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Originally Posted by GDB
There wasn't really any announcement until shortly before the second season, either.
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Incorrect. The second season was announced on July 7th, 2007 via an ad in the Asahi Newspaper. nothing was said until December 18th, where the second season was "cancelled" and a "new animation" was started. In the June 2008 edition of The Sneaker, a new image of Nagato taking off her glasses is published. They state "stay tuned for more information about the "new animation." About two weeks later in the next edition of Newtype, the same image is used with another teaser as well as a silhouette of Haruhi in the "next issue" portion. Kyon's line "I finally....found you" is also used. The July 2007 edition of Newtype uses an image of Haruhi as she is in the new Disappearance world to promote the "New Animation." Additional character designs and a roundtable are also published in that edition. The staff listing remains the same as the image on December 18th. On July 7th, 2008, tanzakus are shown at 15:00 and at 21:00 images from the surveillance video are played amongst lines from both the Bamboo Leaf Rhapsody and Disappearance stories.
That fall, they begin promotion of the
Haruhi-chan anime. In January 2009, the February 2009 edition of Newtype announces that the next issue will have news about the Haruhi anime. That turns out to be an announcement that it will be "re-aired" starting in April 2009. The March edition also gives the story the 2006 copyright and an image from the 2006 series drawn by Ikeda.
Ignoring the fact that the 2009 broadcast wasn't a "second season," the series never lost promotion for more than 6 months between 2007-2009. The whole "it was barely promoted" has been said amongst English-fans, who don't read these magazines and weren't told as quickly as they are now via 2ch blogs.