Kita ze Inbou! - キタぜ陰謀!

Jajaaaa~n!! Well, it’s that time again, and the new episode of The Adventures of the ASOS Brigade is here! Interestingly enough, we now know that Bang! Zoom Entertainment is behind the voice work, but if you’re real keen on the actors and actresses, you can figure that out easily by yourself. Anyhoo, during the episode, the ASOS Brigade (omg Yuki) revealed the selected actors/actresses who will be involved in the series!!

Haruhi Suzumiya – Wendee Lee
Yuki Nagato – Michelle Ruff
Mikuru Asahina – Stephanie Sheh

Kyon – Crispin Freeman
Itsuki Koizumi – Johnny Young Bosch

Ryouko Asakura – Bridget Hoffman
Tsuruya-san – Kari Wahlgren

IMO, it’s not a bad list. In fact, I think it’s quite swell and it works! I’m not totally surprised Wendee got the role. When I first heard her from the polls I thought they made a good choice in being one of the chosen voices. But after listening to her talk, it really didn’t work out so good. I think now at least they can direct her to work better on it. She is, after all, the only one to actually say “Hey, Kyon!” perfectly.

Kyon, Yuki, and Mikuru… hmm, are we sure those polls were just for preferences? All three of these characters have the voices that I chose for. It’s amazing really. Crispin defintely has Kyon’s style, and it was flat out obvious that Steph pulled Mikuru’s cuteness off marvelously.

Lastly, it’s not totally shocking Johnny gets to be Itsuki. Even though I didn’t vote for him, I still think he did a fine job. It’s just that it didn’t sound like he was in the role of Itsuki. Hopefully that will change during recording sessions. Another thing I didn’t expect was the voices for lolfang-tan and the beautiful Asakura. Bridget has a wonderful voice so I can totally hear her cute, yet wicked tone coming out of Asakura’s mouth. Now I don’t normally listen to Kari, or not nearly enough, but I can see her voicing Tsuruya-san. *nods*

Well with that, I definitely can’t wait for the R1 DVDs. Those of you who agree with me, rock on! Those that don’t like dubs can just shove it up their Clovis. Till next time!

It’s a spankin’ new year, and to start it off, it’s Haruhi’s turn!!!!!

Kari Wahlgren, Kate Higgins, Michelle Ruff, Stephanie Sheh, and Wendee Lee.

Could the fate of Haruhi lie in one of these five actresses’ voice?

Okay, it’s Kyon’s turn now.

Firsly, I just have to say, that none of these are what I found to be the right Kyon. However, I will say that one of them had that aspect of Kyon. With a little directing, he might just pull it off. Here’s a hint though; don’t vote for 5. I dunno why the hell these 20 people voted for that guy. I personally saw that as an intentional joke. I mean, even the audio is crap.

Does it seem harder and harder every audition, or is it just me? Oh noes, that means our goddess of Bouken will clearly be the last one to choose. Snaps. For all we know, The World As You Know It Is About To End.

It’s that time again. We’ve got Mikuru, Yuki, and now it’s the homo’s turn. Wait, who’s the one that decided he was GAR for Kyon anyway? Oh whatever. The point is he has not four, but five choices to choose from. I can recognize the first choice as the ever so awesome Johnny Young Bosch and the third as Steve Staley. The rest I have no clue.

As much as I like JYB, I’m not sure if that even sounded like Itsuki. It was great acting, I’ll say that much, but it’s like it wasn’t even for Itsuki’s voice. Well, that’s just my opinion anyways. Start the vote!

Voice Choice C

That’s right, the second voice choice poll is now up, and this time its for our beloved alien Yuki! It’s simple, just head on over to ASOS Brigade, listen to the four choices, then vote!

#1 is Kate Higgins (Sakura of Naruto), #2 I have no idea and IMO, doesn’t match, #3 is Michelle Ruff (Rukia of Bleach), and last but not least, it’s Stephanie Sheh yet again, (Eureka of Eureka Seven).

Personally, it’s either #1 or #3 that I find the best. (Just look at the results!) But in the end, I myself, chose #3. Happy voting!

BTW, it seems they’ve now fixed their video with subtitles where they should be… I assume. Yay, my name’s in the credits! Don’t worry Bandai Ent./Kadokawa Pictures USA. Rest assured, I will definitely pick up your DVDs. =D

Yup. It’s finally official. The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya will be released by Kadokawa Pictures USA and distributed by Bandai Entertainment. I sense a strong disturbance in my wallet for when the first DVD hits US shores. >_<

Oh and do check out the updated site. There’s a hilarious video now streaming and there should be an update later.

Being one of my favorite series of all time I’ll continue to cover anything and everything tha tis Haruhi. So yeah, I just wanted to make that clear. ^_^

There are now talks about Kadokawa Pictures USA. If you don’t know about them they’re the company who licensed Full Metal Panic: The Second Raid for US distribution. It seems as if it is now a pretty sure bet that the Haruhi series was licensed by them and, if and when they officially announce it, this would be their second licensed title. For evidence of the claim of Kadokawa Pictures USA appearing in the site coding head on over to moetron. It seems as if it was immediately updated after it was found out that an error revealed ‘kadousa’ in the site coding.

I think it’s safe to say that KadoUSA will be the ones doing the announcement on December 22. There’s only two more days until everything is officially stated.

Also in other news, Zero no Tsukaima has officially been granted a second season. According to MOONPHASE it was revealed in various sources, such as the fourth DVD. No air dates have been stated as of yet but my guess is that it’ll be released some time during the summer or fall of next year.

So it seems now there is a rumor spreading like wildfire that Haruhi is already licensed or about to get licensed. This wildfire stems from a mysterious website that has popped up that states “The World As You Know It Is About To End” and then gives us the date of December 22, 2006. Here’s the image and link to the site:

As has been mentioned at Anime on My Mind and Ramblings of DarkMirage the html code suggests that it is a U.S. site and that there’s a possibility the company may even be Funimation. Kurogane has also made a report on the news stating that he too believes it’s a possible license announcement.

I personally think the same way as it would be an awesome Christmas present for all of us rabid Haruhi fans. We’ll find out exactly what the announcement is in T minus 4 days.

Well, well, isn’t this pleasant news!

It seems as if we’re going to be getting a second season of our ojou-sama Haruhi. More Kyon and his narration. More Mikuru molestion. More Yuki being cute and quiet. Oh, and more Tsuruya-ness and her sexy little snaggle tooth.

And it seems as if we’re getting all this a year earlier than it was originally planned for. The for season two’s debut is now Fall ‘07 instead of it’s intended ‘08 release.

For more info head over to MoonPhase.

Also take head on over to the AnimeSuki forums and take a look at Sushi-Y’s translation of MoonPhase’s report.

With all that said, may the fapping begin.