The volume includes two stories previously published in The Sneaker magazine, along with a new sequel
“Sneaker Bunko 35th Anniversary Festival!”Special provided more details about the new volume of Nagaru Tanigawa’s Haruhi Suzumiya light novel series on Sunday. This volume will contain two short stories previously published in Kadokawa’s The Sneaker magazine, along with a new sequel to those two stories.
©2007,2008,2009 谷川 流・いとうのいぢ/SOS団
The short story “Suzumiya Haruhi Gekijō: Fantasy-Hen” (Haruhi Suzumiya Theater: Fantasy Arc) appeared in the August 2004 issue of The Sneaker magazine. It begins when the SOS Brigade is seemingly 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. New upcoming volumes will add a new short story sequel to the previous stories.
Franchise illustrator Noizi Ito drew the illustration above, revealing the different world setting of the SOS Brigade encounter, to announce the new episode. Sunday’s stage event also announced that the “legendary” 2009 concert event “Suzumiya Haruhi no Gensō” will return after 15 years with cast and composer Satoru Kousaki.
©2007,2008,2009 谷川 流・いとうのいぢ/SOS団
Tanigawa and Ito published 11 novels for the original series from 2003-2011. This light novel series has over 20 million copies in print as of 2017. The Little publisher, Brown Books for Young Readers, and Yen Press released the entire series (at the time) in 10 volumes in period 2009-2013. The first 10 episodes are also available digitally in English.
Kadokawa published The Intuition of Haruhi Suzumiya (pictured right), another volume containing two previous short stories and one new short story, in November 2020, and Yen Press published the volume digitally in English. UK at the same time as the next print edition in June 2021.
The first season of the anime series The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya premiered in 2006 in a non-linear order and was rebroadcast in 2009 with new episodes and a new chronological order. Kyoto Animation animated the first and second seasons of the series. Bandai Entertainment previously held the license to both series, but Funimation re-released the anime in 2016.
The anime The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya premiered in 2010. Bandai Entertainment and later Funimation released the film on home video.
The novel has also inspired manga and spinoff manga. Some spin-off manga have also inspired anime works.
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