Currently watching “The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya” and would recommend. The original release order if you can find it, I know Crunchyroll has chronological, which I’m less favorable towards.
I don’t watch many shows, and the ones I do like vary wildly on whether people will find them horrific or not, but:
Steins;Gate was a good watch. Nothing generally awful there, but there is a trans character who gets treated poorly by the other characters.
Black Butler’s just a fun show IMO, but some disagree. I even liked the second season, which is widely regarded as bad.
In defense of chronological order, the “original release” is only 14 episodes and the so-called broadcast order that many recommend is a fanmade amalgamation of the 2006 broadcast and 14 of the 28 episodes that aired in 2009.
In a literal sense, the “broadcast” or “original” order is not the original order of the broadcast. There were 14 episodes in the 2006 series and 28 episodes in the 2009 series, only half of which were new. “Broadcast” order is just the 2006 series with the new episodes tacked onto the end.
There’s nothing wrong with the broadcast order, but many people think of it as “the original” or “closer to the original artistic intent”. If you’re watching 28 episodes of the show, that’s simply not true. Many of the episodes are placed much better in the 2009 (chronological) order, especially Live Alive and Someday in the Rain. I would never recommend watching those so early, as one would do in “broadcast” order.
I personally recommend the chronological order OR if you’re willing to be a little bit confused trying to figure out what episode to watch next, a custom watch order like this one posted by user Xirema to Reddit or this one that I created and posted to MyAnimeList a couple years ago.
Oh, wild, didn’t know that. I hadn’t gotten into it when it came out.
I did kind of toy around with the idea of throwing Endless Eight into the rest of the series every couple of episodes instead of back to back if I rewatch. I was kinda tired of it by 6, plus I think the deja vu every couple episodes would be fun
I do still think the confusion was kinda fun, in a certain way. That does explain why episodes 16-28 were chronological though
Currently watching “The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya” and would recommend. The original release order if you can find it, I know Crunchyroll has chronological, which I’m less favorable towards.
I don’t watch many shows, and the ones I do like vary wildly on whether people will find them horrific or not, but:
Steins;Gate was a good watch. Nothing generally awful there, but there is a trans character who gets treated poorly by the other characters.
Black Butler’s just a fun show IMO, but some disagree. I even liked the second season, which is widely regarded as bad.
In defense of chronological order, the “original release” is only 14 episodes and the so-called broadcast order that many recommend is a fanmade amalgamation of the 2006 broadcast and 14 of the 28 episodes that aired in 2009.
In a literal sense, the “broadcast” or “original” order is not the original order of the broadcast. There were 14 episodes in the 2006 series and 28 episodes in the 2009 series, only half of which were new. “Broadcast” order is just the 2006 series with the new episodes tacked onto the end.
There’s nothing wrong with the broadcast order, but many people think of it as “the original” or “closer to the original artistic intent”. If you’re watching 28 episodes of the show, that’s simply not true. Many of the episodes are placed much better in the 2009 (chronological) order, especially Live Alive and Someday in the Rain. I would never recommend watching those so early, as one would do in “broadcast” order.
I personally recommend the chronological order OR if you’re willing to be a little bit confused trying to figure out what episode to watch next, a custom watch order like this one posted by user Xirema to Reddit or this one that I created and posted to MyAnimeList a couple years ago.
Oh, wild, didn’t know that. I hadn’t gotten into it when it came out.
I did kind of toy around with the idea of throwing Endless Eight into the rest of the series every couple of episodes instead of back to back if I rewatch. I was kinda tired of it by 6, plus I think the deja vu every couple episodes would be fun
I do still think the confusion was kinda fun, in a certain way. That does explain why episodes 16-28 were chronological though