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If that's an error, Wikipedia has it too: > Haruhi Suzumiya (Japanese: 涼宮ハルヒ, Hepburn: Suzumiya Haruhi) is a Japanese light novel series written by Nagaru Tani

If that's an error, Wikipedia has it too: > Haruhi Suzumiya (Japanese: 涼宮ハルヒ, Hepburn: Suzumiya Haruhi) is a Japanese light novel series written by Nagaru Tanigawa and illustrated by Noizi Ito. Also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Haruhi_Suzumiya_light_novels https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Haruhi_Suzumiya_light_... But apparently there's a Manga version too? Never read it. Is it any good?

Izkata 2y ago
A common pattern is light novel -> manga adaptation -> anime adaptation. From the first few release dates on the sidebar of the main page, it looks like this one followed that pattern (with lots of spinoffs and sequels).
aidenn0 2y ago
TFA puts a picture of the Suzumiya cover on top of a caption saying "Visual Novel" Wikipedia is right, TFA is wrong. Based on context (since the next picture to the right is captioned "text based game" and shows an image from a visual novel Clannad[1], I think), the article just got the terminology wrong. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clannad_(video_game) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clannad_(video_game)
aidenn0 2y ago
> Never read it. Is it any good? I completely bounced off of the Anime, but both the LN and the Anime were wildly popular at the time, to the point where I immediately recognized the cover despite only having seen the first 2-3 episodes of the Anime and never having read the LN.
PaulHoule 2y ago
I liked it at the time it came out, I like it less now. It was a pivotal anime for a few reasons. One of them was that there was a technological change from producing anime with cels that get photographed on a multiplane camera to drawing the "cels" in a computer and compositing them digitally. Haruhi Suzumiya was not the first to be done with CG compositing but it figured out how anime would look with the new technology. So it looks far ahead of older stuff like Sailor Moon but looks behind something like Accel World or Bleach. Story-wise it was an advance in postmodernization which was already well developed https://www.amazon.com/Otaku-Database-Animals-Hiroki-Azuma/dp/0816653526 https://www.amazon.com/Otaku-Database-Animals-Hiroki-Azuma/d... but it used devices such as telling the story out of order and building systematically on tropes that seemed fresh at the time but now seem cynical to me.

Izkata 2y ago

A common pattern is light novel -> manga adaptation -> anime adaptation. From the first few release dates on the sidebar of the main page, it looks like this one followed that pattern (with lots of spinoffs and sequels).

aidenn0 2y ago

TFA puts a picture of the Suzumiya cover on top of a caption saying "Visual Novel" Wikipedia is right, TFA is wrong. Based on context (since the next picture to the right is captioned "text based game" and shows an image from a visual novel Clannad[1], I think), the article just got the terminology wrong. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clannad_(video_game) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clannad_(video_game)

aidenn0 2y ago

> Never read it. Is it any good? I completely bounced off of the Anime, but both the LN and the Anime were wildly popular at the time, to the point where I immediately recognized the cover despite only having seen the first 2-3 episodes of the Anime and never having read the LN.

PaulHoule 2y ago

I liked it at the time it came out, I like it less now. It was a pivotal anime for a few reasons. One of them was that there was a technological change from producing anime with cels that get photographed on a multiplane camera to drawing the "cels" in a computer and compositing them digitally. Haruhi Suzumiya was not the first to be done with CG compositing but it figured out how anime would look with the new technology. So it looks far ahead of older stuff like Sailor Moon but looks behind something like Accel World or Bleach. Story-wise it was an advance in postmodernization which was already well developed https://www.amazon.com/Otaku-Database-Animals-Hiroki-Azuma/dp/0816653526 https://www.amazon.com/Otaku-Database-Animals-Hiroki-Azuma/d... but it used devices such as telling the story out of order and building systematically on tropes that seemed fresh at the time but now seem cynical to me.