#the disappearance of yuki nagato

[tobiasdrake]

The Disappearance of Yuki Nagato, Episode 1.

I like how, back in Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya, I said they should just stop the movie halfway through and end it on everyone settling into the new reality and accepting this world as it is. But the movie disagreed with me.

But then they cancelled the show and when they brought it back they decided that they want to make a show in the new reality instead of going back to the original canon.

So I feel kinda vindicated by that.

Anyways, Yuki show on Crunchyroll with screenshots provided by shady piracy website, let's go!

I am so confused by the status quo of Yuki World. Specifically Kyon. But also specifically the continued existence of Yuki World post-Disappearance.

Melancholy was always pretty up-front with the fact that it does not operate on Multiverse Theory. There exists only one timeline, with time travelers moving back and forth between points on the single line - and, in fact, the presence of people from the future in the past is already baked into the present.

Kyon had to travel back in time to meet Kid Haruhi on Tanabata and give her the idea to go to North High because that's how the history goes. Kyon was always there on Tanabata giving Haruhi the idea to go to North High.

So I am already baffled about what this world is. Kyon is part of the Literature Club and has dinners with Yuki and Ryoko, which implies that he remembers the events of the movie. We don't know much about Alt Kyon but we do know that he and Yuki never spoke two words to one another.

So it could be, like, a What If scenario if Kyon chose to stay and not end Yuki's new reality. But this can't be Original Kyon because he's on good terms with Ryoko. Our Kyon was quite understandably freaked out by the girl who tried to stab him with a knife.

Are we in "Out-of-continuity Loosely Based On" territory? Because they're making references to the movie in the first two minutes so it feels like a direct spinoff. Even though it's metaphysically impossible to be a direct spinoff, because this reality doesn't exist anymore.

(Also Haruhi made her intentions pretty clear that she wanted to form an SOS Brigade on this side of the temporal fence so the fact that Yuki World still has a Literature Club is another mark against a direct spinoff.)

I dunno. My mind is spinning.

RUN YUKI

RUN LIKE HELL

"But she has no powers in this reality--" SHE'S STILL HARUHI

Wonder if Yuki still has Haruhi's powers in this reality? Huh.

Also, I like how Yuki Show begins where Disappearance was. This world was created in the days leading up to Christmas, so it figures that a Christmas Party would be the first thing we're doing. The chronology is consistent.

Which. Again. Makes it so baffling. Are we spinning canonically out of Disappearance or doing our own thing? Make up your mind!

That being said,

New Yuki is such an neurodivergent disaster girl. XD

Yuki: I want to be able to experience a full range of emotions and feelings. Monkey's Paw: I mean you're like 15 which is a pretty overwhelming time hormonally but sure. Here you go. Unlocking full range of emotions to process for the very first time ever in your life.

I wonder how much Ryoko knows? Her appearance at the end of Disappearance implied that she retains at least enough understanding of the situation to kill Kyon with a knife without even questioning why he was trying to shoot Yuki full of science gun.

I don't think she's still a Space Robot because if she had Space Robot powers that fight would have been much different. But she fully understood the situation when she showed up with knife in hand. And I think we can be pretty sure that she did that on her own; Yuki did not intend for her to kill Kyon.

But also, it's not clear how much of Disappearance actually applies to the reality of Yuki Show since Yuki doesn't remember meeting Haruhi and Haruhi hasn't formed this world's version of SOS Brigade.

One way or the other, at least she's still secretly vicious. I love her. Ryoko is making a compelling argument for Best Character and we're only six minutes in.

And then they put a knife in her hand hahahahaha.

Spinoff or alt continuity, they at least know exactly what they're doing with Ryoko.

I like how Ryoko is filling our Crazy Asshole quota but she's a very different flavor of Crazy Asshole from Haruhi. Haruhi was a gleeful crime person while Ryoko (who I think I recall being Class President?) is Lawful Menace. She'll stab you, sure, but she's not about to permit a hot pot on school premises. That would be inappropriate.

And she ships it.

Yeah. Okay. Ryoko is definitely Best Character. She isn't my character, of course; My character's Haruhi. But she is quickly making a name for herself as this show's MVP.

She ships it so hard that she's prepared flirtation cue cards. Everyone should have a bestie like Ryoko Asakura. She reels in the crushes and knifes anyone who looks at her bestie the wrong way.

Oh shit it's them.

I guess it was too much to hope that Mikuru and Tsuruya still hated Kyon's guts in this reality.

How does he even know these two? They're upperclassmen. He only ever met them in our timeline because Haruhi violently abducted Mikuru.

I would like to have a moment of silence for Mikuru.

Because Tsuruya just got her stabbed. She is so stabbed.

The "Yuki vs. Mikuru" fight is definitely going to end with Yuki, Kyon, and Mikuru going out for lunch while Ryoko and Tsuruya resort to street brawling each other.

They have the space heater!?

The one they got for performing in Haruhi's film? The absence of which from this reality was specifically one of the ways it deviated from the original?

