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Na ja, ich habe lediglich gesagt, dass ich dem voll und ganz zustimme.
Heißt das etwa... du nicht?

äääääääääääääääääääähmmmmmmm... aber ja oO ...genau das wollte ich damit sagen xD

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Warning, this does NOT include season 2!, July 7, 2010
By O. Arias (Sarasota, FL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (Anime Legends) (DVD)

Not really a product review, but a warning.

This is simply a cheaper packaged version of the season 1 box set.

I pre-ordered this directly from Bandai Entertainment thinking it contained both Haruhi season 1 and season 2. I was led to believe this from Bandai's website which stated "Episodes: All of them!".

I also knew that season 2 was due to be released this summer, and this had a July sale date, so I assumed that THIS was going to be season 2.
You almost have to wonder if this was done on purpose to get some more sales from confused folks.

You can imagine my reaction when I opened the package!

At any rate, the actual release of season 2 is in August apparently; there is a pre-order here on Amazon somewhere.

In good faith, I can't give this a "1 star". It is Haruhi after all. I just wish that they were more clear on their marketing.


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Initial post: July 19, 2010 3:20 PM PDT

E. L. Howard schrieb:

Next time don't assume. Especially with a $40 MSRP.

In reply to an earlier post on July 19, 2010 6:23 PM PDT

O. Arias schrieb:

Season 2 pre order is going for $45 here on Amazon, so there is no way to tell the difference by price. Unlike some, I have a life that does not include obsessing about anime whilst still living in my parent's basement at 40. So you'll have to excuse me if I don't have all the pre-release Bandai product codes memorized. For the non-otaku, Bandai's website is a confusing mess. One can only go by their product marketing: "Episodes: All of them!"; when I pre-ordered this set there was NO mention of a season 2 DVD set. Oh excuse me, I just checked Bandai's online store now it says under "Features" that it "Contains the entire series!".

Posted on July 21, 2010 6:25 PM PDT
Last edited by the author on July 21, 2010 6:31 PM PDT

Knightmessenger schrieb:

Do you know what is different in the with the dvd sets. Are there less/more extras? The page here lists the aspect ratio as 4:3. Other internet videos I've seen have been 16x9 and I thought the other dvd was in widescreen.
What about the episodes, are those kept chronologically or have they been switched to broadcast.

If nothing is different, why did Bandai put out another dvd and basically make it hard to find the current one in stores (which I was going to buy). You're genius at making money, Bandai.

Posted on July 23, 2010 12:10 PM PDT

Phan Sinh Dinh Le schrieb:

Nah man, you just have to be well informed if you want to buy these stuff. I, too, have some bad experiences buying them because i wasn't well informed. Tell you what, you can go to this page www.rightstuf.com and read the news about new releases everyday. They got some anime bargain bundles that you can purchase if you are interested. However, Amazon has become more and more competitive with their anime prices these day, so i'm not sure if they are still cheaper or not. Anyway, good luck .

Posted on July 28, 2010 4:23 PM PDT

lain4ever schrieb:

Yeah, I was wondering why this item had a picture of season two instead of the actual picture. What's funny is that amazon.com once had the original picture for this box set, but for whatever reason, they replaced it with the season two picture. I don't know whether amazon.com or Bandai is asleep when they do these things, but somebody needs to change the picture back.

In reply to an earlier post on July 31, 2010 12:19 AM PDT

Elliot Cross schrieb:

I'm with O. Arias, that description ("all of them") was ridiculous.

In reply to an earlier post on Aug. 3, 2010 9:38 PM PDT

L. Cali schrieb:

Still even you stated that you knew the season 2 was not to be out untill later on as to why it was on preorder, now did you really think that they would include a season that wasn't even out yet on a lower priced boxset? If anything the only way that would happen for u 2 get a full NON released season at that price with the 1st season is it to be straight from Japan and somehow got a price drop....

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Romantic comedy of godlike proportions, August 17, 2010
By lain4ever "And I'll form the head!" (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (Anime Legends) (DVD)

The first season of "Haruhi Suzumiya" is guaranteed to cheer you up with cute sexual innuendos, scientific mumbo-jumbo and a symbolic religious message hidden underneath the fan service.

The show is based on an oddball story, focusing on a high school boy named Kyon, who meets an unusual high school girl named Haruhi Suzumiya. The girl is a strange firebrand, who is more interested in aliens, espers (psychics) and time travelers than in actual humans. Somehow, Kyon strikes up an unusual friendship with this girl.

However, Kyon never planned on getting involved with starting up Haruhi's own club, the S.O.S. Brigade. The club's mission is to spread happiness around the world, through all the fetishes that anime geeks would love. Aliens. Psychics. And an adorable time traveler girl with big breasts. The show pretty much covers all of Kyon's experiences with Haruhi, the bossy dominatrix who may have mysterious powers of her own.

