Finally, I watched The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya

Hello, it's Munou.

I've finally watched The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya + The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya.

For Some Reason

I get the feeling that I have to watch classic anime.
Even if I listened to those MVs and music in junior high, I couldn't fully understand their charm without watching the anime.

To fully grasp the goodness of that music, don't I have to watch the original anime to receive it with 100% receptivity?
That's what I think.

Roughly speaking, anime works from Japan after 2000 were created after the collapse of the IT bubble, and there's no doubt that a darker atmosphere prevailed than now.
Perhaps they are symbols of an era that evolved from light novel works and supported the times.

By the way, I watched it with zero prior information other than the music, so I enjoyed it to the fullest.
When I told my seniors and friends that I had watched it, even people who hadn't seen the anime brought up "the problematic episode," so it was that famous, huh?

After that story...

The following contains spoilers, so please don't read if you dislike them.

In my mind, there's a sense of incompleteness about what exactly happened after the anime and movie episodes.
Was it originally meant to end with plans for further sequels?

And so, I've developed an urge to read the manga.
Ideally, reading the light novels would be better, but because I've already seen the visual image of "Haruhi Suzumiya" in the anime, the joy of expanding various imaginations with just text has somewhat faded, and fixed ideas have formed within me.
I think it would have been more valuable to enjoy various imaginations by reading the light novels from the beginning without having seen anything else.

So, I'm thinking of just reading the manga.

That being said, I'm rewatching "K-On!", which I watched in junior high...

Characters

The protagonist seems like an ordinary person who doesn't particularly stand out in class, but I felt that his love for the occult, like other worlds, makes indoor-type people want to project themselves onto him.

And then, he gets acknowledged by the eccentric Haruhi. If I were a foolish student like myself, I'd think, "Could this happen in real life?" No, of course not...
There's a part that makes you indulge in such silly fantasies, but without directly showing romantic scenes, it also has a somewhat realistic feel of student life.

If anything, there's also a sense of a rebellious phase and significant mental changes among the students, and the exquisite sci-fi world feels like it's moving along a timeline similar to "Alice in Wonderland Syndrome."

I apologize that there's no punchline every time, but I think I'll write again once I finish reading the manga.

That's all for now.

I look forward to seeing you again.