Planned for simultaneous worldwide release, it is currently unclear whether the release will include languages other than Japanese.
Image via X/Twitter of the Haruhi Suzumiya franchise account
© Nagaru Tanigawa, illustrated by Noizi Ito
The official X/Twitter account for Nagaru Tanigawa's Haruhi Suzumiya light novel series revealed on Saturday that the previously announced new volume in the series, titled Suzumiya Haruhi no Gekijō (Haruhi Suzumiya's Theater), will release on November 29 and will be released simultaneously worldwide. The announcement did not say whether the volume will be released in languages other than Japanese.
This volume will include two short stories previously published in Kadokawa's The Sneaker magazine, along with new sequels to those two stories.
“Suzumiya Haruhi Gekijō: Fantasy-Hen Short Story” (Haruhi Suzumiya Theater: Fantasy Arc) was serialized in the August 2004 issue of The Sneaker magazine. It begins when the SOS Brigade appears to be transported to a fantasy world. The story continues in different worlds through the sequel story “Kaete Kita Suzumiya Haruhi Gekijō” (The Return of Haruhi Suzumiya Theater) in the June 2006 issue of The Sneaker magazine. The upcoming new volume will add a new sequel short story to the previous stories.
Tanigawa and illustrator Noizi Ito published 11 novels for the original series from 2003–2011. The light novel series has over 20 million copies in print as of 2017. Young adult publisher The Little, Brown Books and Yen Press released the entire series (at the time) in 10 volumes between 2009–2013. The first 10 volumes are also available in English digitally.
Kadokawa published Haruhi Suzumiya's Intuition, another volume containing two previous short stories and one new short story, in November 2020, and Yen Press published the volume digitally in English at the same time as the subsequent print edition in June 2021.
The first season of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya anime premiered in 2006 in non-linear order and was re-aired in 2009 with new episodes and a new chronological order. Kyoto Animation animated the first and second seasons of the show. Bandai Entertainment previously held the license for both series, but Funimation re-released the anime in 2016.
The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya anime film premiered in 2010. Bandai Entertainment and later Funimation released the film on home video.
The novels have also inspired manga and spin-off manga. Some spin-off manga have also inspired anime works.
Source: X/Twitter of Haruhi Suzumiya brand account via Yaraon!
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