I’ve been following Kadokawa Shoten CEO Shinichirou Inoue’s Twitter feed for a while mainly due to Bill 156. Today, he posted a tweet saying that a huge announcement for Suzumiya Haruhi will be published in the next issue of Kadokawa’s The Sneaker magazine (the bi-monthly that the original light novels are serialized in) coming out on Dec 27th.

Given the complete lack of information, I am just going to make a completely baseless guess and call it now: live action movie adaptation of the original Yuuutsu story arc! (No, not this one.) Remember you heard it here first.

Well, at the very least, I think we can be sure that it won’t be a new special rip-off remastered edition of the DVDs, since the Blu-ray box only just came out.

After entering K, N, S, A, K and clicking the button, you will be presented with a console terminal running Yuki’s escape program.

これをあなたが読んでいるæ‚、わたしはわたしではないだろう。
By the time you are reading this, I am probably no longer myself.

このメッセージが表示されたということは、そこにはあなた、わたし、涼宮ハルヒ、朝比奈みくる、古泉一樹が存在しているはずである。
Since this message is being displayed, it means that you, me, Haruhi Suzumiya, Mikuru Asahina and Itsuki Koizumi exist in that world.

それが鍵。あなたは解答を見つけ出した。
That is the key. You have found the answer.

これは緊急脱出プログラムである。起動させる場合はエンターキーを、そうでない場合はそれ以外のキーを選択せよ。起動させた場合、あなたはæ‚空修正の機会を得る。ただし成功は保障できない。また帰還の保障もできない。
This is an emergency escape program. Press the Enter key to activate it, or press any other key to abort. If activated, you will receive a chance to repair the space-time continuum. However, I cannot guarantee that it will succeed. Neither can I guarantee your return.

このプログラムが起動ãã‚‹ã®ã¯ä¸€åº¦ãã‚Šã§ã‚る。実行ののち、消去される。非実行が選択された場合は起動せずに消去される。Ready?
This program can only be activated once. It will be deleted immediately upon execution. If you choose to abort, the program will be deleted without being executed. Ready?

After hitting the Enter key, you are brought to this page displaying a single JPG picture. The picture says that Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuuutsu season 2 has been cancelled but a new Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuuutsu anime series has been confirmed. I’m guessing they are planning to change the title of the new series to Suzumiya Haruhi no Shoushitsu (The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya).

The new director will be Yasuhiro Takemoto, who also directed Full Metal Panic! The Second Raid and Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu. And of course, it’s still Kyoto Animation.

On another note, this website now has a Haruhi and Yuki banner in addition to the Miku one.

In response, Zero the Penguin has updated Code-Geass.com… I wonder who those mysterious voices belong to… (Maybe you should look for the sauce?)

You can get it from 1999 or HLJ for about ï¿¥3,800. The stocks are probably not going to be gone within 5 seconds of this post like the previous two times, but those of you dying to get one should nevertheless place your orders ASAP.

That said, June is an awfully long wait from the first batch coming out in February…