50 Fun Facts About Haruhi Suzumiya

In her class introduction, Haruhi Suzumiya asks to meet aliens, time travelers, sliders and which other group?

Espers round out the list, and Haruhi gets three of the four without knowing it: the quiet bookworm, the shy upperclassman and the smiling transfer student in her own club.

Which studio, which later made K-On! and Violet Evergarden, produced the anime The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya?

Kyoto Animation is unusual among anime studios, because its animators are salaried employees trained in-house rather than freelancers.

Which website hosted an anonymous 2011 math proof about watching all 14 Haruhi Suzumiya episodes in every order?

4chan's anonymous answer to "The Haruhi Problem" set a lower bound for superpermutations, a puzzle open since 1993, and mathematicians later wrote it up with an anonymous poster credited as first author.

Which ending theme of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya set off an online craze for copying its dance routine?

Hare Hare Yukai sold out in Akihabara on its release day, and fan recreations of its dance are credited with founding the cover-dance video genre.

In the Endless Eight arc of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, the last two weeks of which month keep repeating?

August's final fortnight plays out in eight nearly identical episodes in a row, which made the arc a famously controversial stretch of the 2009 season.

How does Kyon return himself and Haruhi Suzumiya to the real world at the climax of the first novel's storyline?

He kisses her while a giant being wrecks their deserted school, then decides the whole night must have been a dream.

How did the original 2006 broadcast of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya famously arrange its 14 episodes?

Out of story order: the six parts of the first novel were scattered among later tales, and each preview gave two episode numbers, one from Haruhi and one from Kyon.

Which voice actress, later Misa Amane in Death Note, plays Haruhi Suzumiya in the original Japanese anime?

Aya Hirano also sang the show's opening theme, and the role won her Best Newcomer at the first Seiyu Awards.

In the film The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya, the SOS Brigade is planning a hot-pot party for which holiday?

Christmas is days away when Kyon wakes to a world where Haruhi has vanished, and the film ends with him finally joining the party.

Which costumes do Haruhi Suzumiya and Mikuru Asahina wear to hand out fliers promoting the newly formed SOS Brigade?

Bunny girl outfits got the pair stopped by the school authorities, the first of many costumes Haruhi would force on Mikuru.

What does Kyon finally propose in Endless Eight that satisfies Haruhi Suzumiya and ends the time loop?

Doing homework together finally broke the loop; Haruhi had finished hers weeks earlier, and Koizumi guesses she had never shared schoolwork with friends.

When Yuki Nagato first reveals the Endless Eight time loop, roughly how many times has it already repeated?

About 15,000 repeats, or 15,498 by her exact count, which adds up to nearly six centuries of the same two weeks.

Which hairstyle does Haruhi Suzumiya wear to school the day after Kyon admits he likes it?

A ponytail is Haruhi's quiet proof that the night in the sealed world was real, because Kyon had only voiced that wish there.

Which North High group loses its room, and its only member, to Haruhi Suzumiya's new SOS Brigade?

Literature Club member Yuki Nagato simply stayed when the brigade moved into her room, and kept on reading.

Why does class president Ryoko Asakura lure Kyon to an empty classroom and attack him with a knife?

To provoke Haruhi into an observable reaction, Yuki's own backup turned on Kyon, and Yuki had to delete her from the school.

Which stray cat, picked up by Haruhi Suzumiya for the SOS Brigade's film, briefly gains the power of speech?

Shamisen is a male calico, itself a rarity, and Kyon adopted him once filming was over.

At which event did a young Haruhi Suzumiya look at the huge crowd and decide her life was ordinary?

A baseball game packed with people made her work out how tiny a fraction of Japan the crowd was, and she set out to become someone extraordinary.

Which alias does Kyon give the younger Haruhi Suzumiya when he travels back in time to her middle school?

John Smith becomes Kyon's trump card in the film, where saying the name is what convinces a Haruhi who has never met him.

Which author, a former manager of a women's clothing store, wrote the Haruhi Suzumiya light novels?

Nagaru Tanigawa had quit the shop and was running out of savings when he learned that his first Haruhi novel had won a grand prize.

Where does Haruhi Suzumiya sit in class relative to Kyon, the classmate who narrates the series?

Right behind him, which is how Kyon came to chat with her before class each day and become the first person to draw her into a normal conversation.

How long before the series begins do Haruhi Suzumiya's clubmates say she unknowingly remade the universe?

Three years is also as far back as Mikuru's people can travel, because something blocks every trip to a point earlier than that.

On which Japanese festival night does Kyon help a young Haruhi Suzumiya draw giant symbols on her school field?

Tanabata made the newspaper that year: the huge mural Haruhi became notorious for was really drawn by a time-travelling Kyon on her orders.

Which North High group challenges the SOS Brigade to its own strategy game, The Day of Sagittarius III?

Computer Research Society members wanted back the machine Haruhi had extorted from them, cheated to get it, and lost anyway when Yuki rewrote their code mid-match.

Which song does Haruhi Suzumiya belt out when she fills in as a rock band's singer at the school festival?

God Knows... was sung by Haruhi's own voice actress, while a session guitarist supplied the playing for Yuki's borrowed Gibson SG.

Which flowers bloom out of season when Haruhi Suzumiya's mood lifts while she directs the SOS Brigade's film?

Cherry blossoms in autumn were one of several slips in reality during the shoot; the pigeons at a shrine turned white as well.

