All About Haruhi Suzumiya (涼宮ハルヒ) - 2012 Edition

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This is an introductory thread regarding the series that is Haruhi Suzumiya (also known as Haruhiism). This thread is not designed to be exhaustive; it is here to cover the basics of Haruhi Suzumiya and the SOS団 without 'spoiling' too much of the plot or premise of the series.

This thread is divided up into sections; the first post will detail most FAQs about the series/anime/movie, the second post is a brief synopsis of each important character , the third post will detail the novels that the series was based from as well as the mangas that the series has spun off, the fourth post is an introduction to the "genderbending" phenomenon mostly aided by this forum, the fifth post will detail the events surrounding the three year wait for the re-airing, and the final two posts are a detailed timeline of all events in the series that contains novel spoilers.


A great amount of thanks go out to sophismata, Catgirls, Sushi-Y, NeoSam, and Kinny Riddle for providing the first "All About Haruhi Suzumiya" thread. Your efforts for getting information to the fanbase in 2006 about the series are still appreciated today.


While I have made an effort to hide or avoid any spoilers in this document, it is possible that mistakes have been made, and thus I do not guarantee that this thread will not reveal information you might consider "spoily".


You have been warned.


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The Haruhi Suzumiya and SOS団 FAQ - Revision Two


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Section One - General Haruhi Suzumiya Information


• What/Who is Haruhi Suzumiya?

Haruhi Suzumiya (涼宮ハル ヒ) is a series of novels that are published by Kadokawa Shouten in a imprint entitled "Sneaker Bunko" (スニーカー文庫). Prior to February 2011, there was a literary magazine of the same name with published short stories and chapters prior to release. Haruhi Suzumiya is the titular character in this series.

• What is Suzumiya Huruhi no Yuustsu, then?

This is both the title of the anime, manga, and the first volume of the Haruhi Suzumiya light novel series. It translates to The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, and can also be written as 涼 宮ハルヒの憂鬱 .


• What versions of Haruhi Suzumiya exist?

Haruhi Suzumiya, as previously mentioned, exists as a serialised novel series. Due to the popularity of the novels, the story of the SOS Brigade has been adapted as an anime, a movie based from the anime series, and a manga; one of which is likely to be the reason you're here.


• How many manga are there?!

There was a brief incident involving an earlier manga adaptation of Haruhi Suzumiya, but it has been dusted away. There have been 15 volumes published of the new series in Japan. There are also a parody manga entitled The Melancholy of Haruhi-chan Suzumiya (Suzumiya Haruhi-chan no Yuutsu), a fan-created parody work entitled Nyorōn Churuya-san, and a spinoff entitled The Disappearance of Nagato Yuki-chan which is based off of the fourth novel.


• What is the SOS団 (SOS Brigade)?

The SOS Brigade is a high-school club, formed by Haruhi Suzumiya, whose goal is "to find aliens, time travelers, and espers and play with them!" SOS Brigade stands for Sekai wo Ooini moriagerutame no Haruhi Suzumiya no Dan; this translates roughly to Haruhi Suzumiya's Brigade for Saving the World by Overloading it with Fun. The members of the SOS Brigade include Haruhi Suzumiya (leader), Kyon, Mikuru Asahina (secretary and unofficial mascot), Yuki Nagato (president of the literary club), and Itsuki Koizumi (vice commander).


• What type of genre is the series?

The series mixes in many genres, but it's mostly classified as a science fiction comedy series in Japan.


• What's up with the official website, http://www.haruhi.tv?

This is the homepage of the SOS Brigade as it is shown in the series. There is a link to the "fansite" where most news is posted about the series near the bottom.


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Section Two - Haruhi Suzumiya TV Anime Information - May Contain Spoilers


• What's this about a "broadcast order" and a "chronological order"?

The first season (2006 episodes) were intentionally broadcast out of chronological order. The episodes animated were one novel and short stories from three other novels. The staff wanted to end the season with the end of the novel to provide a conclusion for the season, so it was broadcast last. Many fans liked the broadcast order and prefer it over the chronological order.


• But what the second season? It's 28 episodes long!

Actually, what's been called the "second season" is a re-airing of the entire series in complete chronological order (meaning 14 new episodes were added to fill in the gaps between the 2006 episodes for chronological continuity). This allows future stories to be animated in chronological order without worrying about missing parts.


• How should I watch the show then?

Many people have differing opinions, but the main school of thought is to go ahead and watch the 2009 "re-airing" in chronological order. This way you don't get confused with later episodes and where they fit in the timeline. We typically use this order when referring to an episode on this forum. This is made a little difficult as one of the fansub groups popularized the 2-xx numbering of the new episodes, so the following numbers are a bit jumbled, but this is how most fan groups number the episodes (The DVD order is more correct, but it has Episode 00 out of order).

1-02 - The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya I

1-03 - The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya II

1-05 - The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya III

1-10 - The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya IV

1-13 - The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya V

1-14 - The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya VI

1-04 - The Boredom of Haruhi Suzumiya

2-01 - Bamboo Leaf Rhapsody

1-07 - Mysterique Sign

1-06 - Lone Island Syndrome (First Part)

1-08 - Lone Island Syndrome (Final Part)

2-02 - Endless Eight

2-03 - Endless Eight

2-04 - Endless Eight

2-05 - Endless Eight

2-06 - Endless Eight

2-07 - Endless Eight

2-08 - Endless Eight

2-09 - Endless Eight

2-10 - The Sigh of Haruhi Suzumiya I

2-11 - The Sigh of Haruhi Suzumiya II

2-12 - The Sigh of Haruhi Suzumiya III

2-13 - The Sigh of Haruhi Suzumiya IV

2-14 - The Sigh of Haruhi Suzumiya V

1-01 - The Adventures of Mikuru Asahina Episode 00

1-12 - Live a Live

1-11 - The Day of Sagittarius

1-09 - Someday in the Rain

• Are there seriously 8 Endless Eight episodes?!

Yes there are 8 episodes. The middle six episodes share the exact same script while the first and last differ from the rest. Each episode is animated differently with some events differing. It is one of the most polarizing events in the fanbase with people both liking it and hating it. If you want to skip it, do watch 1,2,and 8 to get the gist of the situation.

• This show is licensed, how can I watch it?

Crunchyroll has acquired the R1 rights to stream the episodes. They've put a the episodes up in the broadcast (2006) and DVD (2009 episodes) order.

If you would like a hard copy, check your choice anime supplier and see if there's a DVD release of the 2006 episodes. The new episodes finished being released on DVD in Japan during March 2010, with a North American release in September 2010, and an UK release and Australian release in 2011 as well. The series was released on Blu-Ray in Japan only with the official English subtitles and dub in November 2010 with all 28 episodes as they were aired in the above order. There are no plans for it to be released internationally.


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Section Three - The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya Movie information



• There's a movie from the series?!

Yes, after "Someday in the Rain" was aired in 2009, there was a teaser trailer shown for "The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya" which would start showing in Spring 2010.

• How long is the movie?

The movie is 2 hours, 42 minutes, and 53 seconds long. Yes, that's a long movie for a short novel, but the pacing of the movie works very well and according to reviews it feels shorter than that.


• So when can we see it?

The movie started showing in theatres on February 6th, 2010 and was released on DVD/Blu-Ray on December 18th, 2010 in Japan. The movie has been released in Hong Kong, Taiwan, North America, UK, and Australia in 2011 on DVD/Blu-Ray.


• Did it do well in Japan?

The movie grossed over 800 million yen while in theatres and sold over 130,000 DVD/BDs (officially, with a print run of 200,000 unofficially). It's been a surprise hit to theatres and has even gotten some critical acclaim.


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Section Four - Other Useless Important information


• What happened three years ago?
The big event that triggered everything happening has not been revealed. Much speculation has been done, but nothing official has come out. The whole "three years" time became very significant as a marketing ploy with Kadokawa.


• What other days are important?
The dates July 7th and December 18th are very key points in the timeline. Kadokawa released series information on those dates in the past, but new dates to keep an eye on are December 30th, January 2nd, and the first couple of weeks in February for news now. Officially, news will first come out in magazines prior to events like this.


• Why did (event) happen?
There's a very good reason for that. Typically it will be revealed in the future, but there are still some unanswered questions plaguing fans today.


• What's Kyon's real name?
It hasn't been given to the audience yet. We've got hints throughout the series, but it's never stated.


• What else has come out due to the anime series' popularity?
Haruhi has spun off many music CDs and two live concerts (one rock and one classical), 7 games for the PS2, PS3, PSP, Wii and DS, numerous fan and artbooks, plus many more fanworks.


• What other sites should I keep an eye on?
Besides the Official fansite, Kyoto Animation has their own Haruhi site, and it's always a good eye to keep an eye on Kadokawa's series listing to keep track of events. A lot of news will come through the monthly publications, so those will be second-hand from Japan. Usually news will be posted in the relevant thread, so watch for those.

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Important Characters in the Haruhi Suzumiya series:
These are the most popular and important characters in the anime series. After watching The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya III, the spoilers for the Brigade will not affect you anymore. Beneath the applicable characters is a link to the discussion thread for each character. These threads do contain spoilers from the novels, so be warned.


The SOS Brigade


The Creater/Leader: Haruhi Suzumiya



Haruhi is a first year student at North High who begins her school career by stating "I have no interest in normal humans. If any of you are aliens, time travelers, sliders, or espers come find me. That is all." She refuses to converse with anyone until Kyon chances himself to talk with her during breaks. She gets the inspiration to begin the SOS Brigade when Kyon gives her the idea. She is a very head-strong person who will always try to get her way, regardless if there is opposition.

Spoiler:

Haruhi has the ability to create data from nothing, thus she is called "the potential for autoevolution", "the cause of a massive timequake", and even "god" by some

Discussion thread
Haruhi is voiced by Aya Hirano who has sung both main openings and contributed to both ending songs.


The "wallet of the Brigade": Kyon



Kyon also is a first year student at North High who gave Haruhi the idea for the SOS Brigade. He is most commonly late for all of their group outings and tends to be a procrastinator. He tries to keep a level head in the midst of Haruhi's rampages, though he does take the opportunity to enjoy the views from time to time (especially of Mikuru).

Spoiler:

Kyon is the only normal human in the SOS Brigade. For some reason he "was chosen" by Haruhi and yet Kyon does not understand why.

Discussion thread
Kyon is voiced by Tomokazu Sugita.

The Leader of the Literature Club: Yuki Nagato



Yuki is a soft-spoken first year who is the sole member of the Literature Club. When Haruhi was looking for a clubroom, Yuki told her that they could use her room as long as she could read. She rarely speaks and when she does, it is typically short and to the point. Haruhi doesn't involve her as much as Mikuru in her outings, though Yuki typically comes along.

Spoiler:

Yuki is an organic interface made by the Intellect Data Thought Entity, otherwise called an alien. She has the ability to manipulate data around her to assist her in her goal of observing Haruhi. Due to her manufacture, she is outside of the normal space-time continuum and can keep track of time better than any human could.

Discussion thread
Yuki is voiced by Minori Chihara, who has contributed to both ending themes as well as the theme song for the movie.

The Secretary of the SOS Brigade and unofficial mascot: Mikuru Asahina



Mikuru is a second year student at North High who was kidnapped by Haruhi and forced to join the SOS Brigade. She used to be part of the calligraphy club until the kidnapping. Known to be an idol among the school, she is very shy around the other girls in the brigade, especially when Haruhi is literally forcing her to dress in various outfits. She tends to have moments of clumsiness and ditziness, but is otherwise average in intelligence.

