Sailor Osaka

I demand an epic battle between Koizumi and Megatron.

>>113800

Draw it!

>>113800
Koizumi who?

I can just never get tired of this

>>113804
Junichiro Koizumi. Japanese skateboarder.

>>113795
Don't listen to this man

On an semi-related note, Western Air Temple is out.

Shank yu, Amarican veople ...for Ruv Me Tenda.

Osaka Testarossa

Osaka Suzumiya

>>113794
I almost forgot

Is there a higher resolution variant of this

Osaka Coppola

>>113887

FACT: If Haruhi had Osaka's personality, the show would have been roughly 8,379 times better.

>>113903

FACT

ANY CHARACTER IN ANY ANIME WOULD BE 8000 TIMES BETTER IF THEY HAD OSAKA'S PERSONALITY

vc:sho 'nuff seems to work in Athena's case.

>>113903
>>113905

FACT: That show would have been better in any other way than it is

>>113908

You just made think of the video game.

Would be weird to see Osaka dressed like that.

>>113903
Fact: If Haruhi didn't have Haruhi's personality, the show would have been a million billion times better

>>113915
>>113943

Facts: Often confused with opinions.

Requesting Kata-saka
for the lulz.

>>113948
here is some inspiration

>>113943
Fact: You're full of crap.
Fact: Tsundere is a necessary and lovely personality type.
Fact: Adding "fact" to your sentence doesn't make it any less opinion.
Fact: I pity Kyon. Haruhi, Yuki, AND Mikuru? How do you choose? And choose wisely, or God will wipe you off the face of the Earth. If there's an Earth left to wipe you off of.

Fact: I've never seen an /azu/ version of the Haruhi ED. This saddens me.

>>113949
Get this Avatar shit off my /azu/

well since everyone is sort of on a Haruhi rant, can someone tell me if it's good or not?

I know I should go to the Haruhi board or even the LS one, but there's no doubt going to be bias there.

reason for question:I want to watch it but every time I see it mentioned on a board it seems to be worshiped over by many like a god damned god! and that creeps me out a teensy bit.

sorry for the fagosity of this question, but i need an answer!

>>113990
I can only give my opinion about Haruhi, and that is that it would have been such an awesome show if Haruhi hadn't been a total bitch.

>>113990
My opinion is that while it's worth watching if you're into science fiction and original (albeit typical) anime humor, it's the most overrated thing this decade

All of the episodes have been placed in random order for reasons that as of yet have not been clarified

I believe the DVD releases in America have placed them in mostly correct order, but the first episode on the first disc is not the beginning of the series (if that is the case, start with the second episode or what you will see will turn you off to the entire series)

If you do have to watch it, watch it in the correct chronological order and keep an open mind (but pay no mind to anything anyone will tell you about it until after you finish the series)

>>113990
I can go on about how all of this Haruhi worship is deplorable but I don't want to get canned for spamming here

There is nothing in any official canon or manuscript that attributes Haruhi to any god-like powers or characteristics; how anyone could come to that conclusion is anyone's guess

>>113990
My bit of experience (a.k.a. opinion):
while I enjoyed light novels and read them until recently, I tried the show, which in comparison seemed too "wide-fan-base" oriented (subtle changes ruined the atmosphere for me, not becouse of changing, but becouse of it was wrong things that were changed), and couldn't force myself through more than 4 episodes.
That said, even the light novels started to go out of sync with me after volume 6 or 7.. novelty just wore off.

>>114006
Actually, the "first" episode is a parody of amateur live-action anime movies. They're actually quite common and this episode serves quite well as a how-to guide by demonstrating just about every mistake you can make in the process. Everyone I've ever met who watches these sort of things finds the episode to be gut-destroyingly hilarious.

The truth of the matter is that the story requires a certain attitude. In this case, a high tolerance of random, and a willingness to look past the fandom.

>>114007
Also, Haruhi IS God. They talk of her creating/fundamentally altering the entire universe based on mere wishes and desires. She just doesn't know it. So, how is that NOT a god?

Get this Haruhi shit off my /azu/.

>>113990
I saw the whole series of Haruhi and was appretnly viting /a/ when it was in its peek.

