The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya:
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In this novel, the story takes place from December 17 until December 24 a month after the cultural festival. On December 17, everything is normal—the SOS Brigade plans to have a nabe party for Christmas. However on December 18, Kyon arrives at school to find everything has changed—Haruhi Suzumiya is missing, and Ryoko Asakura is a normal student. Kyon is the only one who notices anything different. Nagato is an ordinary human, and Mikuru does not recognize him. The only clue is a bookmark left …

The third volume of the Haruhi Suzumiya novels actually contains four separate stories: The Boredom of Suzumiya Haruhi, Bamboo Leaf Rhapsody, Mystérique Sign, Lone Island Syndrom.
Prologue (translated by Baka-Tsuki)
The SOS Brigade enters a baseball tournament in chapter one. The second chapter starts on July 7. Haruhi, during the SOS Brigade’s standard after-school meeting, tells everyone to write down wishes for the Tanabata festival. After the meeting concludes, Mikuru takes Kyon back in time, to the Tanabata festival three years ago. He meets Haruhi in 7th Grade, and is coerced into …

This is the second volume of the Haruhi Suzumiya light novels. Credit for the translation goes to Baka Tsuki.  As you can tell by the title, Haruhi is bored, so it’s naturally time to do something crazy.  The second volume covers the events of the filming of Haruhi’s movie for the school cultural festival.  The first season of the Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya anime did not show these events in any episodes, but we saw the product of Haruhi’s crazy movie making skills in “the Adventures of Mikuru Asahina …

It’s a shame that they did not release the translated versions of the Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya light novels along with the anime DVDs in North America (EDIT: Haruhi Suzumiya light novels are available in English as of 2009) . The author of the series, Nagaru Tanigawa , is a great writer and deserves to have his work available to fans of Haruhi who unfortunately don’t know Japanese. The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya was not Tanigawa-sensei’s first book, but is by far his most popular series. It was …