Haruhi New Episode Just Aired

Wooo just watched the new Haruhi episode. It's great to see them back... ye ke? It's been so long since the last time I've seen MADs of Hare Hare Yukai that it needs some time to get into it again. Got tired thanks to the damn marketing.

For example, just when you thought Haruhi S2 was coming in Spring, they aired the old episodes instead. Countless number of times Kadokawa teased fans with their false advertising of the new season. For 3 freaking years.

Unlike the TV series before (and like the DVD version), they aired the episodes in chronological order instead. Which means that the last episode becomes the 7th. Fans of the Haruhi novels however knew that an important event, which is linked to Tanabata, is to be shown between the 7th and the rest of the first season, if it was truly in chronological order.



Last week a magazine confirmed the 8th episode broadcast to be titled "Bamboo Leaf Rhapsody", which was never before seen in season 1. The Internet and I got skeptical though, thinking that it's another stupid marketing ploy which might result in 1 minute of new footage.

Saitama TV station is known to show the earliest broadcast of the show. Hotel rooms in Saitama were booked solid to verify the midnight broadcast. Otakus are nuts. If only they had used half of their lifetime to get a real girl into that room instead.

To their delight, the new episode was aired at 12:45am Tokyo time last night. 2ch was flooded with messages even during the broadcast itself, about 100 an hour. Thank god it's not another marketing ploy. Luckily for us Tokyo-ites, there will be no otaku mob strike today.



The new episode has a time-travelling theme *thumbs up* It even comes with a new ED. No dancing sequence this time, which I think is a good thing. But, lack of Tsuruya is UNFORGIVABLE!

Otaku Medley

You don't know what's an otaku? Let's see what Wikipedia has to say about it:

"In modern Japanese slang, the term otaku refers to an overtly obsessive fan of any one particular theme, topic, or hobby. Common uses are anime otaku (one who sometimes enjoys many days of excessive anime watching with no rest) and manga otaku (a fan of Japanese graphic novels), pasokon otaku (personal computer geeks), gēmu otaku (playing video games), and wota (before referred as "idol otaku") that are extreme fans of idols, heavily promoted singing girls."

Following the popular otaku japanese forums 4chan and nikonikodouga, probably the modern anime and game otaku is now:

• Controlling their favourite idol girl in the arcade game Idolmaster
  (and get this: when it was released on the Xbox 360, The Idolmaster has been credited with making Japan's ratio of Xbox Live sign-ups to the number consoles sold the highest in the world!)
• Dancing to the sequence of The Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi and Lucky Star
• Watching psycho-moe animes like Higurashi no Naku Koro ni
  
• Still crazy over Pokemon, Digimon and Yugioh (yup, they still haven't got 'em all)
  
• Looking at their DVD boxsets of Madlax, Aquarion, Air, Bokurano etc.
• Playing back prequels of Dragon Quest, Final Fantasy and Rockman
  
• Playing doujin (amateur-made) games like the curtain shooter Touhou Project
• Watching YouTube videos made by other otakus
• Playing popular hentai games, or at least watching their intro sequences

Of course, it would take another otaku to put all the above together and sing all the relevant theme songs in one 10-minute video, like a music medley of otaku mayhem.

Well, this guy does exist. If you do or are at least familiar with ANY of the activities above, or if you just wanna catch a glimpse of the otaku world, then you should watch this:



It's one guy singing all the otaku-medium songs in one remix. Pretty cool.

Otakus rock!