Posted by: sidereeldom on: May 19, 2010
It’s not exactly a surprise with Bandai owning everything else Haruhi, but Bandai has officially announced the licensing of the popular comedy shorts The Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi-chan and Nyoro~n Churuya-san. The anime shorts, which were based on 4-panel gag comics that have nearly eclipsed the original novels in popularity, started out on YouTube and [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: April 15, 2010
Bandai emerged from its winter hibernation today and dropped some big news: not only do they have the license for the well-received The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya movie, but they’ll be testing the waters with small theater releases starting in May. Viz’s New People theater here in San Francisco will screen the film adaptation of [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: February 24, 2010
The part of the Internet still devoted to The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya exploded today at news from The Sneaker magazine (home of Trinity Blood and The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya), which declares that an excerpt of the next Haruhi novel will appear in the April issue of the magazine after a long, long hiatus. [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: January 28, 2010
Anime song mega-label Lantis has posted the full 344-second “Yasashii Boukyaku” (“Gentle Oblivion”) as its latest promotional video on YouTube, and I’m surprised at the fan reaction to it being so divided. It’s a melancholy and mournful tune, very fitting for the upcoming Vanishment of Haruhi Suzumiya movie and its sad-girl-in-snow pace. The movie is [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: December 28, 2009
In typically cryptic-yet-obvious fashion, the American site for The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya was updated on Christmas with a “video” that is just a loop of the SOS Brigade logo spinning for a minute to a test pattern background. The mildly annoying video, along with the many 8s in the page source (thanks, ANN) mean [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: November 11, 2009
In news that helps ease the worries of skeptical The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya fans, the official Japanese site for the upcoming movie has the run time listed at 150 minutes. That’s two and a half hours of pure Haruhi, which means that Kyoto Animation should be able to pack the full content of the [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: November 3, 2009
According to all-knowing Japanese news site Moon Phase, the upcoming movie version of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya is set for a February 6, 2010 release in theaters. The movie is called The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya and adapts the novel of the same name, which follows the narrator Kyon as he tries to figure [...]
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