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The Melancholy of Haruhi-chan Suzumiya (ONA)

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Alternative title:
Suzumiya Haruhi-chan no Yūutsu (Japanese)
Меланхолия Харухи Судзумии-тян (Russian)
小涼宮春日的憂鬱 (Chinese (Taiwan))
涼宮ハルヒちゃんの憂鬱 (Japanese)
Themes: parody, school
Objectionable content: Mild
Plot Summary: A comical spin-off of the ever popular "Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya" television series originally aired back in 2006 involving all the major characters in more child-like forms of their animated selves going through various spoofs of previous plot line; like Nagato and the dreaded laptop with a twist of having hentai on it. face offs with the rack of costumes that were stuffed in the corner of the club room. and dodge ball tournaments on crack.
User Ratings: 654 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 47 votes (sub:36, dub:5, edit.dub:1, others:5
4 Spanish subtitled
1 Tagalog dubbed
)
 Excellent: 128 votes (sub:101, dub:21, ?:2, others:4
3 Spanish subtitled
1 Italian subtitled
)
 Very good: 190 votes (sub:140, dub:32, raw:4, ?:1, others:13
8 Spanish subtitled
2 Portuguese subtitled
1 Russian subtitled
1 Korean subtitled
1 French subtitled
)
 Good: 153 votes (sub:118, dub:24, raw:2, ?:1, others:8
4 Spanish subtitled
1 Russian dubbed
1 Simplified Chinese subtitled
1 French subtitled
1 German subtitled
)
 Decent: 73 votes (sub:59, dub:11, raw:1, ?:1, others:1
1 Spanish subtitled
)
 So-so: 32 votes (sub:24, dub:3, others:5
2 Spanish subtitled
1 Russian subtitled
1 Korean subtitled
1 Polish subtitled
)
 Not really good: 13 votes (sub:10, dub:2, others:1
1 Slovak subtitled subtitled
)
 Weak: 11 votes (sub:10, dub:1)
 Bad: 1 vote (sub:1)
 Awful: 4 votes (sub:4)
 Worst ever: 2 votes (?:1, sub:1)
Seen in part or in whole by 1359 users, rank: #907 (of 10089)
Median rating: Very good
Arithmetic mean: 7.495 (Good+), std. dev.: 1.6243, rank: #1962 (of 10249)
Weighted mean: 7.397 (Good+), rank: #2105 (of 10249) (seen all: 7.49 / seen some: 7.15 / won't finish: 4.52)
Bayesian estimate: 7.399 (Good+), rank: #1797 (of 7724)
Running time: 5 minutes per episode
Number of episodes: 25
Episode titles: We have 25
Vintage: 2009-02-13
Release dates: We have 6
Opening Theme:
"Ima made no arasuji" by SOS-dan
Ending Theme:
#1: "Atogaki You na Mono" by SOS Brigade
#2: "Paradise Lost" by Chihara Minori (ep 6)
Trivia: We have 2
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Blu-ray (Region A)
    The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya - Ultimate Collector's Edition (Blu-ray) 2016-09-13 (from $208.93)
DVD (Region 1)
    The Melancholy of Haruhi-chan Suzumiya & Nyoron! Churuya-san - Complete Series (DVD) 2016-09-13 (from $26.99)
    The Melancholy of Haruhi-chan Suzumiya & Nyoron! Churuya-san! (DVD 1) 2011-03-22 (from $19.98)
    The Melancholy of Haruhi-chan Suzumiya & Nyoron! Churuya-san! (DVD 2) 2011-08-02 (from $11.00)
DVD (Region 2)
    The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya - Season 2 / Haruhi-chan + Churuya-san Part 1 (DVD) 2011-07-04 (from $78.92)
    The Melancholy of Haruhi-chan Suzumiya + Nyoron! Churuya-san (DVD 1) 2011-12-19 (from $10.53)
    The Melancholy of Haruhi-chan Suzumiya + Nyoron! Churuya-san (DVD 2) 2011-10-31 (from $10.16)

Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Director: Yasuhiro Takemoto
Original creator: Nagaru Tanigawa
Original Manga: Puyo
Original Character Design: Noizi Itō
Character Design: Futoshi Nishiya
Producer:
Atsushi Itou (KADOKAWA)
Hideaki Hatta (Kyoto Animation)

