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Haruhi Season 2 and Musashi Released on Monday
posted on by Andrew Osmond
On Monday July 4, The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (RRP £39.99), rated 12. It extends the story of the high-school heroine and her "Save our world by Overloading it with fun Suzumiya Haruhi's Brigade" (the S.O.S. Brigade for short).
The "second series" of Haruhi was broadcast in Japan in 2009, mixed with a run of the first series. The original 14 episodes (first broadcast in 2006) were supplemented with 14 new episodes; these new episodes fit in-between the old ones. The new episodes include the "Endless Eight" storyline, in which the characters are caught in a endlessly repeating time-loop. (The original Haruhi episodes are available from Beez Entertainment in an "Anime Legends" box-set.)
Manga Entertainment has apologised for the fact that there is only mono audio on the Japanese soundtrack of the second series box-set. As well as the 14 new episodes, the set includes chibi spinoff mini-webisodes featuring "Haruhi-Chan Suzumiya."
Also on Monday, Manga Entertainment is releasing the Patlabor 2.
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