History Manga / HaruhiChan

* {{Bishonen}}:
** Kyon and Itsuki get bishie shots in their host suits in episode 12, complete with {{Bishie Sparkle}}s.
** In the episode where the whole group is having a scavenger hunt Kyon, as part of the game, tells Itsuki that he loves him, causing Itsuki's face to go totally bishonen, or arguably bishojo, complete with DramaticWind and flower petals.
** This is a RunningGag with Kunikida, who is regularly forced to cross-dress and is the only boy allowed to show his face in the "all-girls beach fanservice" chapter in volume 6.

* KickTheSonOfABitch: Yuki’s treatment of Achakura can come off as petty and abusive at times, but once she gets out of the apartment she expresses that she still wants to murder Kyon, reminding us why she was brought there in the first place.

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* AscendedFanfic: The series started as {{doujinshi}} comics posted online. The comics would later be professionally published in ''Comp Ace'', and eventually officially animated by Creator/KyotoAnimation with the original voice cast.

* SlapstickKnowsNoGender: As Achakura can attest to.

* AscendedMeme: Nobody could have guessed when the comics were first published as {{doujinshi}} that they would be officially animated by Creator/KyotoAnimation with the original voice cast.

* EverythingsBetterWithSpinning: Yuki spins Achakura [[MemeticMutation right round]] in episodes 6 and 8.

''The Melancholy of Haruhi-chan Suzumiya'' (''Suzumiya Haruhi-chan no Yūutsu'') and ''Nyoron Churuya-san'' are two gag manga spinoffs of ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'', animated and broadcast on Website/YouTube as three to five-minute shorts. Though famous for "trolling" their fanbase, Creator/KyotoAnimation was rumored to have produced this series as a way to [[AuthorsSavingThrow mollify the fans]] who were kept waiting three years for an actual second season of ''Haruhi''!

''The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya-chan'' takes the characters and situations from ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'', {{chibi}}fies them, and turns the madness and comedy up to eleven while adding copious amounts of [[RuleOfCute High-Octane Cute]]. The manga was serialized in ''Shonen Ace'' and ''The Sneaker'' (the magazine where the original light novels were published) from 2007 to 2018.

* AnachronicOrder: Averted. Unlike with [[LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya the anime's]] first run and the LightNovels, the ''Haruhi-chan'' shorts (despite being arranged differently than they are in the manga), have a continuity to them and the jokes from one episode often follow after a previous one.

** To some extent Kyon, who always gets the short end of Haruhi's plans. It's a bit like his role in the series turned UpToEleven.

* EmbarrassedByAChild: In episode 7 of the anime, Haruhi organizes her own quirky sports festival, and Kyon falls to this trope [[ButtMonkey just for standing there]], watching the event begin. Then he's used as a rope in an extreme tug-o-war contest and flung up naked, [[UpToEleven with the kid still watching]].

* AuthorAppeal: [[NinjaMaid Mori-san]] certainly appears a lot- she's even the focus of the first story in volume 4, where Koizumi gets her to [[spoiler:cosplay as Haruhi]]. And if that's not enough to convince you, there's a surprising amount of bonus art of her in casual clothes or with her hair in a ponytail. She even appears in a subplot surrounding Tsuruya harboring unexplained animosity towards her.

** "Yasu is the culprit" at the end of the second episode, a memetic phrase referring to a PC/NES mystery game that is well known in Japan but was never exported outside of it. Since the phrase means nothing to most viewers overseas, the English dub replaces it with “{{the butler did it}}.”

* OtakuSurrogate: Yuki. She suddenly shows interest in visual novels of the sort made for the male otaku market.

* CosplayOtakuGirl: Yuki.

** Every episode of ''Haruhi-chan'' except for episode 25 begins with a zoom from the globe to where Haruhi is standing, which results in the camera zooming in so fast that it slams into Haruhi's face and cracks the screen.

-->'''Haruhi:''' Here we g-- ''[camera crashes into her face]''

** Every episode of ''Haruhi-chan'' except for episode 25 begins with this.
*** [[BreakingTheFourthWall "Here we g-- *crashes into and cracks the camera*"]]
** SANTA-DA~~~!

'''''The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya-chan''''' takes the characters and situations from ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'', {{chibi}}fies them, and turns the madness and comedy up to eleven while adding copious amounts of [[RuleOfCute High-Octane Cute]]. The manga ran for 13 volumes and ended in 2018.

'''''Nyoron Churuya-san''''' follows the adventures of Tsuruya's super deformed counterpart Churuya as she quests for smoked cheese, [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption almost always unsuccessfully.]] Also featured is Ashakura, Ryoko's counterpart with a [[StalkerWithACrush massive, but ultimately doomed crush]] on Kyon.

* ThemeTuneCameo: In episode 4, Mikuru hums [[DancingTheme "Hare Hare Yukai"]].

