Haruhi Suzumiya

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**Haruhi Suzumiya** is the title character and heroine of the Haruhi Suzumiya franchise (light novel series, TV anime, and manga). She also appears as the ultra director and a supporting ally in Trooper Village Stories.

In the Haruhi Suzumiya franchise (light novel series, TV anime, and manga), Haruhi is depicted as an eccentric and headstrong schoolgirl, who has a great disdain for anything that she views as normal or mundane, and is only interested in supernatural beings or mysterious occurrences. Her displeasure with the school's "normal" after-school clubs leads Haruhi to gather up several students (Kyon, Yuki Nagato, Mikuru Asahina, and Itsuki Koizumi) and found her own: the SOS Brigade, making them participate in activities whether they like it or not. Haruhi also, unknown to her, possesses unconscious god-like abilities to change, destroy, and reshape reality to her desires. The activities of the club and its members become increasingly involved with incidents caused by her abilities.

In the Kirby Bulborb Cinematic Universe, Haruhi is a peacekeeper and the younger sister of Asuka Langley Soryu, who often joins her and Kirby Bulborb on peacekeeping missions for those in need, and is also, alongside Asuka, the Queen of the Earth. She founded the SOS Brigade, a group of peacekeepers. Through their peacekeeping missions, Haruhi and Asuka became deities to the Pikmin. She is credited as the "Ultra Director" and as a scriptwriter in several episodes of Trooper Village Stories.

This page focuses on her Kirby Bulborb Cinematic Universe character. please see below for other versions of Haruhi.

## Appearance

Haruhi has a pale skin tone, big brown eyes, and brown hair. She is always seen wearing an orange-yellow ribbon in her hair. She is often seen in her school uniform along with an arm band that reads as brigade leader. Though the tallest of three SOS Brigade girls, she is fairly short, standing lower than most of her female classmates. At the beginning of the series, her hair is long and reaches to about her waist. She always had different hairstyles every day. However, after a talk with Kyon about her hair, she cuts it to just about her shoulders. After settling on a hairstyle, Haruhi is always seen wearing an orange-yellow headband with ribbons on the side, in her hair.

## Personality

Haruhi is a very intelligent, athletic, and competitive person who enjoys being the center of attention. She is naturally talented at nearly everything that she sets out to do, and accepts any challenge that catches her interest without hesitation, regardless of difficulty or time constraint. She gets bored easily and has a limited attention span, often changing her plans radically and without prior notice to any others involved. Despite her intelligence, her brashness leads to her making impulsive decisions, which contributes to much of the conflict in the series. She repeatedly demonstrates a lack of awareness or consideration for others, often blatantly violating social norms in service of her desires, or sometimes simply for lack of care. She puts up a front of coldness and indifference to anything that she considers normal and uninteresting, though this mask slips occasionally when she is around Kyon.

Haruhi is a blunt and bossy person, consistently expecting others to either obey or submit to her, setting absurd, highly specific, and often unreasonable standards for the completion of any task she sets them to. Though rude and disdainful towards Kyon, she often accepts and follows his reasoning even when it conflicts with her desires, such as forfeiting the baseball tournament in "The Boredom of Haruhi Suzumiya" and refraining from using embarrassing photos of Mikuru to promote the SOS Brigade in "The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya".

Although Haruhi would like supernatural phenomena to exist and many of her conscious efforts are devoted to discovering them, she maintains a normal skepticism in the supernatural. For example, although Haruhi attempts to contact aliens during the Tanabata holiday three years before the events of the series, she dismisses Kyon when he posits that the other members of the SOS Brigade (Yuki, Mikuru, and Itsuki) are supernatural creatures, stating that it is "too convenient" to be true.

Despite her selfish and callous attitude at the start of the series, she later becomes more sympathetic to others and displays a strong sense of responsibility towards the SOS Brigade members, such as when she gets up early on school days to care for Yuki when she is sick in *The Surprise of Haruhi Suzumiya*. Kyon increasingly turns to her as a confidant, even discussing the supernatural problems faced by the SOS Brigade in "Snowy Mountain Syndrome" and *The Surprise* under the veil of "family problems" and "study problems" respectively.

Though Haruhi shows little interest in romance throughout the series, she has prior to the story's events been in short relationships with multiple boys, all of whom she dumped as uninteresting. She is implied to be in love with Kyon, but is resistant to her feelings for him becoming known. When he catches her putting her cardigan on him to keep him warm in "Someday in the Rain", she is mortified, and in *The Intrigues of Haruhi Suzumiya*, after preparing for him an elaborate treasure hunt with Valentine's chocolates made by the three SOS Brigade girls, she warns him not to tell anyone about it since it would "start rumors".

