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Haruhi Suzumiya #6
The Wavering of Haruhi Suzumiya
In Book 6 in the series, readers take a step into a time warp in five short stories. Head back to events from the previous books, and previously unseen scenes and perspectives to uncover mysteries that had been left unanswered.Live AliveKyon peruses the stalls at the cultural festival and visits Mikuru's noodle stall. Everything seems normal for once, until a surprise band shows up to perform.The Adventures of Mikuru Episode 00The movie that the SOS Brigade created in The Sigh of Haruhi Suzumiya (Book 2) is shown, and the Bridage gets to see it in its final form.Love at First SightKyon meets with an old friend, who describes seeing a girl he's fallen in love with--and it turns out to be Yuki! Will this mere human have a chance with the world's most stoic robot?Where Did the Cat Go?This story takes readers back to Book 3 (The Rampage of Haruhi Suzumiya) in which the SOS Brigade finally begins the main event for the Snow Mountain retreat murder mystery. The Melancholy of Mikuru AsahinaMikuru asks Kyon to accompany her to buy tea leaves, but a secret motive may be involved.
208 pages, Hardcover
First published March 31, 2005
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Nagaru Tanigawa
168 books278 followersNagaru Tanigawa ( 谷川 流 Tanigawa Nagaru)
Nagaru Tanigawa is a graduate of the Kwansei Gakuin University School of Law. In 2003, he won Kadokawa's Grand Prize for Literary World for his work on the Haruhi Suzumiya series.
Nagaru Tanigawa is a graduate of the Kwansei Gakuin University School of Law. In 2003, he won Kadokawa's Grand Prize for Literary World for his work on the Haruhi Suzumiya series.
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August 16, 2022
Another collection of short stories. Mostly some tie-ins to previous stories. Which can be charming if you don’t overdo it. Here, the writer does overdo it for me though. Probably one of the weaker books in the series so far.
November 5, 2016
The sixth volume in the saga of Haruhi Suzumiya turns out to be yet another short story collection, this one focusing on events from November through January.
Live A Live is essentially an epilogue to the second book, picking up exactly where Sigh left off. It's the day of the Cultural Festival and Kyon has just delivered the final cut of The Adventures of Mikuru Asahina Episode 00 to the film club. Not having any breasts, he's not part of Haruhi's marketing strategy for the movie, and his class only conducted a lame survey for the festival, so he's free to enjoy the rest of the day. He grabs Taniguchi and Kunikida and they head for lunch at the cafe Mikuru's class is running.
Afterwards, Kyon, who stayed up all night editing the film, decides to rest in the auditorium where various student bands are performing. Just as he's dozing off, he sees Haruhi and Nagato take the stage as part of an all-girl rock band. As though that's not a big enough shock, the band turns out to be really good.
On Monday Kyon learns the whole story from Haruhi -- the band's lead singer/guitarist broke her wrist that morning and couldn't play. Haruhi overheard the band members trying to figure out what to do, and on the spur of the moment she volunteered her services as a singer; she also figured that Nagato would know how to play guitar and dragged her into the band. But the experience has weirded Haruhi out -- she's used to being the oddball, and having people appreciate her for her talent is a foreign experience. The story ends with a touching moment between Haruhi and Kyon.
The Adventures of Mikuru Asahina Episode 00 is a summary of the infamous film produced by Ultra Director Haruhi Suzumiya. It's hard for me to judge this story because by the time I read it I'd watched the anime version, which is just so perfect that the short story is like reading a Wikipedia summary.
Charmed at First Sight LOVER, despite the awful Engrish title, is the best story in the book. It begins just a few days after the end of Disappearance with Kyon resting at home when he receives a phone call from Nakagawa, a classmate from middle school -- not a friend, just a guy Kyon sorta knew. A few months back Nakagawa saw Kyon walking with a girl and immediately fell in love. Kyon naturally assumes he means Haruhi or Mikuru and is going to warn him off when he receives a shock -- Nakagawa's fallen for Nagato.
After some cajoling, Kyon agrees to copy out a message to deliver to Yuki, though he instantly regrets it when he hears the drivel Nakagawa spouts -- the guy feels he is in no position to take out the goddess Nagato at the moment, so he asks that she wait ten years so he can go to college, get a job and start his own business, at which point he'll be rich enough to treat Yuki as she deserves.
When Kyon delivers the message the next day, Yuki's reaction is as expected -- no. Unfortunately for Kyon, he doesn't dispose of the letter properly and Haruhi discovers it. She immediately leaps to the wrong conclusion and tries to strangle him. When he finally explains what's going on, the other Brigade members agree that Nakagawa's request is ridiculous, but they are nonetheless interested in him -- even Yuki admits that, though she can't wait a decade for him, she would like to meet him. So that night Kyon calls Nakagawa and arranges for the Brigade to attend a football game he'll be playing the next day.
But this is the Haruhiverse, so there's more going on here than a simple date.
Where Did the Cat Go? is a sequel to both "Remote Island Syndrome" and "Snow Mountain Syndrome." It's New Years Eve and the gang is still at Tsuruya-chan's ski chalet, recovering from the encounter at the mysterious mansion from SMS. Koizumi had promised to put on a new murder mystery for Haruhi -- but this time everyone knows from the start that it's all a game.
The whole cast from the island returns -- Mori, Arakawa and both Tamaru brothers, though all Keiichi does is lie in bed pretending to be dead while Yutaka ... well, honestly I don't remember him doing anything. And that's the problem. For this grand mystery that Koizumi's supposedly been working on since summer, it turns out to be too simple. He gets his cohorts from the Agency to reprise their roles from the previous mystery, but they don't do anything, except for Arakawa and Mori answering a few questions while serving food. I know Tanigawa can write a decent mystery because he did it with RIS, and he can make a game interesting as he did with "Boredom" and "Day of Sagittarius III," but here he fails on all levels. It feels as though he's mentioned this party enough that he has to show it, but he doesn't have his heart in it.
The Melancholy of Mikuru Asahina is a much needed remedy to the flanderization poor Mikuru's gone through. In the first book she was the most intriguing Brigade member after Kyon and Haruhi -- a time traveling secret agent who becomes infatuated with Kyon despite not being allowed to have a relationship in the past, who must subject herself to Haruhi's bizarre whims as part of her mission, and whose boss is her future (badass) self. But as the series has progressed, she's become little more than a giant doll for Haruhi to dress up on whim. She exhibits no agency of her own and acts like she's stepped out of The Perils of Pauline. This is of course why Haruhi chose her -- the brigade needs a moe character to attract new members. But even when the Ultra Leader isn't present, Mikuru isn't that useful. Nagato and Koizumi and even Kyon figure out what's going on long before Mikuru, and when an actual danger appears, such as in "The Mysterique Sign," she doesn't do anything.
At this point in the series, she's starting to fade into the background as nothing more than a piece of eye-candy that Haruhi drags everywhere. This story largely fixes that by examining why Mikuru acts the way she does.
The plot begins with Mikuru asking Kyon to accompany her to the tea-shop on Sunday, which he interprets as a date. Alas, it turns out she's doing this under orders from the future, and her mission is to bring Kyon to a certain street corner at a certain time where he must perform a certain action that will be important to the future. Mikuru doesn't even know what that action is until after it happens, at which point she's shocked to discover how important her mission was. Yet she wasn't allowed to perform the action herself -- seems the time travelers don't want to interfere with the past directly, though their definition of "interfere" strikes me as mighty strange.
Overall this is one of the weaker installments in the series. It suffers from an inverse Star Trek syndrome -- the odd numbered stories are good ("Charmed" is more than good) while the even ones are weak. That's still 60% good, but it's a letdown after the previous two volumes.
Live A Live is essentially an epilogue to the second book, picking up exactly where Sigh left off. It's the day of the Cultural Festival and Kyon has just delivered the final cut of The Adventures of Mikuru Asahina Episode 00 to the film club. Not having any breasts, he's not part of Haruhi's marketing strategy for the movie, and his class only conducted a lame survey for the festival, so he's free to enjoy the rest of the day. He grabs Taniguchi and Kunikida and they head for lunch at the cafe Mikuru's class is running.
