The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya

Originally Posted by AcerBandit

I bet Kyon's (tall) sister would still look cute in a bag. =)

It would have to be a big bag, like one of those Ginormous Duffel Bags that
soccer teams take on the buses, or in Kyon's Case, onto the Boats.

Why doesn't Tsuruya-San have Long Green Hair?

Dang... I was a bit late about knowing the release of "Suzumiya Haruhi no Gekisou" DVD!

I called up all the shops around Akihabara today and all the shops sold out. And found some on ebay for ridiculous prices + art book... so my question is did anyone get their hands on a copy of the LE DVD? If so, is it worth it? I have already put down my order and it will be shipped on 22nd August at earliest

Has anyone heard anything new about Haruhi2? Was hoping there would be more news but no one seems to know anything. Doesn't seem to be any mentions in the mags or whatever.





By the way, anyone seen the Haruhi related comics over on the SOS wiki?

I'm sure when Clannad finishes airing, we would hear something. KyotoAni is still working on Clannad, and only 2 (or 3) episodes are out so far.

Caught this a while ago, unfortunately the links mentioned in the article are no longer working. At least it's noted in detail what was shown in regards to December 18th.



Does that say that season 2 is cancelled? Seems to mention another season though as well...

Pretty much what we know already, the new series will focus on Tanabata and the events of the 4th novel.

Check out the details of what happened on Dec 18th on the Darkmirage website. Be warned that if you haven't read volume 4 you're gonna get spoiled!!






Off topic, another Haruhi strip. Can someone explain to me this thing Yuki has going for Kyon? Kind'a weird....

Or is it simply another case of Yuki innocently copying an interaction between Kyon and Mikuru?

That image then corrects itself, saying that a new anime is in production. That image is an important part for the Disapperance arc.

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After hitting the Enter key, you are brought to this page displaying a single JPG picture. The picture says that Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuuutsu season 2 has been cancelled but a new Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuuutsu anime series has been confirmed. I’m guessing they are planning to change the title of the new series to Suzumiya Haruhi no Shoushitsu (The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya).

Its probably meant to be tongue in cheek since Season 2 will NOT be called Melancoly, but Disappearance.

Nice that again like 7/7/07, they used an important date in the Haruhi timeline to announce something. This time being December 18th.

Anyone who wants to read English translations of the novels can go here.

Suzumiya Haruhi - Baka-Tsuki

And that comic.... Seems like Yuki is trying to get similar attention from Kyon, or trying to emulate Mikuru's cuteness. But we all know it can't work cause of her neutral expression...

Right, gotcha! Thanks for pointing that out! (wonder why I didn't catch that bit in that description.....?). It makes sense now that they will change the title in reference to the 4th novel, though I had always assumed it would remain as ...Yuutsu since I always thought that would be more well known...

Now if only we knew for sure when the new season will start.....


Regarding Nagato and Kyon, their interaction in these comics are hilarious no matter what they're upto...

We wont be able to find out when Season 2 starts till Clannad wraps up. (See my sig.)

And we don't even know how many episodes Clannad will take. It seems to be 24, but Clannad is a huge visual novel that I don't think 24 episodes are enough to cover 13 or so character arcs and a long After Story... Right now they are at episode 11 on the fullscreen version and only up to the 2nd major character arc.

Moar Haruhi strips:

News has been slow, and still no idea when Season 2 will air. HOWEVER, the official anime site has recently released THIS image of Nagato, causing just about every Haruhi Novel readers or Nagato fans to go crazy

Meanwhile, the rest of us are just pleasantly confused.

Glasses?

She wore glasses in the beginning of the series....

Spoiler:

....up until she fights and defeats Ryoko Asakura. When she returns the classroom and it's surrounding space back to normal she finds that she has forgotten to recreate her glasses. She goes without glasses for the rest of the series, supposedly due to Kyon's recommendation.

She has glasses above because.....

Spoiler:

....in the changed world Kyon wakes upto (the premise for the new season of the anime) she is just a normal highschool girl (albeit a shy bookworm) who supposedly never lost her glasses and was never a part of the data integrated (aliens) whatever. This is the version of Nagato depicted in the above photo.

Sorry if the explanation was unnecessary, wasn't sure how much you did or didn't know from your question...

Didn't know anything at all, actually. I don't read the novels (not fond of reading books on the computer) or pay very close attention to the series as it is developing, so yeah. Glasses was just an educated guess based on what you wrote in your first spoiler.

Thanks for the explanation, I guess. I can see why Nagata fans might go crazy with excitement. Or rage.

Well the Suzumiya series is meant to be a series that has little details thrown in here and there that foreshadow things that will happen or has happened, due to the whole time travel element in it.

