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Monday, 4 July 2011
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Wednesday, 1 June 2011
~ThE DIsaPpEaRanCe of hArUhI sUzUMiYa~
"Suzumiya Haruhi no Shoshitsu" It start with sound of Kyon’s alarm clock. It’s cold and Kyon’s sister takes great pride in removing his blankets and Shamisen.
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Kyon wakes up the next morning in the same fashion and it’s not until Taniguchi tells him that he’s had a cold for the last few days and hasn’t got anything like a date for Christmas Eve that he begins to realise something’s wrong.The next 30 minutes are of Kyon running around like a madman being a total dick to everyone because the world’s changed. To summarise, Haruhi is no longer at North High, and in her place, Asakura Ryouko is back, he terrifies Mikuru who now doesn’t know him and Tsuruya (wai!) offers to beat him up. 1-9, Itsuki’s classroom no longer exists, presumably along with all of the students in it. Also, the tinsel has disappeared from his bag. After he’s finished being a dick, he ends up in the Literature clubroom, where a thoroughly different, bespectacled Yuki is sitting. She makes the mistake of saying she does know him and he then proceeds to be a dick to her too, pushing her up against a wall and demanding information she doesn’t have. In desperation,he turns on the ancient computer but there’s no trace of the SOS Dan at all. When he turns to leave, Yuki stops him and hands him a piece of paper. It’s a “Club application form” for the Literature clubroom. When he gets home, as if to cement his dick-ness, he deciided to be a dick to his little sister and then try to talk to the cat.
The next day Kyon's goes back the the Literature clubroom and mooches around while Yuki reads. Suddenly, he has a revelation – He remembered that Yuki previously put a bookmark in the clubroom copy of Endymion (not the Keats book, the Dan Simmons book) telling him to meet her at the park and he almost demolishes the shelves looking for it. On it is written “Program run condition: Collect Keys. Deadline 2 days.” Kyon then spends the rest of the evening looking through the rest of the books on the shelves for the “key” but has no luck. When he decides that he should go home, Yuki gets up to go too and they end up walking home together. Inevitably, she invites him round to her apartment.Yuki’s apartment is completely different – it even has a kotatsu. And…Asakura-san still lives downstairs.
The next day, Kyon mooches around in school until Taniguchi let’s slip that he did still go to middle school with Haruhi, but she went to Koyouen, some high class ojousama academy across town instead of North High. This last part was said through clenched teeth with Kyon breathing down his neck, of course. Kyon then races out of school and runs all the way there only to find that he’s too early and they’re still in class. The inevitable gate-guard looks at him suspiciously.
As the students file out, Kyon stands like he’s waiting for a bus. He spots Itsuki’s classmate and wonders if the entire of 1-9 was transferred here instead. Then Haruhi emerges, walking next to Itsuki. She’s got long hair and looks infinitely ojou-sama-ish with her haughty frown and dark uniform. Kyon attempts his usual being a dick to try and get people to recognise him, but she kicks him in the calf and storms off. The gate guard meanwhile has prised himself from his gate guard box and come to apprehend the intruder. Just when it looks like Kyon’s about to get dragged off somewhere and get buttraped, he shouts that he’s the John Smith from Tanabata 3 years ago and Haruhi stops in her tracks.
Next we’re sipping coffee in Saizeriya (a Japanese Italian restaurant chain). Kyon’s explained everything and Haruhi believes him, although according to her on that Tanabata they met twice. It seems that although she isn’t God of the world anymore, she’s still a paranormal freak. She decides on her own that she wants to go to this clubroom and see these people so she rushes off in excitement without paying the bill. Itsuki lets slip that in this world, he’s interested in Haruhi but she’s only going round with him because he’s the transfer student.
When they get back to North High, Haruhi hatches a plan to get in wearing gym kit and pretending to be runners.First they go to the Calligraphy Clubroom and hijack Mikuru then burst into the Literature clubroom. Mikuru reacts in pretty much the same way as she did in the first series when Haruhi kidnaps her during break. Yuki’s a little scared and Haruhi is on top of the world. Suddenly, the computer blinks. It’s Yuki. Apparently gathering all the people together was the key. Now Kyon has to make a choice. Either run the program to get things back to the way they were (hit Enter) or any other key if he likes things the way they were. Everyone in the room is a bit mystefied as Kyon thinks for a moment then hits Enter.
the room spin............
Suddenly, it’s hot. Kyon rushes to take off his winter coat and runs out of the empty clubroom. He rushes into the Familymart to find that he’s been taken back to Tanabata 3 years ago. Again. He runs to the park just in time to catch himself waking up in the lap pillow of Asahina Mikuru (Jr.). As she’s walking away, he catches up to Asahina Mikuru (Sr.) and they have a chat. The gist of the talk is that someone messed around with the time planes and so she came back to fix them. And that someone wasn’t Haruhi.
Mikuru (Sr.) suggests that they should go and talk to this period’s Nagato so they trail up to her apartment, on the way shouting to Haruhi so that they’d meet twice and she’d probably end up going to North High.
