The Surprise of Haruhi Suzumiya Finally Announced
- Categories: Manga, News
- Date: Dec 24, 2010 15:57 JST
- Tags: Announcements, Continuations, Delays, Haruhi, Kadokawa, Light Novels, Translation
The latest instalment in the increasingly moribund Haruhi series, The Surprise of Haruhi Suzumiya, has finally been dated.
The “Surprise” is two-fold – firstly, that the novel is being released at all, having already been delayed for 4 years, and secondly, that it is apparently getting a “worldwide simultaneous release in 13 countries.”
“Surprise” will actually be split into two novels, at a lengthy (for “juvenile novels,” as their English publisher appropriately refers to them) 600 pages in all, released simultaneously on the 25th of May, 2011.
More surprising is the announcement that the simultaneous release will supposedly be across 13 countries, something of a first for a light novel.
There is some suspicion that the novels are actually complete or nearly so, and that the release is being held back to give time for the translation – although there is equally as much suspicion that they will be delayed again.
However, the announcement of a global release is distinctly odd – the English releases so far are only up to Rampage (due in June 2011), so the “simultaneous global release” is already taking on an air of farce – why release the latest novel in a series before any of the preceding novels have even been translated?
This is all particularly bizarre when “Surprise” will be the 10th and 11th novels in the series, and “Rampage” only the 5th, and due the month after Surprise.
Coming from the creators of Endless Eight however, such marketing genius is perhaps to be expected.
With the number of delays the novels have so far incurred (this announcement is actually the result of a slyly worded promise “for a big announcement before the end of the year”), fans can of course be forgiven for wondering whether they will really be released this time anyway, and more importantly, whether they will have been worth the wait.
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Now that was a surprise...
world wide release sounds like a joke Haruhi would say.
Knowing Haruhi, it ain't a joke....
*insert Kyon's facepalm here*
Oh god...I can see the backlash of this "surprise" a mile away...
This ought to be something that will produce a scar somewhere, I hope not though...
Facepalm inserted here [http://keptafterclass.zuiken.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Kyon_facepalm.jpg]
But the youths that were waiting are now adults.
Fina-FUCKING-lly! >:D
Otakus are always YOUNG@HEART.
But when will they graduate from this kiddy porn to the REAL 3d shit?
"I have a dream... that people all over Japan can jerk it to pictures of REAL THREESOMES.
I have a dream... that these otakus will give up their newfangled visual novels and cock stimulators and pay for REAL PROSTITUTES, just like in the Taisho era!
I have a dream, my friends... that once these shut-ins see the greatness of REAL GIRL ON GIRL ACTION, they will get out and say HELLO to the first woman they meet!
-Ishihara's address at the 2010 Tokyo Anime Fair
They had to speed up their plans and release the novel earlier, before it gets banned.
Cause obviously, being a god is bad for the 'healthy development of youth'.
They give fansubs a big "Surpise"..
Most surprising Christmas Gift!
Well, in Taiwan they are up to date years ago, so English is not something I care much about...but this I am definitely looking forward too
Of course *World wide* in Haruhi's World could mean just about anything. Do we even know where that is?
Staff: ｷﾀ━━━━━━(ﾟ∀ﾟ)━━━━━━!!!!!
Me: ┐(￣ー￣)┌
it's not 2020 yet and already they're increasing their exports i like where this is going.....
Gundam X here we come! :3
Well whaddaya know...
read this at 2 am on the 24th...
If this turns out to be true, then "it's" a day early... but I'll take what I can get XD
Yeah. Endless trolling.
Trollface.jpg
Insert image on faces of all people involved in this decision.
I'm hoping for a Third Season, but that's just me.
idem me too
Me too. Just that I'm waiting for the the disappearance hype to blow over before I start demanding it.
There is allot of material still to cover and it's been 4yrs between each series. If they had used their time wisely, they could have animated much of it by now...
I commend Yen Press for being so bold as to publish the light novels. Manga is already a tough market, you have to figure they're publishing this series as a pure act of love for the genre.
This is definitely THE RIGHT WAY to come off a a 4 year slump.
If you're in one of those 13 countries, consider buying it, because it sales not only mean more Haruhi goodness (this is good for SOS-fans), but more worldwide releases (this is good for anime fanciers everywhere!)
They're doing THIS novel properly, and I think that ought to be recognized.
Good news. I've been wanting to re-read the novels for a long time now. They better release the preceding books before that time so i could finally buy them all.
Oh the horror, I was reminded about endless-8, I thought I could go on from that scar that arc left me. Now I have wised to their tactics, you cant trololol me now!!
i have to point out that the author of the novel had nothing to do with the endless eight anime fiasco and that the marketing by kyoani is separate fro the novels
This must be Christmas for the Haruhi guys. I hope there's an anime for this too.
It's Christmas indeed!
Now I just need a fourth season of Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei.......
i am very intrigued with the series, i haven't watched it yet which is a shame since it has mixed reception from all over the fans.
will be watching this soon ^^
Why release the latest novel in a series before any of the preceding novels have even been translated?
To get people to go buy the other ones to have a complete set later
*Its Marketing Genius lol )_)*
didn't you read it over internet by now?
I want her cookie (Haruhi's cookie that is)
Before or after she takes a bite?
after of course for an indirect kiss
I don't want bite her cookie, I want to bite her
So while my Japanese classes require me to count in Japanese up to one thousand, Japan can't even count in English past five. Come on guys, you've got shit to get in order with the other books before you start grandstanding this one.
I only have the second volume in English (The Sigh) but if they really will release The Surprise on that date, I'll buy the rest at the same time. But goddamnit, if they end up dropping the series at book 8 or something Imma be mad.
Oh I see...
But I would be honest that I expected the "surprise" as a new Surprise season...
Finally, my time from 4 years ago can move once again....
Yeah... probably surprise buttsecks too!~ lol.
Wow. I'm actually interested in getting a copy.
>Coming from the creators of Endless Eight however, such marketing genius is perhaps to be expected.
Huh? What does KyoAni have to do with it?
The Endless Eight chapter on the novel was great, the adaptation was trash too.
Er... I mean "the adaptation was trash THO".
The publisher isn't Kyoto Animation. I know KyoAni did the animated adaptation of the novels, but they have nothing to do with their marketing and release. Unless Endless Eight caused as much of a ruckus in book form as it did animated, your criticism of KyoAni based on the novel's marketing is off target.
the series isn't just from KyoAni. The producers, kadokawa, were the ones mainly deciding which episodes to do, and they're the ones who publish the novels.
imo, kadokawa has screwed our precious KyoAni.
Kadokawa supposedly bore most of the responsibility for it.
Endless Eight I think was a artistic choice by Kyo-Ani. But the epic PR fiasco behind Haruhi-chan's nice boat and trickling of information was Kadokawa's doing.
Though now, it's really hard to tell since KyoAni was touting the success of K-ON! was by their hand. But Kadokawa had to have some part in it. Who really knows how much say each one of them has on marketing.
Presumably the worldwide release is in response to the prevalence of the various fan-translations, both because the majority of the international audience for the books is already up to book 9 (albeit tolerating Internet Writing), and because those readers are just as likely to take the same route for the new books if a less legally dubious one isn't presented in good time. I mean, at the current rate of two official English versions per year we won't reach to the eleventh until the middle of 2014 without next year's release.
And with, "we won't reach to the eleventh", I just accidentally demonstrated a prime example of Internet Writing, in case anyone was wondering what I meant by that. Of course, you weren't, because this is a Sankaku comments thread.
I am surprised.
As am I.