Suzumiya Haruhi 2009 - 13 (Endless Eight) June 25
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Summary:
It is still summer vacation, and Kyon has been feeling that something is strange. Haruhi drags him and the rest of the SOS Brigade to the pool and each the other activities that she had planned, and Kyon experiences a sense of déjà vu at every step. Then, on the night after the part-time job, he gets a call suddenly from a crying Mikuru who’s with Itsuki, and the three of them and Yuki meet up. It turns out that Mikuru is distraught because she can’t return to the future anymore, and Itsuki thinks that it’s because they’re in an endless loop of these last two August weeks. September will not come in their current world, and their memories are reset each repetition. Itsuki suspects that Haruhi is the unknowing culprit of this because she doesn’t want summer vacation to end and still has things she needs to do. And while he and Kyon experience déjà vu, Yuki is the one who remembers everything from each time. She reveals that they’ve actually looped 15,948 times, and there have been variations in what they do from time to time.
The four of them can’t do anything about this for the time being, but during the stargazing activity, Itsuki suggests that Kyon tell Haruhi that he loves her so that they can try to figure out what she wants. Kyon refuses, so Itsuki considers doing it himself, but he decides against it and claims that it was a joke. Later, during the batting practice activity, Kyon takes some time to ask Yuki why she didn’t say anything about the endless looping to them earlier. Her answer is simply that it’s her duty to observe. The group goes on to do everything Haruhi wanted to and finishes her list again by the end of vacation. Haruhi is once again unsatisfied, but she again accepts it and gets up to leave. Kyon tries to stop her, but he doesn’t know what to say and tries to look for a clue in what Haruhi said. He ultimately fails after being unable to come up with anything, and he goes to bed on the night of August 31st having given up on the homework that he still has to do.
Well that was a big surprise. As I mentioned last week, I thought I had completely spoiled myself on this mini-arc when I found out that they’d be repeating everything as part of the endless loop, but I didn’t think that they’d do it more than once. One episode of Endless Eight wouldn’t have given the déjà vu effect that two episodes would have (and did), and I was all ready to applaud Kyoto Animation on how they handled this, but now I’m just confused. They don’t gain much from repeating it all a second time, and I have to wonder if they’re just killing time or something because they don’t want to progress too far into the rest of the original story (more material for more episodes means more money in the long run).
On the other hand, maybe they were just trying to fool the folks who were familiar with the story and were expecting a two-part arc after last week’s episode. And it’s not like they’re skimping on production quality - I’m pretty sure everything in this episode was newly animated, and I liked the Itsuki and Kyon rooftop scene in particular because of the music they used. In any case, I’m not really curious how they will approach the third time through next week, and hopefully they won’t drag it out longer than that.
NYC at 8:35 pm on June 25th, 2009
R.I.P. Micheal Jackson
Trejon at 8:42 pm on June 25th, 2009
omg, its says 13, thats means there are 12 more episodes??
takanari at 9:03 pm on June 25th, 2009
Can’t wait for subs.
melkor at 9:05 pm on June 25th, 2009
all hail micheal jackson
anonemouse at 9:09 pm on June 25th, 2009
RIP MJ.
tylon at 9:28 pm on June 25th, 2009
Next week, endless eight again?
I was surprise that they did not reuse scenes or footages from last week…
I totally agree with Kyon’s action of not doing the homework.
baka~ at 9:30 pm on June 25th, 2009
maybe they’re just preparing the stage for those who haven’t read the novel or those who are totally clueless about haruhi betting that remodeling the episode might pique the interest of new viewers
Sammy at 9:43 pm on June 25th, 2009
If they didn’t reuse scenes then that is AWESOME.
Oh, and RIP MJ.
magnumslinger at 9:46 pm on June 25th, 2009
This is exactly what I predicted. Next episode will probably be solution time. Endless Eight was a pretty long chapter in the novel.
LQY at 9:52 pm on June 25th, 2009
GJ! KYOANI RULES!
chloesong at 10:18 pm on June 25th, 2009
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Chimasternmay at 10:27 pm on June 25th, 2009
haha this is awesome./
Anonymous at 10:36 pm on June 25th, 2009
Don’t spoil yourself anymore idiot!
Raso at 11:04 pm on June 25th, 2009
I love how every one has a different outfit on in this ep compared with last week (even Yuki has a different swimsuit)
setsuke at 11:39 pm on June 25th, 2009
That’s strange wth is kyoani doing/thinking
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helen at 1:16 am on June 26th, 2009
wait… so why can’t Kyon say anything to her at the end - when he’s trying to chance after her?
And is Haruhi really waiting for Kyon to say “I love you,” or something? So once she gets to spend lovely dovely time with Kyon on Aug 31st, everything would be fine again? So, in other words, the world is controlled not only by Haruhi’s desires, but her subconscious self’s desires?
And did it really take these people more than ten thousand times to realize that they’ve been living in a loop? Deja Vu usually occurs when things already happen JUST ONCE. It doesn’t need more than ten thousand times to have deja vu — did Kyon really not have any Deja vu before then?
And if Asahina has realized that her “classified information” did not go through so many hundreds of years ago (aka she can’t go into the future), why didn’t she inform Nagato Yuki before, like, five hundred years pass?
Ed at 1:33 am on June 26th, 2009
kyon asks haruhi if she wants to help him with summer homework
yea… you heard me
thats how the problem is solved
air at 1:51 am on June 26th, 2009
Good development for Yuki. Her personality is beginning to show… irritation.
http://randomc.maximum7.net/image/Suzumiya%20Haruhi/Suzumiya%20Haruhi%202009%20-%2013%20-%20Large%2010.jpg
Kaisos at 1:58 am on June 26th, 2009
@helen: They DO have deja vu every time. It’s just that they fail to do anything about it. Every time. Mikuru, as well, continues to contact the future each loop, only to find that the future NO LONGER EXISTS.
Man I love this story. One of the best ones in Haruhi.
julygirl17 at 2:01 am on June 26th, 2009
I am so sad about Michael. He was one of my favorite artists. I grew up in the 80’s listening to him. He will be greatly missed. I just hope I can get through work tomorrow. I’ve never seen this series before, maybe I’ll go back and watch it. I need something to keep my mind off Michael. Sniff… :_: