she was depicted as a really shy, bookish, unsocial and lonley person. Instead we get a gluttonous, lazy, airheaded idiot we're supposed to find cute.
The problem is that the romantic elements are handeld so poorly that I wonder why they even bothered. So the rest of the show is just SoL, Great! The original series was just SoL with some supernatural elements mixed in so this should be fun aswell right? No, this is the most boring, generic and unimaginative SoL I have seen yet, on the level of bad fanfiction. It's like they where checking things of a checklist, in order to include every chlichéd scenario.
But if that wasn't enough it just doesn't make sense in context of the original Series. This wouldn't be really a problem if it didn't try to connect the two with forced, stupid references we're supposed to look at and yell:
"Hey! I rembember that from the series"
Plus the animation and soundtrack is ten times worse.
There is absolutly no reason for anyone to watch this series. If SoL is the sand on the metaphysical anime Beach, then this show is a turd someone used to rip off a sandcastle.