During the SOS Brigade's film shoot, Haruhi Suzumiya's wish makes Mikuru Asahina fire real laser beams from where?

Her left eye, fitted with a blue contact lens, fired beams deadly enough that Yuki had to tackle Mikuru and take the lens out.

In the SOS Brigade's homemade film, Mikuru Asahina plays a time-travelling heroine with which everyday job?

Waitress Mikuru battles an alien magician played by Yuki, in a script whose roles eerily match what the cast secretly are.

After Ryoko Asakura vanishes from North High, classmates are told she has moved to which country?

Canada was the cover story, and the abrupt transfer only made Haruhi curious enough to drag Kyon off to investigate.

On the SOS Brigade's island villa trip, what does the apparent murder of host Keiichi Tamaru turn out to be?

A staged hoax, arranged by Koizumi and the host so that a harmless mystery would keep Haruhi from wishing a real one into being.

In The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya, Kyon asks a baffled Mikuru Asahina to show him her mole of which shape?

A star on her chest is Kyon's proof that they have met, but this Mikuru has never met him, so the request earns him a smack in the face.

Kyon's real name is never revealed in the Haruhi Suzumiya series, so who first gave him his nickname?

His aunt coined it, but his little sister made it stick by repeating the nickname in front of his school friends.

Which loud, long-haired friend of Mikuru Asahina is heiress to a wealthy family and joins SOS Brigade outings?

Tsuruya half-suspects the brigade is supernatural and chooses to stay on the edge of it, laughing loudly at almost everything.

Which friend of Kyon lets slip that he once dated Haruhi Suzumiya for just five minutes in junior high?

Taniguchi is implied to hold the record for Haruhi's shortest romance, and having shared her junior high he was Kyon's main source of gossip about her.

Which secret organisation does Itsuki Koizumi serve, managing the fallout of Haruhi Suzumiya's bad moods?

The Agency also planted Haruhi's nemesis: it hired a student to play a stern student council chairman just to keep her from getting bored.

What are the blue giants called that rampage through closed space whenever Haruhi Suzumiya is stressed?

Celestials are created by Haruhi without her knowing, and Koizumi shows Kyon one being destroyed to prove what he and his comrades do.

Which all-girl band do Haruhi Suzumiya and Yuki Nagato rescue by filling in at the North High festival?

ENOZ takes its name from its members' surnames, and it doubles as a tribute to the real J-pop band Zone, spelled backwards.

Which voice actor, also Gintoki in Gintama, narrates The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya as Kyon?

Tomokazu Sugita recorded the film in plot sequence rather than the usual scene groups, so that Kyon's emotions would build naturally.

In The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya, which school does the powerless Haruhi attend instead of North High?

Kouyouen Academy is where she and Koizumi are ordinary students, until Kyon tracks her down with a tale only she could believe.

Which artist, also the illustrator of Shakugan no Shana, drew the Haruhi Suzumiya light novels?

Noizi Ito was turned down by Capcom early in her career; a 2009 book of her art for the series is titled Haruhi-ism.

Which real Japanese city, the author's hometown, is the setting of the Haruhi Suzumiya series?

Nishinomiya is where the author attended Nishinomiya Kita High School; kita is the Japanese word for north, as in the fictional North High.

Which director, who later made Clannad and Sound! Euphonium, directed The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya?

Tatsuya Ishihara co-directed the 162-minute film too, and said afterwards that he wished it had been a little longer.

The first Haruhi Suzumiya novel won only the third Grand Prize ever given in which light-novel contest?

Sneaker Awards share a name with The Sneaker, the Kadokawa magazine where the Haruhi short stories first appeared.

Which voice actress, who plays Yuki Nagato, sang the theme song of The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya?

Minori Chihara won the Best Singing Award at the 2011 Seiyu Awards for the song, whose lyrics were written by the novels' author.

In the Haruhi Suzumiya episode Mystérique Sign, which giant insect lives where a missing student is trapped?

A cave cricket was the form taken by a data entity that Haruhi's hand-drawn logo for the brigade website had accidentally set loose.

Which studio animated the 2015 spin-off The Disappearance of Nagato Yuki-chan in place of the original studio?

Satelight took over production, but the original voice cast returned, with Yuki recast as an ordinary shy student nursing a crush on Kyon.

Which idea from cosmology does Itsuki Koizumi cite to Kyon when explaining Haruhi Suzumiya's hold over reality?

The anthropic principle is Koizumi's opening argument, delivered just before he takes Kyon into a sealed world to watch his comrades fight.

In Someday in the Rain, what does Haruhi Suzumiya quietly drape over Kyon as he sleeps in the clubroom?

A cardigan, and Kyon wakes to find a second one already on him, most likely put there by Yuki before she went home.

Which French composer's piano music is used in the film The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya?

Erik Satie's Gymnopédies and Gnossiennes sit alongside the original score, which was performed by the Eminence Symphony Orchestra.

Which voice actress, also Faye Valentine in Cowboy Bebop, plays Haruhi Suzumiya in the English dub?

Wendee Lee did her own singing too: in the English dub she performs the two songs from the school festival concert herself.

Which voice actor, also Alucard in Hellsing, plays Kyon in the English dub of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya?

Crispin Freeman's other dub roles include Itachi Uchiha in Naruto and Shizuo Heiwajima in Durarara!!, a part played in Japanese by Koizumi's voice actor.