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Haruhi Suzumiya Franchise's Crowdfunding Adds Goal for 2 More Songs With Music Videos

The official X (formerly franchise's crowdfunding campaign has added a third goal. The new goal would fund two more songs and their accompanying music videos if the campaign reaches 30 million yen ($194,000). The organizers are also considering adding a fourth goal.

Skeleton Knight in Another World) would compose the second added song.

The campaign reached its first two goals for one new song and its music video. As of press time, it has raised 28,658,853 yen ($185,000).

The initial 10 million yen ($65,000) goal will fund a new song featuring Haruhi, Tomokazu Tashiro, the songwriters of the anime's iconic "Hare Hare Yukai" ending theme song, will work on the new song, with Tashiro as composer, and Hata writing the lyrics.

The project will also include the creation of a new original voice drama starring the SOS Brigade cast (Daisuke Ono) as a backer reward.

The first new music video is slated for the first half of 2025. Backer rewards are scheduled to ship in early February 2025, while digital backer rewards will go out in the latter half of 2025.

The Theater of Haruhi Suzumiya (Suzumiya Haruhi no Gekijō), the first new release the novel in English on November 29.

The volume will The Sneaker magazine, plus a new sequel to those two stories.

The "Suzumiya Haruhi Gekijō: Fantasy-Hen" (Haruhi Suzumiya Theater: Fantasy Arc) short story ran in the August 2004 issue of The Sneaker. It begins when the SOS Brigade are apparently transported to a fantasy world. The story continues in different worlds through the "Kaete Kita Suzumiya Haruhi Gekijō" (Return of Haruhi Suzumiya Theater) follow-up story in the June 2006 issue of The Sneaker. The new volume will then add a new sequel short story to these earlier stories.

Tanigawa and illustrator released the entire series (at the time) in 10 volumes between 2009-2013. The first 10 volumes are also available in English digitally.

Kadokawa published The Intuition of Haruhi Suzumiya, another following later in June 2021.

The first season of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya anime series premiered in 2006 in a non-linear order, and was rebroadcast in 2009 with new episodes and a new chronological order. rereleased the anime in 2016.

The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya anime film opened in 2010. Bandai Entertainment and later Funimation released the film on home video.

The novels have also inspired a manga and spinoff manga. Several of the spinoff manga have also inspired anime works.

Sources: Haruhi Suzumiya series' X/Twitter , Campfire via Otakomu

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