I wax nostalgic about that era of my life. What was the point? The junkyard presents two articles about the Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya episode Endless Eight I. Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account. We’ll find out next week. A day at the pool, festivals, fireworks, bug catching, and so much more! I welcome suggestions and feedback and will consider interesting guest posts. We’ll have to wait and see. watch 01:48. Michele Power This shows that Nagato does want something: Kyon. History Talk (0) Comments Share. xD. So what happened here? Of course this begs the question: Should you watch the entirety of the Endless Eight? You’ve been warned.). Haruhi has a whole list of things they must do during the next two weeks of summer. No, really, it’s summer break for a bunch of high schoolers and the leader of the SOS Brigade decides what everyone will do. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Endless Summer Starting just after the single-episode story "Bamboo Rhapsody," "Endless Eight" began as something of an oddity: there was nothing strange going on. Paul Roeber But, no, it was eight painful episodes, which aired weekly with no knowledge of when it was ending. This is a transcript of the same episode repeated eight times, with slight differences between each iteration. I wouldn’t say that. That said, I wouldn’t recommend watching this to a new anime fan because it’s a good way to scare them off. (Everything below contains spoilers for The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya and The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya. I want to start by mentioning the new opening, accompanied by another great Haruhi theme Super Driver. finally the sweet release of endless eight >years later when you rewatch it this arc is the greatest arc of all time no one would be brave enough to even attempt half of endless eight nowadays post anime masterpiece >> Anonymous 12/14/20(Mon)07:08:39 No. Part time jobs at a supermarket, attracting customers by wearing “unbearably hot” costumes, except Haruhi of course. Let’s talk about the comical for a moment. And so, peculiarity number 1: Her hairstyle changes everyday. Take on Me, The Strange World of Gurney Slade: Episode Six, The Strange World of Gurney Slade: Episode Five, The Strange World of Gurney Slade: Episode Four. ( Log Out / No, that’s not true – it was like my brain called out the line again. If someone’s watched or has heard of Haruhi, chances are that they know what the Endless Eight is. Or would you rather I break the spell?" Nazywamy się Marta i Błażej :) Tworzymy duet zarówno w fotografii, jak i w życiu. If you would like to email please click on the picture to view contact details. Spoiler Warning for the plot of Endless Eight Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. Nagato finds a hercules beetle (and some great freeze frame hero shots, and poor Mikuru running into a tree and falling over). Change ), You are commenting using your Google account. I remember summers and boy howdy were they fun. He doesn’t speak it out loud. ?”) But the thing is, this show is weird and we’ve seen a giant cricket and a scarab beetle make an appearance… maybe the cicada will return the favor? endless-eight:. No, not yet. Thanks for sharing. Switch it up by installing it either vertically or horizontally. "Endless Eight I" Transcription: "Endoresu Eito I" (Japanese: エンドレスエイト I) Mitsuyoshi Yoneda: Shoji Gatoh: June 19, 2009 () April 13, 2011: 2: Haruhi summons the SOS Brigade to make the most of summer vacation. from the same studio that made Haruhi, which just offers us each week a day or two in the lives of a group of friends who belong to a music club. Danielle Gilby Differences in script between each episode will be emphasised by Roman numerals. With two weeks of summer vacation left, Haruhi brings her subordinates together to cram in as much fun with them as possible in the form of a list of … Where has that cat come from by the way? There will be a new Haruhi episode covered weekly on Saturdays right through to the end of the year and then we’re doing the same approach with Erased in the new year. ( Log Out / Torchwood Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions! What is the Endless Eight? It’s actually really lovely, but it comes as a bit of a surprise, because we haven’t actually had one of those before. The "Endless Eight" is the name given to an eight-episode arc in Season 2, which covers the SOS Brigade's summer vacation after Haruhi unintentionally traps the club into a time-loop to prevent their vacation from ending. Endless Eighteen (Chinese Drama); 金斩，有何贵干？; Jin Zhan, You He Gui Gan;What Do You Want, Jin Zhan? Or is there something more going on here? It was when Haruhi said of their 10th grade summer, “once it’s gone, it’s gone for good!” Oh no you don’t, Miss Suzumiya! Essentially, if you told an animation team to make an episode, erased their memories when they’re done, and repeat this several more times, you have the Endless Eight. Run game. It’s meant to make them experience what Nagato has to put up with. She wants to give Kyon the choice between the current world or a paradise that he doesn’t necessarily want. Not that I’d give up my now, but I do miss my then! A promise, a tragedy, and the choice that brought end to it all. The Endless Eight storyline, which took up the first THIRD of the fifth novel in the series, is about the main cast finding out that they have been re-living the last two weeks of the summer holiday again and again endlessly, because Haruhi simply did not want the summer vacation to end. Was it just an episode of slice-of-life fun? After waiting for years, it was depressing to see 8 of 14 episodes used in an arc that could have easily been resolved in half the amount of time. Then later she says what may be the best line yet: “If we let them go now, they might return the favor someday!” (I laughed but thought “in what way could a cicada return a favor? Well, what there is to talk about…. Babylon 5 ( Log Out / What’s the real experience of watching this episode, before we start worrying about the other seven? I really love Haruhi so the Endless Eight is kind of just an added quirk of the series, though I’ll admit when I’m doing a quick reawatch of this series I do just watch the first and last of the arc but normally I watch the lot. 212914778. Let’s call a spade a gardening instrument (ok, “A spade is a gardening instrument”. Please follow one of the disambiguation links below or search to find the page you were looking for if it is not listed. Instead, watch the first, second, and last episodes of the Endless Eight. Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account. What’s with this controversial run of eight episodes? There were a … 735 likes. Let’s look at this on its merits and see what we actually have here. Change ). Download the assembly guide here. From a viewer standpoint, this can be boring at best and rage inducing at worst. A slice-of-life anime provides a bit of feel-good therapy for tired minds. They Endless Eight chapter in the novel is only about the very last iteration where Kyon figures out the solution. Does that mean that the Endless Eight doesn’t mean anything and doesn’t add anything to the series as a whole? Post was not sent - check your email addresses! It’s meant to make them experience what Nagato has to put up with. ( Log Out / This article is a disambiguation page for Endless Eight. I also believe that Endless Eight could have been done a lot better if they would have added more variation, but I guess the argument against that is that it would have "ruined the point" behind the unbelievable amount of boredom the audience was supposed to feel. Some explanation of the term “slice-of-life” might be necessary here. The view from 5930 miles away: So here it is, the dreaded Endless Eight, and I'm about to become one of the few people to actually sit through all eight episodes twice. Oh, if only I could go back from time to time huh? The point of it is that we get to love the characters, and are happy to watch them just being cute and having fun. So what happened here? Good, now that that’s out of the way…): nothing happens in this episode. And the week after that. If you don't have time to watch all 8 of them, you should watch the first Endless Eight and the last Endless Eight. 161 likes. A working-class young Englishman marries an affable American heiress, but their marital bliss is soon interrupted when they begin constructing a home on land alleged to be cursed. To put it simply, it is an arc that occurs in episodes two through nine of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (2009). As the saying goes, “There’s no such thing as bad publicity”, and I believe that is the driving force behind the existence of it. Even Haruhi is asleep this time, Kyon is drooling again, and Nagato is of course reading a book. And… RP, I excitedly scrolled to the next episode of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya when I noticed the title of the next several episodes were all “endless 8”. I love the artistic freeze frames for each character, and Kyon’s little sister doing a dance move with the cat is adorable. That’s a lot to pack into one episode, and there’s a lovely moment at the end of it all with the five friends in a train. Time Loop. She realizes that Kyon has a natural attraction to Haruhi and, normally wouldn’t mind. With Hayley Mills, Hywel Bennett, Britt Ekland, Per Oscarsson. And the week after. 1. Let alone handle stuff so…normal? It proves beyond the shadow of a doubt that there are a million ways to shoot a specific scene, with eight different angles at the very least for each location. Or comical. I mean, yeah, the episode has a new and ever more bizarre opening than before, but hey, what’s so strange about that? The Endless Eight rarely changes anything. Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. However, the dialogue is slightly different, the camera angles are different, and the clothing is different. The Endless Eight is meant to put the viewers in Nagato’s shoes. Of the 14 episodes, the Endless Eight Arc used up 8. But will they have enough time to tackle her ever growing list? There are no big dramas, no jeopardy, no antagonists or villains as such. I just don’t know. Think of it as a challenge of sorts. Endless Eight. It would have made for a great opening to a movie, like Stand by Me, or if anyone ever gets brave and makes Ray Bradbury’s Dandelion Wine into a movie, sure it could be a coming of age opening, but barring that, nothing goes on of any merit. ( Log Out / Endless∞Eight. A day at the pool, festivals, fireworks, bug catching, and so much… Better than the other ending I must say. This is what really happened between Kyon and Haruhi. But when all of the summer fun was done, I was left with the feeling that nothing happened. I rewatched the second season a couple of weeks ago and had a blast going through EE and picking up … I must know if I’m right… ML, Read next in the Junkyard… Endless Eight II, It’s best to entertain yourself after this point by spotting the small (or large) differences in each of the endless eight episodes. ), Test of courage in a graveyard (poor Mikuru in tears), Watching a movie (Mikuru and Koizumi asleep, Kyon asleep and drooling, Nagato and Haruhi wide awake). Endless Eight Films. Bundle Contents: 1x Nanoleaf Canvas Smarter Kit (9 Squares) 2x Nanoleaf Canvas 4pc Expansion Pack (8 Squares) With the main characters in Haruhi well-established and now hopefully liked by the viewers, it’s a good time for an episode where we are expected to tune in just to enjoy the spectacle of them having fun on their summer holidays, although it still feels a touch disappointing and out of whack with what has gone before. The Endless Eight is meant to put the viewers in Nagato’s shoes. Outer Limits Onto the next part! Find GIFs with the latest and newest hashtags! The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya » The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya #202 - Endless Eight I released by Yen Press on June 19, 2009. Change ). When Haruhi is considering cicadas, she says “I wonder if anyone ever tried eating a cicada”, and then goes on to ponder how it would taste as tempura, to Kyon’s horror. The Endless Eight would greater explain why Nagato does what she does in The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya. 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