Nagaru Tanigawa “Has Started” New Haruhi Novel
- Categories: Manga, News
- Date: Aug 31, 2009 05:07 JST
- Tags: Adaptations, Haruhi, Kadokawa, Light Novels, Marketing, Production Controversy
Haruhi author Nagaru Tanigawa has finally started work on the long anticipated but hugely delayed (as below) “Suzumiya Haruhi no Kyougaku / The Shock of Haruhi Suzumiya” light novel, the first in many years.
Previous announcements relating to the title, once due in 2007, always turned out to be lengthy delays, to the point that the once popular series appeared to have been abandoned, but this seems not to be the case now, as in a recent edition of The Sneaker he is described as being in the process of readying the novel.
Whilst it seems for all intents and purposes the Haruhi franchise is finished after having been driven into ground, it will be interesting to see whether Tanigawa manages a worthy continuation after so long a hiatus.
There is of course the intriguing possibility that he long ago succumbed to writer’s block or totally lost interest in the series, and only now is finally having his arm twisted into finishing it, a possibility which does not bode well for the quality of future installments…
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Yep a new novel entirely about Kadokawa/KyoAni trolling.
Pavlov's dog has stopped barking. Haruhi is a faded memory.
above comment = win
Maybe, but it's wrong and you know it.
+1
excellent comparison but the original series & light novels were still win.
+ 10000
+175
-1002
IT'S OVER NINETH-... wait, 8999? ... Nevermind...
It's ALMOST Nine Thousand!!!!!!!111!!1
Fuck you all
Fuck you.
No, fuck YOU :D
don't you mean salivating? get your science experiments right, dingus
I was wondering when someone would call me out on my drunken error. Kudos!
Question is, is he in the same box or not as Schrodinger's cat.
don't even start anon
But it would help explain why the dog's no longer barking.
I mean, he could be dead, due to asphyxiation or by claw of the cat.
Or he could be alive and simply too busy eating the pussy.
The only way to be sure if by opening the box. Because at present the dog is both alive and dead at the same time, all we do know is that he's not barking.
:P
a new novel for suzumiya xD!!!! excelent!!!!
Nah, it will be the same without conclusion...
I don't think Haruhi fans want the series to end. The more books are written the better.
Heh...
First*shot
It's great to see that he wants to continue writing and finish this series.
Especially since the ninth novel was such a cliffhanger. I feel tortured everyday not knowing what is going to happen. For me, that was far greater trolling than Endless Eight.
>First
Fail.
troll
Perhaps he felt the need to give a little gift to all those who had to live through Endless Eight xD
Or perhaps he felt the need of money?
100% agreed
If it's crap he can always say "at least it's better than Endless Eight".
Well, he has enough material to work on:
* The anti-brigade
* Where do Haruhi's powers come from?
* What will happen after Haruhi learns the truth?
And, of course...
* I AM JOHN SMITH!
I'm sure the final novel won't be crap, after all.
psst fuck that kyon is the sourc of haruhis powers
Was there ever any reliable source that the 10th novel will be the last one?
I can't imagine Tanigawa, answering so many open questions in just one novel.
There has never been any confirmation whatsoever. Trust me, I would know.
If you look at what we do know, though, it makes sense. Seems to me like he just wants to get it over and done with.
I don't like it, but...
I doubt the ninth will be the final novel, there is just too many question that he haven't answered yet..at any rate, the novels are actually really interesting and he had written other novels in between so I doubt he'll forget how to write.
Well, I am definately waiting for the new one, well for those English readers..have fun waiting for english release, we all know it'll take forever....
well thats why most english speakers don't read the novel, or even attempt too.
As if you can't find translations?
You know, you can just google a nice website called "Baka-Tsuki"...
"Oh yeah, I'm totally working on it *snicker*"
Like OJ finding the real killer. I hope the Haruhi anime and books continue, don't get me wrong, but..
On closer inspection, all the blurb says is that Tanigawa has stated he's collecting thoughts/ideas and getting ready for the act of writing.
