Haruhi Suzumiya (light novels)
| Haruhi Suzumiya (light novels) | |
 The first novel: The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya | |
| Genre | Comedy, Philosophical, Postmodern, Psychological, Science Fiction, Seinen, Supernatural |
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| Manga | |
| Written by | Nagaru Tanigawa |
| Published by |  Kadokawa Shoten  Kadokawa Media (Taiwan) DaiwonCI (Korea) |
The Suzumiya Haruhi (涼宮ハルヒ) series is a collection of Japanese light novels written by Nagaru Tanigawa and illustrated by Noizi Ito centering around the high school girl Haruhi Suzumiya, her strange antics, and her friends in a club she formed called SOS Brigade.
The series started with the release of the first volume on June 6 2003 entitled The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (涼宮ハルヒの憂鬱, Suzumiya Haruhi no Yūutsu) which was originally published by the Japanese company Kadokawa Shoten, but has since been licensed for released in Taiwan and Hong Kong, China by Kadokawa Media and in Korea by DaiwonCI.
Currently, there are eight individual novels, though it is thus far unfinished in Japan. Later, an anime adaptation was created entitled The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya after the first volume, though the story covers material from several of the books.
Outline
The story is centered around Haruhi Suzumiya, a first-year high school student, and a group called the SOS Brigade (SOS団 エス・オー・エスだん, Esuōesu dan), which she formed in order to look for and play with aliens, people from the future, people from alternate worlds, and other such extraordinary entities. The club name is actually an acronym of: Suzumiya Haruhi's Brigade to greatly enliven the world (世界を大いに盛り上げるための涼宮ハルヒの団, Sekai wo Ooini moriagerutame no Suzumiya Haruhi no dan). It is described as an unusual school story (非日常系学園ストーリー, hinichijōkei gakuen stōrī).
Books
- The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (涼宮ハルヒの憂鬱, Suzumiya Haruhi no Yūutsu)
Published on June 6 2003 (ISBN 4-04-429201-9)- Haruhi forms the SOS Brigade.
- The Sighs of Haruhi Suzumiya (涼宮ハルヒの溜息, Suzumiya Haruhi no Tameiki)
Published on September 30 2003 (ISBN 4-04-429202-7)- The SOS Brigade films a movie for the school cultural festival.
- The Boredom of Haruhi Suzumiya (涼宮ハルヒの退屈, Suzumiya Haruhi no Taikutsu)
Published on December 27 2003 (ISBN 4-04-429203-5)- A collection of short stories.
- The Vanishing of Haruhi Suzumiya (涼宮ハルヒの消失, Suzumiya Haruhi no Shoushitsu)
Published on July 31 2004 (ISBN 4-04-429204-3)- Haruhi vanishes one day, and it seems like she was never there. Confronted by a "normal" school life, how does Kyon react?
- The Rampage of Haruhi Suzumiya (涼宮ハルヒの暴走, Suzumiya Haruhi no Bousou)
Published on September 30 2004 (ISBN 4-04-429205-1)- A collection of short stories, taking place in summer, autumn, and winter.
- The Agitation of Haruhi Suzumiya (涼宮ハルヒの動揺, Suzumiya Haruhi no Douyou)
Published on March 31 2005 (ISBN 4-04-429206-X)- A collection of short stories.
- The Intrigues of Haruhi Suzumiya (涼宮ハルヒの陰謀, Suzumiya Haruhi no Inbou)
Published on August 31 2005 (ISBN 4-04-429207-8)- Mikuru from eight days later shows up before Kyon, and she was sent back in time by Kyon himself. Why?
- The Indignation of Haruhi Suzumiya (涼宮ハルヒの憤慨, Suzumiya Haruhi no Fungai)
Published on May 1 2006 (ISBN 4-04-429208-6)
Characters
In the series, there are five main characters that are all members of the SOS Brigade. The founder of the club, Haruhi Suzumiya, is a very energetic and often eccentric girl who began the club after talking with the only other person that would converse with her, a fellow classmate named Kyon. Her main purpose to start the club was to be able to find aliens, espers, time travelers, dimensional travelers (specifically sliders), and other oddities so as to alleviate some of her boredom.
Kyon, a cynical classmate of Haruhi's who began talking with her out of pure curiosity alone, is dragged into the club, though is unsure what will come of it. When two other members are "recruited" by Haruhi to join, Kyon decides to stay in order to make sure no harms come to them per Haruhi's wacky ideas. He serves to stop Haruhi from going too far most of the time, but is not always able to stop her.
The third member of the club is Yuki Nagato, a very silent bibliophile who usually wants to simply be left alone to read. Without Haruhi knowing of it, Yuki is in fact a "humanoid interface", or artificial human, created by the Integrated Data Entity. The fourth member is the shy and timid Mikuru Asahina, who happens to be one year above Haruhi. She is actually a time traveler. The final member of the SOS Brigade is Koizumi Itsuki, who is almost always smiling and more than willing to give in to Haruhi's strange demands. He turns out of be one of many espers. All three of these members were sent by their particular group to investigate Haruhi Suzumiya, who appears to all three of them to have extraordinary powers equivalent to that of a god, such as the power to remake the world into anything she desires. However, Haruhi herself does not realize she has such power and additionally does not realize her own club contains the very people she is searching for.
Of the remaining characters, a good amount of them are other schoolmates such as Tsuruya, one of Mikuru's good friends or The Computer Research Society President, whose clubroom is unluckily right next to the SOS Brigade. Additionally, there are many more characters featured in the novels than are found in the anime series. Template:Endspoilers