In a few hours, it will be known whether the latest episode of the Haruhi rerun will be a new episode or not. But it seems the prospect of waiting days for the episode to air in their own region, or having to wait hours to see it by other means, is just too much for Haruhi otaku.
We hear this from a 2ch denizen:
“I work in a Saitama business hotel. Since yesterday we have been having all kinds of calls asking whether the hotel has reception of Saitama TV [which carries one of the earliest airings of the episode]… I laughed.”
Truly, missing the look on their faces should this turn out to be a jolly Kadokawa marketing ploy would be a tragedy…
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Ugh... I do hope it is a new episode. Wouldn't want an angry mob to suddenly arise.
And LOL at the hotel thing XD
Haruhi-ism!
I will cry in tears of happiness if my Goddess actually returns...
I too will also cry manly tears
Let us all shed manly tears for when Haruhi-sama OUR GODDESS for when she returns to our grace, and answers our prayers!
ALL HAIL HARUHI-SAMA!
Haruhi-sama works in mysterious ways, after all.
ALL HAIL HARUHI-SAMA!
Let us all pray in the holy gospel of Haruhi Suzumiya:
Incredulity of the Troll:
But a Troll, one of the Anonymous , called Anon, it was not with them when Haruhi was present.
They told him, the other Haruhist’s:
–We have seen new chapters!!–
He said:
–If I don’t see in my tv the sign of the SOS Brigade and I put my finger in the place of the rec button, and put my hand in the new episodes on the screen, I won’t believe.–
Eight days later were another time their haruhist’s inside, and with them Anon. Haruhi arrived, being the tv turned on, she was among them and said:
–Are you retarted.–
Then she said to Anon:
–Can’t you tell? It’s my SOS Brigade emblem again!
Then Anon said to her:
–My Lady and my God!–
Haruhi said:
–Because you have seen me, Anon, believe, blessed are those who are not Haruhist’s and yet have believed.–
Gospel of Lulz 20:24-29
AMEN!
ALL HAIL HARUHI-SAMA!
AMEN!!!
ALL HAIL HARUHI-SAMA!!!
Some1 should make a Haruhi bible
I'd buy it ... >_>
manly tears ftw.
just...wow...at the gospel of lulz...its almost 100% coherent... anyways am looking forward to seeking greatness once again.
Guess all those calls and this thread of replies answers the question of "Are Haruhi fans still faithful?"
This is because 95% of them have long since converted to Mioism.
I have always been with the church of Horo-ism....
even though she isn't a god.. only considered a god by humans..
although I am also praying that Haruhi will be back.
Mio and the K-ON phenomenon will quickly diserpate after the show ends, in a similiar fashion to Toradora.
This kind of expectation towards Haruhiism will never be equalled, not even by Mio. If this is truth then K-ON's popularity will be left in the dust.
The K-On anime is far too shallow to be a stayer.
It just has pretty moe girls.
"It just has pretty moe girls."
MoE girls stayed forever
"Gods, espers, time travelers and aliens" will always be more interesting than "lousy guitar playing"
Just give up.
AMEN!!!
ALL HAIL HARUHI-SAMA!!!
Haruhi-sama > all. We all know it.
THIS IS BIGGER THAN NEW YEAR COUNTDOWN! Tell me you're gonna post on the new episode Artefact. Be it troll or not.
Haruhi is mediocre. The light novels are a little better, because there's far more in-depth content. Still (the light novels), it was made to sell like water to girls, and not really to be anything philosophical/deep (although some less educated people may think otherwise).
I'm sure most haruhi fans are indeed guys. Probably 60% to 70% of fans are. And you can't get through to these people, they've been haruhi-washed. I'm starting to think haruhuism is a real religion. I larger threat to humanity than even scientology.
so would Haruhi x Mio make everyone happy?
Why NOT an angry mob? it might get the damn thing shown eventually.
Haruhi? Who is she? Am just waiting to see Yuki.
True Haruhists around the globe are holding their breath at this crucial moment!
It better be a damn new episode.
It better be...
if not...!1!! all the rage from the Haruhists will crush Kadokawa.
Thats right RAAAAAAAAAAAGEEEEEEEEEEE!
What time will it start?
That picture is so moe I cried.
Also: I'LL BE WAITING EAGERLY
Best case scenario: first few minutes are new footage, then it goes to an old episode.
PLACE YOUR BETS! PLACE YOUR BETS!
New episode, or the final nail in the offin?
I'm going in with a positive view, and say new episode.
WILL OUR GOD RETURN?
wow, marketing advantage... must exploit...
