Better luck next time. ;]
I honestly do forsee more material being adapted into a second season for
The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, but the only question is really when? Though I'd be content with the ending that Kyoto Animation has given us, and I could only hope that the second season be as brilliantly conceived as the first.
Oh and uh, we should have a new anime of Angelic Days. But I've heard somewhere Anno is possibly making a third ending for the series. Way to ***** a franchise when both endings are acceptable.
Romance/Harem Manga Adaption into an Anime = Crap
(Unless Anno gets involved and pulls all of that artistic hoobla that he did in
Evangelion.)
I assume that you're talking about the rumored four movies that have been around since... July, I think. There was talk about the first three being adaptions of sorts to sum up the series with a few added and redone scenes, and then the fourth and final one to serve as an alternate ending. If that happens, I'll just simply disown that collection of movies as it is just pulling off what Tomino did with
Mobile Suit Gundam, and still treat the original works as the proper story of
Evangelion. If they're adapting Sadamoto's manga adaption into animated form, though... I call mutiny over having those awful characterizations, loss of emotion, inconsistancies in plot, and overall trampling over the development of the origianl material being brought to moving pictures (I don't particuarly care for the manga, if ya didn't figure that out.)
What we're looking at is either a prequel (which I'm pulling for), an adaption of one of those romance manga (which I'll just laugh at), or a retelling in the form of four movies (which I'll disown, as I've already mentioned). Honestly, if it isn't a prequel, than I'd rather Gainax come out with another super-duper-ultra-deluxe-golden bar-metallic-nuclear war durable-orgasmic re-release if it's anything else.
The series ending of NGE acceptable?
Nevar.
The movie ending of NGE acceptable?
Hellz yah. (Which is why the only other
Evangelion material that should be put out is some less-inspired manga adaptions and doujinshi, and some hit-or-miss fan fiction stories, save for a prequel of the anime.)
Edit: By the way, Franky, I approve of the
Higurashi no Naku Koro ni addition to your signature. I prefer the impossible-to-accomplish facial expressions of Mion/Shion myself, but crazy laughter Rena works as well.