So I'm watching the Endless Eight for the first time (slowpoke,

because you touch yourself at night

Because they thought the elevens would buy it anyways, which they did. I guess to save money, but Kyoani animated them all separately anyway so they only saved on concept work and storyboarding and stuff, not animation.

I think that disappearance was meant to be in s2 but it got pulled at the last minute to to be made into a movie. So I'm guessing it was meant to take up 5-6 episodes and they had nothing else to run at that time.

It illustrates the endless recursion, doesn't it?

In any case it was a riot to be on /a/ when this was airing. Oh boy.

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Because they didn't listen to me.

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So I'm watching the Endless Eight for the first time (slowpoke, I know) and I'm on the last episode, having started just earlier today. Why did the producers think this was a good idea?

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It's one of those mysteries for the ages OP. If you suspected "this must have been the stupidest most rage enducing shit ever while airing week to week", yes, you are right.

Perhaps one of the craziest / most rage-filled times I've ever seen on /a/. There were nips smashing their Haruhi merchandise in protest on 2ch too.

I'm kind of surprised people don't still hate KyoAni for this and think Disappearance atoned for it all. To me, no it didn't, because they are not just reruns, they actually went and re-animated each one of the E8s separately, just a huge waste of resources and time better spent advancing through the material. E8 should have been 2-3, maybe 4 eps absolute max.

>>135561352
Why so slow? Are you new to Animax?

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>>135562106
also typo
>rage inducing

>>135562106
I watched it late. I knew what was coming and I just skipped 6 episodes. It should have been 3 episodes at most with a couple larger differences in the timelines.

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>>135562144
And last summary. /a/ was very much under stockholm syndrome by this point and was glad for it to be over.

If you think the way people talked back then / the way this image was assembled looks kind of cancerous, that's because old /a/ was actually like that.

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who watches a whole series in a day

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>>135561352
Because it could be done really well. By repeating the same series of events eight times, the line between fiction and reality is blurred. Instead of being just an observer of the show, the viewer is also stuck in an endless recursion of time. It creates genuine empathy for the characters. We feel the same frustration Kyon feels when he fails to end the time loop so many times, and this just makes it that much more powerful and triumphant when he finally succeeds.

The repeating of scenes also makes you notice a lot more over the course of E8. There's a ton of nuance in the way characters interact in the arc that's never really shown in the spotlight, it's up to the viewer to catch onto it. From an analytical perspective, they picked the perfect episode to repeat: there's a lot to contemplate or examine in the episode because there's so much that's just left open or only hinted at, such as Koizumi's jealousy of Kyon, or more often, Yuki's suffering.

As for why KyoAni did it, one theory is that it was a sort of "tryout" for who would direct Disappearance: each episode was directed in a different way. This also made the whole arc a lot more interesting, with the animators and directors experimenting with various shots, motifs, lighting and shading in their episodes. The visual direction was superb if only for this reason.

>>135562256
High five.

>>135562289
>This also made the whole arc a lot more interesting
Different clothes and angles don't make it interesting.

>>117325364
>why did the producers think this was a good idea?
Its been almost half a decade and people are still mad about it. At the time I thought it was dumb but people are still posting about it today it had its intended effect

>>135562385
>different clothes and angles

But that's wrong, you fucking retard

>>135562210

In the original novel they just did it all in one go, no repeats... I wish they did that in the show.

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>>135562448
But where's the fun in that?

>>135562289
kojima pls

>>135562423
>almost half a decade
Because a decade is 14 years long, right?

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Because they didn't listen to me.

>>135561352
Honest answer:
Because Haruhi fans are hipsters. They think that watching the same episode over and over again is cool. KyoAni milked them

To this day I still think that Endless Eight is the only interesting thing that's been done with the medium.

How did Haruhi stay mentally sane

And why did Homura become insane??

In any case it was a riot to be on /a/ when this was airing. Oh boy.

It illustrates the endless recursion, doesn't it?

>>37987
This.
After an entire summer of the same episode again and again, with only minor changes, the viewers felt the same relief that Kyon, Koizumi, Nagato, and Mizuki did when the loop finally ended.

>>135562486

The fun is in the seven new episodes the endless eight took up.

>>95056288
>>95056335
>Haruhi S2 confirmed
>hype, hype everywhere
>2 cour
>holy shit so hyped
>LOL just kidding, it's only two cour because we're re-airing S1 along with it
>Oh, the new episodes? 8 of them are essentially the same. Have fun.
Fucking KyoAni.

because you touch yourself at night

>>135562581
Ok

How the fuck did they stay mentally sane

When Homua nearly broke down

>>135561502
Imagine if the LN was like that where you just read the same shit 8x. It would have killed the series.

There were scenes of Dissappearence in the OP. Maybe they planned to have it as part of season 2 and needed to fill the missing episodes.

