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.
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From Anime News Network:
Noizi Ito, the artist best known for the Haruhi Suzumiya and Shakugan no Shana light novel illustrations, posted the picture below of the character Haruhi on Sunday, two days after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. As Ito noted on her Twitter account, even the “Brigade Leader” is offering her prayers. Ito is part of a larger draw for Japan movement in which artists offer their support for the victims of the recent disaster.

If you would like to donate to the disaster fund for helping Japan in …

Kyoto Animation created a cool little desktop accessory program that lets you play around with chibi SOS-dan members right on your computer screen. It comes with wallpapers, a clock, icons, mouse cursors and other fun goodies to ceck out your computer with Haruhi themed tools. And a Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya version is also available. The original program is in Japanese only, but a fan translation was made, check out this blog post  for more info.
Download links:
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You will need a program like hjsplit to join the three zip files together …

Minori Chihara has won the Best Singing Award at the 5th Annual Seiyu Awards held this year in Tokyo, Japan. The Best Singing Award is for singing by a voice actor or actress under own name or in a role. Minori Chihara won for her performance of the “Yasashii Boukyaku” ending theme song for The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya movie. The Seiyu Awards are award ceremonies held annually since 2007 for the recognition of voice acting talent for outstanding performance in anime and other media in Japan.

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In order to promote the publication of the much anticipated 10th Haruhi Suzumiya novel, Kadokawa has released a bunch of commercials. The following are the Japanese commercials from their Youtube channel.

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The publisher of the Haruhi light novels, Kadokawa Shoten, has announced that a special booklet containing an original short story by Nagaru Tanigawa will come with the limited first edition of the Surprise of Haruhi Suzumiya light novel. The story is titled “Rainy Day” and is set during Kyon’s time in middle school. The booklet will also include 64 pages of colored artwork by Gaku Tsugano, Puyo and Noizi Ito.
The Surprise of Haruhi Suzumiya will ship out on May 25 to Japan, Taiwan, Korea and Hong Kong, and to other countries …

New trailer/game opening released for the The Mahjong of Suzumiya Haruhi-chan, which is set to ship on March 31, 2011 for the PSP. Visit the official site for more updates.

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Some new game art from the Reminiscences of Haruhi Suzumiya has been floating around the Internet recently, below are a sample of in-game CG and screenshots. The game is set in the parallel world of ‘The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya’ movie. The story is a continuation of the end of the film. The player assumes the role of Kyon as he finds himself at the Kita High School Festival again in a world where the SOS Brigade does not exist. Official release date for Japan is set for …