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本帖最后由 芍药 于 2010-6-18 17:57 编辑
旧金山首映,这鬼妹团长还是不错的
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The North American Premiere of “The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya”!
No need for a silly title this time, it’s all about the substance! As I noted before, I was able to attend the North American premiere of the Haruhi movie this past Friday in San Francisco! The teamwork between Kadokawa Publishing and Bandai Entertainment (with gifts from Yen Press and Crunchyroll) resulted in a spectacular showing!
The movie was listed to start at 7, but even at 5 PM there were fans hanging around the building and getting tickets.
After a while of waiting upstairs, I realized that I should have been going downstairs and waiting outside the door. There were a fair amount (about 25 or so) fans down there and so we waited until the Producer for the ASOS Brigade came out with a stack of boxes.
Inside those boxes (courtesy of Yen Press) were copies of the first volume of the Haruhi manga and “The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya”. Both were, of course, translated into English for the American fans. The manga volumes went very quickly (since most people likely had the novel already) and then you went inside…
Where Cristina Vee (sorry for the bad picture of you Cristina!) was signing copies of the poster for everyone! They were fresh from the printer (just came out the day before). For those of you who don’t know who Cristina is (and why she’s in Haruhi cosplay), Cristina plays the role of Haruhi in the ASOS Brigade web shorts that Bandai Entertainment puts out to promote the series and events like this. She’s well known for takings songs from anime series and translating the lyrics into English versions.
After she finished, the marketing manager for Bandai Entertainment came out and addressed the crowd and introduced Cristina to sing a few songs. After a little technical difficulties, she was able to complete four songs.
The first two (Bouken Desho, Desho) and (Yasashii Bouyaku) were in Japanese and the last two (Super Driver and Hare Hare Yukai) were in English. There’s already Youtube videos for the performance, so if you want to see her sing, go search!
After that, the movie started a little bit later than the promoted time to a HUGE amount of applause when “The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya” came up on the screen. Everyone was quiet and enjoyed the film…for about two minutes until Kyon’s Sister came into the room and…oops, no spoilers here folks.
The audience was really into the movie, laughing and yelling out comments (I still get a laugh from the one guy yelling that Kyon’s an asshole for something he does to Yuki). It made the movie more enjoyable to see it with fans who all truly love this series. I’d say that the majority had not seen the cam-rip video due to some of the shock when certain scenes happened.
After the movie was over, during the credits Cristina went up and announced that all those who came in late should stay after and get their posters signed. Then the post-credits scene aired and everyone “aww”ed due to the significance of it. Then she and the marketing producer pointed out that we had a celebrity at the event. A fan from Japan (Takahashi-san) spent money on a trip to the US to see the North American premiere for his 100th viewing of the movie. They gave him a special lanyard that all the staff were wearing to celebrate the 2010 ASOS Brigade team.
Afterwards, they raffled off for 10 3-month subscriptions and 5 1-year subscriptions to Crunchyroll (neither I nor Yumeka won). Then something funny happened. Takahashi-san became the most wanted person there
It seemed everyone wanted to talk to him and get his signature on something Haruhi-related. Even the folks from Bandai came by with a camera to film the people stopping by. (I got my copy of the novel signed by him so Bandai could have at least one signing on film) After that, the premiere was over.
I have to give it to Bandai. This was my first event of this magnitude and it was a blast. I enjoyed meeting everyone and being around so many Haruhi fans. I woke up the next morning feeling like something was lost from me. I didn’t realize that I had been looking forward so much for the showing that afterwards I felt like “what’s next?” I’m going to be mailing a letter to the ASOS Brigade and all affiliations thanking them for this event. It’s one I will treasure for a long time.
Post-script: The following day I went back and saw the movie again. I met Takahashi-san as he was walking out from the noon showing and gave him a present for the 101th viewing for him: my copy of the Sigh novel for him to take back. In return he gave me one of his film bookmarks. I’m vastly disappointed it wasn’t Koizumi, but I think many many others will disagree with my opinion.
It’s got a spoiler meaning behind it, but Kyon and Nagato! Takahashi-san said it was a good one.
So that’s my take on the North American premiere of “The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya” A fun event, and I’m sorry this didn’t get put up two nights ago!
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