“Haruhi forms SOS Brigade seeking supernatural; Kyon discovers her recruits are secretly aliens, time travelers, and espers.”
Suzumiya Haruhi Series
涼宮ハルヒシリーズ
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Synopsis
Haruhi forms SOS Brigade seeking supernatural; Kyon discovers her recruits are secretly aliens, time travelers, and espers.
As the students of Class 1-5 introduce themselves at the beginning of their high school careers, the cynical but otherwise fairly ordinary boy known as Kyon sits down, having just finished his piece. However, when the girl sitting behind him stands up to give her speech, the words she utters dumbfound the entire class. Proclaiming that she has no interest in ordinary humans and is in search of the supernatural, Haruhi Suzumiya makes her unforgettable debut. Doubting Haruhi's sincerity, Kyon lets his curiosity get the better of him and attempts to befriend her in spite of his classmates' warnings. Unfortunately, as the eccentric girl slowly opens up to him, Kyon realizes she is dead serious. Moreover, a conversation between the two sparks a dangerous idea in Haruhi's mind: since she is bored with the mundanity of the school's clubs, she should just create her own. With this, the SOS Brigade is born, and Kyon is quickly dragged into a life of absurdity. Taking over the Literary Club's room, Haruhi soon enlists three new members into her organization: the stoic Yuki Nagato, the timid Mikuru Asahina, and the supposedly mysterious transfer student Itsuki Koizumi. Having thrown together this group of students, Haruhi drags the squad around on adventures in search of the exciting and supernatural, much to Kyon's chagrin. However, he soon discovers that there is more to the new recruits than meets the eye, and that which Haruhi wishes for may be much closer than she realizes.
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 12 sampled reviews
What 12 readers settled on.
Mostly aligned
σ 1.40 · some divergence
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Not enough recommend signal yet
↓ 0.17
Running avg · Jan 2008 → Feb 2025
- 7 “The first volume seemed very interesting to me but the second one became very boring and I left it, the narrator becomes obnoxious and heavy after a while it would have been better than the author...”
- 10 “Melancholy of haruhi Suzumiya is a masterpiece from the early 2000s. Well written science fiction with an emphasis of slice of life story of a high school boy with no willingness to explore the joy...”
- 10 “Suzumiya Haruhi is about a lot of things. Haruhi is about youth; it is about growing up, about finding a place in the world. Haruhi is about the fact that truth is almost never straightforward....”
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A Light novel Publication
- Published Jun 2003 – ongoing
- Source Light novel media type
- Ref. BS-M2674 catalog