Spoiler:

Mikuru is from a point in the future. She came back to observe Haruhi after the people in her time determined it was her that caused a timequake "three years ago" and see if there are any other alterations in the time-line. She also assists in helping "predetermined events" happen so that the future is not altered. Her older self comes back from time to time to help Kyon with certain tasks that are vital to the future.

Discussion thread
Mikuru is voiced by Yuko Gotou, who has sung the opening for "The Adventures of Mikuru Asahina Episode 00" and contributed to both ending songs.

The Vice-President of the SOS Brigade: Itsuki Koziumi



Koizumi transferred to North High approximately a month into his first year. He was pulled into the brigade due to his "mysterious transfer student" status assigned by Haruhi. He tends to relax and let Haruhi do as she wishes. He always has a smile or smirk on his face while enjoying the time with the rest of the brigade. He helps to plan trips for the brigade during vacations due to many family connections. Very philosophical and intelligent, he tends to know and theorize about various situations constantly.

Spoiler:

Koizumi is a esper (literally a "super powered person") who can only use his abilities when Haruhi creates something entitled "closed space" (a world within the new world). He protects the normal world from giant beings called "Avatars" (original Japanese term: shinjin) who destroy the new world when Haruhi is upset. He is part of "The Organization" which uses its abilities to make sure Haruhi is in a stable mood at all times.

Discussion thread
Koizumi is voiced by Daisuke Ono.

Auxillary SOS Brigade members:


Tsuruya-san:
First introduced when Haruhi needed members for a baseball team, Tsuruya-san is a classmate and friend of Mikuru. She is a very energetic girl and has the ability to make anyone laugh.

Discussion thread
Tsuruya-san is a very popular character in the series and is the only non-SOS Brigade member to get a thread.


Taniguchi:
Has been in the same class as Haruhi for four straight years since the first year of middle school. He knows about her reputation and serves for background information on Haruhi. Has a habit of constantly thinking about girls, even going as far to rank all the first year girls (Ryoko Asakura is his top AA+). Is used when the SOS Brigade needs an extra body for an activity.


Kunikida:
An intelligent first-year who is in the same class as Kyon and Haruhi. He was friends with Kyon in middle school and provides background information about Kyon's middle school life. Is also used when the SOS Brigade needs an extra body.


Kyon's Sister:
A fifth-year in elementary school who was the cause of Kyon's nickname spreading around his friends. She is used more in the anime than in the novels, but was invited to various SOS Brigade activities.


Important people not affiliated with the SOS Brigade:


Ryoko Asakura:
The class representative for Kyon and Haruhi's class. She tries to get people to talk with Haruhi, but is constantly turned down. She's cheerful, intelligent, and outgoing, leading to become the most popular girl in the class. An absolutely flawless girl.

Emiri Kimidori:
An upperclassman who came to visit the SOS Brigade with a request to find her missing boyfriend.

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The Haruhi Suzumiya novel series

第一巻: 涼宮ハルヒの憂鬱 (6/6/2003)
Volume 1: Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuutsu (The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya)


第 二巻: 涼宮ハルヒの溜息 (9/30/2003)
Volume 2: Suzumiya Haruhi no Tameiki (The Sigh of Haruhi Suzumiya)


第 三巻: 涼宮ハルヒの退屈 (12/27/2003)
Volume 3: Suzumiya Haruhi no Taikutsu (The Boredom of Haruhi Suzumiya)


第 四巻: 涼宮ハルヒの消失 (7/31/2004)
Volume 4: Suzumiya Haruhi no Shoushitsu (The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya)


第 五巻: 涼宮ハルヒの暴走 (9/30/2004)
Volume 5: Suzumiya Haruhi no Bousou (The Rampage of Haruhi Suzumiya)


第 六巻: 涼宮ハルヒの動揺 (3/31/2005)
Volume 6: Suzumiya Haruhi no Douyou (The Wavering of Haruhi Suzumiya)


第 七巻: 涼宮ハルヒの陰謀 (8/31/2005)
Volume 7: Suzumiya Haruhi no Inbou (The Intrigue of Haruhi Suzumiya)


第 八巻: 涼宮ハルヒの憤慨 (5/1/2006)
Volume 8: Suzumiya Haruhi no Fungai (The Indignation of Haruhi Suzumiya)


第 九巻: 涼宮ハルヒの分裂 (4/1/2007)
Volume 9: Suzumiya Haruhi no Bunretsu (The Dissociation of Haruhi Suzumiya)


第 十巻: 涼宮ハルヒの驚愕（前編） (05/25/2011)
Volume 10: Suzumiya Haruhi no Kyogaku (Zen Hen) (The Astonishment of Haruhi Suzumiya (First Part))

第 十一巻: 涼宮ハルヒの驚愕（後編） (05/25/2011)
Volume 11: Suzumiya Haruhi no Kyogaku (Go Hen) (The Astonishment of Haruhi Suzumiya (Final Part))

Originally scheduled for 06/01/2007 but was removed for "unforeseen circumstances" and turned into two novels due to length. These two, combined with novel 9, form a trilogy length story.

From late January to December 2010, Kadokawa released a special panorama cover set of the first nine novels. The contents were exactly the same, only the covers switched.


It is unlikely that tenth novel onward will have alternate covers to match the rest of the panorama.

The novels have been licensed in North America by Hachette Book Group. Before licensing, there were fan translations by the group Baka-Tsuki which have now been taken down. When referring to novels that have not been released in English, it is typically these translations that are being used. Since they are a licensed material, no requests can be made for the fan translations.

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First Year
April - May
涼宮ハルヒ の憂鬱 (The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya) [From vol.1]

June
涼 宮ハルヒの退屈 (The Boredom of Haruhi Suzumiya) [From vol.3]

July
笹 の葉ラプソディ (Bamboo Leaf Rhapsody) [From vol.3]
ミステリックサイン (Mysterique Sign) [From vol.3]
孤島症候群 (Lone Island Syndrome) [From vol.3]

August
エ ンドレスエイト (Endless Eight) [From vol.5]

November
涼 宮ハルヒの溜息 (The Sigh of Haruhi Suzumiya) [From vol.2]
ライブアライブ (Live A Live) [From vol.6]
朝比奈ミクルの冒険 Episode 00 (The Adventures of Mikuru Asahina Episode 00) [From vol.6]
射手座の日 (The Day of Sagittarius) [From vol.5]

December
涼 宮ハルヒの消失 (The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya) [From vol.4]
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ヒトメボレLOVER (Charmed at First Sight LOVER) [From vol.6]
雪山症候群 (Snow Mountain Syndrome) [From vol.5]
猫はどこに行った？ (Where Did The Cat Go?) [From vol.6]

January
涼宮ハルヒの陰謀 プロローグ (The Intrigue of Haruhi Suzumiya Prologue) [From vol.7]
朝比奈みくるの 憂鬱 (The Melancholy of Mikuru Asahina) [From vol.6]

February
涼 宮ハルヒの陰謀 (The Intrigue of Haruhi Suzumiya) [From vol.7]

March
編 集長★一直線！ (Editor In Chief ★ Straight Ahead!) [From vol.8]
ワンダリング・シャドウ (Wandering Shadow) [From vol.8]

Second Year
April
涼 宮ハルヒの分裂 (The Dissociation of Haruhi Suzumiya) [From vol. 9]
涼宮ハルヒの驚愕 (The Astonishment of Haruhi Suzumiya) [From vol.10/11]

Extra
+ 涼宮ハルヒ劇場 (Haruhi Suzumiya Theater) [From: The Sneaker 2004 August issue]
+ 帰ってきた涼宮ハルヒ劇場 (The Return of Haruhi Suzumiya Theater) [The Sneaker 2006 June issue]
+Rainy Day (Included as a bonus story in the First Pressing of

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The Mangas of Haruhi Suzumiya

There are a few manga series spawned by the Haruhi Suzumiya novels. The first was one that was horribly recieved by fans and will not be mentioned again. The second is published monthly by the "少年エース" (Shounen Ace) magazine published by Kadokawa. It has been collected into 15 volumes and has reached "The Melancholy of Mikuru Asahina" arc. The covers are listed below:



There is another manga published by Kadokawa in 少年エースthat is a parody of the series entitled "涼宮ハルヒちゃんの憂鬱" (Suzumiya Haruhi-chan no Yuutsu or "The Melancholy of Haruhi-chan Suzumiya"). It has been collected into six volumes:



There is another manga published by Kadokawa in 2008 in "コンプエース" (Completes) entitled "にょろーん、ちゅるやさん" (Nyoroon, Churuya-san) which introduces a small parody version of Tsuruya-san as "Churuya-san". It was collected into a single manga volume.


Finally, there is one last spinoff manga entitled "長門有希ちゃんの消失" (Nagato Yuki-chan no Shoushitsu, "The Disappearance of Yuki-chan Nagato") which started a monthly run in "ヤングエース" (Young Ace) in July 2009. It has been collected into three volumes:

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The Genderbending of Haruhi Suzumiya

In 2008, the Haruhi fanbase was waiting for two very important events: the release of the tenth novel and the start date for the second season of the anime. Since there was a great amount of free time until either event started, someone had a great idea: what if the genders of the Haruhi franchise were swapped?

This led to one of the most popular threads on this forum: the Genderbending thread.

The thread was originally designed to change the text of the novels to fit the swap of genders, making changes to the storyline as needed to make sense of the new situation. Many members would assist the fan novel translation group Baka-Tsuki in creating these new stories. They can still be read on Baka-Tsuki's website for the genderbending twist.

Lately, what has been the aim of the group is a new idea: mixing the genderbending universe into a story with the main characters in the form of a visual novel game. Kaisos has been handling writing the script for the novel with various people assisting with editing and compiling the story together.

The projects are still being worked on and are always in need of people to assist.

There is also the Images thread to post favorite genderbending images (mostly since they were taking over the normal images thread).

Characters:

Kyon →"Kyonko"
While she is still called "Kyon" in the universe, she has been given the nickname "Kyonko" to distinguish her from the original character. She's the most popular switch with many people favoring the sarcastic tsundere-like character. She's commonly the target of the next character's wishes.

Haruhi Suzumiya → Haruki Suzumiya
Picture the wildest person you know. Turn that craziness up another ten levels and you have Haruki Suzumiya. He is always looking for strange situations and is as hot-blooded as your typical shounen hero. His only weakness: pony-tails.

Yuki Nagato → Yuuki Nagato
A soft-spoken gentleman who allows Haruki to take over the literary clubroom and turn it into his own SOS Brigade.

Mikuru Asahina → Mitsuuru Asahina
A shy and timid boy who looks very young. He's constantly being told by Haruhi how to become a man.

Itsuki Koizumi → Itsuko Koizumi
The typical AA+ rank girl who constantly flirts with Kyonko and assists Haruki in every task he sets out.

More information about the thread can be found in the thread FAQ.

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The Anime Timeline of Haruhi Suzumiya

2005-Early 2006: Kadokawa gives the Haruhi series to Kyoto Animation to produce 14 episodes based on the first novel and some short stories from the Haruhi universe. Kyoto Animation chooses the seiyū and starts recording the audio for the series. This would be based on the 2006 copyright.

April 2nd, 2006: The Adventures of Mikuru Asahina Episode 00 airs, creating confusion and intrigue as it was not the first episode chronologically. That would be the following episode. Fans were interested in what stories would come next and how each character was involved. The ending song Hare Hare Yukai becomes a global phenom overnight.

