NOTE: This post is a part of an effort on my end to bring my Reddit content to Lemmy.

Original Posting Date: 29/07/2022

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She’s an insolent, stubborn, selfish piece of shit that won’t stop for anything to get things her way. Cast aside the over arching plot of supernatural stuff, she’s still an asshole. I hate her and the more I go into this series, the more I hate her with a burning passion.

Edit: adding that I’m yet to watch the movie. My opinion could change over time so let’s hope for the best.

Also, some people seem to think that I hate the series. Hell no. I’ve laughed my ass off at Kyon and the gang being annoyed at her whims and fantasies. I also know that that’s the point of her character. But apparently it’s criminal to join the subreddit of an anime to discuss our thoughts unless they’re positive opinions.

Lemme know what your views are.

Edit 2: This comment is really awesome. (Was posted by u/Cerber4444 on Reddit)

Okay, hear me out. I’m a big fan of this show myself. But Haruhi is indeed has not the best character in universe. But its kinda the point of the show. She isn’t badly written character, she’s a character with bad behaviour. She is designed with that in mind.

This whole show is partially a big self aware parody of clichés in anime. You know like in typical anime there is always main girl who is loved by people in anime itself and fans, but in reality she would be annoying and simply toxic friend/girlfriend.

Haruhi is this character but put in realistic setting. That’s why everyone in school avoid Haruhi, despite her being beautiful looking. Because that’s how any real person would react to insane girl who is not considering of their surroundings.

Same with other cast- Koidzumi, Mikuru and Yuki seems to be your regular one dimensional characters. But in reality they are good writen characters with their own motivation, secrets, internal conflicts and overall depth.

Overall this show is about four students who is friends with that annoying and toxic main character, and despite understanding that she is bad for them, they can’t leave this relationship because of existential threat for our world from Haruhi. Well three of them arrived to this time and place specifically because of this threat.

And remember how sometimes this show gets a little bit dark? Koidzumis monologue in taxi and on bridge, for example. He is turning it to a joke, but it doesn’t feel like a joke. That kind of moments make me confident, that all this dark theme between the lines was intentional.

And yeah, like Kyon said- he is a voice of reason for Haruhi, and he is changing her to a better side little by little. And his love to her is becoming obvious in this context. Because it’s isn’t rare, when a person falls in love with someone who is toxic, but displays a redeeming qualities time to time.

I could go on and on about all of this, but I already said a lot. And that is making this anime one of my favourite. It has so much depth, despite appearing as regular one dimensional anime at first glance.

Update: I watched the movie. Here’s my post talking about it.

Oh and one more thing: Nagato is best girl. Fight me, Harusimps.

  • LagrangePoint@lemmy.world
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    You walked right into a Haruhi community and created a post called “I hate Haruhi” but it’s well-written, is clearly not a ragebait piece, and you gave us all a light challenge at the end by calling everyone Harusimps lol. Nice job.

    Your sentiment toward Haruhi doesn’t seem unusual. Time and time again I see this feeling of “but I hate Haruhi” echoed in message board threads from confused people trying to find the appeal in the show.

    But apparently it’s criminal to join the subreddit of an anime to discuss our thoughts unless they’re positive opinions.

    I miss what Reddit used to be. I know now that we’re never going to get that back. Hopefully we can have a better start over here.

    • ElPussyKangaroo@lemmy.worldOP
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      You walked right into a Haruhi community and created a post called “I hate Haruhi”

      Hehehehehe.

      but it’s well-written,

      Thank You so much 😭❤️. I wrote this while having a fever and I swear it’s one of those “I can’t believe I wrote this” moments 😂.

      is clearly not a ragebait piece,

      Ironically, my post was removed from r/anime because they said it was 🤣.

      trying to find the appeal in the show.

      I know right?! It is astonishing to me, how much effort it took me to get through the goddamn Endless Eight. As insanely interesting it is as a concept, and the amount of effort that went into it to animate, voice and edit those episodes again and again slightly different from the previous… I still could not find out why they tortured the real-time watchers this way 🤣. Poor souls had to watch the same fkn episode eight times in a row every week… That too out of order.

      Hopefully we can have a better start over here.

      Exactly why I posted this here. 1) one of my best posts about any media I’ve watched and 2) the need for good posts to have conversations.