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s attributed to the

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adaptation ''

The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya is a Japanese light novel series written by Nagaru Tanigawa and illustrated by Noizi Ito. It was first published in 2003 by Kadokawa Shoten in Japan with the novel ''The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya'', and has since been followed ...

'' based on the ''Haruhi Suzumiya'' light novel series. There have been three soundtrack singles released for the anime containing the opening, ending, and insert songs featured in the anime series. Three

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CDs were released, along with a single which contained the theme songs to the radio dramas. A

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was also produced and the final track on the CD contained an original music track. There are nine additional character song albums sung by the voice actors for not only the five main characters in the series, but four other minor characters were also given mini albums.

Soundtracks

Bōken Desho Desho?

is the opening theme to the

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ese

''The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya'', as well as the movie, ''

The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya is a 2010 Japanese animated drama film based on the fourth ''Haruhi Suzumiya'' light novel of the same name written by Nagaru Tanigawa. It was produced by Kyoto Animation, written by Fumihiko Shimo and directed by Tatsuya Ishihara and Yasuhiro T ...

''. It ranked #10 in CD sales on amazon.co.jp when the single was released. * Oricon Weekly Rank Peak: #10 * Weeks in Chart: 28 weeks * Sales: 63,371 * 2006 End of Year Chart Rank: #141

Track listing

# – 4:18 #* Vocals:

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(Haruhi Suzumiya) #* Lyrics:

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#* Music: Akiko Tomita #* Arrangement:

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# – 3:47 # – 4:18 # – 3:47

Hare Hare Yukai

is the ending theme to the

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series ''

''. The song is performed in

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, the respective voices of the characters

Haruhi Suzumiya is a Japanese light novel series written by Nagaru Tanigawa and illustrated by Noizi Ito. It was first published in 2003 by Kadokawa Shoten in Japan with the novel ''The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya'', and has since been followed b ...

Yuki Nagato This is a list of the characters featured in the ''Haruhi Suzumiya'' franchise, written by Nagaru Tanigawa and illustrated by Noizi Ito, which contains a multitude of other secondary, and minor characters who are introduced throughout the course ...

and

Mikuru Asahina This is a list of the characters featured in the '' Haruhi Suzumiya'' franchise, written by Nagaru Tanigawa and illustrated by Noizi Ito, which contains a multitude of other secondary, and minor characters who are introduced throughout the cour ...

from the series. Due to massive support from fans of the series, the CD

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, which also featured the song ''Welcome UNKNOWN'' plus

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versions of both tracks, reached #5 on the

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singles charts, and was the 18th best selling

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in Japan on May 10, the day it was released. It was also sold out on many online retailers and was amazon.co.jp's #1 selling CD. ''Hare Hare Yukai'' won the Radio Kansai Award in 2006, a subset of the Animation Kobe Theme Song Award.

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The very popular animated choreography accompanying the song, originally broadcast as part of the

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, became an

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which inspired many parodies and fanmade videos on the Internet, many of which were posted on

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websites such as

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. The choreography was based on several singles by the idol group

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, including " Gag 100kaibun Aishite Kudasai", " Special Generation", and " 21ji Made no Cinderella". At

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in 2006, Hirano and the other three vocalists appeared as special guests in "Hare Hare Yukai" and performed the choreography for the entire piece. On March 18, 2007, " Haruhi Suzumiya's Gekisou" was held, with Aya Hirano, Minori Chihara, and Yuko Goto performing the full version of the dance, as well as Tomokazu Sugita. (who plays Kyon) and

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(who plays Kazuki Koizumi), and all the voice actors of the "SOS Brigade" gathered together to perform the ending version of the dance. The 7th DVD of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, released in January 2007, contains a complete TV-size version of the dance. It conforms to the aforementioned storyboard, but there are some differences. On April 8, 2007, as part of the movement to make this single No. 1 on the Oricon chart, a large number of

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performed this song at pedestrian heaven in