July 2nd, 2006: The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya VI airs, closing the first airing of Haruhi with a bang and staring immediate speculation as to when the second season would start.

March 18th, 2007: The Extravaganza of Haruhi Suzumiya live event is held.

June 2007: The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya scenario planning begins

July 7th, 2007: On the Haruhi website at about 20:45, a short 20 minute long security video loaded of two figures drawing symbols on the ground at a school; a reference to the story of Bamboo Leaf Rhapsody. No details on the second season were released, but a feature in Newtype stated “Haruhi Suzumiya Second Season decided.” A full page ad was taken out in the Asahi newspaper to advertise the second season on the same day.

December 18th, 2007: The Haruhi website vanished and a java script popped up asking users to enter the “5 keys.” When a user put in the correct answer (KSNAK), a still image was shown that features a scene of Yuki with text overlaid that stated that the second season was cancelled and that a new animation project was underway. This was given the 2007, 2008, 2009 copyright.

June 2008: A Newtype article on the new animation was released. Canned Dogs posted a translation of why the second season was canceled:
“The reason why they cancelled 2nd season and started Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuutsu new animation instead was because they felt that they couldn’t just do a 2nd season and that they wanted to do a completely new Haruhi again. They’re still deciding on the concept for the new anime and how it’ll be like and having meetings for how the story will go”

July 7th, 2008: The official fansite uploads images of tanzaku (wishes to gods) at 15:00. At 21:00 images from the 2007 video are played with text from the Bamboo Leaf Rhapsody and Disappearance stories overlaid.

August 2008: Shounen Ace announces that the spinoff mangas The Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi-chan and Nyoron~Churuya-san were in production to be animated

December 18th, 2008: the Haruhi website vanished again and the net animation of The Melencholy of Suzumiya Haruhi-chan and Nyoron~Churuya-san were shown.

February 3rd, 2009: A re-airing of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya was announced to start again in April.

February 13th, 2009: Instead of showing the Haruhi-chan and Churuya-san shorts on their Youtube Channel, Kadokawa posts the infamous Nice Boat video. They do post the videos the following day, including a version with English subtitles (though the quality of said subtitles were not the best).

April 2nd, 2009 (Exactly 3 years after the first episode aired): The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya I aired in HD quality for the first time. Surprisingly, the previews for the next episode are missing. The next day, Gigazine reports that the Teletama television studio was informed by Kadokawa that the re-airing would be 28 episodes long. Of course this sparks speculation.

May 17th, 2009: As the 8th episode in the re-airing, the first new animated footage of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya since 2006 aired as the episode Bamboo Leaf Rhapsody started the 14 new episodes of 2009.

June 19th, 2009: For episode 12 in 2009, Endless Eight I aired with two things missing from the novel: the discovery of the loops and the ending. Endless Eight continued for 8 straight weeks (aggravating tons of fans) and then the five episodes of Sigh aired, giving the 14 new episodes 13 straight weeks.

August 2009: Staff begin scouting sites and designing characters for the Disappearance movie.

September 18th, 2009: For the first time since June, an older episode aired as The Adventures of Mikuru Asahina Episode 00 was aired.

October 9th, 2009: Following the famous ED after Someday in the Rain, a commercial for Minori Chihara’s DVD aired, and then a teaser commercial followed for The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya movie coming Spring 2010. This was given the 2009 copyright.

Early December 2009: Dialogue for the Disappearance movie completes.

December 18th, 2009: The Haruhi website disappears again, this time revealing the trailer for The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya movie.

February 8th, 2010: The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya movie premieres in Japan.

December 18th, 2010: The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya movie is released on DVD/Blu-Ray in Japan.

No news has been released for a “third” or a true “second” season, though statements have been made that make it appear that it will not be occurring soon.

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Haruhi Universe Timeline
There are novel spoilers, so if you do not want to be spoiled, please do not click the spoiler tag.

Spoiler:

Big Bang - Data Entities begin their existence since the formation of the universe; they merged with one another as they gathered even more data. These data entities eventually evolve into the Integrated Data Sentient Entity (情報統合思念体) and its rival, the Canopy Domain (天蓋領域). (Volume 1, 7, 9) (Note: Translated English names for these alien entities come from the fan-translation and are not official. )

Circa 280 million years BH (Before Haruhi) - At some point, part of the data entities branched off to evolve into an “imperfect form”, due to their “imperfect form”, they were soon eliminated by natural selection. But one survived and ended up hibernating in pre-historic Earth, waiting for its chance to re-emerge. (Volume 3 – Mysterique Sign)

Circa 300 years ago (1702CE, 15th year of the Genroku Emperor)Tsuruya Yauemon, the eccentric patriarch of the Tsuruya clan, the local landlord, stumbles upon a mysterious metallic device made of Titanium alloys. The device was made with technology that was obviously far ahead of his time. Feeling uneasy with this device, he hides it in a vase and buries it in the Tsuruya clan's private hill, under a gourd-shaped rock. He draws up a treasure map for his descendants in case they're interested in this "treasure". (Volume 7)

14 BH – Tsuruya-san born

13 BH – Haruhi Suzumiya, Kyon, Itsuki Koizumi, Taniguchi Kunikida born. This also includes the "anti-SOS" Sasaki and Kyoko Tachibana around this year.

8 BH – Kyon’s sister born

~1-3 BH – Kyon’s grandmother called him by his present nickname, his sister helped spread it, and the name stuck (Volume 1)

0AH (After Haruhi)

Before March – Haruhi is still in elementary school. One day, her father took her to a baseball game. It is here when she realized how insignificant humans are in this universe.

April – Haruhi enrols at East Junior High. She begins her “eccentric” quest to search for aliens, time travellers, dimension travellers, and espers.

At this time, Haruhi’s hidden powers were awaken, this causes the following:

1. As a mere human, Haruhi is able to create tons of data that cannot be processed in a human lifetime. The Integrated Data Sentient Entity is very interested in this new stream of data, as it believes these data, once analyzed, could hold the key for its own evolution.

As the Integrated Data Entity is incapable of speech, it has created many Living Humanoid Interfaces, including Yuki Nagato and Ryoko Asakura, to interact with humans and observe Haruhi from a close distance. Both Yuki and Ryoko stay in the high-class apartment block near the local train station in “Stand-By” mode, preparing to enter the high school Haruhi enters three years from now.

1-2. It is not yet known whether the Canopy Domain, an alien entity with a different agenda from the Integrated Data Entity, has made its move during this time. (Volume 7, 9)

2. Haruhi is also able to create a massive timequake, creating a huge time fault between the present time plane and the previous time planes. The time travellers from the future are thus unable to travel any further before this year. The future authorities sent specialists to investigate, but are unable to find out why, save that Haruhi is the culprit.

2-2. There exists another group of time-travellers with a totally different unknown agenda than the above. Though they too owe their existence to this event.(Volume 7, 9)

3. Itsuki Koizumi and around 9 others suddenly have supernatural powers. They and other humans also suddenly become aware of Haruhi’s ability to affect the reality and form the "Organization" (機関). [One of the benefactors to the "Organization" is the Tsuruya clan. Though Tsuruya-san herself seems oblivious to this. (Volume 7)]

Every time Haruhi feels depressed, a Sealed Dimension is created randomly, in which blue giants “Shinjins” wreak havoc. If these “Shinjins” continue to their destruction, then their destruction would manifest itself in the real world. Koizumi and his companions' job is to use their powers inside these Sealed Dimensions and destroy these “Shinjins”. The ‘Organization’ sent various agents to observe Haruhi.

3-2. There exist another group of espers and humans, who believe their powers originated from another person - a girl in Kyon's junior high called Sasaki. They believe Sasaki's divine powers have somehow been transferred into Haruhi, and they seek to "correct" this phenomenon. For this reason, they are constantly at odds with the "Organization". These espers too can enter Sealed Dimensions, however, these dimensions are stable domains created by Sasaki, and do not cause harm to this world. (Volume 7,9)

The above three main forces are often at odds with each other concerning Haruhi, though the reason is not yet known to the readers. (Volume 2)

The three forces are also splintered into various sub-factions, fighting amongst each other. However, it will be the "mainstream faction" of these three forces that would approach Haruhi.

The opposing three forces have their various agendas, and it is primarily the rival espers that seek to ally themselves with the other two to set Sasaki up as an "anti-Haruhi". (Volume 9)

July 7th (Tanabata Festival) –

8:30pm – Kyon from three years later (“Alternate World” December 20th, 3AH) arrives at this time plane, he realizes where he is and rushes to the park and hides awaiting his other self to arrive. (Volume 4)

~9:00pm – Another Kyon and Mikuru from three years later (July 7th, 3AH) arrive at this time plane at the park near the station. Mikuru then falls unconscious, thanks an even future Mikuru (Kyon calls her Mikuru (Big)). (Volume 3, Bamboo Rhapsody)

9:05pm – Mikuru (Big) urges Kyon to carry Mikuru (Small) to East Junior High and assist the person at the gate there. Kyon, with Mikuru (small) walks westwards towards East Junior High (Volume 3, Bamboo Rhapsody)

9:10pm – Mikuru (Big) walks slowly eastwards, the other Kyon (Kyon2 here, for simplicity’s sake) runs up to her and explains his situation. Mikuru (Big) then has a conversation with Kyon2, and requests his and Yuki’s help to restore the future timeline. (Volume 4)

9:30pm – Kyon, carrying Mikuru (Small), arrives at East Junior High and finds a younger Haruhi trying to get inside her school. Kyon decides to help Haruhi draw the signs on school’s courtyard, using white chalk powder tied onto a trolley by Haruhi. The sign in alien language, according to Yuki’s interpretation some time in the future to Kyon, reads “I am here.” (Volume 3, Bamboo Rhapsody)

9:35pm – Haruhi asks for Kyon’s name, Kyon calls himself “John Smith”. Haruhi then walks home. Mikuru (Small) wakes up and finds her time travelling device, the Time Plane Destroy Device (TPDD), is missing. (It was Mikuru (Big) that took it away, since this occurrence was “inevitable”)

Kyon remembers the drawings on the bookmark Yuki gave him before he and Mikuru (Small) departed from the future. He has a hunch Yuki is also here in this time plane, and decides to go and ask this Yuki (on Stand-By mode) for help. (Volume 3, Bamboo Rhapsody)

9:40pm – Kyon2 and Mikuru (Big) decide to visit Yuki, but they have to wait for Kyon and Mikuru (Small) to visit Yuki first. So Kyon2 goes towards the street and sees Haruhi walking off, and shouted, according to his memory, “Please take good care of John Smith, who will shake the world!”

Haruhi will remember this line, and eventually tells “John Smith” about this in an alternate future 3 years from now. (Volume 4)

9:45pm – Kyon and Mikuru (Small) visits the Yuki here and explains their situation. Yuki “connects” with her future self and verifies Kyon’s story, and decides to help Kyon and Mikuru (Small). She has them sleep together in a futon in a room, she then freezes the time in the room and puts them in stasis, only to unfreeze them three years later. (Volume 3, Bamboo Rhapsody)

10:00pm – Kyon2 and Mikuru (Big) visits Yuki. Yuki tries “connecting” with her future self again, but is unable to, since her future self has selectively blocked connection for some reason. Yuki decides Kyon2’s story is true and assists him as well, but she can’t travel with them back to the future, as she has to take care of the frozen Kyon and Mikuru (Small).

