Summary
With Tsuruya and company in tow, the SOS brigade starts filming again. As the filming progresses Haruhi puts yet another contact on Mikuru. Yet again, Yuki attacks Mikuru and removes the contact. The contact was not exactly the same as the Mikuru beam but instead, was more of a slicing type of beam. Haruhi then asks for a scene where Mikuru is to get forced into the water by her friends. Bravely or seemingly unwilling to disobey Haruhi, Mikuru agrees. Haruhi now wants to film a love scene with Koizumi and Mikuru. Tsuruya requests to visit her house since it is nearby and it looks like Mikuru will catch a cold. Haruhi asks if they can film there and Tsuruya agrees.

Now inside the Mansion-like house of Tsuruya, the SOS brigade continues filming. Haruhi then directs the kissing scene and asks Koizumi and Mikuru to kiss. They were just about to when Kyon stops them. He noticed that something is not right with Mikuru. He then realized that someone put alcohol in her drink. Tsuruya apologizes and says she was told that her acting would improve. Haruhi then lightly bonks Mikuru with her mini megaphone in order to wake her up. Kyon is not pleased. He begins an arguement with Haruhi that eventually leads to Kyon raising his fist to her but Koizumi stopped him just in time. The next day, rather than being angry, Haruhi seems depressed and Koizumi asks him to make up with Haruhi. Though Kyon does not want to, he goes to Haruhi and says “we are going to make this movie a success”. Haruhi smiles and says “of course”.

Onibaku

Now THAT was a good episode. There were so many story elements that it was hard to take screenies. First of all, the difference between Kyon and the other characters stood out in this episode. Everyone who knows, what Haruhi is seems to be in fear of her. Koizumi shows his fear through his actions, Mikuru agrees to do anything Haruhi wants and even Tsuruya seems to put up a slightly fake smile around Haruhi in Tsuruya’s house. I’m not saying that she knows what Haruhi is, but she does seem a little biased.

In terms of the Kyon-Haruhi pairing, if your into that sort of thing, i’d say this was a golden episode (note there was no opening sequence). Kyon usually makes snappy comments at Haruhi occasionally but for the most part gives in. This episode, Kyon actually had a fight with Haruhi. Personally, i’m a firm believer in the saying “fighting is a sign of closeness” unless of course it is against someone you really hate but that’s another point altogether. Instead of her subconsciousness going wild and destroying things in closed space, she was depressed. She probably knew she did wrong and was thinking about a way to apologize to Kyon. Maybe that’s why they showed a short clip of her holding her hair in a ponytail like what Kyon is into right?

Towards the end, Koizumi had mentioned that Haruhi may have been given the godlike powers by the “god” rather than her being the god herself. My personal theory is that Haruhi is not the god, rather, it is actually Kyon is the “god”. Now if you have read the novel then I will tell you why I think Kyon is the “god”, if not skip this paragraph. SPOILER: There was a girl Kyon was interested in during his middle school days. In the later volumes you may have read that she had Haruhi’s powers at that time. Why is it that it is girl’s that Kyon is close to? Why Kyon? He is the key to the powers, or owner of the powers altogether.

-Sorry if some of the pics are a little blurry, the RAWs have been terrible.

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