This time around, we took a look at the sensation of Haruhi. As many regular listeners of the show have heard, we’ve found Haruhi rather mediocre in many respects. However, this series is most defiantly getting credit for some of the best visuals ever seen in anime history as well as some excellent music including its rather catchy vocal tracks. Hurting it however is everything else.

The plot takes half the series to set up and once set up throws it out in favor of an Odd Couple comedy style. This is sad as once the series is set up proper, many great ideas come up from many excellent prospectives. Character development is all over the place where Haruhi takes 10 minutes to develop and stays on the same destructive path through out the series and Kyon takes 6 episodes to develop and actually develops slightly more as time goes on. However, they are the lucky ones as other characters do nothing at all such as Nagato. The dub suffers by having A-list talent… not using it. I was rather disappointed in certain mainstays such as Crispan Freeman and Wendee Lee being in this series as they brought nothing new or excellent to the table. As for the rest of the cast, I wasn’t expecting anything. And yes, there is a JYB rant in this episode because he was part of the problem… not to say we didn’t pick on anyone else though.

We go on about this at great length in the episode as well as what others may see in Haruhi, its success in a viral marketplace, what the second Haruhi series may entail, as well as clips… lots and lots of clips. Forgive us if we seem a bit on a ramble in this episode as this was a rather tough series to review.

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