She injects nano-machines into Kyon and Mikuru, so they won’t be affected by the “reality change” caused by the culprit on December 18th, 3AH. She also creates a nano-machine gun, this gun is to be injected into the culprit’s body in order to restore the future reality to its original state.

She then reveals who the culprit is. After that, Mikuru (Big) uses the TPDD she took from Mikuru (Small) and returns to the December 18th, 3AH with Kyon2. (Volume 4)

2AH

– Tsuruya-san enrolls at North High.

- Kyon is in his third and final year at his junior high.

- To improve his grades, Kyon's mom has him enroll into a cram school. It is here that he becomes acquainted with Sasaki, a girl in the same class from his junior high.

- Kyon soon notices Sasaki has a habit of calling herself "boku" when speaking to guys and would often delve into philosophical topics.

- As it is faster for Kyon to stop by his house and then ride his bicycle to cram school, he offers to give Sasaki a ride. Hence they more or less become good friends, and the misconception that Kyon "likes weird girls" is born, despite them not developing any relationship beyond being friends. One day during September, Kyon begins using her catchphrase “yare yare” (translates to “good grief”) (Rainy Day).

- After graduation, Kyon and Sasaki would go into different schools, and they would not meet until a year later.

(Volume 9)

3AH

April
- Kyon enrolls at North High and meets Haruhi for the first time.

- Haruhi enrolls at North High (most likely due to the face that “John Smith” was a North High student).

- Yuki and Ryouko begin their mission and enroll at North High as well.

- The future authorities send Mikuru to this time plane and she enrolls in North High to begin her mission of observing North High, befriending Tsuruya-san along the way.

- Kyon observes Haruhi’s eccentric behavior for some time, then began having daily conversations with her before every day’s home room session, as he sits in front of her.

- One day, Kyon implants in Haruhi’s mind the idea of forming a club. Inspired by this, Haruhi forms the SOS Brigade. She “kidnaps” Mikuru and occupies the Literary Club room as their headquarters.

- Yuki has been “waiting” for them, as Kyon told her to 3 years ago.
( Volume 1)

May
- The “Organization” arranges for Itsuki Koizumi's transfer to North High to assist in their surveillance of Haruhi, whose has unknowingly brought two agents of the other factions closer to her, thanks to Kyon’s unwitting encouragement.

Haruhi decides to invite this “mysterious transfer student” to the SOS Brigade. (Koizumi was “shocked and terrified” when an excited Haruhi approached him and have him join the SOS Brigade, as he had originally planned to just secretly observe Haruhi. (Volume 5))

- Yuki, Mikuru and Koizumi all revealed their true identities to Kyon respectively, and explained their motives for gathering around Haruhi and observing her.

- Haruhi took the SOS Brigade one Sunday to search for anything mysterious. Kyon was paired with Mikuru in the morning (where she told him where she came from), while being paired with Yuki in the afternoon.

- As Kyon decided to bring Yuki to the library to kill time, Kyon's junior high classmate Nakagawa (whom Kyon doesn't even remember) walks past them and is instantly mesmerized by Yuki.

- What Nakagawa doesn't know is that he's a half-esper, being secretly considered as a candidate by Koizumi's "Organization". His latent powers allow him to partially sense the presence of the Integrated Data Entity within Yuki. He misinterprets this overwhelming inflow of data as "love at first sight" and becomes obsessed with her for the next six months.
(Volume 6, Crazy LOVER)

- One month since the new school year has passed and Haruhi begins to get depressed. More Sealed Dimensions are created as a result.

- Ryouko could no longer stand this status quo and decides to do something about it. She lures Kyon into a trap and tries to kill Kyon, in order to trigger a reaction from Haruhi. But she is thwarted by Yuki, who saved Kyon at the nick of time, and is eliminated by Yuki.

- Kyon then meets Mikuru (Big) (who showed him her star-shaped birthmark on her breast), she told Kyon not to “get too close with her”, and warns that something is about to happen, though she couldn’t reveal much, she gave Kyon a hint – Snow White

- Koizumi shows Kyon a Sealed Dimension, and the “Shinjins” as well as his powers in dealing with them. He says these dimensions have increased in frequency lately.

- One day, Haruhi’s depression drew both her and the person she wants to be with most – Kyon, into a Sealed Dimension. Koizumi manages to enter the dimension with great difficulty, and before disappearing, tells Kyon that Haruhi’s depression is leading her to decide to destroy the old world and create a new world.

Through the computer, Yuki leaves Kyon with another hint – Sleeping Beauty. Kyon understood the hint: to give Haruhi something to hope for in their original world so that she would not despair of it – him, so he “reluctantly” kisses her and they both re-awake back in their world. Though Haruhi thought it was all a bad dream afterwards.
(Volume 1)

June
– Since Haruhi is bored she decides to have the SOS Brigade join the local baseball tournament. Halfway through their game with the Kamigahara Pirates, with the SOS Brigade one inning away from defeat, Haruhi’s frustrations create a Sealed Dimension.

Koizumi convinces Yuki to manipulate the “match data” to turn the game in the SOS Brigade’s favor in order to literally save the world. The SOS Brigade won the match eventually.

Kyon then convinces Haruhi to pull out (out of fear that Yuki’s manipulation won’t go unnoticed for long), Haruhi decides baseball’s boring and agrees. (She then wanted to join a soccer and American football tournament, but that’s another story.) (Volume 3, The Boredom of Suzumiya Haruhi)

July

July 7th (Tanabata Festival) – Haruhi brings in a bamboo shoot, she says it’s used for making wishes to the lovers of the Tanabata Festival.

After hanging their wishes on the bamboo shoot, Haruhi goes home. Mikuru then asks Kyon to stay behind and travel with her to the past three years ago. Before leaving, Yuki gives Kyon a bookmark with strange signs on it.

~9:00 pm July 7th – Kyon and Mikuru wake up in Yuki’s room after being frozen for three whole years by Yuki, who has reanimated them. For Kyon, the sleep only took seconds.
(Volume 3, Bamboo Rhapsody)

- Haruhi creates a logo for the SOS Brigade website and uploads it to the web. Unbeknownst to her, the logo awakened the long hibernating “Imperfect Data Entity” and it begins to duplicate itself across the web using the logo as its physical manifestation.

It sucks in any user (total of 8, including the president of the Computer Society) who has seen the logo on the website and creates a dimension for it to reside in.

- Emiri Kimidori, a second year student, visits the SOS Brigade to ask for help to find her “boyfriend”, the Computer Society president.

The SOS Brigade visit the president’s apartment. Besides Haruhi, the rest discover the existence of a hidden dimension and visit it again after Haruhi went home.

They promptly rescued the unconscious president and destroyed this Imperfect Data Entity.

- They went and rescued the other 7 people who have visited the website. In order to stop the Data Entity from spreading again, Yuki had the logo slightly altered so that it reads “ZOZ” instead of “SOS”, though it’s barely noticeable.

- Kyon finds out that the Computer Society president never had a girlfriend, he wonders who Kimidori is.

He also realizes Yuki could have dealt with this all on her own, yet she let the whole SOS Brigade in on this. He began to wonder if Yuki is “lonely”.
(Volume 3, Mysterique Sign)

- In order to keep Haruhi from getting bored, Koizumi, with help from his companions from the “Organization” – Keiichi Tamaru and Yutaka Tamaru, Arakawa, and Sonou Mori, arranged a summer field trip for the SOS Brigade, with a secret murder mystery, in which everyone is nearly fooled into thinking Tamaru Keiichi has been murdered.

Though in the end, Kyon managed to figure out the truth. Haruhi seemed pretty satisfied with this game afterwards and puts Koizumi in charge of the murder mystery game for their coming winter field trip. (Volume 3, Lone Island Syndrome)

August

August 17th – August 31st
– After coming back from a trip with his family, Kyon got dragged into a flurry of activities by Haruhi in the last two weeks of summer holidays.

– Unwittingly, the whole world, with the exception of Yuki (and other Living Humanoid Interfaces probably), have been trapped in a time loop that repeats itself on August 17th, with everyone’s memories being completely reset (Yuki is not affected thanks to the omniscience of the Integrated Data Entity, which transcends time and space).

– The SOS Brigade members, due to their proximity to Haruhi, experiences some déjà vu from time to time. Whenever Mikuru realizes she has lost contact with her future is when the SOS Brigade realizes they’re stuck in a time loop.

(Yuki says they’ve been in this time loop for 15,498 times already – i.e. 548 years, and this is the 6000+ time they’ve found out.) The reason they’re stuck is that Haruhi never seem to be completely satisfied with this summer vacation.

– Then on the 15,498th time, Kyon realizes what is missing – he invites the SOS Brigade to do their summer vacation homework together on the last day.

Haruhi, being the bright student that she is, never experienced doing homework with her friends, as she’s finished hers long ago. But since it’s Kyon that hasn’t completed her homework, she decides to “help out”, since she doesn’t want to be left out.

September 1st – Due to Haruhi coming to terms with her summer vacation ending, the world has now broken free of the endless time loop and time moves forward again.
(Volume 5 – Endless Eight)

November

- Haruhi decides to make a SOS Brigade movie for the school festival, starring Mikuru, Yuki and Koizumi, with herself as director, producer and writer, and Kyon in charge of all the “menial tasks”, including being the camera man.

- Extras including Tsuruya-san, Kunikida and Taniguchi are brought in. Shamisen the cat is adopted by Kyon, under Haruhi’s orders.

- During the shooting of the movie, Haruhi unwittingly alters reality, these include: Mikuru beam (now rendered harmless with Yuki’s nano-machines), Shamisen talking, and pigeons turning their feathers white overnight.

- Eventually, Kyon got into a fight with Haruhi. Haruhi becomes so depressed that Koizumi fears for the worst and urges Kyon to make up with her. Kyon, for some reason unknown to him, decides to “cheer up” Haruhi.

However, this creates the opposite extreme, in which Haruhi could potentially create irreversible alterations on reality, as Haruhi is unable to distinguish her reality from the movie reality.

- Kyon is eventually able to find a simple solution during the editing of the movie – he convinces Haruhi to put a disclaimer at the end of the movie, declaring everything in the movie, including all the “special effects”, as “fiction”.

- Kyon half-guessed the movements of some underground clandestine activity between the three forces during the school festival – as they were all dressed in funny costumes, no one suspected them as they were believed to be in a play
(Volume 2)

- The movie, "Asahina Mikuru's Adventure Episode 00" is shown in the school festival with mixed great success (according to the director) after its showing in the Movie Club's theatre (they got coerced and blackmailed by Haruhi to show the movie ahead of their selection).
(Volume 6, Asahina Mikuru's Adventure Episode 00)

- Haruhi then spent the next few days during the School Festival (trying) to hand out SOS Brigade flyers in her bunny suit.

- On the last day, she came across a three girl rock band about to perform at the festival concert. Their lead singer and songwriter had suffered from tonsillitis that day and was unable to perform.

- The remaining band members were at a lost at what to do, when for some reason which even she herself couldn't explain, Haruhi decided to step in and help them.

- Haruhi listened to the audition tapes only three times and decided to be the lead singer. She enlisted the help of Yuki as the guitarist (which Yuki agreed and learnt instantly, in a matter of seconds).

- Haruhi and Yuki then performed in place of the band's lead singer (in their costumes, Haruhi in bunny suit, Yuki is magician suit).

- The audience was stunned by Haruhi's performance, but after Haruhi explained that she and Yuki were only stand-ins, they were even more amazed. If the stand-ins were already this good, then the original performance must be incredible. This resulted in the high demand for the band's audition tapes, and the band's career could now begin to take off.

