【SOS brigade】The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (283)

1 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-04-20 21:09 ID:2/nYCDkn

This thread is for discussion of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, easily the best show of the season, if not the year!

Official site: http://www.haruhi.tv/

a.f.k.'s wonderful translation: http://a.scarywater.net/afk/

2 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-04-20 21:09 ID:Heaven

(This is how you start a thread. Not like http://4-ch.net/anime/kareha.pl/1145565708/. Watch and learn.)

3 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-04-20 21:13 ID:2/nYCDkn

The beginning of a translation of the novels is available here:

http://koti.mbnet.fi/~cruzz/haruhi/

4 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-04-20 21:36 ID:ct+VGUbb

5 Name: Freak of Nature : 2006-04-20 22:59 ID:Xagvn5gy

Translation project:

http://www.baka-tsuki.net

6 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-05-07 07:27 ID:zOlMjoLJ

I shall give this a look sometime soon, but for now I lovingly bump

7 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-05-07 11:09 ID:Heaven

Strange ass anime. Did you notice that some of the episodes seem out of order?

8 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-05-07 12:33 ID:2/nYCDkn

They don't "seem" out of order, they are out of order.

Watch the previews!

9 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-05-07 19:35 ID:Heaven

I did watch the previews. That's why I said they seemed out of order. If I didn't see the previews, I would've blamed the subber.

10 Name: KJI!XDpPLAUYlQ : 2006-05-08 01:30 ID:Heaven

haha, I love this show.

11 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-05-08 03:30 ID:bdkmHOGZ

Haruhi tells correct order and Kyon tells broadcasting order in the previews .

12 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-05-14 03:07 ID:xP3r2j9j

http://www.oricon.co.jp/rank/js/d/
ED single is at #2 on the charts. Will 2ch succeed?

14 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-05-16 11:36 ID:Heaven

>>13 No.

15 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-05-16 22:00 ID:Heaven

Some group calling itself "Animanda" has started subbing the show too, but apparently they're just a bunch of idiots whose only claim for the value of their translation is that it's higher res than a.f.k.'s. I didn't check to make sure, but I'm fairly certain their translation is nowhere near the same quality, especially after having spoken to them on IRC.

Avoid.

16 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-05-17 00:16 ID:Fqan+tsn

>>13

now all we need are people to do it in cosplay

18 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-05-17 18:09 ID:Heaven

>>17
sugoi

19 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-05-17 23:52 ID:BzVfWNcF

20 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-05-18 13:12 ID:bdkmHOGZ

21 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-05-18 13:16 ID:bdkmHOGZ

22 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-05-18 16:07 ID:Heaven

COME ON VIPPER! COME ON VIPPER! NEET-O!

23 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-05-18 16:39 ID:slZWFgcV

did anyone notice they go "booon" in the ending animation?

         /⌒ヽ
   ⊂二二二( ^ω^)二⊃
        |    /
         ( ヽノ
         ノ>ノ 
     三  レレ

24 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-05-18 23:30 ID:cIlygtpW

>>15

So if you haven't seen it, what exactly are you basing your criticism on? Here's an idea: just watch it, and if you still think it sucks, then stick with a.f.k.'s version.

25 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-05-19 02:37 ID:xP3r2j9j

VIPPERs celebrate Hare Hare Yukai getting #5 on the charts!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fxt0T0-H_sA <-At the end of this one, what do they say about anime?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBupUZuxMz4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dJZPGvBYCw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xs2FwC33VyA

Michael Jackson joins SOS-dan!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kg2s1m67nzw

26 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-05-19 11:24 ID:Heaven

>>24

I'm basing it on the fact that a.f.k.'s translation is one of the very best fan translations I've seen in years, and I highly doubt some random warez-scene group is going to beat that, especially after having talked to them about it and found out that the thing they think is most important about their release is the high resolution.

27 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-05-20 14:22 ID:2/nYCDkn

Sigh. I tried posting on the sos-dan.com forums, but man, that sure was a waste of time. It's the worst kind of inane phpBB-style forum.

