The Melancholy of Haurhi Suzumiya was a huge anime awareness in 2006. Based on a serial of lite novels by Nagaru Tanigawa about a schoolhouse guild led by a special girl capable of unintentionally rewriting reality, the show inspired several trends that remained popular for years to come. However, following the less successful 2nd season, with its controversial "Endless 8" arc, and The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya pic, the series faded from public perspective. While spinoffs continued, the core anime adaptation of the light novels came to a halt, equally did the publication of the light novels themselves.

Now, 9 years after the last Haruhi Suzumiya novel's publication, a new book,The Intuition of Haruhi Suzumiya, is set for publication on November 25. For those who enjoyed the anime in its heyday but never picked upwards the novels, they're definitely worth reading. Of the soonhoped-for 12 Haruhi Suzumiya light novels, just the beginning half dozen were adapted into the anime, with some chapters of the fifth and sixth novels non being adjusted at all. If yous didn't read the novels, here's an overview of what you're missing, though, for the sake of encouraging y'all to read all these stories, we'll leave the twists for you lot to read yourself.

Snowy Mountain Syndrome & Where Did The Cat Go?

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One unadapted story from the fifth novel, The Rampage of Haruhi Suzumiya, is substantially a sequel to the earlier story "Remote Island Syndrome." Think that murder mystery episode from the starting time season? In this story, during a holiday vacation at a private villa, the SOS Brigade plot to substantially remake that aforementioned mystery for Haruhi. The simply problem is Yuki is feeling sick. When they arrive at their residence, nonetheless, the whole building seals close around them and everyone starts acting strangely.

This is a relatively short story that ran in the same book every bit "Endless 8" and "The Mean solar day of the Saggitarius," both previously adapted into the anime. "Snowy Mount Syndrome" is strangely reminiscent of The Shining and other winter-themed horror, as told through the madness of Haruhi Suzumiya. The murder mystery would later be "completed" in the following volume'south story "Where Did the Cat Go?"

Beloved at Beginning Sight

This unadapted story from the 6th volume, The Wavering of Haruhi Suzumiya, takes place afterwards the civilization festival. Kyon encounters an old friend of his from dorsum in the twenty-four hour period named Nakagawa, who remains infatuated with Yuki for some reason. He tries to go Kyon to prepare him up with Yuki. While Yuki flatly refuses, Haruhi stumbles into the plan and decides to force those crazy kids to get together. However, non everything is as it seems.

This story provides a rare moment of humanity for Yuki, too as a take a chance to see how characters outside the SOS Brigade were affected by Haruhi's massive reality-altering ripple throughout reality. It also illustrates Haruhi's gradual growth equally a grapheme, showing her to genuinely desire to meet Yuki happy, only as well going near helping Yuki on her own terms.

The Melancholy of Mikuru Asahina

Mikuru Asahina asks Kyon on a engagement. This, to Kyon, seems like a momentous occasion, since he's crushed on Mikuru since the first day he met her. Still, every bit with all things involving the time traveler, things are far from straight forwards, leading to a adventure run into orchestrated by those in charge.

This curt chapter has a pregnant impact on the time-traveling subplot. It too shows how manipulative Mikuru can be when encouraged past her arrangement to conduct in sure ways, merely likewise how much she hates manipulating circumstances and feels guilty for tricking or deceiving people, even when it'due south for very skillful reasons.

The Intrigues of Haruhi Suzumiya

In the series' seventh novel, Kyon ends up wanting to spend the next year without any world-catastrophe disasters, only for Mikuru to visit him, with Yuki's confidence. This Mikuru, notwithstanding, has fourth dimension-traveled from eight days in the time to come and has come to warn Kyon about a cataclysm that will strike if they don't human action fast. What follows are two Mikurus in the same timeline, a revelation nearly the culprit backside the prior "Snowy Mountain Syndrome" story and Kyon finally asking how much the seemingly normal Tsuruya has figured out near all the insanity transpiring just around her.

While information technology might seem redundant for there to be yet another time travel story, this volume farther develops the globe, illustrating how the characters were impacted by prior events. It likewise gives Kyon several seemingly meaningless tasks that, as is later revealed, are role of Future Mikuru's tampering with the past to command the future. The story as well introduces several rogue characters who play a meaning function later on.

The Indignation of Haruhi Suzumiya

Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya

The Indignation of Haruhi Suzumiya,  the 8th novel in the series, consists of two fairly compelling stories. The first one, "Editor-in-Chief, Straight Ahead," sees the SOS Brigade's integrity as a club questioned by a new President, who argues that, since the SOS Brigade is technically on paper even so the Literature Club that they have failed to justify their role as a club. This leads to Haruhi trying to publish a school newspaper. This goes besides equally you lot'd expect.

The second story, "Wandering Shadow" features a girl named Sakanaka coming to the club with a serious concern: a dog park is beingness haunted by ghosts that zap animals of their vitality. To make matters worse, Sanaka'due south own pup is ill. While Haruhi eagerly accepts the challenge, Yuki believes the trouble is more complex.

The Dissociation of Haruhi Suzumiya & The Surprise of Haruhi Suzumiya

These iii novels (The Surprise of Haruhi Suzumiya is split into ii volumes) course a trilogy. At the commencement of his second twelvemonth at schoolhouse, Kyon reunites with an old friend of his named Sasaki. Sasaki and Haruhi rapidly go friends, but it's immediately apparent that Sasaki possesses the same reality-altering powers as Haruhi, and that bringing the two together could have a catastrophic impact on reality.

The Dissociation of Haruhi Suzumiya reintroduces several antagonists from prior novels, specifically the antagonists from The Intrigues of Haruhi Suzumiya and "Snowy Mountain Syndrome," into the germination of an anti-SOS Brigade. To make matters weirder, halfway through the story, the timeline actually diverges into two split up timelines running concurrently, with both split timelines continuing into the two-part novel finale -- making this whole story incredibly difficult to explicate. This in many ways felt like a m finale to Haruhi's story. If y'all desire to read the new novel coming out this November, you lot will need to read these beginning.

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