Ordinary history. Yuki Nagato is a quiet and unassuming girl with glasses in a literary club, which is on the verge of closing, as no one but Yuki is there. One day, Kyung joins the club - an ordinary guy who once helped Yuki in the library, and since then the girl has a feeling for him. Trying to convey his love to Kyung, Yuki will have to go through many obstacles, one of which is Haruhi Suzumiya, who took from nowhere.
The series is a direct continuation of the full-length film The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya, and answers the question posed in the film: what would have happened if the world had not revolved around Haruhi and Yuki, Mikuru, Koizumi and Asakura were ordinary schoolchildren, not aliens, extrasens and people from the future. But, frankly, that’s why “The Disappearance of Yuki Nagato” and becomes so boring, from the fact that without Haruhi and his usual image of Yuki is nothing, and the whole story of the series slides to the level of snotty-exhaustive drama, where there is no beginning and there is an obvious end.
I don’t really like “Melancholia...” because for me, the series, although it allows itself a lot of liberties, but it doesn’t look very comedic, although I don’t argue, it does not cause negativity either. But “Melancholia...” can not be blamed for the fact that there are no unnecessary characters – all in their places and play very important roles. In The Disappearance of Yuki Nagato, half of the characters are left behind in the most stupid way because there was no place for them. Mikuru is a visitor from the future, what did she do here? Other than making squeaky sounds, nothing. Koizumi is a psychic in the past who protects our world from the madness of Haruhi, what did he do here? Except for Haruhi on his heels, without saying a single sensible phrase, nothing. Haruhi is the main character on whom the whole series was built, what did she do here? Besides crying at the end over a failed love, nothing. I don’t even want to talk about secondary personalities.
In fact, only three characters could be left in the series: Yuki, Kyung and Asakura, and this would not make the series worse or better, because the "Disappearance of Yuki Nagato" from series to series is only boring by nature Yuki, for which you do not worry, because it infuriates how much distorted her image. In Yuki from “Melancholia...” was its own highlight – she was closed and silent, but this equanimity and attracted, from what she stood out among Haruhi’s friends; the current Yuki does not differ from the standard image of a rye-girl , blushing as soon as a male looks at her. Kyung is a separate conversation. In general, it seems to me now that if the creators decided to shoot “The Disappearance of Yuki Nagato”, then “The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya” should not be removed exactly: after all, for an hour and a half, Kyung stubbornly proved to the viewer that it was without Suzumiya that life now does not seem interesting to him (although there was a chance to stay with Yuki – the one that is shown in “Disappearance...”), and he is ready to move mountains to return this troubled girl to his fate. Well, it turns out, Kyung doesn't care who to be with and Haruhi isn't such an interesting person.
Overall, it's boring. Yuki’s mental anguish, her fleeting disappearance, Kyung’s inhibition, a bunch of unnecessary characters and breaking all the existing canons of “Melancholia...” are those minuses that even Happy End cannot eclipse. And anyway, the story with such heroes as Haruhi or Yuki, without aliens and other extraterrestrial labuda, looks one-sided, so you do not understand what, in the end, the creators wanted to show - after all, such a development of the plot was clear in the film "The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya", so was it worth stretching this boring action on the series?
The question is rhetorical.
And yet: if in “Melancholia...” it was possible to laugh from the heart at the zakidons of Haruhi, then in “The Disappearance of Yuki Nagato” there is no more humor. You can recommend it only to fans of monotonous love stories, because before us is an ordinary story without its “highlights” and uniqueness.
3 out of 10
I am very disappointed.