Afterwards, Kyon, who stayed up all night editing the film, decides to rest in the auditorium where various student bands are performing. Just as he's dozing off, he sees Haruhi and Nagato take the stage as part of an all-girl rock band. As though that's not a big enough shock, the band turns out to be really good.
On Monday Kyon learns the whole story from Haruhi -- the band's lead singer/guitarist broke her wrist that morning and couldn't play. Haruhi overheard the band members trying to figure out what to do, and on the spur of the moment she volunteered her services as a singer; she also figured that Nagato would know how to play guitar and dragged her into the band. But the experience has weirded Haruhi out -- she's used to being the oddball, and having people appreciate her for her talent is a foreign experience. The story ends with a touching moment between Haruhi and Kyon.
The Adventures of Mikuru Asahina Episode 00 is a summary of the infamous film produced by Ultra Director Haruhi Suzumiya. It's hard for me to judge this story because by the time I read it I'd watched the anime version, which is just so perfect that the short story is like reading a Wikipedia summary.
Charmed at First Sight LOVER, despite the awful Engrish title, is the best story in the book. It begins just a few days after the end of Disappearance with Kyon resting at home when he receives a phone call from Nakagawa, a classmate from middle school -- not a friend, just a guy Kyon sorta knew. A few months back Nakagawa saw Kyon walking with a girl and immediately fell in love. Kyon naturally assumes he means Haruhi or Mikuru and is going to warn him off when he receives a shock -- Nakagawa's fallen for Nagato.
After some cajoling, Kyon agrees to copy out a message to deliver to Yuki, though he instantly regrets it when he hears the drivel Nakagawa spouts -- the guy feels he is in no position to take out the goddess Nagato at the moment, so he asks that she wait ten years so he can go to college, get a job and start his own business, at which point he'll be rich enough to treat Yuki as she deserves.
When Kyon delivers the message the next day, Yuki's reaction is as expected -- no. Unfortunately for Kyon, he doesn't dispose of the letter properly and Haruhi discovers it. She immediately leaps to the wrong conclusion and tries to strangle him. When he finally explains what's going on, the other Brigade members agree that Nakagawa's request is ridiculous, but they are nonetheless interested in him -- even Yuki admits that, though she can't wait a decade for him, she would like to meet him. So that night Kyon calls Nakagawa and arranges for the Brigade to attend a football game he'll be playing the next day.
But this is the Haruhiverse, so there's more going on here than a simple date.
Where Did the Cat Go? is a sequel to both "Remote Island Syndrome" and "Snow Mountain Syndrome." It's New Years Eve and the gang is still at Tsuruya-chan's ski chalet, recovering from the encounter at the mysterious mansion from SMS. Koizumi had promised to put on a new murder mystery for Haruhi -- but this time everyone knows from the start that it's all a game.
The whole cast from the island returns -- Mori, Arakawa and both Tamaru brothers, though all Keiichi does is lie in bed pretending to be dead while Yutaka ... well, honestly I don't remember him doing anything. And that's the problem. For this grand mystery that Koizumi's supposedly been working on since summer, it turns out to be too simple. He gets his cohorts from the Agency to reprise their roles from the previous mystery, but they don't do anything, except for Arakawa and Mori answering a few questions while serving food. I know Tanigawa can write a decent mystery because he did it with RIS, and he can make a game interesting as he did with "Boredom" and "Day of Sagittarius III," but here he fails on all levels. It feels as though he's mentioned this party enough that he has to show it, but he doesn't have his heart in it.
The Melancholy of Mikuru Asahina is a much needed remedy to the flanderization poor Mikuru's gone through. In the first book she was the most intriguing Brigade member after Kyon and Haruhi -- a time traveling secret agent who becomes infatuated with Kyon despite not being allowed to have a relationship in the past, who must subject herself to Haruhi's bizarre whims as part of her mission, and whose boss is her future (badass) self. But as the series has progressed, she's become little more than a giant doll for Haruhi to dress up on whim. She exhibits no agency of her own and acts like she's stepped out of The Perils of Pauline. This is of course why Haruhi chose her -- the brigade needs a moe character to attract new members. But even when the Ultra Leader isn't present, Mikuru isn't that useful. Nagato and Koizumi and even Kyon figure out what's going on long before Mikuru, and when an actual danger appears, such as in "The Mysterique Sign," she doesn't do anything.
At this point in the series, she's starting to fade into the background as nothing more than a piece of eye-candy that Haruhi drags everywhere. This story largely fixes that by examining why Mikuru acts the way she does.
The plot begins with Mikuru asking Kyon to accompany her to the tea-shop on Sunday, which he interprets as a date. Alas, it turns out she's doing this under orders from the future, and her mission is to bring Kyon to a certain street corner at a certain time where he must perform a certain action that will be important to the future. Mikuru doesn't even know what that action is until after it happens, at which point she's shocked to discover how important her mission was. Yet she wasn't allowed to perform the action herself -- seems the time travelers don't want to interfere with the past directly, though their definition of "interfere" strikes me as mighty strange.
Overall this is one of the weaker installments in the series. It suffers from an inverse Star Trek syndrome -- the odd numbered stories are good ("Charmed" is more than good) while the even ones are weak. That's still 60% good, but it's a letdown after the previous two volumes.
July 6, 2017
Collection of short stories and novella length pieces, The Live A Live story really worksbetter in the anime, because you get to actually see the band preform.
March 13, 2024
This volume should just be called "The absolute misfortunes of John Smith aka Kyon"
Another banger short story volume this time with 5 shorts instead of 3.
This is officially the final volume that contains some material that has been adapted into anime so moving forward everything is unadapted. Funnily enough the two stories that were adapted from this novel was the first two shorts which works best for this review.
The first story is Live Alive and may I say FINALLY! Why did it take so long to get to this iconic short. I'll stand by my review of Sigh that it suffered become the conclusion to that story did not have Live Alive as its ending. Heck even Tanigawa admits this short is a necessary catharsis for Sigh since he spent all that time building up the festival and he somewhat regrets not putting it out earlier. That being said the short is so frickin good it still works on its own. It's arguably the most iconic episode of the original anime for reasons that go beyond the medium. Obviously God knows was THE Highlight of the Anime episode and it's difficult to convey a music based scene on paper compared to film. But what I love about this short it's that it's the biggest turning point for Haruhi as a character and where she truly begins to learn how to have fun on her own terms in the real world. The performance was the first time she's ever been appreciated for unapologetically being herself. Despite the control freak nature of her she's incredibly outgoing and dexterous and for the first time it actually benefitted someone else beyond her own self satisfaction. It's such a great subtle character moment and It's a great way to show how observant Kyon is as a primary pov. Although the message remains intact and great I've got to give it to the Anime episode simply because of the musical number and the fact that chronologically it's the conclusion to the Sigh story arc so the impact is much stronger when viewed after those episodes.
The next and final adapted story is The adventure of Mikuru Asahina episode 00. It's funny how this is the last published work from the light novel in terms of adapted stories however it's the first one to be released for the Anime in terms of the release order. This was always a personal favourite simply because there's nothing else like it. Seeing the filming process in sigh and then actually watching the film play out in its own episode is the stuff of genius. The film is so stupid and sloppy you'd think the short would be bad but what makes this so iconic is Kyons hilarious inner dialogue as we experience the film. It's genuinely so creative and fun. I will say once again the Anime does it better simply because the medium is more flexible for a story like this. The format does limit its potential but the ideas shine through despite that.
