North America Haruhi site updated
The mysterious Haruhi website has been updated. Don’t see any changes? Look at the source code.
Read on for the details.
The DOCTYPE declaration has been taken off. The original DOCTYPE was !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN".
People were speculating that Funimation was the one who licensed Haruhi because the DOCTYPE matches the one used on their website. It seems that whoever licensed Haruhi wanted to kill this rumour, since it’s kind of weird for someone to remove a working DOCTYPE for no reason (the site is valid HTML 4.01 according to W3C).
The hidden text in the source code has also been changed to 「北米計画が発効した。」, or “the North American project has been launched.” I think this pretty much confirms it 100% that Haruhi is licensed.
If the DOCTYPE was really removed because of the rumours, then this pretty much rules out Funimation as the mysterious company. Plus the fact that all the “in-jokes” are being done in Japanese, it leads me to believe that the licensing company has to be Kadokawa Pictures USA (which currently only has FMP! TSR under its belt).
Haruhi.tv has also been updated with an escape program from YUKI.N. Looks like season two announcement is coming soon.
Whatever the case is, you can hear my wallet dreading the future. ＿|￣|O
December 21st, 2006 at 1:32 pm
the onli thing i get when i go http://asosbrigade.com/404.html is:
“WARNING
Your action has created a 404 Error in the space-time continuum.”
December 21st, 2006 at 1:40 pm
It looks like it will be 12AM Eastern, as that’s what time they updated the site just now.
December 21st, 2006 at 4:57 pm
Haruhi.tv is now back online.
December 21st, 2006 at 5:19 pm
it seems that http://www.haruhi.tv change( or not) maybe due to the release of the album….hm…God knows…..
December 21st, 2006 at 5:28 pm
I’ll bet dovac must be giggling like a little girl at his bank statement.
December 21st, 2006 at 5:56 pm
The commented line on asosbrigade has changed yet again.
ワクワクしてきた！
December 21st, 2006 at 6:31 pm
Isn’t that the same doctype used on other sites?
December 21st, 2006 at 9:32 pm
interesting!
December 22nd, 2006 at 5:42 am
Kadokawa Pictures USA doesn’t have their own website…?
December 22nd, 2006 at 1:17 pm
Commented text changed.
Looks like the timezone is not US East Coast.
December 22nd, 2006 at 1:50 pm
By the Empress’ Immortal Will, we will soon commence the invasion of Britannia. We will not rest until the flag of Haruhiism is raised over the blasted remains of the country, and the False Emperor of Britannia is casted down and trampled beneath our army!
The Empress protects. SIEG HARUHIISM!
December 22nd, 2006 at 2:09 pm
Updated yet again. We are almost there.
December 22nd, 2006 at 2:23 pm
It’s the Pacific time zone, probably. At the most it should be 4 PM.
December 22nd, 2006 at 3:03 pm
LOL new messages. LOL.
December 22nd, 2006 at 3:40 pm
Updated. Again.
December 22nd, 2006 at 4:04 pm
December 22nd, 2006 at 4:09 pm
December 22nd, 2006 at 4:12 pm
Lawl fansite.
Now let’s hope for sequel.
December 22nd, 2006 at 4:18 pm
Wait, no.
Bandai?
December 25th, 2006 at 4:25 pm
Site updated for voicing. XD @ English versions