Let's get some discussion going in here instead! About issues such as:

  • Does the manga just plain suck, or is it just the translation that's bad? (http://shana.imouto.org/asdf/%5Bk-e%5Dsuzumiya_v01_ch001.rar, http://s9.invisionfree.com/KawaruEnishi/)
  • The out-of-order storytelling seems to be doing quite a complex dance around the climax of the first storyline - first we get confused flashbacks to this event, and "closed space", and now we get an episode that takes place in something that is "like" closed space, but isn't really. It's obviously using the later episodes to build up tension for the events that would otherwise chronlogically preceed it. Clever!
  • Episode 7 has a lot of references. There are the obvious "Fumoffu" and "Second Raid" ones, referring to FMP series that Kyoto Animation produced, but there's also the book shelf that has a bunch of hilarious stuff like "Dentaku Otoko" ("Calculator Man"), "Emmangelivion", and also "The NEET Revolution". Anybody get the other references in there? Like "Ashita e PIN-PON DASH" or the Disappearance Diary thing?

28 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-05-20 15:02 ID:2/nYCDkn

29 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-05-20 21:15 ID:qEDUxO6P

>>24

There's the fact that the put SOS Group in Ep 1 and SOS Brigade in EP 2. Then the fact that they basically copied a.f.k.'s translation "Save the world by overloading it with fun" except they put "our world" instead of "the world." Then the fact that they make so many tense errors in episode 2 that the meaning of what's being said is lost.

30 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-05-21 03:15 ID:Heaven

>>27
The manga was cancelled after the first volume, wasn't it? I read somewhere that the novel author didn't have much involvement with it.

31 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-05-21 03:43 ID:9cPcqaMk

There are two manga adaptions. >>27 refers to the better one.

> or is it just the translation that's bad?

It seems accurate enough, but some of the dialogue sounds unnatural and disjointed. They need good proofreaders.

32 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-05-21 03:54 ID:Heaven

>"Ashita e PIN-PON DASH"

Ashita no Joe and Pani Poni Dash?

33 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-05-21 11:19 ID:2/nYCDkn

>>31

It's not proofreading, they need a translator with who has some facility with the English language. The actual translating is only half the work - you need to be able to write fluent and natural prose in English too, and this translation kind of fails that.

(It's definitely not alone in this, though.)

>>32

No, there are any number of titles with "ashita" or "dash" in them, this should be more specific.

34 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-05-21 11:24 ID:Heaven

> with who

GJ, me.

35 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-05-21 12:13 ID:qEDUxO6P

>>33

The novel translation definitely suffers from this.

36 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-05-21 13:18 ID:qEDUxO6P

>>27

Based on a.f.k's translation and google, ping pong dash means doorbell prank.

37 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-05-21 13:50 ID:f5akzwlG

ちょwwwここにもハルヒ厨専用スレ発見wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

38 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-05-21 13:58 ID:Heaven

>>36

I was assuming that was common knowledge, sorry for not spelling it out in the post.

39 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-05-21 13:59 ID:Heaven

>>37

COME ON VIPPER! COME ON VIPPER! NEET-O!

40 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-05-22 03:09 ID:NFcfEu7m

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41 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-05-22 11:05 ID:bdkmHOGZ

>>27 References

> Dentaku Otoko / Calculator Man

Densha otoko.

> NEET Kakumei - Mou Hatarakimashe... / The NEET Revolution - I won't work anymore...

Diet Kakumei - Mou Diet wa Hitsuyou Nai!- / The Diet Revolution - You don't need diet anymore!-

> Ashita e PIN-PON DASH / Doorbell prank to Tomorrow

Unknown. I believe it's not from certain title.

> Shissou Nikki Kai / Disappearance Diary Revision

Shissou Nikki /The Great Escape of the Comic Writer
http://plaza.bunka.go.jp/english/festival/sakuhin/index.html

> Chuunanbei no Arukikata / How to walk Central and South America

How to walk the World series are Japanese version of "Lonely Planet" series.