The whole series is medicore at best. Pay no heed that fags at /a/ and other places worship it to death the whole series is exteremly overrated.

Overall the series is a parody of several other anime genres almost every 2-3 episodes deal with parodizing a generic anime topic, detective anime, sci-fi anime, ecchi anime, mystery anime or school anime.

It starts out weird but kinda catches up at the 3rd 4th episodes in enoyment becasue it has a lot of random stupid shit which one may find funny one may find annoying but I got tired of the randomness after about 2/3 of the series but there are some eps which are very enjoyable.
However at the end you I was left dry and dissppointed so you shouldn t expect much at the ending. The best thing about the whole things is probably the opening and ending songs and sequences with are amazingly well done.

Oh and the episodes are shown in a mixed order to further fuel the whole randomness feeling of the series so you will often be left wonndering what did you miss because they will be referring back to episodes you haven't seen before. That is unless you watch it in the correct order which I don't remember or ever bothered noting down. But still it is watchable and understandable in the mixed order the creators intended the viewers to see.

Haruhi herself the character is a 100% generic Tsundere topped with an extremely bloated ego who thinks she knows everything better and the other characters just go along with her retarded ideas and and even use "haxzor" stuff and do everything to make her win because they are afraid that if someone would say "NO YOU BITCH! FUCK YOU!" then Haruhi might subcounsously destroy the universe with her god power (which she most probably does not even have).

---

So returning to the topic let's have some more Osaka

>>113943
Agreed. MOHS' Haruhi would be much better if she was more like Ouran High School Host Club's Haruhi.

>>113979
I've heard there's going to be something done in the style of an early 80s American cartoon series, starring Haruhi Suzumiya, Asuka Langley, Tiana Lanstar, Tomo Takino, Suiseiseki & Rin Tosaka, all wearing neko-mimi.

It'll be called "TsundereCats".

...I'll get my Sword of Omens.

>>113903

QFT. And if Fate Testarossa had Osaka's personality, Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha would be 8,379 times more surreal.

The series is paced the way it is because it gives the reveals maximum impact, it gives you knowledge of the characters in the most meaningful way, and it places the climax actually at the end rather than smack in the middle. Possibly even more than the attention to detail, the catchy insert numbers and dances, and the clever writing, it turns a show based on a mediocre light novel series into something fairly wonderful.

And christ people, it's like you watch your cartoons as some kind of replacement for dating rather than enjoying cartoonishly rambunctious characters for their interesting antics. Haruhi's a bitch. A hilarious, wonderful bitch. She couldn't exist in the real world, and I probably wouldn't want to date her if she did (although I will burn that bridge when I come to it), but she's fun to watch.

AXYPB, why the hell do you have this tree branch lodged three feet into your rectal cavity over this "Haruhi as God" thing? She's just an otaku Bokonon. We as nerds can be obnoxious when we repeat a mantra like that over and over again, I know, but uh, if anyone actually believes in the actual divinity of Haruhi, they're a distinctly fucked up individual who should be ignored or admired at a distance.

"There is nothing in any official canon or manuscript that attributes Haruhi to any god-like powers or characteristics; how anyone could come to that conclusion is anyone's guess" Well, uh, except that she unconsciously makes and unmakes the world in the show. That's pretty much something a god would do.

>>114020
And if misha would shut his idiot mouth and stop trodding out the same fucking godawful jokes ad nauseam, /azu/ would be 65,535 times more tolerable.

You people are so silly. Bitching and moaning and complaining about how Haruhi sucks because there are people with so little to do that they actually worship her... On a board where people do the same to Osaka and Yotsuba on a daily basis.

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA dies laughing

PS: I own both Azumanga and Haruhi on DVD, like both and worship neither.

let's hug it out, bitches

>>114020
Tomo is not tsundere. If anyone is, it's Yomi.

>>114050
Agreed, Tomo is just a bitch.

>>114038

> PS: I own both Azumanga and Haruhi on DVD, like both and worship neither.

... but Chiyo-chichi still loves you.

