Sun Television, the broadcasting station in Japan’s Hy?go Prefecture that is Japan’s first station to run The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya anime’s “renewed airing” in 2009, has aired the first new anime episode in almost three years on early Friday morning. The 2009 airing has been running its episodes in the story’s chonological order, and “Sasa no Ha Rhapsody” (”Bamboo Leaf Rhapsody”) is the next story chronologically in Nagaru Tanigawa and Noizi Ito’s original science-fiction comedy light novels. However, this episode was not animated during the anime’s first airing in 2006.

Source: 2channel

Update: The Teletama station in Saitama Prefecture, northwest of Tokyo, is now the second station to air the new episode.

Update 2: Yasuhiro Takemoto, the “Brigade Leader’s Assistant” of the 2009 broadcast’s main credits, directed and storyboarded this episode. Futoshi Nishiya, the 2009 run’s production chief director, supervised the animation production. Fumihiko Shimo (episode 8 and 13 of the 2006 run) wrote the episode.

Update 3: Haruhi voice actresses Aya Hirano, Minori Chihara, and Yuko Goto sings the new ending theme song “Tomare!” as their characters Haruhi Suzumiya, Yuki Nagato, and Mikuru Asahina, respectively. The CD single will ship in Japan on August 26. Source: Natalie

Update 4: Both Bandai Entertainment and Kadokawa Pictures USA have declined to comment on the future status of Haruhi Suzumiya in North America.

The Chobits is playing with butterflies.

Hope she can play the guitar as well. I-No from the Guilty Gear anime.

One of That Man’s servants and apparently a time-traveler, I-No appears in the postwar era approximately two weeks after the events of Guilty Gear X. She attacks Dizzy and sets the various fighters of the era against each other, seeking to help That Man’s still-unrevealed plans. She fights with an electric guitar, both using it as a bludgeon and playing it to create deadly sonic waves. She also wears a stereotypical pointed witch’s hat that can fire projectiles out of a hidden “mouth.” She is the primary antagonist and boss character of Guilty Gear XX

Haruhi Suzumiya is the title character of the Haruhi Suzumiya series, created by Nagaru Tanigawa and developed into a media franchise. First introduced in the light novels, which were then adapted into two manga and an anime series, with a forthcoming sequel, she is the main focus of the series. In an interview with Tanigawa, he stated that the idea for her character came during a sleepless night at the beginning of the 21st century.

Deedlit is the youngest of the High Elves at 160 and the first to be born to that race in a 1000-years. Having fought along side Parn, she finds that she loves him dearly and will not leave him even knowing that at best, he will one day grow old and die while she will remain eternally youthful.

CHOBITS takes place in a not-too-distant future when personal computers in humanoid form are all the rage. Perpetually broke Hideki can’t afford one, but he is lucky enough to stumble upon a discarded “persocom” lying in the trash while walking home from work one night. Seizing the opportunity, he takes her home and activates her, but she has no memory. He attempts to train her and seeks assistance from a twelve-year old programming genius, who suspects that she may be one of a rumored new model of supercomputer called CHOBITS.

This cute girl costume looks contrast with her makeup that looks pretty gothic. Nice black and white.