The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya-chan (Suzumiya Haruhi-chan no Yūutsu) and Nyoron Churuya-san are two gag manga spinoffs of Haruhi Suzumiya, animated and broadcast on YouTube as three to five-minute shorts. Though famous for "trolling" on their fanbase as of late, Kyoto Animation was rumored to produce this series' as a way to pacify the fans for waiting 3 years for an actual 2nd Season of Haruhi!Both series have now reached their conclusions, with Haruhi-chan 25 and Nyoro~n 13 being the last episodes. Both are available on Crunchyroll, along with the regular Haruhi Suzumiya episodes.Bandai has licensed both series and released them on two DVD sets. Haruhi-chan's manga is licensed by Yen Press.The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya-chan takes the characters and situations from Haruhi Suzumiya, chibifies them, and turns the madness and comedy up to eleven while adding copious amounts of High-Octane Cute.
Yuki Nagato sings "Paradise Lost" by Minori Chihara at the end of Episode 6. She also plays Kagura Tsuchimuya in that series.
Achakura holding an umbrella to open a door is a reference to Rozen Maiden, seeing as Natsuko Kuwatani does her and Suiseiseki. And hearing her say DESU~ really reminds people of Suiseiseki, DESU~
Every episode of Haruhi-chan except for episode 25 begins with this.
SANTA-DA~~~!
Author Appeal - Mori-san certainly appears a lot- she's even the focus of the first story in volume 4, where Koizumi gets her to cosplay as Haruhi. And if that's not enough to convince you, there's a surprising amount of bonus art of her in casual clothes or with her hair in a ponytail.
Bad Ass Santa - Haruhi's concept of Santa, part of a clan of super-muscled old ninjas who infiltrate houses and deposit gifts. And she turns poor Taniguchi into one.
Kyon and Itsuki get bishie shots in their host suits in episode 12, complete with Bishie Sparkles.
In the episode where the whole group is having a scavenger hunt Kyon, as part of the game, tells Itsuki that he loves him, causing Itsuki's face to go totally bishonen, or arguably bishojo, complete with dramatic wind and flower petals.
Achakura contemplates her previous life, until Kimidori says "I'm not going to let you turn this into a complete episode."
Kyon asks about another episode's title.
From episode 14:
Kyon: YOU! It's terrifying to have a balloon burst in your face!
Haruhi: Uh, Kyon, a main character shouldn't make a face like that.
From Episode 25:
Nagato(in-game): If you'd like...
Kyon: That's from Disappearance!
Brother-Sister Incest - This might be stretching things, but judging from episode 25's opening, Nagato's game contains a "Kyon's sister" route, so if Kyon's the protagonist...
To some extent Kyon, who always gets the short end of Haruhi's plans. It's a bit like his role in the series turned up to eleven.
Came Back Wrong - Played for Laughs. When Ryoko Asakura manages to regenerate herself as Achakura, she's barely a couple feet tall, and has lost most of her powers. Not to mention that she has a somewhat childish mentality sometimes, being placated by a merry-go-round treatment, karaoke singing, the "legendary" obi-spin, and a piece of chocolate cake. Later in the manga it's revealed that Asakura can use her powers to a certain extent, but doing so causes her to become even tinier! Kimidori-san shows real concern that if she overdoes it she'll wink out of existence.
Koizumi has stopped being remotely subtle in his Shipper on Deck activities, taking every opportunity to try to convince Kyon to couple up with Haruhi. Kyon's having none of it, although in volume 4 he's able to force Kyon and Haruhi to go on a scripted date together as a penalty game. They nearly die.
Subverted with Yuki, as her stoicness is overshadowed by her otakuness, which is hinted at in the original series, albeit not as played up. Look at the masks she buys in the Endless Eight. So it could be this subtle aspect is exaggerated even more, making it an exaggerated version of Character Exaggeration.
Continuity Nod - Several episodes feature references from previous episodes. For example, the Computer Club's fossilized kappa introduced in episode 5 was stolen by Taniguchi in episode 7. In episode 19, he snuck it back in disguised as Santa.
Contrived Coincidence - In episode 19 Taniguchi dresses as Santa and sneaks into the school to put back a gift-wrapped kappa in the Computer Club's room on the same night that Haruhi is holding a Christmas party and has Kyon waiting in the Computer Room to catch Santa.
Faux Yay: Kyon's declaration of love to Koizumi, which nearly caused the world to end.
Flipping the Table - Same idea. In Achakura's first episode she becomes increasingly irritated with her treatment by Yuki, culminating when Yuki tries to feed her what appears to be pet food in a doggie dish. Yuki claims that this is a joke and goes to give her some real food but leaves it in the doggie dish, so Achakura flips the dish. Achakura actually does this with a few of the things that Yuki gives her.
Fun Size - Everyone, since they are in chibi form most of the time, but Achakura a step higher lower.
Hatsuyume - The premise of Kyon's dream in episode 01, although with a twist. Koizumi is Mt. Fugi (actually just a regular mountain), Tsuruya is the hawk (or rather, a crane with the heart of a hawk), and Nagato is an eggplant cellphone strap.
