The Influence of Haruhi Suzumiya

Haruhi Suzumiya                                 

The episodes of the Japanese animated television series The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya are produced by Kyoto Animation and directed by Tatsuya Ishihara. The 2006 anime The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya contains fourteen episodes which aired between April 2 and July 2, 2006 on a number of Japanese television networks.^[1] The rebroadcast of the anime began on April 3, 2009, with the first new episode airing on May 22, 2009.^[2] The anime is based on the Haruhi Suzumiya series of light novels written by Nagaru Tanigawa and illustrated by Noizi Ito, centering on the title character Haruhi Suzumiya, a young high school girl, and her strange antics with her friends in a club she formed called the SOS Brigade, although it is told from the perspective of the male lead, Kyon in nonlinear narrative.

 

Cultural impact

The anime series became somewhat of an Internet phenomenon in Japan, Asia, and English-speaking countries. Over 2000 clips of the series and user-created parodies and homages were posted to video sharing websites such as YouTube^[56] and Nico Nico Douga. The popularity of these clips (and those of other popular Japanese series) led the Japanese Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers (JASRAC) to request that YouTube remove clips claimed to be under the copyright of their members.^[57]
Haruhi, Yuki and Mikuru (voiced by Aya Hirano, Minori Chihara, and Yūko Gotō), along with Japanese drama actor Toma Ikuta, made their first Japanese ad appearance in promoting Lotte Acuo Gum in March 2010.^[58][59] Lotte also featured profiles for the three characters on the Acuo official
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Light novels

Main article: List of Haruhi Suzumiya light novels

Written by Nagaru Tanigawa and illustrated by Noizi Ito, the light novels alternate between full length novels and collections of short stories which initially appeared in The Sneaker, a seinen novel magazine published by the Japanese publishing company Kadokawa Shoten.
The novels are licensed for release in Taiwan, Hong Kong and mainland China by Kadokawa Media, in South Korea by Daiwon CI, and in the United States by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers and Yen Press.^[3]