> Hajou Genron / The Argument on the Tooth

Hajou Genron / The Unduransce Argument
A critical book on Japanese subculture
http://www.hajou.org/hajou/

> Emangeribyon E-conte 1 / Emmangelivion Storyboard Vol.1

Neon Genesis Evangelion Storyboard Vol.1

> Kaitei Shinban Paso-com Yougo Jiten / Personal Computer Dictionary New Revised Edition.

Nikkei Paso-com Yougo Juten / Nikkei Personal Computer Dictionary

> Tsuushin Network Nyuumon / Learnning Communication Network
> LAN ga Wakaru Hon / Understanding LAN

No Particular Book.

From Battle scene

> Kanabun (Japanese drone beetle) treated the injury!

Reference to Mushiking game.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mushiking

and Yuki's "book of this week" is...
Hadae no Shita / Under the Skin by Chouhei Kanbayashi (Sentou Yousei Yukikaze fame).
It's a sci-fi story about discommunication between human and machine.

42 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-05-22 12:03 ID:2/nYCDkn

>>41

Nice!

>> Emangeribyon E-conte 1 / Emmangelivion Storyboard Vol.1
> Neon Genesis Evangelion Storyboard Vol.1

And probably also Emma, which is incidentially also on http://plaza.bunka.go.jp/english/festival/sakuhin/index.html.

43 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-05-22 16:15 ID:Heaven

>>42
I doub't it has any link to Emma.

44 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-05-22 19:38 ID:xP3r2j9j

>>27
If it's any consolation, they have enabled anon posting on their Suggestion board. There are also a pair of active debates on the subject in these two threads.
http://www.sos-dan.com/forums/showthread.php?t=140
http://www.sos-dan.com/forums/showthread.php?t=149
The "Anonymous" user account is posted on bugmenot.

45 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-05-23 12:53 ID:elGtosmU

>>44

The idiocy in those threads makes my head hurt.

46 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-05-24 14:02 ID:Heaven

Honestly I spent considerable time to post the translation of Nagato Yuki's 100 books (´・ω・`)
but no one except wikipedia did post comment on it (´・ω・`)
Yes I know this is the weird of otakuship, but... (´・ω・`)
or it's just for my stupid Engrish...? (´・ω・`)

47 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-05-24 18:11 ID:XJAlEpCw

i don't really understand the idea that assuming a fake internet identity is for some reason more "courageous" than posting as anonymous. it's the same shit.

48 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-05-24 22:38 ID:2/nYCDkn

>>46

Where is that list?

49 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-05-26 09:37 ID:BzVfWNcF

50 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-05-26 11:58 ID:elGtosmU

So, ep 9 will be the final ep, it looks like. The series is 14 episodes, right?

They're really having fun with the non-linearity.

51 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-05-26 19:14 ID:hi+QC+9V

seiyuu

mms://oricon.hvod.nefficient.jp/oricon/anime/news/harehareyukai_500k.wmv

52 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-05-28 03:42 ID:bdkmHOGZ

Trivia

In episode 8 Haruhi quoted "Elementary, my dear Watson" line from Sherlock Holms series.
This episode was aired on May 22, which was the birthday of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

54 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-05-30 12:42 ID:elGtosmU

>>53

Interesting. It's unfortunate that so few of the Japanese books are available in translation.

And I really need to try reading Hyperion now.

55 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-05-31 11:55 ID:elGtosmU

So, how about the signficance of episode 9?

By all reports, the show will be 14 episode, and that was the 14th episode. If the producers are really planning on airing all the intervening episodes (which might be a bit of a risk assumption), they're essentially saying they won't make a big climax to the story to end it. The final episode might be a climax of some sort, but it will be set earlier in the story.

There were also reference to a sequel to the movie from the first episode. So, speculation: Are we being told there will be a second season? Or will the producers do something even more strange?

Overall, lot of people seem to have though the episode was boring, but I enjoyed it, because I got the joke that the producers were once again messing with the viewers, just like in the first episode.

56 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-06-06 07:58 ID:amcWMbi1

57 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-06-08 13:33 ID:xP3r2j9j

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71T6x-VrzTU&search=haruhi
Haruhi ED reaches #1? Which chart is that from?