Insert Song Arrangement: Daisuke Kikuta ("Paradise Lost"; ep 6)
Insert Song Lyrics: Aki Hata ("Paradise Lost"; ep 6)
Insert Song Performance: Minori Chihara ("Paradise Lost"; ep 6)
Inserted Song Composition: Daisuke Kikuta ("Paradise Lost"; ep 6)
Official Homepage Productionn: Atsushi Hatano (Yamaneko)
Online Editor: Gen Itakura (Q-Tec)
Original Logo Design: Motoi Sasaki
Program Cooperation:
Hiroshi Mizuno (Kadokawa Anime Channel)
Hirotsugu Kato (Shōnen Ace Editorial Department)
Publicity: Yosuke Nishiyama
Sound Effects: Eiko Morikawa (Chura Sound)
Aya Hirano as Haruhi Suzumiya-chan
Tomokazu Sugita as Kyon

Daisuke Ono as Itsuki Koizumi
Minori Chihara as Yuki Nagato
Natsuko Kuwatani as Ryōko Asakura/Achakura
Yuki Matsuoka as Tsuruya-san
Yūko Gotō as Mikuru Asahina

Akane Ōmae as Mori-san
Akio Ōtsuka as Arakawa-san
Megumi Matsumoto as
Kunikida
Program director lady (ep 21)
Minoru Shiraishi as
Audience (ep 21)
Kimidori-san
Taniguchi
Natsuko Kuwatani as Child (ep 7)
Nobuyuki Kobushi as Comp. Society President
Sayaka Aoki as
Game voice (ep 2)
Kyon's Sister
Yasuhiro as Comp. Society Member B
Yuki Matsuoka as
Head Maid (ep 6)
Mugen Lion
Yūki Ono as Comp. Society Member D
Japanese companies
Animation Production: Kyoto Animation
Production: SOS Dan
Program Cooperation:
Kadokawa
Shōnen Ace Editorial Department
English staff
English cast
ADR Director: Alex Von David
Translation: Richard Kim
ADR Script: Alex Von David
Executive producer: Ken Iyadomi
Producer:
Eric P. Sherman (Bang Zoom!)
Kaeko Sakamoto (Bang Zoom!)
Taku Otsuka

Assistant producer: Victor Sgroi
Associate Casting Director: Mami Okada
Associate producer: Loy Fruel
Casting Director: Kaeko Sakamoto
Co-Producer: Mami Okada
Dialogue Editing: Marco Bustos
Engineering Assistant: Renick Webb
Post-Production Assistant:
Josh Phippin
Maurice Tarver
Production Assistant:
Christine Marie Cabanos
Edward Bosco
Joseph Medina
Sho Kawabata
Xanthe Huynh
Production Coordination: Yuko Sakurai
Production manager: Emily Nicolas
Re-Recording Mixing: Michael Brooks
Recording engineer:
Marco Bustos
Patrick Rodman
Sound Supervision: Patrick Rodman
Subtitling: Andrew Kent
Crispin Freeman as Kyon
Wendee Lee as Haruhi-Chan Suzumiya

Bridget Hoffman as Ryōko Asakura/Achakura
Johnny Yong Bosch as Itsuki Koizumi
Kari Wahlgren as Miss Tsuruya
Michelle Ruff as Yuki Nagato
Stephanie Sheh as Mikuru Asahina

Brianne Siddall as Kunikida
Dave Wittenberg as Computer Club Leader
Kari Wahlgren as Kyon's sister
Michael Forest as Mr. Arakawa
Sam Regal as
Mr. Kimidori
Taniguchi
English companies
ADR Production: Bang Zoom! Entertainment
Distributor:
Madman Entertainment (Australia & New Zealand)
Manga Entertainment (UK)
Internet Streaming:
Crunchyroll (subtitled version; expired)
Licensed by:
Bandai Entertainment (Expired)
FUNimation Entertainment (2014)
Subtitles: MX Media LLC (Crunchyroll)
Translation: MX Media LLC (Crunchyroll)
German staff
German companies
(none)
Distributor: Kazé Germany
German cast
(none)
Chinese (Taiwan) staff
Chinese (Taiwan) companies
(none)
Chinese (Taiwan) cast
(none)

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