Love at first sight is the next one and it's the start of the unadapted streak. This has got to be the objective funniest story in the entire series so far. Like I genuinely laughed out loud in multiple scenes. It has its issues which I'll get into later on. Essentially there is a boy in Kyons old school that is hopelessly in love with Nagato, he has no idea she is an Alien android. The setup alone is perfect for the funniest short story and Tanigawa executes it so well. Hearing Nakagawas 10 year life plan in order to become worthy of Nagatos hand in marriage literally had me rolling. However the scene that made me burst out laughing was when poor ol Kyon after reading Nakagawas confession to Nagato freely throws the confession paper out the window only for Haruhi to stumble upon it and get the completely wrong idea. Seeing his absolute horror and anxiety when she picked up the paper and his subsequent panic was jus too good and as expected Haruhis reaction was to race to the room and threaten to throw him out the window😂 the first half of this short is so good and on the road for an S tier story however the second half left some to be desired. It kind of meanders as the gang watch a football game from a distance only to find out Nakagawa has some 6th sense sci fi jargon that actually saw the Data Over mind hence his obsession and it wasn't actually pining for Nagato. Honestly I wish the story kept things simple and it was a genuine crush would've made things even funnier. However what saved it was the very poignant ending where Yuki admits she was kinda dissapointed it wasn't real. Once again I love how reserved Tanigawa is when it comes to Nagatos subtle development.
Story number 4 is "Where did the Cat Go?" set after the Snowy Mountain syndrome story this one is about the winter murder mystery Koizumi planned and it's about as basic as it goes. I've said that I wasn't too much of a fan of the previous murder mystery short and I'm not for this one either. Now that we already know it's not real it kinda takes away all consequences and intrigue. The mystery itself is also painfully predictable and not even as clever as the previous. Unfortunately the first lukewarm short we got so far.
The final short thankfully ends on a high note. The Melancholy of Mikuru Asahina tells the tale of a fateful date between Kyon and Mikuru. I like that from the getgo readers will gather that this ain't a normal date and even Kyon suspects so. We constantly get hints that something is afoot but we can't help feel like Kyon that maybe this is just a normal outing after all. It's a great little short that addresses the messy timeline of Kyon and Mikurus relationship and how Mikuru feels inadequate as a member of the SOS brigade compared to the others however in Kyons perspective the adult Mikuru has on many occasions saved his life however he by the laws of time cannot tell Mikuru how she is of great value to him and the brigade. What we get was actually a very mature resolution where the both acknowledge they have Truths and secrets they yet cannot say to one another and that's okay. It's also some of the first world building as we see the inventor of time travel as a child and the threats towards the SOS brigade continue. From the Snowy mountain to now Tanigawa is setting up something really interesting. I also love that the inventor of time travel is tutored by Haruhi. It really helps solidify that she continues to be the centre point of everything in this universe and all things supernatural hence why she is so important. And of course my man Kyon cannot catch a break as Haruhi finds out about the little date however this time she's not as loud as before but instead it's a quiet seething anger that can only be contained through a smiling facade. I love that Haruhis Rampage has many sides but always ends in punishment.
Live Alive - 9/10
Adventures of Mikuru Asahina 9/10
Love at first sight - 8.5/10
Where did the Cat go? - 5/10
The melancholy of Mikuru Asahina - 8/10
Another banger short story volume this time with 5 shorts instead of 3.
This is officially the final volume that contains some material that has been adapted into anime so moving forward everything is unadapted. Funnily enough the two stories that were adapted from this novel was the first two shorts which works best for this review.
The first story is Live Alive and may I say FINALLY! Why did it take so long to get to this iconic short. I'll stand by my review of Sigh that it suffered become the conclusion to that story did not have Live Alive as its ending. Heck even Tanigawa admits this short is a necessary catharsis for Sigh since he spent all that time building up the festival and he somewhat regrets not putting it out earlier. That being said the short is so frickin good it still works on its own. It's arguably the most iconic episode of the original anime for reasons that go beyond the medium. Obviously God knows was THE Highlight of the Anime episode and it's difficult to convey a music based scene on paper compared to film. But what I love about this short it's that it's the biggest turning point for Haruhi as a character and where she truly begins to learn how to have fun on her own terms in the real world. The performance was the first time she's ever been appreciated for unapologetically being herself. Despite the control freak nature of her she's incredibly outgoing and dexterous and for the first time it actually benefitted someone else beyond her own self satisfaction. It's such a great subtle character moment and It's a great way to show how observant Kyon is as a primary pov. Although the message remains intact and great I've got to give it to the Anime episode simply because of the musical number and the fact that chronologically it's the conclusion to the Sigh story arc so the impact is much stronger when viewed after those episodes.
The next and final adapted story is The adventure of Mikuru Asahina episode 00. It's funny how this is the last published work from the light novel in terms of adapted stories however it's the first one to be released for the Anime in terms of the release order. This was always a personal favourite simply because there's nothing else like it. Seeing the filming process in sigh and then actually watching the film play out in its own episode is the stuff of genius. The film is so stupid and sloppy you'd think the short would be bad but what makes this so iconic is Kyons hilarious inner dialogue as we experience the film. It's genuinely so creative and fun. I will say once again the Anime does it better simply because the medium is more flexible for a story like this. The format does limit its potential but the ideas shine through despite that.
Love at first sight is the next one and it's the start of the unadapted streak. This has got to be the objective funniest story in the entire series so far. Like I genuinely laughed out loud in multiple scenes. It has its issues which I'll get into later on. Essentially there is a boy in Kyons old school that is hopelessly in love with Nagato, he has no idea she is an Alien android. The setup alone is perfect for the funniest short story and Tanigawa executes it so well. Hearing Nakagawas 10 year life plan in order to become worthy of Nagatos hand in marriage literally had me rolling. However the scene that made me burst out laughing was when poor ol Kyon after reading Nakagawas confession to Nagato freely throws the confession paper out the window only for Haruhi to stumble upon it and get the completely wrong idea. Seeing his absolute horror and anxiety when she picked up the paper and his subsequent panic was jus too good and as expected Haruhis reaction was to race to the room and threaten to throw him out the window😂 the first half of this short is so good and on the road for an S tier story however the second half left some to be desired. It kind of meanders as the gang watch a football game from a distance only to find out Nakagawa has some 6th sense sci fi jargon that actually saw the Data Over mind hence his obsession and it wasn't actually pining for Nagato. Honestly I wish the story kept things simple and it was a genuine crush would've made things even funnier. However what saved it was the very poignant ending where Yuki admits she was kinda dissapointed it wasn't real. Once again I love how reserved Tanigawa is when it comes to Nagatos subtle development.
Story number 4 is "Where did the Cat Go?" set after the Snowy Mountain syndrome story this one is about the winter murder mystery Koizumi planned and it's about as basic as it goes. I've said that I wasn't too much of a fan of the previous murder mystery short and I'm not for this one either. Now that we already know it's not real it kinda takes away all consequences and intrigue. The mystery itself is also painfully predictable and not even as clever as the previous. Unfortunately the first lukewarm short we got so far.
The final short thankfully ends on a high note. The Melancholy of Mikuru Asahina tells the tale of a fateful date between Kyon and Mikuru. I like that from the getgo readers will gather that this ain't a normal date and even Kyon suspects so. We constantly get hints that something is afoot but we can't help feel like Kyon that maybe this is just a normal outing after all. It's a great little short that addresses the messy timeline of Kyon and Mikurus relationship and how Mikuru feels inadequate as a member of the SOS brigade compared to the others however in Kyons perspective the adult Mikuru has on many occasions saved his life however he by the laws of time cannot tell Mikuru how she is of great value to him and the brigade. What we get was actually a very mature resolution where the both acknowledge they have Truths and secrets they yet cannot say to one another and that's okay. It's also some of the first world building as we see the inventor of time travel as a child and the threats towards the SOS brigade continue. From the Snowy mountain to now Tanigawa is setting up something really interesting. I also love that the inventor of time travel is tutored by Haruhi. It really helps solidify that she continues to be the centre point of everything in this universe and all things supernatural hence why she is so important. And of course my man Kyon cannot catch a break as Haruhi finds out about the little date however this time she's not as loud as before but instead it's a quiet seething anger that can only be contained through a smiling facade. I love that Haruhis Rampage has many sides but always ends in punishment.
Live Alive - 9/10
Adventures of Mikuru Asahina 9/10
Love at first sight - 8.5/10
Where did the Cat go? - 5/10
The melancholy of Mikuru Asahina - 8/10
May 24, 2018
Yet another short story collection, The Wavering of Haruhi Suzumiya manages to inject some very welcome slice-of-life goings-on to the series, and, as with previous books, its events take place throughout the chronology of the series as a whole, not progressing the franchise until the very last inclusion.
