Haruhi Suzumiya

Whoo hoo!

Yen Press announced that the new story will have a simultaneous release in English in digital format.

I don't miss Haruhi, but I miss the cult of Haruhi.

Everybody misses Haruhi. Even Kyon misses Haruhi.

Edited by FOFD on Sep 13th 2020 at 9:40:12 AM

WHY DIDN'T ANYONE TELL ME A NEW HARUHI BOOK WAS OUT!? For crying out loud, the English version released within days of my birthday last year!

Well, I haven't gotten it yet, but apparently The Intuition of Haruhi Suzumiya is out in all formats, and has been for nearly eight months. Anyone read it yet?

Yeah. The final story is the best one but that's to be expected since it's the longest.

Edited by Chariot on Feb 9th 2022 at 12:34:46 PM

Yes, we meet Tsuruya's girlfriend and Yuki plays a prank.

Is the series over now, then? I've seen art floating around that claims to be of adult Haruhi.

I remember seeing that a while ago, it was some minor thing added onto the Yuki box sets or something. I thought we discussed it on this thread, but I can't find it.

It's true that in the Disappearance of Nagato Yuki spinoff that by the time the series is over the characters are older than in canon, because that series ends after they graduate and then has a small timeskip before the final chapter. So the characters as seen in said chapter would be perhaps 18, 19?

You know it occurs to me that this scene of Kyon putting his foot down is literally Kyon learning to get over himself.

Haruhi might never be coming back, but at least it went out on a high note. I guess this is the best Series Finale we really could've gotten.

Edited by FOFD on Aug 5th 2023 at 11:22:06 AM

Best thing about this scene is that even Nagato went like "wait wha"

Apparently there's going to be a Haruhi crossover with the Konosuba game, too.

https://otakuusamagazine.com/konosuba-fantastic-days-haruhi-suzumiya-collaboration/

So did haruhi end or not? everything is really confusing about it really.

The Anime or the Novels? Because the Novels had a big break then volume 11 came out a couple of years ago. So who know?

Haruhi never had any sort of definitive ending, no. Probably the closest that could be considered such would be the And the Adventure Continues elements of the ending of volume 10. Volume 11 does not continue the story in any meaningful way as far as I know, with it being a collection of short stories that do not impact any overall plots. And given that the author seems to have moved on for the most part I certainly wouldn't expect more significant story developments of any kind, let alone a conclusion.

Edited by Grahf on Aug 7th 2023 at 2:20:15 PM

> So did haruhi end or not? everything is really confusing about it really.

well she disappeared but they found her again,right?

Disappearance is book 4 out of 11/12 and is like halfway through the timeline, if that.

No. And the chances of getting a season III at this point....

We had an entire volume that was nearly 100% plot, but that was almost a decade ago. Remember? It almost ended with Haruhi getting whatever made her "god" stolen by an ass with a sarcastic smirk.

The author himself kind of admitted that he was the weakest link to the franchise, given his lack of.. anything actually.

Why does the timeline split in Disassociation?

It's been a long time since I read Dissociation but iirc:

In one of the timelines a new member joins the SOS Brigade: Yasumi Watahashi. Things in this timeline continue on pretty much as standard, with no major incidents or troubles to speak of. In the second timeline the evil (I guess?) versions of the three factions are trying to get Haruhi's powers transferred over to Kyon's friend Sasaki. Yuki gets sick because the evil data entity is attacking or doing something to the good one, and so on.

Eventually it's revealed that Yasumi is literally a manifestation of Haruhi's powers that, in the timeline she exists in, was created to prevent Kyon from reconnecting with Sasaki. The two timelines are merged and Haruhi ends up remembering Yasumi as a middle schooler who snuck in and joined the Brigade but was eventually found out and went back to her own life.

I could be misremembering at least some of that, but I think that's the gist.

That's all well and good but why were there two timelines to begin with? Did Haruhi cause it, did Sasaki cause it, did evil Koizumi cause it?

I don't actually think there's ever a 100% verifiable reason given about that. Strictly speaking I think it's just chalked up to Haruhi's powers being Haruhi's powers.

TY.

Scenes from Haruhi: Kyon being the most relatable mood.

Wow. I forgot how toxic Haruhi is. Simultaneously I can't believe Kyon was worked up to the point he was going to straight up deck her.

Scenes from Haruhi: When you go to a baseball game but subsequently have an existential crisis

And yet, here the anime gets all deep.

Edited by FOFD on Sep 19th 2023 at 6:55:50 AM