{"id":570,"date":"2009-08-06T19:02:51","date_gmt":"2009-08-07T00:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.projectharuhi.net\/?p=570"},"modified":"2010-07-06T21:47:36","modified_gmt":"2010-07-07T02:47:36","slug":"endless-eight-not-so-endless-after-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.projectharuhi.net\/?p=570","title":{"rendered":"Endless Eight: Not So Endless After All"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Omigod, omigod, omigod! It finally ended!\" src=\"http:\/\/i16.photobucket.com\/albums\/b39\/Darkened-Nature\/1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>(hover over images for my comments)<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.projectharuhi.net\/?p=559\">As previously stated<\/a>, this week marked the end of the traumatic Endless Eight arc. A belated blessing, but a blessing all the same. Having watched the episode in Japanese (it&#8217;s worth mentioning, for the sake of clarity, that I don&#8217;t actually KNOW Japanese), here&#8217;s what you&#8217;ll all have been waiting to finally see:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>WARNING, THIS POST CONTAINS SPOILERS<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re bothered by episode spoilers, I suggest not reading beyond this line. Though, doubtless, most of you will be wanting more substantial proof that the arc has, indeed, ended.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The episode began like the last 6 and followed this path right up until the last five minutes, at which point it takes rather a turn for the comical.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"ARGH! It's a Haruhi battalion!\" src=\"http:\/\/i16.photobucket.com\/albums\/b39\/Darkened-Nature\/2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Kyon, complete with (awesome) deja vu-fuelled and extremely trippy animation, actually gets up from his chair and shouts at Haruhi to stop&#8230; grabbing the attention of everyone in the store.\u00a0 Haruhi, rather confused, turns around to face Kyon&#8217;s sudden outburst, only to be ranted at about homework. Naturally Haruhi wouldn&#8217;t like this.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"'I am Kyon, hear me RAWR!' Or, alternatively, 'This is SPARTA!'\" src=\"http:\/\/i16.photobucket.com\/albums\/b39\/Darkened-Nature\/3h.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Nani? Why are you looking at me? Don't touch me, creep!\" src=\"http:\/\/i16.photobucket.com\/albums\/b39\/Darkened-Nature\/4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Pulling Itsuki and Mikuru into the stand off, Kyon explains that they all have their homework left to do&#8230; but with his outside voice. The result is that Haruhi goes, as xsirhc would say, agro at Kyon for such impertinence and, presumably,\u00a0 laziness.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"No, YOU listen!\" src=\"http:\/\/i16.photobucket.com\/albums\/b39\/Darkened-Nature\/5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Daww, look at the little tsundere :3\" src=\"http:\/\/i16.photobucket.com\/albums\/b39\/Darkened-Nature\/8.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After some raging, finger pointing and, undeniably cute, expressions we&#8217;re treated to a scene from the next day. This involves The Literature Clubroom, flashbacks to the previous day&#8217;s activities and playing cards.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Gyerr...morning...bleh...\" src=\"http:\/\/i16.photobucket.com\/albums\/b39\/Darkened-Nature\/6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Haruhi vs Imouto! Wonder what theyre playing.\" src=\"http:\/\/i16.photobucket.com\/albums\/b39\/Darkened-Nature\/7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I rather enjoyed this episode, though granted only really the last 5 minutes or so of it. As I said before; A blessing, but a late one. It would have been a nice third episode, but ninth? Thanks but no thanks.<\/p>\n<p>A great end to a rather less great arc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(hover over images for my comments) As previously stated, this week marked the end of the traumatic Endless Eight arc. A belated blessing, but a blessing all the same. Having watched the episode in Japanese (it&#8217;s worth mentioning, for the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.projectharuhi.net\/?p=570\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,30,35,3],"tags":[2201,18,17,2200,67,2202,2216,9,211,19,2189,2190],"class_list":["post-570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime","category-haruhi","category-news","category-reviews","tag-anime","tag-endless-8","tag-endless-eight","tag-haruhi","tag-kyon","tag-news","tag-pandemonium","tag-review","tag-second-season","tag-spoilers","tag-suzumiya-haruhi","tag-suzumiya-haruhi-no-yuutsu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.projectharuhi.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.projectharuhi.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.projectharuhi.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projectharuhi.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projectharuhi.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.projectharuhi.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.projectharuhi.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projectharuhi.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projectharuhi.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}