New Volume 9 update.

Guest lol · Post by **Guest lol** » Thu Feb 22, 2007 10:38 pm

>シリーズ最新作「涼宮ハルヒの分裂」3月31日発売

( ・ω・ )ホホゥー

Seems like we're finally going to get a new Haruhi novel volume soon. But it seems that the volume title won't be 涼宮ハルヒの奔走, as rumored earlier, but 涼宮ハルヒの分裂 (Suzumiya Haruhi no Bunretsu) (Suzumiya Haruhi's Break Up/Division) instead.

The novel appears to be scheduled for a March 31st release.
*looks at my vol.8 colophon*
(Heisei 18 (2006) May 1st, First print published)
I can't be believe it has almost been a year since the last volume.

related links:
http://d.hatena.ne.jp/keyword/%CE%C3...CE%CA%AC%CE%F6
(Hatena entry on Bunretsu. The beginning of a new school year)
http://www.broccoli.co.jp/news/0702/...s_sneaker.html
(Gamers' product entry on the April issue of "The Sneakers", with mentions of an included bonus of a replacement book cover featuring Itou Noizi's original illustration for the newest novel volume)

http://forums.animesuki.com/showpost.ph ... tcount=183

Symphonia · Post by **Symphonia** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 1:32 am

March 31st huh. Good timing in relation to how the translations are going, though we'll have a long wait after that.

The new title sounds kind of ominous. o.o I wonder what's going to be splitting itself up exactly, the SOS Brigade? Haruhi herself? *Imagines several Haruhis running about.* /end of world.

Also, if this novel is set at the start of the new school year, I wonder if we can expect any new SOS Brigade members from the year below...

Umiman · Post by **Umiman** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 1:45 am

<TomatoIncest|cooking> Sigh, I really don't like how they're taking the novels
<TomatoIncest|cooking> "Suzumiya Haruhi's Break Up/Division"
<TomatoIncest|cooking> It's so ridiculous. Even the title is screaming, "omg, we're totally going to do something like the downfall of SH lol come discuss and build hype about it lol lol wtf."
<TomatoIncest|cooking> The fact that they had to change it from something alright to this speaks volumes about how much the company intends to turn this into a dickless-fanboys-only thing.
<MattW> "they" changed it? Tanigawa didn't reconsider it himself because that title was more appropriate?
<TomatoIncest|cooking> who cares, same thing. The point is that there's a good chance they're going to stray away from making something risky yet potentially better than generic mass-produced expected nonsense
<TomatoIncest|cooking> like the Kyon theory

Post by **HolyCow** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 3:28 am

You'll probably have to wait until someone translates them into chinese for me to continue.

But from the looks of it, it looks like we'll be having a new story arc instead of short story collections ;P

Stratosphere · Post by **Stratosphere** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 3:42 am

Noooooo!

Please don't be the last novel!

Hopefully this "Break up" is just a temporary thing. As in Kyon gets mad and threatens to leave the Brigade somehow, or something similar to that.

Umiman · Post by **Umiman** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 3:45 am

See. Exactly what I mean.

Smidge204 · Post by **Smidge204** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 3:49 am

There has been some foreshadowing into this, I think...

Spoiler! :

=Smidge=

Stratosphere · Post by **Stratosphere** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 3:52 am

But the Brigade was never together. So far, we only know that Haruhi and Kyon had a class together. I doubt something as small as having different classes would break up the entire SOS Brigade.

dt · Post by dt » Fri Feb 23, 2007 4:37 am

Spoiler! :

Smidge204 · Post by **Smidge204** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 5:00 am

Stratosphere wrote:But the Brigade was never together. So far, we only know that Haruhi and Kyon had a class together. I doubt something as small as having different classes would break up the entire SOS Brigade.

Worth noting that the bolded part is pure assumption on Stratosphere's part. I can easily imagine how bad it might get if Haruhi couldn't be within Poking distance of Kyon every day, though.
=Smidge=

Umiman · Post by **Umiman** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 5:16 am

She'd run into his class every 5 minutes and drag him outside.

Guest lol · Post by **Guest lol** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 8:28 pm

The likely hood of this novel being the last is as likely as the company that is publishing these books suddenly stopped wanting money.

SpartanRedeemer · Post by **SpartanRedeemer** » Tue Feb 27, 2007 7:32 pm

If i would have to guess, the title would suggest less of a break up of the SOS Brigade, but rather a schism within haruhi's own mind, a voilent upheaval more than likely caused by her witnessing something "amazing" as she would term it, and the ensuing chaos that would follow. Bringing a nice climax to the story, or a mini-climax if more novels seem profitable.

Smidge204 · Post by **Smidge204** » Wed Feb 28, 2007 4:04 am

*snaps fingers* I got it!

Haruhi gets hit by that van, suffers severe brain trauma and develops anterograde amnesia. (The inability to make new long-term memories)

The stage is set for a Haruhi-Memento crossover.
=Smidge=

Guest lol · Post by **Guest lol** » Wed Feb 28, 2007 11:08 am

Then Yuki goes back to the Data entity, Mikuru goes to the future, Koizumi goes back to his gay lover, and Kyon becomes normal.