I think we can file this under not-postworthy.
Fuck dammit I hate Tanigawa so much.
yea cry more kaishit
7.
The new volume will contain "Endless Infinity", with the SOS Dan reliving the same two months again and again, except this time nobody notices it.
"Readying the novel"?
What does that even mean?
I mean, this is great news, since we've been devoid of it since Fall '07, but...
I just hope this isn't the last book. Which was never confirmed, before I'm told otherwise.
'“Readying the novel”?
What does that even mean?'
The novel has to have its tanks filled with liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen. The launch tube has to be evacuated, and the pilot has to strap in.
Then, when the publishing company gives the signal, the author and his agent simultaneously turn their keys, launching the novel, and ending civilization as we know it.
if you read the novels you'd know the series is a total mindfuck. especially after disappearance when kyon has to go back in time to save the kyon that is in the alternate universe. or in snow mountain syndrome where they all have sexy dreams of each other. i'm guessing he's figuring out a way to end this massive meme.
ooh and sighs is a total mindfuck. it took the whole night and two readthrus to figure out what the hell was going on with mikuru and kyon. but the cause and effect going on in that volume was brilliant.
"Readying the novel" = I'm playing Idolm@ster at the moment, I'll finish the novel after I finish this game
Nonstop Nine plz.
And after that, Timeless Ten and Everlasting Eleven plz
OH GOD FUCK YER
This guy must be morbidly rich now consider how much royalties they have to pay him for all the Haruhi merchandises and peripherals. He probably lived like a king for the past years, no wonder he was taking his sweet time with the new book.
I think it's just the opposite- the bulk of his work was done while Haruhi was just a character concept he invented.
Now there are thousands of artist depictions, anime depictions, shout outs from other series', even a Tokyo philharmonic album with a Haruhi theme.
What's more, It's now on the radar of people from Sweden to Venezuela.
I don't wanna make Tanagawa out like he's some great writer or anything, but that's got to have an effect on your thought processes. Maybe he's just now reaching the place where he thinks he can do it justice.
Just sayin'.
Also possible that he had writer's Block and the whole Endless Eight stuff ticked him off so much that his rage burned through the blockage, thus letting him write again. :P
I feel like the light novels had already jumped the shark, but I guess the common audience is not so biased toward such occurrences if certain shounen media franchises can experience such longevity.
What do you mean jumped the shark? The light novels were, are, and will still be awesome. We have the ancient futuristic artifact, the anti-brigade... Nagato's work for the Literature club... and we still have to see the slider!
It's that the Anti-Brigade and Slider-tan are just being introduced that makes me think Vol. 10 won't be the last book.
Not to mention the universe split... that's not the sort of thing you do for a final book.
Not that Haruhi was ever conventional, but...
'Anti-Brigade and Slider-tan'
I don't remember any Slider-tan. If you're referring to the split itself... it could be anything.
The girl who calls Kyon on the phone in the alpha timeline and the 12th student who shows up at the Brigade recruitment meeting, also in alpha, are very clearly the same person.
...Probably a slider. Hence, Slider-tan.
Creating a cadre of foils for each of the major characters is exactly what I mean by jumping the shark. The other option is to continue with the small cast and have them going on different, unrelated adventures for volumes upon volumes.
I was introduced to the Suzumiya Haruhi franchise through the first anime series, which was great in its non-linear presentation of the light novels' different arcs; minor bits of information are revealed by slyly pointing out changes that occur in the chronological future - it's very clever, and gave it decent replay value. I decided to read the light novels after being impressed by the show, but I was reading something completely different. The unrelated storylines flowed with eerie similarity to some teenage detective novel series (a la Hardy Boys?), and I had a difficult time keeping myself interested. Then volume nine came out and I thought to myself, "Well, I wouldn't be surprised if there weren't many volumes left."
I'm sure I'm not the only person who LOVES the whole "cadre of foils" concept.
Especially in something like Haruhi where the strength is in its characters.
