hi /anime/. i have a problem i hope you can help me with.
its about haruhi. Yes I'm talking that anime The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya. It fu-
basically, i didn't pick it up when it first started because i watched like 10 minutes of the first episode and got bored. then, its popularity suddenly exploded all over the place and i'm not on, as it were, the "bandwagon". its even gotten its own copypasta and is being flamed, that's how popular it is. so, i'm aware that it's of *some* standard, since some people love it and other people hate it because some people love it.
however, the problem arises when i planned to leech it off another anime-watching friend after the series concluded. prior to this, he had already been telling me about it and how it was "okay", and eventally at some point he revised this opinion to "absolutely brilliant". the thing is, he's now ruined it for me. i must admit that i'm a very contrarily critical person, as soon as someone i (personally) know begins to praise anything, i will assume a position that can be summed up as "well, we'll see about that!"
so, i fear/know that when i finally receive the anime, i won't be able to enjoy it to its fullest. i'm quite sure that if i had downloaded it myself, i'd be having as much fun as the haruhi fans i've seen here in /anime/. this phenomenon has happened before; i borrowed futakoi alternative from the same friend under urgings that it was "fucking hilarious", and i barely could sit through the first episode.
so... in conclusion, does anyone else have this problem, and any suggestions on how i can get over this? hope this post wasn't too long.