The first one, by Makoto Mizuno, ran from May to December 2004 and was considerably different from the light novels in its one published volume, having little input from the original author.
The second series, illustrated by Gaku Tsugano, started in November 2005 and currently ongoing. Though with a younger target audience than the original novels. On April 17, 2008 Yen Press announced that they had acquired the license for the North American release of the first four volumes of the second manga series, promising the manga would not be censored.[1]
The third adaptation, was an official parody four-panelcomic strip titled The Melancholy of Haruhi-chan Suzumiya by Puyo started serialization in Shōnen Ace on July 26, 2007 and in The Sneaker on August 30, 2007.
Yen Press licensed the Haruhi-chan manga series for an English release in North America[2] and released the first volume on October 26, 2010.[3]
Another manga, The Disappearance of Nagato Yuki chan (長門有希ちゃんの消失, Nagato Yuki-chan no Shōshitsu), also by Puyo, started serialization in Kadokawa Shoten's Young Ace in July 2009. It is set in the alternate timeline established in the fourth light novel, The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya, where Yuki Nagato is a shy schoolgirl as opposed to an alien.[4] The series has also been licensed in North America by Yen Press.[5]
A dōjinshi of note is the four-panel parody manga Nyorōn Churuya-san by Eretto (Utsura Uraraka). Starring a super deformed, smoked cheese-loving version of Tsuruya this manga was published in three volumes (released on August 2006, February 2007, and October 2007)[6] before beginning serialization in the magazine Comp Ace in November 2008.[7]
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Chapter 1 tells the story of how Kyon insipired Haruhi to create the SOS Brigade. Chapter 2 is about Nagato telling Kyon about her true identity and Haruhi getting a computer for the Brigade. Chapter 3 is about Kyon going with Mikuru to the city to look for strange beings, and Mikuru tells him her true identity and that Haruhi can destroy the world. Chapter 4 is about Kyon going back in time to meet a younger Haruhi, and lets her come to North High. Chapter 5 is about the Brigade playing baseball.
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A high school freshman known only as Kyon encounters a strange individual named Haruhi Suzumiya. Having been somewhat influenced by Kyon, Haruhi decides to set up the SOS Brigade, recruiting Yuki Nagato as a member. Kyon soon learns from Yuki that she is an alien in charge of monitoring Haruhi, who has god-like abilities to subconsciously affect the world. Another alien in Kyon's class, Ryoko Asakura, attempts to kill him to try and get a reaction from Haruhi, but Yuki stops her. Later, Haruhi recruits Mikuru Asahina, using her to blackmail a computer out of the computer club. As a transfer student named Itsuki Koizumi joins the club, Mikuru reveals to Kyon that she is a time traveller sent to monitor Haruhi, whilst Itsuki reveals himself to be an esper who reveres Haruhi as a god.
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Kyon meets an older Mikuru, who gives him some advice concerning a future dilemma. Later, Itsuki takes Kyon to a closed space, a realm subconsciously created by Haruhi, where he fights a large blue giant. As Haruhi becomes increasingly bored, she ends up pulling Kyon and herself inside one of these closed spaces. Using advice he had received from Yuki and the Future Mikuru, Kyon manages to break free from the closed space by kissing Haruhi.
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Haruhi enters the SOS Brigade into a baseball tournament, with the gang needing to use their unique powers to prevent Haruhi from becoming upset and creating closed space. Later, Mikuru invites Kyon to go shopping with her whilst trying to keep it a secret from Haruhi. On Tanabata, Mikuru takes Kyon three years into the past where he helps a young Haruhi draw weird lines inside a schoolyard, influencing her desire to seek out aliens, time travellers and espers.
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The SOS Brigade are tasked with seeking out the computer club president, who had gone missing due to a weird symbol on Haruhi's website. As Kyon visits his grandparents on holiday, he encounters a similar experience.
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As an activity-packed Summer incites a lot of deja-vu within Kyon, he soon learns that they have been repeating the last two weeks of Summer thousands of times due to Haruhi's desire to not let Summer end. Meanwhile, a cat named Shamisen makes observances on humans. During a sports festival at school, Haruhi's powers cause the teams to keep switching places, leaving the SOS Brigade to try and figure out what she desires. As the school festival approaches, Haruhi decides to make her own film.