## History

### Backstory

    Haruhi Suzumiya was born on October 8th 2002, the younger sister of Asuka Langley Soryu. When she was young, she developed a fascination with supernatural beings or mysterious occurrences. She also found out she has god-like abilities to change, destroy, and reshape reality to her desires, but decided to not go overboard with these powers to prevent the universe from potentially being destroyed. Nevertheless, Haruhi became viewed as a deity on Earth, with the Pikmin serving under her and Asuka.

### Trooper Village Stories

Haruhi founded the SOS Brigade, a group of peacekeepers that consisted of herself, Asuka, Kirby Bulborb, Mayor Reginald Bulborb and Doc Kermit Frogglegg. Alongside her sister, Haruhi began going on peacekeeping missions for those in need. One of these missions involved her (alongside other peacekeepers such as her sister) going to Hocotate Freight after learning of their financial troubles. Through their peacekeeping missions, Haruhi and Asuka became deities to the Pikmin. She has also directed the majority of episodes, and is often credited as the "Ultra Director" in the ending credits. Haruhi became Kirby's sister-in-law after his marriage to Asuka.

## Other Universes

Aside from her existence in the Kirby Bulborb Cinematic Universe, there are multiple timelines in which Haruhi Suzumiya exists. There are also multiple timelines within the Haruhi Suzumiya franchise with different variants of Haruhi herself; for more info on Haruhi's various appearances in media within the Haruhi Suzumiya franchise, please refer to her Haruhi Suzumiya Wiki article.

### The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya

While little is revealed about Haruhi's origins or her family, she cites a revelatory incident in her childhood when she attended a baseball game with her family. Before the event, Haruhi tended to think of herself and her life as being special and interesting, but the sheer number of people packed into the stadium (and her later calculations that this only represented a small fraction of the population of Japan) caused her to come to the conclusion that the events of her life likely fit into the normal, everyday occurrences and habits of Japanese citizens and humans in general.

Her belief that there had to be at least one person in the world who lived a truly interesting and unique life, and her desire to be that person, led her to begin a search for the extraordinary. Throughout middle school she gained a reputation as an eccentric, for incidents including painting hieroglyphs on the school grounds, moving all of the school's desks out into the hallways, and going out with and then dumping every boy who asked her out. Haruhi attracted the most attention by drawing a huge graffiti mural on the field at school of the night of Tanabata, which was reported in the newspaper. It is later revealed that Kyon was the one who drew the mural under Haruhi's orders after he and Mikuru traveled back in time. Using the alias "John Smith", Kyon implied that there were strange things out there and that there might be interesting people at North High, which inspired Haruhi to attend the school.

Haruhi's entrance into high school is marked by her meeting her fellow student and series protagonist, Kyon, the first person to seriously engage her in conversation related to her interests. He inspires Haruhi to, in despair over the lack of interesting school clubs, create her own: the ***S**ave the World by **O**verloading It with Fun Haruhi **S**uzumiya Brigade* (in the English translation of the anime, "***S**preading Excitement All **O**ver the World with Haruhi **S**uzumiya Brigade*") or the SOS Brigade.

### The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya

Haruhi appears prominently in the film alongside her alternate reality counterpart, who has no powers to alter reality and is a normal high school girl who attends Kouyouen Academy with Itsuki Koizumi. However, after Kyon informed her about an incident involving painting hieroglyphs on the school grounds and revealed himself to be "John Smith", the alternate reality version of Haruhi helped him restore the former world. When the former world is restored, the main reality Haruhi does Christmas-themed activities in the SOS Brigade.

### The Disappearance of Nagato Yuki-chan

Haruhi is an important character in the spin-off series. She retains her goal of finding aliens, time travelers and espers, as well as her energetic and eccentric character. However, she is much more open about her feelings for Kyon; she takes him out on a date in "Be My Valentine", and in "Her Melancholy", when asked if she is in love with Kyon, she gives a neutral answer.

## Trivia

* In her first appearance in Trooper Village Stories, Haruhi is credited as the "Queen of the Earth" and the "Ultra Director" of the series.
* Footage of Haruhi dancing in the "Hare Hare Yukai" music video was used in the Trooper Village Stories episode "The Big Poko Debt: Presidential Tomfoolery”.