58 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-06-15 17:42 ID:bdkmHOGZ

I must say the episode 11 is one of the best anime episode in the past few years. Not to mention the massive of palodies, Ravel's, Shostakovich's, and espicially Tchaikovsky's symphonies are inserted in PERFECT timing. Seeing Nagato's emotional cues is also wonderful. Simply great.

59 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-06-16 03:07 ID:T2M2Enyt

I really love that episode, especially the part where Haruhi wants a gundam rx-78!

60 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-06-16 12:14 ID:elGtosmU

Yuki's "Permission?" scene was a real masterpiece of directing.

It's also worth noting that the episode is nothing but filler and totally predictable, but it's still utterly awesome.

61 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-06-16 14:50 ID:ogcA3HB7

62 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-06-17 09:29 ID:bdkmHOGZ

A fan read out the source code seen in Nagato's typing scene, and compiled it.

source
http://blog.proj.jp/ituki/data/2006/20060615.SimInject.org.cc
http://blog.proj.jp/ituki/data/2006/20060615.SimInject.cc (minor fix)

compiled file
http://blog.proj.jp/ituki/data/2006/20060615.SimInject.exe

Wow... It worked...

63 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-06-17 10:14 ID:bdkmHOGZ

Yes it is filler, but there is one very important scene in this episode. I mean...

We witnessed the historical moment when a machine(humanoid interface) gained "emotion"!
She couldn't express it clearly yet, but Kyon could sense it.

For some reason, this reminds me of the scene when Rachel finds out that she doesn't have true emotinos.

64 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-06-17 12:15 ID:Heaven

>>62

Well, I've been impressed with the handling of computer stuff in the series up until now, but that's pretty impressive.

However, that source code is obviously from a half-finished version of Nagato's hack: She's only scanning for the correct process to inject code in, and the scanning doesn't seem to be complete either. The hack code itself is not there yet!

65 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-06-17 13:07 ID:Heaven

>>62
What does it do? Too lazy to read the code, and as a programmer, I'm not just going to download a random exe since someone says it's based off of a cartoon. :p

66 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-06-17 16:52 ID:Heaven

>>65

If the exe is really just the compiled version of the code, it'll pop up a message box, then scan through some system internals, and do nothing (except print some debug data, which was apparently added by the person who copied the source from the anime).

67 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-06-21 01:36 ID:2/nYCDkn

Wow. Episode 12 features what is probably the first ever reference by an anime show to Rosencrantz and Guildestern are Dead.

That is mighty impressive, as is the fact that the translator caught the reference and got the lines out of the script.

68 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-06-21 12:18 ID:elGtosmU

Oh, and the obligatory Youtube link to ENOZ' God Knows...

http://youtube.com/watch?v=xiPiBMLkKdc

69 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-06-21 13:56 ID:bdkmHOGZ

and this is link to the original ZONE.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=8xylSVd3uYE

plus to the official site of the movie "Linda Linda Linda"
http://www.linda3.com/
ENOZ uses same instruments as Linda3's.

70 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-06-21 16:33 ID:Heaven

Is God Knows reference to Good Days ???
...anyway, this is awsome video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRyo81jwhdw

71 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-06-21 17:14 ID:Gz2Wb/1a

Can you believe that Tsuruya-san's seiyuu is the one who did Osaka in Azumanga Daioh?

72 Name: KIRA : 2006-06-21 20:22 ID:Km4pU3yR

man, i just watched up to episode 12 of this series, really funny =) i really liked it, i had it in my comp for a while but never sat down to watch it, then yesterday i made it anime day wherei would catch up on anime (so i would know whats up in AX2006 that is coming, lucky i live like 20 mins away), and glad i did. =) i really like the characters and its really funny...

best part i liked was the parady of Phoenix Wright ;)

73 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-06-22 02:35 ID:Heaven

As of episode 12 I think I'm in love with both Haruhi and Yuki. Sad, I know.

