I talked the other day about how there was an announcement concerning Suzumiya Haruhi coming on Tanabata (today), which was the same day as some special events in the third novel. Well, it seems that Kyoto Animation has produced a publicity stunt of sorts by uploading a 22-minute flash promotional video onto the official website depicting the events of that night in live action (with Haruhi and "John Smith") from a security camera point of view. For those of you with niconico accounts, you can watch it here since the official site appears to be down at the moment from probably getting hammered by all the fans trying to access it. For those of you without accounts, there's also a torrent of it available on Tokyo Toshokan. In any case, I'm very impressed by the extent to which Kyoto Animation is promoting this show since this video matches perfectly with the Newtype magazine announcement. I expect that this will eventually make its way one of the DVDs for the second anime season, but for now, this is almost like getting a glimpse of what a live-action Haruhi would be. Source

Always wanted to created a union here at Gamespot, but I need a certain amount of people to get it started.

Now I'm aware that there are plenty of other anime/manga groups out there but most of which seem dead and boring. Hopefully once flyANIME gets created we will have lots of goodies for our members. The goodies include; contests (amv, graphic, quizzes, etc), union blog posts, wallpapers, direct download sites, etc.

Of course you can talk freely about anime/manga in the union forum. Just be sure to slap on some sort of spoiler tags.

If anyone is interested in creating an anime/manga group with me, please comment to this blog post or message me via PM or Windows Live Messenger (MSN). Caboose228@hotamil.com

Newtype's August issue will soon be hitting newsstands soon. It is reporting that Suzumiya Haruhi's second season has finally been confirmed. The official announcement is set to be made on July 7th, 2007 (07/07/07) Haruhi Season 2 is set to air around fall/winter of 2007. I don't know about you guys, but I can't wait! ^_________^

I'm curious if the are going to put this in any of the upcoming episodes of Lucky Star. We'll have to wait and see.