"Live Alive" finally shows us the school's cultural festival as set-up in the Sigh novel, but which had never actually been realized until now. Unlike many previous stories in the franchise, this one has no obvious supernatural elements at play. Instead, it focuses entirely on Kyon wandering through his school, experiencing the activities his fellow students have to offer for the festival. Kyon and his normie friends visit Asahina and Tsuruya at their class's cafe for a brief moment, before Kyon decides to spend a few hours passively listening to live music performed by the school's light music club, hoping against hope that he may avoid an encounter with Haruhi. As it turns out, Haruhi and Nagato both end up performing as stand-ins for a student pop band who perform after the actual light music club. Later, we are informed that Haruhi temporarily filled in for the absent singer/guitarist (the original had a throat problem. Nagato fills in on guitar, while Haruhi sings) from a combination of her general impulsive behavior and a newly-seen sympathy for another human being, giving fresh character development to Haruhi without the burden of having to write a scenario wherein she threatens the fabric of existence. The simplicity of this story is just fascinating, a great breather from the more eccentric, high-stakes events of previous stories.
"The Adventures of Mikuru Asahina Episode 00" takes place roughly during the cultural festival as well. It isn't clear whether the story is Kyon's narration as he edits the film before its premiere, or if it actually occurs during the film's premiere during the festival (or maybe it was specifically stated, and I just forgot). As it happens, I have made attempts to get into the Haruhi Suzumiya anime several times before, always starting with the adaptation of this story, and never continuing from it. Rewatching it most recently, in an attempt to actually watch the anime alongside continuing/finishing the novel series, I cannot imagine how I was ever dissuaded from watching the rest of the show. That shit was hilarious, and it is nice to see Kyon's extremely sarcastic dismissal of the film's events were just as high-quality in the prose source material. With the expanded nature of the prose original (or, that is, the anime episode is a condensed version of this story) we can better see the fruits of Kyon's labor as otherwise depicted during the filming in the Sigh novel. Obviously the events therein suggested an incredibly absurd film, and the "finished" product is just bananas.
"Love at First Sight" takes place in the short interval between the Disappearance novel and the "Snowy Mountain Syndrome" story from the Rampage book. An old classmate of Kyon's, from back in middle school, calls our narrator up with a confession that he's fallen in love with Nagato. Apparently intrigued by the proposition, Nagato agrees to meet with the boy, and the SOS Brigade goes to an American football game to see the kid perform, where he expects to wow Nagato with his heroics on the field. This volume's only explicit supernatural elements come in when Nagato seems to weave a "spell" to either help the kid catch the ball during a difficult play (whereupon he collides with an opponent, and ends up with a concussion) or otherwise orchestrates the game's events with the active intention of injuring the kid (it isn't quite clear, but the former possibility would go along with the idea that Nagato is still stressed enough from Disappearance's events that she couldn't foresee the injury). Kyon and Nagato go to visit the kid in hospital, and after Nagato steps outside for a second, the kid tells Kyon that he's fallen out of love with Nagato. Later, Nagato divulges the truth, that the boy had fallen in love with the essence of the Data Overmind as flowing through Nagato-as-apparatus, and now sees Nagato as a merely ordinary girl, which Kyon figures is because she's steadily been becoming more "human" as she gets friendlier with the SOS Brigade. The highest point of the story, and perhaps the book as a whole, is the very end, wherein Kyon, in a somewhat dickish move, badgers Nagato on whether or not she was "disappointed" with the outcome w/r/t the boy's lost love; her response, "...Just a bit," reflects the great strides Nagato's made throughout the series, while perhaps making the reader yearn for another appearance of the bashful Nagato of Disappearance. Truly Best Girl.
"Where Did the Cat Go?" directly follows the previous book's "Snowy Mountain Syndrome." It essentially tells Koizumi's new murder mystery, with its "twist" that everyone knows it is fiction. The story is pretty entertaining as another little slice-of-life respite from the series as a whole, but it isn't too memorable. Tsuruya becomes more of an actual character here, which is a neat change, but Kyon's imouto remains a non-entity, so it is clear we aren't going to change the status quo too soon, as far as the main cast goes.
"The Melancholy of Mikuru Asahina" finally moves the series into the new year, after dancing around such temporal movement in the past few stories. Fitting the advancement in time-frame, the story focuses on resident time-traveler Asahina, and her reservations concerning her occupation. After misleading Kyon into thinking the two are going on a date, it is revealed Asahina was sent on a mission to preserve her future, to get Kyon to save the life of a young boy who is apparently integral to the fabric of "established time" (Asahina and her organization cannot directly interfere with the events of the "past," apparently). Asahina feels melancholic (as the title suggests) because she rarely gets actual details of her missions from her boss (an older Asahina from further in the future, though of course she doesn't know it) and she sees her role in the SOS Brigade as nothing more than a dress-up doll. Kyon comforts her as best he can, fearful of revealing the truth of Asahina's job, as he knows it. The most significant development is the story's role as a follow-up to "Snowy Mountain Syndrome," as well as events from way back in the Melancholy novel, with Kyon's revelation that there are enemy time-travelers in addition to the enemy aliens and possible enemy espers. As with "Snowy Mountain," this has the negative effect of setting the series up to fall into the trappings of generic light novel narratives, but it also makes the reader wish for a third season of the anime, to adapt the eventual plot threatening to kick in.
"Live Alive" finally shows us the school's cultural festival as set-up in the Sigh novel, but which had never actually been realized until now. Unlike many previous stories in the franchise, this one has no obvious supernatural elements at play. Instead, it focuses entirely on Kyon wandering through his school, experiencing the activities his fellow students have to offer for the festival. Kyon and his normie friends visit Asahina and Tsuruya at their class's cafe for a brief moment, before Kyon decides to spend a few hours passively listening to live music performed by the school's light music club, hoping against hope that he may avoid an encounter with Haruhi. As it turns out, Haruhi and Nagato both end up performing as stand-ins for a student pop band who perform after the actual light music club. Later, we are informed that Haruhi temporarily filled in for the absent singer/guitarist (the original had a throat problem. Nagato fills in on guitar, while Haruhi sings) from a combination of her general impulsive behavior and a newly-seen sympathy for another human being, giving fresh character development to Haruhi without the burden of having to write a scenario wherein she threatens the fabric of existence. The simplicity of this story is just fascinating, a great breather from the more eccentric, high-stakes events of previous stories.
"The Adventures of Mikuru Asahina Episode 00" takes place roughly during the cultural festival as well. It isn't clear whether the story is Kyon's narration as he edits the film before its premiere, or if it actually occurs during the film's premiere during the festival (or maybe it was specifically stated, and I just forgot). As it happens, I have made attempts to get into the Haruhi Suzumiya anime several times before, always starting with the adaptation of this story, and never continuing from it. Rewatching it most recently, in an attempt to actually watch the anime alongside continuing/finishing the novel series, I cannot imagine how I was ever dissuaded from watching the rest of the show. That shit was hilarious, and it is nice to see Kyon's extremely sarcastic dismissal of the film's events were just as high-quality in the prose source material. With the expanded nature of the prose original (or, that is, the anime episode is a condensed version of this story) we can better see the fruits of Kyon's labor as otherwise depicted during the filming in the Sigh novel. Obviously the events therein suggested an incredibly absurd film, and the "finished" product is just bananas.
"Love at First Sight" takes place in the short interval between the Disappearance novel and the "Snowy Mountain Syndrome" story from the Rampage book. An old classmate of Kyon's, from back in middle school, calls our narrator up with a confession that he's fallen in love with Nagato. Apparently intrigued by the proposition, Nagato agrees to meet with the boy, and the SOS Brigade goes to an American football game to see the kid perform, where he expects to wow Nagato with his heroics on the field. This volume's only explicit supernatural elements come in when Nagato seems to weave a "spell" to either help the kid catch the ball during a difficult play (whereupon he collides with an opponent, and ends up with a concussion) or otherwise orchestrates the game's events with the active intention of injuring the kid (it isn't quite clear, but the former possibility would go along with the idea that Nagato is still stressed enough from Disappearance's events that she couldn't foresee the injury). Kyon and Nagato go to visit the kid in hospital, and after Nagato steps outside for a second, the kid tells Kyon that he's fallen out of love with Nagato. Later, Nagato divulges the truth, that the boy had fallen in love with the essence of the Data Overmind as flowing through Nagato-as-apparatus, and now sees Nagato as a merely ordinary girl, which Kyon figures is because she's steadily been becoming more "human" as she gets friendlier with the SOS Brigade. The highest point of the story, and perhaps the book as a whole, is the very end, wherein Kyon, in a somewhat dickish move, badgers Nagato on whether or not she was "disappointed" with the outcome w/r/t the boy's lost love; her response, "...Just a bit," reflects the great strides Nagato's made throughout the series, while perhaps making the reader yearn for another appearance of the bashful Nagato of Disappearance. Truly Best Girl.
