A Cyclops Who Likes Anime. A Shameful Cyclops

It’s summer vacation time! Haruhi makes a list of summertime activities, and they check every item off the list. The festival, fireworks, the swimming pool, working part-time at a supermarket to get a frog suit for the club room. Here and there Kyon notices a feeling of deja vu, but that happens to everyone from time to time, and he dismisses it quickly.

Until Asahina calls him up one night, and he meets her, Koizumi and Nagato. Asahina tried to contact the future, but can’t. There is no more future. They’re stuck in an infinite time loop. The only one who keeps her memories is Nagato; apparently being part of a colossal alien entity which has evolved beyond space-time has its uses. Kyon asks her how many times they’ve relived in this two-week cycle between August 17th and August 31st.

15, 498 times. That’s the current count for how often they’ve lived that particular segment of summer. Of course Haruhi’s behind it, but she’s completely clueless. They spend the rest of the time thinking, as a group (except for Nagato, she doesn’t really care) of how to fully satisfy Haruhi and break their endless summer. They reach the end of the episode with no ideas. Kyon figures he’ll leave his summer homework to the him that breaks the loop and stays in bed.

I really liked the second half of the episode, but the first part was mostly the same exact shit (by and large) as last time. Which was a little lazy. Haruhi did have an (awesome) chinese dress swimsuit which ruled, but by and large I think they could have sped up that whole thing and made this episode and next episode one entity. It would have made the pace a little janky and ruined the impact of the BIG REVEAL but…well I guess if it has all those benefits plus it pads an episode I can understand.

I am so understanding it hurts.