I knew The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya would be the one anime from 2010 for which I’d have to do a Ten Years Later article, well before I could’ve imagined that it would end up being something of a memorial piece.
The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya isn’t the most straightforward series to sit down and burn through, for better or worse depending on your perspective.
At the time, I was naturally familiar with the phenomenon that was Haruhi Suzumiya; it was a defining component of the zeitgeist of late-2000s-to-early-2010s anime fandom worldwide.
I wrote about the impact watching Clannad: After Story in early 2011 had on my life in its own Ten Years Later article from 2018, but a few months later, The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya was finally released on domestic Blu-ray, and I was able to complete another journey from this incredible team.