"Where Did the Cat Go?" directly follows the previous book's "Snowy Mountain Syndrome." It essentially tells Koizumi's new murder mystery, with its "twist" that everyone knows it is fiction. The story is pretty entertaining as another little slice-of-life respite from the series as a whole, but it isn't too memorable. Tsuruya becomes more of an actual character here, which is a neat change, but Kyon's imouto remains a non-entity, so it is clear we aren't going to change the status quo too soon, as far as the main cast goes.
"The Melancholy of Mikuru Asahina" finally moves the series into the new year, after dancing around such temporal movement in the past few stories. Fitting the advancement in time-frame, the story focuses on resident time-traveler Asahina, and her reservations concerning her occupation. After misleading Kyon into thinking the two are going on a date, it is revealed Asahina was sent on a mission to preserve her future, to get Kyon to save the life of a young boy who is apparently integral to the fabric of "established time" (Asahina and her organization cannot directly interfere with the events of the "past," apparently). Asahina feels melancholic (as the title suggests) because she rarely gets actual details of her missions from her boss (an older Asahina from further in the future, though of course she doesn't know it) and she sees her role in the SOS Brigade as nothing more than a dress-up doll. Kyon comforts her as best he can, fearful of revealing the truth of Asahina's job, as he knows it. The most significant development is the story's role as a follow-up to "Snowy Mountain Syndrome," as well as events from way back in the Melancholy novel, with Kyon's revelation that there are enemy time-travelers in addition to the enemy aliens and possible enemy espers. As with "Snowy Mountain," this has the negative effect of setting the series up to fall into the trappings of generic light novel narratives, but it also makes the reader wish for a third season of the anime, to adapt the eventual plot threatening to kick in.
June 11, 2022
I felt good reading this. Cliché but cool feelings of self-discovery after hiding certain feelings for so long and so on have become a bit recurring, but this time, even though the predictability is evident almost ironically, it seems the author wasn't overwhelmed by his own attribute of this turn
The script continues with a similar formula, with Kiyon making his predictions with almost no hints until everything unfolds in a predictable script, however my reason for fun here is the script understanding his drunkenness as post-hangover thoughts and so, playing with your own corny past
I don't know if it was intentional, but the very "predictability" of the script seemed to become a joke here.... I'm fine with this parodic session, which can also be summed up by Kiyon doing a very comical job of metalanguage and how the reader sees some ridiculous scenes and personalities
Seriously, even the seriousness and the little conspiratorial hints are treated like comedy, which is a perfect attribute for Suzumiya's uncreative script,
As much as the writing value is still not in the desired one, after all, this series was hyped too much for the little content it delivered (Before they make false claims, I'm not badmouthing for the hype), this was a decent volume and fun to read , so I prefer to finish this review before reviewing all the mental content and remembering how bitter coffee without sugar can be
The script continues with a similar formula, with Kiyon making his predictions with almost no hints until everything unfolds in a predictable script, however my reason for fun here is the script understanding his drunkenness as post-hangover thoughts and so, playing with your own corny past
I don't know if it was intentional, but the very "predictability" of the script seemed to become a joke here.... I'm fine with this parodic session, which can also be summed up by Kiyon doing a very comical job of metalanguage and how the reader sees some ridiculous scenes and personalities
Seriously, even the seriousness and the little conspiratorial hints are treated like comedy, which is a perfect attribute for Suzumiya's uncreative script,
As much as the writing value is still not in the desired one, after all, this series was hyped too much for the little content it delivered (Before they make false claims, I'm not badmouthing for the hype), this was a decent volume and fun to read , so I prefer to finish this review before reviewing all the mental content and remembering how bitter coffee without sugar can be
April 7, 2019
At my son’s request when he was in middle school, I threw myself down the rabbit hole of light novels. The Haruhi Suzumiya series is light-hearted, funny, and a great way to take a break from reality. It follows the misadventures of Haruhi Suzumiya who is an average teenage girl with a way more than average effect on the world at large. Haruhi has the ability to destroy the world, but she doesn’t know it. There’s only one thing that stands between her and our world’s destruction: her classmate Kyon.
In this installment (number 6), Haruhi offers to lend a hand to some upperclassmen that are part of the pop club at the annual school festival and sing in an all-girl band. Haruhi enlists the help of her friend Nagato, and the performance turns out well for the band.
This, of course, sends Haruhi’s mental wheels spinning, and now she’s racing off on another adventure involving a sequel to a movie her club produced for the festival, and starting a band to be ready to perform for the school festival next year; with Kyon being pulled along for the ride.
Follow along while Kyon gives us his asides, comments, mental fears, angst, and frustrations as the SOS brigade dives headlong after Haruhi, in order to save the world as we know it.
In this installment (number 6), Haruhi offers to lend a hand to some upperclassmen that are part of the pop club at the annual school festival and sing in an all-girl band. Haruhi enlists the help of her friend Nagato, and the performance turns out well for the band.
This, of course, sends Haruhi’s mental wheels spinning, and now she’s racing off on another adventure involving a sequel to a movie her club produced for the festival, and starting a band to be ready to perform for the school festival next year; with Kyon being pulled along for the ride.
Follow along while Kyon gives us his asides, comments, mental fears, angst, and frustrations as the SOS brigade dives headlong after Haruhi, in order to save the world as we know it.
May 28, 2020
I would've rated this around 2 stars if it hadn't for the Live Alive short story in this volume. I really like how Suzumiya went YOLO at the cultural festival, somehow enjoying herself. And that itself proves that she is STILL a human being able to enjoy simple things in life.
Live Alive — is really fun to read much less like the other short stories read. On the other hand, much like how I can grasp Suzumiya, Koizumi, Nagato's characterization, the same cannot be said to the other two SOS Brigade members. I couldn't care less about Asahina anyway, more like she turned a mascot more than a time-travelling one.
I'm going to point out again, Kyon is really annoying, together with his hormones. I'd like to give the quotation I highlighted from the novel, "I shrugged, letting Haruhi’s overlong philosophy of romance go in one ear and out the other. Sorry—if Asahina’s boyfriend turned out to be a loser, I don’t care how happy she seemed, I wasn’t confident I’d be able to be happy for her. I might even try to interfere. I don’t think anybody could blame me, though." — Kyon. This is problematic, his ideals and his hormones. This statement is one in many that really ticked me off and making his personality and character really ugly.
Live Alive — is really fun to read much less like the other short stories read. On the other hand, much like how I can grasp Suzumiya, Koizumi, Nagato's characterization, the same cannot be said to the other two SOS Brigade members. I couldn't care less about Asahina anyway, more like she turned a mascot more than a time-travelling one.
I'm going to point out again, Kyon is really annoying, together with his hormones. I'd like to give the quotation I highlighted from the novel, "I shrugged, letting Haruhi’s overlong philosophy of romance go in one ear and out the other. Sorry—if Asahina’s boyfriend turned out to be a loser, I don’t care how happy she seemed, I wasn’t confident I’d be able to be happy for her. I might even try to interfere. I don’t think anybody could blame me, though." — Kyon. This is problematic, his ideals and his hormones. This statement is one in many that really ticked me off and making his personality and character really ugly.
August 18, 2012
La sexta entrega de Haruhi Suzumiya recopila cinco historias que se publicaron en la Sneaker mientras el autor iba escribiendo la próxima novela larga. Como ya sabrán los que siguen la serie, estos relatos rellenan los sucesos ocurridos entre un arco argumental y el otro.