That picture is in desperate need of a nude-filtering.
HOLY SHIT!!!!
and nobody with half a brain cares about haruhi
If you do, why post.
Go watch your shitty anime then and stop posting.
Anons trolling at each other ... ... just PRICELESS! xD Do please continue xD
a guy with a fake name think he is better! xD PRICELESS~
Until a certain feline someone casts Forever Zero.
Or they find a shapeshifting loli familiar who needs a master STAT.
Oh well... they get moar money, we get moar trolling.
I really don't think we need to bag Tanigawa out over Endless Eight, I can't see any way we can blame him for that farce, but this is still a pretty poor effort. Still, while it's not that far out to say that Haruhi is done for an an anime, this novel (the first one to start on a cliffhangar) IS still something I'm looking forward to. I'm just not going to stake my life on it.
The whole book is Endless 8. He decided he wanted to tell more about Endless 8 like the anime because it was so awesome.
I'd laugh if this were the final novel.
Go to hell.
I don't have a problem with that. An ending is better than a cliffhanger.
Mikuru graduates at the end of the current year, in any case.
They still have an entire YEAR where things could be happening. (And Mikuru graduating doesn't meant that the series has to end, either...)
Tanigawa cannot wrap up all of his plot threads in a satisfying way in one novel unless he kills off half the cast. It'd be worse than Deathly Hallows.
And no, a shitty, rushed, underdeveloped ending is in now way better than a cliffhanger. I can't see how anyone would think that.
That said, I can see him doing it just to get rid of his obligation to the series, but I'll be very disappointed.
Look, I'm just trying to see the forest for the trees here.
If he thinks he can keep going with it, more power to him. But If he'd rather not write any more Haruhi, that's okay too, as long as he wraps up his loose ends in competent way.
Even ACD got sick of being known as "the Sherlock Holmes guy" and tried to end the series more than once. Those stories continue to be some of the most popular, because they're well-written endings, not half-assed ones.
As long as he's fair to the series, I don't mind how long it runs.
And I'm saying there is no way to wrap up the loose ends competently. It can't be done.
There are far, far too many things that need a lot more time to play out... like most of the character development.
umm...just thought i'd point out, mikuru is only supposed to be a second year. after the series reaches april, she'll still have another year left.
in the first 8 novels Asahina was a second year with Kyon, Suzumiya, Nagato and the others being first years. In the 9th novel Kyon, Suzumiya, Nagato and the others are second year students. Sense when the others were first years and are now second years Asahina is now a third year, the last year of Japanese high school.
I totally agree,...people need to get over endless eight...it's not like the person there is ever going to buy the dvd even if it's only 2 or 3 episode. Internet troll will always be internet trolls...cant expect them to think logically. It's the internet afterall.
it just keep repeat, even the episodes after endless eight is just telling the start.
Find it always funny how otaku nerds keep bashing Endless Eight when it at worst was an interesting concept, and at best was the directed embodiment of what Yuki Nagato must have went through.
For eight fucking episodes, not even showing any of the deviations like the other part-time jobs. Always the fucking swimming pool, the festival with goldfish catching, fireworks, running around in frog costumes at 35°C, cicada hunting, the meeting where the loop is revealed, batting center, star watching and that fucking teasing scene where Kyon can stop everything, but doesn't because it isn't the eight episode yet.
There are series that wrap their complete story up in 13 episodes.
there's an obvious message in the concept of endless eight, especially pertinent to otaku, it's just that most of them don't want to hear it...
Are you trying to tell people who like something to stop liking that something?
'Otaku always do otaku things, so they should stop being otaku and be more socially involved.' - ?
If this is the 'message' that you 'assume' is in Endless Eight, then you dont know the reality of life yet.
it's not that, it's about how otaku grow complacent in their life and only want their expectations to be fulfilled. it's not that "people should stop watching anime" or "otaku need to go outside", they get caught too much in the fandom and can't accept anything unless it fits within a narrow and comfortable definition of reality. they become stubborn and unrepentent and eventually that leads to a neverending cycle. this was also addressed in the genshiken OVA in the episode which has madarame trying to buy clothes, although that was much more succinct and optimistic.
