The Astonishment of Suzumiya Haruhi
By: Nagaru Tanigawa / Illustrations: Noizi Ito
Translation by cnet128
The Story So Far
Suzumiya Haruhi: beautiful, intelligent, and incredibly athletic. Yet her words and actions are
outrageous and unpredictable, and her audacity knows no bounds. On a whim, she creates the
"Sowing Seeds of Excitement in an Ordinary World Suzumiya Haruhi Brigade", or "SOS Brigade"
for short.
As for the individuals unlucky enough to be driven to exhaustion day after day by Haruhi as
members of this Brigade, we have an alien, a time-traveller, an esper... basically, a collection of
abnormals. It seems that their true objective is to secretly observe Haruhi, who possesses the
potential to alter reality. Unaware of any of this, Haruhi lives out her days doing whatever the hell
she wants.
And then on the final day of the Spring holidays, with one school year over and another about to
begin, the SOS Brigade members run into an old friend of Kyon's: Sasaki. As though trying to
rekindle their old friendship, Sasaki starts getting in touch with Kyon out of the blue, but for some
reason she turns out to be surrounded by a collection of mysterious individuals best identified as a
"fake SOS Brigade".
Meanwhile, back at school, Haruhi is getting excited by the appearance of prospective new
Brigade members. And so things were already exhausting enough before one day, Nagato failed to
turn up to school.
Nagato? Ill?! Unsure how to react to this unprecedented situation, the SOS Brigade hastily
followed Haruhi to Nagato's apartment...
Characters
Suzumiya Haruhi: Chief of the SOS Brigade. Convinced that the world can't possibly be this
boring, she spends her days searching for mysterious incidents. Unbeknownst to her, she may hold
the biggest secret of all...
Kyon: An ordinary, average high-school student who happened to catch Haruhi's attention for
whatever reason, and ended up forming the SOS Brigade by her side. The primary victim of
Haruhi's wild activities.
Asahina Mikuru: A time-traveller, forcibly inducted into the SOS Brigade by Haruhi as a "mascot
character". Big-breasted, loli-faced, and a pleasure to be around. Now that's what I call "high-spec".
Nagato Yuki: A girl of few words who happened to be resident in the Literature Club room when it
was commandeered by the SOS Brigade. A Humanoid Interface created by the Data Integration
Consciousness.
Koizumi Itsuki: An irritatingly cheerful esper, scouted out by Haruhi as a so-called "mysterious
transfer student". Any conversation with him ends up long and convoluted.
α-7
Today was Monday, first day of the school week, and although nothing out of the ordinary had
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