Haruhi.... is.... LICENSED BY....

[Lisu]

And I ask myself how did this topic avoid my eyes for a week....
Anywho, I say one thing if it does get licensed. Leave the songs alone, and they could be forgiven....a little (though going from English to Japanese in the actual episode is always weird...). Now, as for voices, specifically referring to the main three girls, I can't imagine...or rather, I refuse to imagine how they would sound in English aside from...well, wrong.

On the happy side of life: If the anime comes over, and, ohh let's say it happens to be well accepted, any chance of the novels making their way to our shelves as Ryu quoted? That is gotta' be worth some more forgiving.

This is all hypothetically speaking of course.

[mDuo13]

There are actually some people translating the novels for fun (and free) now... but I love paperback bindings too much to bother reading them online, or even printing them out to read.

[gmontem]

What's wrong with ADV?  Can anyone point to me any recent ADV DVD releases so I can rent and examine myself?  Are they messing around with the Japanese video transfers?

I was comparing the two OP angles in Funimation's Samurai 7 DVD and the English angle was noticeaby worst in the PQ department than the orginal Japanese angle.  I don't think they were putting the proper weird cadences.  I wish these companies would leave the video stream alone.

[Spiritsnare]

What's wrong with ADV?

The fact that they initially announced Utaware to Shadow Warrior Chronicles, even though that sounds like the most cliché name ever?

ADV issued out another statement, however, that that would be the in-house name for it -- I guess so many people had a complaint about it that ADV may actually be contemplating actually calling it The One Being Sung. :3

[zoupzuop2]

Oof, here's MY question:

...what will become of Hare Hare Yukai, God Knows, and other TMoSH songs? Hopefully they'll pull them off well, or heads will roll. If HHY suffers ANY pain, heads will roll.