>>114056

Chiyo-chichi and I have a special understanding. He doesn't violate the restraining order, I don't put hits out on him anymore. :D

>>114038

>You people are so silly. Bitching and moaning and complaining about how Haruhi sucks because there are people with so little to do that they actually worship her... On a board where people do the same to Osaka and Yotsuba on a daily basis.

Because Azumanga and Yotsuba are made of win and awesome while Haruhi is made fail and shitsux.

>>114061

Haruhi dressed up in a bunny costume for our sins my son.

>>114050
Tomo is her own unique form of Tsundere: hard on the outside, soft in the head. BTW:

Tomo sometimes wears stockings, as well as Yomi's glasses as part of her 'foreplay' with Yomi. In her visually confuzzled state, whilst caressing Tomo's silk-clad legs, she rends those smooth sheaths a-tsundere.

...I'll get my garters.

>>114064

Which one? MOHS & OHSHC's Haruhis wore bunny outfits.

>>114069
I'm pretty sure Haruhi Fujioka (mai waifu) only wore one in Tamaki's weird little head.

>>114074
Instead of her being tsundere, MOHS would've been much better if Haruhi was a terminally randy sexpot, always pestering Kyon for a bit of nooky. Haruhi certainly looks hot in that pic, to say nothing of Mikuru!

>>114037
This post tells the truth, fellow /azu/holes. Sure the fandom is annoying, but that's to be expected. Besudes, you guys should have tolerance for it, as roughly half of all Azumanga fans seem to be pedophiles, judging by this board.

>>114064

>> Haruhi dressed up in a bunny costume for our sins my son.

NO DAD NO!
She dressed up in a bunny costume because she is just an attention whore.

>>114074

>Haruhi Fujioka (mai waifu)

About this mai waifu thing...

Sam, I respect you as a man of both knowledge and understanding, but it seems that good intellect often make guys go delusional.

In short: hands off.

>>114079

>> Haruhi dressed up in a bunny costume for our sins my son.

>NO DAD NO!

I lol'd harsh.

>>114074
>>114099

Both Haruhi's wear bunny costumes, though in Ouran Haruhi's case, it's deliberately made "cuter" and fluffier.

Personality aside, Suzumiya Haruhi has an actual bunnygirl costume, and fills it out better too. But trying to compare the two is a case of apples and oranges.

>>114103
Shopped pic, Haruhi's boobs are not even half that big

>>114104

Post the original then.

>>114103
I can only see Yuki.
Love her expression
"Uh, guys, what you staring at?"

>>114014

>creating/fundamentally altering the entire universe based on mere wishes and desires. She just doesn't know it. So, how is that NOT a god?

Non-omniscient god is a weak god.
And nothing in "any official canon or manuscript" states that all of it is not just a hardcore cosmic joke of randomness or sinchronicity (I can see someone throwing in concept of entropy to counter this idea), or more likely, as everything is told from Kyon's point of view, he might as well be vegging out in a mental hospital, dreaming the life of his supposedly abandoned dreams.

VC: life (and I really don't like to play that VC games)

>>114107
Several /a/holes seem to think that the real story is that Kyon is in fact god, rather than Haruhi, due to the fact that all the things that occur could be attributed to his wishing for her happiness/wishing for her to like him.

It still doesn't account for the event that happened 3 years earlier though.

>>114107

That last one sounds like rip-off of one of the proposed endings of Doraemon (before the notion of a canon ending was abandoned entirely). Basically, Nobita imagined everything while confined to a hospital bed. There was a "happy" ending too, though neither of them were used.

On a side note, from what I've been told, it's near impossible to sit down normally on one of those things--you'd have to sit with your legs at a much wider angle from your body, like on the top rim of a chair.

Though that's departing from the original topic too much, I guess.

>>Non-omniscient god is a weak god.

Part of Itsuki's faction believes she is a 'god.' Time travelers and aliens don't really subscribe to that.

>>And nothing in "any official canon or manuscript" states that all of it is not just a hardcore cosmic joke of randomness or sinchronicity (I can see someone throwing in concept of entropy to counter this idea), or more likely, as everything is told from Kyon's point of view, he might as well be vegging out in a mental hospital, dreaming the life of his supposedly abandoned dreams.

