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'''Haruhi Suzumiya''' is the central character of a series of [[Light Novel|Light Novels]] by Nagaru Tanigawa featuring illustrations by Noizi Ito. A first year high school student (equivalent to 10th grade/sophomore year in the USA), she is considered beautiful, athletic, intelligent, and ''extremely'' [[Strange Girl|eccentric]]. Haruhi has come to the conclusion that ordinary humans are, as a whole, utterly boring, and that she would rather hang out with aliens, time travelers, espers, and the like. In her quest to find them, she promptly joins ''all'' the clubs in school in a day... and quits them all just as rapidly. One day, her classmate Kyon (the [[Narrator]]) [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|unwittingly]] gives Haruhi an idea: if there aren't any decent clubs, why not [[Start My Own|make one of your own]]? Haruhi instantly switches from an [[Jerkass|irritated, sociopathic, pompous brat]] to an irritating, sociopathic [[Genki Girl]] who vows to allow nothing to stand in her way. She conscripts Kyon to help her set up the club: the SOS Brigade, whose mission is to find aliens, time travellers, and espers, and have fun with them. Kyon quickly learns an explosive secret that must be kept from Haruhi at all costs, the details of which must be seen to be believed.

The story is notable for having [[Genre Busting|no definite genre]] -- it convincingly uses comedy, science fiction, fantasy, mystery, romance and [[Slice of Life]] in one of the most typical anime settings: an ordinary high school, all the while with well-developed [[Genre Savvy]] characters. The SOS Brigade is made up of [[Five -Man Band|five]] [[Haruhi Suzumiya (Light Novel)/Characters|members]] that represent a spectrum of anime character types, both in their identities as high school students and their secret identities...

There is a manga adaptation by Gaku Tsugano (there was an earlier adaptation by Makoto Mizuno that was [[Old Shame|discontinued/disowned after one volume]]). There is also a self-parody gag anime released on [[YouTube]] called ''The Melancholy Of [[Haruhi Chan (Manga)|Haruhi Chan]] Suzumiya'' (''Suzumiya Haruhi-chan no Yūutsu'') based off an official self-parody manga; this aired in tandem with a spinoff, ''Nyoron Churuya-san'', based off a certain [[Yonkoma]] that's been subject to [[Memetic Mutation]]. There is also a [[Spin -Off]] called ''[[The Vanishing of Nagato Yuki Chan (Manga)|The Vanishing of Nagato Yuki Chan]]'' (''Nagato Yuki-chan no Shōshitsu'') featuring Yuki Nagato as main character of a romantic [[Slice of Life]] comedy.