When the episode began, and I saw their awesome getup I knew this was going to be good.

This episode sets up, quite nicely, the making of the SOS Brigade’s Movie for the school festival. More importantly, this is the arc after Kyo Ani’s Endless Eight. So what do we get after eight episodes of the same events? The basics. We get what made Haruhi great in the first place. Her expressions, her randomness, her continuous verbal abuse and lack of respect for any of her club members.

KyoAni and Shaft need to gattai. It would be interesting if Kyon and Senjougahara ever met, considering how rebellious Kyon can be at times and Senjougahara’s crazy personality.

Prepare yourself for a Haruhi facial expression montage!

For some reason I keep seeing Yui’s face in the two caps above.

Note the eyebrows

Not really a facial expression. More of a Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann pose.

Her “I am unamused” look

Her “oh my, did I just reset the world?” look

I LOL’d. Reminds me of Grand Kaiser’s Goddess Hands from Yakitatte! Japan.

I like her feigned innocence look!

She’s been doing the eyebrow thing alot this episode!

OOH! I like this one!!

and not a second later she can be all smiles

Again with the eyebrows!

This one is cute~

Annnd that’’s it. Looking forward to the rest of Sigh.

Something I noticed was that usually the episode title would have I, II, III etc if they are a multi episode arc. Endless Eight, however, never had them. Perhaps the eight episodes will really be treated as one episode? That ay we can get Sigh and Disappearance this season!

… well one can always dream right?

My weaboo Saturday afternoon = time well spent.

Lets walk through the OP together. I think what turns alot of people off is the romanized typography:

But after a dozen or so watches, I think it fits pretty well (or I just got used to it). It actually reminds me of the really old Batman & Robin TV  series where when they punch people, these big comical “POW”s and “WHACK”s and “THUMP”s appear on the screen. Now that I think about it, the first 30 seconds of this OP reminds me of American Comics.

But if you can just make it through the first 30 seconds, this is where the OP really starts getting good for me.

One of my favourite scenes in the OP is this running sequence, where all the members appear, in the order they joined the SOS Dan too!

And this shrug. WHY IS IT SO CATCHY? Does it mean anything? When it come to Haruhi, you know KyoAni’s gonna go through everything with a super fine comb.

And my second favourite scene from the whole OP:

I should make a desktop out of this. In fact, that’s what I’m going to do right now.

Super Driver OP ddl via [Insanity Sings]
Super Driver OP YouTube

ps. Yes I know. Aya still can’t sing. Its ok.

While Nagisa’s Yui’s words pretty much described my feelings for the first episode of K-ON! I mean the episode was great, I enjoyed the gags and the moe blobs, but it wasn’t anying amazing. But Mio,for me, stole the  show. Yes, its quite obvious that she already huge fan favourite of many, and the ED solidifies this fact.

That aside, is it just me or does Tsumugi remind me of Momoha from Manabi Stright? Maybe it is just me.

The Op itself was also not bad, abit happy-go-lucky for me, but addictive nonetheless:

But its the ED I wanted to talk about! First of all, I can’t KyoAni-fanboy more than I am now. Its just not humanly possible! It was very reminiscent of a typical Japanese music video. I’ve heard some complaints of it being out of place and such, but if you think about it, a music video is absolutely perfect fit for an ED. Its what (the popular) bands do right? Also, the facial expressions, the details, its amazing. /fanboying
But seriously, I can watch the video and just be drawn in by their facial expressions when they sing.

Oh and did Kyo-Ani just use Minami-ke’s patented \o/ and :< mouth combo?!?

And of course, the beautiful K-ON ED.