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Okay, I was chatting my friend about animes, then he showed me a link about best anime’s in 2006. It’s from animesuki forums, and one of the post caught my eyes :

2006 is great, I went through the greatest change in my entire life.

I went from student to a NEET, then a true otaku and hikkikomori. Because of that I became a Haruhist, my view of life changed completely, I view life much more positively than before.

I got really bored of my endlessly repeating school life and thus decided to quit school(for the time being) and serve national service first(all male Singaporeans have to serve national service after 18). While waiting for the army enlistment date, which I waited for around 7 months, I became a NEET and an otaku who stayed at home at least 90% of the time. On top of that, I wasn’t a happy person because life felt really boring for me.

Because of this lifestyle and my love for anime, I chanced upon Haruhi-sama, she changed my life forever.

Explaining how she changed me would be a thousand word essay, but its true, her powers do transcend beyond the anime universe to ours. Watching her trying to create a better world(for the world and herself), created a better world for me. I am now able to look at life much more positively. If the world is boring for you, why don’t you try making it fun, do it yourself.

Besides Haruhi-sama, the other person who brightened up my life would be Nono, from Top wo Nerae!2, she reminded me about hardwork and determination.

While watching NHK I laughed at the life I left behind.

There are so many anime this year which deals with or questioned life, death, the meaning of existance. Shinigami no Ballad, Jigoku Shoujo, Shana, Zegapain, Death Note etc.

Watching these anime totally changed my view of life. I questioned my own purpose of existance when I’m learning about Kyon’s purpose.

Now I’m a soldier who looks forward to every weekend, to book out of camp and watch anime that I asked my brother to help me get over the weekdays.

I mean, whoa ! This “Haru-tard” is getting more out of hand and annoying. Yes, this is Haru-tard, not Haruhi-ism. I just hate it when people are just too over obessed with one anime. Like Naruto once. Yeah, Naruto and Bleach is okay, but I hate it when people say “Naruto is the best anime/manga EVER !!!”, or , ” Bleach is the best anime/manga EVER !!!” and they became “-tads” of it. I can see a lot of Naru-tard and Bleach-tard around Malaysia, even now. Suprisingly Naru-tard is still strong even after so long.

Now before some “Haru-tard” comes and give me death threats, I’ll make it clear, I too like Suzumiya Haruhi anime. I think it’s a good anime which has a good storyline and characters, but for God sakes, seriously, not to THIS OBSESSION level, where people will say “Kyon is GOD !!” or “Haruhi is GOD !!” or “Haruhi is the best anime EVER in anime history!!!”. That is ridiculous obessesion! Next thing you know, “I’m going to marry with a person ONLY with Haruhi’s personality!” or “I’m going to think and act like Kyon!”, or Haruhi do like hair styles or even follow Haruhi tsundere’s. Thank God from the pictures I saw at CF, there’s not much of Haruhi cosplay. And my God, if you need an anime or Haruhi to tell you that life is interesting, SERIOUSLY, WAKE UP !

With the next season of Haruhi coming soon, I can expect to see of this things…Once again, I can stand Haruhi-ism, but not Haru-tard.