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. A

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of dancing was held, and the scene was uploaded to a video site, creating a sensation. At Animelo Summer Live 2017, Aya Hirano, Minori Chihara, and Yuko Goto Hirano and Goto were the secret guests. appeared as an SOS group for the first time in 11 years and sang "Hare Hare Yukai" with dancing. It's been 10 years since "Suzumiya Haruhi no Gekisou" that "Hare Hare Yukai" was performed by the "SOS Brigade" voice actors. At the Lantis Festival on June 23, 2019, Aya Hirano, Minori Chihara, Yuko Goto, Daisuke Ono, and Tomokazu Sugita all gathered as an SOS group for the first time in 12 years since "Haruhi Suzumiya's Gekiso" and performed "Hare Hare Yukai." ” along with the dance. At the collaboration event between the Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya and Bandai Namco's app game " Idolmaster Cinderella Girls Starlight Stage" held from August 13, 2021, a 3D MV was implemented for the cover version of this song.

Impact of dance videos posted by voice actors in 2020

In 2020, when people were forced to stay at home due to the spread of the novel coronavirus epidemic (2019-), Hirano, who played the role of Haruhi in the anime The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, Aya gave a lecture on the dance of "Hare Hare Yukai" and uploaded a video of her actually dancing to the video on SNS on April 24. This video was the beginning, and Tomokazu Sugita, who played Kyon in the same anime, and

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as Taniguchi, Kobushinobuyuki, who played the role of the director of the computer research department in the anime, also reacted on Twitter. Words such as "Hare Hare Yukai" and "Tomokazu Sugita / AGRS Channel" became trending on Twitter , and Hirano's dance video recorded over 5 million views as of the night of the 26th. . In addition, Sugita's dance video was posted on YouTube more than 100,000 times about an hour after it was posted, and more than 1.8 million times 12 hours after it was posted, ranking in at the top of the rapidly rising video. caused a sensation. Pianist Riyoko Takagi and Talent Shoko Nakagawa, entertainer Mumasa Tsukaji (Drunk Dragon), and actresses Ruka Matsuda and Rena Matsui who share the office with Hirano. It also spreads among celebrities, under the influence of a series of events, the music chart "Hot Animation" provided by Billboard JAPAN entered the chart at 6th place in the first week of May 2020. * Oricon Weekly Rank Peak: #5 (Ties as highest charting release of the ''

'' franchise.) * Weeks in Chart: 92 weeks * Sales: 123,000+ * 2006 End of Year Chart Rank: #104

Track listing

# – 3:37 #* Vocals:

(Haruhi Suzumiya),

(Yuki Nagato), and

(Mikuru Asahina) #* Lyrics:

#* Music: Tomokazu Toshiro #* Arrangement: Takahiro Ando # – 3:23 # – 3:37 # – 3:23

Suzumiya Haruhi no Tsumeawase

was first released in Japan on June 21, 2006. In the actual performance,

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played the

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, Takeshi Taneda played the bass guitar, and Yutaka Odawara played

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s. Animators traced their performance by

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, and drew the performance scene in animation. * Oricon Weekly Rank Peak: #5 (Ties as highest charting release of the ''

'' franchise.) * Weeks in Chart: 133 weeks (Longest charting release of the ''

'' franchise.) * Sales: 136,000+ (highest selling) * 2006 End of Year Chart Rank: #106

Track listing

#"God knows…" – 4:39 #*Vocals:

#*Music: Satoru Kousaki #*Arrangement: Satoru Kousaki #*Lyrics:

#"Lost my music" – 4:17 #*Vocals:

#*Music: Satoru Kousaki #*Arrangement: Satoru Kousaki #*Lyrics:

# – 3:21 #*Vocals:

#*Music: Satoru Kousaki #*Arrangement: Satoru Kousaki #*Lyrics:

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Saikyō Pare Parade

is the second

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and

, the first being ''

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''. The songs "Saikyō Pare Parade" and "Unmeiteki Jiken no Kōfuku" were the opening and ending themes respectively for the Haruhi Suzumiya

s. The single was released on November 22, 2006 by Lantis. A

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and

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was produced by Momoiro Clover in 2009. * Oricon Weekly Rank Peak: #9 * Weeks in Chart: 10 weeks

Track listing

# – 4:20 # – 4:33 # – 4:20 # – 4:33

Suzumiya Haruhi no Gensō

was a concert held in Tokyo on April 29, 2009 with music by the

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and Philip Chu as conductor. The event featured songs and background music from the anime arranged with a classical twist. A CD of the concert was released on June 24, 2009 and a DVD on February 26, 2010.