- A few days later, the band members visited Haruhi's classroom to thank her from the bottom of their heart. Haruhi seemed uncomfortable at being thanked at, since she wasn't used to helping others before. But her waverings were swept away for now when she came up with a plan to form the SOS Band for next year's school festival.
(Volume 6 - LIVE A LIVE)

- To avenge their unjust humiliation at the hands of Haruhi, the Computer Society challenges the SOS Brigade to a duel on an online real-time strategy game, “The Day of Sagittarius III”.

- If they win, then the SOS Brigade will need to hand over the computer Haruhi “obtained” from them. The odds seem to be against the SOS Brigade, the Computer Society even have the game rigged in their favor. However, they completely underestimated the potential of Yuki.

- The game seems to have ignited a passion in Yuki unseen before, and before long, she has turned the tables on the Computer Society and won the game for the SOS Brigade.

- The Computer Society begged for mercy from Haruhi, and pleaded with Yuki to come visit them time to time to show them her computer mastery.

- Kyon, seemingly understanding of Yuki’s “feelings”, urges her to take a break from observing Haruhi all the time and occasionally go “play the computer”.
(Volume 5, The Day of Sagittarius)

- During the Student Council Presidential election, Koizumi and the "Organization" handpicked a "stern-looking" person who would fit the role of a "stuck-up officious" President (while disregarding the fact that he's quite a delinquent and smokes often) and have him run for the position. The new President would provide a source for which Koizumi can "stir up trouble" for Haruhi and keep her mind occupied from other "weird ideas".

- At the same time, Kimidori Emiri, a Humanoid Interface just like Asakura and Yuki, manipulated reality for some reason and became the General Secretary of the Student Council.
(Volume 8, Editor in Chief★Straight Ahead!)

December

December 16th – Haruhi proposes a Christmas party to the SOS Brigade. Kyon doesn’t realize anything unusual at this moment.(Volume 4)

Note: From December 18th to December 20th, there exist two "versions" of reality. The first version is the one where the world is changed, the second version is the restored reality, which "overwrites" the first version, kind of like how a videotape or DVD-RW can be overwritten. Kyon is the only person with memories of having experienced BOTH versions.

Originally Posted by December 18th-20th: Version 1

December 18th

- With a lot of “impure” data accumulating inside, Yuki begins to lose control of herself. Yuki doesn’t know it, but Kyon calls the “impure” data “emotions”, which Yuki seemed to lack but is beginning to lose control due to not being able to handle the overload of emotions.

- By somehow “stealing” Haruhi’s ability to alter reality, Yuki uses this power to change the fabric of reality, including herself. The best she could do to reduce this loss of control was to retain Kyon’s memories of this world.

- She also re-creates Ryoko Asakura to serve as a "protector" for her altered self.

- When Kyon wakes up and goes to school, he finds that the whole world is turned upside down. Haruhi has disappeared, so has Koizumi and his whole class. Mikuru is just a normal 2nd year student, and Yuki is just a quiet bookish girl. It seems Kyon is the only one with his memories intact.

December 19th

- Kyon visits the Literary Club room again, where Yuki is. Yuki blushed time and again whenever Kyon looks at her.

- While examining the bookshelf, Kyon picked up the book which Yuki used to lend him in the original reality.

There he found a bookmark with a cryptic message from the original Yuki – an “escape program” to be activated in two days time once “the key” is obtained. This is Kyon’s only clue to return to his reality. He also notices how this Yuki blushes furiously when he stares at her and actually finds her cute.

- Yuki suddenly invites Kyon to her apartment. She tells Kyon about how she remembers Kyon at the library, though her memory is different from that which happened in Kyon’s world.

- Ryouko comes to visit and cooks dinner for Yuki, since Yuki lives all alone. Under Yuki's urging, Kyon stays behind to have dinner with them. He leaves, having see this Yuki smile.

December 20th

- Kyon hears from Taniguchi, who was absent the other day, that Haruhi does indeed exist in this reality, only that she attends another school.

- Kyon rushes to that school, and finds her and Koizumi in the same school. Both their memories have been altered and they don’t recognize Kyon.

- In desperation, Kyon uses his final card; he tells Haruhi he is “John Smith” from three years ago.

- Haruhi didn’t question Kyon and believed him at once, since she does remember “John Smith” – Kyon now knows at least the past hasn’t been altered and has hopes again.

- After telling Haruhi and Koizumi his story, Haruhi decides to visit the “SOS Brigade” room. She enters the school with Koizumi and Kyon.

- Haruhi then “kidnaps” Mikuru, and with Koizumi and Kyon, entered the club room, where a surprised Yuki is waiting.

- With all “SOS Brigade” members in the room, the “key” to the “Escape Program” is activated in the old computer in the room.

- In order to escape, Kyon hits the “enter” key. This takes him back to July 7th, 0AH, where he will need to get the help of Mikuru (Big) and the past Yuki to restore the world.

- By executing the Escape Program, Kyon has effectively put an end to this version of reality by his future actions.

Here ends version 1

(Volume 4)

Originally Posted by December 18th-20th: Version 2

December 18th

- Kyon (called Kyon-1 here) and Mikuru (Big) arrive from July 7th, 0AH and wait for the culprit, Yuki (called Yuki-1) to arrive and alter reality.

- Another Kyon (called Kyon-2), Yuki (called Yuki-2) and Mikuru (small) arrive from January 2nd, 4AH and hide in an invisibility barrier, preparing to make their move. (Volume 7 - Prologue)

- Kyon-1 and Mikuru (Big) confront Yuki-1, who has now become just a weak-willed bookish girl. Kyon-1 takes out the nano-machine gun that Yuki three years ago created for him.

- Ryouko appears and stabs Kyon-1 with a knife. Before Ryouko is able to finish Kyon-1 off, she is stopped by Yuki-2 and disintegrated once again. At which point, Kyon-2 and Mikuru (small) also make their move. (Volume 7 - Prologue)

- Mikuru (small), who is completely oblivious and just simply following Kyon's lead, panics and rushes to the fallen Kyon-1. In order to make sure she isn't seen by her past self, Mikuru (big) puts Mikuru (small) to sleep, and asks Kyon-2 to take care of her.(Volume 7 - Prologue)

- Kyon-2 apologizes to Kyon-1 before he passes out. Since Kyon-1 getting stabbed was "pre-determined".

- Yuki-2 picks up the nano-machine gun and shoots Yuki-1 with it without hesitation. Yuki-1 reverts back to her normal self. She requests "synchronization" with Yuki-2, to everyone's surprise - including Yuki-1, Yuki-2 refuses, because she "does not want to".(Volume 7 - Prologue)

-Yuki-2 says she will proceed to re-alter the world back to its original state, with some modifications. She heals Kyon-1's stab wound in no time as well.

- Mikuru (big) assists Kyon-2 and the sleeping Mikuru (small) back to January 1st, 4AH. (Though it's not mentioned, Yuki-2 probably remained behind and hid somewhere (most likely in Yuki 1's place) for the next few days while busy re-altering the world. )

- In this restored version, Haruhi is having a meeting with the SOS Brigade about the upcoming Christmas party.

- After the meeting, as the SOS Brigade walked down the stairs, Kyon is seen tumbling down the stairs, much to the horror of Haruhi, Mikuru and Koizumi. Haruhi thought she saw a girl in the stairs.

- Kyon is knocked unconscious and is sent on an ambulance. Haruhi looked pale and Mikuru burst into tears, while Koizumi's smile simply disappeared as he begins to make arrangements for Kyon to be sent to a private ward by the "Organization".

- While in the middle of the dizzying time-travel forward in time, Kyon-2 manages to catch a glimpse of the above scene. He knows exactly why Yuki-1 was nowhere to be seen. Mikuru (big) then asks Kyon-2 to close his eyes again and he is whisked back to his time. (Volume 7 - Prologue)

- Kyon-1 remains in a coma in the hospital. Haruhi stays by Kyon's side all day.

December 19th-20th

- Kyon continues to sleep in his coma as Haruhi watches over him all day and night. With Koizumi and Mikuru taking turns to visit him as well.

From here onwards, the timeline will be derived from this "version 2".

(Volume 4 - Unless stated otherwise)

December 21st
- Kyon finally wakes up. Koizumi told him what happened (the altered memory version). Everyone is glad, though Haruhi doesn’t show it.

- That night, Yuki came to visit Kyon alone. She apologizes to Kyon for all this trouble and says she may have to leave to prevent this from happening again.

- Kyon forgives Yuki for who she is, and threatens to provoke Haruhi (by telling her he’s “John Smith”) if the Integrated Data Entity decides to take Yuki away from the SOS Brigade. Yuki thanks Kyon for his help.

- Kyon realizes he needs to go back to December 18th some time in the future with Yuki and Mikuru in order to make sure this restored reality remains the way it is.

(Volume 4)

December 25th – SOS Brigade Christmas party, Haruhi declares the winter field trip will take place on the 30th.

- Tsuruya-san, who is invited to the party, has agreed to provide her mansion in the mountains as the venue for the field trip. Koizumi’s “Consortium” companions, Arakawa, Sonou Mori and the Tamaru brothers, will also help prepare the murder mystery.

Between December 25th and December 30th

- Kyon's junior high classmate, Nakagawa, unable to contain his passion for Yuki any longer, decides to ring Kyon up after remembering that Kyon used to be his classmate.

- He begs Kyon to write Yuki a ridiculous love letter for him. After reluctantly doing so, Kyon gets in trouble with an enraged (and jealous) Haruhi after she stumbled upon the letter. Surprisingly, Yuki decides to go and see Nakagawa.

- A few days later, the SOS Brigade visit Nakagawa's high school to see Nakagawa play an inter-school friendly for his American football team. Yuki, realizing that Nakagawa could sense the Integrated Data Entity, modified and deleting his esper powers (via giving him a minor percussion during the match).

- After coming to his senses in the hospital and meeting Yuki and Kyon there, Nakagawa no longer feels the same passion he had for Yuki before. Kyon was puzzled until Yuki explained to him. Kyon asked whether Yuki was disappointed that Nakagawa was actually interested in the Integrated Data Entity and not her, Yuki simply replied, "A bit."
(Volume 6, Charmed at First Sight LOVER)

December 30th
- The SOS Brigade, Tsuruya-san, and Kyon’s sister (who has decided to come along at the last minute) arrive at Tsuruya’s mansion.

- Haruhi decides they should go do some skiing, while Tsuruya-san builds some snowmen with Kyon’s sister.

- During their skiing, they got caught in a mysterious blizzard, in which not even Yuki can find the way out.

- They came across a mysterious mansion, which seems to have different time warps, and can seemingly provide anything they want (like food, entertainment, etc), except an escape route.

- Kyon tells Koizumi about his experiences in the alternate reality. Koizumi then speculates that Yuki and Haruhi are beginning to lose their powers.

- Koizumi says someone as powerful as the Integrated Data Entity has deliberately have them trapped inside this mansion in order to observe Haruhi closely, and perhaps force Haruhi to trigger a reaction.

- Yuki has been looking even more dead-pan than usual, this is because she is waging an unseen data war (according to Koizumi) with the unknown enemy in order to allow for their escape. Yuki collapsed as a result of being over exhausted, but she has left Kyon a clue as to how to escape.

- This unknown enemy is later revealed by Yuki to be a "Vast Quantum Cosmic Existence" (later to be named the "Canopy Domain"), rival to the Integrated Data Sentient Entity.(Volume 7)

- Kyon and Koizumi manages to work out the answer and the SOS Brigade escape from the mysterious mansion. For Tsuruya-san, only 10 minutes has passes since the swift blizzard passed. Haruhi is again confused, but buys Koizumi’s cover story that they were being hypnotized temporarily.

