Haruhi Suzumiya

Haruhi

**Haruhi Suzumiya** (**涼宮ハルヒ** *Suzumiya Haruhi*) is one of the *Tsundere* characters in The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya series.

## Appearance

Haruhi is a petite girl with an athletic but curvy figure. She has large breasts, a slim waist, and round hips. She has a pale skin tone, big brown eyes, and thick brown hair.

At the beginning of the series, her hair is long and reaches to about her waist. She always had different hairstyles every day.[1] 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. Many male students consider her attractive, including Kyon.

## Personality

Haruhi is driven primarily by her desire to live an extraordinary life. She enjoys being the center of attention, and her schemes often stem from her desire to increase the SOS Brigade's notoriety and her view that things that are out of the ordinary are fun. She has very little regard for what constitutes 'normal' behavior, and at times even purposely engages in deviant behavior in an effort to overcome a fit of boredom.

Haruhi is a blunt and bossy person, consistently expecting others to either obey or submit to her. Resistance, or performance which fails to meet her expectations (which are typically unreasonably high) spurs her to anger. She is bright, energetic, and athletic, excelling at both academics and athletics in school. She alternates between melancholy and incredible optimism, often unpredictably due to her hesitation to share her feelings with others.

Early in the series she can be insensitive and bullying, forcing Mikuru Asahina into costumes and activities that she is uncomfortable with, even over her anguished protests, and even hitting her on the head with a megaphone at one point. Later in the series she becomes more sympathetic to others and displays a strong sense of responsibility towards the well-being of the SOS Brigade members, acting as a benevolent queen-bee.

Haruhi is stubborn and doesn't like to admit her mistakes, sometimes blaming other people but usually just improvising with the situation while acting as if it were what she planned all along.
Her behavior was considered eccentric, and she had little interest in her classmates, at least until Kyon began providing an empathetic ear to her frustrations. After he gave her the idea to form the SOS Brigade, she became more mentally stable and gradually connected with schoolmates in club activities. First in Snow Mountain Syndrome and later in The Surprise of Haruhi Suzumiya, it is mentioned she is good at cooking. Haruhi reveals that the reason why she is good at cooking is due to her mother having "awful taste" and always measuring ingredients and spices by the eye, causing every meal she makes to "never taste quite the same each time". In primary school (elementary school) Haruhi attempted to cook on her own, found that she had somewhat of a natural talent for it, and insisted on cooking her own meals ever since.

Her mother's low cooking skills are also the reason why Haruhi never brings a lunchbox to school. This is all of the information Haruhi reveals (with reluctance) about her mother upon mentioning her for the first time other than saying "She works a lot, and so we help each other out."

Haruhi's personality may be described as overpowering. She has a knack for convincing others to do what she wants, whether by using charm, intimidation, blackmail, guile, or sheer charisma. She is admired at school for her beauty and talents, but people still tend to stay away from her because of her mean personality.

## Trivia

* A short profile found in the game "The Perplexity of Haruhi Suzumiya" affirms that Haruhi's birthday is on October 8th, her blood type is AB, and her weight is 44 kg. (97 lbs.).
* The Japanese school year begins around April 1st and ends in late March of the following year. Due to this, her birthday is only about five months after the Japanese school year first begins, meaning she'd age not long after the Japanese school year begins, as well as before the timeline point of The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya, which is winter (December), as October 8th occurs before December 18, the timeframe of the novel.
	+ Second-year high schoolers in Japan begin 11th grade at 16 and age to 17 when their birthday occurs. Later on in the series, Haruhi and Kyon are both second years, along with various other main characters in their grade.
	+ In The Surprise of Haruhi Suzumiya, she appears very briefly as a college student. Students in Japan begin their first year of college at 18 and age to 19 on their birthday.
* Both of Haruhi's voice actors play Konata in Lucky Star. Both characters share some traits. Konata even cosplays as Haruhi and makes numerous references to the Haruhi franchise. Both shows are produced by Kyoto Animation.
	+ Both Lee and Hirano used their Konata voices for the spin-off, The Melancholy of Haruhi-chan Suzumiya.
	+ Hazel Hernan, her Filipino voice actress, also voices Konata Izumi in the Filipino dub of Lucky Star. Both series aired on TV5 in 2009 and 2010.