Although I like Haruhi, I was glad Endless 8 happened. It killed haruhism. We should all be thankful.

>>135562504
Anon who taught you math? You deserve an apology from them.

>>135561352
You're supposed to notice the change in someone's personality and general outlook. Because it is directly related to the events in the movie.

>>135562592
With Disappearance turning into a movie, they had nothing to fill 8 episodes with and no time to adapt new material, so they made something interesting.

>>135561352
honestly it's really good and adds a lot to the series as a whole

anyone who dislikes it has either shit taste or shit patience

>>135562626
Homura and Nagato remembered everything, everyone else had déjà vu. Also Nagato recreated a world without Haruhi.

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>>135562629
That's the power of animation, anon. Endless Eight was something only anime could pull off.

>>135562626

>>135562526

HAPPENING

HAPPENING

IT JUST KEEPS HAPPENING

HOly fuck this bloard is infested with plebians

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>>135562740
This is denwa thread, not keitai thread.

>>129855187

I marathoned the endless eight in one day last month....ugh never again. I must imagined it was the worst when it aired.

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>>135561352
Terrible idea. It wasn't even this long in the light novel. I watched a few of them, but said fuck it, and still haven't finished it.

I loved the series before this, but the endless eight was a terrible decision.

>>135562772
Ya cuz new project hype.

>>135562887
>facebook filename
>shit taste

What a twist

>>135563037
Why did she sit like that?

>>135562106
>Lanced Jack

Now there's an old name from a time long gone.

>>135562696

They had plenty of stories out that could have been adapted.

Snow Mountain Syndrome
Love at First Sight
Where did the Cat go
The Melancholy of Mikuru Asahina
Or even a new original story like Someday in the Rain

All would have been better than what was basically the same episode 7 times too many.

They had a lot to fill 8 episodes with, don't pretend otherwise.

Endless Eight is a modern day experimental piece of art.
Disappearance is a modern day anime masterpiece.

Anyone who disagrees is a plebian and can go suck a dick to wash off his shit taste.

>>135563284
>no time to adapt new material

>>135563302
What happened there?

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The trolling will not be matched for a long time.

>>135563330
Think it's all the fansub groups in mutual orgasm when S2 was announced.

>>135563339
Mighty.

So I'm watching the Endless Eight for the first time (slowpoke, I know) and I'm on the last episode, having started just earlier today. Why did the producers think this was a good idea?

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>>135563292
Excellent taste anon.

>>135563305

Plenty of time, most of those stories are from the same book The Adventures of Mikuru Asahina Episode 00 came from or an earlier one.

>>135563466
Jesus christ you really don't understand what I'm saying.

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Going through my Haruhi folder, I remember why Yuki is a slut.

>>135563513
Haha, sorry dude, I was just being silly

>>135563513

Well than elaborate.

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>>135563595
Right, the memes.

Don't eat me cruncheez.

>>135563595
>>135562205
KYON-KUN KEITAI

>>135561352
>streaming


The fact that no one else pointed out your shitty image shows how /a/ has declined.

>>135563820
Or it shows that /a/ has people who know that Haruhi aired a long time ago and there are a lot of low quality screenshots lying around the internet

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>>135563963
I just save low quality stuff so I can save storage space.
It's basically the same picture anyway. Not too much different.

>>135562205
This would be a fine love story, but it wouldn't be Haruhi.

>>135561352
>he actually watched it
Mate just the first and last are fine. Maybe one of the middle ones if you want. Why the fuck watch all 8?

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>>135564354
It's hideous.

In any case it was a riot to be on /a/ when this was airing. Oh boy.

>>135564354
What kind of hobo computer do you have that you actually have to consider image file size?

>>135563963
Why would OP, who is currently watching the fucking show, go to the trouble of searching for a shitty jpeg of a screenshot when he could just take a screenshot of what he is watching with one button? It's obviously streamed. So he deserves to be called out at the very least.

>>135564708
OP is always a faggot

>>135562106
I don't know I watched it while it aired and liked it, threads were best part though

>>135564618
I don't. I have 1.5TB of space with about 90% in use right now.

>>135564798
So why are you intentionally saving low quality shit?

>>135561352
You were supposed to watch it as it was airing so you could enjoy the kyoani trolling with /a/

>>135563093
Maybe her butt hurt.

>>135564798
jesus dude what the fuck, delete some files

>>135564907
To save space for better files.

>>135564937
Why would I do that?

>>135565079
Hard drives are cheap mang.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822178435

>>135565112
More than I can be bothered to spend when I can just compress videos and pictures.

>>135565591
You're going to run out of space eventually.

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>>135565631

>>135565631
Then I will consider an external hard drive.

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dumb frogposter

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>>135564930
from what?

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>>135566261