Betting on no new episode. :D
that hotel should doing promotion during the first air of haruhi in their region... preparing one big screen tv for them and charge them with a package... all otaku will fly there to watch first aired haruhi...
but if the haruhi that will air one is the old one that hotel need to prepare the rising of otakus rage...
Yes, they would make a killing in money... and in the middle of the big screen tv would be a count down to when Haruhi actually airs.
5 hours from now will be the greatest event in the history of anime. ALL HAIL HARUHI
5 hours from now will be the greatest event in the history of anime. ALL HAIL HARUHI
One way or another.
Truly but dangerous words... u_u
It shouldn't be anything special or extravagant if no Kadokawa, or Kyoto Animation flags are seen burning, people carrying torches and pitch forks, speaking in old english. . .
Haruhi = shit wanna cfd 2 season >..<
Moar Haruhi goodness now. pl0x
FUCK OFF
no u
no u
I love how now that they get their second season, everyone is all "YAY HARUHI" but when they had to wait they jumped on the "Haruhi is shit" bandwagon.
I hate all of you. Seriously.
I never stopped loving or defending Haruhi. All of you people get the fuck out of the fandom and go back to burning your copies of the book or whatever the hell you did.
anon is an individual entity now
he is no longer anon, for he has left legion. We are legion, for we are many and with this many we are bandwagon.
he also sounds a bit crazed...
You are all crazed.
you're not helping by subtly trolling with k-on.
omfg
I hope it's new. I'm not a big Haruhi fan, but I did like the anime. But then, something is telling me everybody will be pissed pretty soon... I doubt it's a new episode. :/
OH HARUHI OH HARUHI... WILL YOU BE MINE???
I SWEAR IF THIS TURNS OUT TO BE A TROLL THEN, WHAT THE FUCK! I'M DONE WITH HARUHI!!!
I SPENT TOO MUCH TIME SPENDING ON HARUHI FIGURES AND WALLSCROLLS, DAKIMAURA, MANGA, NOVELS, NEWTYPE, ALL SORTSA MERCH...
MMmmmm. Better Marketing than Duke Nukem Forever!
3D Realms should've done something like this. LOLZ.
They did, they went for a decade plus. I was in fucking middle school when DNF was supposed to come out. Yeah, im going to business school now.
I bet on no new episodes? And what manly tears are you talking about? Haruhists are fags. =/
your life may be in danger...haruhists are everywhere...
I suggest you pick your words more wisely.
Also... how are we fags for liking an anime full of girls?
They should just shut up with all these announcements and give us the anime...
Unlikely methinks... I know the whole gag on the stations to not reveal what episode will be shown was in place, but for them to auctually still state that it is episode 8 is very strange to me.
Well, only 5 more hours...
Two pictures of Yuki on the front page.
TOTALLY EXCELLENT!
More Yuki please.
Yuki looks cute <3
lol Kadokawa wants to bottle the tears of all the Haruhiists XD
I wonder how many bottles they can collect..
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／￣＼ ／￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣
─（ ﾟ ∀ ﾟ ）＜ SAITAMA！
＼＿／ ＼＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿
／ │ ＼
∩ ∧ ∧∩ ／￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣
￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣＼ ∩∧ ∧∩＼（ ﾟ∀ﾟ）＜ SAITAMA SAITAMA SAITAMA！
SAITAMA〜〜〜！ ＞（ ﾟ∀ﾟ ）/ ｜ / ＼＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿
＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿／ ｜ 〈 ｜ ｜
/ ／＼_」 / ／＼」
￣ / ／
haha nice
We'll see.
I say new episode, just because it'd be too cruel if it wasn't, but there again, I'm not holding my breath over it.
*Rubs rabbit foot*
*Rubs 4-leaf clover*
*touches wood*
(╬ ಠ益ಠ) Get your hands off from Ichiro's Nagi-sama.
So, it's like the Second Coming of the Christ or something?... haha I bet they are more excited about this particular day than they are of New Years.
Oh hell yeah. 3 New Years' Days have passed since Season 1.
So it's like Easther Sunday,eh..? Only, we need to wait for 2-3 years instead of 2 days.
no comment
Waiting for Angry Mob...
"Then shit hits the fans" I'm used to all this new Haruhi season news by now, hopefully this one is a new episode
I think we should start a crusade against Kadokawa if this is a fake again. WHO IS WITH ME!? FOR HARUHI!!
NICE BOAT, KADOKAWA. :D
this will be kyo-anis greatest gift..
or its greatest trollage.
either way an hour from now will see some great discussion allover the web
Why won't the fans make a daily demonstration around Kadokawa Shoten ? Seeing 100 people outside their work screaming HARUHI OR DEATH should give them a nice motivation. Or sending threat letters "Give me new episodes or I will kill that kitty !" They should know not to mess with fanatics...
