The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya

The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya
The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya

The film's Japanese BD cover featuring, from left to right, Yuki Nagato, Kyon, and Haruhi Suzumiya.
Kanji 涼宮ハルヒの消失
Rōmaji Suzumiya Haruhi no Shōshitsu
Directed by Tatsuya Ishihara (chief)
Yasuhiro Takemoto
Produced by Atsushi Itō
Hideaki Hatta
Screenplay by Fumihiko Shimo
Story by Nagaru Tanigawa (novel)
Starring

Japanese version

Aya Hirano
Tomokazu Sugita
Minori Chihara
Yūko Gotō
Daisuke Ono
English version
Wendee Lee
Crispin Freeman
Michelle Ruff
Stephanie Sheh
Johnny Yong Bosch
Music by Satoru Kōsaki
Cinematography Ryūta Nakagami
Editing by Kengo Shigemura
Studio Kyoto Animation
Distributed by Kadokawa Shoten
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Bandai Entertainment
Manga Entertainment
Release date(s) February 6, 2010 (2010-02-06)
Running time 164 minutes
Country Japan
Language Japanese
Box office ¥1,038,000,000

The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya (涼宮ハルヒの消失 Suzumiya Haruhi no Shōshitsu?), or The Vanishment of Haruhi Suzumiya, is an animated film based on the fourth light novel of the Haruhi Suzumiya series of the same name, written by Nagaru Tanigawa. It is produced by Kyoto Animation and directed by Tatsuya Ishihara and Yasuhiro Takemoto. It was released in Japanese theaters on February 6, 2010 and on DVD and Blu-ray Disc on December 18, 2010. The film has been licensed by Bandai Entertainment in North America and Manga Entertainment in the UK.

Contents

Plot

Following on from the events of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya anime series, the story takes place from December 16 until December 24, a month after the cultural festival. The SOS Brigade, led by Haruhi Suzumiya, make plans to have a nabe party for Christmas. However, on the morning of December 18, Kyon arrives at school and finds out everything has changed. Haruhi and Itsuki Koizumi are missing, Ryoko Asakura has mysteriously returned, Mikuru Asahina does not recognize him and Yuki Nagato is an ordinary human. Only Kyon is aware that everything is different, as no one remembers anything about Haruhi or the SOS Brigade. The only clue Kyon manages to find is a bookmark left by the alien version of Yuki before everything was changed, telling him to gather 'keys' to run a program. While wondering about this clue, he gets to know the new Yuki, who appears to be quite fond of him. As December 20 comes, Kyon learns from Taniguchi that Haruhi was at another high school the whole time, along with Itsuki and others formerly from his school. By revealing his identity to her as 'John Smith' (his alias when he first traveled back in time and assisted a young Haruhi), Kyon manages to convince Haruhi to believe his story. With her assistance they gather the SOS Brigade together in the club room, thus bringing the keys necessary for a program built by alien Yuki.

Wanting to go back to his interesting life, Kyon activates the program and goes back in time to the Tanabata of three years ago. After meeting up with the future Mikuru, he obtains an uninstall program from the past's Yuki, which needs to be shot at the culprit right after the change in the early hours of December 18. Returning to the present, they find the culprit, Yuki, who had borrowed Haruhi's power to change everyone's memories except Kyon's, giving him the choice of which world he would rather live in. Kyon questions himself about his choice, and decides that his original world was more interesting and fun. Kyon tries to install the program into Yuki but is stabbed by Ryoko, who had retained her psychotic behavior. Before Ryoko can finish him off, he is rescued by future counterparts of Yuki, Mikuru and himself. He wakes up a few days later in a hospital, where the world is back to normal, but almost everyone believes Kyon had been in a coma since December 18 after having fallen down the stairs. When Yuki mentions to Kyon how the Data Integration Thought Entity would punish her for her actions, Kyon tells her to let them know that if they ever do, he can tell Haruhi about him being John Smith and have her alter reality so the Data Integration Thought Entity would cease to exist. As December 24 comes and his everyday life returns, Kyon stops by the SOS Brigade's clubroom as he smells a spicy fragrance coming from it, meaning that Haruhi and the others had already started working on the nabe. Convinced that there is still time until he has to go back in time to save himself, and restore the original world, he enters the room with a fresh smile on his face.

Production and release

On December 18, 2007, the official website of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya anime series, haruhi.tv, was replaced by a fake 404 error with five form input fields, a reference to the pivotal date in The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya, the fourth volume in the light novel series.[1] The story of The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya did not appear in the 2009 re-airing of the anime series The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, which included previously un-aired episodes adapted from the second, third and fifth novels. However, at the close of the 2009 season on October 8, 2009, a 30-second teaser trailer showing Yuki Nagato was aired, revealing that The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya would actually be a film,[2] set for a February 6, 2010 release.[3] A one-minute promotional video was released in December 2009.[4] The film was released on BD/DVD, in regular and limited editions on December 18, 2010 in Japan.[5][6]

The film has been licensed for North America distribution by Bandai Entertainment. English-subtitled screenings began running in San Francisco's Viz Theater from May 21, 2010, and were followed by a screening at the Laemmle's Sunset theater in Hollywood on June 24, 2010[7] and a theatrical run in Hawaii in June 2010 through Consolidated Theatres and Artisan Gateway as part of their Spotlight Asia Films program.[8] An English-language version has been co-produced by Bang Zoom! Entertainment and was released on DVD and Blu-ray Disc in North America on September 20, 2011. Manga Entertainment will release it in the UK on DVD on November 7, 2011, while the Blu-ray version has been delayed until February 20, 2012.[9][10][11][12][13][14][15] Madman Entertainment released the film on DVD and Blu-ray in Australia and New Zealand on November 16, 2011.[16][17] The film had its European premiere on October 17, 2010 at the Scotland Loves Anime event in Scotland.[18] Animax Asia will air the film.[19]

Music

The film's theme song is "Yasashii Bōkyaku" (優しい忘却?, "Tender Oblivion") by Minori Chihara, the single of which was released on February 24, 2010.[20] The opening theme is "Bōken Desho Desho?" by Aya Hirano. The film's original soundtrack was released on January 27, 2010.[21]

Reception

With the film's release on February 6, 2010 on 24 screens in Japan, it placed in the top 10 for Japanese box office sales in its first weekend,[22] and earned an estimated 200 million yen in its first week.[23] The film won the Best Theatrical Film award at the 2010 Animation Kobe Awards.[24] The BD version sold over 77,000 copies in its first week, topping the Oricon charts, while placing fourth in the DVD charts with 19,667 copies sold.[25] Minori Chihara won the Best Singing Award at the fifth annual Seiyu Awards held in 2011 in Tokyo for her performance of the "Yasashii Bōkyaku" ending theme song.[26]

See also

  • Japanese films of 2010
  • List of science-fiction films of the 2010s
  • List of comedy films of the 2010s
  • List of drama films
  • List of animated feature films
  • List of mystery films

References

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