Endless Eight

Oh my God you people have the attention spans of tadpoles. Endless eight was not the end of the world to get through.

There was no point in it though. it's not impressive to watch something. Nobody thinks it is. However it was a waste of budget and people's time simple as that.

Because most of Sup Forums are spoiled man children who want instant gratification and don't care about story or character development, they just want their funny colourful escapist waifus

kyon kun denwa

>people actually defend EIGHT EPISODES, over TWO HOURS, of near exactly the same shit
The worst part is each episode had slight differences meaning they cost the same to make as any other episode. Absolutely dogshit idea and anyone defending this is retarded. It should've been three episodes max. Setup, continuation, conclusion.

>Defending EE
It was fucking boring.
The fuck has that to do with attention span? I watched the 8 episodes, it had the ffect the director wanted I assume, it was still shit.

Almost worth it

I only recently started binge-watching Haruhi, and I watched all of Endless Eight… before taking an indefinitely long break from the series.
I got nothing out of watching the same episode (albeit animated slightly differently each time) eight times in a single sitting. Watching maybe the first two and then the last two is the absolute maximum number of times you should watch it, unless you just want to impress a bunch of retards on the internet.

When it was airing that was two months of wasted content though.

>…
Lurk 2 years before posting.

Nigger, I'll uses ellipses when I want.

How does it feel, being the reason anime will never evolve beyond the rut of repeated generic characters and stories? When a studio tries to think outside the box, they get lambasted, but if they make a safe, high school harem, it's guaranteed money.

I also enjoyed watching it in one sitting because half the fun was hunting for the differences, especially in scenes that are the same.

But having it go on for 2 whole months and half the run of the show must have been annoying

It's obvious to tell you did not watch it while it aired.

Cancer is proud of being cancer, who would've thought.

If you're not going to quote people individually you're a shitposter thus breaking the rules.

>endless eight
Good times. That shit and the ending to Panty & Stocking were too of my favorite times to not be watching anime.

Fitting end for an overrated show.

>When a studio tries to think outside the box
Thinking outside of the box is all well and good, but the risk of being criticized it always there. The reason "thinking outside the box" is a thing is not to be considered creative or amazing, but to find what works or what doesn't work.

They experimented with a neat idea that could be interesting. That's fine.
But as it turns out, repeating the same episode 8 times, doesn't work.

>Implying that matters.

The problem is small minded peons are incapable of seeing the bigger picture. They can only process up to 25 minutes of information at a time, that's why it failed. As a story telling device, as a method of character progression, it was absolutely brilliant. It's a technique very, very few creators have attempted across all media, and they completely nailed it. However, it's a part of a bigger picture, a means to an end, but retards like think it's a complete work capable of being evaluated independently. It would be like if you cut off one of David's feet and someone looked at the foot and went "wow this sculpture sucks Michelangelo is shit"

The problem is you quoting multiple people without having anything to say to them individually. Thus breaking the rules.

This shitpost isn't particularly topical.
Pity reply.

Because it took time from the actual season? Back then, most were speculating how many stories they would put in S2. Nobody thought half of the fucking season would go to retardedly put the same episode time and time again.

Mass quoting is against the rules, that's right.
But he quoted 4 (four) people, I don't see how this is against the rules.

>he
Has nothing to say.

Yeah well after trying time and time again to post quality threads and having them totally ignored. You realize you'll never break 4chans repetitive system. So you give up and just ship post guaranteed bait threads.

He also didn't break the rules.

I can appreciate it for being something different and setting up the movie, but it just doesn't feel worth it at all. Instead of episodes like Someday in the Rain, The Day of Sagittarius, and Live Alive we got this dark void in the middle of the show that has absolutely no rewatch value.

Rule 3

It wasn't having to watch the same episode that had people so upset.

This was a season X never show. Fans desperately wanted another season. When they finally got it, over half the season was a giant middle finger to their hopes and dreams. The suffering was for the loss of what those episodes took the place of, not simply having to watch them either as a binge, or over the course of the summer.

>3.Purposeful spoiling of a series may result in post deletion and temporary ban.
Global Rule 3
>3.You will not post any of the following outside of Sup Forums: Trolls, flames, racism, off-topic replies, uncalled for catchphrases, macro image replies, indecipherable text (example: "lol u tk him 2da bar|?"), anthropomorphic ("furry") or grotesque ("guro") images, post number GETs ("dubs"), or loli/shota pornography.

Now tell me what he did.

Oh god, this was before Free! and the advanced water animation technology was invented.

Imagine how much better the endless eight pool scenes would have been if they'd been done today, a real shame about the timing there. I hope there's a remake soon.

wait, mass quoting is against the rules?

>people trying to justify EIGHT FUCKING EPISODES of the EXACT SAME SHIT
They were trying to do something interesting and it failed horribly.
And no, you shouldn't act like this was brilliant because you want more experimental shit in general, if it sucks it sucks.

>wait, mass quoting is against the rules?
It is, but 4 posts is hardly mass quoting.
Quote half of the thread, then we're talking.

I think 4 episodes would have been far more reasonable for this shitty gimmick.

still better than Family Guy

It was worth the trouble because at least they inserted some cool stuff from episode to episode like Kyon having a deja vu and asking how yuki felt which basically made her fall in love with him

>anime will never evolve beyond the rut of repeated generic characters and stories?
The endless eight is just this, only in a single show.

