涼宮春日的劇場

Haruhi Suzumiya #13

by Nagaru Tanigawa, 谷川流, いとうのいぢ (Illustrator)

《涼宮春日的劇場》終於回來了！繼奇幻篇、銀河篇之後大幅增寫全新篇章！
這次的《涼宮春日》是穿越時空與世界的長篇冒險鉅片！

「勇者春日！」一回神，我們已經身在王宮，國王託我們打敗邪惡魔王──
慢著慢著，這個「世界」是什麼鬼？
暈頭轉向之中，朝比奈學姊的毀滅魔法說炸就炸；
以為任務完成了，卻又在長門的一聲「Mission incomplete」中飛上太空，轉眼又變成西部片，
甚至神話世界──這到底是誰幹的好事？
春日，這次妳又想要些什麼？異想天開的第十三集，開幕！

Genres: Light Novel, Fantasy

328 pages, Paperback

First published November 29, 2024

About the author

Nagaru 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.

Reviews

[Khoa Pham]

Seriously Nagaru?
After another three years of hiatus from book 11, and ten years form book 10, this is your latest work?

I mean, seriously, Isekai and the likes is already outdated by this point. I understand the efforts of writing something for an audience you lost touch after so long, but writing these things for the main casts of Haruhi just feels... so wrong.
At least, in your usual style, the whole mystery and investigation thing may be a bit tedious and dull, but at least I grew fond of it over time. These Isekai, idol pop thing stories are worse in my opinion.

Honestly, the things I like best about Haruhi is the pseudo-intelligent thing even if it is just that, pseudo. I enjoy more of Koizumi talking endless to dance around things, and loved that 'weird girl' who prefers to herself as boku despite the short length. These latest volumes (11, 12) are just a disappointment.

I kind of wonder if I would even give book 13 (if it is written or published at all) at this point.

[GleeGMJournal · Rating 2 out of 5]

Do you remember watching Endless Eight and being stuck with them for 8 consecutive episodes?
This book is similar, The SOS brigade got stuck in Hollowood film loop, medieval fantasy, Space Opera, Wild Wild West, Gangster, Pirate, Greek Mythology etc etc.

The book paces in loop and startes crunching at the last 30% of the book. The overall of this volume is another episodic arc. The main plot moves nowhere. I'm not sure either how the series trajectory will go at this point. Will it stay episodic trend for next few volumes? or will the main plot move sometime in the future? because in a previous volume, the main plot moves so little, and spends over 50% to discuss on literature critics, in which, I can see Nagaru's passion on his interest. but it doesn't get me engaging like the first few volumes.

However, if you come to read due to being a Haruhi die hard long time fan, love to read films trivia that Nagaru kept inserting in the footnote. (didn't expect to see Homer's Iliad have a heavy role here by the way 😂) Or even if you're a fan of QUANTUM THEORY (superposition, what is real, not real philosophy etc.) this volume may entertain you in some way. but it doesn't intrigue me much.

The first 8 volumes are phenomenon to me btw

[James · Rating 2 out of 5]

Five years since the last light novel and a decade since the plot actually advanced, The Theatre of Haruhi Suzumiya is for those who thought “Endless Eight” was too short and needed a full-length novelisation.

Jumping around different genres in the usual Haruhi way, this doesn’t even have the pseudo-intellectual elements that made earlier instalments interesting until the very final chapter and yet it just feels like a parody of better stories. Where is this series going now? It’s been years since any real progress was made and half of these stories were first published in the early 2000s. Spinning his wheels, it’s feeling like Nagaru Tanigawa has either written himself into a corner à la George R. R. Martin or is just content to potter around writing the literary equivalent of filler arcs.

As one of the series that got me into anime and light novels all those years ago, I’m aching for a a satisfying conclusion or at the very least, some more substantial development in the series’ plot. Who knows how long that will take?

[Luke · Rating 3 out of 5]

It’s just fun to finally have a new Haruhi book to read, even if it wasn’t what I wanted it to be.

Chronologically, The Theater of… takes place right after “Live Alive,” so any sort of relevancy to the current state of our characters is out the window. Which is very disappointing. I want to know what the weird metal object dug up on Tsuruya’s estate is. I want to know what gift Kyon got Haruhi. I at least want something related to the second year of SOS Brigade activities! We get none of this. Again, all I really need is a new Haruhi book and I won’t complain, but this is only the second one to come out in the past decade (since the massive 3-novel arc finished), and I’m pretty sure I read that Nagaru Tanigawa said he doesn’t have many books left in him. He deserves to retire or move on to something else if he wants (maybe a film adaptation of Amnesia Labyrinth lol), but tie up those loose ends first!

[WinterBat · Rating 3 out of 5]

It’s a shallow showcase of the cast in various worlds, until the last chapter, with its near-incoherent “I don’t get it, but okay” explanation of their problem and how to get out of it, and then they do, in an essentially “it was all a dream” kind of resolution. Because everything was largely out of their control, it was hard to get invested.

[Luke Larson · Rating 4 out of 5]

I enjoyed it. The English translation does have some errors that a native English speaker will catch. It felt like a fan servicy book that rewards long time fans. However, I am a little sad that there has been no development of the main plotline for over a decade.

[Diego Sánchez · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5 stars

[Mylove4book · Rating 5 out of 5]

看到最後居然有點感動🤣 青春的餘暉啊。