>>There is nothing in any official canon or manuscript that attributes Haruhi to any god-like powers or characteristics; how anyone could come to that conclusion is anyone's guess.

You're basically claiming that by default, whenever reading something, you should doubt everything presented to you. Just because there is no statement saying it isn't doesn't mean it isn't. It's certainly valid to say 'it's not definite that Haruhi's god-like,' but that's not the same at all as saying 'there is nothing in canon that could even lead you to believe that Haruhi is god-like.'

>>114122
Non biased conclusion would be that a good canon is an all-possibilities-open canon.
I can dig that.

>>114110
Well, time and causality might not matter much with gods, for all we (or them) know, because god-like powers are more or less described by defying deterministics. Greek mythology is full of gods not knowing what the fuck are they doing or that they already did that and why they should not.

Besides, for good part of /a/holes Kyon is God enough just for dating his sister's classmate (or something along the lines, I forgot the details).

>>114121
I'm probably ignorant, but this is first time I heard of Doreamon.. is it worth checking out?

>Though that's departing from the original topic too much, I guess.

The whole thread multitracked from the start, and your comment about bunny-sitting is right on hot spot in keeping the beat. (and a rare hard FACT in midst all this teopolitical dynamics show.)

>>114126

It's....well, really old. I mean, I love it, but that's because I've been watching it forever. It's basically a children's show that's been around since 1969, and still gets syndicated in magazines and on television, including the occasional new movie (think 'Scooby Doo', but consistently entertaining and not sucking).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doraemon

Some of the more recent movies have been fansubbed. It'd really be thought of as a "classic" I suppose--it's kind of like Haruhi in the sense that it deals with a fanasty spin on everyday life, but that's about it.

>>114126
If you live in Spain you can actually watch the whole series and some of the movies dubbed.

If not, you can always go back to fansubs, though I think it was translated in Britain if you wanna see it dubbed.

>>114121
Now you got me interested on that bunnysitting thing. Source?

>>114017

I said... get... this Haruhi SHIT... OFF MY /AZU/!

>>114154

That you did.

>>114152

No "source"--just what she told me, and I believed her. She might have been lying, but she didn't sit down normally, even at the food court.

Did take off her heels though. Apparently, those are uncomfortable too.

Actually, this thread finally made me decide to go and watch Haruhi, which I've been putting off for so long. I guess I have to say a few things about it.

1. While it was quite good overall, it is one of those animes where the concept behind it is ''so ingenious'' that the actual implementation could not possibly live up to how good the idea behind it was.
2. I don't get the idea that its "genre-defying." Its simply a science fiction/philosophy comedy anime in the guise of a high school drama. Quite unusual, sure, but not genre-defying.
3. I get the feeling most people ranting about how good Haruhi is didn't analyze it as heavily as I did while watching it. The story makes a lot of sense from a solipsist/existentialist philosophy, for example.
4. There was not a single funny line in the show. Instead, it relied ''solely'' on dramatic irony of all sorts, causing me to laugh more and more uncontrollably with glee after each episode.

>>114184

Bleh, I confused Wakaba markup with Wikimarkup. Anyways, I wanted to add that I found Haruhi similar to Death Note in that both had an incredibly ingenious concept that neither could possibly live up to. Though personally I thought Haruhi was better (since Death Note's ending was terrible; it continually went downhill after the first half).

>>114184
Mm hmm

>>114184
Genre-defiying? Whuzzdat? There's nothing with a name that can't be named. Once you call a thing (or worse, two things) genre-defying, it becomes a genre itself.

I was about to journey into a comparative essay of German expressionism, French new wave, "all that Bunuel flicks", free chords and harmonics in context of cowboy bebop (my first anime), and more recent trends like dancing animu and food animu.
Then I thought, by fuck, what's with my mind?
I must be mad. I was about to mess with you just because I'm messed up. Or something like that.
I'm also a lazy fucker out of coffee, fortunately.

>>114037
Erm, no.
Guu is wonderfully bitchy. Haruhi is just irritating (like Yotsuba). I think it comes down to the quality of their foils: Hale is fantastic, whereas Kyon is meh, and Yanda is absent for way way too long.

So, on second thoughts, if you liked Yotsuba, you'd probably also like Haruhi.