Live Alive cuenta los sucesos ocurridos en el festival del instituto. Vale la pena recordar un poco lo que pasa en Los suspiros para apreciar el cambio que da Haruhi. Todo el mundo conoce Las aventuras de Mikuru Asahina episodio 00 más que bien, pero siempre resulta interesante revisitar esta historia. Amante a primera vista se ocupa del personaje de Yuki Nagato, ¿Dónde está el gato? es un relato de misterio que no aporta mucho, aunque quiero destacar otra vez el cambio de Haruhi para con sus amigos y La melancolía de Mikuru Asahina supone una bocanada de aire fresco para un personaje que se había quedado estancado además de abrir unas cuantas incógnitas de las que se ocupará la próxima novela.
En general historias cortas que los fans de la Brigada SOS disfrutarán. Una vez, destaco el desarrollo de los personajes, sutil pero presente.
Live Alive cuenta los sucesos ocurridos en el festival del instituto. Vale la pena recordar un poco lo que pasa en Los suspiros para apreciar el cambio que da Haruhi. Todo el mundo conoce Las aventuras de Mikuru Asahina episodio 00 más que bien, pero siempre resulta interesante revisitar esta historia. Amante a primera vista se ocupa del personaje de Yuki Nagato, ¿Dónde está el gato? es un relato de misterio que no aporta mucho, aunque quiero destacar otra vez el cambio de Haruhi para con sus amigos y La melancolía de Mikuru Asahina supone una bocanada de aire fresco para un personaje que se había quedado estancado además de abrir unas cuantas incógnitas de las que se ocupará la próxima novela.
En general historias cortas que los fans de la Brigada SOS disfrutarán. Una vez, destaco el desarrollo de los personajes, sutil pero presente.
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February 1, 2020In "Live Alive", Haruhi subsitutes as the singer in the pop music club's band at the school cultural festival.
"The Adventures of Asahina Mikuru Episode 00" is the movie filmed in The Sigh of Haruhi Suzumiya, screened at the cultural festival. It's a few dozen pages of Kyon sarcastically narrating the awful film, MST3K style.
In "Love at First Sight", a former acquaintance of Kyon's suddenly calls him and declares that he has fallen in love with Yuki.
In "Where Did the Cat Go?", Koizumi has created another murder mystery to entertain Haruhi, as he did in "Remote Island Syndrome" in The Boredom of Haruhi Suzumiya. The clues were a bit too obvious in this one, though.
"The Melancholy of Mikuru Asahina" is a nice little examination of how Mikuru feels about her role in everything.
"The Adventures of Asahina Mikuru Episode 00" is the movie filmed in The Sigh of Haruhi Suzumiya, screened at the cultural festival. It's a few dozen pages of Kyon sarcastically narrating the awful film, MST3K style.
In "Love at First Sight", a former acquaintance of Kyon's suddenly calls him and declares that he has fallen in love with Yuki.
In "Where Did the Cat Go?", Koizumi has created another murder mystery to entertain Haruhi, as he did in "Remote Island Syndrome" in The Boredom of Haruhi Suzumiya. The clues were a bit too obvious in this one, though.
"The Melancholy of Mikuru Asahina" is a nice little examination of how Mikuru feels about her role in everything.
June 20, 2013
Reseña completa en mi blog:
http://drdeadwish.blogspot.com.ar/201...
El libro compila 5 historias cortas sobre las aventuras de la brigada SOS. Cada uno merece una opinión distinta.
"Live Alive" describe una nueva faceta de Haruhi... lamentablemente ya había visto la adaptación televisiva, lo mismo que "Las Aventuras de Mikuru Ashaina Episodio 00", el cual me encanta como está narrado.
"Amante a primera vista" es interesante, aunque un poco inconexo con lo demás
"¿Dónde se ha metido el gato?" me parece aburrido, el género detectivesco no es de mi agrado.
"La melancolía de Mikuru Asahina" es interesante y promete más para el próximo volumen.
http://drdeadwish.blogspot.com.ar/201...
El libro compila 5 historias cortas sobre las aventuras de la brigada SOS. Cada uno merece una opinión distinta.
"Live Alive" describe una nueva faceta de Haruhi... lamentablemente ya había visto la adaptación televisiva, lo mismo que "Las Aventuras de Mikuru Ashaina Episodio 00", el cual me encanta como está narrado.
"Amante a primera vista" es interesante, aunque un poco inconexo con lo demás
"¿Dónde se ha metido el gato?" me parece aburrido, el género detectivesco no es de mi agrado.
"La melancolía de Mikuru Asahina" es interesante y promete más para el próximo volumen.
January 3, 2025
Somehow adult aura 14
It would be stranger if there weren't rumors. People do talk. 17
Banish such notions from her head 21
I don't have a lot of confidence in my internal clock 26
Of course I never said any of that stuff. I only thought it.28
Her facial expression had no relationship to her actions. Page 50
Of course, the voice of God believed herself to be infallible, and she had no time for such observations, instead pouring all her energy into immediately filming whatever scene popped into her head. With no idea of when her instinct driven activities might seize, ordinary humans like me were run totally ragged in both mind and body. 53
Despite the cameraman's internal monologue, the battle raged on. 55
It would be easy to get annoyed at a totally useless heroine, but she was so cute that all was forgiven.57
The narration came to its conclusion has confusingly as it began. 59
I quietly hoped the information wasn't classified. 60
I saw through to her soul in an instant.68
I guess there are girl-connoisseurs everywhere. .. It is neither overstated nor banal just like the image of her in my mind69.
Moon
Inane
High brow
Sitting right there doing nothing.81
Love could cause brain damage as well as make someone blind 83
Possible typo on page 86
When suggested we dispose of the books on the bookshelves, Nagato didn't give me a straight “yes” or ”no” but just started at me with a vague sadness that left me unable to say anything more 88
The status quo is my duty. 90
Look kyon, I think that love is a kind of disease, but I'm not going to interfere in other people's love lives just for kicks. 105
Worries encrusted my mind like barnacles. 100
My questions were erased by Koizumi speaking. 128
Basically, it was good to see everybody acting like themselves save Koizumi.
It was then that I realized how powerless we humans are as we struggle in the face of eternal time.
164
When she occasionally looked up at me with her worried eyes, they conveyed an emotion that was hard to comprehend.
Possible error on page 165
The cash in my wallet was dying to be freed.
170
The expression of surprise on her beautiful face was mixed with a strange understanding.
175
She kept crying, apparently having lost all will to articulate coherent thoughts.
178
Swanky
They won't tell me anything. I'm sure it's because I'm not good enough. All I can do is just follow orders.
181
I don't see which one is the correct reality.
182
Or enemy. I didn't like the word.
183
I just felt very strongly that I shouldn't say anything.
184
She'd helped ne restore history after it had been altered. . . . Temporal versions of the same entity. Because he hadn't done that to me, it was something I couldn't do. Instead, I did only what I had to do.
186
No matter what I said, I ran into something I shouldn't say. I couldn't think of words that could comfort her but also be safe to say. . . . My mind couldn't conjure up the vocabulary I needed to abandon the status quo.
187
We shared sympathy without words.
188
It would be stranger if there weren't rumors. People do talk. 17
Banish such notions from her head 21
I don't have a lot of confidence in my internal clock 26
Of course I never said any of that stuff. I only thought it.28
Her facial expression had no relationship to her actions. Page 50
Of course, the voice of God believed herself to be infallible, and she had no time for such observations, instead pouring all her energy into immediately filming whatever scene popped into her head. With no idea of when her instinct driven activities might seize, ordinary humans like me were run totally ragged in both mind and body. 53
Despite the cameraman's internal monologue, the battle raged on. 55
It would be easy to get annoyed at a totally useless heroine, but she was so cute that all was forgiven.57
The narration came to its conclusion has confusingly as it began. 59
I quietly hoped the information wasn't classified. 60
I saw through to her soul in an instant.68
I guess there are girl-connoisseurs everywhere. .. It is neither overstated nor banal just like the image of her in my mind69.
