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Literary analysis of the light novel/anime series The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya: Haruhi is not God, Kyon is The light novel se­ries The Melan­choly of Haruhi Suzu­miya, fea­tur­ing a char­ac­ter named Haruhi who is a god un­awares and her search for nov­elty, has a num­ber of anom­alies and un­clear over­ar­ch­ing plot. I argue that these anom­alies can be re­solved, and greater lit­er­ary depth achieved, by in­ter­pret­ing Haruhi as an or­di­nary “not spe­cial” girl whose wish made her ex­tra­or­di­nary, be­cause the first-person pro­tag­o­nist Kyon is the ac­tual un­aware god. Like the blue­bird of hap­pi­ness, Kyon found hap­pi­ness only when he for­got about him­self to care more about an­other (mak­ing it a pos­i­tive twist on Mark Twain’s The Mys­te­ri­ous Stranger’s⁠ de­spair­ing demi­urge). T he real joy of reading Gene Wolfe⁠ is not so much for his imaginative plots⁠⁠1⁠ or for his masterly prose⁠⁠2⁠, but rather for the secret gems his stories conceal. Many Wolfe stories fo

--- title: The Melancholy of Kyon description: "Literary analysis of the light novel/anime series _The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya_: Haruhi is not God, Kyon is" created: 2009-06-08 modified: 2018-09-01 status: in progress confidence: highly unlikely importance: 1 css-extension: dropcaps-goudy ... > The light novel series _The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya_, featuring a character named Haruhi who is a god unawares and her search for novelty, has a number of anomalies and unclear overarching plot. > > I argue that these anomalies can be resolved, and greater literary depth achieved, by interpr

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