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NEWS: New Haruhi Suzumiya Anime Episode Airs

Frankly, that's more plausible than delaying a cash cow for years just to piss off fans.

ninjapet wrote:

Wendee Lee did a fantastic job on God Knows and Lost My Music. She isn't a singer but a voice actor, and I have to say it was one of the better dub overs of a song I have heard

It was decent, but it was no Aya Hirano.

I'm still convinced Kari Wahlgren probably would have made a better Haruhi.

I only hope I don't get a scathing e-mail by Wendee Lee again for saying this.

Who am I kidding? I'd love to get more e-mail from Wendee Lee.

Cynim wrote:

if it's the former, I take it this 2009 TV broadcast follows the novels in a more accurate way (ie : chronologically), and by adding the story arcs that were skipped in the 2006 TV series ?

That's pretty much it. And that's why everybody now expects the next new episodes to air in four weeks, after the Remote Island Syndrome eps.

ninjapet wrote:

Wendee Lee did a fantastic job on God Knows and Lost My Music. She isn't a singer but a voice actor, and I have to say it was one of the better dub overs of a song I have heard

It was decent, but it was no Aya Hirano.

I thought it was three weeks?
Sign is one ep (next week)
Island is two (the week after that, plus another week)

Meaning if there going by the novel (like we already know there doing) Vanishment should be coming in 3 weeks after the three eps from the 2006 run

I thought it was three weeks?
Sign is one ep (next week)
Island is two (the week after that, plus another week)

Meaning if there going by the novel (like we already know there doing) Vanishment should be coming in 3 weeks after the three eps from the 2006 run

ninjapet wrote:

I thought it was three weeks? Sign is one ep (next week) Island is two (the week after that, plus another week) Meaning if there going by the novel (like we already know there doing) Vanishment should be coming in 3 weeks after the three eps from the 2006 run

It would be four weeks from now (I guess it's not an uncommon mistake to have since it is of counting time intervals). In one week, it would be Mystérique Sign; in two, it would be Remote Island Syndrome part 1; in three, it would be RIS2; then in the fourth week, Endless Eight (most likely).

And cnet128, I couldn't have explained it better, myself.

But to some something kind of related to that, the mixed up order of the first season shared a similar style with the way the novels are released. Just imagine the first season ~ the whole novel series, each of the 6 "Melancholy" episodes ~ each of the main novels, and each short story in the anime ~ each short story in the novel. I'm not going to explain it any further, and let people realize for themselves what I mean about the similarity in release style.

But to some something kind of related to that, the mixed up order of the first season shared a similar style with the way the novels are released. Just imagine the first season ~ the whole novel series, each of the 6 "Melancholy" episodes ~ each of the main novels, and each short story in the anime ~ each short story in the novel. I'm not going to explain it any further, and let people realize for themselves what I mean about the similarity in release style.

Actauly it pisses me off because it's done it to be bloody smug.

There's meta humour and there's being smug.

Oh, that's cute, you've blue balled us for what, three years now? to tie into the novels in a way that only the fans, who have been gagging for this show btw, would get? Oh that's so clever and Meta.

But do you konw what's more cleaver?

MAKING MONEY ON A CASH COW BY RELEASEING JUNK.

Christ.

But it's still a very different strategy, because there's a big difference between having whole main arcs surrounded by short stories, and having pieces of an arc surrounded by short stories. The pieces don't really stand alone, and in fact, the broadcast order actually caused a number of "spoiler moments".

In the novel, after Yuki reveals her identity to Kyon, we have nothing but her word for it, and so even if as a reader we can probably figure out that she's telling the truth, we're accompanying Kyon through his initial scepticism, as it is broken down by Mikuru and Itsuki's susbsequent confessions, and finally his encounter with Ryouko thrusts him firmly into the world of the supernatural in shocking fashion. In the novels, that encounter is the first display of actual supernatural powers that we've seen, and all the more shocking for it; in the broadcast, on the other hand, Yuki's confession is followed directly by the baseball match, and that forms the first supernatural display we see; this gives us no opportunity to empathise with Kyon's doubting, and takes the edge off Ryouko's attack.

Likewise, the first demonstration we see of Itsuki's powers in the novels (beforehand, all he's ever given are some cryptic comments about how he can't demonstrate them that easily) is when he takes Kyon inside the Closed Space and explains the Agency's position in full. The anime takes the edge off this by showing it right at the end of the series, when not only have we seen a lot more of Itsuki's nature, we've seen him demonstrate his abilities in Mysterique Sign. It's just... not quite the same.

And that's why I generally prefer the chronological presentation of the series (or at least the novels' presentation, which is tailored better to the narrative) to the mishmash broadcast order that the first anime season used. (And also a large part of the reason why I'm recommending to a friend who's thinking of picking up Haruhi that he follow the series chronologically, in line with the new broadcast.)

Update 4: Both Bandai Entertainment and Kadokawa Pictures USA have declined to comment on the future status of Haruhi Suzumiya in North America.

Conan-san wrote:

Actauly it pisses me off because it's done it to be bloody smug. There's meta humour and there's being smug. Oh, that's cute, you've blue balled us for what, three years now? to tie into the novels in a way that only the fans, who have been gagging for this show btw, would get? Oh that's so clever and Meta. But do you konw what's more cleaver? MAKING MONEY ON A CASH COW BY RELEASEING JUNK. Christ.

I still don't believe that they deliberately delayed it that long to be anything. There has to be something else going on here that was holding things up.

As I've said previously, some fans seem to be determined to interpret everything as an insult.