Moon
Inane
High brow
Sitting right there doing nothing.81
Love could cause brain damage as well as make someone blind 83
Possible typo on page 86
When suggested we dispose of the books on the bookshelves, Nagato didn't give me a straight “yes” or ”no” but just started at me with a vague sadness that left me unable to say anything more 88
The status quo is my duty. 90
Look kyon, I think that love is a kind of disease, but I'm not going to interfere in other people's love lives just for kicks. 105
Worries encrusted my mind like barnacles. 100
My questions were erased by Koizumi speaking. 128
Basically, it was good to see everybody acting like themselves save Koizumi.
It was then that I realized how powerless we humans are as we struggle in the face of eternal time.
164
When she occasionally looked up at me with her worried eyes, they conveyed an emotion that was hard to comprehend.
Possible error on page 165
The cash in my wallet was dying to be freed.
170
The expression of surprise on her beautiful face was mixed with a strange understanding.
175
She kept crying, apparently having lost all will to articulate coherent thoughts.
178
Swanky
They won't tell me anything. I'm sure it's because I'm not good enough. All I can do is just follow orders.
181
I don't see which one is the correct reality.
182
Or enemy. I didn't like the word.
183
I just felt very strongly that I shouldn't say anything.
184
She'd helped ne restore history after it had been altered. . . . Temporal versions of the same entity. Because he hadn't done that to me, it was something I couldn't do. Instead, I did only what I had to do.
186
No matter what I said, I ran into something I shouldn't say. I couldn't think of words that could comfort her but also be safe to say. . . . My mind couldn't conjure up the vocabulary I needed to abandon the status quo.
187
We shared sympathy without words.
188
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October 11, 2025¡Siguen las historias cortas de Haruhi Suzumiya! Quitando Vívelo en Vivo, (una historia que me encanta), y Las Aventuras de Mikuru Asahina: Episodio 00 (lo peor que he leído en mi vida/pos), tenemos tres nuevas. Estas son Amor a Primera Vista, ¿Adónde fue el gato? y La Melancolía de Mikuru Asahina.
De las tres, la más floja es la segunda, sin duda. Está entretenida y es un misterio divertido de resolver, pero no llega a mucho más. No es mala, solo está un poco ahí por estar.
Amor a Primera Vista, por su parte, es una historia graciosa que al final se convierte en algo precioso para el personaje de Yuki. Ese final nunca no hará daño... Yuki, te quiero muchísimo.
Por último, La Melancolía de Mikuru Asahina. Qué historia más buena, dios santo. El nombre no engaña en absoluto: la sensación de melancolía se nota desde principio a fin, es increíble. Aquí podemos ver más sobre la personalidad de Mikuru, aquello que no dice tanto, y... solo digo que no puedo esperar a la siguiente novela. Moriría por ella.
¡Ahora, a por las Conspiraciones!
De las tres, la más floja es la segunda, sin duda. Está entretenida y es un misterio divertido de resolver, pero no llega a mucho más. No es mala, solo está un poco ahí por estar.
Amor a Primera Vista, por su parte, es una historia graciosa que al final se convierte en algo precioso para el personaje de Yuki. Ese final nunca no hará daño... Yuki, te quiero muchísimo.
Por último, La Melancolía de Mikuru Asahina. Qué historia más buena, dios santo. El nombre no engaña en absoluto: la sensación de melancolía se nota desde principio a fin, es increíble. Aquí podemos ver más sobre la personalidad de Mikuru, aquello que no dice tanto, y... solo digo que no puedo esperar a la siguiente novela. Moriría por ella.
¡Ahora, a por las Conspiraciones!
June 10, 2019
E, para variar, uma Light Novel. Voltamos às aventuras de Haruhi Suzumiya e a sua pandilha de freaks. Mas desta vez temos um volume com algumas histórias curtas, o que foi um bocadinho desapontante. Esperava que nesta fase, o sexto volume, já nos aproximássemos de um virar na história.
Temos então uma revisita aos acontecimentos do Festival da Escola North High, desta vez com um olhar exterior e mais calmo. Depois, um antigo colega de Kyon apaixona-se por Yuki. Passamos mais umas férias de Inverno com um novo Murder Case. E Mikuru tem um problema e perde a confiança.
Portanto, não temos aqui muita coisa que nos ajude a compreender ainda melhor este conjunto de personagens que eu tanto gosto. Aliás, neste livro Kyon começa a irritar-me bastante com a sua atitude de miúdo machista e incel, sempre a avaliar as formas dos corpos das suas amigas e a imaginar-se perdido no meio deles. Belo amigo tu me saíste, né Kyon?
Ainda assim, é para continuar esta leitura de colecção!
Temos então uma revisita aos acontecimentos do Festival da Escola North High, desta vez com um olhar exterior e mais calmo. Depois, um antigo colega de Kyon apaixona-se por Yuki. Passamos mais umas férias de Inverno com um novo Murder Case. E Mikuru tem um problema e perde a confiança.
Portanto, não temos aqui muita coisa que nos ajude a compreender ainda melhor este conjunto de personagens que eu tanto gosto. Aliás, neste livro Kyon começa a irritar-me bastante com a sua atitude de miúdo machista e incel, sempre a avaliar as formas dos corpos das suas amigas e a imaginar-se perdido no meio deles. Belo amigo tu me saíste, né Kyon?
Ainda assim, é para continuar esta leitura de colecção!
September 4, 2024
Sin duda el peor libro de la saga hasta el momento. No solo está mal escrito por las faltas de ortografía sino que durante todo el libro repite información una y otra vez pero con distintas palabras, y no precisamente para recordarte algo pasado sino lo que te acaban de decir en la página anterior. Sin entrar en spoilers, la historia que más ganas tenía de leer era la del murder mystery, pero resultó ser una auténtica decepción. Por otro lado, cada vez es más insoportable Kyon siendo un baboso con todas.
April 23, 2025
This is my next-to-last Haruhi Suzumiya light novel, and I won't miss them. This particular one is not a novel, but has five short stories.
One reason I won't miss these is that Kyon is probably the most unlikable narrator I've ever experienced. He doesn't change from book to book; his comments are snide or misogynistic or both and the narration is a constant whine. For this volume, the stories are also dull.
One reason I won't miss these is that Kyon is probably the most unlikable narrator I've ever experienced. He doesn't change from book to book; his comments are snide or misogynistic or both and the narration is a constant whine. For this volume, the stories are also dull.
March 5, 2025
Да се срещна пак с Харухи Сузумия беше прекрасно и някак тъжно. Обичам анимето и лайт-новелата ме върна към онези хубави години, в които имах възможност да му се насладя. Все повече и повече от чудния свят на Харухи и Кьон се разкрива пред мен за мое огромно удоволствие.
Очарован съм, не мога и няма да спра да се наслаждавам.
Очарован съм, не мога и няма да спра да се наслаждавам.
August 7, 2019
Me gustó esta entrega ya que permitió conocer el lado frágil de algunos de la brigada SOS.. aquellos que mostraban fortaleza e inocencia en los momentos donde mas necesitaban se quiebran mostrando sus sentimientos a Kyon. Hermosas historias que supieron llegarme y sentirme de la misma manera que los personajes. Siempre enseñando una lección de empatía y amabilidad.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
April 3, 2024
Although perhaps the weakest of the books so far, it’s still an enjoyable read. A few of the stories are overly long and not much interesting happens, but I’m so endeared to the characters that it doesn’t bother me too much. Looking forward to the seventh book!
January 31, 2025
Otra colección de relatos cortos que pasan entre capítulos de los libros largos... E incluso entre los relatos cortos del otro libro de relatos cortos. Se sentía todo como relleno, realmente sospecho que si te saltas este libro no pasa nada. Y la traducción sigue siendo bastante infame.
February 15, 2021
終於終於脫離動畫的劇情了喔耶~
尋貓記-讓我想到前陣子流行的密室逃脫之類的. 意外的真的是遊戲, 沒有超自然事件發生...
朝比奈實玖瑠- 戴眼鏡的小男生, 東京那位嗎......
尋貓記-讓我想到前陣子流行的密室逃脫之類的. 意外的真的是遊戲, 沒有超自然事件發生...