In Episode 16, when Yuki sets a sword to homing mode to cut an object in any way possible.
Subverted when Kyon tried it and his wrists got twisted and his body got thrown around like a ragdoll, since it was the first time he had ever used a sword.
I'm Taking Her Home with Me! - What Yuki does with Achakura. Although she doesn't do it because Achakura is cute, but rather so she can keep an eye on her.
Infodump - Parodied. When Yuki was describing a particularly nasty Sealed Evil in a Can, everyone else promptly announced that the explanation was too long and they couldn't understand it.
I Was Just Passing Through - Frequent excuse made by Arakawa and Mori whenever Itsuki calls them in for favors.
The Jimmy Hart Version - The theme for the dating sim intro sound like the Nursery Rhyme intro "True My Heart". An especially generic example, since "True My Heart" is already memetically generic.
Noodle Implements - Episode 3. We never find out exactly what the "Truck vs Kyon" event involves, but it's hard to forget the line "Here's your firework."
Punny Name - Achakura is a lisped version of Asakura. "Acha" can also be a "wince in pain" interjection, sometimes reacting to metaphoric pain or even someone else's pain. (E.g., watching someone get hit and saying, "Ooh, that's gotta hurt.")
Really Dead Montage - Happens in episode 24 with Kimidori, as soon as the Time Bomb explodes. Subverted since he gets better.
One to a particular Epileptic Tree - that of Kyon being the real deity in the series - in episode 1. It's even lampshaded.
There's also "Yasu is the culprit" at the end of the second episode, a Shout Out to The Reveal of a much beloved in Japan PC/NES mystery game, which had undergone Memetic Mutation. The reference thoroughly confused much of the western fanbase. The English dub replaces it with "The butler did it."
That lion that's seen with Mikuru looks a lot like Sakutaro from Umineko.
It wasn't translated into English as such, but in episode 19 Kyon says "Ippen shinde miru?" to Haruhi.
Several episodes reference parts of Book 7: the Spring Setsubun Festival (episode 8), the Valentine's Day chocolate cakes (episodes 11 and 12), the treasure hunt (episodes 17 and 18), and Mori and Arakawa riding around in a taxi (episodes 12 and 18).
The fighting game that Nagato offers to play with Kyon is Street Fighter II with all the characters as cute girls
Sinister Silhouettes - Parodied with Asakura claiming to be a member of the Radical Big Four, which is quickly revealed to be under the three leaders, all of whom are shown as generic featureless silhouettes. Kyon proceeds to call it cheesy and blame it on Yasu.
Squee - An in-story example is Haruhi's reaction to cornering "Santa". Her angrily-flushed cheeks visibly give way to a luminescent blush, and the resulting squeal echoes throughout the solar system, and even the galaxy.
The ending theme is somehow even more infectious than the opening. Something about it is so unbelievably cheesy that it rolls all the way over back into awesome. Perhaps it's the fact that the lyrics turn out to be one massive troll to the fans about Season 2.
Villain Decay - Parodied. Achakura attempts to avert this shortly after Coming Back Wrong by escaping from Yuki's apartment in order to kill Kyon, but rapidly changes her mind after a cat starts eyeing her up for lunch. invoked
Wall Jump - Achakura attempts this in episode 10. Guess how it turned out.
Haruhi's script for The Gift of the Maid II: Stealing Love Within a Month of Death has Kyon and Itsuki winning the battle-maid tournament and becoming a couple. Haruhi witnessing Kyon's discovery of a "barrier to the heart" put her in a short-term amnesiac coma.
Yuki's visual novel starring the cast included Itsuki and Arakawa as possible paths for Kyon!
Nyoron Churuya-san follows the adventures of Tsuruya's super deformed counterpart Churuya as she quests for smoked cheese, almost always unsuccessfully. Also featured is Ashakura, Ryoko's counterpart with a massive, but ultimately doomed crush on Kyon.Everyone besides Churuya and Ashakura is rendered with the same generic, non-super-deformed body with eyes always shut, and they're all general jerk asses. Still, Churuya usually gets a happy ending after enduring some hardships throughout the rest of the episode.
Crapsack World - In the extremely strange world of Nyoron Churuya-san, everyone is a complete Jerkass except for Churuya and Ashakura, who are just adorable.
Creepy Monotone - Everyone except Churuya and Ashakura, moreso in the dub. Mikuru gains a completely deadpan, borderline masculine voice.
Not-So-Hostile Show Takeover - Ashakura attempts to rename Nyoron Churuya-san in the beginning of episode 8, holding up a sign saying that the new title is Sore Muri Ashakura-san.
Image Song - Six for Churuya - two solos and four duets. D'awww~
Keep It Foreign - The "Why?" -> "Naze?" line by Kyon to Ashakura in episode 7, a direct reference to the main series.
Mandatory Line - Yuki, Itsuki, and Mikuru don't get enough screentime and some episodes have them say just one line. Others don't have them present at all. Even Haruhi fails to appear sometimes.
, along with the regular Haruhi Suzumiya episodes.Bandai has licensed both series and released them on two DVD sets. Haruhi-chan's manga is licensed by Yen Press.
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