74 Name: KIRA : 2006-06-22 07:40 ID:Km4pU3yR

i like haruhi and mikuru =) mikuru's theme song always cracks me up w/ her cute singing

75 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-06-22 12:36 ID:Heaven

According to some infomation sites, it seems episode 12 was done by 21 genga-men (key animators). That's quite exceptional. I've rarely heard any TV anime episode that more than 20 key animators involved in. Haruhi's live performance may possibly be one of the most money consuming scene in TV anime history.

76 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-06-22 14:22 ID:Heaven

>>75

It sure looks like it was. You really can tell they're pulling out all the stops.

This all makes me worried that the Haruhi producers are raising the bar so impossibly high, the rest of the industry will just throw up their arms in resignation and leave the business forever.

77 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-06-22 18:27 ID:Heaven

>>76
Or they'll just add a lot more loli panty shots etc to their shows.

78 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-06-22 22:20 ID:GpLkHop0

I've only started watching this series this evening and just finished the first 4 episodes, but I have to say it's fantastic great animation and very funny. Reaffirmed my faith in anime.

79 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-06-22 22:20 ID:GpLkHop0

I've only started watching this series this evening and just finished the first 4 episodes, but I have to say it's fantastic great animation and very funny. Reaffirmed my faith in anime.

80 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-06-24 12:16 ID:bdkmHOGZ

Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuuutsu DVD Asahina Mikuru no Bouken Episode 00 Limited Edition

Oricon DVD sales ranking No.1 !
http://www.oricon.co.jp/rank/dg/d/

Congrats!

81 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-06-24 12:46 ID:EykadEEd

Why is it ending already?!! Only 2 more episodes.. :(

82 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-06-24 16:41 ID:Heaven

>>81

The light that burns twice as bright burns half as long.

83 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-06-25 01:31 ID:Heaven

Are you refering to the resemblance between repricant and humanoid interface?

85 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-06-25 18:01 ID:GpLkHop0

THAT'S PRETTY COOL >>84 nice find. I can't read Japanese, is there anyone who can give a synopsis of the text?? Is there a connection between the animators and the school?
>>81 Say it ain't so, please :-(

86 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-06-25 19:07 ID:Heaven

http://homepage3.nifty.com/hitopon/hito_google_maps_anime_comic-holyplace.html has been updated with Haruhi locations! Scroll down to the end of the list, Haruhi is the next-to-last section (涼宮ハルヒの憂鬱).

87 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-06-27 12:58 ID:bdkmHOGZ

>>85
The school is said to be the alma mater of Tanigawa Nagaru, the auther of original novel Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuutsu.
http://www.hyogo-c.ed.jp/~nishikita-hs/guidance/english/intro.html

Astonishingly enough, the cultural festival of the school was actually held on Jun 17th, the day before Live A Live episode was aired!
(ref. http://www.hyogo-c.ed.jp/~nishikita-hs/kitako_dayori/no_2/page002.jpg Its school paper in Japanese)

88 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-06-29 06:25 ID:Heaven

I thought this would be a lame anime, but I am loving every moment of it. Only bad part so far was that annoying scene of silence with Nagato reading a book, with barely audible ambient noise from a neighbouring classroom.

89 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-06-29 21:53 ID:Q9huZLpn

>>88 but that scene really did a good job of outdoing the infamous Rei and Asuka standing in an elevator with nothing happening scene from Eva.

90 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-06-29 23:17 ID:Heaven

>>88

You watched that far, and you still can't tell that the producers like to mess with the viewers?

91 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-06-30 14:26 ID:Heaven

The information quantity of that episode is pretty larg,e but I think most of them are mere junk info for non-Japanese.

92 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-07-01 06:03 ID:bdkmHOGZ

93 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-07-03 03:19 ID:bdkmHOGZ

There's Aya Hirano's "God Knows" TV live-performance today. Check out youtube or something lol.

94 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-07-03 04:38 ID:Heaven

Someone needs to make a HARUHIGASM t-shirt.

95 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-07-03 08:36 ID:Heaven

>>94
I'd wear that. At home.

96 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-07-03 23:08 ID:Heaven

You imply that people here go anywhere else.

