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May 20, 2015 21:54
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Endless Eight was art. They should have that poo poo playing on loop in the Museum of the Moving Image.
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May 20, 2015 23:45
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Yea I can never hate Endless eight because I was one of the first if not the first person on this forum to unironically guess that the adaptation would not end in 3 episodes, the rest is schadenfreude history.
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May 21, 2015 00:54
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Boy are you guys in for a treat in about a month.
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May 21, 2015 02:26
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A Doomed Purloiner posted:Endless Eight was a masterstroke. It was a stroke alright! 
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May 21, 2015 04:06
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Dehry posted:Boy are you guys in for a treat in about a month. Does this spin off have an Endless Eight as well? That would be odd
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May 21, 2015 15:08
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Masturbatorystroke is more like. Endless Eight basically soured me on the show in general until the movie. And even then I was kinda like...man what if they DIDN'T do that. If there is a Yuki-chan endless eight holy shiiit. Unless it's some kind of Endless Eight Minutes...
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May 21, 2015 15:21
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I'd enjoy another endless eight maybe shorten it to like 4 episodes next time tho
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May 21, 2015 15:33
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I skipped the majority of Endless Eight like a sane person and I still didn't like it.
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May 21, 2015 16:42
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I feel that Endless Eight is one of those things that can only be properly experienced at a certain point in time, and that time was as they came out. The initial shock when the second episode ended and it was the same loving thing as the first, the fading certainty that this time, for sure, would be the last, the dawning realization that they really were going to do it eight times, the gradual acceptance where I guess you just pay attention to their changing outfits?, and the vast relief when it actually ended. I don't know that I liked it, but I respect it immensely.
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May 21, 2015 17:11
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I thought it would have been better if they kept up the slow thematic decent into madness, but it looks like the episodes were instead independently directed and smashed together. If I were to re-watch it, I'd go 1, 3, 5, 6, 2, 4, 7, 8. (or just cut 3, 5, and 6, maybe 7 I forgot).
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May 21, 2015 17:21
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Yeah it was pretty terrible but the last ten minutes of 8 are some of my favorite scenes in the whole series. I give Kyoani some credit for having the balls to do it but still... 3-4 eps would've been enough.
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May 21, 2015 18:59
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It should've been the entire season
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May 21, 2015 19:19
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YIKES Stay Gooned posted:It should've been the entire season Having an entire series that's just about a single event but from multiple different perspectives would actually be really cool
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May 21, 2015 20:36
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Xelkelvos posted:Having an entire series that's just about a single event but from multiple different perspectives would actually be really cool It's not a tv show but this is the plot of Rashomon and many movies that have attempted a similar style
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May 21, 2015 20:39
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Xelkelvos posted:Having an entire series that's just about a single event but from multiple different perspectives would actually be really cool agreed
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May 21, 2015 20:58
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YIKES Stay Gooned posted:Does this spin off have an Endless Eight as well? That would be odd They meet a year later in this universe. A bunch of their activities are going to be familiar, but chapter 39 starts with a call back to the last day of the endless 8 cycle, complete with a big 8 on the page.
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May 21, 2015 22:20
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Endless Eight is the George W. Bush of anime.
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May 22, 2015 00:05
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Because of... all the different swimsuits?
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May 22, 2015 00:08
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Command Ant posted:Endless Eight is the George W. Bush of anime. 4 more eps! 4 more eps!
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May 22, 2015 09:27
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Fun little nod, Haruhi mentions it's the 15,498th ping-pong meet, which is the number revealed by Yuki when she admits the Endless Eight loops are happening.
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May 23, 2015 02:51
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I don't watch a ton of anime, but I enjoyed Haruhi and was looking forward to Endless 8. I watch anime in a dumb way, I download it, and then I run it through a converter so it works on my older video player that can't play mkvs that plugs into my tv. Every week, I would download the episode of endless 8, convert it, transfer it over to my thumb drive, go downstairs, and sit in front of my tv and watch it, just staring at the screen, getting the gently caress trolled out of me. I just watched the first episode of this, and it's not my bag at all. Is it just a fan fiction rom com? Does anything interesting start to happen with this alternate reality or am I wasting my time?
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May 23, 2015 05:36
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It becomes everything we loved about the first season of Haruhi and isn't at all a boring romcom featuring a moeblob with all personality stripped away.
