The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya

finally finished watching this with my friend! the movie was fine, but kind of overly long. I do think it was a good ending. but part of me wished it was a fucked up, evil, sad ending where Kyon had to just come to terms with his world having changed, and him being the sole person that actively remembered what it used to be like. oh well.
overall, the anime failed to deliver. while it has many interesting premises, it succumbs to being Anime. the sexualization of Mikuru Asahina was nasty and had me full on cringing. her crybaby act also irked me, as her future adult self being so confident and capable, to me, really proves her past self was merely acting. she is a time traveler, permitted to make many actions. if the crybaby thing wasn't an act, idk. even worse, really. my friend said the anime doesn't match up all too well to the light novels, but I'm not interested enough to bother reading. I also doubt it's that much better. they did say there was more sci-fi present, but that's not enough to convince me to read them. lol I wish the focus was more on the sci-fi stuff instead of the Anime Nonsense. we watched it in chronological order, but we had a couple of loooooooong breaks. given that we'd started watching it pretty early in the summer, my memory of a lot of it is kind of fuzzy. but it also wasn't the sort of experience that'd stick to me regardless. if I had to rate it, I'd give it a 6/10. watchable, but not really worth the time. anime about high schoolers is always a mistake.