97 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-07-04 02:38 ID:rYIKWI7q

I've found that this show is best if you don't expect humor. It seems to me, as it progresses, it become more art than humor, especially in "Some Day in the Rain."

Also, the light novels are great.

98 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-07-04 04:13 ID:Heaven

>>96
Good point. I don't what I was thinking when I wrote that.

99 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-07-04 04:51 ID:Heaven

ka ki ku ke ko!!!

100 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-07-04 05:43 ID:vay5VKL1

Well. I hope nobody has any silly ideas like trying to watch it chronologically now.

101 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-07-04 09:02 ID:Heaven

>>100
Bah, I've been wanting to do that since around ep 4. I expect there's some subtle bonus details that rely on continuity.

102 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-07-04 11:19 ID:elGtosmU

This thread will now slowly segue into waiting for a second season. Post any rumours you hear in here!

103 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-07-04 13:44 ID:vay5VKL1

>>101

Remembering the stuff you already watched is the same thing. And 13+14 can't possibly go anywhere but the end.

104 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-07-04 14:30 ID:Heaven

>>102
The director said he will do "Banboo Leaf Rhapsody" and "Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya" if there will be a next season.

105 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-07-04 21:23 ID:vay5VKL1

106 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-07-05 06:14 ID:xP3r2j9j

Interview with Hirano Aya.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Dd3t3vSgklU&feature=Views&page=1&t=t&f=b
After hearing her normal voice. -> o_O

She HAS to do a duet with Haruko Momoi! XD

107 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-07-05 12:57 ID:tmSBXXCB

Has she voiced any other characters?

108 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-07-06 22:52 ID:2/nYCDkn

I just decided to check out what kind of attention Haruhi is getting on 2channel.

The Haruhi thread was at part 506.

orz

109 Name: Amarok : 2006-07-07 00:22 ID:9YnSWoHc

Any plans for a "Signs of Haruhi Suzumiya anime?"

110 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-07-07 02:23 ID:Heaven

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111 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-07-09 16:58 ID:Heaven

They never did introduce that cat from the first episode. What a tease...

112 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-07-09 23:55 ID:bdkmHOGZ

Yep the show should be considered as a commercial film for the original novels. You can't fully understand the story without reading them. Especially "Someday in the Rain" episode.

113 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-07-10 04:26 ID:r2QSXJuG

And yet, the show was perfectly awesome by itself.

114 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-07-10 06:08 ID:Heaven

sa shi su se so!!!!

115 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-07-10 13:12 ID:Senfo7S+

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116 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-07-11 02:03 ID:bdkmHOGZ

Hare Hare Yukai Live performance report (Japanese)
http://minorhythm.jugem.jp/?day=20060708

From left to right;
Aya Hirano (as Haruhi)
Minori Chihara(as Yuki)
Yuko Goto(Mikuru)

118 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-07-13 19:18 ID:Fqan+tsn

>>117

i'd eat it. nagato rocks!

119 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-07-14 10:39 ID:bdkmHOGZ

120 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-07-14 14:20 ID:xP3r2j9j

There's something about the interview video that I didn't notice at first but surprised me when I did.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=z1Vc7bjCojo
If you skip to the part where she comes out, there's a shot of the audience. It's almost entirely female! When a guest on these shows has a big otaku following like Morning Musume, the audience is primarily male.

121 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-07-14 19:23 ID:Heaven

122 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-07-15 11:34 ID:bdkmHOGZ

>120

The guy who perticipated to the show reported that the TV crew guided female audiences to the front and drive male otaku to backward.

123 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-07-15 18:39 ID:Heaven

>>122
racism :(

124 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-07-16 07:24 ID:Fqan+tsn

>>122

I think you're right. there definately is a lot of guys in the back

125 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-07-16 15:55 ID:Heaven

>>123
Men and women are seperate races now?

126 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-07-16 19:49 ID:Heaven

>>125
Can't take a joke.

127 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-07-16 20:24 ID:Heaven

The noble race of otaku.

128 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-07-17 05:18 ID:Heaven

I'd eat Nagato too. Though not in the way that commercial is promoting.