Endless Eight is a social commentary? Yeah, sure, and waste 5 episodes to get over the message. There are better ways to do that.
waste 8 :(
No, at worst it was a waste of what could have been seven episodes of original content. It was an interesting idea and I don't rage over it like others, but it was the biggest waste of resources I've ever seen in anime.
So you haven't seen Naruto's filler arcs?
+1
I didnt even think of this. Good job ! ｂ（≧ ω ≦ ）
It was experimental at best.
said a hypocrite, VERY CONVINCING... NOT!
There are many good works involving repeated scenarios (not necessarily time loops, but effectively the same thing, especially when it comes to the sort of pitfalls one might encounter if presented incorrectly). Blind Chance, Lola rennt, 12:01 PM, Groundhog Day, Higurashi no Naku Koro ni, etc. Endless Eight isn't one of them.
It's not an interesting concept because it's been done to death, and then put in its own time loop and done to death again. "Directed embodiment of what Yuki Nagato must have went through" is a useless string of vapid words that doesn't mean much the more you think about it. You can depict the events of the Endless Eight time loop any way you want and it'll be a "directed embodiment of what Yuki Nagato must have went through." Was it a good way of presenting it? No.
Agreed here. E8 was the worst idea I've ever seen in anime.
At least we're through it now.
Someone who actually speaks sense.
OMG!
Sense and internet? c'mon... what's wrong with you....
sure hope it's better that the damn show has been.
jesus wouldn't let this shit happen if he had an anime
Jesus: THE ANIME
I'd watch it.
Who wouldn't?
I'd like to bum haruhi
Crucify, get the capital punishment correct.
Burning is for witches. Not for personifications of God.
:P
Ceaseless Seize
If this had been announced, say, before the re-airing, there would be so many people shitting their pants due to extreme, unbearable happiness right now.
At this point I'm kind of sick of this series. I mean, I love it and obsess over it and fangirl over it, but I feel like that's kind of an obligation. Like if enough people were to...God, do /something/, I don't even know. If enough people decided to do something Haruhi related, then somehow the mess this series is in would be fixed. Mikuru would suddenly appear and tell us that we managed to not kill ourselves going through Endless Eight, that we haven't put a bullet through our skulls because of the shitty K-ON animation. She'd say that we passed the test, whatever it was, and that now we get what Haruhi S2 should have been. And we will be so overwhelmed with happiness that no one will be trying to shove their penis down her shirt, whether it's because they just want some good old time traveller titfucking, or because they think it will be a threat to her and she'll reveal Nagato or Haruhi's (or Kyon's) location.
Long comment is long. TL;DR: FUCKING KADOKAWA
FUCKING KYOANI
JUST SHOOT YOURSELVES AND GET IT OVER WITH BEFORE SOMEONE ELSE DOES IT FOR YOU
RAAAAGE
This.
If they had announced this a few months ago I'd be ecstatic.
But since then, they've pretty well managed to kill all anticipation since everyone is afraid they'll just troll us again.
THANKS KADOKAWA
The only way this could be worse at the moment would be if Kadokawa announced the tenth book would be the last.
Honestly, that's mostly because every idiot saying the tenth novel will be the last would be able to tell me that I was wrong and they were right. That'd be pretty shitty.
But aside from that...The entire fandom would pretty much be divided between those saying "Yeah! I knew it! In your face, people with any kind of logic at all!", those who just got depressed over the whole thing and gave up, and those who figured it was part of the whole god-tier troll thing. Because really, Kadokawa is now officially less credible than a drunk hobo on the street. That really says something about the level of shit the company is in, I think. Fans are more willing to believe someone whose ragged clothes smell like yesterday's piss than the company or animation studio involved with the series.
...On second thought, the aforementioned hobo might be Nagaru Tanigawa. Shit.
