

Haruhi fans are in awe of the image quality on offer in the just released limited edition Blu-ray box set edition of the series.
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2ch is mulling over yet another anime classification system – this time presenting positing that anime heroines can be divided in “main heroine” and “sub-heroine” groups and pondering which is best.
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A detailed diagram of none other than Nagato Yuki‘s very own home is featured in this month’s issue of a Tokyo housing magazine.
The otaku taste for dabbling in architecture is well established, but Nagato’s apartment likely ranks up higher than most other such schematics.
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- Author: Quen
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Oct 16, 2010 15:45 JST
- Tags: A Certain Magical Index, Awards, Haruhi, Hatsune Miku, K-ON!, Movies, Music, OP, TV

Animation Kobe, an event run by the city of Kobe for the promotion of work in the various fields of animation, has announced the winners of its 15th Kobe Animation Awards for 2010 (the 2009 award are visible here.)
Some of the more notable winners include Suzumiya Haruhi no Shoushitsu for Best Movie, K-ON!! as Best TV Anime, Hatsune Miku’s 39′s Giving Day Concert for the mysterious “Network” Award, and To Aru Kagaku’s “only my railgun” for Best Theme Song.
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Kyoto Animation explains that what underlies the success of K-ON! and its other top sellers is the company’s “passion,” and not the presence of moeblobs or popular novel and manga source material as some ignorant souls might think.
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A ranking of the top 10 cosplay outfits of 2010 (limited to titles with 2010 releases) has been attracting some attention for its less than eclectic focus on female school uniforms, headed up by a certain series…
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Top anime rag Newtype’s latest character popularity ranking reveals it to have finally descended to the level of K-ON! fanzine – the entire first half of the top 10 is now apparently solidly dominated by moeblobs, with the rest of the ranking scarcely any better.
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A Nendoroid version of Suzumiya Haruhi in her Disappearance movie incarnation makes it way to the market thanks to Good Smile.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Aug 26, 2010 11:11 JST
- Tags: Adaptations, Anime Goods, Chibi, Haruhi, Haruhi-chan, Mahjong, Marketing, Otaku, PSP

Even hardened Haruhi otaku have been shocked by the announcement of the latest game in the Haruhi franchise – a thrilling PSP mahjong game of “less than doujin quality,” but with a $110 price tag.
Some screenshots from the game tell all that is needed:
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- Author: Leon
- Categories: Anime Figures, News
- Date: Aug 5, 2010 01:51 JST
- Tags: Good Smile, Haruhi, Megane, Moe, Nagato, Nendoroid, PVC, Schoolgirls, Winter

Yuki Nagato has received an exceptionally cute Nendoroid rendition of herself as she appears in the Disappearance of Suzumiya Haruhi, showing off her range of emotions, such as they are, and her appealing winter outfit.
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Haruhi’s Blu-ray debut sees her entire 28-episode anime packaged into an 8 disc set, even going so far as to include English language subtitles.
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Max Factory has released a new Haruhi Figma depicting her in her charming loli form (from three years in the past), as seen in the Bamboo Leaves Rhapsody episode.
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