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<blockquote data-quote="Wofano Wotanto" data-source="post: 9349058" data-attributes="member: 7044704">And then once in a while you just plain get trolled by the creators.&nbsp; Haruhi Suzumiya's Endless Eight remains the most gloriously over the top version of that, and will probably retain the record for eternity because I'm pretty sure no producer will ever let that happen again.For those unfamiliar with it, imagine a Groundhog Day time loop scenario, only the show gives us eight nearly identical episodes with each portraying an entire two-week loop, the POV protag only gradually becomes aware he's stuck in a loop, and the one character who does notice doesn't tell anyone until well into the run and even then she has to explain again and again what's going on because everyone else resets.&nbsp; Thankfully we only see eight loops out of the 8000+ ones the one temporally-lucid character lives through, which has consequences later on.&nbsp; Roughly three and a half hours of the four hour long arc are the same scenes from slightly different points of view done eight times over, and at the end of it the protag doesn't remember a thing.&nbsp; He can't even play piano.Viewers were rioting by the end of it, although I confess I loved it for the sheer stupid guts it had to take to make and air it.&nbsp; The best part is, the show's adapted from a YA novel series, and in that this whole sequence is a short story that quite rationally only shows the final loop before it's broken because the protag doesn't personally recall any of the others.&nbsp; Stretching to eight full episodes was entirely the anime studio's decision.&nbsp; Madness.&nbsp; Wonderful, awful madness.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Wofano Wotanto, post: 9349058, member: 7044704"] And then once in a while you just plain get trolled by the creators. Haruhi Suzumiya's Endless Eight remains the most gloriously over the top version of that, and will probably retain the record for eternity because I'm pretty sure no producer will ever let that happen again. For those unfamiliar with it, imagine a Groundhog Day time loop scenario, only the show gives us eight nearly identical episodes with each portraying an entire two-week loop, the POV protag only gradually becomes aware he's stuck in a loop, and the one character who does notice doesn't tell anyone until well into the run and even then she has to explain again and again what's going on because everyone else resets. Thankfully we only see eight loops out of the 8000+ ones the one temporally-lucid character lives through, which has consequences later on. Roughly three and a half hours of the four hour long arc are the same scenes from slightly different points of view done eight times over, and at the end of it the protag doesn't remember a thing. He can't even play piano. Viewers were rioting by the end of it, although I confess I loved it for the sheer stupid guts it had to take to make and air it. The best part is, the show's adapted from a YA novel series, and in that this whole sequence is a short story that quite rationally only shows the final loop before it's broken because the protag doesn't personally recall any of the others. Stretching to eight full episodes was entirely the anime studio's decision. Madness. Wonderful, awful madness. [/QUOTE]

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