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The media-distribution website Crunchyroll has announced on Friday that it has acquired The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya anime "for multiple Crunchyroll platforms." Crunchyroll is releasing the first season of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, Melancholy of Haruhi-chan Suzumiya, and Nyorōn Churuya-san on its subscription-based streaming service, followed by a release on its ad-supported free streaming platform.

The trailer for the upcoming "Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya" movie has been released.

The movie, which will clock in at two and a half hours will focus what is probably the fan favorite of the storylines, which at one point was supposed to be shown in the latest season of the anime. Instead of course we got the endless eight, not that I am bitter or anything....

Even though the manga series is about to end, there are plans for movie adaptations. Kazunari Ninomiya (Letters from Iwo Jima and bandmember of Arashi) and actor Kenichi Matsuyama already agreed to take part. Shinsuke Sato will take the part of the director and Yuusuke Watanabe (20th Century Boys) is said to deliver the script and Takahiro Sato will be the producer. Digital Frontier who contributed to Appleseed and Evangelion 1.0 You Are [Not] Alone are going to do the CG work. The movies are said to hit cinemas in 2011.


Source: Hochi Shimbun

Suzumiya Haruhi, being re-aired on Japanese TV will have its movie adaptation done in 2010, springtime. The show, first aired in 2006, is based on the light novels Suzumiya Haruhi.

Source: Animey

The latest episode of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya finally starts a new arc, and sees the end of the "Endless Eight", which was wearing thin the patience of Haruhi fans, as well as yours truly. To those unaware, the episodes of the last eight weeks had the same sequence of events, animated from slightly different viewpoints and chronology.

This new arc, "The Sigh of Haruhi Suzumiya" is a welcome change, and the new season should finally be under way then. The only thing now is to wait for Haruhi to finally disappear.

Bandai Namco is finally joining Geneon Entertainment and will be distributing anime songs on iTunes. Lantis, the music label subsidiary of the Bandai NAMCO Group company Bandai Visual, has announced on Friday that it will sell anime songs in North America via Apple's iTunes Store starting this summer.
JAM Project will have the first release and will be followed by additional songs every two to three weeks. Along with work from JAM Project, Lantis will offer songs from The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, Lucky Star, and other anime by Aya Hirano, Ali Project and other artists.