Suzumiya Haruhi no Seitenkan, or (roughly) "The Genderbending of Haruhi Suzumiya" in English, is a fan creation based on the Haruhi Suzumiya franchise that serves to tell what the universe would be like if all the male characters were female and vice-versa. Started off as just a random musing that became quite popular because of the difference in dynamics from the flipped gender roles and dynamics that gives a distinctly different impression from the original. Such as changing Kyon's cool snarks into Kyonko's cute sass.
It got so huge that it is one of the longest threads in the Animesuki forum
and gave birth to the revision projects. Also notable for having strikingly different versions of genders with Kyon(ko) [you really can't tell that they are genderflips of each other on appearance alone], that they might as well be two unrelated characters if not for the personality and origin.
Note that not everyone in the fandom uses the same gender-bent names; the main variation is "Haruhiko" for Haruhi, which is pretty common in the Japanese fandom.
Tropes:
- Crossdresser: Poor Mitsuru, forced to wear a frilly maid dress for a photo shoot and whenever he shows up at the club room for the remainder of the gender-flip of the first light novel!
- Double Standard: Why some people find Haruki considerably less bearable than Haruhi even when they are acting the same way. Also, arguably the whole point of the Rewrite Project, changing the gender of all characters, placing then in the same situation and seeing how things would change.
- Double Standard Rape: Female on Male: Attempted by the computer club and defied by Haruki, who just makes them sound like child molesters.
- Guilty Pleasure: To Kyonko, the photos of Mitsuru in the maid dress and herself in the bunny girl costume, to the point where she saves the photos to an encrypted folder instead of just outright deleting them.
- Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: A subset of fan artists appear to have developed the tendency to draw
Kyonko really short and Nagato really tall◊. Fans have come to refer this version of Yuuki as "Space Giant Yuuki". - Image Song: Surprisingly enough, Kyonko also got a Gender Flip of the Image Songs fandubbed with feminine particles. Even Itsuko has her own version of Maggaare Spectacle.
- Actually, everyone get the at last first set of the image songs genderbended. Most are just pitch altered versions, however, so they might sound a bit weird (although the voice sounds similar). Some, like the 3 above links, are actual Fan Dubs.
- One Head Taller: Predominantly◊ how Kyonko and Haruki are drawn together.
- The Password Is Always "Swordfish": Unfortunately for Kyonko, Haruki was able to access her hidden "MITSURU" folder by using her brother's name. And people wonder why it's common courtesy to not put personal information on your computer, and not just in that way—Haruki, upon seeing the Playboy Bunny photos of Kyonko, considers forcing Kyonko to wear said costume at all times when she shows up to the club room.
- Pink Girl, Blue Boy: Very subtly. In the rewrites, alongside all the gender flips, the celestials in closed space and the glowing espers had their colors switched; the blue celestials were made red, and the previously red espers were made to glow blue.
- Promoted to Love Interest: A variant of this trope in that female Kunikida and male Tsuruya are shown to be very interested in each other in several fan works, whereas in the original their interaction was much more limited and nonromantic. At least until the 11th book, where they got some Ship Tease. Ascended Meme, perhaps?
- Sacred First Kiss: Kyonko, just like Kyon, has to give hers up to Haruki to stop him from destroying/rewriting the world. It's a bit more... intense... than it was in the original novels. And the description was a bit more thorough.
- Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: Haruki is quite obviously manly, and Mitsuru is extremely sensitive, especially when Haruki puts him in a maid dress.
- Visual Novel: The Crossdroads of Haruhi Suzumiya, a yet to be finished fan-made Visual Novel that switches back and forth between the normal and gendenbent universe. That is, until Kyonko becomes a Slider and accidentally brings everyone to the original universe.
