Kadokawa Issues Haruhi Gag Order

Jerks.

If they're actually trying to keep the broadcasting of the second series a secret, fine. If they're planning on releasing some episodes as half episodes to air for twice the length, and that's what they're hiding, people will be real angry.

Here we go again!

the closer we get to the truth the more they try to silence us. it's coming...

hahahahaha see?

14/10 trolls

This...is the strangest marketing strategy I have ever seen a company use. Whoever runs that department is either a sadist, or a five year old.

Everything Kadokawa's marketing team does just pisses me off more and more. I really hope they all get fired for their terrible marketing - either that, or everyone misses the new season's broadcast, believing it to be fake, and therefore everyone d/l's the eps instead of watching it on TV, causing Kadokawa to lose money. It really feels like Kadokawa is just trying to cover up it's past marketing mistakes with more marketing mistakes, so that in the end they can just claim "it was so that we could surprise you all :D"

Fags.

so when's the first air date of this haruhi rerun? I'm a bit outdated with this one...

Kadokawa listens to Troll Metal, great taste, lol.

Finntroll FTW! :3

artefact: not related with the news, i would like to know if Quenn has quit sankaku

I honestly see it as a strange meta-anime quantum physics experiment. Call it Schroedinger's Haruhi. It simultaneously is a second season and is not a second season, and the moment one confirms or denies its status, it loses this dual existence state. Hence the odd behavior by the PR team.

Dark whispers of a simple re-repeat in the alternative airing order following the first 14 episodes have even been hear

That would be funnier than anything they could put in a new episode tbh.

hmm maybe Officer Schroedinger and the Millenium is their PR team...time to call Alucard..hehe

not surprised T.T

wow... I really don't like kadokawa... you'd think they would actually try to promote their biggest property, but instead they're just making people sick of it with all the crap they keep pulling.

If they really had a second season planned, I think they would get the best results by simply using a normal publicity campaign since they already have a guaranteed audience. So this means that they're either idiots for hiding the fact that they have nothing coming, douchebags for hiding a second season, or both for either reason.

If they keep it up I will refuse to watch it (that is if it ever comes out).

RAWR

I was thinking the same thing! I would absolutely bet money on them airing the first season back-to-back.

okay, f**k 'em.
that's one screwed up way to create hype for something.
only reason I can think of that they haven't made an official announcement is that they find some morbid fascination with the guessing and theories that their fans come up with. :P

'Hey Taro, look at the latest theories our fans are coming up with. Hilarious, aren't they! ... I KNOW! let's leak that the re-run is actually 28 episodes. just to see what happens.'

if there's no second season coming, they've basically commited suicide.

another thought... it became such a 'big' thing, this second season rumour... that they're afraid to say 'sorry, there isn't one coming'... and someone at Saitama TV heard the rumour and thought it was true...

I highly doubt there will ever be a second season. Kadokawa is just being retarded and they will pay dearly for their foolishness once their fans realize they've been had yet again.

I've never actually witnessed a company commit suicide before so it should be interesting.

Theory: The second season (episodes 15-28) have already been aired unbeknown to the general public. The brilliant plot is that after episode 14, Haruhi ends the universe, then recreates a virtually identical universe. Season 2 has been right under our noses all this time! It is merely indistinguishable from season 1 to the naked eye!

They have desperately but subtly been attempting to make this apparent, so that we can see how their seemingly trollish marketing is actually an ingenious plot mechanism!

Now fans, rejoice and revel in this masterful virtuoso of anime legend!

God-tier trolls

It's just gonna be the first 14 in the random order, then in the chronological order -_-" Yay...

what the hell is their market department thinking treating their audience like that?.

I guess with all the trolls and stunts pulled thus far, I seriously cannot envisage the fandom going hysterics when the real new episodes kicks in.

It would be more of a sigh of relief, with fans knowing the wait is over and it's time to dance once again to Hare Hare Yukai.

I wonder what's KyoAny's take in this?
This is probably in everyone's mind: "What a gay marketing scheme".

My money is on haruhi-chan being broadcast between episodes of the first series.

I agree that this could all just be a marketing tactic for the second season. The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya I could definitely seeing the trolls of anime doing something like this. I highly doubt that they would cut the show into halves...for one that is just stupid and bad marketing altogether.

The theory of haruhi-chan also is a bit unintelligent for a few reasons. 1. haruhi-chan is far too short to be made into a series. 2. also bad marketing as who the heck would pay for a five dollar mini-mini series (it's too short to be called a mini-series). I could however see them spreading the haruhi episodes to a full hour with the haruhi attached on at the end and then they would have lots of commercials inbetween but that still does not make 14 additional episodes. Then again trolls are very mysterious creatures so who knows...

As for the idea that they will play the same series in one order and then in the alternative...that is stupid. One, once they discover that the first season is being replayed twice no one will watch it because they will have already seen it and the order won't matter. Sure some would watch it but not enough for them to make it profitable.

Here is my theory. They leaked the information on purpose in order to retract it later in order to keep people guessing. It is also to show a sort of connection to the season "disappearance of haruhi" in which it was there one moment and gone the next. Another theory is the idea that the company has taken so long to release one because they have been working on other seasons while the VAs are all in one place. This would be smart on their part because they would not have to worry about previous things. The light novels are on the eighth volume so I could easily see this sort of thing happening. Mind you who knows how smart these trolls actually are.

Then again we have the last theory in which Anal Cunt is to Music as Kadokawa is to Anime. I could easily see them trolling people (they've made enough profit on the first season that they can actually afford to piss people off). What would be funny is if they sold the rights to their cash cow to some other company without telling anyone and they are merely the scapegoats. Seriously can you imagine a square-enix or gonzo-fied haruhi? I think not. Kadokawa though can do whatever they want. I frankly could care less and although I'm a fan of haruhi I know a second season will come out sooner or later. The longer they take the better it might be...unless they're all chibified in the next season. That would suck.

Just got Kadokawa on the phone, they said the preveiw for season 2 will be bundled with Duke Nukem Forever. FPS+Anime=MegaWin. Not bad for a business partnership. Those people are really thinking with their heads.

Kadokawa's gorilla marketing would indeed make sense if someone else had swallowed the entire Haruhi team whole to make a movie. It might even be Ghibli, which is also shrouding their future projects in mystery. They had announced a project by Yoshiyuki Momose, which then turned out to be a music video this February - or was the music video just the cover for a greater project?

What the fuck is going on?

Comparison of Ep 1 rerun and DVD version (7x speed):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyAxsLNeF1E

Top-right: Rerun, Bottom-left: DVD

I've noticed 0:28 credits were slightly different, other than that, no difference.

Once again, an appropriate picture. It still smells fishy to me. Won't believe it till I see it with my own eyes.

Lawl at Haruhi fans.
Srsly!1 i gave up on this Anime a
long time ago, therefore it's useless
to sit and wait for a new season.

Just stick to the popularity that K-ON!
has recently been gaining.

I think I'm getting sick of these pusha & pull rumors!! (>.<) I'll just wait till the anime get released!!

lol here we go again XD

There going to be a bloodshed and fans are going to end up ripping teh light novels,mangas, figures with any thing to do with haruhi. Thats what i think.

Careful, from what I've seen lost1Zero is just the sort of money-grabbing dick to go right out and try to sue you for using his artwork.

Can just ask them to show it and don't waste time anymore? :P All of us are waiting for it now. Soon, K-On would overshadow their popularity... ^.^;;

They're convinced the best marketing campaign is to confirm new developments directly via anonymous message boards.

So like, whats gonna happen now?

I think a japanese Johann is making a social experiment in order to see how many otaku suicides will be when they'll announce, after another year of terrifying marketing, that there was no second season in the first place.... nante kowai =_=

T-Tll i juz wan to watch the anime . Well nothing can be done . juz sit down and see wat the dumbass editor is going to do with the million-making anime.

The artist of the op pic has some brushing up to do. Staring at his own two feet for a while would be a good start.