2010 · science fiction · drama · mystery
The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya
Directed by Yasuhiro Takemoto, Tatsuya Ishihara2h 42m2010
A week before Christmas, Kyon wakes up in a world where the SOS Brigade doesn't exist. Mikuru and Yuki don't recognize him, and Haruhi and Itsuki seem to have vanished.
Our read: The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya (2010) reads as a neutral, steady, inventive science fiction · drama · mystery entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, steady, measured science fiction / drama, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- intense
- inventive
- twisty
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