The official X/Twitter account for Nagaru Tanigawa's Haruhi Suzumiya light novel series announced on Friday that the franchise is launching a crowdfunding campaign for a new song and an accompanying music video for commercial franchise. The campaign, which aims to raise 10 million yen (about US$65,000), will launch on the Campfire website on November 15 and end on January 15.
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🎤#涼宮ハルヒ 新曲＆MV企画🎵
制作プロジェクト決定❣
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もう一度、歌って踊る涼宮ハルヒが見たい‼‼
ハルヒ＆みくる＆有希が歌う新曲
＆M Vのプロジェクトが決定!令和And #ハルヒダンス をお楽しみに❣ pic.twitter.com/8lQ7uw0wA4
— 涼宮ハルヒの公式 (@haruhi_official) November 8, 2024
The initial 10 million yen goal for the video would fund a new song featuring Haruhi, Mikuru and Nagato, along with a music video featuring a 3D model of Haruhi dancing. If the campaign reaches 15 million yen (about 98,000 USD), the video will also include 3D models of Mikuru and Nagato. Aki Hata and Tomokazu Tashiro, writers of the anime's iconic ending theme song “Hare Hare Yukai”, will compose the new song, with Tashiro composing the music and Hata writing the lyrics.
The project will also involve the creation of a new original dub film starring the SOS Brigade cast (Aya Hirano, Tomokazu Sugita, Minori Chihara, Yuko Goto and Daisuke Ono) as a bonus. donate.
The new music video is planned to be released in the first half of 2025. Backer rewards are expected to be released in early February 2025, while technical backer rewards are expected to be released in early February 2025. will be available digitally in the second half of 2025.
The Theater of Haruhi Suzumiya (Suzumiya Haruhi no Gekijō), the first new volume in the Haruhi Suzumiya light novel series in four years, will be released simultaneously worldwide on November 29. BookWalker Global by Kadokawa and Yen Press will both release the novel digitally in English on November 29.
The collection will include two short stories previously published in Kadokawa's The Sneaker magazine, along with a new sequel to those two stories.
The”Suzumiya Haruhi Gekijō: Fantasy-Hen”(Haruhi Suzumiya Theater: Fantasy Arc Short Story) was published in the August 2004 issue of The Sneaker magazine. It begins when the SOS Brigade is seemingly transported to a fantasy world . The story continues in different worlds through the sequel story”Kaete Kita Suzumiya Haruhi Gekijō”(The Return of Haruhi Suzumiya Theater) in the June 2006 issue of The Sneaker magazine. New upcoming volumes will add a new short story sequel to the previous stories.
Tanigawa and illustrator Noizi Ito published 11 novels for the original series from 2003-2011. This light novel series has over 20 million copies in print as of 2017. The Little publisher, Brown Books for Young Readers, and Yen Press released the entire series (at the time) in 10 volumes in period 2009-2013. The first 10 episodes are also available digitally in English.
Kadokawa published Haruhi Suzumiya's Intuition, another volume containing two previous short stories and one new short story, in November 2020, and Yen Press published the volume digitally in English at the same time as the Next print June 2021.
The first season of the anime series The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya premiered in 2006 in a non-linear order and was rebroadcast in 2009 with new episodes and a new chronological order. Kyoto Animation animated the first and second seasons of the show. Bandai Entertainment previously held the license for both films, but Funimation re-released the anime in 2016.
The anime The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya premiered in 2010. Bandai Entertainment and later Funimation released the film on home video.
The novel has also inspired manga and spinoff manga. Some spin-off manga have also inspired anime works.
Source: X/Twitter series Haruhi Suzumiya account, Comic Natalie
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