Well, I was going to open a new topic so that people wouldn't assume this was just another resurrection of this topic, but Ainsoph beat me to it, so maybe we can get a mod or—well, I have no idea who that is who started this thread, but s/he hasn't posted since February, so a mod it is—somebody throw an "(updated 17 Dec 2007)" on the end of this topic title?
EDIT: And while they're at it, can the mod prune (or delete) Setherzam and Talking Cat's posts? I'd rather not have to play "fondle the scroll bar" just to read someone's post, now that it's probably going to be an active topic again (at least until our hopes get shot down again).
EDIT #2: Ah, never mind. Looks like the next comment gets its own page anyway. Still, it's annoying...
Well, anyway, for more detail, as the link above states, if you go to the
Haruhi.tv site, it appears to be down. Click on the featureless button (or don't, as it self-forwards anyway), and you're given an overlay of the page with five one-character boxes and another featureless button. Enter K N S A K (for
Kyon,
Nagato,
Suzumiya,
Asahina, and
Koizumi) and hit the button, and you're taken to what I assume to be a word for word recreation of Nagato's "escape program" from Disappearance (if any of the translators still have access to the original manuscripts, we should check for any discrepencies) complete with "Ready?" at the end and a deletion subroutine should you press anything but <enter> (or <return> for the technically disinclined) at that point.
If you do press <enter>, you get a short notification of the "escapeprogram" running and a nice picture of what I assume is supposed to be the dokidokisuru "upgrade" of everyone's favorite nigh-omnipotent humanoid interface. She's facing away so we can't see her wistfully emotional face, which is such a disappointment that we should probably not tell Dan out of fear for what he might do to himself. There is also a lot of stuff written in Japanese that I would desperately love for someone to translate, except there's a ©200
9 in there that I
can make out, so I'm not so sure I want to know.
Since the timing of this is so obvious (it's
December 18th in Japan, after all), I think that if this is a S2 announcement, or at least a(nother) S2 teaser, then the season will contain Disappearance (and logically Bamboo Leaf Rhapsody, without which Disappearance makes little sense). Please discuss.
For the lazy ones, here are all the pertinent links:
Haruhi.tv site (again)
Escape program(?)
Pretty Yuki picture (please translate)