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Nagaru Tanigawa

Nagaru Tanigawa is the author of the Haruhi Suzumiya series of light novels. He was born on December 19, 1970 and is a graduate of Kwansei Gakuin University law school. The first novel volume of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya was published on June 6, 2003 by Kadokawa Shoten. It gained notable attention when it won the grand prize at the eighth annual Sneaker Awards. Tanigawa has worked on other light novels over the years, but many have been on hiatus.
A list of his other literary works include:
The Guardian of my World (Boku no Sekai wo Mamoru Hito)
Let’s Leave the School (Gakkou wo Deyo!?)
Dengeki Aegis 5
The Closed Universe (Zetsubokei Tojirareta Sekai)

Tanigawa is also currently working on a manga called Kagerou Meikyu which has a few similar character archetypes to the Haruhi Suzumiya series.

Noizi Ito is the artist who has provided illustrations the Haruhi Suzumiya novels. Her work can also be seen for the Shakugan no Shana novel series, another light novel which has been adapted into an anime series. Gallery of Noizi Ito’s Haruhi Suzumiya artwork

13 Comments »

Juancmt27 said:

wow
the guy is really young!!
i thought that he was a bit older

# 13 September 2009 at 2:42 am

What the said:

Noizi ito LOOKED like a woman, seriously

# 17 October 2009 at 6:56 am

kyon (author) said:

… maybe because she is a WOMAN
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noizi_Ito

# 18 October 2009 at 12:19 am

S.O.S. Brigade Underling #1 said:

I thought he’s be around his late thirties, i guess that’s the best time to think up a character like Asahina…

# 16 November 2009 at 2:25 am

Haruhi Fan87 said:

Noizi ito…is a MAN? OMFG!

# 22 November 2009 at 6:14 pm

Carol said:

Noizi Ito is a WOMAN for goodness sake!!
She is a “SHE”, we use “HER”
How the hell could she be a GUY??
That’s probably just some stupid rumor -.-’

# 8 June 2010 at 4:01 pm

Classic Forever said:

Noizi Ito is also smokin’ hot seriously I would hit that like the mighty fist of Goddess Haruhi.

# 11 July 2010 at 6:19 pm

miLkee said:

ok…i thought noizi ito is a man but she’s mother F0king hot LADY!!~and 4 da writer he’s AWESOME!! but too skiny…r they going out?? [ just asking...]

# 6 December 2010 at 11:27 am

4nim3w4tch3r said:

oh! no wonder suzumiya looks kinda familliar when i first saw her, she looks close to shana because they were both illustrated by noizi ito!

# 22 December 2010 at 6:36 am

Zer09 said:

i think the real name of kyon is narumi tanigawa
look carefully… the face between kyon and narumi san is really similar…
i think kyon is narumi it self…

# 14 February 2011 at 4:27 pm