Although it is hard to discuss this series without revealing some major spoilers, the show is a major hit with college anime clubs in America for many reasons. The first episode is a big home movie spoof, where the high school characters try to act like Haruhi's favorite anime characters in an embarassing film project loaded with weird jokes. The ending credit sequence features the funniest and most infamous anime dance, performed by Haruhi and the other members of the S.O.S. Brigade. And the philosophical members of the S.O.S. Brigade always treat Haruhi like she's a supernatural being who has the willpower to change humanity as we know it.

Religious pundits will no doubt scoff at this off-kilter combination of sexual tension and philosophical dialogue. However, they will no doubt remember this series for all the jokes that seem to come out of nowhere. This is one of the few series that packs all the goofy anime-style fetishes that fans will love. You know, like girls in bunny suits, speedy fights with alien girls and philosophical jokes about the meaning of life. Even the broadcast of the show presented the episodes in an unconventional manner, like a anime-style version of "Pulp Fiction."

The show was also a milestone series which featured many new story-telling styles for an animated film. The narrative is told completely from the first-person perspective of Kyon. The first episode presents the animation from the lens of a shaky, indie-style camera. The tone of the series can switch drastically from light comedy to an apocalyptic thriller sequence. Unlike most anime shows with romantic comedy, "The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya" features some frightening scenes in the fifth episode, with blood and gore.

The gutsy cinematography effects and genre bending stories all contribute to make this one of the most unusual anime series ever made. Although plenty of other romantic comedies delivered similar conservative themes of love and codependency, "The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya" was the only one that flooded the love story with the best gut-busting pop culture references. And anime has only gotten better because of it.


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MUST WATCH!!! XD, January 4, 2011
By Amanda (Wisconsin, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (Anime Legends) (DVD)

I couldnt stop watching it!!! Episode 00 is strange and will be really confuzing if you have never seen it but still really good. The last episode leads to believe there will be more episodes but im pretty sure that thats the end. AMAZING AND KATCHY!!! Its hard to explain it without it sounding really stuped but its the best collection ever!!! XD


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Yay!

Endless Eight RIP ...(ver)gestorben? Was meinst du damit... und bitte was weiss Lucky Star?

hmmm... etwa nicht?

Nein... warum sollte auch?!

The Way Haruhi Wasn't Meant to be Seen, April 3, 2011
By Justme8800 - See all my reviews
This review is from: Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (Anime Legends) (DVD)

Just to be clear: Haruhi is a 5 star anime, arguably one of the best ever made. This is a review of this particular DVD release, whose shortcomings are irredeemable.

First of all, the voice acting. It's good!... is what I thought initially. The first couple of episodes are narrated almost exclusively by the character Kyon, whose English voice actor is surprisingly competent at capturing the spirit of the anime. Everything breaks down, however, when Haruhi herself starts talking. I don't know if she was miscast, if she didn't understand her character, or if she just plain didn't care, but it's painful to hear. Every time she opens her mouth, what comes out is a barrage of misplaced emphasis and confusing emotion. The other characters fill in the range, from ok (Mikuru sounds more or less like she should) to not so great (Nagato, who fortunately doesn't have many lines). Now, none of this would really matter if it weren't for the fact that...

Second of all, the subtitles. You've got your par-for-the-course shoddy commercial translation, with plenty of questionable decisions made and liberties taken. But if that was all it was, that would be passable. Then comes the size. For some inexplicable reason, Bandai decided to render the subtitles in a massive, bold, garishly yellow font. The subtitles eat up about a quarter of the screen, and that's hardly an exaggeration. It's as if someone decided that instead of normal subtitles, they should have captions for the vision impaired. Since DVDs store subtitles as image overlays, no DVD player will have an option to shrink down the font. So, you can watch the upper 75% of Haruhi. Or at least you could, if it weren't for...

Third of all, and most egregiously, the series on disk is entirely out of order. They shuffled things around, so that the season finale now happens in the middle of disk 2 out of 4. Haruhi has an appropriate anachronological watch order, one that properly unravels the plot in a riveting fashion. The episodes have instead been resorted to a chronological order (except it isn't even that, since they left what should have been episode 11 chronologically at episode 1), so that instead of a masterful and revolutionary storytelling style, you get a disjointed and poorly flowing set of episodes. It's as if someone made you watch "Back to the Future 3" before the original, since the 1800s are chronologically before the 1980s. If you want to watch it in the proper order, I hope you don't mind interrupting the autoplay and swapping out the disk every other episode... if you can even figure out how, since the episodes have been helpfully renumbered, and the "next episode" spots accordingly messed with. Bandai isn't the only one at fault for this last point, since Haruhi's Japanese publishers also committed this sin, but they really ought to have known better.