While the first novel's events was in the right order in the book, unlike the broadcast order of the first season, the rest of the later novels had short stories that were in different parts of the story's time line, and had clues and foreshadowing hints to various events that happen later, or has already happened. Something seemingly trivial may be important later.

The anime, when it was initially broadcast in Japan, took that idea and decided to screw with people even more by having the short stories made into filler episodes and interrupt the first novel's storyline, in some cases, like the baseball episode, they take place AFTER Melancoly, so the "references to past events" instead become "hints" to what we, the audience, will see at later episodes.

One example from Season 1:

Spoiler:

In the baseball episode, when Haruhi forces Mikuru to dress up as cheerleaders with her, she at some point considered having Mikuru wear a pony tail. She then glances at Kyon, frowns, then drops her hair and abandons that idea. What seems to be a trivial motion is actully referencing to the final episode of Melancoly's broadcast order, where Kyon says to Haruhi that pony tails turn him on, before he kisses her and wakes up.

Since Haruhi is already jealous of Kyon's attentions to Mikuru, no way is she gonna let her wear a ponytail in front of him. These hints, clues and references don't make sense unless you watch it a 2nd time, preferbly in the chronological order. Its what made the series fun and rewatchable.

By not paying a bit more attention to the series, you end up missing out alot of character moments or humor, important plot details, references etc. I love this series not just for its new and fresh concept, but its constant rewatchablity thanks KyoAni's amazing ability to put detail in places not even the novels may have referenced. For example, rewatch the culture festival episode again and try and spot Haruhi and the other band members running around for last crash rehersal.

And since the novels are officially licenced recently, once they are out, you can enjoy then at your own leisure and pace without tiring your eyes out from your PC's screen.

And just so Sakabadger can enjoy season 2 more, we should try and refrain from spoiling too much. :P Cause that last one was a huge one.

No other news apparently,but I saw this pic over at Danny Choo so I decided to share.






It's Haruhi from the fourth novel. Readers will know why she looks that way....

HOLY CRAP THAT IS AWESOME! Thanks for that!

Oh, and I found a High Res version of that image too!

remodk35375.png - ImageHost.org

Oh, found more promo images of season 2!

Spoiler:

Ah okay, good to see that there IS indeed more to come.

Actually I don' know what's more confusing, watching the series in broadcast order or watching it in the "correct" order. Because... Well...The final episode in "correct" terms is somewhat... Anti-climatic, leaving me with a "WTF? That's it?" kind of feeling.

That's why the broadcast order made it so that the big bang epic episode is the last one.

Also, the chronologically last episode is written by the original novel author specifically for the anime.

I recommend watching it first in broadcast order, then watch it chronologically so you can spot things in the background and understand things better.

The Second Season of Haruhi Suzumiya - Page 75 - AnimeSuki Forum

While Clannad is getting alot of info coming out of Anime Fest, Haruhi got less so. In fact, reading that particular page in the animesuki thread seems to indicate the author of the novels is having a tiff with his publisher, which is hindering the anime's production.

It seems that there are rumors that volume 10 is the end of the series, while the publisher doesn't want it to end, and rightly so in my opinion, there is no way he can wrap up everything in one volume, not to mention he foreshadowed alot of activities the SOS brigade will do. But it seems like the Author does NOT wanna go beyond 10 volumes, and because the publisher disagrees, he's withholding rights to air season 2.

Now, this is all just rumors, but seeing as Vol 10 had a release date but was then pulled back for a TBA makes this sounds more and more plausible. And now that Animefest had zilch news on Haruhi 2 makes it more and more likely there's something going on behind the scenes.

And it doesn't help that Kyoto Animation has announced a new anime in production. Tonari no 801-chan.

Tonari no 801-chan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Things do not look well for Haruhi.

From what I've read, the disputes seemed to be focused on royalties or some other financial reason. Regardless, I'm not particularly worried. The series is going to air at some point, no question about it. Production of the anime series has made the franchise way too popular for even the author to hold it back for too long.

Someone ought to stick FMP fans and Haruhi fans in a room, lock the door, then tell them the last faction standing gets their sequel animated first. The resulting carnage would be epic.

Chibi Kyoto animated shorts of Haruhi to come exclusively on Youtube. One is an animated adaptation of the official gag manga, "Suzumiya Haruhi-tan no Yuutsuu", and the other is an animated adaptation of the popular doujin 4koma "Churuya-san".

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Oh that's freaking wonderful! I love it when fan work is embraced on such a level as this. =)

Since I just happened to discover this forum again recently, any new news on the second season, or those Shorts Kairi Li mentioned up above?

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Nope, no indication of when the second season is going to come. KyoAni has this bullshit slated after Clannad After Story.

But I heard this 2009 Kyoto Animation will release Suzumiya Haruhi no Shoushitsu (Disapperance of Suzumiya Haruhi). The exact date is still unknown...I forgot which site I got the info from though...