New Haruhi Season Confirmed as Rerun
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Apr 1, 2009 23:11 JST
- Tags: Announcements, Continuations, Haruhi, Kadokawa, Marketing, TV
TV listings have updated in preparation for the broadcast of the “new” season of the Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi, revealing the first episode to be none other than the very familiar “Asahina Mikuru no Bouken Episode00”, which of course has already aired and is number one in the “broadcast” order.
The episode will broadcast at 2AM on the 8th of April; the schedule is visible here (note that this is a humdrum TV listings page and not some loudly trumpeted announcement, so the probability of date related shenanigans is rather low). It seems to be confirmed by multiple sources.
Desperate fans have immediately begun clutching at straws; the rumour that new episodes would be mixed in amongst the old, or added to the end, is the main hope. In fact, the notion that the next episode may turn out to be a new one seems to be one of the main incentives for viewing the broadcast…
One 2ch denizen points out that Newtype always collects new broadcasts into a summary page, and never places reruns amongst them. The imminent Haruhi broadcast has not been mentioned here, suggesting that the broadcast is indeed simply a repeat.
A look through the schedule also reveals the broadcast to have rather a restricted run for a major new series.
On a purely pragmatic level, it would make no sense to broadcast a “new” season mixed into the old whilst not actually informing the fan base that it was being broadcast, as most would likely never hear of it (with only a week to spare even more so), or would treat the entire broadcast as merely being a rerun.
On the other hand, an unscrupulous but effective tactic would be to cultivate the expectation of something new to be broadcast amongst the old in order to give some incentive for viewing an otherwise standard rerun.
With the sales of the two recently released Haruhi games having collapsed, it seems that the “Haruhi boom” will be well and truly finished should this broadcast not manage some new content.
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i says its a joke. but now haruhi fans are getting sick and tired of it. why can't the say no we not going to bother making a new season or yes there will be a new season with new eps and new charaters. instend of giving use fake hope.
The only thing that irritates me is the loss of potential. Haruhi was a good story, and they could have built so much more on it. To not embrace that potential is heartbreaking, and I sympathize for the fanatics that weren't -pandered to-, err, -exploited-, ehh... *placated* with this latest fumbling exhibition.
First will come out the third season of Rozen Maiden then will come out(hypothetically) the second temp of Haruhi xD .
I fucking hate you all.
Fuck. This is the worst April Fool's Day. EVER.
Amen, brother.
KyoAni = Beyond-God-Level Trolls
You of course mean Kadokawa
Anyways, give Haruhi-chan another shot, gentlemen. It's better than most broadcast anime now that they are using 2D animation.
noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
:Bangs head on table repeatedly:
WHERE IS YOUR GOD NOW?
*kicks teh puppy* Right behind you 8)
Boom. Headshot.
I guess I'll spend all the free time I have right now reading all the other storylines from the Haruhi novels, watching all the anime I haven't yet, and learning Japanese so I can understand the non-translated Scrapped Princess novels.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuxas6rsrfk
Bravo!
April's Fool or not I'll believe when I see the 2nd season anime.
Moon Phase Comments just reported: http://d.hatena.ne.jp/moonphase/20090402 that TV Saitama has listed 28 episodes for this "rerun." More confirmation pending.
http://d.hatena.ne.jp/nanamibeya/20090402
Nanamibeya (Sometimes NSFW) claims that tvk and chiba-tv were both called and both responded effectively "We can't tell you how many episodes but there is more than 1 cour reserved". (Note that it doesn't explicitly say the 2nd cour is Haruhi too, but there is a 2nd cour as if there is a new production.)
So, what's a cour anyway?
From Wikipedia: Cours (TV production), a unit of production in Japanese TV programs equivalent to 13 episodes.
see at the bright side.... at least it will run in higher res (1080i)
Guess I'll have to watch the first season all over again since it's mashed in with the second one.
How boring...
We've waited so long and this is what we get?
Bummer.
I live in hawaii ow on earth can I wac the secnd season? lik I mean what station?
Yeah, I'm really happy about this.
Also, Isn't the voice actress out doing tours?
She is a Rock Star, after all...
eh, was satisfied with first series, really didnt expect a second to happen lolz....haruhism is dead and its not coming back
Did this seriously come as a surprise, to anyone? Hell, I liked the first season, but until I see a subbed episode of the new season in front of my face, there's nothing to get excited about and absolutely no point to get wound up over lame marketing bullshit.
It's just animu, for christ's sake.
BORING!!!!!- The Age of Haruhi is over! Why do they even bother. I soooo don't care.
Preparing delta Rage.
Commence in 3...2..1... FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
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mmm, and I'll have to say, as much as people seem to be "not caring" about Haruhi anymore...this seems like one of the more heated discussions...
Speaking of KyoAni, what are they working on right now? I haven't checked anime in ages.
K-On!
This is sad, just sad. Haruhi Suzumiya is a great anime, pity those bastards of Kyoani got it.
The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya
Published in North America on April 1, 2009 (ISBN 9780316039017)
^ proof that the entire series is one big april fool joke
I still think that these news are real
I also trust government and think that things happening on TV are real
damit...I guess your " realistic pessimism" infected me and now I'm starting to use my brains agan...NOOOOOO
I use "naive optimism" towards these news !
then i shall use "realistic pessimism"
naive optimisms special ability : user is granted with incredible nativity and will optimistically follow/believe anything (even when its proven wrong with facts)
World is saved once again
I have returned back to my old pessimistic self and the keystone is sealed once more so that evil could never return and use its powers to take over the universe.... camera moves to regular city view and then turns black for credits-annoying ending song starts but movies budget was too small so that's all we they could afford
amm..... cupcake?!
cupcake.
yes, but do you know, if you use that ability and miss at least 100 times consecutively, it will automatically turn itself into "realistic pessimism", and you will find yourself unable to believe anything they say anymore.
made my day
They took so long and ended with a rerun.
Strike Witches shall save our souls
LISTEN TO THIS MAN! HE SPEAKS THE TRUTH!
Lol my wild guess 2 month ago here in the forum seem to be coming true :D
http://www.sankakucomplex.com/forums/topic.php?id=291&replies=33
although i'm not getting my hope up but after the "nice boat" stun kodogawa put on haruhi-chan you can never be careful
Heh. Next the fans will claim to have spotted a single frame of the first true Season 2 episode inserted into every episode of the re-run.
I'm just so sick of waiting that I lost my interest.. Will watch if it comes, if it doesn't ah well.
I’m just so sick of waiting that I lost my interest.. Will watch if it comes, if it doesn’t ah well.
This.
same here
so sick of waiting that i won't watch even if it does come =P