Somewhere on the horizon Haruhi is still waiting
While everyone was busy either hating or defending Haruhi, it seems that everyone was missing the point and forgot something very important: “Why did we even get Sighs of Haruhi Suzumiya” Have you, the reader, seriously considered that? I doubt that many have stopped and think hard of the reason behind all of this. It isn’t so easy to notice at first until you consider all the pieces only then you can reach a conclusion. Of course, I’m not just talking without evidence here I can prove it to you in this post that this is more than we think.
This is something that started three years ago after the show ended, it went from the false promises of a second season year after year, the mediocre spin offs that they spawned to the other innumerable shenanigans of double K. But there was always a common factor in all of that. Let’s start with the spins off first, Haruhi-chan and Churuya-san, when the producers decided that it was fine to waste valuable time and resources by making these two forgettable shows instead of focusing in more important projects. These both projects were guaranteed to get a negative criticism from people with a respectable amount of taste and a head over their shoulders. The only thing that they accomplished was to think remind us that they can work on whatever they want. To remind us that they can still get people to watch it and suckers to love it. Not to mention sell the DVDs and make a reasonable profit once it was possible to do so. They partly accomplished that. In my opinion, they were the cheapest creations ever created next to Endless Eight and I mean cheap in every sense of the word.
“It was inexcusable of us to be unable to make the scheduled broadcast. We apologise most sincerely for this. With preparations complete, we think we can begin broadcast shortly.” — Nice Boat SOS-dan
Let’s not forget about the false promises of second season every six months which got too old by the second year. Year after year it was the same thing repeated then after two years the second season became a myth of mythological dimensions. It was just too funny to believe that such tale could exist. The only thing that these old promises accomplished was to force a large amount of fans to forget about the show they loved and to lose faith that they would ever see it again. Kadokawa accomplished that. A year later, now 2009 already we got another one of the hundreds either fake or troll news about the release date of new Haruhi Suzumiya. New would be the correct word if new is translated into Japanese as god-awful reruns and out of this world corporate trolling. Now, now my Japanese isn’t that great but I’m positive that that isn’t the case. Nevertheless, it was rumored that the new season would consist of 28 episodes. The first half would be from the first season and the rest would be all new never seen before episodes. How exciting! And so a second season was promised to us: The “Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya.” We even saw the cover and all. I thank you from the depths of my heart NewType for doing it. You are one stand-up guy. I truly respect you unlike Kadokawa.
Kadokawa and company just could not let this opportunity pass by. They just couldn’t resist. They’ve could let the fans have it for only once. It was too much too ask of them. They’re like a compulsive pyromaniac with a lighter in his hand with unlimited gas ready to torch everything. Now that they got our hopes up again it was time to set it all on flames. Oh, they were flames alright. Little did we know that after Bamboo Leaf Rhapsody we would be stuck in Endless Eight for the next two months, stuck in this horrible sadistic nightmare like a bad movie that should have never made it to the local theaters and much less released to the world. Now, I know why they say Japan-only. I‘ve heard about recaps and fillers but this was ridiculous. Continue reading ‘Bravo. Well played, Kadokawa. You almost got me there with your Corporate Trolling – The reason behind E8 and Why I think we got “SIGHS”. The Demonization of Haruhi Suzumiya (long read)’
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