Diego > I’m not really all that excited about the new season, but I should still be watching it.

bj0rn > OH NOES!!!

‘Suzumiya Haruhi no Shoushitsu’ is easily my favourite book of the series. My best guess is that they’ll mine that one for core material, then draw on unused stories from the third, fifth and sixth books for side/filler episodes.

CCY > Like I say Mikuru is fat and dumb, hence there’s no need for any development.

tj_han > No wonder you keep churning out nyoro comics. Stop it. Try tripeman comics for a change.

You cannot have a main character of the desert theory, then your show would be panned.

After rewatching Haruhi, I now swear allegiance to Tsuruya-san instead of Yuki lol.

Hmm… You would think that Mikuru already had the best development than every other characters in the show, if you know what I mean.

Part of the reason I like characters like Nagato is because they don’t express themselves, because they’re not ‘winners’ in the romance game (if players at all). The moments where Nagato says those things like “Let’s go to the library again”, or the Alternate Nagato of book four, they work because you don’t get to see that side of her a lot.

It’s a similar appeal to the reason people would like Haruhi, the tsundere; that sense of a small achievement, that you get a girl to show a side to you that no one else knows. That’s why we proclaim the small achievements for Nagato, the little emotions she expresses. Somehow I feel that having focus on her all the time would take away a bit of the mystique, a bit of that quiet demeanor she has.

(Either that, or we’d end up with 14 episodes of reading a la Someday in the Rain.)

Whether having that mystique surrounding Nagato is good or not, is a question for another ridiculously long rant like this one.

Incidentally, from informal polls at AnimeSuki it seems Nagato is tied with Haruhi as the most popular character, so it’s not like we’re getting the shaft here.

And a parting remark…Mikuru needs more development. Yeah, I wanted to say that.