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Aug 21, 2023

Suzumiya Haruhi no Shoushitsu (Anime) add

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I originally wanted to write a really long review discussing the entire show and how brilliant this movie is at addressing everything, but I don't really think it's needed, and I don't think anyone would really care lol. This is a retrosepective on the first two seasons, but only for the sole purpose of trying to explain why this movie is so special. It's important to note that I'm mostly talking about the story here, the music, animation, and voice acting are all 10/10 amazing. Season 1 is a bunch of fun slice of life and mini adventures with one amazing arc that is nearly ... perfect. It doesn't reach the peaks of monogatari series, but it combines themes and storytelling from it and others lns like bunny girl senpai into something really consistent and special that is a cut above the rest. Then all of a sudden in season 2 the storytelling becomes crazy, everything becomes crazy, understated, really meta and you become a part of the show as dumb as it sounds. The endless eight is infamous because it casts physical and mental pain on the audience by making you watch the same episode 8 times to immerse you fully into how hurt the characters are truly being by Haruhi. The other arc the sigh of haruhi is an insane slow burn that leaves you feeling sick. It feels like the point of season 2 was to turn the show into a horror anime where you despise Haruhi and the physical and emotional abuse she inflicts on others while using assualt, drugging, and extortion. When not a single character can do a thing to stop Haruhi or change anything, you become the subconscious of them put in the same place, no resolutions are given and you feel awful, forced into the subconscious and told to move on. The movie is the direct addressing to all of this, it takes the storytelling style of season 1 and does it better than most of the competition while being the conclusion to the emotional buildup of season 2. Kyon and Nagato addressing the impact of the last season and the actions and monologues around them are genuinely brilliant, it's some of the best writing in any anime. I think it's a testament to the quality of this anime that I could go from believing the show had genuinely become horrifying and feeling sick because of a character, to 2 hours and 30 minutes later feeling genuine warmth in my heart and forgiveness for the same character. Nobody is perfect, people will always let their emotions lash out, and sometimes they just can't address them because it's easier to run. I'm so impressed that season 2 wasn't just me crackhead theory crafting and feeling smart and the writers actually knew what they were doing, this was the perfect conclusion in every way. It's no silent voice, but its better than other things that do very similar things like zoku owarimonogatari, end of evangelion, and the bunny girl movie and it's certainly worth your time. I think i'm most shocked at how slow and understated everything is, the movie takes its time, I couldn't give a consensus on how I felt ever until the very end, and it didn't have the bombastic moments in other similar works, but somehow it worked so well. Haruhi Suzumiya gets the zach seal of approval, every anime deserves an ending like this, at least evangelion kinda got something similar even if its way worse.

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May 31, 2021

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Gintama:Enchousen is one of the highest ranking shows on MAL and for a very good reason, the Gintama franchise is a masterpiece and contains some of the funniest and most heartwarming moments in any anime I've ever seen. Now despite this anime getting such glowing reviews it is not without its flaws, the reason for writing this review is because of the large amount of 10 reviews for this particular season and I felt that I needed to write my first ever MAL review to show others the truth. Once again sorry if this review is not the best as it is my ... first but I hope you learn something from this and don't blast me for giving every Gintama medium a perfect 10.

Story: 8/10
The story of Gintama Enchousen is perhaps the most glaring issue and the reason why I'm giving this season a lower score then the rest, the limited amount of episodes both helps and harms the series due to the fact it chooses to adapt 3 long arcs with only one variety episode. The first arc is Kintama, and I have to say that this is one of my favorite arcs in the entirety of Gintama, it is brilliantly crafted and combines some of the funniest humor with some badass fight scenes at the end similar to the four devas arc. The second arc unfortunately leaves something to be desired, "Courtesan of a nation" has some very entertaining moments but it is one of the few times in Gintama where I have found myself confused on certain aspects and going "thats it?". I think that this arc could be called a great Gintama arc but there are just some aspects that seem rushed or not developed well due to the fact that it is only 5 episodes. The third and final arc in Enchousen is the beam saber arc and it is perhaps one of the worst modern gintama arcs I have seen in a while. The arc leaves a lot to be desired and you feel absolutely no attachment to Hajime throughout the arc. The small sadaharu episode at the end is just fun random Gintama but nothing special. The fact that Courtesan and Beam Saber are not anything crazy in such a short series brings Gintama Enchousen way down and makes it feel less satisfying then the other seasons. My main problem is that whenever there is a bad arc in the 50 episode seasons at least there are tons of great one offs afterwards to make you feel better about the show.

Art: 10/10
Its modern Gintama and it shows, every scene looks beautiful and some of the creative choices in the later arcs make the show shine more then ever. I literally can't think of any flaws.

Sound: 10/10
Every season of Gintama has a beautiful soundtrack that makes the show feel more alive and every theme song you can recognize and smile to, they did an absolutely great job as always. The openings for this season were fantastic and the second opening is one of my all time favorites. It doesn't really fit anywhere but the choice to "Kintamaify" the openings was a very nice touch. (Moonwalk best ed btw)

Character: 10/10
It's the characters you know and love from Gintama, pretty much every character you loved from previous seasons is back and acts the same lovable self as always. The new characters from this season however are not so good, although Kintoki does a great job of being an annoying villian, both SadaSada and Hajime (and the yoda clones) are annoying unlikeable characters that feel out of place in the gintama world. Oboro is a great villian though and livens up the Courtesan arc keeping the confusing parts and rushed pacing of certain scenes from ruining it.

Enjoyment: 9/10
Despite the fact that I love Gintama, pretty much all of the beam saber arc and parts of the Courtesan arc were glaring and showed how flawed this season was compared to the rest of the show. The comedy aspects of this season were especially strong but a lot of the action was lackluster compared to something like benizakura or Red Spider. If i'm being honest it was mostly the Beam Saber arc that killed the enjoyment for me.

TL:DR/Overall
Gintama Enchousen is the shortest season and that hurts itself by making 1.5/3 of the arcs from this season some of the worst of the more serious arcs we have seen in modern Gintama. This season would've fit in perfectly spread out throughout a longer season with variety episodes but due to the length it made it feel like condensed badness. Personally I found this to be the worst season of Gintama so far and after being dissapointed with the movie as well I really hope that the next season can live up to previous highs in the show.

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