Haruhi S2: When rationality loses to inner fanboy


21 Comments on “Haruhi S2: When rationality loses to inner fanboy”

  1. boo says:

    seems rational.
    the ranking is be average score.
    season 2 has one episode with a rating of 8.75
    season 1 has 14 episodes, of which some might have a lower rating, causing the average to be lower.
    it’s a flaw of the ranking system if anything.
    dozo have a starfish.

  2. Roy Mustang says:

    Haruhi:

    -Best 1st episode (WTF cateogry)
    -Best baseball episode
    -Best video game episode
    -Best WTF are you seriously going to animate Nagi reading for 20 mintues episode
    -Best ending

    Why isn’t this my favorite series again?

  3. npal says:

    LOL 😛 Nah, that’s Haruhitardism alright. Just put a poll out about, say, Haruhi Season 3 and have fanboys rate it 😛 I bet it’ll rate even higher than Season 2 EP 1 😛

  4. jerseyse410 says:

    i agree with the placement of hellsing and fullmetal alchemist. NANA im not too keen on honestly but i enjoyed hellsing and the baby eating ultimate OVA’s 10-20x more than the melancholy of haruhi. that and seras victoria is just incredibly hot and a vampire to boot. haruhi loses to that and the fullmetal alchemist manga was a MUCH better story than haruhi’s. i like haruhi and im excited there is a second season but fuck the fanboi’s who just want to rape her. there is much better anime out there.

  5. jerseyse410 says:

    ok so im retarded. you did them backwards, the fact that haruhi s2 is over hellsing annoys me……HIGHLY.

    • npal says:

      After seeing these pics, you actually still have enough faith in the ratings to feel annoyed? O_o

      It does make me wonder what’s on Number 1… I’m not sure I want to know…

  6. PhoenixRider says:

    Well, that’s funny.

  7. RP says:

    This seems to be the norm for sequels. For example, everyone seems to agree that Code Geass season 1 was better than season 2, yet season 2 has the higher rating. Same thing for Gundam 00. Boggles the mind.

  8. fangzhao says:

    @boo: It’s just a rating for the series, and the rating system is pretty fair (there’s a huge formula for the thing – it ain’t just an average of votes! D: )

    @Roy: It may well be, but S2 ain’t better!

    @npal: Definitely. The Haruhi name gives awesome to a series, apparently. Oh, and these are myanimelist rankings, and Gurren Lagann is at #1 (which ain’t that bad of a choice, really).

    @jersey: Lol, I’ve never watched hellsing, so I can’t really say much! D:

    @PR: You’re funny!

    @RP (lolwut?): Yeah. Though in time, they should drift down – 00 and R2 are only half a year old, whereas their predecessors are a year+ older.

    • npal says:

      Out of that broad an anime range I see in the list, GL should definitely NOT be Number one. It’s not a bad choice per se, but personally Number 1 is at least overrating it.

  9. Well at this rate it will never surpass naruto.

  10. jason says:

    This is to be expected since this is exactly what happened in the beginning with full metal alchemist brotherhood where it started being ranked as a top 5 during the airing of the first episode to now at a rating of 8.48.

  11. I hate MAL’s ranking.. ;_;

  12. TheBigN says:

    This is lol, but it should balance out in the future. 😛

  13. fangzhao says:

    MAL is one big popularity contest. But what about LoG-

  14. Minnie says:

    NANA is a total <3 of an anime.

    I never liked MAL rankings and this just proves that I don't need to start liking it any time soon. I'm reading comments at youtube about how the new Haruhi Suzumiya ED is better than the old one. My reaction: W T F?

  15. Chikorita157 says:

    Although Haruhi is good, I don’t think Haruhi Season 2 deserves a higher rating than season 1 because it’s around the same in my opinion…

    Don’t pay attention to the overall rating because it usually does not show the whole picture… and besides, I highly doubt that Haruhi Season 2 will keep that rating at the end of the season. Just proves that Haruhi S2 is way overhyped…

    Don’t get me wrong, I still think Suzumiya Haruhi is still a very good series… just overhyped…

  16. IcyStorm says:

    Chikorita157, note that MAL’s rating system is not flawed. It’s more or less the same as many other rating systems. 1-10 scale, 1 being the worst, 5 being average, 10 being exceptional.

    It is the USERS that are doing this.

  17. fangzhao says:

    @Minnie: K-ON! OP youtube comments.
    In any case, Youtube <<<<< MAL standings < reality

    @IcyStorm, Chikorita157: When hype goes overboard, we get weird rankings on MAL. And yeah, the users always, always rank high.
    A 5 should be average, so why is Mars of Destruction only a 3? It’s undoubtably horrible – every aspect of it is below even the lowest of standards, yet it’s only “very bad.”

    Though on the other hand, the top anime have pretty decent scores (8.99 ~ 9.00 is always the top, so it’s not like there’s ever a perfect ten).


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