ENDLESS EIGHT ENDLESS EIGHT ENDLESS EIGHT ENDLESS EIGHT
ENDLESS EIGHT ENDLESS EIGHT ENDLESS EIGHT ENDLESS EIGHT
ENDLESS EIGHT ENDLESS EIGHT ENDLESS EIGHT ENDLESS EIGHT
ENDLESS EIGHT ENDLESS EIGHT ENDLESS EIGHT ENDLESS EIGHT
ENDLESS EIGHT ENDLESS EIGHT ENDLESS EIGHT ENDLESS EIGHT
And we waste another fifteen minutes on the last two weeks of August and again finding out that they’re in a time loop. Again. Plus fifteen, and they still can’t solve it. Again.
Okay, four episodes – that’s taking it too far. Endless Eight as a story just doesn’t have enough actual material to warrant that long a stretch. Yes, it drives in the point of the story, and I suppose 16000 is a nice number to finish off at, but the obvious point remains:
This is getting very tiresome, boring, pointless, drab, dull, flat, monotonous, repetitious, routine, spiritless, stale, tedious, trite, unexciting, uninteresting, wearisome, drudging, ho hum, and unvaried. [1]
Last hope is that, Episode 4 really is the damned last one, and the show can bloody well move on from animating essentially the same story four times.
PS: 2chan has pointed out the irony of having an Ending Theme called “止マレ!” Also, apparently every episode had different staff for scenario, storyboard, and screenplay. KyoAni sure is having fun…
PPS: And a Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei CM aired right after, too.
2009, July 3 at 6:43 pm
“This is getting very tiresome, boring, pointless, drab, dull, flat, monotonous, repetitious, routine, spiritless, stale, tedious, trite, unexciting, uninteresting, wearisome, drudging, ho hum, and unvaried”
My sentiments exactly. Seriously, I’m not sure whether to blame KyoAni or the novel itself. The only thing I know is that KyoAni is only as good or bad as the script so that forces me to believe the novel is at fault, but not having read it, and believing that books in general CAN pull something like that up to an extent without feeling so blatantly repeating themselves, I’ll blame KyoAni for now.
Yeah, hopefully this is the last bit, but I fear we’ll waste another 15mins for a 5 minute resolution in the next episode, which kinda kills the next episode, too.
2009, July 3 at 10:26 pm
Endless Eight is a short story in the novels. They only experience one iteration in which they solve it.
The anime dragged it out into 3 and counting episodes, of which one apparently was the very first loop where they didn’t realize it.
But it’s funny that you consider blaming the novels, I mean jesus. It’s only KyoAni that trolls the audience and they’re well known for doing that with Haruhi.
2009, July 3 at 11:10 pm
Well I am, cause most of the time Kyoani doesn’t in fact deviate from the original source, when they SHOULD have, so I took it that they really did tit-for-tat. Then I had a look at the actual chapter and, by the gods, the novel may not be first class but they DID deviate from it which resulted in that 3 (maybe 4) repetitions… But yeah, apparently it wasn’t the novel’s fault. Kyoani just chose to surprise me and actually deviate. Funny thing is when Kyoani wants to suprise me, they do so in a bad way.
2009, July 4 at 5:51 pm
I had a strange urge to strangle someone after watching this episode. I was looking forward to it for one entire week after sitting through the last episode where more than 50% of the content was repeated, and BAM! they give me another episode essentially the same as last episode -____-
I’ll try to take it as that they want us to experience how Nagato felt, and attempt to swallow my anger… but I think that they conveniently ignored the fact that most of us aren’t as patient as Nagato.
My biggest grievance is why the heck does anyone not ask her?!!? They still had time, I don’t understand why they couldn’t ask in a playful way or something. Or even call her. Like what teachers say, “If you don’t know, ask!”
2009, August 9 at 8:57 pm
I just watched episode 8, which, according to broadcast order was the last of the endless eight episodes; Is this right? … ’cause they just completely failed to solve the situation, in which case, roll on The Adventure of Mikuru Asahina Episode 00.
2009, August 9 at 8:58 pm
I just watched episode 8, which, according to broadcast order was the last of the endless eight episodes; is this right? … ’cause in that episode they completely failed to solve the situation again, in which case summer never ended and so roll on The Adventure of Mikuru Asahina Episode 00.