High possiblity of Haruhi license

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.

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37 Responses to High possiblity of Haruhi license

  1. guest says:

    Licence </nitpick>

  2. Chicken says:

    haha it doesn’t matter really but fuck the dubs

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  4. M.D. Geist says:

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

  5. mt-i says:

    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 says:

    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 says:

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

  8. Nobunaga says:

    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 says:

    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 says:

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

  11. fict says:

    >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 says:

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

  13. DarkMirage says:

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

  14. O_o says:

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

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

  15. Aya Reiko says:

    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 says:

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

    zomg wtf!?

  17. Arod_Meon says:

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

  18. Arod_Meon says:

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

  19. 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 says:

    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 says:

    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 says:

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

  23. Qubicfactor says:

    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 says:

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

  25. jiv says:

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

  26. jinyamato says:

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

  27. jinyamato says:

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

  28. jinyamato says:

    nagato iste also has new scrip can somone translate?

  29. Waterfall says:

    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 says:

    “Arrange the program start condition and the key.”

    Once again, a reference to volume 4.

  31. Bridge Bunny says:

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

  32. Julius Firefocht says:

    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 says:

    Geez.

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

    God bless capitalism. :P

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