Haruhi licensed by Kadokawa USA, distributed by Bandai
Live action Haruhi! Speaking English! ZOMG!
Watch the video and find out.
P.S. ASOS Brigade myspace page.
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Live action Haruhi! Speaking English! ZOMG!
Watch the video and find out.
P.S. ASOS Brigade myspace page.
December 22nd, 2006 at 4:24 pm
Video is laaaaaame :P
December 22nd, 2006 at 4:28 pm
Mikuru is hawt, though.
December 22nd, 2006 at 4:28 pm
The cute thing is, they can make the videos as low budget as possible, and it will be keeping in the spirit of SHnY. XD
Cheers.
December 22nd, 2006 at 4:37 pm
That Haruhi and Mikuru is who they should have cast in the porno. Seriously hot (especially Mikuru). Their Yuki, however, just isn’t right. Maybe it’s the hair…
December 22nd, 2006 at 4:48 pm
The video is as lame as the first episode, but in an funny way :p and that haruhi is cute.
December 22nd, 2006 at 4:51 pm
“No Special Thanks
Downloader/Bootleggers who never buy the official DVDs.”
cracked me up :D
December 22nd, 2006 at 4:51 pm
“AWWWWW! SO. FAR. AWAYYYYYY!”
December 22nd, 2006 at 4:55 pm
Haruhi and Mikuru in that video are indeed hot. As lame as it was, it was funny.
December 22nd, 2006 at 4:57 pm
jiv: and that haruhi is cute.
Didn’t she say she played the Pink Space Ranger? Man, I gotta watch Power Rangers more often.
December 22nd, 2006 at 4:58 pm
wtf happened to yuki
December 22nd, 2006 at 5:00 pm
Shit happens.
December 22nd, 2006 at 5:02 pm
Yuki needs a buff -_-’
and is it only me that thinks it’s too lame to be true? “http://wiki.sos-dan.com/”
big set up fanjoke tbh :P
December 22nd, 2006 at 5:15 pm
looks not bad.. though….although yuki does not seem to do the part… we need another yuki
December 22nd, 2006 at 5:18 pm
Gh3Y Shit. Reminded of the pr0n flick all over again.
December 22nd, 2006 at 5:19 pm
WAIT WTF! IS THAT SUPPOSED TO BE YUKI?
December 22nd, 2006 at 5:21 pm
>>Didn’t she say she played the Pink Space Ranger? Man, I gotta watch Power Rangers more often.
You’re about a decade too late for that season
December 22nd, 2006 at 5:30 pm
O_o: You’re about a decade too late for that season
Where’s a hot time-travelling meido when i need one…
December 22nd, 2006 at 5:37 pm
I am the Pink Space Ranger lawl.
AWW!! SO. FAR. AWAYYYYYY!!!!
This video is made of low-budget, meme’s and win.
So, who’ll be in your Code-Geass one, DM? I’m pretty sure tj_han would make a fine Lulu, while you’ll probably be the Emperor.
Most importantly, make sure you find someone HAWT to do Kallen and C.C., mmkay? MMKAY?!
December 22nd, 2006 at 6:01 pm
Direct link to the FLV video:
http://www.lordrichard.com/00_320x240.flv
Can be played with:
http://www.download.com/3002-2139_4-10505954.html?tag=pdp_prob
December 22nd, 2006 at 6:05 pm
so that was interesting :O
R1 DVDs, here I come :3
December 22nd, 2006 at 7:00 pm
AWW SO FAR AWAY…
funnee…
December 22nd, 2006 at 7:11 pm
=__=
I really thought you and dovac were behind this… well at least the sos-dan part.
December 22nd, 2006 at 7:20 pm
So, at Kadokawa USA, you get paid for making lame 4chan jokes, comments in untranslated Japanese targeted at rabid fanboys and a display of general geekiness? What’s their policy regarding overseas recruitment?
Also, the video shows how much cuter the original Mikuru could have been if she were less busty :-).
December 22nd, 2006 at 7:38 pm
Oh come on mt-i, cut them some slack. :P
December 22nd, 2006 at 7:47 pm
TiRune: I accidently added in the ” behind http://wiki.sos-dan.com/ and created a 404 error in the space-time continuum.
Yuki is… weird T-T And the video is so speechless.
December 22nd, 2006 at 9:06 pm
I think what they’re doing here is really awesome. The video is corny but it’s kind of fun like that, and they manage to pull the whole thing off without looking like a dad trying to be cool.
I have a horrible feeling other licensors will try and do similar things and have it come off horribly bad, but for now I like where this is going.
December 22nd, 2006 at 10:59 pm
That video was awesome. The girl quite captured Haruhi’s spirit. Now if all shows were publicised this way….
December 22nd, 2006 at 11:41 pm
It begins.
Oh, and Haruhi and Mikuru in there just rocked.
December 22nd, 2006 at 11:56 pm
rofl the video is a classic
December 23rd, 2006 at 12:25 am
This probably the best licensement of the year, no this has to be the best licensement EVAR!
Hoping Bandai doesn´t screw around.
I am lost for words for this video and Myspace-site.
