As of now, the fanbase for Haruhiism has downsized a lot lately because of the executive decision to make the Endless Eight arc. That is based off of a thirty page story that focuses upon a "Groundhog Day" loop. The original story itself only focused upon the final loop, which meant that the problem was in the end and the audience only experienced the loop once. Kyoto Animation decided that they should expand this story into eight "different" loops called the infamous "Endless Eight". The only difference between the episodes were the clothes that the characters decided to wear. The unexpected, only to the company, reaction was the backlash of many fans and the probable loss of a lot of money.
After the dismal reaction towards the second series of Haruhi Suzumiya, the studio decided that if they wanted to be one of the best studios again, then they would have to adapt the most popular book of the entire series. So, what was The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya supposed to mean for the fans of the series? It was Kyoto Animation's apology that they would never try something like Endless Eight again.
Alright, so that's enough backstory for the movie's creation. Now let's actually talk about the movie.
Like I said before, this movie is adapted from the most popular book in the Haruhi Suzumiya series. Since apparently I'm not supposed to include summaries, then I'll just skip straight to my reaction of the movie.
It. Was. Great. The story, already being quite solid, was adapted extraordinarily well from its source material. The art was also outstanding since the movie is made from a company that has quite a large budget. Sounds from both the voices and the music was very good, but it did seem as if a single song was constantly played throughout the movie. It's not bad, but wasn't exactly expected either. Well, the music does make you feel whatever the characters were feeling at that particular point. Character development was terrific and it actually made me care about most of the characters. I enjoyed this movie a lot, because this was a just-about-perfect movie. I guess there are some problems like time constraints that had to condense some parts of the original story, but that's to be expected of any movie-book adaption. I mean I can nitpick, but the problems wouldn't decrease the fun in watching this.
In the end, it was great movie, so I'm going to give this the rating of Kick-Ass.
