List of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya episodes

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This article contains the complete listing of all 14 episodes of the 2006 Japanese animated television series The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya based on the series of light novels written by Nagaru Tanigawa and illustrated by Noizi Ito. The anime series was produced by Kyoto Animation and aired on a number of Japanese television networks. The first episode was aired on 2 April 2006, and the last episode was first aired 2 July 2006.

[edit] Anachronic episode numbering

The episodes of the anime were aired in an anachronic order. The earliest example of this is the fact that episode two is generally considered the real episode one. During the previews for the next episode, the viewers are always given two different numbers for the following episode (except for episode number twelve), one number from Haruhi, who numbers the episodes according to where they actually fit chronologically in the plot, and one number from Kyon, who lists the episode numbers in the order in which they aired. Episode twelve happened to be both the twelfth episode aired and the twelfth episode chronologically; and particularly, Kyon mentions that fact during the preview to it. The standard edition DVD release uses "The Adventures of Mikuru Asahina" as the first episode, but otherwise follows the chronological order.

[edit] Episode list

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Note: A= episode number anachronically, C= episode number chronologically, D= DVD episode order

Title / Original airdate A C D
"The Adventures of Mikuru Asahina Episode 00"
"Asahina Mikuru no Bōken Episode 00" (朝比奈ミクルの冒険Episode00)
2006-04-02
The SOS Brigade previews their movie of questionable quality. In the movie, Mikuru stars as a time-travelling waitress from the future who must engage in fights with Yuki, who is playing an alien-magician. Mikuru has sworn to protect a young man, played by Itsuki, but before long a love-triangle ensues with both Mikuru and Yuki vying for Itsuki's affections. Kyon is the camera man and narrator of the movie, while Haruhi is the director.
01 11 01
"The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya Part 1"
"Suzumiya Haruhi no Yūutsu I" (涼宮ハルヒの憂鬱I)
2006-04-09
Kyon enters high school as a first year student and meets a strange girl by the name of Haruhi Suzumiya who sits behind him in class. During her class introduction, she states that she has no time for normal humans and for any time-travelers, aliens, or espers to come and join her. Interested to know more about her, Kyon becomes the first to talk normally with Haruhi which eventually leads Haruhi to form the SOS Brigade partically due to Kyon sparking the idea within her.
02 01 02
"The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya Part 2"
"Suzumiya Haruhi no Yūutsu II" (涼宮ハルヒの憂鬱II)
2006-04-16
Haruhi starts the SOS Brigade with four members: Kyon, Yuki Nagato, Mikuru Asahina, and herself. Haruhi begins to improve the clubroom's appearance but still feels that it is missing something &mash; a computer. Going next door to the Computer Society's clubroom, Haruhi manages to obtain a computer through dubious means and begins. She enlists the help of Mikuru to help promote the SOS Brigade by dressing up as bunny girls and handing out flyers. Later, Yuki invites Kyon to her apartment, where she begins to unveil a secret about Haruhi and herself.
03 02 03
"The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya Part 3"
"Suzumiya Haruhi no Yūutsu III" (涼宮ハルヒの憂鬱III)
2006-04-30
Yuki completes her explanation of the Integrated Thought Entity and how it relates to herself and to Haruhi Suuzmiya. Kyon, while simply trying to understand all of what Yuki had told him, was initially skeptical of her story due to her showing no proof that anything she said was true. The SOS Brigade gets a new member — a mysterious transfer student by the name of Itsuki Koizumi. On a day off from school, the SOS Brigade searches the city in groups to try to investigate mysteries, during which Mikuru reveals to Kyon the existence of the time-travelers. Kyon later confronts Itsuki and learns of The Agency from him.
05 03 04
"The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya Part 4"
"Suzumiya Haruhi no Yūutsu IV" (涼宮ハルヒの憂鬱IV)
2006-06-04
Haruhi is visiably bored and is not her usual energetic self. Ryoko is concerned about her well-being and tries to confront Kyon about finding some way to help her. After recieving an anonymous letter in his shoe locker, Kyon is asked to meet after school in an empty classroom with the one who wrote the note. He finds Ryoko there, who quickly changes in personality and is determined to kill him. Just when all looks hopeless, Yuki interfers and stops her in time. Later, Kyon receives another letter, this time from Mikuru, but then discovers that a far-future Mikuru wrote the note. She wanted to meet with Kyon to give him a clue that he would need for the future: Snow White.
10 04 05
"The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya Part 5"
"Suzumiya Haruhi no Yūutsu V" (涼宮ハルヒの憂鬱Ⅴ)
2006-06-25
Haruhi enlists the help of Kyon to attempt to investigate what happened to Ryoko as Haruhi believes it strange that she would transfer out of school so quickly and without notice. After not finding out much, Haruhi tells Kyon about why she changed her personality in junior high school and why she started to do odd things. Later that day, Itsuki tells Kyon his organization's theories about Haruhi, and shows him some of his powers within a sealed reality.
13 05 06
"The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya Part 6"
"Suzumiya Haruhi no Yūutsu VI" (涼宮ハルヒの憂鬱Ⅵ)
2006-07-02
