The General Discussion of Haruhi Suzumiya

[Kensuke]

Originally Posted by GyroidFanatic

Out of boredom, I made a rough timeline of all the notes:

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December 18th - 6:21AM

First link to www.asosbrigade.com (time comes from the start of Fencedude's topic on AnimeonDVD's boards)

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December 19th - ?

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December 21st 9:18PM

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December 22nd - Midnight

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December 25th - Midnight

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Site restarted; sub/dub poll added; Mikuru audition poll added

December 25th - Noon

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Good job! I just noticed the latest comments.

[Shii]

Today's EUC-JP comment discusses how today is Boxing Day and Haruhi wishes to travel to Canada so that she might celebrate it.

[Sushi-Y]

Originally Posted by ashibaka

Today's EUC-JP comment discusses how today is Boxing Day and Haruhi wishes to travel to Canada so that she might celebrate it.

Actually, it's probably Kyon who said that, as he is the only one who refers to himself as 俺.

Finally took a look at that asosdan site to see what all the fuss is about. Still can't get used to seeing English versions of animes. The effort they're placing into the promotion campaign(?) is worthy of praise though. ^^;

Mikuru's sample voice was... fun. Out of all possible scenes to use as a sound clip, they had to pick that particular segment that sounded like it came out of an eroge. ^^;
Of course, nobody can beat Gotou-sama's original ponkotsu voice, but I'm also surprised at the quality of the English dub.

By the way, I thought 2 fitted best.

We all know Kyon's voice is more important than any of the girls though.

[Ultima_Rasengan05]

for some reason, i found those auditions to be somewhat, kind of disturbing...not to mention that those voice actresses were almost basically>>>moaning!!
but i say i would go for number two on that audition
but the way how the voices were acting i say it was an audition for Mikuru"s American Voice Actress
but yea as Sushi-Y mentioned
Kyon"s voice might be as important as any of the other voices in this show next to Haruhi"s voice dubbing as well
since Kyon is basically doing the narraration to this show!!

[Setsuna Asuka]

New update

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[Scribble]

They are really catering for the fans here. Damn, I so wanted to hate them.

People are complaining about the english auditions, but I think #2 is a *really* fitting voice for Mikuru.

[Forbin]

Lol #2 is the winner for me. and I voted BEFORE reading all of this.

[FatPianoBoy]

Originally Posted by Setsuna Asuka

New update

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The "Other"?
Hmm... what could this be referring to? Another website? Another VA poll? Another video? Much investigating to be done on this matter.

[Kazu-kun]

Maybe, the Other = the novel oO?

That would be to much win all at once.

[Setsuna Asuka]

Copyright info just changed:


The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya
Released by Kadokawa Pictures USA, Inc.
Distributed and package design by Bandai Entertainment, Inc.

English Adaptation by ____________________
Co-Produced by __________________ in association with ________________

©2006 Nagaru Tanigawa / Noizi Ito / member of SOS

....Wonder what this means?

[Sheba]

I voted #2, as a frenchman tho, because I felt she carried the Mikuru's "cry more" groove the best.

At least USA have the chance to choose their voice actors for this series, France may not have this chance. But I sure know a french voice actor who have the voice tone fit for Kyon.

[GyroidFanatic]

"the Other" = the other company/ies involved

[Tokkan]

It could mean either the dubbing studio that's involved (which is obviously Bang Zoom given the voices they gave us) or someone has the novels and they're crediting the adaptor, the publisher and distributor for them.

[Ascaloth]

Originally Posted by Ascaloth

EDIT: And I had had a scary thought. I've never watched Death Note before, but...imagine if Light Yagami meets Haruhi, figures out what she really is, and decides to use her the way he uses his Death Note by provoking her in the direction he wants her to go.

*evil grin*

Originally Posted by Lost

You sure it won't be the otherway round? *shivers at the thought of Haruhi getting her hands on the Deathnote* And, being a god herself, she'll probably own Ryuu as well.

Originally Posted by Ascaloth

*thinks about Haruhi getting the Death Note*

Wait...I wouldn't be so worried. Kyon did once say (in Snow Mountain Syndrome) that he believes not even a crackpot like Haruhi would wish for someone to die. Besides, if she does want someone to die, she wouldn't need the Death Note anyway.

It's more of Light's potential to bring out the darker side in Haruhi that I'd be more worried about. Just imagine, he's a genius. It would be a piece of cake for him to whisper things into Haruhi's ears, and give her some dark ideas - "don't you wish there were no more terrorists in the world", "what if there was no more crime in this world", and give her some ideas? He would have the world he wants, and he wouldn't even have to kill anyone to achieve it. Now THAT is scary.

Originally Posted by Lost

Ah, yes, indeed... Who needs the DeathNote when you can kill billions by winking a world out of existence? XD Come on, it'll take more than genius to sway Haruhi.. As it is, I foresee her forcing Light to don a Bunny-Suit and distribute flyers at the school gate. *thinks of the Haruhi undressing Mikuru scene*

Okay, I know this little conversation between me and Lost is old, but I've just watched Death Note up to Episode 11 recently, and I've found something out that's really shocking. Something that corroborates Lost's fears.

Apparently, Hirano Aya, who voices Suzumiya Haruhi, also voices a girl named Misa in Death Note. Who is this Misa? Well.....she's the second Kira.

In other words, Lost's worst fears have come true. Suzumiya Haruhi's found the Death Note, and she's wrecking havoc with it.

[nadare]

^ don't worry Misa is only obsessed on Kyo---Light. Without Light\s instructions Misa is harmless.

Hirano Aya ftw!!

[Woland]

New update on www.asosbrigade.com

New "Which Voice" pool (Yuki this time) and subtitled version for "The adventure of ASOS brigade episode 00"

(of course there are new cameos on source code )


They will witness it soon ... scary!

[Skane]

Originally Posted by [Woland]

New update on www.asosbrigade.com

New "Which Voice" pool (Yuki this time) and subtitled version for "The adventure of ASOS brigade episode 00"

(of course there are new cameos on source code )


They will witness it soon ... scary!

Yuki would be a tough act to follow... since they need to be emotionless.

I'm voting for VA-01.

VA-02 sounds too Shakespearish. VA-03 was doing well until she raised her voice, which is a big no-no for Yuki. VA-04 had weird emphasis in her tones.

Narf.

[Tokkan]

Interesting easter egg. In the subbed version of the clip, all references to "psychics" have been subtitled as "espers". Looks like they know we prefer that word.

[Katapan]

I'm just getting more and more confused by the whole asosbrigade deal. It's hard to tell if all of this is really official and will end up on the final DVDs (in the case of the voice polls)... but at least it's fun and it doesn't go unnoticed. Well, just like everything Haruhi's done so far.

I voted for #3 as the American Yuki - she was definitely the most emotionless person. #1 also did a good job but her lines didn't sound as monotonous. At least this cast sounds much more fitting to me, compared to the previous American Mikuru.

[typhonsentra]

Haha, I went with three too. I went with one of the less popular options with Mikuru (4, I think) but I'm with the majority on Yuki, that voice seemed to fit the best. Although all of them try to sound too robotic which I think is a huge mistake.