The Novel and Manga of Haruhi Suzumiya
 

涼宮ハルヒ

Suzumiya Haruhi is originally a novel thats serialized in the seinen(young men's) novel magazine The Sneaker (the same magazine that serialized the seinen novel Trinity Blood).
For now there are 8 volumes released of this novel, here are the covers:

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The illustrator of the novel is Itou Noiji (the same illustrator of the seinen novel Shakugan no SHANA)

A manga based on the novel is serialized in the shounen manga magazine Shounen Ace.
There is 1 volume released of this manga, here are the covers:

http://img397.imageshack.us/img397/205/mangavol12mw.jpg

This manga has ended with one volume, read why on this page:
Suzumiya Haruhi anime thread.

Genre: Seinen, Comedy.

Volume 8 of the seinen novel will be released om 1/5/2006 (May 1st, 2006). --> cover of volume 8 got added above with the other covers of the novel.
A new Suzumiya Haruhi manga is currently serializing in Shounen Ace magazine and the first volume of it will be released on 26/4/2006.

Here is the first volume and the second volume of the new manga:

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An anime based on the novel started recently, site of the anime:
http://www.haruhi.tv/
http://lantis-net.com/haruhi/

And also the Suzumiya Haruhi anime thread.

Anyway this thread is for discussing the novel and manga of Suzumiya Haruhi.

Yay :) thanks Moe group for the first 7 volumes of the novel :)

what's going on? I see chapter 1-7 of manga available but earlier, there was a volume 1, i think, of manga also available. Both seemed real but very different art. what's up with that?

If you looked at the first page of the anime thread (also known as the peaceful times before the anime aired and brought with it a swarm of new fans), you'll know that there are two different manga adaptations for Suzumiya Haruhi.

The first manga adaptation, which serialized on the comic magazine Shonen Ace back in 2004, was drawn by Mizuno Makoto. Unfortunately, the manga was received poorly among the fans because both the drawing style and the storytelling were too different from the original novel. The manga was cancelled after only a single tankoubon release in September of 2004 (The cover is shown in Neosam's post above). For most people, this manga has been swept into kurorekishi (dark history). In other words, "it never existed".

The second (current) manga adaptation is drawn by Tsuganogaku, and began its serialization on Shonen Ace back in November of 2005, and is currently still ongoing. The first tankoubon (volume) of the manga is due to be released on April 26, 2006.

Basically, the manga has only recently started. While you may be able to find some material referring to an older manga, this "older manga" never actually existed. Anything you find that references it is just hearsay and lies... hearsay and lies.

If you were to look at this non-existant manga, you would see why it could not possibly exist (it was that bad, apparantly).

One thing to love about the novel is that you have to put in 3x the amount of narritive descriptions to captivate the audience, which means that Kyon gets quite a workout and subsequently his lines in the anime becomes that much stronger as he is both a narriator and an actor. We miss tidbits in the anime for obvious reasons... although not much since KyoAni handles the source material very well.

Good thing though is that the anime's character designs are so good that I don't see the 2 as seperate entities.

In fact I find the anime heightens certain details mentioned in passing in the novel... like Haruhi's mesmerizing hair toss and just like how the contrast between a Tomo-gag and a Osaka-gag which was achieved in the Azumanga anime added hilarilty some of the cuts from character to character (the hyper-genki Haruhi -> teary-eyed Mikuru -> 'why-am-i-here Kyon -> completely motionless Yuki) really heightened the disjointedness to even more humorous levels.

Is there any info about how many volume the novel will be?

does anyone know who the author is?

Nagaru Tanigawa

cheers. added.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mel...aruhi_Suzumiya

:)

hey, was Haruhi ever Serialized in Shounen Ace, the manga version?

That's what i got for the Wiki,

edit: oh hang on, you did mention it. in the first post. sorry. ;^^

oh but was the manga done by Kaoru Mori?

She's been listed as the mangaka for manga haruhi in wiki.

I got ahold of this volume recently and the first thing I noticed was the difference of art between this artist and Itou Noiji's art. Noiji's art is of course far better than the artist of the manga.
I wanted to talk about the content, but I'm unable to, since I don't understand a damn thing of what's written there, but I can say that it is interesting and funny just from looking at the drawings.

Since NoSanninWa didn't like the novel translation talks in the Q&A thread, I guess I'll post my reply here (I already typed it, might as well post it ^^; ).
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It's not that bad all the time though, I only listed a few that happened to be particularly woozy to demonstrate my point. If you have enough patience, it's not impossible.

"次元振動周期を位相変換し重力波に置き換える作用を持つ力場を体表面に発生させた"
"I have caused a force field to occur on the surface of her body that carrys the effect of converting the phase of dimensional oscillication cycles and altering them into gravitational waves "

Oh yeah, I should probably hold back on typing Japanese in my posts here, apparently, I'm getting flamed on 2ch (of all places) for being some kind of elitist or something, ouch. :heh:

I am soo tempted to use that as a test for translator recruitment... Reminds me of crustol's old "kanji test."

Gimme a break.... on 2chan? (refrains from labeling)
eh.. as long as you translate or call it a test, I'm fine with it. Does that translate as "coverting" or "inverting"?

@NoSanninWa: apologies.. I hadn't even noticed we'd drifted off frequency in Q&A.

Gosh, I can't even remember what I posted now relating to translation ... guess it wasn't critical. Something about ordering the books and a reference to Dan Ackroyd-style amazing monologues ala Ghostbusters.

Really? How does that work?

You're work is awesome, like Kyon, and helpful, like Mikuru. Gotta love similies.

lololol.
well, if they got a problem with you on these forum boards, they should come here and complain.

who cares what they say.

your translating some holy Haruhi information for us, unlike them lot on 2ch. :rolleyes:

For that we thank you.

If that makes you elitist....well... Say your families are ninja's, then "Gaijin smash" them.

they will understand.

:D

It is very amusing that 2ch will even bother paying any attention to oversea board discussions such as this one and to go on and criticize on the subject matter. Moreover, why would they voice out such oppositions outside of the domain which the discussions are being hold?

At any rate, I am going to totally go off tangent but...

I have no idea, maybe its the "Haruhi effect"? :D

Either way its very strange, and absolutely unwarranted, I mean i might be a barbarian gaijin, but insulting any members on our forum for no reason means WA-! sorry, i meant it's very rude. We don't insult them for being selffish for not helping us fellow fans to share in the love that is Haruhi.

:rolleyes:

well, quite easily since...ah...well it's been posted in one of the spoiler, so i'll let you do the rest. lets just say that Yuki can't "supress" merely conceal the results. And she isn't the only one able to "clean up" after Haruhi. ;)