** The series being what it is, Churuya's short stature and stubby arms [[RealityEnsues hinder more than they help]].

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: "…and I'm Itsuki, the Crimson Super Ball. Guess why they call me that. Hollaaaa."

** There's also "Yasu is the culprit" at the end of the second episode, a ShoutOut to TheReveal of a much beloved [[NoExportForYou in Japan]] PC/NES mystery game, which had undergone MemeticMutation. The reference thoroughly confused much of the western fanbase. The English dub replaces it with “{{the butler did it}}.”

** Several episodes reference parts of Book 7: the Spring Setsubun Festival (episode 8), the Valentine's Day chocolate cakes (episodes 11 and 12), the treasure hunt (episodes 17 and 18), and Mori and Arakawa riding around in a taxi (episodes 12 and 18).

* SortingAlgorithmOfEvil: Parodied in Episode 2.

** Koizumi has stopped being ''remotely'' subtle in his ShipperOnDeck activities, taking every opportunity to try to convince Kyon to couple up with Haruhi. Kyon's having none of it, although in volume 4 he's able to force Kyon and Haruhi to go on a scripted date together as a penalty game. [[spoiler:They nearly die.]]
** Kyon is an even BIGGER DeadpanSnarker.
** Yuki, as her stoicness is overshadowed by her {{otaku}}ness, which ''is'' hinted at in the original series, albeit not as played up. Look at the masks she buys in the [[GroundhogDayLoop Endless Eight]]. So it could be this subtle aspect is exaggerated even more, making it an [[ExaggeratedTrope exaggerated version]] of CharacterExaggeration.

* CovertPervert: Yuki. Light on the Covert, but with extra Pervert. She’s only covert because Kyon told her to use headphones.
* CranialEruption: Yuki and Achakura do this to each other semi-regularly.
* CrashIntoHello: The VisualNovel that Yuki has Kyon play in episode 25 has one. Except it's with [[spoiler:Arakawa-san. [[DrivesLikeCrazy And he's in a car]]]].
* DependingOnTheWriter: Deliberately exaggerated with Yuki, [[GamerChick who]] [[OtakuSurrogate doesn't]] [[CosplayOtakuGirl just]] [[CovertPervert read]] [[YaoiFangirl books]] in this series.

* DrivesLikeCrazy: Arakawa. With how that car was spinning he's even worse than [[Manga/AzumangaDaioh Yukari-sensei]].

* MadeOfExplodium: ''Kyon''.

* OtakuSurrogate: Yuki.

* SexySilhouette: Non-chibi Yuki in episode 24.

''The Melancholy of Haruhi-chan Suzumiya'' (''Suzumiya Haruhi-chan no Yūutsu'') and ''Nyoron Churuya-san'' are two gag manga spinoffs of ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'', animated and broadcast on Website/YouTube as three to five-minute shorts. Though famous for "trolling" their fanbase, Creator/KyotoAnimation was rumored to have produced this series as a way to [[AuthorsSavingThrow mollify the fans]] who were kept waiting three years for an actual second Season of ''Haruhi''!

Everyone besides Churuya and Ashakura is rendered with the same generic, non-super-deformed body with EyesAlwaysShut, and they're all general {{jerk ass}}es. Still, Churuya usually gets a happy ending after enduring some hardships throughout the rest of the episode.

** From Episode 25:

* RelaxOVision: Part of Hiruhi's quiz show in episode 3 involves Kyon tied up in fireworks and a small pickup truck. It would have been awesome if we weren't seeing Mikuru feeding and playing with her pet lion the whole time.

** There's also "Yasu is the culprit" at the end of the second episode, a ShoutOut to TheReveal of a much beloved [[NoExportForYou in Japan]] PC/NES mystery game, which had undergone MemeticMutation. The reference thoroughly confused much of the western fanbase. The English dub replaces it with [[{{Woolseyism}} "The butler did it."]]

* AllCGICartoon - The first few episodes. It changed to normal 2D animation starting with episode 5, likely due to the cost associated with CG animation.
* AnachronicOrder - Just like with [[LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya the anime's]] first run and the LightNovels, the ''Haruhi-chan'' shorts are arranged differently than the manga.
* {{Angrish}} - Achakura lapses into this when Nagato gives her dog food in a dog bowl to eat.

* AstronomicZoom

* AuthorAppeal - [[NinjaMaid Mori-san]] certainly appears a lot- she's even the focus of the first story in volume 4, where Koizumi gets her to [[spoiler:cosplay as Haruhi]]. And if that's not enough to convince you, there's a surprising amount of bonus art of her in casual clothes or with her hair in a ponytail. She even appears in a subplot surrounding Tsuruya harboring unexplained animosity towards her.
* BadassSanta - Haruhi's concept of Santa, part of a clan of super-muscled old ninjas who infiltrate houses and deposit gifts. And she turns poor [[ThoseTwoGuys Taniguchi]] into one.

