Summary
Continuing with the movie filming, Yuki directs the SOS brigade to where they can find stray cats. Haruhi is upset that they couldn’t get a black cat but decides to just go with it. She names the cat Shamisen. According to Haruhi, Shamisen is a talking cat that assumes the role of Yuki’s familiar. When Haruhi dismisses the gang for the day, they are all suprised when Shamisen speaks to Kyon, in a very deep and masculine voice I might add.

Everyone is getting ready for the cultural festival when Tsuruya and Mikuru pop up in Kyon’s class. They hand Kyon a coupon for Mikuru’s soba shop and Tsuruya steps aside. Mikuru, having difficulty conveying her thoughts without sounding hateful, asks Kyon not to trust Koizumi too much. Later, Yuki explains that it is because both of their organizations theories are conflicted with the existence of the other.

Wierd stuff keeps happening, but the filming is completed. All that is left is to edit the video clips and they are done. The problem is, they do not know how to and they only have one night to do so. Both Haruhi and Kyon fall asleep. When they wake up, Kyon is suprised to see that the film editing had been completed by someone.

They then show us what happened in the 2nd SOS outing with only Kyon and Haruhi present. Kyon tells Haruhi everything he knows about the supernatural and about the other three SOS members but Haruhi doesn’t believe him and storms off. She of course, waits for him outside.

Onibaku

Sweet Jesus that was a long summary! What surprised me the most was how much content this one episode had. I have to say, Shamisen was really cute despite the big voice that he had. It kind of makes you wonder if half of his body is made of vocal chords.

I was particularly happy with this episode because it shed a little more light on Mikuru’s theory on Haruhi. Season 1 did give a general description of what her theory was but this time they explained that Haruhi is merely someone who can sense things that were naturally there and that the time travelers are there to stop Haruhi from discovering them. An example would be like someone discovering and describing the laws of physics thousands of years before Isaac Newton did. This would mean Mikuru’s role is to make sure that the natural genius (Haruhi) does not reveal things before they are actually discovered (Mikuru Beam anyone?). Another thing that hit me was the rivalry between Mikuru’s and Koizumi’s firms. I never realized that their firms were in “bloody” battles with each other and other firms.

One other thing that bothered me was when Yuki said “There is no guarantee that what I say is true. At least for you.” What does she mean by that? What this would imply is that what she says to Kyon specifically can or cannot be true. This also means that she could actually be manipulating him through what she tells him. She did say that her job was to only observe, but how can we tell that’s the truth? What if she really is manipulating him by telling him small things like that. My brain hurts, I don’t want to think about it too much. You guys have any thoughts on what she meant? Also, who do you think finished editing the movie?

I rather liked the director this episode. I also liked the animation style and delivery of this episode, especially in the final scene. The final scene shed some light on what happened that day because the anime left it to be desired in the first season. I dunno if it’s just me but I like angry Haruhi so much better than the always smiling Haruhi. Overall, great episode. It’s just too bad that this will be the last new episode. At least, that’s what we think. Who knows, they may suprise us yet again.

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