Everyone loves The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya. KyoAni must also love Haruhi, because it doubtlessly brings them tons of our money. KyoAni has also announced that it intends to create a second season of Haruhi. Unfortunately, it seems like KyoAni has pulled a Blizzard and decided to create everything except the sequel to its most beloved franchise.

Blizzard took nine years and Diablo 2 and Lord of Destruction, Warcraft 3 and The Frozen Throne, World of Warcraft, The Burning Crusade, and Wrath of the Lich King before Starcraft II was announced. So far, it hasn’t been as bad. It’s been two years and Kanon, Lucky Star and its OVA, two seasons of Clannad, and probably Munto TV so far.

Here is the game. I invite all of you to come up with whatever KyoAni will make before landing on Haruhi 2. We’ll start after Clannad After Story ends, so the next thing KyoAni will make will be airing in Spring 2009. Then we’ll come back and look at our lists and laugh at how off we are, or weep at how right we ended up being.

1. Spring 2009: Munto TV
2. Fall 2009: Lucky Star Season 2
3. Spring 2010: Tomoyo After (Key VN)
4. Fall 2010: Gyakuten Saiban (lawl)
5. Spring 2011: Planetarian
6. Fall 2011: Lucky Star Season 3
7. Spring 2012: Gyakuten Kenji (might as well)
8. Fall 2012: Little Busters! (Key VN)
9. Spring 2013: Air (2013)
10. Fall 2013: Rewrite (Key VN)
11. Spring 2014: Gyakuten Saiban: Apollo Justice Chapter
12. Fall 2014: Lucky Star Season 4
13. Spring 2015: The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya

So yeah, I guess I’ll go with eight years. Maybe a bit more, depending on how many new games Key manages to get out the door in that time. Maybe you can come up with some likely franchises that KyoAni may be eyeing.