A mysterious website, asosbrigade.com has been spotted. It foretells the end of the world on 22 Dec and has copyright information for Noizi Itou and SOS-dan in Japanese.
The title bar says “The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya – Haruhiism – North America“. I assume the “a” in the URL stands for “America”.
The hidden text in the source code says 「ç¦å‰‡äº‹é …ã¯ï¼‘２月２２日公表ã—ã¾ã™ã€‚〠or “the kinsoku jikou will be revealed on 22 Dec”. The domain is registered to a US address through a US registrar. The IP itself appears to be hosted at Hurricane Electric, a US colo provider.
The inclusion of copyright information is unusual for a fansite. (We are a bunch of pirates.)
All signs point to a R1 Haruhi license announcement in 4 days.
Licence </nitpick>
haha it doesn’t matter really but fuck the dubs
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If they bring out a DVD Boxset which is affordable (read: CHEAP) i´ll think about it …
A homepage with incorrectly encoded EUC-JP text hidden in the source, Ã la haruhi.tv (which seems to be down, by the way)–doesn’t that sound like, much too geeky a stunt for US distributors to pull?
How did you go about reading the incorrectly converted Shift-JIS encoded text?
I’m just curious to know if there’s an easier method than how I did it.
The hidden comment is clever, but it’s aggravating that they go to the trouble of hiding a clever comment without giving us a clue.
Incorrectly *declared* Shift-JIS, I mean. I hate spammy corrective comments, but that made me sound like an idiot.
Jippi! *makes the Hare Hare Yukai-dance*
This could be something like that hack made by the frog on ADV´s site. After that ADV decleared they had the series. So this could be done by ADV or Funimation. Shiawase!
HARUIISM FOR EVERYONE!
It’s pretty much certain that it isn’t a fake. The owner of animeondvd.com (the site that stealthly linked to the page in the first place) even changed his avatar to the Haruhiism pic today.
Another thing worth noting — today is the day when the events of volume 4 occur.
Good thing my class doesn’t have any class presidents, then.
>Another thing worth noting — today is the day when the events of volume 4 occur.
Ho ho, could they be toying with us?
December 22nd is when the new Transformers Live-Action trailer comes out, come on peeps, its Transformers, not stupid Haruhi.
Mac, you can manually change the encoding in the View Source window if you are using Firefox.
>>Ho ho, could they be toying with us?
Maybe not with us, but…
http://www.haruhi.tv
Anime on DVD seems to know something too. Every S and O are red in today’s entry.
Someone has it’s license.
>> Maybe not with us, but…
http://www.haruhi.tv
zomg wtf!?
http://www.haruhi.tv seems down, but… http://www.haruhi.tv/member_yuki.html Can somebody please translate it for me?
There’s also a comment in its source code that is in japanese.
You do realize that haruhi.tv isn’t down. The 404 is clearly faked. Take a close look at the image…
Also, that’s an IE 404 I’m using Firefox :P
It’s pretty much confirmed that Haruhi is licensed. Someone had to pay ANN and AoD for the advertisements. The problem is who?
Judging from the use of Japanese in the source code, the Japanese copyright information and the third party hosting, I’m placing my bet on Kadokawa Pictures USA. I just don’t see Funimation or ADV doing those things.
Yeah, I know.. hehe. That’s why I said it “seems”. I think that a 404 should only be in jap if you’re using a jap browser.
maybe its the official site of http://www.haruhi.tv changing…. licence part…Pretty pls NOOOO ~>_
Maybe we should all reseed the torrents in these last few days before it gets removed… I’m dedicating my 1Mbps upload for Haruhisama!
For those who haven’t gotten the http://www.haruhi.tv thing yet, check yesterday’s date. Then read volume 4 (again).
That Yuki page in the official site seems to be the page for the literature club :p
@O_o: i seee what u mean….. thanks
check the haruihi.tv again new script i think at the bottom
nagato iste also has new scrip can somone translate?
To DarkMirage,
Aya is a Shinigami!
Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeks
http://randomc.animeblogger.net/2006/12/19/death-note-special/
Don’t look at me!
From
Waterfall
“Arrange the program start condition and the key.”
Once again, a reference to volume 4.
Looks like they are paying back for the invasion by Britannia!
It’s a counter-invasion! Legions of troops loyal to the God-Empress will soon storm the shores of Britannia! The greatest orators and speech-makers will bear Her holy words, incite the messes to overthrow the False Emperor of Britannia, and claim the blasted country in the name of Haruhiism!
SIEG HARUHI!!!!!!
…
Geez.
You all know this is hot stuff. Licensing was inevitable. It was just a matter of when.
God bless capitalism. :P
Shit.
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