>evolve beyond the rut of repeated generic characters and stories
>By repeating the same episode eight times

Why do people claim they "tried something different"? They handled the standard time loop plot the exact same way everyone else has been handling it for decades: By showing several but not all instances of the loop to show the audience that a loop is happening.
Do you know who actually did try something different? The fucking novel they were adapting! It did not show several loops. Instead it focused on only the final loop which resolved the problem. Doing that would have been actual innovation for a beaten to death plot device.

the problem was that timeloops don't need to be the same, but E8 was the same every episode which is simply uninteresting.

Forever four would have been okay.

user, I know it's already been said but, I don't think you watched it when it was aired. It was pretty savage. It also made you really appreciate why Yuki did what she did in Disappearance I think.

It matters quite a bit. Two hours of marathoning it isn't that bad when you know it's coming. Two months of waiting to see if they finally fucking end the short story that should have taken one episode to adapt, but they were making take multiple episodes by reanimating the same damn episode over and over again - while knowing them doing this reduces the chances of other material being animated in the only second season they're likely to get - is pretty fucking annoying.

Season 3 in general is a lot better than people make it out to be.

Are you Mikuru?

I don't think so

If you didn't watch it weekly as it was being released, your opinion doesn't count

>complaining about us complaining about stuff that happened in 2009

If I had a time machine I probably wouldn't go back just 8 years, you picked a weird time to bitch about OP

You guaranteed weren't here when it happened.

>Haruhi s1 was just re-running as usual
>Suddenly a new fucking episode appears out of the blue unannounced, literally a stealth s2 started before our eyes (hardly a real s2 but more like a more-complete version of the original)
>Hype is off the fucking charts, everyone amazed at suddenly new Haruhi
Then
>E8 starts, people go "oh boy get ready"
>Next E8 ep airs, people go "wait what, is this the same episode, wait no it wasn't they literally remade the entire ep, nice one KyoAni you got us good"
>Third E8 airs and people go "ha, very clever.. wait it didn't end yet though. Next round right? We get it now it'll stop soon right?"
Then
>Over a month straight of the same fucking ep with little variations over and over. People going insane, raging against KyoAni with authentic fury, statues and Haruhi collections being smashed and torched in Japan too
>When it ended it was a massive relief but we basically had stockholm syndrome by then. We felt abused by the studio.

They were literally expending great resources and time to bring us the same ep over and over, not reruns but actually individually drawn and voiced. Every iteration. With each passing ep, people realized KyoAni is literally wasting what should have been Haruhi S2 on one fucking gag over and over, 3/4ths of a normal anime season was literally something that should have been done in 2-3 episodes. It was a zany fucking experience. We laughed at first, then raged, then cried at the fucking waste. There was very little left to Haruhi no Yuutsu after E8, it was a complete waste.

It is a serious wonder that KyoAni's reputation didn't completely disintegrate right then and there and they still are somehow respected today. They fucking shouldn't be. Not for E8 and then their wasting more resources adapting fucking garbage noname LNs they bought license rights to wholesale. People say Disappearance made up for it but I really don't fucking think so.

E8 is good but even if it wasn't Disappearance could make up for 10 seasons of shit

..He says, years after the fact. As other people pointed out one of the main reason it was so disliked would have no bearing on newfags who are just watching it now, which you obviously are otherwise you wouldn't have made a thread about something that has been discussed to death here. Watching 2 hrs of the same episode in one sitting is one thing, weeks and weeks of waiting, on the other hand sucks some serious shit when it's all the same content more or less. Additionally, s2 taking a popularity hit due to endless 8 has nothing to do with Sup Forums, japan does not care about a bunch of western weebs, it's the viewing public in japan's bitching that counted.

>greentexts a comprehensive explanation of why E8 is a masterpiece and one of the greatest stunts ever pulled in anime history
>ends it with "It is a serious wonder that KyoAni's reputation didn't completely disintegrate right then and there and they still are somehow respected today."

ya blew it user. Everything up to that point was setting you up for the correct opinion, yet somehow you ended up doing a 180 for no reason?

Endless Eight weeded out the heathens from the believers.

Man, I forgot how big Haruhi used to be

They had pure gold on their hands. Then they decided to piss off their audience with E8. Then they actually managed to get back on their good side with the movie. Then the author threw a tantrum and refused to finish the series or some shit like that, ruining it for everyone. What a sad development.

He never threw a tantrum he just ran out of words to write.

>Do retarded shit
>Wow so innovative 10/10 masterpiece
I bet you like modern art, faggot.

family guy is like endless eight but stretched out to 278 episodes

>retarded shit
strong critique user

Why can't western fucks make things with story progression in them?

Mostly because cycling writers, the writer union, and not knowing how many seasons they are making. The average show just cares about getting budget and making whatever sell, instead of telling a story.

>It would be like if you cut off one of David's feet and someone looked at the foot and went "wow this sculpture sucks Michelangelo is shit"
No, it would be like Michelangelo stacking eight feet on top of each other and calling it David.

I'm pretty sure that was the point of it.

Disappearance was so good partly BECAUSE of E8.

Wrong. It was given to different teams and had their own take on it. That's why it was interesting

>wrong
>here's a line of irrelevant knowledge
What's your point exactly? I'm telling you it's not interesting. They were handled the exact same script, storyboard etc. It was not handled by different teams.

Also consider anyone that watched it as it aired got 8 weeks of almost the same episode.

It's bland