The Anime in Question

Haruhi Suzumiya is a Japanese light novel series, currently made up of twelve volumes. The first of these came out in 2003, and most of the others released during the early 2000s, to critical acclaim and enormous fandom. For the uninitiated, light novels are kind of like Japan’s take on young adult novels - they’re usually short, conversational in tone, and concern themselves with middle/high school issues. Haruhi was one of the medium’s biggest success stories at the time. As of today, there are well over 20 million copies in circulation.

So what is it about?

Obviously, spoilers ahead. So beware. The books follow Kyon, a new student at a generic high school, who gets dragged into the machinations of the titular Haruhi, whose eccentric and bizarre interests include searching for aliens, espers, and time travellers. She is certain of their existence, despite her consistent failures to find proof. A high school club is set up and named the SOS brigade, to investigate any and all paranormal events. Aside from Kyon and Haruhi, the club soon gains new members, who reveal themselves to be the exact entities Haruhi is seeking - Mikuru Asahina is a time traveller from the future, Yuki Nagato is a human mouthpiece for an incomprehensible alien, and Itsuki Koizumi is an esper able to communicate with spirits, ghosts, and other strange things. They are all the creations of Haruhi, who has the power to manipulate reality, but doesn’t know it. By believing in the supernatural, she causes it to exist. The three entities work with Kyon to contain Haruhi’s power, but their inability to do so is the driving force behind their misadventures.

Inevitably, an anime adaptation was made, slated to debut in Spring 2006. It came at the hands of Kyoto Animation, at the time a new studio with only a few shows under its belt. But today Kyoto Animation is one of anime’s most prestigious and respected studios, responsible for successes such as Clannad, Free, Violet Evergarden, Hyouka, and more. The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya was an uproarious success, and was arguably what first put Kyoto Animation on the map. The fandom exploded across Japan and took Western weebs by storm. You couldn’t scroll through a single forum without seeing

That being said, it is a good OVA.

put it in the title. reply please.

Maybe it's her fashion sense or her maturity, maybe it's her personality, or the fact that she isn't built like her sister, but man, I just binged the entire manga and I am simping bad!

This is my first foray into fandom and the internet. I've been browsing /r/anime and /r/anime_irl since the show was still airing and I've become more comfortable with it. A lot of the older posts, such as the infamous ones from the last season are still relevant and I can relate to it.

The general rules for this sub are "don't judge someone for their taste" and "give people the benefit of doubt", so I'll try to follow those rules to the best of my ability. I do however have my own preferences in anime and I'm not going to be judgemental about them, so if you don't care what these people like I'm sorry.

For example:

• Anime is a huge genre that has a lot of anime, and I think it's important to watch and talk about all of them, but I don't think the same people who liked the same things as me have to, and I'm not going to judge them for not liking the same things as me.
• Anime can be a lot of things but I'm not going to be judgmental about the specific things the anime can be.

I will however still be judgy about the following issues:

• Being an anime fan or not is very subjective, and people who like the same anime as I do should be able to find one another and talk about it.
• People who don't like specific anime should not be banned from the group, and people who like specific anime should be allowed to talk about it.
• It's really weird when someone comes in and says they like an anime and no one else does, because it's a minority opinion.
• It's really weird when someone says they like the same anime as me and no one else does, because it's a minority opinion.

I've also seen people say that there are a lot of people who post in the wrong categories. They usually are right, but in this case I'm willing to accept that people who post in the wrong categories are a minority. If you want to know what those categories are, please ask.

I do not think in any way that anyone who disagrees with me is automatically a bad person, but they are just as easy to argue with.

I also want to say that I will only be judging the anime that I like, and if you don't like it please tell me why. Also please don't call them gay unless you want to.

If you have any questions about the rules, please ask. I'd like to keep this subreddit as active as possible.

I hope this isn't too long.

Thank you.

Animes em geral tem, à primeira vista, uma história bizarra e cheia de furos. Então pesquisando teorias e detalhes do anime nas wikis, nos fóruns e fandoms da vida, vemos que na realidade o anime é bem construído e pensado. Atualmente estou fazendo isso porque estou vendo cowboy bebop. Estou amando pesquisar sobre a vida dos personagens, dos vilões e sobre a história em geral que como todo anime parece bem confusa. Eu te amo Internet ❤

I know a game called Arcaea which hasn’t been ruined yet. I only see 2 videos of Gacha Arcaea so the game isn’t that popular and that’s the way I wanted it to be.

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I know Yu-Gi-Oh has been a frequent source of drama for this subreddit lately, and this post is absolutely inspired by the recent works of /u/misterbadguy159 covering the card game side of the drama. This post is admittedly more of a compilation than a proper post as many of the sources and claims in this post are going to link back to posts made by /u/misterbadguy159 and others that have long since done the work breaking down the myths covered here today. With that being said:

> Yu-Gi-Oh, King of Recap Games:

For those out of the loop, Yu-Gi-Oh is a manga series written by Kazuki Takahashi that ran from September 14, 1996 to March 8, 2004, totalling 343 chapters. In the story, protagonist Yugi Mutou (Yugi Moto in the localisations) discovers an ancient artifact that contains a dark spirit within who takes residence in Yugi's soul. The spirit takes over whenever Yugi is in danger, challenging criminals and thugs with deadly games of chance wherein he punishes them with ironic punishments. Later on, it's discovered that the spirit is the remnant of an Egyptian Pharoah who lived thousands of years in the past called Atem.

After about seven volumes, Takahashi created a one-off card game called Duel Monsters, which saw immediate popularity with the fans. After it and villain Seto Kaiba were brought back several times, the card game became a reality in 1999, coming to the West in 2002.

After a 1998 anime adaptation by Toei, Studio Gallop, alongside Nihon Ad Systems, would make an anime covering much of the manga following the introduction of Kaiba and the Duel Monsters game (alongside several filler arcs done to either shill new cards or buy Takahashi time to wrap up the current arc in the manga). This series, also known as Duel Monsters, ran from 2000 to 2004, and is nowadays seen as one of the most iconic pieces of children's media for the Late 90s-Early Noughts generation alongside Power Rangers, Digimon and Pokemon. This was helped by an English dub done by 4Kids Entertainment, who made some dubious changes to the source material in their efforts to localise it, but nowadays the dub is seen as a bit ironically iconic due to the wonders of meme culture. Yu-Gi-Oh became a merchandising powerhouse, with all sorts of additional merchandise- tie in games, shirts, board games, and even [anti-weed PSA. ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkGax

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