Comments on: It would appear I’m also tsundere for Haruhi Suzumiya-chan

By: HIPIIIII

HIPIIIII — Tue, 12 May 2009 15:32:17 +0000

Damn it! whyd they have to make it chibi?! its retarded!

By: TheBigN

TheBigN — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 15:07:19 +0000

Omisyth: Churuya-san’s humor is more dark, so if that’s not your thing, it makes sense. I like both, but I prefer the gag-type humor of Haruhi-chan much more.

By: Omisyth

Omisyth — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 21:33:04 +0000

I’ve neer gotten into the hype with Haruhi either, but I don’t think there’s anything in particular I’m missing. Then again, I can’t see the big deal about Nyoron Churuya-san. She’s abused and taken advantage of, then she says nyoro~n. Ha-ha?

By: Martin

Martin — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 12:37:37 +0000

@Hanners: I’m ashamed to say I didn’t even know about Churuya’s own spin-off but since I found her character to be utterly awesome in the original series I’ll check this one out too.

I still burst out laughing at the thought of mini-Ryoko being pinged at high speed from her folded cushion

Y’know, I could sooo see that coming when I watched that but when it actually happened I was still creased up with laughter!

@otou-san: I think the sci-fi side of things in the main series would work better if they were to be used more extensively – that way I’d see them as less of a gimmick. ‘Alternate realities’ sounds like a good excuse to play around with the characters and situations, which I think the writers could do very well indeed…I hope.

@ghostlightning: yeah. For some reason I find their antics more entertaining than the SOS-dan and their misadventures. The series could probably get away with just the two of them…and possibly cut a deal with Sennheiser over those bunny ear headphones. ;)

@Moritheil: TBH I don’t know much about CR’s integrity at all, or even what the fandom as a whole thinks of them. Still, it was an unusual move to put this series on Youtube but it works a treat.

@Owen S: you’re trying to say you told me so without actually saying “I told you so!”, right? ;p I’ll look into the Hyperion series at some point for the epic-ness as well as for the allusions, although the Saga of Seven Suns is giving me a bit of a space opera overdose at the moment. I have to say Crest of the Stars does it better than Anderson does though.

By: Owen S

Owen S — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 11:20:04 +0000

Glad to know I called it right. Yuki as a character has taken on a brand-new angle ever since I read the entire Hyperion Cantos and saw the allusions, however scant, so this revisit to the Haruhiverse is rather enjoyable for me, too.

By: moritheil

moritheil — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 02:15:53 +0000

Aww, you can comment all you like on crunkyroll’s integrity! Comment away!

I do think that the Haruhi writers have hit on something with Nagato’s obsession. The otakusphere really identifies with characters who do socially unacceptable things, and in fact, I think it might qualify as a kind of moe (witness the love for Konata’s habit of playing ero games.)

By: ghostlightning

ghostlightning — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 22:16:39 +0000

Achakura and Nagato are the runaway stars of Haruhi-chan. They’re really fun to watch and are so cute together. The short episodes allow for convenient rewatches too.

By: otou-san

otou-san — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 20:05:23 +0000

I think I can pinpoint the moment I caught on to Haruhi-chan. That was when they switched from the awkward CG to the chibi-look traditional animation. It does definitely resemble Lucky Star, and it plays well with the characters, who were already kind of anime parodies (albeit a little more well-developed) to begin with.

If and when a sequel happens, it will be a cool thing, but the light novels start to get extremely tied up with time travel and alternate realities. Right now it’s a lot of fun to just watch these noncommittal little slices for the laughs.

By: Hanners

Hanners — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 19:49:40 +0000

Shame on you for not making any mention of Haruhi-chan‘s sister ONA, Nyoron Churuya-san, which is probably where the biggest surreal laughs of the bunch are. ;) Lots of completely out of place references to smoked cheese (including the appearance of a gravestone for said cheese in the latest episode), Tsuruya being told “You will die”, and the ever-cute, ever-hilarious catchphrase, a melancholy “Nyoron….” just make me laugh for no particular reason every single time.

That aside, The Melancholy of Haruhi-chan Suzumiya does have enough funny moments to be worth watching given that it’s free and is hardly a massive sink of anyone’s time – I still burst out laughing at the thought of mini-Ryoko being pinged at high speed from her folded cushion…