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I watched Haruhi in whatever order is on the US Blu-ray because I couldn't be arsed to swap around discs. It's been a while, but I remember it being fine. I do remember watching the Endless 8 in one sitting in the middle of the night, so I was a bit delirious by the end, so would definitely want to watch it in full again. Which is why I suggested it in the Simulwatch thread as it would give me the excuse to do that.

Doctorkev said:
Yuki Nagato... don’t think you can stream it legally.
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It's on Funimation. It's not as good, but I remember some sweet moments in it.

It's the Haruhi-chan one that's not available, although I think it was at one point and I never got round to it.
 
Ah Haruhi talk again.
I don't see any use in watching it out of order, its a relic of the 2006 season intentionally made that way by kyoani at the time to give the season a 'satisfying conclusion' as chronologically the last episode is a bit dull in terms of anything action or suspense. Chronologically is the way the original source material is structured too. The 2009 broadcast order is the way I watch it and always have done. I find it works far better watching it this way to set you up for the disappearance movie too, which for the record is a masterpiece even if you didnt like the show much. The goal for most first time watchers of the series these days is to see what the fuss is about over the movie, so why not go in as prepared as possible? Of course I pray daily for a third season 😂, but I don't think it will ever happen. The newest light novel came out after 9 years and I'm very excited to add that to my book collection.. its a nice consolation

Having said that, with monogatari, its been released almost exactly the same way the light novels have came out, other than Hana which came out a year after the second season for some reason (if you live in the UK though, the second season boxset actually includes this in the correct order, Hana is straight up not included in the japanese set and unsure about the US set) or the kizu movies which the original light novel of that came out straight after bake but shaft waited until 2017 as they wanted a big budget for them. The 2 ways to watch monogatari is to either follow the picture with 12 covers as i said in an earlier reply (thats the official tv release order) or place kizu after bake and slip Hana in between Kabuki and Otori (once again, the UK second season boxset does this for you anyway) Any other way doesnt make any sense to me for a first time watcher. I'm curious how much of a trainwreck watching it chronologically would be, and when i get the final 3 parts from MVM I will be doing it for a laugh.

One more thing as I see talk about it, I've unironically watched the endless eight over ten times, never skip it on the rewatch hahaha. Nagato is the best.
 
I've watched it in both s1 broadcast order and chronological order and don't have a clear preference. I do think the s1 broadcast order has a better build-up, but I can enjoy both. I've also never skipped any episode of the Endless Eight. While I understand that people would want to skip parts of it, it somehow doesn't bore me.

But as much as I like the series, I can't help but view it as nothing more than necessary background for the movie, which is an absolute masterpiece! Despite it's length it's the movie I've rewatched the most out of any movie (anime or otherwise).
 
I think I got to Endless Three (maybe Four) before dropping Haruhi S2 and I haven't watched anything of the show since, it just totally killed it for me. Which is a shame because I liked S1 a lot, I have the US Bandai CEs of that. Still haven't ironed on the iron-ons to anything yet.
 
Girls wIth Guns said:
As a rule I always watch non-chronological anime series parts in release order. I would never even consider trying to watch something like that in a chronological order - that's just not logical to me at all. 🤨
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Yeah the problem for me was I went in very blind (on purpose to not ruin anything) and had no idea that it was originally released in non-chronological order, but then re-released in chronological order, which is what it is in the blu ray release. Just stuck the disc in and watched and afterwards read up on it and realised how much better it could've been! To be fair, on looking back at the pack, funimation do have a blurb about the release order, just bad luck that I had no idea. Since then I make sure I double check heh.
 
Ah, bugger, I was kinda gambling on MVM doing their usual 20% off easter offer, looks like this will be more akin to their xmas sales.
Was holding off on a few pre-orders in anticipation of that, whoopsies...

Ah well, still looking forward to seeing what they have on offer.
 
Geriatric hedgehog said:
Me too!

Brilliant! Sorted heh. The Deals of the Week have kept me very happy (though the family look like they're getting ready to stage an intervention...)

Family agrees but I say: No! Keep targeting!!
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imagines an elderly hedgehog man screaming "please don't keep me from the anime sales!!!" as his concerned hedgehog family members surround him "grab his wallet!" "who's got the sedative?"...

...well that got dark quickly :confused:
 
okey login portal for AOL is broken "Authentication failed" ad blockers off and i tried a few different browsers if there are any easter sales on i hope this isnt a problem then
 
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