Summary:

For this episode, the narrator, currently nameless, talks about how he stopped believing in Santa and various other supernatural beings as he grew up. Though he did wish that such strange things would appear in front of him. On his first day of High School, he ends up sitting in front of a girl who introduces herself to the class as someone who is not interested in regular humans, but instead interested in aliens, time travelers, espers and so forth.

As our narrator, he goes on through the episode describing the likes of this story’s heroine, Haruhi Suzumiya. Some of his lunch buddies talk to him about the strange things that Haruhi has done in middle school and about some of the relationships she’s had, which all have which did not last very long. Our anrrator goes on to describe the strange acts that he noticed Haruhi performs while at school. Such actions such as having different hairstyles for each day of the week and as the days go by, the more ponytails. Another would be Haruhi joining every club in school but quitting them soon after.

The narrator strikes up a number of conversations with Haruhi during homeroom and they end up talking about the clubs at school. Haruhi can’t find the club she wants, while our narrator explains that you can’t do anything about what doesn’t exist. This would lead to Haruhi realizing that if there’s no club, then all she has to do is make one herself. She drags our narrator into helping her do the paperwork for setting up the club while she finds a clubroom. She ends up taking over the Literature Club, which had one lasting member, Yuki Nagato. Haruhi then pulls in a new member named Mikuru who doesn’t even want to join the club until she sees Yuki and says she understands and agrees to join the club.

At that point, Haruhi decides on the name of the club, which is the S.O.S. Brigade. Well, it would make sense in Japanese as it comes out “Sekai wo Oini moriagerutame no Suzumiya haruhi no dan” to make the SOS work, but anyway, it translates into “The save the world by overloading it with fun, Haruhi Suzumiya’s Brigade”. Our hero is left with a giant headache, giving up on even trying to talk sense into Haruhi.

Review:

As I was watching this, there were some interesting scenes going on. It did alright as an intro to some of the main characters and an introduction to what the rest of the series is going to turn out to be. what drives this show really is Haruhi’s personality mixed in with the thoughts of the narrator. And the SOS Brigade is probably going to be something the anime community will remember for a while as well as the “Host Club”.