- Under Haruhi's insistence, Yuki had to stay in bed to recover from her "fever" for the night.
(Volume 5, Snow Mountain Syndrome)

December 31st – The SOS Brigade undergo their year-end murder mystery.
(Volume 6, Where Did the Cat Go?)


(to be continued)

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Spoiler:

4 AH

January

January 1st
- The SOS Brigade stay in Tsuruya-san's snow mountain mansion for one more day.(Volume 7 - Prologue)

January 2nd
- The SOS Brigade finally return home.

- Upon returning, Kyon quickly calls Mikuru and to her surprise, asks her to request for permission to travel back to December 18th, 3AH with him and Yuki. To Mikuru's astonishment, the request was granted immediately, with specific orders that she is to follow Kyon's instructions.

- Kyon, Mikuru and Yuki meet up in Yuki's apartment and they begin to travel back to December 18th, 3AH to ensure the timeline sticks to the current version.

- 62 seconds later, Kyon brings a sleeping Mikuru back, with the other Yuki waiting for them.

(Volume 7 - Prologue)

- Mikuru receives cryptic orders from her superiors (who turns out to actually be her future self) to come to a traffic crossing at a specific time on a Sunday, and to bring Kyon along.

- So Mikuru invites Kyon for a "date" on that coming Sunday (without telling the rest of the SOS Brigade) to buy tea leaves. Kyon gladly agrees. Though during the date, Mikuru anxiously leads Kyon to the traffic crossing, Kyon realizes something's wrong with her, but decides to keep quiet.

- As the lights at the crossing turn to green, a bespectacled boy runs out to the crossing. At this moment, a speeding car races through, ignoring the red lights. In the nick of time, Kyon saves the boy from certain death as the car speeds off.

- After asking what the boy's name is (Kyon forgot the name), Mikuru realizes her mission is to save the boy's life, as the boy would become an important person in her age's history. As time travelers are forbidden to directly intervene, Kyon, a native of this time plane, was enlisted to help. Before parting, she urges the boy to take good care and not get in any danger (from the same "Enemy of the SOS Brigade" that Koizumi was talking about while in the mysterious snow mountain mansion).

- The speeding car turns out to belong to a rival esper organization to Koizumi's "Organization", who wish to "break free from the clutches of the future". They would later join forces with Mikuru's rival time-travelers and the Canopy Domain. (Volume 7)

- Mikuru then breaks down and laments that she wasn't of any help to her superiors, as they kept denying her access to more information, and the SOS Brigade. Kyon knew this isn't true, as it was Mikuru's future self, Mikuru (Big) who has helped him a lot, and Mikuru (Big) understood Mikuru (small) best, which was why she concealed the truth from her past self.

- Kyon decides that it's not the right time to tell Mikuru the truth, especially about when he got stuck in the altered reality, and how he needed her and Yuki's help to go back in time to restore that reality. Without telling her the truth, Kyon cheers Mikuru up. Mikuru realizes that Kyon truly understands the "classified information" restrictions that are in place.

- The next day, Haruhi found out about Kyon and Mikuru's "secretly dating" behind her back, thanks to the bespectacled boy telling her about it. Kyon and Mikuru's "punishment" is not mentioned.
(Volume 6, The Melancholy of Asahina Mikuru)

February

February 3rd - Spring Setsubun

- Kyon tells Koizumi about having going back to restore the timeline. Koizumi surmises that they're now living in the "second version" of the timeline.

- Haruhi comes in and has the whole SOS Brigade celebrate the Spring Setsubun.

February 4th - 6th
- For days, Kyon notices Haruhi seems extraordinarily quiet. Little did he know that Haruhi was planning on something surprising for him.

February 7th (Monday)
- After school, Kyon arrives first in the SOS Brigade room at around 3:45PM. In the closet he finds Mikuru hiding inside. This Mikuru pulls him into the closet, in which time, another Mikuru enters and begins changing into her maid costume. It is now that Kyon realizes that this Mikuru inside the closet (called Mikuru-2 here) is from another timeline.

- With help from Yuki, Kyon and Mikuru-2 managed to escape from the SOS Brigade room without being seen. Once they reached Kyon's place, Mikuru-2 explains that she was sent 8 days from the present (February 15th, 4:15PM) by none other than Kyon himself. She also says she doesn't know why she was asked to travel to the past, only that the present Kyon would handle everything. Of course, the present Kyon doesn't have a clue.

- Without going into too much detail, Mikuru-2 reveals to Kyon about any clues of what to expect in the next few days, including a "treasure hunt" organized by Haruhi on Friday and two consecutive days of searches for mysterious events in town with the SOS Brigade.

- After making an excuse to Haruhi for being absent, Kyon brings Mikuru to stay with Yuki for the night. Yuki explains to Kyon about the Vast Quantum Cosmic Existence, the rival of the Integrated Data Sentient Entity. Also, for the first time, Yuki actually offers to make dinner. (Which turns out to be microwaved curry rice. )

February 8th (Tuesday)
- Kyon receives a letter in his school's shoe locker, which Kyon guessed to be from Mikuru (Big). In it were instructions asking Kyon to bring Mikuru-2 to a certain location.

- Haruhi continues to be as calm as ever. And so doesn't object to Kyon leaving early, much to Kyon's surprise.

- Kyon and Mikuru-2 arrive at the place mentioned in the letter, in which Kyon places a long nail on the ground and covers it with a tin can. They hide and wait for a few minutes. A man appears, looking frustrated, kicks the can and injures his foot as he kicked the nail as well. Feeling apologetic, Kyon and Mikuru-2 come out and escort the man onto a taxi to the hospital (without telling him that they were responsible for the prank, of course).

- Mikuru-2 says she feels uneasy staying with Yuki, so Kyon this time brings her to stay with Tsuruya-san instead, telling her that Mikuru-2 is Mikuru's long lost twin sister, Asahina Michiru. (From here on, Mikuru-2 will be called Michiru until she returns to her future. )

- Without even suspecting, Tsuruya-san instantly agrees. Tsuruya-san tells Kyon that she senses something "out of this world" about Haruhi and her SOS Brigade, Kyon offers to let Tsuruya join the SOS Brigade, but she decides to enjoy watching the show from the sidelines instead of getting involved.

- On his way out, Kyon runs into Koizumi, who also realized there are two Mikurus. He tells Kyon that it is good that "Michiru" is staying with Tsuruya-san, and also assures Kyon that as the Tsuruya clan is a benefactor of the "Organization", they would not harm Tsuruya-san or Michiru for no reason. He also gives Kyon a further insight about the various rival factions vying for power to get near Haruhi.

February 9th (Wednesday)
- Once again, Kyon receives another letter from Mikuru (Big) in his shoe locker. This time, it asks Kyon and Michiru to climb a hill and move a gourd-shaped rock 3 metres to the west.

- As Haruhi remained "sulky", she lets Kyon go again. Upon telling Michiru of the letter, Michiru guessed it's probably the Tsuruya clan's private hill where Haruhi's treasure hunt would take place.

- Kyon and Michiru climb the short hill and finally came upon the place where the gourd-shaped rock stands. Kyon proceeds to move the rock three metres to the west and leave it there.

- When they returned to Tsuruya-san's mansion, Tsuruya-san gives Kyon a treasure map she found in the storehouse, apparently drawn by her ancestor, Fusaemon Tsuruya, some 300 years ago. She asks Kyon to give it to Haruhi.

February 10th (Thursday)
- This time, Kyon receives 3 letters from Mikuru (Big), as this is the last school day which Kyon would have access to the shoe locker. (February 11th (Friday) is a public holiday in Japan, while the following Monday is a school designated holiday, according to Kyon. )

- The letters are numbered #3, #4 and #6. There are no instructions for either this day or the next, so #3 would be for February 12th (Saturday) and #4 would be for February 13th (Sunday). #6 is strictly for Kyon's eyes only and he cannot show it to Michiru for a very good reason. He guesses that letter #5 would appear when the time is right.

- Both #3 and #4 have very strange instructions, which neither Kyon nor Michiru understood the meaning of it.

- Haruhi told Kyon that Tsuruya-san called her as well and demanded the treasure map from him. Later that day, she gathers the SOS Brigade for a meeting and arranges for a treasure hunt in Tsuruya Hill (named as such by Kyon, as it didn't really have a name) the next day.

February 11th (Friday) - National Foundation Day
- Haruhi leads the SOS Brigade to Tsuruya Hill to begin their treasure hunt, using the treasure map Tsuruya-san gave her.

- As he had heard from Michiru, Kyon knows there's no treasure to be found and so expects nothing but having to work hard digging dirt with Koizumi.

- Haruhi finds the area with the gourd-shaped rock and has Kyon and Koizumi dig around. Though they found nothing in the end, Haruhi seemed pretty happy and decided to disband, asking everyone to gather the next morning for the SOS Brigade's regular "Search for Mysterious Events" hunt.

- Going home, Kyon realizes from Michiru's memories that both designated times in the instruction letters coincides with him being paired with Yuki during the mystery hunt. He decides to call Yuki, but finds Yuki's phone engaged.

- He tries again and goes through, asking Yuki to rig the pairing so he would be paired with her during those designated times. Feeling curious, he asks Yuki who it was she was talking to. Yuki said it was Haruhi that called her, but refuses to reveal anymore, since Haruhi told her not to. Kyon decides to let the matter rest.

February 12th (Saturday)
- In the morning, Kyon got paired with Koizumi. To Kyon's surprise, Koizumi actually didn't talk a lot for once and they simply took a stroll across town.

- After lunch, Kyon got paired with Yuki as expected. He brings Yuki to the library and asks her to wait there. There he meets Michiru, who was driven by Tsuruya-san's chauffeur direct from her mansion, under Kyon's request.

- Kyon and Michiru arrive at the designated location, as indicated by letter #3. The letter asks them to search for a memory-storage device hidden in a flower bed and mail it anonymously to a certain address.

- They search for half an hour but found nothing. A mysterious person shows up, holding the device in his hand, and mocks Kyon and Michiru for being slaves to the future. As he seems to know who Haruhi, Michiru and Yuki are, Kyon guesses that this "Sneering Bastard" must be from the future as well.

- "Sneering Bastard" tosses the device back to Kyon, saying his existence depends on this chip anyway, and that he's only here to make his introduction.

- Still rather shaken by the hostile encounter with Sneering Bastard, Kyon decides to ride a taxi with Michiru back to Tsuruya-san's mansion personally before rushing back to the library to pick Yuki up.

- Kyon asks Yuki to analyze the chip for him, to which Yuki explains it contains files which explains the basic theories of time travel.

- After Haruhi ends the days hunt, Kyon goes to the nearby pet store to buy a small turtle, required for the next day's instruction. He brings the turtle to Michiru for safe-keeping and asks her to bring it with her tomorrow to the designated spot. Once again, he asks Tsuruya-san to escort her there.

- Before going home, Kyon mails the device to the (unmentioned) address indicated by letter #3.

February 13th (Sunday)
- Once again, Kyon is paired with Yuki for the morning. He brings Yuki to the library and then goes off to the designated area by the river indicated by letter #4.

- He meets Michiru, who arrived safely there, bringing the small turtle with him.

- Letter #4 simply instructs them to throw the small turtle into the river. While hesitating to do so, Kyon and Michiru encounter the spectacled boy that Kyon has rescued a month ago.

