On 7/1/06, DB Sommer <sommert@connecttime.net> wrote:
Since you tried so hard to post this:
Why, thank you, Mr. Sommer. :3
Brian Randall wrote:
Trying again, hopefully this time with less failure....
The Blunt Force Trauma of Suzumiya Haruhi
Prologue: In which the world ends.
Not capitalizing the title there?
Nah, that's just a summary/overview.
BTW, this was one of the few animes where I watched the first epsiode
which turned me off so much I cut the second episode in mid download.
Of course, I actually like High School Girls, so take that for what you
will.
The first episode was intentionally very bad. It gets much better
afterwards, but you watched Haruhi's project for the school festival.
The SOS Brigade's movie. I'd say give episode two a shot. If it
doesn't work for you, well....
Haruhi is very much one of those you-love-it-or-you-loathe-it anime,
it appears. But I'm firmly in the former camp. If Haruhi fails for
you, you might like Higurashi ... though, I like both. ;)
I am running down the hallway connecting the old clubhouse to the
school proper. Koizumi is right behind me, and Asahina-san and
Yuki-san are following. We are told not to run in the halls, of
course, but I think we can get away with it.
We are, after all, saving the world.
Again.
Do like the way that reads, though
Thanks! I kind of added more of an americanized flow to the
narrator's thoughts than I originally intended, but I've decided to
stick with it.
"What do you have?" I ask, when Yuki-san simply stands there and says
nothing else. Asahina-san tries to catch her breath, fussing with her
maid's uniform.
Ah yes, a maid. Now we need someone with cat girl ears to make things
complete.
Well, Mikuru's just in a maid's outfit because Haruhi says to. You
know, for the club. ;)
"This notebook is a lure produced
'created' would be better since you use 'induce' a second later.
Manufactured?
"Well," he says, looking up and offering his familiar, phony grin,
"we are seeing a previously unprecedented level of closed-space
formation. If Nagato-san's information is accurate, we me
may, I think
Oops. Yeah, you're right.
So, that incident, which Asahina-san herself warned me about ...
well, no. It was an Asahina-san from another time-plane. Or the
future. I'm not really sure I understood her explanation. I was
warned, though.
Me either, assuming this isn't all some fantasy Haruhi conconted. But I
did only watch one episode.
The narrator's, "I didn't really follow that," lines kind of make him
more respectable to me as a ... well, narrator, though in this fic,
he's also a main character.
Haruhi is holding extra pages. Which
pages, which
Right.
Then the other entity appears. This is none other than Taniguchi,
the same one who walked in on Yuki-san and myself after the
unfortunate incident with Ryouko. "This is close enough the
clubroom," Koizumi whispers to me suddenly. "I expect that I could
draw up to thirty five
thirty-five
Gotcha.
"Fuumofu!" Koizumi exclaims,
Wait, he's channeling FMP now? ^_^
I think that's the joke they were going for when he used it on the
cave cricket (though, it was at 10% there), but yeah.
"Why?" she asks, just before the world goes away.
Interesting idea. Flowed well, though as I said, I'm not aware of the
continuity issues and stuff and was pretty lost.
Well.... Since this already has spoiler tags, the long and short of
it is that Haruhi's will defines reality. She wanted there to be
aliens, and so, there was Nagato Yuki (and Ryouko, and (here)
Taniguchi). She wanted there to be time travelers, and so, there was
Asahina Mikuru. She wanted there to be espers, and so, there was
Koizumi Itsuki. The catch is that Haruhi doesn't know she has this
power (or that the members of her club are, in fact, a space-alien
magical girl, a time-traveler, and an esper who's part of a mysterious
secret agency).
I'm glad you liked it, though, and as always, thanks for taking the
time to reply. ;)
DB Sommer