List of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya episodes

This is a list of anime series episodes of the 2006 Japanese animated television series "The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya" produced by the Japanese animation studio Kyoto Animation and directed by Tatsuya Ishihara. The series contains fourteen episodes which aired between April 2 and July 2 on a number of Japanese television networks, including but not limited to Chiba TV and TV Saitama. [citeweb|url=http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=6430|title=The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (TV)|publisher=Anime News Network|accessdate=2007-06-01] The anime is based on the "Haruhi Suzumiya" series of light novels written by Nagaru Tanigawa and illustrated by Noizi Ito, centering on the title character Haruhi Suzumiya, a young high school girl, and her strange antics with her friends in a club she formed called the SOS Brigade.

The episodes of the anime were aired in a nonlinear order: The prologue and seven chapters of the first novel, "The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya", are arranged into six episodes that were kept in order, but arranged in between these were episodes taken from chapters of some of the later novels. During the previews for the next episode, two different numbers for the following episode are given: one number from Haruhi, who numbers the episodes according to where they actually fit chronologically in the plot, and one number from Kyon, who numbers the episodes in the order in which they aired. The sole exception is episode twelve, which is both the twelfth episode aired and the twelfth episode chronologically, a fact Kyon mentions in the preview. [cite video|people=Kyon|title=The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya episode 12 preview|medium=Anime|publisher=Kyoto Animation|date=2006-06-18|language=Japanese] Both the Japanese and English standard edition DVD releases use "The Adventures of Mikuru Asahina Episode 00" as the first episode, but otherwise follow the chronological order. [citeweb|url=http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/review/the-melancholy-of-haruhi-suzumiya/dvd-1|title=English DVD 1 review|publisher=Anime News Network|date=2007-05-31|accessdate=2007-06-01] The episodes are distributed throughout the volumes as follows: episodes one through four in volume one, episodes five through eight in volume two, episodes nine through eleven in volume three, and episodes twelve through fourteen in volume four. [citeweb|url= http://asosbrigade.com/oplet01/|title=DVD Episode Order|publisher=ASOSBrigade|accessdate=2008-01-02] The title menu of the English standard edition DVD release lists the episodes starting with "00", such that the menu number is one less than the listed episode number. [cite video |people=Tatsuya Ishihara (Director) |title=The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya Volume 1 |format=DVD |medium=Anime |publisher=Bandai]

Episode list

"Note: B = episode number by broadcast order (nonlinear or "Kyon order"), C = episode number chronologically ("Haruhi order"), D = DVD episode order. Click the arrows next to the column headers to change the ordering of the list."

ee also

*List of "Hidamari Sketch" episodes — another anime series which aired in nonlinear order
*List of "Rental Magica" episodes — another anime series which aired in nonlinear order

References

*citeweb|url=http://www.haruhi.tv/activitylog.html|title=Official website with episode listings in broadcast order|accessdate=2007-02-27
*citeweb|url=http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=6430&page=25|title=Unofficial website with airdates and information on chronological order|publisher=Anime News Network|accessdate=2007-02-27
*citeweb|url=http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2007-02-28/the-melancholy-of-haruhi-suzumiya-to-get-broadcast-order-release|title=The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya to get Broadcast Order Release|publisher=Anime News Network|date=2007-02-28| accessdate=2007-02-28

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