Haruhi becomes more frustrated and jealous of Mikuru and her friendly relationship with Kyon. One night, Haruhi's power is activated without her knowing. Haruhi and Kyon become trapped in a sealed reality at school where initially all is calm. Before long, a blue giant appears and begins to destroy the school and the surrounding area. After more appear and wreak havoc, Kyon and Haruhi begin to run for cover, but are almost out of time. Finally, Kyon uses the hints Yuki and Mikuru gave him beforehand to solve the situation.
14 06 07
"The Boredom of Haruhi Suzumiya"
"Suzumiya Haruhi no Taikutsu" (涼宮ハルヒの退屈)
2006-04-23
Haruhi has once again become bored and in an effort to alleviate some of this stagnation, Haruhi enters the SOS Brigade into a baseball tournament. Kyon points out that they do not have enough team members to play which eventually leads to friends of Brigade members to join in, such as Tsuruya, Taniguchi, Kunikida, and even Kyon's Little Sister. When the first game of the tournament begins, it quickly becomes apparent that Haruhi team are the vast underdogs and more than likely will lose. Itsuki informs Kyon that if they lose, the world may be destroyed, which leads Yuki to make some alterations to a bat.
04 07 08
"Mysterique Sign"
"Misuterikku Sain" (ミステリックサイン)
2006-05-14
The SOS Brigade's website is started, though the only progress so far with it has been posting a poorly-drawn SOS Brigade logo by Haruhi on the homepage. Coincidentally, the SOS Brigade gets their first case after the website goes up — they are to find the missing Computer Research Society President. Upon going to his apartment, they find that he is not there, and nothing seems too out of the ordinary on the surface. After the Brigade leaves, the members regroup with Haruhi knowing at the apartment where they find that Haruhi's SOS Brigade logo and a Data Entity are behind the disappearance.
07 08 09
"Remote Island Syndrome Part 1"
"Kotō Shōkōgun (Zenpen)" (孤島症候群(前編))
2006-05-07
A "distant relative" of Itsuki's allows the SOS Brigade, along with Kyon's Little Sister, to stay at his newly built island villa. On their first day there, they have fun on the beach, play games inside, and overall have a great time, but then a nasty storm hits, closing off the island with the rest of the world. The group attempts to have some fun inside until the storm passes, but then the owner of the villa goes missing. After breaking into his room, they stumble upon his dead body.
06 09 10
"Remote Island Syndrome Part 2"
"Kotō Shōkōgun (Kōhen)" (孤島症候群(後編))
2006-05-21
Haruhi and the SOS Brigade attempt to get to the bottom of the murder by trying to find clues. At first it seems that Yutaka, the owner's younger brother, is the culprit as he went missing right after the owner was murdered. Haruhi and Kyon head outside during the storm because Haruhi thought she saw someone out there, but find nothing. While drying off inside a cave, Haruhi comes to a startling conclusion about the murder. The episode parodies the Ace Attorney series, especially during the scene when the plan is revealed.
08 10 11
"Live Alive"
"Raibu Araibu" (ライブアライブ)
2006-06-18
It is the day of the school cultural festival and the entire school is showing off their projects. Mikuru and her class did a yakisoba café, Yuki attempted fortune telling, and Itsuki was in a play. While Kyon is ignoring the public premiere of the SOS Brigade's shockingly bad video and trying to enjoy the festival normally. During this time, Kyon walks in on the play Rozencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead. Kyon ends up going to the auditorium where bands are playing for the audience. At first the entertainment is nothing much and Kyon falls asleep. When he awakens, he sees that Haruhi has another surprise for the school as she walks on stage in a bunny girl costume while a guitar hands from her shoulders.
12 12 12
"The Day of Sagittarius"
"Iteza no Hi" (射手座の日)
2006-06-11
Hoping to reclaim the computer Haruhi extored from the Computer Research Society earlier in the year, the Society challenges the SOS Brigade to a computer game they created for the culteral festival entitled "The Day of Sagittarius III". The stakes of the match are as such: If the SOS Brigade wins, they receive five brand-new laptops; if the Society wins, then they get the computer back that Haruhi stole from them. Haruhi accepts their challenge, but soon finds out that playing the game is much harder than she thought.
11 13 13
"Someday in the Rain"
"Samudei in za Rein" (サムデイ イン ザ レイン)
2006-05-28
Today is a cold day in the latter part of the year, and the skies are overcast with a high chance of rain. Haruhi instructs Kyon to go pick up a heater from the owner of the store that sponsered the Brigade's movie. With Kyon gone, Haruhi is free to do what she wants with no objections; she starts with taking pictures of Mikuru in various costumes for the movie's DVD cover while Itsuki helps how he can; Yuki is left alone to read. After Kyon returns, he finds only Yuki in the clubroom and decides to wait for the others, but before long falls asleep. When he awakens, he finds Haruhi alone with him, waiting for him to wake up so they can leave. It has already started raining, so Haruhi borrows an umbrella from school for them to use.
09 14 14

[edit] References


Haruhi Suzumiya
v  d  e
Series: The Melancholy (book 1) | The Sigh (book 2) | The Boredom (book 3) | The Vanishment (book 4) | The Rashness (book 5) |
The Disturbance (book 6) | The Scheme (book 7) | The Anger (book 8) | The Dissociation (book 9) | The Surprise (book 10)
Characters: List of characters | Haruhi Suzumiya | Kyon | Yuki Nagato | Mikuru Asahina | Itsuki Koizumi
Lists: List of anime episodes | List of Haruhi Suzumiya albums | List of character song albums