The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya (2010) on Netflix
NR20102h 43mAnimationComedyDrama
Kyon arrives at school on December 18 to find his reality changed. Haruhi and Itsuki are gone, Mikuru does not know him, and Yuki is an ordinary human. Nobody else remembers Haruhi.
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December arrives and the SOS Brigade plans a nabe party for Christmas. On December 18, Kyon reaches school to find his reality rewritten: Haruhi and Itsuki Koizumi have vanished, Ryoko Asakura is back, Mikuru Asahina fails to recognize him, and Yuki Nagato has become an ordinary human. Nobody else recalls Haruhi or the club. Searching the clubroom, Kyon finds a bookmark from Yuki urging him to gather keys for a program, though the message's meaning escapes him. The new Yuki, fond of him after he helped her obtain a library card, invites him to dinner. Kyon later hears from Taniguchi that Haruhi still exists at a different high school.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya (2010)
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- The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya was first built as a seven-episode arc — the team ended up with seven manuscripts, a provisional seven episodes — before plans changed and it became a film instead, which led to its 162-minute runtime, then the second-longest for an animated film.
- Instead of the usual method of recording scenes with all the characters together first, the voice cast of The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya recorded in the order the story develops, to better convey protagonist Kyon's emotional development through the film.
- Noriko Takao asked to join directors Tatsuya Ishihara and Yasuhiro Takemoto in drawing the storyboards for The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya; the boards were split into six parts, A–F, with Takao drawing C and D, and both directors said her woman's point of view helped, especially for Yuki Nagato.
- Nagaru Tanigawa, the author of the Haruhi Suzumiya novels, gave feedback on the script and also conceived the film-exclusive epilogue and wrote the lyrics of the ending song, which producer Atsushi Itō suggested should be a cappella.
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