Haruhi Suzumiya Movie Announced for Spring 2010

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Random Curiosity has the teaser trailer. This is due for next spring and will reportedly adapt The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya, which as fans know is a significant story that was once a hopeful possibility for the second series of new anime episodes.

I'd say this is good news, which it is, but to me it's also basically obligatory compensation for not doing what most fans think should have been done in the first place. I'll take it though, and this is certainly better than waiting another 2-3 years for another full series.
 
Awesome. Looking forward to seeing Haruhi on the big screen.

Although not much of a teaser trailer though, despite that making it all the more interesting. Was expecting Haruhi instead of whoever was on the trailer. (I know who it is, but I'd like to keep it a surprise)
 
On that last comment....

That person is Yuki, isn't it? Or are things not what they seem?

I don't necessarily need a straight & detailed answer, a "yes" or a "no" would do. It just didn't occur to me that there was anything strange about the trailer at all.

Here's hoping it's good. The Endless Eight situation really let down a lot of fans, Omni definitely isn't alone on that. So they have a lot to make up for with this project.

I suppose I shouldn't hope for Yamamoto Yutaka to direct...assuming that Kyoto Animation is doing work on this, that is.
 
That was the worst teaser I've ever seen.
It was just a shaky picture.

I really think the idea of making Disappearance a movie was thrown together last minute.
You are probably right, GWOtaku, when you say this is compensation for Endless Eight.


Well anyways, I'll take it.
I've never read the manga, and know nothing about Disappearance, except for the fact that all Haruhi fans say it is freakin' epic.

So, yeah... looking forward to this.
 
... considering all the Disappearance related artwork that has shown up in Newtype over the past year and 3 quarters, I'd say this has probably been in the planning since before they decided to make the extended first season. And even then, the whole extra 14 eps were made because of it.
 
Oh God. They are making more?

I was hoping to be done with Haruhi. Endless Eight was a waste of time and season two was a failure. This is from someone who thought the first season was great and never read the novels. The second season really killed all interest I had in the series.

The movie BETTER be sold by itself. I don't want to spend a dime on season two.
 
I know there weren't many of them, but the new episodes that aren't part of the repetitions of Endless Eight look to be pretty solid.

As for the trailer, er, that's pretty standard for a teaser. The Gundam 00 movie teaser took a handful of seconRAB to show us what was basically one shot, followed by a card or two. That was it. It's a brief taste, and even if they were planning it that doesn't mean they have animation ready to show off already.
 
Movie or miniseries, I'm just glad we're getting to see Dissapearance animated. It's the story they should have been focused on from the beggining instead of dragging out Endless Eight.



Give this movie a chance. The story
and the return of Ryoko Asakura
will be worth it and should wash the awful taste of Endless Eight out of our mouths.



Season Two's first episode was solid but I didn't really care to see the "making of the SOS Brigade's movie" being adapted. We saw their stupid movie already, why should we care what happened during it's production?
 
Because the student film wasn't important. Filming is far more complex than the final film. This reminded me of The Lord of The Rings Trilogy, were one staff meraber broke through police lines to retrieve a stunt-double's Frodo wig , risking his life in the process from the incoming flood, just so the filming can stay on schedule.
Making a movie is always twice as exciting as the movie itself.

Seriously, the 2nd novel was dedicated to the filming process. The actual film wasn't described in the novels until a few years later.
 
It also demonstrated Haruhi's powers gone wrong if not properly handled, and the wire-walking the merabers have to do to keep the world safe. Not to mention the darker, stressed-out sides of each characters like Kyon when pushed to the brink.
 
Various blogs are reporting that the Japanese website now says that this film will clock in at 150 minutes. Yes, as in two and a half hours, as in roughly the amount of time that the Endless Eight fiasco wasted before. Heh.

My understanding is that Disappearance is a substantial story arc, so this could well be taken as an honest attempt to get it right this time. Here's hoping.
 
How that runtime is going to be spent:

-10 minute opening credit sequence... composed entirely of still images like the one in the trailer
-15 minutes of recapping the last season for those who got sick of watching
-Plot begins... and it's all done with still images!
-After 5 minutes of still images, a solid half-hour of well animated plot
-20 minute break from the plot to discuss the finer aspects of pastry cooking
-Return to plot for 15 minutes, only the plot has suddenly gone forward in time after some big twist that doesn't get explained has already occured
-screen goes black for 5 minutes while dialogue continues
-25 minutes of Mikuru in various outfits doing a leekspin with subliminal porno frames inserted throughout
-20 minutes of concluding the plot that no longer makes any sense
-And right after the credits are finished with a new version of the Hare Hare Yukai, a trailer for a Blu-Ray exclusive OAV release filling in the blank left in the story

It'll be better than the salami and the baloney corabined.
 
Given his final line in the post, I'm guessing funny, as that's taken from Rocko's "Wacky Delly", though given the Endless Eight debacle, there's probably a bit of cynical in there too.

I'm up for a Haruhi movie, but the 150 minutes better be well-spent and paced right. I mean, for all means and purposes, that's six or seven TV episodes in a row. There should be very little (if any) filler if it wants to hold the audience's attention for that long.
 
There's now a trailer with actual video footage here. Haruhi's generally pretty light, so to me the soraber tone of this trailer is quite surprising. It certainly looks like a movie-level project should, I'll give it that.
 
The design of the webpage certainly makes my theory of this being the most epic troll since Troll 2 pretty damn plausible.
 
Really? The trailer looks Epic. A lot of stuff I'd never imagine happening in haruhi. It looks like the plot is kicking into high gear, much to Kyoani's apparent hatred of plot.

I have S1 of haruhi, but no way in HELL am I buying that E8 crap. It has a snowball's chance of being liscenced anyway.
 
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