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High possiblity of Haruhi license

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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.

Haruhi

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 「禁則事項は１２月２２日公表します。」 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.

37 responses

  1. guest Avatar
    guest

    Licence </nitpick>

  2. Chicken Avatar
    Chicken

    haha it doesn’t matter really but fuck the dubs

  3. Kita ze Inbou! – キタぜ陰謀! » Wildfire Report: Haruhi getting the license treatment?

    […] As has been mentioned at Anime on My Mind and Ramblings of DarkMirage the html code suggests that it is a U.S. site and that there’s a possibility the company may even be Funimation. Kurogane has also made a report on the news stating that he too believes it’s a possible license announcement. […]

  4. M.D. Geist Avatar
    M.D. Geist

    If they bring out a DVD Boxset which is affordable (read: CHEAP) i´ll think about it …

  5. mt-i Avatar
    mt-i

    A homepage with incorrectly encoded EUC-JP text hidden in the source, à 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?

  6. Mac Avatar
    Mac

    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.

  7. Mac Avatar
    Mac

    Incorrectly *declared* Shift-JIS, I mean. I hate spammy corrective comments, but that made me sound like an idiot.

  8. Nobunaga Avatar
    Nobunaga

    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!

  9. O_o Avatar
    O_o

    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.

  10. waffo Avatar
    waffo

    Good thing my class doesn’t have any class presidents, then.

  11. fict Avatar
    fict

    >Another thing worth noting — today is the day when the events of volume 4 occur.

    Ho ho, could they be toying with us?

  12. Prime Avatar
    Prime

    December 22nd is when the new Transformers Live-Action trailer comes out, come on peeps, its Transformers, not stupid Haruhi.

  13. DarkMirage Avatar
    DarkMirage

    Mac, you can manually change the encoding in the View Source window if you are using Firefox.

  14. O_o Avatar
    O_o

    >>Ho ho, could they be toying with us?

    Maybe not with us, but…
    http://www.haruhi.tv

  15. Aya Reiko Avatar
    Aya Reiko

    Anime on DVD seems to know something too. Every S and O are red in today’s entry.

    Someone has it’s license.

  16. t3h Dave Avatar
    t3h Dave

    >> Maybe not with us, but…
    http://www.haruhi.tv

    zomg wtf!?

  17. Arod_Meon Avatar
    Arod_Meon

    http://www.haruhi.tv seems down, but… http://www.haruhi.tv/member_yuki.html Can somebody please translate it for me?

  18. Arod_Meon Avatar
    Arod_Meon

    There’s also a comment in its source code that is in japanese.

  19. wildarmsheero Avatar
    wildarmsheero

    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

  20. DarkMirage Avatar
    DarkMirage

    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.

  21. Arod_Meon Avatar
    Arod_Meon

    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.

  22. jeremy Avatar
    jeremy

    maybe its the official site of http://www.haruhi.tv changing…. licence part…Pretty pls NOOOO ~>_

  23. Qubicfactor Avatar
    Qubicfactor

    Maybe we should all reseed the torrents in these last few days before it gets removed… I’m dedicating my 1Mbps upload for Haruhisama!

  24. O_o Avatar
    O_o

    For those who haven’t gotten the http://www.haruhi.tv thing yet, check yesterday’s date. Then read volume 4 (again).

  25. jiv Avatar
    jiv

    That Yuki page in the official site seems to be the page for the literature club :p

  26. jinyamato Avatar
    jinyamato

    @O_o: i seee what u mean….. thanks

  27. jinyamato Avatar
    jinyamato

    check the haruihi.tv again new script i think at the bottom

  28. jinyamato Avatar
    jinyamato

    nagato iste also has new scrip can somone translate?

  29. Waterfall Avatar
    Waterfall

    To DarkMirage,

    Aya is a Shinigami!
    Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeks
    http://randomc.animeblogger.net/2006/12/19/death-note-special/
    Don’t look at me!

    From
    Waterfall

  30. O_o Avatar
    O_o

    “Arrange the program start condition and the key.”

    Once again, a reference to volume 4.

  31. Bridge Bunny Avatar
    Bridge Bunny

    Looks like they are paying back for the invasion by Britannia!

  32. Julius Firefocht Avatar
    Julius Firefocht

    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!!!!!!

  33. DrmChsr0 Avatar
    DrmChsr0

    …

    Geez.

    You all know this is hot stuff. Licensing was inevitable. It was just a matter of when.

    God bless capitalism. :P

  34. Tsubaki Avatar
    Tsubaki

    Shit.

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