>>114202

And I keep feeling like getting into an essay about solipsism, simulated reality, the holographic principle, the nature of consciousness, and other such things. Haruhi made me all philosophical again >_>.

>>114205
Don't forget probabilistic causation, phenomenalism, dream argument, and the famous White Queen line "It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards", relevant to Ralen's observation "It still doesn't account for the event that happened 3 years earlier" in >>114110. And I give Mr. Ralen credit for making an actual and valid observation, 'coz when you see something to think, it's a whole different sex position than when you just think to see something.

>>114211

One thought I always had is that a huge amount of evidence of various concepts (such as the digital physics demonstrated multiple times throughout the series) is completely voided by the fact that Haruhi is God and seemingly conjured up the "time travelers, aliens, and espers" from nothing; indeed, it makes quite a bit of storyline sense to say that there is no "Integration Data Entity" or anything of the sort, nor is the world of Haruhi one of digital physics; such things were spawned straight out of Haruhi's subconscious imagination. Of course, if one takes the position that not only was the world created in its present form 3 years ago, but also that the world prior had nearly no similarities (i.e. that this world was created from scratch by Haruhi), then everything else was just as equally imagined.

>>114203
Yotsuba is bitchy? Nigga, please. Yotsuba's a child, who acts like a child, who does silly and sometimes disruptive things but feels remorse when she steps over the line and gets chastised for it.

And Guu isn't a bitch, Guu is a force of nature, like a tornado or a tsunami, single-mindedly focused on ruining Hare's sanity.

>>114212
Show director and script-writer are probably much less versed in such concepts than you, so it would be a surprise if there was no underlying contradictions. The "real world" is not proven free of such contradictions either, so an anime show is in double trouble.

To be honest, by this point I can sometimes follow you just by intuition and wikipedia. It's been a long time since I was as deep into philosophy, and I never before read about some concepts you mention, me being focused much more on the problems of subjective and not objective world. I also forgot many things. And now I can feel that itch again. Ah hell, nights are for reading, and mornings for walks. I love that kind of life.

>>114214

One thing that struck me about Haruhi is how the entire concept is very similar to that of the joke religion "Last Thursdayism"--that the world was created Last Thursday, in its present form. In Haruhi, it is repeatedly suggested that the world was created three years ago in its present form.

>>114215
I have missed the last Thursday, probably slept it over. But it sounds a lot like Russel's "five minute proposition". And Haruhi plays heavily on that card.
But three years, it's looong..

>>114218

Yup, its exactly like the five minute hypothesis. Haruhi to me seems like the opposite of Evangelion; Eva tries desperately to force the viewer to ask deep philosophical questions and fails miserably, while Haruhi rarely forces it upon the viewer, yet everyone who watches it ends up making wild philosophical speculations for the next few days!

The real kicker is that if the story was told from a 3rd-person perspective or 1st-person (Haruhi's), the entire series could be explained away as solipsism--that Haruhi is the only "real" person. But Kyon being the narrator, of course, complicates this.

>>114215

Sounds like the Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, by Douglas Adams. I just can't quite remember whereabouts the reference comes.

>>114231

Apparently it was created back in the 90s as a parody of creationism.

http://groups.google.com/group/talk.origins/browse_thread/thread/9263b3be16d586f3/5241e6c947f8431e?lnk=st&rnum=1&hl=en

Also, while we're on the topic of Haruhi, can someone who knows Moonspeak translate the following?

YUKI.N> これをあなたが読んでいる時、わたしはわたしではないだろう

YUKI.N> このメッセージが表示されたということは、そこにはあなた、わたし、涼宮ハルヒ、朝比奈みくる、古泉一樹が存在しているはずである。

YUKI.N> それが鍵。あなたは解答を見つけ出した。

YUKI.N> これは緊急脱出プログラムである。起動させる場合はエンターキーを、そうでない場合はそれ以外のキーを選択せよ。起動させた場合、あなたは時空修正の機会を得る。ただし成功は保証できない。また帰還の保証もできない。

YUKI.N> このプログラムが起動するのは一度きりである。実行ののち、消去される。非実行が選択された場合は起動せずに消去される。Ready?