- The boy wonders why Kyon would want to throw the turtle into the cold river, feeling sympathy for the turtle. Kyon suddenly had an idea, as he realizes while the letter asked him to drop the turtle, which he has to obey in order to preserve the timeline, it didn't specify what he would do to the turtle afterwards. So he drops the turtle into the slow moving river, but then picks it up and gives it to the boy, and asks the boy to take good care of it.

- After accomplishing their task, Kyon and Michiru go to wait for a taxi. At this moment, a black car slowly approaches, and in the blink of an eye, snatches Michiru away from under Kyon's nose.

- Feeling panicked, Kyon calls Haruhi without thinking and says "Asahina-san has been kidnapped". Of course, Haruhi thinks it's a silly joke as Mikuru was standing right next to her.

- Koizumi, who was also with Haruhi and Mikuru, realizes the gravity of the situation. He excuses himself and calls Kyon, telling him "reinforcements" are on their way.

- A few seconds later, a black taxi appears in front of Kyon. Inside was Mori and Arakawa from the "Organization". Mori asks Kyon to get in, and Arakawa the driver begins to pursue the black car.

- Mori explains to Kyon that the "Organization" has been aware that their rival esper organization has teamed up with "Sneering Bastard's" rival time travellers as well as the Canopy Domain. They expect them to kidnap Mikuru, but they have kidnapped Michiru instead. Kyon now realizes the whole purpose for Michiru to travel back in time was to protect Mikuru from being kidnapped in front of Haruhi's eyes, which would create unknown consequences.

- Eventually, the black car was cornered in a mountain road from two sides, one by Arakawa's black taxi, and the other side by a police car, driven by the Tamaru brothers from the Organization.

- The inhabitants of the black car, including Sneering Bastard and a girl in red who momentarily tries to flirt with Kyon, were forced to surrender. Mori demands that they leave Michiru in the car and walk down the mountain.

- Arakawa and Mori then escort Kyon and Michiru back to the library, where Yuki is seen holding letter #5, handed to her by Mikuru (big), who had visited earlier.

- Letter #5 tells Kyon that everything is now over, and that Michiru is to be sent back to the future at once. Kyon sets the destination for Michiru at February 15th 4:16PM.

- After calling it a day, Haruhi announces there will be another treasure hunt the next day at Tsuruya Hill again.

- That evening, Kyon decides to go to the bench in the park near the station, as indicated by letter #6, to meet Mikuru (Big), to which she explains the purpose of all this ordeal to Kyon.

- Mikuru (Big) revealed that the man who got his foot injured by Kyon's "prank" would meet his future wife in the hospital, or they would not have met otherwise. The significance of this meeting is only known to Mikuru (Big). She also explained to Kyon that the device he mailed would eventually be repaired, and someone would extract the information within, which would form the foundation for time travel technology. And finally, the spectacled boy they met earlier would remember the ripples created by the turtle that Kyon dropped into the water, and from these ripples, the boy would one day be inspired to formulate the basic theories of time travel.

February 14th (Monday) - Valentine's Day
- The SOS Brigade once again take the bus to Tsuruya Hill. Kyon notices that Haruhi looked rather sleepy.

- Upon coming to the gourd-shaped rock, Haruhi asks Kyon and Koizumi to begin digging there again. This time they found two tin boxes, and inside each box were three pieces of chocolate.

- Turns out Haruhi, Mikuru and Yuki has been spending the previous night making Valentine's Day chocolates for Kyon and Koizumi, and secretly burying it by the gourd-shaped rock beforehand. Kyon now understands why Haruhi has been so quiet lately, and why Yuki and Mikuru (as well as Michiru) have been so quiet about it.

- That night, Kyon calls Tsuruya-san to tell her that "Michiru" has decided to go home, and asks her to bring along Michiru's school uniform as Michiru had forgotten to pack. He also jokingly suggests Tsuruya-san to try digging three metres east of the gourd-shaped rock for any treasure.

February 15th (Tuesday)
- Tsuruya-san comes to visit Kyon, and to Kyon's surprise, Tsuruya-san actually found something at the spot where Kyon suggested her to dig. In it was some mysterious titanium-made device. Kyon urges Tsuruya-san not to tell Haruhi about this.

- After school, Haruhi has decided, to Kyon's dismay, to hold a contest to decide who would win Mikuru's hand made chocolate.

- Kyon had originally intended to quickly bring Mikuru and send her back 8 days to the past, so as the time approaches, he grows more anxious. Eventually, he asks Yuki to rig the result and have the winner declared in an instant.

- After the announcement of the winner, Kyon quickly grabs Mikuru, who was wearing a Miko costume, and takes her to the SOS Brigade room. He asks her to quickly change into her uniform, and then throws her into the locker and tells her to travel back in time to 8 days ago (February 7th) at once. He tells her his past self will take care of everything.

- 4:15PM Mikuru disappears and travels back to February 7th, 3:45PM.

- 4:16PM Mikuru (Michiru) returns, having arrived from the morning of February 13th.

(Volume 7)

March

March 3rd
The SOS Brigade held an unorthodox Hinamatsuri festival.
(Volume 7)

March 14th
White Day. Kyon and Koizumi had to come up with ways to return the chocolate favors they received from the SOS Brigade girls.
(Volume 7)

Mid-March
- The President of the Student Council and Koizumi come up with a plot to keep Haruhi occupied. Using the excuse that the Literature Club, whose club room is being occupied by the SOS Brigade, has not contributed anything to the school. The President threatens to abolish the Literature Club, confiscate their room, and in effect driving the SOS Brigade, a "non-existent" club, out of the club room. This is unless the Literature Club produces a magazine by the end of the school term.

Haruhi, in the name of the Literature Club, gladly accepts the "challenge", and proceeds to slave the rest of the brigade (and conscripting a few others as well) to writing their articles, ranging from "Fairytale", "Fantasy Horror", "Mystery" and "Romance". Eventually, after quite some hassle between Kyon and Haruhi, the publication of the magazine went through smoothly and the SOS Brigade was quietly allowed to continue its existence in the Literature Club room.
(Volume 8, Editor in Chief★Straight Ahead!)

- Sakanaka, a classmate of Kyon and Haruhi's, came to the SOS Brigade to help solve a "mystery". She claims to encounter strange occurrences while walking her dog. The SOS Brigade went to investigate the site of where Sakanaka walked her dog but could not find anything.

- A few days later, Sakanaka's dog fell to an unknown illness, causing a distraught Sakanaka to find Haruhi for help again. Kyon hears from Yuki that this is the work of another "sub-species" of Data Entities - the equivalent to "viruses" in organic beings. Under the guise of exorcism, Yuki proceeds to "heal" the puppies affected by the "virus", by using Shamisen as a medium to carry the "virus", as Yuki deems Shamisen would be least affected by it. Kyon wonders whether Shamisen has carried a "poltergeist" into his room.
(Volume 8, Wandering Shadow)

- Sometime before April, Sasaki, Kyon's classmate from junior high, was approached by Tachibana Kyoko from the rival esper organization, Fujiwara, the sneering time traveller, and Suou Kuyoh, the humanoid interface of the Canopy Domain, to assist them in approaching Kyon. (Volume 9)

April

- During the spring holidays, Haruhi, inspired by the success of the Literature Club magazine, decides to shoot a trailer for the sequel to her movie (just the trailer, though), and summons the SOS Brigade for shooting sessions. Fortunately for Kyon, this time the filming went through without much incident.

- On the last day of holidays, Haruhi decides to go to a flea market to see what stuff they can procure for the movie. On his way to the station, the SOS Brigade's usual meeting spot, Kyon meets up with his junior high friend Sasaki, who was on her way to cram school. Kyon decides to introduce her to Haruhi and the SOS Brigade, little does Kyon know that this action would bring unforseen consequences for the world.

- After parting ways with Sasaki, the trip to the flea market was without incident. However, for Koizumi and the "Organization", things were to become busy for them, for Sealed Dimensions were appearing at a frequent rate, though the "Shinjins" were quite docile compared to their destructive predecessors.

First Thursday of the new school term
- During club recruitment day, where the various clubs set up stalls to attract new members, the SOS Brigade set up their stall under the banner of the Literature Club, so as to prevent the Student Council from breathing down their necks. Kyon notices Koizumi looked exhausted, and learned that it was because Haruhi, despite still looking cheerful on the outside, was being jealous of Sasaki, whom Kyon knew before.

Friday
- Haruhi secretly prepares questions for her SOS Brigade Entrance Exam for new members. On the same day, she also declares the next day to be another "Search for Mysterious Events" hunt for the SOS Brigade.

Saturday

- Kyon awakes early, and for the second time, he arrived the earliest at the station. As he waits for the rest, he meets Sasaki once more. To Kyon's shock, Sasaki is with Tachibana Kyoko, whom Kyon remembers was involved in the kidnapping of Mikuru two months before, as well as Suou Kuyoh, a very quiet long-haired girl whose existence felt even weaker than that of Yuki.

- As Haruhi and the rest of the SOS Brigade arrived, Kyon notices Koizumi has entered into a smiling stand-off with Kyoko while Yuki and Kuyoh's silent stares at each other was deafening.

- After Sasaki and her group parted ways with the SOS Brigade, the mystery hunt proceeded without any results for the SOS Brigade.

- Later that night, as Kyon was taking a bath, he received a phone call...

From this point onwards, the timeline diverges into two parallel timelines: α and β.

Originally Posted by α

Saturday

- The phone call came from a girl whom Kyon has never heard of, yet this girl seems to know about Kyon, addressing Kyon as "Senpai", indicating that she's a first year. The girl said she merely called to hear his voice, and hopes he would take care of her. Before Kyon could ask further, she hangs up.

- Kyon then calls Koizumi to ask about Sasaki's new friends. Koizumi explains their origin while reassuring Kyon that he and Yuki will not allow any harm to come to the SOS Brigade, and besides, they have Haruhi as their ultimate trump card. Kyon decided if that's the case, then calling Yuki would not be necessary, and calls it a day.

Sunday
A very typical Sunday for Kyon passed by without incident.

Monday

- Kyon finds Haruhi looking exhausted, and discovers she's still busy looking for new members for the SOS Brigade.

- He spends lunch time in the Literature Club room, where Yuki explains about the Canopy Domain, and assures him that she'll protect everyone in the SOS Brigade from any attack made by them.

- After school, Haruhi gave Kyon a brief crash-course to prepare him for the upcoming Math test the following day in their classroom. Afterwards, they head to the club room, where they find the room stuffed with first year students.

- Kyon counted eleven first year students, seven guys and four girls. As he and Koizumi, under Haruhi's orders, went around to get extra chairs for the visitors, Kyon realizes there were now twelve first-years - there were now five girls. Kyon blames the miscount on his poor photographic memory.

- After getting rid of a guy for asking an "irrelevant" question, Haruhi begins her speech to the visitors, explaining what the SOS Brigade is all about, and then invites them to return the following day should they still be interested. All this time, Kyon notices one girl looking very enthusiastic with Haruhi's speech. Kyon wonders if anyone would still want to come the next day... Volume 9 ends

Volume 10 – Monday

-Kyon walks home after school. After the rest of the SOS Brigade went their separate ways, he begins to feel lonely. Nothing much happened that was worth writing about.

Tuesday
-On his way to school, Kyon runs into Koizumi, who tells him that the Closed Space occurances have slowed. They place a bet for drinks over how many first years return (Kyon-6, Koizumi-5).

