The plot thickens as the other members of the SOS Dan reveal their real identities to Kyon - all the SOS Dan members get their fair share of screentime. Ironically Haruhi leads her Brigade on a Sunday search for mysteries around the town when what she’s looking for is right under her own nose - in fact, their identities are almost exactly the same as the roles they play in Ultra Director Haruhi’s great movie.
Lots of Yuki this episode and the highlight for me being Yuki in the library. (Episode 5 post)
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The Rewatching and Second Blogathon of Haruhi Suzumiya continues. Previous post on this episode was pretty skimpy as I was actively trying to limit the number of screencaps and had not converted to Yukiism at the time. Headline image celebrates the debut of the bunny girl costume and Kyon’s thought that he’d like to see Yuki in one too. Nothing to add on episode shuffling as the only difference between the anime broadcast (Ep 2 to 3) and the chronological order (I to II) is that the former is preceded by The Adventures of Mikuru Asahina.
Onward to some creditless Yuki screencaps from the OP:
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The Rewatching of Haruhi Suzumiya. Had originally intended to do just one post on my reflections but the number of screencaps and observations for just the first episode have been rather more than I expected.
Meta notes. Currently rewatching in the “Haruhi” order as announced in the previews, also known as chronological order or the probable DVD release order, and am using Garten’s timeline. Screencaps are taken for the purposes of (1) the moé glory of Yuki Nagato and (2) to illustrate various observations about plot development upon rewatching as well as reflections about episode shuffling. It’ll also give me an excuse to post Yuki fanart I’ve been leeching off danbooru. Mweheheh.
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Kudoes to Kawaii Heavens (They Of Fanbook Munificience) for scanlating the SHUFFLE! manga. Although we see the occasional series where the manga is licensed but the anime is not (e.g. Keroro Gunsou), I don’t think SHUFFLE! will ever reach the English-speaking market in either medium. While I’m enjoying what I’ve seen the manga thusfar, it mainly reinforces my impression that asread has done a brilliant job of interpreting the original eroge and translating that into the anime.
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I was wondering whether or not to have a completely new banner (no prizes for guessing who would’ve been featured) to go with the new theme but I’m a rather sentimental sort of person. Lunamaria’s the character that pulled me into animeblogging while Stripey’s nagging persuasion and fine example gave that extra push. In addition, the making of the old banner itself means a lot to me - it was a wonderfully warm welcome to have the original art and banner design so generously provided by two great luminaries of the community respectively.
In any case, being a humanities student without any training in computers, this post is to record some personal idiot-proof notes about the modifications in case I have to revisit them in the future.
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