>>114235
It must be Thursday. I never could quite get the hang of Thursdays.

>>114236

>Also, while we're on the topic of Haruhi, can someone who knows Moonspeak translate the following?

Are you offering me some sort of CHALLENNNNGGGE?!

>YUKI.N> これをあなたが読んでいる時、わたしはわたしではないだろう

When you read this, I probably won't be me.

YUKI.N> このメッセージが表示されたということは、そこにはあなた、わたし、涼宮ハルヒ、朝比奈みくる、古泉一樹が存在しているはずである。

The very fact that this message is displayed should mean that you, I, Haruhi Suzumiya, Mikuru Asahina, and Itsuki Koizumi all exist.

YUKI.N> それが鍵。あなたは解答を見つけ出した。

That is the key. You have found the answer.

YUKI.N> これは緊急脱出プログラムである。起動させる場合はエンターキーを、そうでない場合はそれ以外のキーを選択せよ。起動させた場合、あなたは時空修正の機会を得る。ただし成功は保証できない。また帰還の保証もできない。

This is an emergency escape program. Press the ENTER key to run it, or press any other key not to run it. Once it is launched, you will have an opportunity to correct space-time. However, there is no guarantee you will succeed or be able to return.

YUKI.N> このプログラムが起動するのは一度きりである。実行ののち、消去される。非実行が選択された場合は起動せずに消去される。Ready?

This program can only be run once. After it is activated, it will be erased. If you decided not to launch it, it will be erased without ever running. Ready?

>>114236
What's the source of that?

My theory of Haruhi's omnipotence is that it falls in line with this particular creepy-pasta (that you may be familiar with if you've ever been to /x/).

Belief is a powerful thing. Well, not your belief: your opinions couldn't be less important. But there is someone, and there always has been someone, who can control the universe by his powers of belief. You see, at any given moment the universe is controlled by what one particular man believes. All things, right down to the laws of physics, are subject to instantaneous change as soon as one dies and another is chosen. Amelia Airheart? Disappeared when the new Believer couldn't fathom a female aviator. Ever wonder why Newton's seemingly obvious laws of motion took so long to come around? Well, for thousands of years all the Believer's put their stock in Aristotle's physics. Believers don't even know about their powers, and it is flat out impossible to tell who is one.

>>114258

The sauce is from the official website for Haruhi (www.haruhi.tv). The old website disappeared at 4 AM December 18th (an important date in the novel The Vanishing of Haruhi Suzimiya). It gives a fake 404 error message. If you click the button and then type KNSAK (I think) into the 5 boxes (one letter into each), you get a fake xterm screen with YUKI.N typing some various messages, and then at the end, if you press enter, you get redirected to a promotional poster for the new Haruhi series.

>>114260
Have the novels been translated into English?
What is KNSAK supposed to mean?
Loading the image (yuki_pic.html) crashed the computer I'm on (not my normal machine)

>>114264
kyon, nagato, suzumiya, asahina, koizumi
here's the pic on that page (071218.jpg) , there's an embedded midi

>>114265
(..embedded midi in the yuki_pic.html page, not in the pic)

> And christ people, it's like you watch your cartoons as some kind of replacement for dating

Advice: Stop reading at this point.

>>114264
Currently up to volume 9.
http://www.baka-tsuki.net/project/index.php?title=Suzumiya_Haruhi

>>114258

That sounds familiar. Ever heard of $cientology? It's reading stuff like that which reinforces my Atheism. The ONLY way I'll accept the existence of a deity is if he/she SHOWS herself, in physical form that I can see, hear & touch. Oh, but if God actually DID that, then by definition, Xtianity would be destroyed. Proof denies Faith & all that. Well, that little paradox isn't my problem (Catch-22 can be such a bitch!). But that's the only way I'll acknowledge the existence of a God, otherwise there's no such thing. Richard Dawkins is my God, lol! One last thing:

'Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for Atheism ever conceived'

-Isaac Asimov

Though I hate religion my faith in god is unwavering.

>>114285

Please do not poison our Haruhiist discussions with religion debates, or Haruhi may be forced to change the world yet again.