129 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-07-22 03:55 ID:bdkmHOGZ

Ep1 Haruhi's Attack
Ep2 An Unfamiliar Clubroom
Ep3 The Hit Counter That Never Rises
Ep4 Bookmark After Start Reading
Ep5 Yuki, Beyond the Heart
Ep6 Face-Off with The Computer Society President
Ep7 A Thought-entities Creation
Ep8 Asakura's Arrival in Classroom
Ep9 A Cardigan Once More in an Instant
Ep10 A Rank Minor
Ep11 Within the Stagnant Room
Ep12 Concerning the Worth of Glasses
Ep13 Taniguchi's Invasion
Ep14 Shamisen, the Throne of Souls
Ep15 Heater and Silence
Ep16 The Syndrome Unto Death, And...
Ep17 The "Normal" Candidate
Ep18 The Choice of World
Ep19 Girls' Live
Ep20 Form of the Chest, Form of the Mole
Ep21 At Least, Be Celestial
Ep22 The Birth of Agent
Ep23 Rains
Ep24 The Final Megassa
Ep25 A World That's Ending
Ep26 The Man that Shouted "Ponytail" at the Heart of the World

130 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-07-23 02:07 ID:bdkmHOGZ

Hi I'm from Akihabara now.
Haruhi's seiyuu team is going to record a radio program in front of a live audience today, and massive amount of otaku are rushing to the recording site. The head-count is approximately 1400 for now and still increasing.. No surprises Akihabara is in a panic with satanically long procession. What a crazy scenery... I wish I have a camera lol.

131 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-07-23 03:16 ID:xP3r2j9j

>>130
OH SHI-

Get a cheap disposable camera! How many people usually go to these live radio events? Let us know if it makes the TV news reports.

132 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-07-23 03:54 ID:spHOz1Of

>>129
What is that?

133 Name: Haruhi : 2006-07-23 05:22 ID:fHdS4/D+

That's INSANE.XD Wish I were there. Tell us how it goes 130!^_^

134 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-07-23 08:11 ID:Heaven

>>132
Check the link, it mimics Evangelion episode titles.

135 Name: VIRUS ALERT : 2006-07-24 12:48 ID:bdkmHOGZ

137 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-07-25 07:22 ID:Heaven

If I got the yuki one, i'd fap

138 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-07-25 07:47 ID:wxky3I/X

If they were leet...

... theu would of done a SOS団 sign virus instead.

139 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-07-27 03:17 ID:bdkmHOGZ

140 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-08-11 01:14 ID:Heaven

Having watched the a.f.k. fansub of the whole 14-part series, I'm a little conflicted as to whether I'd like to see another season. Certainly anything of this quality would deserve a continuation, yet I imagine I'd be quite content closing the book and putting it back to its place on the shelf. After all, with indefinitely many seasons after the first it only turns into a waiting game to see how long it takes for yet another furiously good thing to turn into suck.

Them metaphysical themes though? Win!

>>130
Nationality sense... tingling! There's only one language area where "satanically" is used in that way. [salainenkädenpuristus]

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143 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-08-23 11:32 ID:Heaven

>>140

It already has been continued - remember, it's based on a book series, and the anime only covers the first two out of... five? Six? Something like that.

144 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-08-24 09:45 ID:H9Kdz3nz

>>143
remind them all you like, people will still bitch about plotholes while mistakenly calling this an "ecchi harem comedy"

145 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-08-25 13:57 ID:v38LF6QO

>>144
To hell with that, it's a dancing anime.

146 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-08-25 14:31 ID:Heaven

>>143
Sure. That doesn't guarantee nonsuckitude of future seasons though, if there are going to be any -- we all surely know how many ways there are to fuck up a good thing. This is not to say that I wouldn't totally geek out on the second season were it produced and fansubbed as well as the first.

Really, my point was that the first season was plenty complete by itself, regardless of where the manga (which I've completely ignored) goes. It had a beginning, an end and a bunch of non-arc episodes. Maybe I'm just conflicted here given the expectations that the first season would put on a second.