Honestly, it's not even a decent troll, let alone a god-tier one.
A decent troll would be one everyone would be able to laugh about when they got over their raaaaaage.
This is just outright lying and misdirection, seemingly targeted at a fanbase they no longer want to be associated with. It's not clever like a god-tier troll would be.
So basically Kadokawa sucks at being Kadokawa, then.
I think at this point one of the only positive things that can be said about this series is that at least it's not K-ON. At least Mikuru is capable of being interesting, as opposed to the whole cast of K-ON - namely Mio, whose character can be summarized pretty well with a simple "Doesn't like barnacles. Has tits." This isn't a K-ON vs. Haruhi debate, though.
...But at least K-ON wasn't disappointing. It was a moe pandering show from the beginning. Haruhi 2009 could have been incredibly awesome. Maybe it wouldn't have lived up to the original season, but what could? There wasn't really any competition at the time when the first episodes aired. Now there's Bakemonogatari crushing Haruhi. And really, even the DEEN-ified thing being passed off as Umineko is (arguably) more entertaining than most of the new Haruhi stuff that's aired. At least in that there's a guy screaming "SACRIFICING TO GOOOOD" in terrible Engrish every episode. Infinitely more entertaining than "We've entered an endless recursion of time."
There are rumors that they could keep releasing new Haruhi content beyond the somewhat-unconfirmed-28 episodes, but hope is the first step on the road to disappointment.
Also the only reason anyone should be watching Umineko should be to see stuff from the visual novel animated. Which was the best thing I've seen or read all year.
And yeah, that song is great. More entertaining than anything in Haruhi, I agree.
YAMI WO KIRISAKU OHHHH DEEEZAIYAAAA
Maybe the road to disappointment isn't that bad. It sounds like Zetsubou-sensei would travel on that road frequently, and if he showed up in Haruhi it wouldn't matter how he was showing up or what scene he was interrupting. Everything would be better, although I'm not sure if I want to see what KyoAni would do to poor Itoshiki.
The VN for Umineko is probably one of the best things ever, but the anime doesn't do any of the scenes justice. Especially when people are frequently transparent when they shouldn't be, but that could be attributed to Beato messing with people's opacity for shits and giggles. The Umineko anime is good for seeing Eva bleep and for providing material to be mocked on uminekolol, but that's about it.
Look, I have a theory that this book is done.
I mean, I doubt that the writer would just GIVE UP on it all together. I think he had it done, said that he had done nothing for the book, just to create public hype.
I know I'm falling for it, but still. I enjoy this and I hope that it at least ends on a positive note. Unlike MOST animes I've seen.
Has anyone noticed that in this picutre haruhi seemes to be outranking Mikuru in the chest department?
You're right, Haruhi's breasts should be smaller. It's cute when Haruhi is being jealous of Mikurus breasts.
As disturbing as that is, it took me an awkward moment of staring to figure out Haruhi had a fudge bar, and wasn't brandishing Mikuru's butt plug.
Of course NOW, I can't unsee.
I call bullshit until I see a release date.
I guess Endless Eight has made a lot of people read the novels to find out about the stupid solution and see how things will be going on.
Kyon has always been the slider.
You people...
So then who's Slider-tan? Kyonko?
Kyon is not a slider. If he was, that would ruin all the previous character development for him as a normal person coming to grasps with a world he didn't know existed.
The slider is the person who calls Kyon in the ninth book in the Alpha timeline. Sasaki calls him in the beta timeline instead.
A Slider is a person who moves across and around parallel dimensions, worlds and spaces as such.
Kyon has entered a closed space with Koizumi
Kyon woke up in a closed space with Haruhi
Kyon entered Tanabata 3 years ago with Mikuru(Young)
Kyon spent some time in an alternate world with Nagato(Alternative)
If these experiences have yet to make him a slider, I don't know what else can you call a Slider.
Anon who posted at 13:10 here.
The closed spaces aren't exactly parallel worlds. They are creations of Haruhi's mind and exist within the same dimension as everything else. The only special thing about them is that only the espers can enter them.