-Kyon and Haruhi’s class have a math quiz. Kyon believes it was due to Haruhi’s tutoring that helped him perform well on the quiz. After school, Haruhi tutors Kyon in world history while they wait for the first years to assemble in the clubroom.

- Waiting in the clubroom were 6 first years (3 male, 3 female), Mikuru, Nagato, and Koizumi. Haruhi makes the first years take a written exam while Kyon, Mikuru, and Koizumi discuss the exam questions outside for half an hour. Upon returning, they saw Haruhi evaluating the exams while all the first years had left. Kyon and Koizumi play Uno while Nagato reads, Haruhi grades, and Mikuru prepares tea.

Wednesday

-Kyon arrives early to school while Haruhi just makes it in time. She had a feeling that she needed to cook something, so she made lunch. They talk about what to do next for the examinations and Kyon guesses exactly what Haruhi was thinking. After school, they end up talking instead of Haruhi tutoring Kyon.

-In the clubroom, there are 3 male and 2 female first year students. Haruhi declares that the final task is about to begin: a marathon.

-Outside, they commandeer the track from the track team and run until Haruhi declares it’s over. Koizumi mentions that there’s nothing strange about any of the remaining first years, although one is a big unusual. Only that single female first year student was able to keep up with Haruhi, so she declares that she can come back the next day. That first year’s name: Yasumi Watahashi, the one that called Kyon on Saturday evening.
(Volume 10 ends)

Thursday

-After school, Yasumi declares that she is now a member of the SOS Brigade.

-Haruhi asks Mikuru to begin instructing Yasumi how to make tea while Kyon and Koizumi play Chinese Checkers. Following her first cups of tea, Haruhi asks Yasumi to redesign the Brigade’s website. She finds the MIKURU folder and alerts Kyon. They decide to place a copy of the Computer Club’s updated The Day of Sagittarius V on the website.

-Once Kyon returns home, he finds Yasumi in his room. She came because she wanted to see his room.

Friday

-Yasumi leaves a letter in Kyon’s shoe box asking him to meet her in the clubroom at 6 PM.

-Kyon looks around for Yasumi during lunch. He meets Nagato in the clubroom and talks to her about Yasumi. Nagato cannot say anything about her at this time.

-That afternoon, Yasumi is not present in the clubroom, though she brought a new type of flower to the room.

-Kyon lies to the rest of the Brigade in order to head back to the clubroom. He meets Yasumi and then there is a knock on the door.

-The door opens and in walks Kyouko Tachibana, the mysterious time traveling bastard, and another Kyon. Yasumi brings the Kyons to touch and…

End α (Volume 11 – continues below)

Originally Posted by β

Saturday

- The phone call came from Sasaki, who invites him to meet with her the following day, together with her new acquaintances, for they wish to speak to him.

- Kyon then calls Koizumi to ask about Sasaki's new friends, as well as mentioning that he's going to meet them the next day. Koizumi explains their origin, and believes they wouldn't do anything to Kyon, so he does not oppose Kyon going.

- Kyon called Yuki as well to inform her about the meeting. Yuki too believes that the Canopy Domain, which Suoh Kuyoh represents, does not constitute a threat for the moment being. Afterwards, Kyon calls it a day.

Sunday

- On a rainy day, Kyon goes the usual coffee shop by the station that the SOS Brigade frequents to meet Sasaki and her new friends. After introducing themselves, Kyoko Tachibana, the girl in Red from the kidnapping incident, begins explaining their reason for meeting Kyon. As they believe Sasaki to be the true "god" of this world, they intend to replace Haruhi with Sasaki, and wishes for Kyon's assistance in "correcting" this phenomenon. Kyoko even gave Kyon a tour of the stable Sealed Dimensions created by Sasaki to demonstrate to Kyon that instead of putting up with the unstable Haruhi, the world can be much peaceful with Sasaki as "god"

- Neither Kyon nor Sasaki looked interested in Kyoko's proposal, and Fujiwara, the sneering time traveler ("Sneering Bastard"), and Kuyoh, the organic interface for the Sky Canopy Domain, were only lukewarm in their alliance with Kyoko's esper organization.

- Just as Kyon is about to give his answer, Kuyoh reacts vigorously as she comes into "direct contact" with another humanoid interface from the rival Integrated Data Entity - Kimidori Emiri, who happens to be working part-time as a waitress, by grabbing on Emiri's hand. Though Emiri seems not to be affected by it, and Kuyoh gradually retracts her hand. Kyon has no idea whether Emiri's presence is coincidental.

- As the meeting comes to an end, feeling dejected, Kyoko says she would give Kyon time to consider.

Monday

- While Haruhi was away as usual, Kyon spends his lunchtime with his usual mates Kunikida and Taniguchi. They went into a brief chat concerning Kyon's friendship with Sasaki.

- After school, Haruhi tells Kyon to head to the club room first as she has some matters to attend to. Kyon arrives to find that there was no one else in the room, not even Yuki.

- As he flicked through Yuki's book on the table, Mikuru arrives. Kyon uses this opportunity to ask about Fujiwara, and Mikuru is amazed that she was now able to utter terms that were "forbidden" before.

- Haruhi and Koizumi then arrived, with Haruhi declaring her reconnaissance trip to the Student Council a success, as she's still trying to recruit new members for the SOS Brigade.

- As things begin to settle down in the club room, with Haruhi working out her questions for the SOS Brigade Entrance Exam, Mikuru brewing tea, Kyon and Koizumi playing board games, they begin to realize something was wrong - Yuki was missing.

- Haruhi called Yuki on her cellphone and found out that Yuki has a fever. To Kyon and Koizumi, this means that the Canopy Domain has made their move and targeted Yuki, the SOS Brigade's most reliable defence, just as they have done in the snow mountain field trip back in December.

- Haruhi declares that the SOS Brigade is going to pay Yuki a visit at her apartment...Volume 9 ends

Volume 10 – Monday

-The SOS Brigade runs to Yuki’s apartment. She meets them at the door, but is quickly shushed into bed by Haruhi. Haruhi decides to make her a meal.

-After chatting with Yuki via his phone, Kyon runs out in order to confront Kuyoh, whose Sky Canopy Domain is causing Yuki’s illness. He meets her, but cannot move. Suddenly a knife is pointed at his throat by a resurrected Ryouko Asakura. She and Kuyoh have a brief battle until it is interrupted by Emiri Kimidori. Kuyoh escapes, Asakura disappears, and Kyon heads back to Yuki’s apartment.

-Kyon sets up a meeting with Sasaki’s group the next day.

Tuesday

-Haruhi arrives late to school after checking on Yuki and making breakfast for her. After Kyon tells her he has something to do, she excuses him and Koizumi from going to her apartment.

-At lunch, Koizumi finds Kyon and tells him Haruhi asked him to stay in the clubroom after school. He also admits that the Closed Spaces have been slowing down.

-After school, Kyon meets Sasaki et al at the café by the station. Kuyoh thanks Kyon for the day prior, Kyouko tells Kyon that Koizumi is the leader of “The Organization” and Fujiwara tells him the truth behind the TPDD. Negotations fail and Fujiwara and Kyouko leave. Kuyoh follows Kyon and Sasaki as they leave.

-Kyon, Sasaki, and Kuyoh run into Taniguchi and Kunikida. Taniguchi runs away while the remaining four talk about Kuyoh and Taniguchi’s relationship. Kuyoh confesses that she mistook him for Kyon.

Wednesday

-After school, Kyon and Koizumi play catch while they chat about Sasaki, Haruhi, and the events going on.

-Kyon meets Sasaki in his room. They talk about what the various factions have planned and what they can do. Sasaki says she same for a reason, but never mentions it.
(Volume 10 ends)

Thursday
-After parting with Haruhi when classes ended, Kyon talks with Taniguchi about his relationship with Kuyoh.

-He heads to the clubroom and meets a small girl wearing baggy clothes. She calls him “Senpai,” tells him they’ll meet again, and runs off. Inside the clubroom he notices a small vase that wasn’t there the day prior.

-That evening, Kyon gets a call from Sasaki. The next day will be the conclusion of events with their groups. She tells him that he will be the key to everything and asks him to decide between Haruhi and her.

Friday
-Kyon meets Sasaki, Kyouko Tachibana, and Fujiwara near the station after school. Kuyoh is not present, but Fujiwara assures Kyon that she’ll be there. They get into a cab and head to their destination: North High.

-At North High, Kyon, Kyouko, and Fujiwara walk forward and go into Closed Space. Sasaki is left behind.

-The three head to the SOS Brigade clubroom since it’s the place where multiple powers are converging. In there they find a small girl and another Kyon.

-The small girl pushes both Kyons together and…

End β (Volume 11 – continues below)

Friday – Reunited Timeline

-After merging together, Kyon realizes that Yasumi has disappeared. Fujiwara becomes angry. Outside both dark and creamed colored Closed Space is present. Kuyoh shows up in the clubroom.

-Koizumi comes in and brings the adult version of Mikuru along. He admits that he too met himself and merged.

-Remaining frustrated, Fujiwara begins shouting at Koizumi and Mikuru. He admits that his actions are to change space time so he doesn’t lose his older sister, Mikuru. Mikuru says that she does not have a younger brother in her timeline.

-Upset, Fujiwara tells Kuyoh to bring Haruhi to them. She summons Haruhi and suspends her in mid-air. Fujiwara tells Kyon that unless he transfers her powers to Sasaki, she’ll be dropped.

-Negotiations fail. Kuyoh drops Haruhi from the air. Kyon jumps outside to catch her and they are caught by a <Celestial>. Kyon begins to feel a floating sensation and then drops down into an unknown place.

-Before 8 PM, Kyon arrives on his bed from May. He takes a bath and goes to sleep.

Saturday

-Nothing of note happens.

Sunday

-Yuki and Koizumi visit Kyon’s house. Nagato has fully recovered and is no longer required to be used in talks with the Sky Canopy Domain. Kyon’s sister pulls her away to play games. Koizumi talks about how Kyouko was saddened, and the disappearance of Fujiwara and Kuyoh after Kyon’s fall. He admits that Yasumi was a younger version of Haruhi that her subconscious made.

Monday

-Upon reaching his desk, Haruhi tells Kyon that Yasumi had to leave the Brigade since she was still in middle school.

-After school, Kyon heads to purchase a present for Haruhi. He meets Sasaki by the station and they chat. She and Haruhi went to the same middle school, but she went to a different middle school and changed her last name due to family reasons. She went to his house on Wednesday to talk about someone confessing to her. They part ways.

Tuesday

-Kyon runs into Tsuruya and then Taniguchi and Kunikida on his way to school. While Taniguchi’s distracted, Kunikida admits that the reason he went to North High was because of Tsuruya.

-After classes ended, the SOS Brigade meet to discuss their plans for Tsuruya’s flower viewing party.
(Volume 11)

May
-Kyon lands on top of Haruhi’s bed from some time in the future. After waking her up, they hear a rock on the window. After opening the window, Koizumi throws Kyon a present.

-The Brigade meets in front of Haruhi’s house to celebrate the first anniversary of the formation of the SOS Brigade. While the card has everyone’s writing, Koizumi admits that Kyon picked out the present by himself.

-After Haruhi goes inside, Mikuru takes Kyon back to one month prior. Koizumi says that his future self advised them not to say what the present was.
(Volume 11)

Sometime in the future

-After floating from the <Celestial>, Kyon lands in the middle of a lawn. He meets an older version of Haruhi, who’s surprised to see him. Before they could talk much, Kyon begins to fade away. Haruhi sends him off with a brilliant smile.
(Volume 11)