Track listing

# # # # # # # # # #"Lost my music" # # # # #"God knows..."

BGM & Radio Bangumi soundtracks

Volume 1

''Asahina Mikuru's Adventure Episode 00 Soundtrack & Radio Bangumi 1'' is the first such album containing

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tracks and radio segments from the anime version of ''The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya'', which was released on July 28, 2006 with the first DVD. The first track is the opening theme of Episode 00, the next nine tracks are BGM tracks from the anime composed by Satoru Kousaki unless otherwise specified, and the last six are audio drama segments performed by

, and

. ;Track listing # #:Vocal:

#:Composition: Satoru Kousaki # # # # #:Composition:

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# # # # # # # # # # #

Audio dramas

Radio dramas

Volume 1

is the first volume

CD released July 5, 2006. * Oricon Weekly Rank Peak: #19 * Weeks in Chart: 4 weeks

=Track listing

= # – 2:55 # – 7:53 # – 7:12 # – 2:08 # – 7:02 # – 3:19 # – 11:03 # – 2:16 # – 5:44 # – 2:18

Volume 2

is the second volume

CD which was released on September 21, 2006. * Oricon Weekly Rank Peak: #27 * Weeks in Chart: 4 weeks

=Track listing

= # – 4:18 # – 7:30 # – 6:05 # – 23:47 # – 5:58 # – 5:44 # – 3:54

Volume 3

is the third volume

CD in the series which was released on December 21, 2006. * Oricon Weekly Rank Peak: #70 (Worst charting release of the whole ''

'' franchise.) * Weeks in Chart: 3 weeks

=Track listing

= # – 6:55 # – 9:02 # – 9:59 # – 8:16 # – 3:29 # – 5:20 # – 4:28 # – 6:02 # – 5:49 # – 4:51 # – 3:54 # – 3:40

Drama CD

is the title of the

adapted from the

ese

series ''The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya''. It was released on January 24, 2007, published by Lantis. The last song on this CD, "First Good-Bye" is the drama CD's theme song sung by

. * Oricon Weekly Rank Peak: #11 * Weeks in Chart: 5 weeks

Track listing

# – 1:36 # – 8:12 # – 8:34 # – 6:16 # – 11:10 # – 7:39 # – 5:50 # – 7:50 # – 6:34 #"First Good-Bye" – 4:36

Voice actors

as Haruhi Suzumiya (all) and all the main characters (track 8) *

as Yuki Nagato *

as Mikuru Asahina *

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as Kyon *

as Itsuki Koizumi *

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as Tsuruya *

as Taniguchi * Sayaka Aoki as Kyon's Sister

Character song singles

Nine music singles for ''The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya'' have been released featuring songs sung by the voice actors of the characters in the anime. These include: the three main female and two main male characters in the series along with four other supporting female characters. The first three released included songs by

as Haruhi Suzumiya,

as Yuki Nagato and

as Mikuru Asahina. Moreover, two additional character CDs were released on December 6, 2006, sung by

as Tsuruya and

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as Ryoko Asakura. Two more character CDs were released on January 24, 2007, sung by Sayaka Aoki as Kyon's Sister
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as Emiri Kimidori.
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' Finally, the CDs for Itsuki Koizumi and Kyon were released on February 21, 2007. Each of the nine albums feature the ending theme song "Hare Hare Yukai". Other than the three main female character's versions which are solo cover versions of the original, there are some alterations. For Tsuruya's version as well as Ryoko's version, the lyrics were changed to fit the character; Tsuruya's version contains her

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"nyoro", while Ryoko reverses the optimistic lyrics to convey futility and destruction. However, while Tsuruya's and Ryoko's versions have the same arrangements as the original version, the last four released have their arrangements changed along with the lyrics. Kyon's Sister's version is very upbeat; Emiri's version is very fact-based; Itsuki's version talks about his

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; and Kyon reflects about his now-disturbed life in his version.

References

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Amazon.co.jp for radio drama vol. 1

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Amazon.co.jp for radio drama vol. 3

Notes

External links

*
''Suzumiya Haruhi no Yūutsu'' CD listing
at Lantis' site * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Haruhi Suzumiya Anime soundtracks Film and television discographies

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