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As the production on the SOS Brigade's movie continues, Haruhi's desire for an amazing effects causes real lasers and other bizarre effects to come into reality. Furthermore, Haruhi's shabby treatment of Mikuru enrages Kyon to the point that she almost hits her. Despite this, Kyon manages to put a stop to the crazy phenomenom by subtly reminding Haruhi that her movie is a work of fiction. The movie soon goes on show at the school culture festival, where Haruhi acts as a stand-in for a band's performance.
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In a last-ditch attempt to recover their stolen equipment, the Computer Research Society challenges the SOS Brigade to a space battle simulation game. The SOS Brigade start off at an advantage due to both their inexperience and the computer club's cheating, but with Nagato's help they manage to win. Later, Kyon wakes up one day to find his whole world has changed. Haruhi and Itsuki are missing, Ryoko has returned and Yuki is a normal, shy human being. The only clue reminding Kyon he hasn't gone crazy is a message from the original Yuki, telling him to gather a set of keys.
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As Kyon starts to get used to this new world, getting to know the new Yuki, he learns from Taniguchi that Haruhi had been at a different school the entire time. By introducing himself as "John Smith", the alias he used when he travelled back in time to assist the young Haruhi, Kyon manages to get Haruhi to believe his story. With her help, they manage to gather all the members of the SOS Brigade in the classroom, providing the keys necessary to activate a program from the original Yuki, offering him a way to fix things.
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Travelling back to the Tanabata of three years ago, Kyon teams up with future Mikuru and goes to see Yuki. There, Yuki explains that the culprit is none other than herself who, after accumulating a lot of stress over the years, used Haruhi's powers to rewrite history. Receiving an antidote to reverse the effects of Yuki's alteration, Kyon returns to the point right after everything changed to confront Yuki. Just then, he is suddenly stabbed by Ryoko but is rescued by future counterparts of Yuki, Mikuru and himself. Returning to his normal timeline, Kyon assures Yuki that if the Data Overmind do anything to harm her, he will reveal his hidden alias to Haruhi and use her powers to stop them.
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Kyon receives a phone call from his middle school classmate, Nakagawa, who has allegedly gained feelings for Yuki and asks him to hook them up. Later, the SOS Brigade go on a ski trip to celebrate New Year's, but find themselves caught up in a snowstorm. They eventually wind up in a strange mansion where the very concept of time is all over the place. Furthermore, they learn Yuki has been disconnected from the Data Over, and yet it is not believed to be Haruhi's doing.
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After confessing to Itsuki about how he has yet to go back in time and rescue himself, Kyon is curiously approached by a lustful Mikuru, although this turns out to be a fake. After discovering the others had similar visions, Yuki suddenly comes down with a fever. It is there that Kyon and Itsuki discover a strange door complete with a puzzle. With help from Yuki, Kyon and Itsuki manage to solve the puzzle and return to reality, where they decide to hold another murder mystery.
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Deciding not to put it off any longer, Kyon assembles Mikuru and Yuki together and travels back in time in order to rescue himself from Ryoko and put the timeline back on track. Later, Mikuru asks Kyon out to help her buy some tea leaves.
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After months of squatting in the Literature Club’s clubroom, the SOS Brigade puts pen to paper and starts writing some literature of their own! The Brigade has just one week to create a literature newsletter if they want to keep the Lit Club’s space from being reallocated by the student council. As each member prepares his or her contribution, Supreme Editor in Chief Haruhi keeps a watchful eye on her team, especially as Kyon’s assigned romance story unfolds!
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Yuki Nagato, the shy president of the literature club, has never been very sure of herself around other people. But around Kyon, the only boy in the tiny, three-person club, Yuki finds herself faltering even more than usual. For Kyon, and for her precious club, Yuki must find her confidence and let her true personality shine! Enjoy taking a fresh look at your favorite characters in this brand-new story set in the world of The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya!
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The casual, quiet literature club meetings are forever changed when Kyon and Yuki encounter a Kouyouen student collapsed in the street! The girl had been up all night trying to contact supernatural beings, but her chance meeting with these two North High students seems an equally good opportunity to break up the monotony of everyday life. Will Yuki make her voice and her feelings heard over the overwhelming presence of the new honorary lit club member—Haruhi Suzumiya?!