Nagato lets them into her apartment. It’s exactly as they remember, only with their temporal time variants sleeping in the opposite room. She listens to their explanation impassively. She tries to confirm by accessing her temporal time variant 3 years from now, but finds that not only has it been blocked, but that the Integrated Data Overmind no longer exists. She expounds the exposition (taken from the novel as I didn’t understand a word.) – The culprit stole administrative powers for the world from Suzumiya Haruhi and used it to alter the world completely as well as the memories of everyone in it for the last 365 days. In order to restore the world to it’s previous state, someone needs to go back in time and inject the restoration program into the culprit’s body. Nagato takes off her glasses and they shimmer and transmute into a large syringe. Kyon protests and it gets turned into a slightly less scary needle gun instead.
Nagato tells them who the culprit is…but not the viewers.
After giving the coordinates to Asahina (Sr.) and injecting them with more nanomachines, they’re off to the future. It’s cold again and they forgot to get their shoes so Kyon lends his coat to Mikuru (Sr.). It’s December again, the day the world changed. They sneak to the school gates as the culprit approaches. She raises her hand and the world changes. She lowers it again.
It’s Nagato.
Kyon walks up to her and greets her. She doesn’t run away, but it’s clear that she’s not the Nagato from the past anymore. Cue montage of Kyon wrestling with himself about what to do. Should he shoot her and restore the time lines to the way they were, or keep things the way they are now – the way Nagato seemed to want it. Obviously he decides that things should go back to the way they were, so he raises the gun. Yuki gasps but doesn’t move. Then out of nowhere…the newly recreated Asakura stabs Kyon in the back with her army knife. She’s just about to deliver the final low when the knife gets caught in mid air by someone…and suddenly there’s two Mikurus crying over him and a voice telling him that “sorry we didn’t come to save you earlier, but we’ll take care of things from here”. Then darkness.
Kyon wakes up in a hospital bed. Beside the bed, Itsuki is peeling (far too many) apples. He explains that Kyon fell down the stairs and lost consciousness right after they’d decided on nabe for the party and that it had been three days since then. He tops the mountain of apples with a delicately half peeled slice and gestures beside the bed where Haruhi is sleeping, curled up in a sleeping bag. Kyon briefly considers drawing something on her face, but resists the urge and she wakes up and promptly falls over. As she’s ranting to Kyon, Mikuru comes in and starts crying and everyone’s back together again.
Afterwards, Kyon’s standing on the rooftop in his coat and hospital gown. He realises that Nagato, Mikuru and himself must have gone back to that day on December 18th to save him and that to do that he’d have to travel there from this time period. While he’s considering this, Yuki comes to greet him. She apologises for all that happened and puts it down to “internal errors”, denying that telling any of them that this was going to happen would have made any difference. She’s going to be judged by the Data Overmind for her actions. Kyon gets angry and tells her that if it does anything bad to her then he’ll rile up Haruhi and they’ll make a world where the Data Overmind doesn’t exist. Yuki seems happy. Snow falls, romantically.
And we’re back to life as usual at North High. Kyon walks towards the clubroom feeling introspective and wondering when he’ll have to go back to the past again. He shoos away two girls who are wondering who’s cooking in school on Christmas Eve. He puts his hand on the door handle and thinks – “The world can wait to be saved until after I’ve sampled Haruhi’s Christmas nabe”. Roll Credits.
After the credits have finished rolling, we’re at the city library. Yuki sits, reading. In the foreground, two children play with the library stamp set. Yuki looks up, as if noticing the camera and holds up her book to cover her face. Fade to Black.
that all.......
Sunday, 1 May 2011
About Haruhi Suzumiya
(From Wikipedia; the free encyclopedia)
Haruhi Suzumiya is the general name for a series of light novels written by Nagaru Tanigawa and illustrated by Noizi Ito which were subsequently adapted into other media. The story follows the title character Haruhi Suzumiya, a high school girl who can unconsciously change reality, and her strange antics with her school club the SOS Brigade. She founded SOS to investigate any mysterious happenings. Haruhi forcibly drafts her cynical classmate Kyon who narrates the series, and similarly recruits three additional members into her club: the silent bibliophile Yuki Nagato, the shy and timid Mikuru Asahina, and the friendly "mysterious exchange student" Itsuki Koizumi. These members soon reveal themselves to Kyon as the extraordinary characters Haruhi is seeking, sent by their various organizations to observe her and hold her reality warping powers in check by maintaining the illusion of a normal life. The first novel was published in Japan on June 6, 2003 by Kadokawa Shoten with nine individual novels published and a planned tenth as of April 1, 2007[update]. The light novels have been adapted into four separate manga series, a television anime adaptation, two original net animations, an animated film and several video games. After the anime adaptation aired in 2006, publishing company Kadokawa Shoten received various offers for licensing both the novels and their various adaptations.
The novels are licensed for English language release in the United States by Little, Brown and Company, for young readers by Yen Press and the anime adaptation was licensed for North American distribution by Kadokawa Pictures USA division which then sublicensed production and distribution to Bandai Entertainment.
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