The community believes that the biggest anime of the 2000s might be preparing for a powerful comeback.
Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya is pretty much universally considered to be one of the best — if not the best — anime series of the 2000s. Critically acclaimed and beloved by fans around the world it enjoyed quite a bit of time in the spotlight. However, its infamously misguided Season 2 and a general lack of new content that has been following it up to this moment has made the title kind of irrelevant these days.
With no official news of a Season 3, the future of the franchise is looking rather unpromising and yet, somehow, the fans — as they always do — are starting to grow increasingly certain that the big announcement, that we all so desperately want, is just around the corner.
So, what makes them think this way? Well, just recently, during the celebration of the franchise’s 20th anniversary, Sneaker Bunko has announced a huge offline concert — The Symphony of Haruhi Suzumiya — where, among other things, all the members of the original voice cast are expected to make an appearance. For a franchise that has been all but lying dormant for the better half of the last 15 years, this is an incredibly big event that seemingly has the words ‘an important announcement’ written all over it.
Another important piece of this puzzle, in the eyes of the fans, is the recent news of an upcoming light novel The Theater of Haruhi Suzumiya — the first book in the literary series since 2020’s The Intuition of Haruhi Suzumiya. According to the community, the announcement of a new book can signify the end of the hiatus that the franchise had been on for the recent years.
And while all of those points raised by fans do seem to have at least some reason to them, truth be told, a concert might just be a concert. Voice actors attending a special event is not a rare occurrence and it does not necessarily mean that some sort of an announcement is bound to happen. In addition to that, back in 2020 the long-awaited arrival of The Intuition of Haruhi Suzumiya was too expected to be some kind of a ‘turning point’ that would open the floodgates for new content. And yet the book ended up being just a book.
Will that be the case for The Theater of Haruhi Suzumiya too? We’ll have to wait and see.
The community believes that the biggest anime of the 2000s might be preparing for a powerful comeback.
Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya is pretty much universally considered to be one of the best — if not the best — anime series of the 2000s. Critically acclaimed and beloved by fans around the world it enjoyed quite a bit of time in the spotlight. However, its infamously misguided Season 2 and a general lack of new content that has been following it up to this moment has made the title kind of irrelevant these days.
With no official news of a Season 3, the future of the franchise is looking rather unpromising and yet, somehow, the fans — as they always do — are starting to grow increasingly certain that the big announcement, that we all so desperately want, is just around the corner.
So, what makes them think this way? Well, just recently, during the celebration of the franchise’s 20th anniversary, Sneaker Bunko has announced a huge offline concert — The Symphony of Haruhi Suzumiya — where, among other things, all the members of the original voice cast are expected to make an appearance. For a franchise that has been all but lying dormant for the better half of the last 15 years, this is an incredibly big event that seemingly has the words ‘an important announcement’ written all over it.
Another important piece of this puzzle, in the eyes of the fans, is the recent news of an upcoming light novel The Theater of Haruhi Suzumiya — the first book in the literary series since 2020’s The Intuition of Haruhi Suzumiya. According to the community, the announcement of a new book can signify the end of the hiatus that the franchise had been on for the recent years.
And while all of those points raised by fans do seem to have at least some reason to them, truth be told, a concert might just be a concert. Voice actors attending a special event is not a rare occurrence and it does not necessarily mean that some sort of an announcement is bound to happen. In addition to that, back in 2020 the long-awaited arrival of The Intuition of Haruhi Suzumiya was too expected to be some kind of a ‘turning point’ that would open the floodgates for new content. And yet the book ended up being just a book.
Will that be the case for The Theater of Haruhi Suzumiya too? We’ll have to wait and see.