Together, these three points manage to bring down what was once a brilliant masterpiece to below a threshold of even watchable. This collection will alienate any previous fans, and all but the most dedicated prospective viewer will be put off before they finish it. This release is a trainwreck that isn't recommendable at any price. If you are an American anime lover, the best thing you can do at this point is buy the set, place it, unwrapped, on your shelf, and then go download a fansub so you can actually enjoy your anime.

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Srs: KOTAKU Popularity as Judged Through Edgy Porn and Fake Goods

Summer Vocation Swim Suit Sommer Edition in Endless Eight wieder mal eröffnet. Badeanzug ist aber nicht gleich Badeanzug wie man weiss. Da gibt es feine Unterschiede.. ob in Farbe, Größe oder sonst solchen Feinheiten.


Hatte eben wieder ein neues Bild Haruhi Suzumiya gemacht dass die großartigen Unterschiede aufzeigen soll. Schliesslich ist doch so daß niemand einfach nur mit irgendetwas an den Strand (baden) geht. Die Endless Eight Episoden hatten uns vor Augen geführt wie wichtig diese Frage ist, die wir uns immer stellen 'Was soll ich anziehen?!'.

Es gibt eigene spezielle Webseiten dafür die sich mit solchen Fragen und Antworten beschäftigen, kann ich nur empfehlen! Apropos ich muss mir wieder einen neuen Badeanzug kaufen damit ich ins Wasser am See kann.

TMSIDR Artikel von sos-brigade.de

HOLY SHIT HARUHI IS GOD OR SOME SHIT AND THE PURPLE HAIRED RETARDED FREAK IS AN ALIEN AND THE ONE WITH THE BIG TITS IS FROM TEH FUTURE AND THEY MUST KEEP HARUHI ENTERTAINED OR SHE'LL PWN US ALL OMG!!!1 Also the normal guy and the big breasted one were inside the purple haired retarded freak's apartment for 3 years, plus the characters are now over 500 years old BUT WHO CARES?!!!1

Stalker schrieb:

HOLY SHIT HARUHI IS GOD OR SOME SHIT AND THE PURPLE HAIRED RETARDED FREAK IS AN ALIEN AND THE ONE WITH THE BIG TITS IS FROM TEH FUTURE AND THEY MUST KEEP HARUHI ENTERTAINED OR SHE'LL PWN US ALL OMG!!!1 Also the normal guy and the big breasted one were inside the purple haired retarded freak's apartment for 3 years, plus the characters are now over 500 years old BUT WHO CARES?!!!1

lol ^-^° You're welcome. Thanks for your post.

hi great thread we have going here.

..stop snoring?

CcchrzzZZZzz.. hm..

Hey, I'm new. Ya'll can call me Mia. I am a 24 year old certified nurse assistant! (That means I get to take care of people :3!! Yayy) I specialize in so I can also help others get their certification!! I'm obviously new here, however I somehow came across this place googling for after work.. weird! haha but I though this place seemed cool, so I figure I might as well join.

Hi Mia. Hey Mrs. Mia, youre here in the Haruhi Suzumiya Thread. Please notice it. In the Haruhi Suzumiya thread it only comes things about Haruhi Suzumiya things. Ok?

Sankaku Complex: The Fall of Aya Hirano: “Fired For Sex With Her Band”
Sankaku Complex: Hirano “Ruins” Haruhi: “We Can’t Stand To Watch Her!”

Source Sankaku Complex: 'Haruhi fans are angrily complaining that they can no longer imagine the eponymous egomaniac as being a virginal maiden with the knowledge of scandal seiyuu Aya Hirano’s slatternly antics.
They explain their objections to a “carnivorous” seiyuu with a relaxed attitude to hiding this fact from fans: '

Aya Hirano singer, voice actor, porn star?

Scandal seiyuu Aya Hirano is “starring” in a pornographic movie, courtesy of the unfortunately named Soft on Demand. The DVD is due to be released in April.Some have rather unkindly made the observation that the lookalike featured “looks better than the real thing.”This is in fact her second appearance in such a feature – the first was at the peak of her popularity as Haruhi, although the likeness was none too convincing and the publishers stopped short of actually using her name.rame align="left" frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=widgetsamazon-20&o=1&p=8&l=bpl&asins=B0040ZNYQS&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="align: left; height: 245px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px; width: 131px;">

hey guys a lot of you may or may not know i am a big fan of the haruhi anime like a lot of people but in the past couple of years aya haiano voice of haruhi has sed and dun sum things to make her fans start to turn on her i for one remand a fan of her up untill she started to leek spoilers about kimi ni tadoki on witch she plays karumi when she did that i lost respect for her and know we come to the main point of this post aya hirano will be staring in a a porn oddly named soft on demand (don't ask i have no idea why thy would call a porn that)

Aya Hira**’s Hardcore Porno Debut. The DVD is due to be released in April.

Quelle: SC http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2011/03/20/aya-hiranos-hardcore-porno-encore/

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