Category Archives: News

The Future

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The time has come to examine the viability of continuing this site. Domain and hosting costs keep rising on this and the sister site. Its approaching close to a thousand plus dollars a year. I seem to have two choices, let the current domains and hosting expire and go “dark” or find another way to drastically reduce the operating cost and the associated time required to maintain the sites.

Our visitor’s, as of late, are AI crawlers constantly scraping the sites and consuming excessive amounts of bandwidth and when our bandwidth limit is exceeded it cost even more. Keeping those sites at bay is becoming a ‘full time job’, plus my real life affairs, its taking more time than I find acceptable.

My current issue with the websites…..

Keeping the Web Up Under the Weight of AI Crawlers

With the passing 15th anniversary of the Haruhi franchise and no mention of new content, the decision that Bakacast would no longer continue and a general malaise in anime, don’t get me wrong there has been some good series released, but the themes have become quite repetitive, so maybe it’s time to move on.

I was thinking of sticking it out until Haruhi’s 20th anniversary but… Watch this space…

Note: This is not a request for funding, this has been my project from the start, to its finish. Thank you for your past, present and future support

 

Haruhi Suzumiya Franchise Launches Crowdfunding for New Song, Music Video

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From A.N.N.

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2024-11-07/haruhi-suzumiya-franchise-launches-crowdfunding-for-new-song-music-video/.217631

Follow up posts (from A.N.N.)

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2024-11-22/haruhi-suzumiya-franchise-crowdfunding-adds-goal-for-2-more-songs-with-music-videos/.218196

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2024-11-27/haruhi-suzumiya-franchise-meets-crowdfunding-goal-for-2-more-songs-with-music-videos/.218349

Aya Hirano, the voice of Haruhi, announces her marriage.

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Details in the link below, the staff and management of this site wish them good health, success and happiness for many years to come. (I know it’s kind of old news but good news anyway)

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2024-01-03/voice-actress-aya-hirano-actor-masashi-taniguchi-announce-their-marriage/.206130

Happy New Year 2023

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Happy New Year Everyone.

So what will 2023 bring? For me it’s surviving to see 2024. A Peaceful world would be nice as well. I’ll continue to view anime although at a much slower pace than before. Future plans, at the moment there are none… however nothing, within reason, is off the table. With that said… Watch this space.

Bakacast – Hate-chan’s Counterattack

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This week, we bring in Bakacast power-listener and Universal Century super-fan Hate-chan to help us discuss the Mobile Suit Gundam remake. Continuing the mecha theme, we then wonder how many people will actually be crazy enough to buy the phenomenally overpriced Evangelion wine.

Then, in the “Whatcha Been Doing?” segment, I talk for far too long about video games, as is customary. It’s about The Witcher 2, though, so at least it’s a game I enjoy this time.

In the reviews segment, we have our first “proper” review of Soft Tennis courtesy of Karen, Larry and Glen; Gosick makes us scratch our heads even more than it usually does; Steins;Gate ends with a literal bang; and [C] goes all Madoka Magica on us. Also, we begin our retroactive review of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic season one. Our conclusion? It really sucks to be an Earth Pony, and Princess Celestia is a troll.

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If you would like to submit listener questions for a future episode, you can email them to bakacast[at]projectharuhi.net, @reply them to Project Haruhi’s Twitter account using the hashtag #bakacast, or leave them in the comments below.