Summary
Starts off with a sports festival, of which the SOS brigade dominated thanks to Yuki’s super speed. We soon find out that the cultural festival is coming up and while Kyon and Haruhi’s class is doing nothing, Haruhi has plans for her SOS brigade. She reveals that she wants to create a movie starring Mikuru. When she mentions procuring a brand new video camera, Mikuru hesitates and asks to be excused for fear that Haruhi might put Mikuru’s purity in peril. Haruhi then says that she will not do anything with Mikuru’s body and will just bring her along to show the “sponsors” the main character of the film. To procure a video camera and toys for the movie, Kyon realizes that Haruhi is only pointing to Mikuru. It is probably because Mikuru will somehow have to shoulder the burden of paying for the items eventually.

Onibaku

Finally, an episode that wasn’t endless eight. Watching this episode and looking at how many new episodes are left, I have come to realize that the disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya arc may not even be coming as advertised on New-Type magazine. Kyoani and Kadokawa did not officially announce the airing of Haruhi Suzumiya season 2 which would make sense because the new episodes they are airing right now are actually supposed to have occurred within the first season. You could think of it as if they were completing the first season, so to speak. So this is not officially the second season which would make my Title for the series “Haruhi Suzumiya 2009″ correct! Yay! On the other hand no disappearance.. Boo..

The episode itself was what anyone would have expected from this show. The mood brought me back to the first season and helped in filling the blanks that lead to the cultural festival. I presume they will continue this since this is ” Sighs of Suzumiya Haruhi 1″ and we will see the actual filming. It also seems we are on witnessing an evolution in animation for Kyoani. The character’s facial expressions have been quite numerous compared with the original. You can also say that the character’s faces resemble those of K-on. Hey, I’m not complaining ;)

Summary
Another loop…. EXCEPT IT ENDED! In the final scene when Kyon is hit hard with de ja vu, he finally realizes that he hadn’t done his hw this whole time while Haruhi needed something to do. So he invites everyone to his house to complete their summer homework.

Onibaku

So it finally ended. Honestly, I think it would have had a pretty big impact on the audience if they all weren’t already spoiled rotten. I also do agree with other bloggers that doing your hw as the solution does seem a bit too shallow for an arc that they spent WAY too much time on. Again, i’m am not a particular supporter of what they did in this arc nor do I promote it. Four endless eight episodes would have already been pushing it but 8? I suppose only a show as amazing as Haruhi Suzumiya can fail so badly on an arc but still get away with it. With regards to rating the arc, if we were to omit all of the crap in between the first part of the arc and the ending, we here at chiakiproject would like to give this arc a rating of

8 out of 28 gah! T_T