"Kyon entered Tanabata 3 years ago with Mikuru(Young)"
Time traveling is not the same as entering a parallel demension.
"Kyon spent some time in an alternate world with Nagato(Alternative)"
This was not a alternate world, but rather the same world. Nagato simply overwrote everyone's memories and abilities.
There was a well written arguement for Kyon's normalcy on baka tsuki. It's 5 A.M. and i'm too tired to look now, but I suggest you read it.
Also, if Kyon was a slider and had entered the world from a different one, wouldn't everyone know he wasn't from their world. Nagato at least would know.
"Kyon is not a slider. If he was, that would ruin all the previous character development for him as a normal person coming to grasps with a world he didn’t know existed."
Isn't the whole definition of a Slider someone who's otherwise normal but ended up in other worlds, whether or not they knew about said worlds?
Kyon's god and Haruhi is just his proxy.
Kyon drew the image on the schoolgrounds on Tanabata, he resized the logo Haruhi drew, giving it its powers in the first place, and the Endless Eight loop was only because he never made his homework.
But, like said previously, that completey ruins the point of his character, and of Kyon's relationship with Haruhi.
The whole relationship those two have not only shows Kyon accepting the weirdness around him and making friends with people. No, Taniguchi and Kunikida don't count. Lyon never shares anything with them, but he gradually opens up to everyone in the brigade and Tsuruya. The thing between Hauhi and Kyon is also about Haruhi growing up and accepting the normal things around her. She's got a pretty damn giant crush oh Kyon, and he is relatively normal. If Kyon had secret powers or anything, both his ad Haruhi's character and relationship would be cheapened.
Kyon doesn't need any additional powers. He has the power of snark in addition to the whole "controlling everything Haruhi does and making the brigade kind of center around him" thing.
Uhm, but didn't he finished his homework in one of the endless eight episodes? But, I agree with the rest of your comment D:
Yes, after he had done his homework the loop ended.
I seriously doubt hanging around Kyon's house would make Haruhi's summer vacation "perfect".
Endless night butchered the haruhi so bad that the writer decide : "Fuck this! i must repair my work anyway i can!! Damn you troll!! My greatest artwork is ruined!!"
Go Tanigawa! Don't let KyoAni kill the franchise
I was waiting for this and still am.
Its ok I can still wait another 5 year for more Haruhi novels.
so it takes a endless 8 to make the author shat bricks and write again?
i smell conspiracy. it must be kadokawa and kyoani's plot from the beginning.
they knew the nagaru abandoned the work but uses endless 8 to scare him back to writing.
+1
Nice Troll kadokawa...
sigh ..."Blessed thy who expect nothing, because thy ne´er get dessapointed"
anyway, hope for moar books...
Hmm, It's just me, or Haruhi breast are bigger than Mikuru's?
she's GOD, duh...
The endless 12, the endless 16, and the endless 24 would be the new series. the 1st year 12 eps, 2nd year 16 eps with 4 specials and the 3rd year 24 eps. As before it would be one ep played over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over. Only the camera angle on the scanned image photographs would be different......................
The last sentence is an unfair characterization of E8. The one thing KyoAni did do right was draw new art and record dialogue with different styles.
Of course, they got bored halfway through and were unable to come up with 8 interesting directorial takes, but still... it's what Kadokawa gave them to work with.
waiting to read
I only love the slut Nagato Yuki in this series.
http://www.gooork.com for the newest haruhi novel!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
http://www.gooork.com you're welcome ;)
haruhi suzumiya series should be done by highly intelligent and super handsome/beautiful man/woman
and the voice actors and everyone involved should be handsome/beautiful.with this,it will be super hyper great strong anime cause I like this SOS Brigade anime.
by,
.I AM A7X.
Ran out of money did ya?
well instead of doing a light novel i hope he just does a freaking BOOK and ends it all in about 300-400 pages. if you're going to end a story like this end it epic-ly......... and with lots of answers