>>114285
How is the "Believer" anything remotely like Scientology?
Unless you're saying that L. Ron Hubbard thought he was a believer, and therefore actually believed all the crazy shit he made up was true.

>>114281
Thanks. There's no official translation then, I take it?

>>114292
"There are some who believe that if the true purpose for the universe were ever discovered, it would instantly be replaced with a different, even MORE incomprehensible thing. There are others who believe that this has already happened." -Douglas Adams

"It hasn't because I say it hasn't." -Haruhi

>>114285
misha, as a fellow atheist, I would like to tell you to shut your fucking mouth; you're making us all look like gibbering sanctimonious fundamentalists who will proselytize our lack of faith at the merest drop of a pin.
Don't you have some teenage girls to be making repulsive old man eyes at?

"Live by the foma that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy"
-Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

>>114299

See 114231

One thing I do love about Haruhi is the number of bad jokes you can make with it. Example:

"Wow, the Haruhi ending song hit #5 on the charts in Japan, and stayed on the charts for over a year and a half!"

"Yeah, in Japan, Haruhi is more popular than God."

"Wait a minute..."

>>114323

Ooooh, an excuse to use my John Lennon voice.

Kosaka

>>114333
Get this Lucky Shit out of my /azu/.

>>114350
NO U

>>114350

> Get this Lucky Shit out of my Haruhi

(FTFY)

Get this Haruhi out of my Haruhi, and replace her with Mikuru.

>>114394

I never liked Mikuru; she was even more annoying than Haruhi herself. And not in a good way--just sort of a stupid way.

This thread needs moar Haruhi.

>>114442

> and more, inside...

Ch. 60. Between Heaven and Earth

 § 1. Not to touch the Earth
 § 2. Not to see the Sun
 § 3. The Seclusion of Girls at Puberty
 § 4. Reasons for the Seclusion of Girls at Puberty

>You won't know a thing till you get.. inside?

>>114350
Oh it's not that bad

>>114442
Oh you'd like that wouldn't you

>>114635

Indeed, Haruhi would likely enjoy more attention.

Waht? This thread is still not dead yet?

>>114645 It's weird. I know. I would have thought it should have hit a vc:MAX setting by now.

>>114647

Clearly Haruhi wants this thread to continue.

Also, while we're at it, have some crossover.

>>114650

Did you just say "Bad game opening"?

You have to die now, Kyon.

>>114637

looks better with glasses.

>>114651
I'm finding it hard to think of a worse opening. Before anyone suggests Zero-wing, note that it was at well-drawn, and before it got 'translated' was perfectly comprehensible, if a bit cliche.

Holy crap... I just went and read the first Haruhi novel. I don't think my eyes ever left the screen, and two hours and a couple hundred pages later, I was done 0.o

I'm extremely surprised at how faithful the anime was to the original novel--the script seemed like it was nearly a direct copy of the text, with obvious modifications to dialogue and removal of narration that was translated to imagery.

Oh, and though I can't really say it for sure, the book is probably better than the anime. Not surprising, of course. Now I have to ask myself: read all the others now, or not?

>>114667
IN AD 2301, WAR WAS BEGINNING

WHAT HAPPEN

SOMEONE SET UP US THE BOMB

WE GET SIGNAL

ITS YOU

HOW ARE YOU GENTLEMEN
ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US

WHAT YOU SAY

>>114675

>read all the others now, or not?

Very yes. At least first five or six volumes.
Just beware of dangers of marathoning. I was reading for two nights and one day non-stop until I dropped to sleep.
Result: severe brain burnout, coffee in the house gone, and keyboard printmarks over my face.

>>114678
Hello Gentlemen.
I've come to take your lives.

>>114698

>>114694

LOL... I'll be careful then!

I'm pausing every few paragraphs of the second book to finish laughing at the absurd situation--maybe at this rate I'll be able to stretch it out to one a day.

Some of the lines in the book are unbelievably funny... and others are just plain eerie. Great stuff.

>>114706

Up to book 4... somebody stop me...

I just read the Disappearance... holy shit, that book had a twisted temporal plot like a bad Star Trek episode!

But it was great, and I'm not enough of an ass to spoil it for anyone here.