Kinda glad i'm already 80% converted to Mioism (never was a Haruhist, actually, i'm more like a Nagatoist) or else i'd already rage on this one. I only wait for Haruhi S2 to see more Nagato, Tsuruya and Ryoko (if she's still alive).
*Brace myself with Kyun Barrier from Haruhists' attacks*
The otakus are singing.
Never gonna give you up, Please do not let us down
Never gonna run around and desert you
Pleas do not make us cry, never gonna say goodbye
Because if you tell a lie we will hurt you
lol
This made me laugh so hard. +1 internets for you!
I can't believe that there are still some who still believes despite of past Kodokawa marketing ploys
I voted for the troll option....but I'm willing to be pleasantly surprised.
They expect for the worst and hope for the best.
How long more till Zero hour?
One more hour.
30 minutes more. Can someone get on 2ch for some updates? I wanna be one of the first to lulz.
im waiting for tomorrows headlines.. otaku all over japan raged kadokawa for false hopes!!
The number of comments on this post shows a lot. I can't help admiring the devotion of Haruhists. How about paying $200 to stay in a hotel on the off-chance you might see an anime episode a few days earlier? For their sake -- and the sake of the anime business -- I hope this is not a cheap trick.
It's not entirely devotion as much as curiosity.
Srsly, i just wanna see whether the guys get trolled or not.
Brace for some epic lulz.
See? The prime minister was right. Otaku tourism will save Japan!
http://dec.2chan.net/24/res/3664791.htm
WTF?
Uhhh....2chan is either re-creating the entire of the supposed new episode in photoshop, or it's a new episode. I'm betting the first one.
Wooo.. those look pretty convincing.
*Slowly turning back into a Haruhist*
Can anyone else hear the 24 beeps or is that just me?
CONFIRMED.
Fuck this i've got better things to do.
Ha ha! Someone's mad because he didn't get his epic lulz.
Hell yes i am.
Kadokawa = now offically lulzkiller
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2009-05-21/new-haruhi-suzumiya-anime-episode-airs
New Haruhi Suzumiya Anime Episode Airs
posted on 2009-05-21 11:50 EDT
"Bamboo Leaf Rhapsody" is 1st animated episode since original 2006 run
Sun Television, the broadcasting station in Japan's Hyōgo Prefecture that is Japan's first station to run The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya anime's "renewed airing" in 2009, has aired the first new anime episode in almost three years on early Friday morning. The 2009 airing has been running its episodes in the story's chonological order, and "Sasa no Ha Rhapsody" ("Bamboo Leaf Rhapsody") is the next story chronologically in Nagaru Tanigawa and Noizi Ito's original science-fiction comedy light novels. However, this episode was not animated during the anime's first airing in 2006.
okaaay... so
its the new scenes ne..
i wonder how many subbers will do this
http://dec.2chan.net:81/24/src/1242921363118.jpg
she looks pretty angry
OVER NINE THOUSAND!!!
Seriously, it'll probably be all of them. But there'll be some troll subs first of course...
CONFIIIIIIIIIIIRMED!!!
SHE IS BACK!!!!!!
Despite this new episode, I still don't feel safe rejoicing since I've read about Kadokawa's trolling. I'll celebrate when they show more than 4 episodes total. I just don't trust that Kadokawa is going to air more episodes at this point, since they seem forever set to cock tease their viewers.
I'm glad I'm only a recent addition to the Haruhi fandom. I've only been in for a month (though, watching form afar since about christmas...) and this constant "will they?" "No, it's reruns" "Dual airing" "YES NEW SEASON" "Oh, wait, both chronologies." "fffffffffffffffffff" crap would have driven me insane over the long term.
The fans that are still devoted after all this crap deserve better treatment for their loyalty.
If it's really real.. Then this will be the best Birthday present i ever had, right on 21st of May~ X3
Oh wait, it's already 22.. :(
HA! :D
Oh, nope.. I believe they air it right on 21st but internet articles came out right on 22nd in the midnight.
Because it knew there is an article though it is Japanese
http://up2.viploader.net/pic/src/viploader1024899.jpg
She is back, she is back, she is back.
I can only say...
HEELLL YEEEAHHHH
New ED and Bamboo leaf in one episode, they're going to run out of material fast. There'll be no Haruhi 3 for another 3 - 5 years i'd bet.
Also hated the fact that they dropped/marginalized the Kyonarrations. I mean i heard less narrations and witty comments from Kyon today.
This news is just to much. I'm going to need a new pair of pants and a truck load of tissues.
sheesh took long enough