Interesting piece of news from Anime News Network:
Chukei, a Kadokawa Group Publishing company, will release two books that teach English vocabulary with Nagaru Tanigawa’s Haruhi Suzumiya science-fiction comedy light novel series on April 20. The two-volume Suzumiya Haruhi no Yūutsu de Ei-Tango ga Omoshiroi Hodo Mi ni Tsuku Hon series puts pages of excerpted text from the original light novels side-by-side with pages of their English translations. For example, the books put famous quotes like the Mikuru character’s “Kinsoku jikō desu” (“That’s classified information”) next to their English translations …

Good news for Haruhi fans or anime fans living in or near Dublin, Ireland, the CineMagic film festival in has posted a schedule for the “We Love Anime” segment of its 2011 event. The festival takes place from May 11 to 18 and this year will show four anime movies:
•The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya – May 13, 6:30 p.m.
•Summer Wars – May 14, 3:00 p.m.
•Redline – May 14, 6:30 p.m.
•Laputa: Castle in the Sky – May 15, 3:00 p.m.
Thanks to Ansem’s Way for the news tip. If you have Haruhi-related …

I must be a few months late with this post, but I thought I’d at least post something for others who missed this. Back in May of 2010 a Haruhi lemon juice was being produced as part of a promotion for the 25th anniversary of NewType magazine. In the magazine announcement, the editors joked about having a coffee of Kyon or Koizumi made as well. Well, that idea has come to fruition as Pokka (the same company who made the Juice of Haruhi Suzumiya) has also began selling …

This neat website was recently sent in through the Haruhi Tracker. The site owner, undoubtly a hero amongst Haruhi fans, has travelled to the various locations in Japan that were scouted out by Kyoto Animation to be used in scenes for the Haruhi Suzumiya anime.  The site owner has also conveniently labelled which episode(s)/event(s) each location was used for.  There are also location photo hunts the Haruhi Suzumiya movie, as well as a large collection of galleries for locations used in other animes (Clannad, Lucky Star, and more!) Take a …

A recent documentary on BBC 3 (a British television channel) featured Beckii Cruel (Rebecca Flint), a 14-year-old girl from the Isle of Man who has become an Internet celebrity and popstar in Japan. Beckii became famous after posting videos of herself dancing to J-pop using her own choreography. She did this secretly, without telling her parents. Beckii commonly cosplays in Haruhi Suzumiya costumes and has done covers for songs like Bouken Desho Desho? and Hare Hare Yukai. The BBC documentary explores Beckii’s rise to fame as an internet sensation …

Liz Ohanesian from the LA Weekly Blogs sent in a link to a cool article about the Haruhi Suzumiya series. It’s a great primer to help explain the wonderfulness of this series to newcomers and spread Haruhiism. The post also contains many photographs taken by Shannon Cottrell at the premiere of the Haruhi Suzumiya movie in L.A., so it’s definitely worth checking out. As a precaution, I must warn that some photos contain Man-Haruhi content, so proceed at your own discretion ;p