asos brigade – Ramblings of DarkMirage

Haruhi licensed by Kadokawa USA, distributed by Bandai

DarkMirage — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 08:20:22 +0000

Live action Haruhi! Speaking English! ZOMG!

Watch the video and find out.

P.S. ASOS Brigade myspace page.

North America Haruhi site updated

DarkMirage — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 16:52:34 +0000

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 ã€ŒåŒ—ç±³è¨ˆç”»ãŒçºåŠ¹ã—ãŸã€‚ã€, 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. ï¼¿|ï¿£|O

High possiblity of Haruhi license

DarkMirage — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 16:57:18 +0000

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 ã€Œç¦å‰‡äº‹é …ã¯ï¼‘ï¼’æœˆï¼’ï¼’æ—¥å…¬è¡¨ã—ã¾ãã€‚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.