HARUHI BANZAI! HARUHI BANZAI! HARUHI BANZAI! ^_^
December 23rd, 2006 at 12:37 am
Actualli, i am starting to think that the “company” is not a company. PROVE: http://asosbrigade.com/ and http://www.sos-dan.com happens to haf the same “The world you know is about to end” thingy on both their sites when asosbrigade is havin that thing… And THEY BOTH LOOK FREAKILING THE SAME!! OR EXACTLY THE SAME! if sos-dan.com is by fans, then its not surprising that asosbrigade.com is also by fans. dan=brigade Dan is the japanese version of Brigade..Vice versa….SO OVERALL: ALL BY FANS!!!As for haruhi.tv…….possiblly coincidental….Except yuki’s help to the North American thing is true…
December 23rd, 2006 at 12:42 am
One day in the future, we will be able to subsist solely on entertainment produced by individuals with FAR TOO MUCH TIME, thus precluding any payments to giant media corporations and leading to WORLD PEACE.
December 23rd, 2006 at 12:43 am
Crap, my last comment was supposed to be about code-geass.com
ORZ
December 23rd, 2006 at 12:44 am
ignore wat i said above…
December 23rd, 2006 at 12:56 am
Oh I’m willing to give them all the slack they want. The setup may be lame, but I absolutely love it. VIP quality, really (except perhaps for that Hahiru cosplayer). I only wish our local licensors could reach a fraction of that level of marketing genius.
AND NOW for some moar CODE-GEASS.com awesomeness on myspace?
December 23rd, 2006 at 1:06 am
hmmm..if asos brigade means: Americans Spreading excitement all over the world haruhi suzumiya brigade….singapore Sos dan would be: SSOS-DAN..
December 23rd, 2006 at 1:26 am
Did anyone look at the code-geass.com site yet? XD
December 23rd, 2006 at 2:18 am
God does not have a MySpace page. Haruhi does not have a MySpace page.
The crappy video of the licensing of Haruhi Suzumiya does not exist.
This is all a dream.
December 23rd, 2006 at 2:40 am
Sabas: the licensing of Haruhi Suzumiya
Isn’t that going to be the title of book 9?
December 23rd, 2006 at 9:02 am
@jeremy: dovac told the community that he had sold off the sos-dan.com URL to some ‘unknown’ buyer to fund the comiket 71 loot, didn’t he.
December 23rd, 2006 at 11:25 am
a.. big.. WTF is what the vid deserves imho
as so many have said before what did they do to yuki O_o (mikuru was hot though :D.. cant stand the voice for haruhi though >.>)
December 23rd, 2006 at 11:29 am
PINK SPACE RANGER!
December 23rd, 2006 at 2:17 pm
@bridge Bunny: i See…thx…
Mikuru, the moe factor! turns otaku fanboys on…^^
December 23rd, 2006 at 4:21 pm
Karko:
…cant stand the voice for haruhi though >.>
Don’t think you have to worry about Pink Space Ranger doing the voice for Haruhi. While the road from Power Ranger to voice actor is not without its successes (see: Stampede, Vash the), primary character voices on series like this, where all signs point to a very profitable license, if done right, tend to go to proven veterans.
Unless you’re ADV, of course. After all, somebody’s got to take the risk of hiring voice actors who haven’t done anything before…
I’d expect someone with a recognized name, who can do a younger (but not too young) voice, like Kari Wahlgren (FLCL’s Haruko), or Michelle Ruff (Lupin III’s Fujiko), or even Wendee Lee (best known as Faye Valentine, but the voice she’s currently doing for Tatsuki on Bleach would be about right).
A lot of it will depend on whether they hire via casting call, or if they farm it out to an ADR production company, like Animaze (Bebop, Trigun, GitS) or Ocean (Inuyasha, Ranma. Gundam Seed/Wing). Both have done business with Bandai in the past. I kinda hope they get Ocean to do the dubbing, as they’ve got a number of fine voice actresses who could handle the female roles, their VAs never seem to overact like too many American VAs do (probably because they’re Canadian), and Kirby Morrow (Inuyasha’s Miroku) would be absolutely perfect for Itsuki.
December 23rd, 2006 at 7:44 pm
[quote comment="39"]Sabas: the licensing of Haruhi Suzumiya
Isn’t that going to be the title of book 9?[/quote]
“涼宮ハルヒの認可”
[i]Suzumiya Haruhi no Ninka[/i]
…What? It’s possible. :3
December 23rd, 2006 at 7:44 pm
It seems I do not understand WordPress at all. orz.
December 24th, 2006 at 11:57 am
Hehe I honestly thought it was a joke, until I investigated the official Bandai USA website http://www.bandai-ent.com/index.cfm and saw the SOS logo there, which itself was linked to the ASOS site.
December 24th, 2006 at 4:29 pm
Maybe it really is a joke, and Bandai’s just in on it? I can see it now…
Bandai announces the release of the first DVD will be on April 3rd, 2007, and that they’ll release footage of Asahina Mikuru no Bouken Episode 00, pegged as the first episode on the DVD, on their website a few days early to promote it. The end of March comes, and at midnight (PT, of course) on the Sunday before the DVD release, when Bandai had announced that the footage would be shown, we get another Pink Space Ranger Haruhi video where she basically says “April Fools, FUNimation really has the license.” After that it redirects to the FUNimation site where Episode 00 is played online in dub form. “Highlights” include a failure to get the license for either “God Knows” or “Hare Hare Yukai,” Tsuruya-san having a southern accent, an overacting Itsuki sounding like he’s a regular at the Blue Oyster Bar (NO ONE is going to get that reference these days), “esper” being translated to “superhero,” and very nice packaging and DVD menus. Rioting in the streets, societal breakdown, and a big fat lawsuit from Marvel Comics follow…
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