Former Kyoto Animation director apologizes for current "Haruhi" plotline

[robkelk]

Yamamoto, at Otakon

So, has he just deep-sixed his career? (If he'll bad-mouth one former employer...)
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

[Wiregeek]

and what's the current plotline?
"No can brain today. Want cheezeburger."
From NGE: Nobody Dies, by Gregg Landsman
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5579457/1/NGE_Nobody_Dies

[Evil Midnight Lurker]

Endless Eight. It's a Groundhog Day loop in which the only character whose memory survives -- Yuki -- either has no motivation to change anything at all
or has long since given up.

We've had five episodes so far of exactly the same events animated from different angles with slightly different
dialogue.

--Sam

"Eating kittens is just plain -- plain WRONG! And no one should do it EVER!"

[Ankhani]

Well, that's all good and well, but really. What's the plotline?
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The Master said: "It is all in vain! I have never yet seen a man who can perceive his own faults and bring the charge home against himself."

>Analects: Book V, Chaper XXVI

[Wiregeek]

It's the Endless Eight plotline. It's kinda like that Bill Murray movie Groundhog Day. Unfortunately, the person who remembers _through_ the look
(Yuki) doesn't have the motivation that Bill had, and is either totally unmotivated to change things, or has just given up.

There's been five episodes so far, with the same events shown with minor viewpoint changes and slightly different dialogue
"No can brain today. Want cheezeburger."
From NGE: Nobody Dies, by Gregg Landsman
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5579457/1/NGE_Nobody_Dies

[Ankhani]

Apparently my humor is a bit lacking. It sounds like a "Here's some filler while we think of a real plot" sort of plotline.
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The Master said: "It is all in vain! I have never yet seen a man who can perceive his own faults and bring the charge home against himself."

>Analects: Book V, Chaper XXVI

[Evil Midnight Lurker]

To be more precise, it's the last eight days of summer vacation; Haruhi has a schedule intended to hit all the classic summer vacation moments in a sort of
Zerg rush; the eight days keep repeating, presumably because either Haruhi subconsciously doesn't want summer vacation to end or there's something else
she wants to do but hasn't managed.

Kyon keeps almost figuring out the answer, right before the reset.

To date, this cycle has occurred over fifteen thousand times, so I suppose we should count ourselves lucky that Kyo
Ani skipped to near the end.

Also, it can't be a "while we think of a real plot" thing, because this is adapted directly from the light novels. Although I don't think
the novel version covered this many repeats.

--Sam

"Elf finger magic. I hate that."

[Epsilon]

Evil Midnight Lurker wrote:


Kyon keeps almost figuring out the answer, right before the reset.

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Epsilon

[Wiregeek]

the solution is mutual oral sex?

I didn't think it was _that_ kind of anime!
"No can brain today. Want cheezeburger."
From NGE: Nobody Dies, by Gregg Landsman
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5579457/1/NGE_Nobody_Dies

[Epsilon]

Wiredgeek wrote:

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the solution is mutual oral sex?




I didn't think it was _that_ kind of anime!

...yes. That is what I was saying.

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Epsilon

[Wiregeek]

sometimes there isn't enough facepalm in the world.

D'oh.
"No can brain today. Want cheezeburger."
From NGE: Nobody Dies, by Gregg Landsman
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5579457/1/NGE_Nobody_Dies