>>114650
That is beautifully horrific

VC: sace
It goes in every field

And its midnight and I'm done with volume 5 and almost certainly the two best short stories yet, Endless Eight and Snow Mountain Syndrome. The first reminded me of the TNG episode "Cause and Effect" (as a classic time loop story), and the latter was like a really evil combination of the Twilight Zone and the Phantom Tollbooth.

Done... with... volume... 7... o.0

>>114782
Don't overdo it. It's time to rest by the time you're confused every time you wake up.

>>114798

Heh. Well I have to say this is without a doubt the best series of time-travel novels I've ever read. And they have a bit of Matrix/Twilight Zone-ishness mixed in for good measure.

>>114782
Thanks. Now you have me reading the damn things. I refuse to marathon them, though.

>>114807

Have fun. They get drastically better in the later ones IMO--the first one barely scratches the surface of the awesomeness that is Haruhi.

Also, in the interests of general insanity, I uploaded a DVD-resolution version of Hare Hare Yukari to http://youtube.com/watch?v=X8KGVipWtLw . Have fun--its only 3000kbps ;)

>>114827
Your assignment is to write a report of how you accomplished this, with full technical details

I'll host it for free

>>114850

1. Download input video, resample audio to 44.1khz, save to a lossless FFV1 AVI file.

./mencoder input.avi -o men.flv -of lavf -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=flv:vpass=1:vbitrate=3000:trell:v4mv:mv0:mbd=2:cbp:aic:cmp=1:subcmp=1:precmp=1:qns=2 -oac mp3lame -lameopts abr:br=128:mode=1:aq=0
./mencoder input.avi -o men2.flv -of lavf -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=flv:vpass=2:vbitrate=3000:trell:v4mv:mv0:mbd=2:cbp:aic:cmp=6:subcmp=6:precmp=6:last_pred=5:dia=4:predia=4:preme=2:qns=2 -oac mp3lame -lameopts abr:br=128:mode=1:aq=0

(high quality twopass FLV encode)

3. Hexedit per the image to the left. Putting "82C0 0000 0000 0000" in that section gives 10 minutes as the runtime. Since youtube calculates the bitrate as (total file size) / (duration), increasing the effective duration by hexediting the header makes the bitrate seem lower, and Youtube won't re-encode it if the total bitrate is under 350kbps.

4. Upload as normal.

More info can be found at http://forum.videohelp.com/topic336882.html

Also, major book 8 spoilers (I have ROT13'd the spoiler itself, the rest of the sentence contains very minor spoilers). Book 8 is quite awesome so far, by the way.

Time travel has been discussed throughout the Haruhi novels. While a data disc containing basic time travel theory was passed around in Book 7, it was never revealed (in fact, it seemed nobody actually knew) who the originator of the theory itself was. Not even Asahina knew--it wasn't just Classified. However, in Book 8 (Editor in Chief story), one finds that the true originator of time travel theoryvf**, gubhtu fur qbrfa'g ernyvmr vg, Unehuv Fhmhzvln.**

Bleh, correctly formatted spoiler is

vf, gubhtu fur qbrfa'g ernyvmr vg, Unehuv Fhmhzvln.

>>114857

>Bleh, correctly formatted spoiler is

Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn

fix'd

>>114858

Heh, I was considering posting that myself. The ROT13 text reminded me of a bit of the Elder Gods... ;)

Finally finished the 9th book. The author left it not even at a cliffhangar--basically nothing is resolved, and while its pretty easy to see at least the basic idea of what's going on, there's basically nothing to speculate on because the novel ends before enough information is given to the reader to do so. Basically, it seems as if he had to rush out Volume 9 before actually finishing it--or that he couldn't find a good way to end it fast enough, so instead will split the story over two volumes. I think this is the first volume where the last chapter did not resolve the conflict presented in the novel.

>>114886

Wasn't the ninth one the one where it was sort of 'split route' kind of narrative?

And, of course, the tenth got delayed, sadly. Mebbe he's trying to finalize how exactly he's going to wrap this up.

>>114919

Yup, the 9th is with the split narrative, likely portraying either two timelines or two concurrent possibilities (is there a difference?)