...come to think of it, they don't have the computer. The presence of which was one of the ways it bizarrely did not deviate from the original.

This really is a continuity-free Loosely Based On, isn't it?

Lawful Menace. Ryoko found just the right hoops to jump through in order to obtain formal permission to violate the rules.

I love how she brings just enough Haruhi-esque attitude to the show while still being so distinctly separate from Haruhi in personality and behavior.

AWWWWWWWW They kept that! YIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII

Oh no, she is going to be part of the show.

Yuki. Yuki, run. You have no idea. You have no idea. RUN.

^_^ This show is so cute. I think I'm going to have a good time with it.

[endlessame]

Okay I’m.  Hm.

I started watching recently the Disappearance of Nagato Yuki-chan with my wife and I began doing a long ass post about an in-depth analysis of the first episode (which I still plan on uploading when I’m done with it) but one of the main points of that post was whether this series was localized in its own closed space or was set entirely after the Disappearance. I’m gonna quote a part of that post where I explain it:

My first question was an easy one: was this a world entirely set on the timeline of the Disappearance, with a Kyon who grew in that universe, or was it set literally after the Disappearance, if Kyon had chosen to stay? [...] This Kyon doesn’t seem to remember anything from his past life in the old universe. Not just that, he doesn’t seem like the Kyon we know at all. So I think that what we’re seeing here is what would happen if Kyon missed the deadline of December 20th. Yuki would understand that, if he hadn’t changed anything by then, then he was okay with this reality and she would make him fit in her storyline. Taking into account that the first episode begins with Christmas just around the corner (and it seems like that’s gonna be the main plot driver as of now), it’s safe to assume that we’re near the same time frame as the ending of the Disappearance.

I was theorizing after just watching the first episode so I didn’t have a lot of solid proof to any of those theories.

Until today, I saw the opening subbed for the first time. Look, I love Fure Fure Mirai, and I have listened to it tons of times, but never until today saw the lyrics in English.

And well...

Hm! The opening leaves it clear and those two episodes leave TONS of hints that really seem to be trying to tell us that this is, in fact, set right after the Disappearance. This isn’t an AU in the normal sense of the term, this is an actual “What if”. Something that could’ve happened in the normal timeline.

I still plan on analyzing this series because it really has a LOT to talk about. But what surprised me the most it that... it’s actually really good? I was expecting to like it, because I like every piece of Haruhi content, but this is genuinely really really good. Watch this series if you have watched Haruhi, I love it here.

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Why dis 🔪 look so mad 😭😭😭

[dailyfigures]

Nagato Yuki ; The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya ☆ Good Smile Company

[blueberry-lemon]

messing around in MS Paint, on occasion

[figurecollection]

Yuki Nagato Nendoroid by Good Smile Company, from The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya

[charlidrawz]

"Problems that cannot be solved do not exist in this world."

"Dreams start by believing."

"Yuki...

that means 'snow',

doesn't it?"

"𝑭𝒊𝒓𝒔𝒕 𝒐𝒇𝒇, 𝑰’𝒎 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒊𝒏 𝒐𝒓𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒂𝒓𝒚 𝒑𝒆𝒐𝒑𝒍𝒆

...𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒊𝒇 𝒂𝒏𝒚 𝒐𝒇 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒔, 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆-𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒗𝒆𝒍𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒐𝒓 𝒆𝒔𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒔, 𝒑𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒔𝒆𝒆 𝒎𝒆."

[t4tails]

what people dont know about the melancholy of haruhi suzumiya is that the show itself is actually just a mid prologue to the real masterpiece that is the disappearance of haruhi suzumiya

[animepopheart]

★ 【めがてる】 「 ゆき 」 ☆ ✔ republished w/permission ⊳ ⊳ follow me on twitter

[astrosoldweb]

TMOHS doujin covers from the 00s

[cadetburbank]

witch yuki .

[tobiasdrake]

In Dragon Ball Fighterz, the playable character Captain Ginyu stood in for the Ginyu Force as a whole. Most of his special moves would have a different member of the Ginyu Force jump in and attack the opponent on his behalf.

This move summons Guldo to paralyze the foe. That move summons Recoome to hit the opponent. Etc.

Yuki Show episode 3 made a compelling argument that in a Haruhi Suzumiya fighting game, Haruhi's movelist should work like Captain Ginyu's. All of her special moves summon her minions to attack - With Yuki, Mikuru, and Itsuki attacking the foe of their own volition, while Kyon's attack consists of her reaching offscreen or behind her or something, grabbing him by the face, and hurling him at the opponent as her projectile.

[re-reclass]

Ready?

(HQ motionless version under the cut!)

[mintraspberryst]

song: самое большое простое число - живи хорошо

[dailyfigures]

Nagato Yuki ; The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya ☆ Miyuki

[blueberry-lemon]

this never happens to me

…but i'm finally in a scenario where i'm obsessed with an anime that nobody seems to care about. can't find fanart, fanfics, fan comics, positive fan discussion, nothing. i'm fucking starving dude. i'm stranded in a desert.

am i just gonna have to make shit myself and hope someone finds it one day???