Haruhi Suzumiya (涼宮 ハルヒ, Suzumiya Haruhi?) is the title character of the Haruhi Suzumiya series, which includes two manga and an anime based on the original light novels. She is founder of, and recruiter for, the SOS Brigade and is responsible for organizing all of their activities which primarily consists of trying to find and have fun with aliens, time travelers, espers, and any other strange phenomena in the world. Inherently she has the power to change, destroy, or create a new reality based on her inner desires and feelings. Because of this ability she is the main focus of the Integrated Data Entity, the Agency, and an organization of future humans. She is voiced by Aya Hirano in the Japanese version, and by Wendee Lee in the English translation.
Background
Haruhi Suzumiya, a first year in high school, can be characterized as an eccentric, unpredictable, and unbelievable beauty. From afar she looks like a model high school student: smart, athletic, and showing natural talent in any extracurricular activity. She once joined and quit every activity club in her school, despite pleas by the members for her to stay, simply because she found them to be boring. Her musical talent was highlighted when she stood in as the emergency lead singer and guitarist, along with Yuki, for the band ENOZ during the school festival. However, the last thing on her mind is the trivials of a normal high school life. On the first day of class, she tells her classmates that the only things she is interested in are aliens, espers, time travelers, and sliders and cares not for 'ordinary' human beings. With a burning desire to find such phenomenon in the world, she became unapproachable and often cut off anyone whom she felt boring and uninteresting, which in her eyes was everyone. As a result of this, many classmates chose to avoid her. Kyon is the first character to engage her in serious conversation. From this encounter she gradually begins to soften up to others.
Her fascination and drive to find strange things in the world are a result of an eye-opening event from her childhood [1]. While attending a baseball game with her family, she was shocked to see the vast amount of people who had come to see the game. Before then she had often thought of herself and her life as being special and interesting, yet then came to realize that they were just ordinary normal occurrences and habits and that she is just one of many in all of Japan. Consequently, she believed then that there must be at least one person in the world who is leading an interesting and truly unique life and sought out to effectively be that person thus motivating her to seek out the extraordinary.
After this realization she became notorious in middle school for doing odd things which included painting strange hieroglyphs all over the school grounds using a chalk dispenser and placing talismans in the halls. Additionally, she accepted and rejected every guy who had ever asked her out, the longest lasting a week and the shortest being five minutes. She cares not for relationships unless the person, regardless of gender, is an alien, esper, or time traveler. This, however, is not to confuse her sexuality but just shows the depth of her interest in finding non-humans and strange phenomenon.
In actuality, Haruhi is believed to be either a crack in the space-time continuum, the first technological singularity to be spontaneously born in the universe or even God, depending who is asked. This belief stems from a massive spontaneous universal event that occurred three years prior, of which Haruhi is said to be the cause. The event attracted the attention of three prominent groups: the extraterrestrial Integrated Data Entity, time travelers from a distant future, and a group of espers.
Her powers which are capable of altering, creating, or destroying reality are triggered by her emotions and inner desires. It's been theorized by the espers that the current universe may be just one in a string that Haruhi had subconsciously created. In order to relieve stress whenever she becomes too emotionally unstable, patches of alternate dimension referred to as "closed space" are created and within resides gigantic blue entities that begin to destroy the surrounding area. Despite having these powers Haruhi is completely oblivious to them or the existence of aliens, time travelers, and espers.
[edit] Personality
At first, Haruhi seems very indifferent and cold but underneath that front she is very spontaneous, upbeat, and hyperactive. Her determination, persistence, and resourcefulness drive her endeavours of finding strange phenomenon and promoting the SOS Brigade. Because of her dedication, she becomes hot-headed when things don't go her way. Hand-in-hand with her cleverness and creativity she can often get what she wants, an example of such is when she blackmailed the Computer Society President into giving her a brand new computer for the SOS Brigade. She also has a tendency to be jealous and angry when Kyon gets too friendly with any girl. Evidently, the universe was almost destroyed and recreated when Haruhi's jealousy was pushed too far.
Haruhi also has a very competitive personality and accepts without hesitation any challenge that crosses her, regardless of difficulty or time constraint. Her constant optimism and over-confidence, as well, makes her rather arrogant. She has very high standards and won't accept anything less than perfection from herself and her Brigade. She places a lot of trust in her Brigade members, especially Kyon, to get the task done whatever it may be.
She isn't at all shy and often attracts a lot of attention, more so when her SOS Brigade is in mind. When it comes to Mikuru she is very physically playful. She often comments on Mikuru's attractiveness and seems to find a kind of enjoyment in exploiting it to her own ends, often through forcing Mikuru into and out of various costumes as if she were a human dress-up doll.
[edit] SOS Brigade role
Haruhi is the founder or "Brigade Chief" of the SOS, or Spreading Excitement All Over the World with the Haruhi Suzumiya, Brigade after Kyon coaxed her into making her own club since she couldn't find one that suited her. She made the group in order to find and have fun with aliens, espers, and time travelers. Her method of finding and recruiting members is to "volunteer arrest" them then force them to join.
The SOS Brigade is very precious to her and she has since stated to Kyon that she has no intention of yielding her position as Chief to anyone else. She will go to any lengths, even by exploiting the members, to bring attention and support for her Brigade such as procuring room and materials, maintaining their website, participating in sports tournaments, organizing activities such as city-wide searches for strange phenomenon among other things. She wrote, produced, and directed the Brigade's amateur-movie The Adventures of Mikuru Asahina for the school festival.
However, unbeknownst to her is the true purpose of the SOS Brigade which is to prevent Haruhi from boredom because doing so would bring about the end of the universe. Kyon also happens to be a very important person in her life. For whatever reason is unknown, Haruhi chose Kyon. This is first said by Yuki, then restated by Mikuru, and Itsuki as well. She often relies on and trusts Kyon with anything. He is the only person with whom she has been open.
[edit] Voice actress
Haruhi's voice actress, Aya Hirano, won the "Voice Acting Award" in the Sixth Annual Tokyo Anime Awards and a nomination for the "Best Actress in a leading role" category from the first Seiyū Awards. She also portrays Haruhi in the radio dramas. In the English version of the anime, she is voiced by Wendee Lee.
Hobby
shopping, watching anime's
Book
ANIME!!!
TV Show
ANIME!!!
Email
carla_love_daisuke@yahoo.com
Favorite holiday
everyday
Languages
nihongo, a little of tagalog and visaya
Hidden talent
I Can Draw well, and great in technologies
High school
4rth
