Will they ever be another FMP Season?

ultimatemegax said:
There's a lot of reasons we've seen the Haruhi Suzumiya franchise decline, but the biggest point is the lack of new material from Nagaru Tanigawa. Kadokawa, the publishers of the novels, manga, and associated print material, uses anime and videos to advertise their print material first and foremost. When what eventually became the new episodes in the "re-airing" and the movie was greenlit back in 2007, Tanigawa was continually writing new stories. That came to a screetching halt in the same year. He finally finished novel 10 (which became novels 10/11) in 2010, but has only written two short stories (and one un-related short story) since for all of his series. With no consistent new material coming from Tanigawa, and the novels having saturated the market, there's no reason to promote them over a new franchise. Same for figures/other merchandise not related to Kadokawa. They've dropped off (outside a few re-prints like the one linked) because everything's saturated for Haruhi.


With the lack of new material coming (in either print or anime form), and no promotional materials, fans have moved on. At least enough people continue to purchase the novels from Yen Press as they'll finish their run of Eng. translations this year (5 years after announcing the license). At this point, you only have the die-hard fans left.