Haruhi Suzumiya (character)

Haruhi Suzumiya (Japanese涼宮 ハルヒ, Suzumiya Haruhi ) is one devised by Nagaru Tanigawa and Noizi Ito -drawn figure. She became known internationally as the main character of Light Novel series Suzumiya Haruhi no Yūutsu, the eponymous manga series, the anime television series The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya and several singles who set several new records.

Formation

Your first appearance in the Haruhi light novel Suzumiya Haruhi no Yūutsu, published on 6 June 2003. A central figure of the book series she is supposed to be the author Nagaru Tanigawa invaded a sleepless night, the beginning of the 21st century. Their appearance, however, was designed by the illustrator of the Light Novels Noizi Ito. When the book series was adapted by Kyoto Animation in 2006 as an anime television series, her appearance continued to develop under the influence of Shoko Ikeda. They retained their essential characteristics and there were only a few details and the body proportions changed slightly.

Position in the works

In the works Haruhi is presented as a freshly trained student of the northern Upper School of Nishinomiya. It has the ability to shape the world according to their thoughts. From this " divine gift " but they know nothing. Nevertheless, their state of mind and their desires act again and again with the real world. Your unstable personality created a parallel universe in the case of boredom or general dissatisfaction. In this the Shinjin (神 人, dt " divine person " ) emerge, which could destroy the parallel world, but also consider the real world affected.

Personality

In the book series, her personality is described as eccentric and unpredictable. Driven by the goal of discovering new phenomena, they developed new ideas, a strong sense of joy with concomitant enthusiasm that they can not be afraid to use the people around them ruthlessly for their own purposes. So they commanded happy around her friends and puts her " favorite victim" Mikuru against their will for advertising purposes and countless vulgarities, assume the partial forms of abuse or even rape.

Despite their general refusal of ordinary people and everyday things she is interested in Kyon. At a later stage of this action is justified with a time travel Kyons in their past. Many of the viewers saw it as an incipient romance and suspect character development in terms of a tsundere, since Kyon would not correspond to a normal person its scheme.

The spokeswoman Aya Hirano experienced original Haruhi described as " probably herausgehendsten off and strongest character that there has been in anime, " and that she was initially very difficult to imagine, to play the role of Haruhi Suzumiya. This assessment also corresponded to the voices of critics who saw a fictional character in Haruhi, who would settle only by her personality of other characters. Other characters would always refer back to elements like madness, hyperactivity or plain stupidity, while Haruhi simply has a particular view of the world, which manifests itself in audacity and ruthless implementation of their goals. Since Aya Hirano her character did not want to pose to terrifying, she played the role of Haruhi slightly different, as it is described in the light novel. So she added her cute character traits that do not occur in the original work.

Voice Actors

In the anime The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya Haruhi was played by the seiyū Aya Hirano. For this role, Aya Hirano received in 2007 the seiyū Award in the category Best Newcomer (female) along with Yui Kano. She has been selected as Best Actor (female) as also nominated twice for best musical performance.

In the German synchronization Haruhi was played by Oona Plany.

Success in the Japanese singles chart

Haruhi Suzumiya was represented with three singles in the Japanese charts. The single Suzumiya Haruhi no Tsumeawase where they Mikuru Asahina is collectively called as an interpreter, became the most successful seiyū single of all time. This was more than two years in the charts and reached the 5th place. Almost as successful was the single Hare Hare Yukai, together with Yuki Nagato and Mikuru Asahina, which held 92 weeks in the charts, and also reached the 5th place. The Character - single The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya Character Song Vol 1 Suzumiya Haruhi reached the 11th place.

Parodies

Numerous works alluded to Haruhi Suzumiya, such as Sayonara Zetsubo Sensei Seitokai no Ichizon or. In the latter series, among others, the use of their name alone was ironically named as the sole guarantee of good sales figures. But even self- parodies developed on the basis of character. Thus appeared the Haruhi presented in a chibi form and has been implemented as a web anime, which has seen more than 500,000 views per episode per week with Suzumiya Haruhi- chan no Yūutsu a manga series.

Haruhi Suzumiya as Werbefigur

→ See also: Suzumiya Haruhi no Yūutsu # exterior perception of the characters

Because of its reputation Haruhi was also frequently used as an advertising figure. Mainly various merchandise were bearing it as a motive. But even outside of Japan came Haruhi as an advertising medium to use, where they also frequently in cases of piracy played a role as one of the most famous anime characters. For example, prospectuses were offered to the Olympics in China, which presented a figure modeled after her. In Russia, she graced together with other figures, the packaging of chocolate bars or it was advertised with her ​​on billboards for the Taiwanese army.