The Movie of the Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya (Impressions/Reviews)
 

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And finally, camrip has out.....

http://img13.yfrog.com/i/suzumiyaharuhinoshoushi.jpg

I recommended you to pick a 5 Gb one, another one is a April Fool's Day joke.

It seems to be fake b'coz its very large size. But it's real.

If that picture's any indication of the quality, I think I'll wait a few more months.

I can post the link for torrent download if it's not against rules of this forum.
The quality is horrible, but sound is rather good. With such sound it seems to be no problem for fansubers to create fansub. One more thing, the screen constantly blinks so camrip is very hard to watch

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..Yeah, I'm gonna wait till theres a good quality one :heh:

I watched a bit on stream.

At one point every viewer, including me went fucking nuts. When Kyon starts yelling at Taniguchi like a GAR motherfucker and that awesome music starts.

Oh god this movie is too awesome.

BUT MY DOWNLOAD HASN'T FINISHED YET.

Edit: Download almost finished and I never went so batshit watching something

EVERYTHING IS BRILLIANT

Downloading like the fist of the north star. I caught the stream though. Even with the odd angle, the movie was just glorious. But then again, I value content over perfect graphics, so your mileage may vary.

I'm.... just so happy....

I must resist watching the camrip. I must resist. I must resit... :upset:

Someone streamed it, anyway.

Felt good yelling "KYON IS SO GAR" with 50 other people. :D

i was on the latest stream as well...and I agree with Takamura that 1 scene surpassed EVERY single one of my expectation...BY FAR

Well, I just skimmed through cam rip. Yeah, movie looks absolutely incredible. Can't wait DVD/Blu-ray!

GAHHH! I didn't see it! damn! I'm missed my opportunity. T_T

now the links all jacked up.

hehe. saw it this morning. found a link on twitter and saw it. the guy left his laptop on thw whole night. that's dedication. thanks for those who helped me thought. :) And i think i recruted a new member. ;)

omgomgomg. even if it's a crappy rip, now i can die happy xD

I wish I could... :( Oh well, maybe someday :D

D: Looking at all your guys reactions makes me seriously regret I hadn't skipped out...
But I actually prefer quality, soo

It really is amazing. cant wait to get this FKN blu-ray!

There is out there a PV of the movie in HD that could indicate a future Bluray release.

HARUHI'S MOVIE IMAGE

I hope so.

It's not exactly like you can't still enjoy the quality when/if it became available later. I know that my kids went to see a 2D version of Avatar before we could see it in 3D, and they seemed to enjoy both.

Perhaps more on topic, does the success of the movie make it more or less likely that the follow-on will be another movie or another series?

More likely. They're gonna HAVE to make a third season because Kyon has to finish what he has to do in the Disappearance Arc. I don' think they could leave that open.

There seems to be a lot of interest in the anime industry right now in making more anime movies, because I think they see this as a way of increasing revenue (since people pay to see it in theatres, and will pay again when it arrives on DVD/BD). It also helps them deal with production timing issues given the ongoing shortage of skilled staff. So it wouldn't surprise me very much if they're considering more movies for the future of the franchise; of course, time will tell.

And of course there's the added bonus of little to no loss of revenue to ripping and fansubbing, at least before the movie hits DVD/BD...

So you're betting that no one is going to sub that thing out there we aren't talking about?

Better point - I'd be willing to bet a decent amount of money that the average fansub viewer spends more money on real DVDs and Manga than the average non-fansub viewer. I certainly wouldn't have bought all those volumes of Kimi ni Todoke if I hadn't seen episodes of a show that aren't licensed in my region first. I highly doubt I would have bought the boxed sets of Haruhi if I had never seen the show first. And so on.

Given that, I wonder if they aren't likely to actually start to minimize their market if they really delay everything by six months to a year. For high profile titles like Haruhi and Evangelion you can probably get away with it. But for most other series, I suspect what little publicity there was when it released would be gone and forgotten by the time the DVD/BD becomes available.

And let me get off my soap box now before I REALLY get started :D

But consider how long it took to arrive and the level of quality we're talking about. That can hardly be considered serious competition.

Oh boy... while we'll not get into this in this thread, suffice it to say that for those who buy anime at all, fansubs can be an influencing factor. But that highlighted part is the operating point, and the source of the whole dilemma.