朝比奈實玖瑠- 戴眼鏡的小男生, 東京那位嗎......
January 5, 2023
I love the development of such intricate characters
April 27, 2024
Yuki-On!
August 12, 2025
Encore un tome de short stories. Des histoires légères que j'ai aimé découvrir ! J'espère qu'on finiera pas en savoir un peu plus sur l'organisation de Mikuru à un moment donné.
September 30, 2025
Ha sido una novela de historias cortas que no aportan nada salvo la ultima que al parecer enlaza con la siguiente novela 🤧
October 29, 2024
“So how does it feel, Haruhi? Has this awakened you to the possibilities of good deeds? How about swearing to work only for the good of the world and humanity henceforth?”
January 17, 2024
Esta sexta entrega de la saga está conformada por una serie de relatos cortos que se incorporan en distintos momentos de lo visto hasta el momento. Me ha gustado que en su mayoría, cada cuento ha estado centrado en un personaje distinto de la Brigada, como para conocerlos más.
En la mayoría de los cuentos además, se va generando cierta perspectiva sobre lo que se producirá en las siguientes entregas (el nuevo arco a desarrollarse), así que hay que mantenerse atento a lo que se comenta aunque aparentemente no sea tan relevante.
En la mayoría de los cuentos además, se va generando cierta perspectiva sobre lo que se producirá en las siguientes entregas (el nuevo arco a desarrollarse), así que hay que mantenerse atento a lo que se comenta aunque aparentemente no sea tan relevante.
September 5, 2015
(Original review posted on my livejournal account)
Why I Read It: I fell in love with the anime series these books inspired, so I decided last year in April that I wanted to read the source material. I've read the previous five books, and while this hasn't been my favourite series ever, I'm interested enough to keep reading.
For this review I'll be going over each short story and giving general thoughts and impressions with no spoilers.
First up, we have Live Alive. This story was actually adapted into the anime series and with good reason. While it doesn't really have any of the weird supernatural happenings that are prone to occur around Haruhi, it's one of the most compelling episodes, mostly due to Haruhi making some of the personal growth. She actually helps people and for absolutely no personal gain, or for any crazy hair-brained scheme she's come up with -- she just does it because it feels like the right thing to do, something that is foreign to Haruhi (which can be seen in her puzzlement at her actions at the end of the story). Of all the stories in this small collection, this one was easily my favourite.
The second story, The Adventures of Mikuru Asahina: Episode 00 is absolutely ridiculous and, much like the rest of this collection, just a little odd end that Tanigawa included in here to fill in some tiny gaps. This is the movie that the SOS Brigade made in book 2, where Asahina is some kind of time-traveling magical waitress of some sort. Kyon's narration is really the only saving grace of the whole thing, as he can't help but throw in his sarcasm and some ire as well. This was also adapted in the anime and was quite a bit funnier for it (they really played up the horrible editing that went into the movie, something you can't quite convey with prose) bu this still turned out all right, again, thanks to Kyon's narration.
The next story, Love At First Sight was just kind of... strange. I can see this working much better in the manga adaptation (it hasn't been adapted into the anime), but reading it in prose comes off as strange. I guess the story was meant to focus on Yuki I bit more (which is fine by me -- she's a great character) but it felt completely unnecessary and I didn't feel like it added a whole lot to the series. It essentially just showed that Yuki DOES kind of sort of care what people think of her, though her fascination with the boy who's enamored with her is ambiguous: is she interested because she's interested in human behaviour, or is she actually just flattered that someone is interested in her (even if it turns out it's for different reasons than just a normal crush)? Anyway, overall, it fell kind of flat.
The fourth story, Where Did the Cat Go actually bored me to tears. Back in book five, the SOS brigade was brought to a mountain retreat where they were going to play a murder mystery thing (like what happened in one of the stories in Sigh) but we never actually get to see it. This story gives us the pleasure of showing us how it went down, except I just really didn't CARE. I mostly sped-read through this one and really couldn't have cared less about it.
The last story had potential to be decent, but again had me feeling indifferent. Kyon's invited by Asahina to go shopping for tea leaves but then ends being on one of her time-traveling missions. I didn't really see the point to this story either, and to be completely honest, I had actually forgotten what happened in it when I came to write this review. It came back to me after I had thought about it for a bit, but still: it's not a good sign when that kind of thing happens. :)
Final Judgment: While the first story in this collection was decent, everything else was pretty "meh". The second story was also all right, but I still think it was done better in the anime (which I just think was a better medium for it anyway), and all the other stories felt like useless appendages. This is easily my least favourite book in the series so far, but it hasn't dissuaded me to keep reading: the next book in the series, The Intrigues of Haruhi Suzumiya is supposed to be about some of the time traveling shenanigans that went down Disappearance, so I'm looking forward to getting to THAT. This collection though was very sub-par, and I honestly think one could skip over this completely and not really be missing out on much.
Why I Read It: I fell in love with the anime series these books inspired, so I decided last year in April that I wanted to read the source material. I've read the previous five books, and while this hasn't been my favourite series ever, I'm interested enough to keep reading.
For this review I'll be going over each short story and giving general thoughts and impressions with no spoilers.
First up, we have Live Alive. This story was actually adapted into the anime series and with good reason. While it doesn't really have any of the weird supernatural happenings that are prone to occur around Haruhi, it's one of the most compelling episodes, mostly due to Haruhi making some of the personal growth. She actually helps people and for absolutely no personal gain, or for any crazy hair-brained scheme she's come up with -- she just does it because it feels like the right thing to do, something that is foreign to Haruhi (which can be seen in her puzzlement at her actions at the end of the story). Of all the stories in this small collection, this one was easily my favourite.
The second story, The Adventures of Mikuru Asahina: Episode 00 is absolutely ridiculous and, much like the rest of this collection, just a little odd end that Tanigawa included in here to fill in some tiny gaps. This is the movie that the SOS Brigade made in book 2, where Asahina is some kind of time-traveling magical waitress of some sort. Kyon's narration is really the only saving grace of the whole thing, as he can't help but throw in his sarcasm and some ire as well. This was also adapted in the anime and was quite a bit funnier for it (they really played up the horrible editing that went into the movie, something you can't quite convey with prose) bu this still turned out all right, again, thanks to Kyon's narration.
The next story, Love At First Sight was just kind of... strange. I can see this working much better in the manga adaptation (it hasn't been adapted into the anime), but reading it in prose comes off as strange. I guess the story was meant to focus on Yuki I bit more (which is fine by me -- she's a great character) but it felt completely unnecessary and I didn't feel like it added a whole lot to the series. It essentially just showed that Yuki DOES kind of sort of care what people think of her, though her fascination with the boy who's enamored with her is ambiguous: is she interested because she's interested in human behaviour, or is she actually just flattered that someone is interested in her (even if it turns out it's for different reasons than just a normal crush)? Anyway, overall, it fell kind of flat.
The fourth story, Where Did the Cat Go actually bored me to tears. Back in book five, the SOS brigade was brought to a mountain retreat where they were going to play a murder mystery thing (like what happened in one of the stories in Sigh) but we never actually get to see it. This story gives us the pleasure of showing us how it went down, except I just really didn't CARE. I mostly sped-read through this one and really couldn't have cared less about it.
The last story had potential to be decent, but again had me feeling indifferent. Kyon's invited by Asahina to go shopping for tea leaves but then ends being on one of her time-traveling missions. I didn't really see the point to this story either, and to be completely honest, I had actually forgotten what happened in it when I came to write this review. It came back to me after I had thought about it for a bit, but still: it's not a good sign when that kind of thing happens. :)
Final Judgment: While the first story in this collection was decent, everything else was pretty "meh". The second story was also all right, but I still think it was done better in the anime (which I just think was a better medium for it anyway), and all the other stories felt like useless appendages. This is easily my least favourite book in the series so far, but it hasn't dissuaded me to keep reading: the next book in the series, The Intrigues of Haruhi Suzumiya is supposed to be about some of the time traveling shenanigans that went down Disappearance, so I'm looking forward to getting to THAT. This collection though was very sub-par, and I honestly think one could skip over this completely and not really be missing out on much.
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