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May 23, 2015 07:20
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i haven't seen or read any of the haruhi series and entirely based off of the gifs in the op i want to watch this
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May 23, 2015 09:10
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Yes_Cantaloupe posted:It becomes everything we loved about the first season of Haruhi and isn't at all a boring romcom featuring a moeblob with all personality stripped away. Theres like half a dozen posts about how great Endless Eight was and then this and I can't tell what sarcasm is anymore.
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May 23, 2015 10:11
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I was completely 100% serious about how great Endless Eight was.
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May 23, 2015 12:12
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A Doomed Purloiner posted:I was completely 100% serious about how great Endless Eight was.
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May 23, 2015 12:41
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I can respect and appreciate Endless Eight from an artistic position and just how ballsy it was and how it intensified a dumb little story into a significant arc that acts as a prelude into Disappearance; however, as a product that you have to maybe purchase and watch in sequence - especially at the time where you got nothing but that for two months, and glancing at the theoretical episode list that gave an idea of all the published stories that could be adapted gradually dwindle and shrink smaller and smaller - it's a bunch of bullshit.
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May 23, 2015 13:10
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kickascii posted:I don't watch a ton of anime, but I enjoyed Haruhi and was looking forward to Endless 8. I watch anime in a dumb way, I download it, and then I run it through a converter so it works on my older video player that can't play mkvs that plugs into my tv. Every week, I would download the episode of endless 8, convert it, transfer it over to my thumb drive, go downstairs, and sit in front of my tv and watch it, just staring at the screen, getting the gently caress trolled out of me. Owned
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May 23, 2015 15:16
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I wish I could have seen Endless Eight live. As it is, the only way I've experienced it is watching all 8 episodes in at once without pauses, which I've done 3 times. It's still excellent
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May 23, 2015 15:17
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Apart from Kyon's karaoke, the eyeroll inducing hijinks were pretty bad this episode. Should've given up earlier but I'm about to now. Also, kinda weird how they changed up Koizumi in this series. He went from acting as a sycophant to Haruhi but actually having a brain in TOS to being pretty much outright pathetic here.
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May 23, 2015 15:44
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YIKES Stay Gooned posted:I wish I could have seen Endless Eight live. As it is, the only way I've experienced it is watching all 8 episodes in at once without pauses, which I've done 3 times. It's still excellent At the end of the first episode everyone thought "Oh, it's going to be a two parter, neat." At the end of the second it was "Oh, it's like a trilogy, neat idea." At the end of the third it kinda devolved into "There's no way it's going to be 8, 4 is divisible by 8 it has to end next week surely." But by that point the penny was dropping. From then on I think most were resigned to their fate while some clinged to the pointless hope that a string of episodes called Endless Eight could last anything less than 8 episodes. People kept watching but knowing you were halfway through and that you wouldn't get any new episodes until mid August (EE started mid June) and that series 2 of Haruhi technically only has 7 unique episodes it's easy to get salty as gently caress.
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May 23, 2015 17:02
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I watched up to episode 3, realized what was happening and skipped to 8, back when it was airing. I made the right decision.
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May 23, 2015 17:07
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TheKingofSprings posted:I watched up to episode 3, realized what was happening and skipped to 8, back when it was airing.
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May 23, 2015 18:28
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After the third one I stopped watching them as they came out and just checked the thread each week to see if it ended yet. The fan explosions across the internet were pretty funny to read, though.
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May 24, 2015 09:50
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Szmitten posted:At the end of the first episode everyone thought "Oh, it's going to be a two parter, neat." This was my experience with it as well, and then felt like I was immersed in it. Kind of like looking at a favorite movie from the time it hits first-run theaters to the time it leaves the discount theaters for the last time. Something to live through once, but not again.
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May 27, 2015 10:03
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WillieWestwood posted:Something to live through once, but not again. Someone with archives go look for the season 2 thread. (Unless I'm thinking of a different site entirely and/or it's not as retrospectively hilarious as I imagine)
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May 27, 2015 14:54
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It's pretty funny. There was someone trying to figure out which of the LN stories would map to the episodes. I think when he started he was excited that he'd see Disappearance, and IIRC he had E8 budgeted at 2 episodes. That slipped to 3, then 4, then 5, then he lost his mind.
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May 27, 2015 14:58
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Reading the season 2 thread is pretty hilarious especially since I enjoyed it cause I'm mentally damaged
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May 27, 2015 15:10
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And now, for something completely different.
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