And really, the benefit of the movie approach is less about the international market than it is about the domestic market. And in the case of the domestic market, most of the established fanbase is already there due to the source material. So the whole "delay" factor is not an issue in that case. Given the collapse in the North American market over the past few years, it's not too surprising that they aren't putting our interests first.

There are a lot of people who watch fansubs and buy DVDs. You should see my own library. But I'll just say this. There are four groups of customers for any potential DVD/BD purchase:

a) people who will buy it in any case
b) people who will not buy it in any case
c) people who decide not to buy it after they see a fansub
d) people who decide to buy it after they see a fansub

This is the case with any property, but the ratios differ from title to title.

Most people automatically fall into b). It's sad but true. People are cheap, and with the anonymity that the internet gives, there's not even any moral compunction to give back to the creators, since for most their only moral compunction on this level of "sin" boils down to guilt avoidance. You are correct that some benefit might be gained by cutting the time between initial broadcast (or movie release) and first home release, but at least for movies, the longer it's in theaters, the higher the eventual profit margin is and the longer the publicity lasts. And home release dates kill ticket sales, so there has to be some time between the two.

There are some times where the existence of a fansub will give you more of d) than c), but not many. Primarily just new or little-known series that are very good.

For a number of reasons, primarily that Disappearance is well-known yet nowhere near an ideal introductory story for new fans, c) is unequivocally going to be a larger group than d). Very few people who haven't seen any Haruhi already are going to start with the movie, and as good as the story may be, those who do might even be so confused by it that they don't bother finishing it (it is 2 1/2 hours long).

And as Relentless Flame suggested, that crappy canrip that doesn't exist and that we're not talking about isn't going to be the "keeper version" in any fan's collection.

torrented the movie(can't wait anymore, lol) - and I'm absolutely satisfied with it. Just awesome

I'm buying the DVD when it's out.

I'm not going to spoil myself with the poor quality of the camrip, so... yeah. Determination, let's go! :heh:

There are just so many anime movies coming out that I'm surprised. Fate/Stay Night got a movie, Nanoha got a movie, Doraemon got its 25th movie (lolwut)... I think the staff in Japan has their work cut out for them, since a movie will attract much more attention than an anime. The industry needs the revenue to keep improving, and the animators need the freer schedule to better produce good animation, like relentlessflame has said. Also, some people will watch a movie, but not anime episodes, so the movie captures another portion of the audience, converting more fans in the process.

I'm not sure whether to discuss it here or not, but oh wells. I recently read an article that says the Japanese anime industry is in a crisis because of they outsource so much of their work to Korea and China. As a result, they are becoming more skilled and will probably start coming up with their own anime. For now the anime industry is limited to Japan, but perhaps we'll see Korean and Chinese ones soon.

Point taken :D

Same here. I'd rather see a peek at it than wait several months in mental agony. The pictures, the trailers, the soundtrack.. tearing me up. I think it would be just as awesome when I see it on dvd/blu ray.

I'm tempted but...I think I too can wait until the DVD/Blu ray is out.

This is the point where I say "Screw quality" and go have an epic search.
But still. DVD/Blu-ray release better come sooner than 1 year.

I'd expect the DVD/BluRay no later than August.

Oh I don't know... it's kind of how I would imagine SHAFT doing Haruhi. Weird angles that change at times for no particular reason - sudden blank screens - etc. :D

SHAFT doesn't do blank screens. There's always (variably) related words on those screens.

This will probably be the movie on which I test that Japan/US shared BluRay region...

if KyoAni is kind enough like they were with Haruhi 2009 DVDs, the movie might come out with english subtitles as well

The upside to watching a camrip version online is that I got to see it with my far-away girlfriend. <3 Even if we both had a DVD, it'd be hard to watch synchronously.

I sure wouldn't mind having a movie delivery system where I paid for me and someone else to watch a movie streamed online together. It'd save on the hassle of having to live in the same city as your friends.

The movie was really something. Even after several times watching it, certain scenes were just as awesome as when I first saw them. Definitely going in my (now-pulled-out-of-my-ass) top 5 anime movies list.

Can't wait for the BD/DVD release!