Forum - View topicThe Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (TV).
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Porcupine
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I *had* pre-ordered the Haruhi 2 LE from www.dvdpacific.com but I canceled my order because it turns out they don't have shipping charges correctly set for pre-order items, and they greatly increased the shipping charges afterwards (I dunno if they would have notified me or not, that also worries me, I discovered it by checking my account manually). It was still fairly cheap but I'm too afraid to order on the Internet from a company I haven't ordered from before (I've been completely ripped off before and had to file credit card chargebacks...namely against rareflix.com for ordering the Variable Geo DVD which they never sent me and refused to refund). Also the Haruhi 2 LE is in a soft thin box which is easily smushed (I saw it in Suncoast) so that's another fear I have of Internet orders. I've gotten badly smushed boxes before which pissed me off greatly (namely from amazon.com so I've never again ordered collector's boxes from them).
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Porcupine
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Someone should make a contest thread for which anime character has the biggest hair. It might be funny. 
And maybe they would rate The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya a Worst-Ever anime if they hate Haruhi enough. BTW, I like Haruhi I don't hate Haruhi, personally. But I think she is the kind of person that can be hated by many types of people.
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DKL
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Yeah, I have this thing with names in anime, so half the time, I'm associating them with physical traits...
Kinda like how I called the police dude from Paprika... Uhh... Police dude... in my overly long post about the movie, I mean. *and no, I still don't know what his name is* Oh, and I still need to talk about Shana (which I finished recently). |
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Porcupine
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Yeah I have a hard time remembering names too and often prefer to refer to characters by some kind of weird description. Before I knew who Shana was I used to call her Big Hair Ice Cream...because all the pictures and toys I saw of her 3 years ago, all I noticed was that her hair was gigantic and she was usually sucking ice cream out of her mouth or something. I guess she eats Melon Bread more but it just so happened that the first picture/toy I had was with her sucking a popsicle/ice cream, oh well.
I used to call Haruhi "finger-pointing girl" before I knew who she was too, when I had just seen random pictures of her. |
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DKL
Posts: 1945 Location: California, USA |
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I think it's worse for me though given that I actually do this after recently having seen something; that can't be good. |
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HitokiriShadow
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LE 2 is in stock now. My copy from TRSI just arrived today. Or maybe it doesn't count as 'in stock' until the actual release date. Try tomorrow, and it may be an in stock item. They certainly have them, so I can't think of any other reason they don't have it listed as 'in stock' yet. |
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kelamity
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If one of the people dancing to the Lucky Star OP theme while in line was wearing a black button up shirt with the sleeves rolled up and blue baggy jeans next to a guy with wrist wraps. Then that would be me lol 
Didn't think many people were paying attention to my group until they walked past my laptop showing Lucky Star Episode 10 |
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PantsGoblin
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I don't remember what they were wearing. If you did it near the front of the line inside the building then that was you. If not, then there were more people who were doing the dance than I thought, which is pretty cool. |
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Shiroi Hane
Encyclopedia Editor
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I gather they didn't allow camera at the concert. Were there any professional cameras parked there thay might suggests they'll put some footage of the concert on the asos site or DVDs? The SOS brigade were notable from their absence on the Animelo DVDs so I've never seen them perform the songs.
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Porcupine
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Just watched Haruhi Vol 2.
The main thing I have to report is that I did further investigating into the video quality of the domestic Haruhi releases. Normally I don't bother to check bitrates, but I noticed that the 2nd (broadcast order) disc of my Haruhi special edition was in terrible physical shape. It came with numerous visible fingerprints, scratches, and warp marks inside the disc surface itself (the most dangerous thing that often causes glitches) while the regular disc was pristine as is the norm. I washed off the fingerprints but the rest has to remain. Fortunately, I'm happy to report that the entire disc still played perfectly in my average-quality-and-sensitivity DVD player. But afterwards, just out of curiosity since the disc was in such bad shape I stuck it into my computer's DVD drive to check the rough filesizes and bitrates. I also did the same for Haruhi 1 and 2 (the regular disc). To my surprise, all 3 Haruhi discs are authored at a very low bitrate. Haruhi 1 and 2 are authored at 5.5 megabits/s total bitrate...which is even lower than the typical low quality standard of 6 megabits/s used my most domestic American movie DVDs and most anime DVDs from Funimation and Geneon. Furthermore, the extra broadcast order Haruhi disc, is at 5 megabits/s instead, but the video quality is the exact same...the smaller size is because of the missing English 2.0 and English 5.1 audio tracks. But at 5 megabits/s and absolutely no extras...all 5 episodes of Haruhi fit onto a SINGLE-LAYER DVD. Anyway, so that's the report on Haruhi video quality. The normal Haruhi DVDs are on double-layer DVDs due to the extras wasting space, and most of the space on the double-layer DVDs is wasted as usual.
But anyways this explains the bad quality we see in the Haruhi intros. Unfortunately this also means that the bad quality affects the whole show and not just the intro, which some people thought before. I can also confirm this visually with ease on Haruhi Vol 2...check out Yuki's battle scene and the artifacting is terrible, as obvious as in the intro. So I guess Haruhi was authored in worse quality than I initially thought. I had assumed before it was Geneon "good" quality since the authoring studio SpeeDVD does a few Geneon titles (the well-authored ones) but I was wrong. The bitrate is low and the artifacting sucks. The bitrate is lower than Funimation (although most of the time Haruhi looks better than Funimation, due to different encoding parameters, but I still prefer the look of Funimation to Haruhi's terrible artifacting when things move). Also, Haruhi's encoding has consistent "interlacing/combing artifacts" that were being discussed recently in other threads here. They aren't the worst I've seen though, and only occur every so often, but are definitely an issue as well. |
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PantsGoblin
Subscriber Encyclopedia Editor Posts: 2969 Location: L.A. |
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There were cameras. But I'm pretty sure they were mainly for the purpose of displaying them singing upon the screens. |
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darkchibi07
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Someone posted these Newtype scans on that fansub forum
Second season confirmed? 
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selenta
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Looks like a game to me from all the screenshots and what little of the text I can decipher (Haruhi and names are hardly the best places to test one's kanji...)
EDIT: Oh yeah, it's definitely referring to a game. |
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WrathsPuppet
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Maybe. >.> ハルヒ二期 means Haruhi Season 2. The one on the Lucky Star Monitor: ハルヒ二期決定 means Haruhi season 2 decision. |
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HitokiriShadow
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Well, it looks like it could be real though it could, as selenta said, be for a game. Assuming it is true, this is awesome. But I'll wait until I hear it from a reliable source before I rejoice.
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