Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuuutsu

Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuuutsu
涼宮春日の憂鬱

Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuuutsu is a Japanese light novel and makes into animate. I want to introduce of the light novel here. The light novel is a new style of Japanese literature. It basically is the same with the novel but easier to read. The art form of literature is less than traditional literature, mostly base on dialog and focus on story and characters. It is almost a fan base style novel and can be written with lots of series. (Some of the light novels have over 20 episode.)

Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuuutsu one of the earliest and successful light novel, who win the champion of Kono Light Novel ga Sugoi! (My translation: This light novel is great!) The story is about a girl named Suzumiya. She is the god of the world (debatable).  She has the ability to create and change the world, however, she doesn't realize it. Together with her, Kyon the narrator is going to experience an extraordinary life of science, superpower and alien.

My first touch with this work is on media of animation. Kyoto studio makes an excellent advancement on this works. With the excellent quality of animation and music, the work looks absolutely great. But this is not it, they make the dance in one of the episodes become a famous activity in Japna. Just like the Harlem Shakes, it is that famous in Japan. Then in the second season, they made one of the episodes repeat about 8 times. They remake the animation each time, however, the story is basically the same. The purpose is just to say time is repeating! Anyways, this animation becomes so famous in Japan and I also get the chance to know it.

What makes me get in love with this work is just because of the characters. Like I mentioned above, light novel is base on characters and dialog. This animation had an excellent characters design and dialog. The characters are the style of this works, which is how I would like to describe it. It influent to the latter works of Japanese animation of character design, then somehow become like a template. Which is maybe a bad thing I would say. Bad or not, the work of Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuuutsu is fascinating and original. The story pushes the characters and the characters push back the story. Even though there is not much huge conflict happen in the story, just sees the life of those characters is just great enough. And just when everyone thinks this is it, a few years later come the movie of The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya (涼宮ハルヒの消失) push the works to the classic in the history of animate.