147 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-08-25 15:03 ID:elGtosmU

>>146

Not a manga, a light novel series. And remember, the climax of the first anime season happens right in the middle, chronologically - the pacing of the books work out that way.

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150 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-08-30 03:04 ID:xP3r2j9j

Newsweek International Article on youtube mentions Haruhi parodies. :3
http://anime.jefflawson.net/stuff/haruhi_newsweek.jpg
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/14534152/site/newsweek/

151 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-08-30 09:52 ID:Heaven

>>144 calling this an "ecchi harem comedy"
It is though, so it makes sense.

152 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-09-17 09:41 ID:WIyVQ0AE

Why did Nagato shoved Mikuru's head on the ground in their indie film? Threatened by the Mikuru Beam?

153 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-09-17 10:55 ID:ct+VGUbb

>>152 Yeah. Nagato put her down and removed the threat (some high-tech contact lens? Mikuru was crying from one eye elsewhere).

This is what I gathered from posts from people who claimed to have read the novels.

154 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-09-19 18:55 ID:XJAlEpCw

>>144
an ecchi harem comedy with a complicated (and sort of irrelevant, from the way it ended up) sci-fi premise. it spends far more time with the moemoe stuff than the sci-fi stuff, though, so i would say that's the dominant genre.

155 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-09-23 07:11 ID:EyJXaZBz

People idolize over Haruhi Suzymiya because she acts like a guy. You ever wish you could have a girl as a friend, just to hang out with like one of the guys? A girl that would have the same interests as you, the same enthusiasm, the same keen observations and sense of adventure? How about a girlfriend that you could just hang out with, have fun with, and not have to listen to her whine and complain and leak. Haruhi Suzymiya is that ideal "hang out with" girl. She has fans because she has all the best traits of a guy friend you can hang out with, only she happens to be a girl. Understand that when people idolize over Haruhi Suzymiya, they idolize over the personality of a cool guy friend in a girl's body- an ideal friend/partner who has the best of both worlds, and would be nearly impossible to find.

157 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-09-23 21:45 ID:Heaven

>>154
Yeah, well, what do you expect from a most-definitely-seinen light novel. "Light novel", as in what the Japanese call their pulps.

158 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-09-25 23:15 ID:XJAlEpCw

>>157
yeah, it's pretty much what i expect. i don't really hold anything against it like a lot of people do; it was more like i felt like >>144 was giving it way too much credit.

159 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-11-11 00:45 ID:LQYX1zsm

160 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-11-11 19:06 ID:hnjPQyef

>>159

"Moonphase reports and we forget to translate the part that says it's an unconfirmed rumor"

161 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-12-19 00:36 ID:2/nYCDkn

162 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-12-19 06:15 ID:Heaven

WTF I say.....

163 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-12-21 05:10 ID:6dTh4bsm

The SOS-dan site has been replaced with that http://asosbrigade.com/
site...

What does this bode?

164 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-12-21 07:05 ID:Gj3TMFM2

It says the world will end on the 22nd... I guess I'll go back tomorrow ~

165 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-12-21 12:29 ID:Heaven

>>163

They just copied the HTML without fixing it to work right (the counter is broken). They're just playing along.

166 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-12-21 20:18 ID:DUPcCbeO

>>165
The couter seems to be on the same server.

167 Name: Mr.Feather : 2006-12-22 00:20 ID:wag8iLVS

i very much enjoyed this anime, just overall great entertainment.

168 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-12-22 10:03 ID:jawsh3T8

North Korea thinks that I sell a nuclear weapon to Islam radical group from lack of funds at last

169 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2006-12-23 02:21 ID:WTAhOhEA

Ok guys, i don't want to be mean/troll/etc.. but i started watching this show because i read it was awesome, large threads dedicated to it, etc.. and i thought to myself that i musn't miss this show..

The point is that so far i haven't watched the series completely (episode 11 so far), and while it's enjoyable i don't find it that it's super awesome/masterpiece/etc like some people said it was, ok the series is very good animated all around, has good effects, and has had