How Endless Eight Became one of the Most Hated Arcs in Anime History

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In order of appearance:
@ahanneken, @thelof9, @AryaTayebi, @DrCullenPHD, @CGrotesque, @pixelatedlenses, @Straw_Hat_Robin, @dad_dot_jpeg, @1mpavidus, @DylanMobleyVO, @le_kaitsu, @timecrowaves, @Solarin, @MarissaLenti, @djro45, @katrinaltrnsl8r, @CorinneDeCost, @EightBitBrody, @DrCullenPHD (again lol), @dad_dot_jpeg (again lol), @keelyclove, @TheonecalledTnT, @UltimaShadowX, @DigiAtlas, and @TechCakeMix.
The little bloopers on the end card are by (in order) @le_kaitsu, @dad_dot_jpeg, @keelyclove, and @DrCullenPHD
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god, this video took forever didn't it. I started it shortly after my R;N review thinking it'd be like, 20 minutes long--25 tops. ...and then it was nearly 40 lol
I was really hoping to get this out closer to the release of the Intuition of Haruhi Suzumiya, but, well, obviously that didn't happen. Speedy editing isn't one of my strong suits, alas.
Tell you what else really didn't help the already pretty long time this video took to make was the fact that in late October, power was out for pretty much all of central Oklahoma for nearly 2 weeks. I was one of the people who got theirs back quicker, and it was still out for 5 whole days for me. It was wild.
In any case, despite the wait time for it, I hope you enjoy this video. I worked really hard on it!
Fun Fact: the post that timecrowaves reads was actually a post by them!! A lovely full circle moment, haha.
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Here's the videos seen throughout the video:
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Thanks to @MechaManDan for doing some quality check/cleanup work on this video!
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Thanks to @_seaPancake on Twitter for doing the art in my end card! Check out more of her work here:
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Thumbnail layout by @OGmagicalgirl
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#haruhisuzumiya #endlesseight #kyonkundenwa

[MrRemicas]

"Endless Eight is either a stroke of genius or a waste of time"
I was there. It's both.

[_vulcanide]

I remember people making posters and t-shirts saying "i survived endless eight"

[RagingHamster]

i marathoned endless 8 when i was sick. literally saw it with 104 degrees fever. i achieved enlightenment

[Kenfusin]

Imagine how yuki felt she experienced it 15, 500 times while we we experienced it 8 times

[esbendit]

Endless 8 is not the ultimate troll, that would be having made 9 episodes.

[dmwanderer]

I survived the Endless Eight.


Sure pops, now let's get you back to bed.

[TK]

As somebody that's never watched Haruhi, Endless Eight sounds like a really interesting idea on paper that does not surprise me at all would make an absolutely miserable viewing experience in practice.

[whitetrash]

I feel like the problem wasn't the repetition; it was the wait. In this binge-watching age, I feel like releasing all 8 of them at once would be better received as an artistic, risky, move. Releasing them weekly is straight up stupid, maddening, a bad move.

[atticusshadowmore]

Just imagine if after the arc ended, they had a normal new episode and then another endless eight

[phoenixfritzinger]

They should have thrown in one “It’s Not Unusual” to break it up

[NaramSinofAkkad]

The voice actors begging to be allowed to do anything different is so sad.

[AMVhuntingSyndrom]

Endless Eight is a brilliant case-study for anyone that wants to learn more about directing, tone-setting and visual styling in anime and other media. You get 8 episodes of the same stuff, but every episode has a different mood to it. Its brilliant.


However for the average anime watcher its a waste of time.

[WillTheGreatest]

So essentially it's like john mulaney salt n pepper diner story but for the haruhi fandom. Well at least we have the disappearance movie

[cestalia]

Anime: only has 14 episodes.
"Let's repeat 8 episodes lmao".

[ArtistTheArtist]

"I need her glompness"
people talked like that
this is a thing someone said

[_prelude]

I think the true unsung heroes of endless 8 are the people who were tasked to animate 8 different versions of what is basically the same thing for months. People praise the directors and the writers for this decision but if watching the same episode 8 times was already enough of a drag, imagine having to _animate_ the same lines and activities over and over and over again. Holy shit. Keep on trucking, Kyoani.

[Arcxzal]

man hearing this without actually experiencing this makes this so much funnier lmao

[JablesMF]

Obligatory “I survived Endless 8 and all I got was this lousy t-shirt”

[frauleinzuckerguss]

*Me who's never heard of or watched this anime:* "Ah yes, I should watch this video about an arc I know nothing about."

[asdfghjkl]

The real tragedy of Endless Eight is that they missed the chance to animate Snowy Mountain Syndrome, a much more interesting short story that was in the same volume as EE. It takes place after Disappearance chronologically, but it would've been fully understandable despite that, and it's not like the directors actually cared about showing events in order anyway.