* BattleAura - Used for a game of ''[[MundaneMadeAwesome dodgeball!]]''
* BearsAreBadNews - Inverted. Tsuruya claims she once defeated a bear.
* BigEater - Yuki gobbling Valentine's day chocolates... priceless.
* {{Bishonen}}

* BlackHelicopter - Used by the Agency in one episode.
* BlandNameProduct - One of the {{Visual Novel}}s Yuki owns in volume 1 is [[VisualNovel/FateStayNight Fayte/Stay Night]].
* BlankWhiteEyes
* BlatantLies - Mori after she just jumped through a window.

* BloodFromTheMouth

* BlowYouAway - Tsuruya, as shown in Episode 17. Poor Mikuru.
* BlueWithShock
* BokeAndTsukkomiRoutine - Yuki's interactions with Achakura seem to follow these quite closely. Yuki's the boke.

* BreakingTheFourthWall

* BrotherSisterIncest - This might be stretching things, but judging from episode 25's opening, Nagato's game contains a "Kyon's sister" route, so if Kyon's the protagonist...
* ButtMonkey

* CameBackWrong - PlayedForLaughs. When Ryoko Asakura manages to regenerate herself as Achakura, she's barely a couple feet tall, and has lost most of her powers. Not to mention that she has a somewhat childish mentality sometimes, being placated by a merry-go-round treatment, karaoke singing, the "legendary" obi-spin, and a piece of chocolate cake. Later in the manga it's revealed that Asakura can use her powers to a certain extent, but doing so causes her to become ''even tinier''! Kimidori-san shows real concern that if she overdoes it she'll wink out of existence.
* CameraAbuse - The AstronomicZoom mentioned above always ends in the camera smashing into Haruhi's face. It even provides the page image.
* CatchPhrase - Yuki's "Oh" after [[BokeAndTsukkomiRoutine outbursts from Achakura]].

* CatSmile - Haruhi and Tsuruya.
* CharacterExaggeration
** Haruhi is more hyperactive than in the regular series. Conversely, she is ALOT nicer towards Mikuru.

** Subverted with Yuki, as her stoicness is overshadowed by her {{otaku}}ness, which ''is'' hinted at in the original series, albeit not as played up. Look at the masks she buys in the [[GroundhogDayLoop Endless Eight]]. So it could be this subtle aspect is exaggerated even more, making it an [[ExaggeratedTrope exaggerated version]] of CharacterExaggeration.
* CherryBlossoms
* ClothingDamage - Itsuki's shirt gets ripped when Ms. Mori goes flying past him in episode 21.
* ContinuityCameo - Muu-chan, the "Mugen Lion".
* ContinuityNod - Several episodes feature references from previous episodes. For example, the Computer Club's fossilized kappa introduced in episode 5 was stolen by Taniguchi in episode 7. In episode 19, he snuck it back in disguised as Santa.
* ContrivedCoincidence - In episode 19 Taniguchi dresses as Santa and sneaks into the school to put back a gift-wrapped kappa in the Computer Club's room on the same night that Haruhi is holding a Christmas party and has Kyon waiting in the Computer Room to catch Santa.
* CookingDuel - With balloon animals and art, and [[SubvertedTrope it turns out Kyon and Haruhi don't know how to actually make them]].
* {{Cosplay}} - Mikuru and Yuki engage in a cosplay contest. Haruhi is nonplussed.
* CosplayOtakuGirl - Yuki.
* CountingSheep - Zig zagged in the first episode.
* CovertPervert - Yuki. Light on the 'Covert', but with extra 'Pervert'.
* CranialEruption - Yuki and Achakura do this to each other semi-regularly.
* CrashIntoHello - The VisualNovel that Yuki has Kyon play in episode 25 has one. Except it's with [[spoiler:Arakawa-san. [[DrivesLikeCrazy And he's in a car]].]]
* DependingOnTheWriter - Deliberately exaggerated with Yuki, [[GamerChick who]] [[OtakuSurrogate doesn't]] [[CosplayOtakuGirl just]] [[CovertPervert read]] [[YaoiFangirl books]] in this series.
* {{Determinator}} - Kyon, considering how often he blows up.

* DisappearsIntoLight - Kyon in episode 9. "Hikari ni naru!!!!"
* TheDitz - "Mikuru got confused, and stopped thinking."
* {{Dojikko}} - Itsuki gets into a discussion about Mori dropping by in episode 17, and actually uses the word.
* DoubleKnockout - Episode 10.
* DramaticWind - Episode 17.
* DrivesLikeCrazy - Arakawa. With how that car was spinning he's even worse than [[Manga/AzumangaDaioh Yukari-sensei]].
* DynamicEntry - Kyon's sister gives one to Kyon in episode 1 with a spinning drill kick.

* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt

* EverythingsBetterWithSpinning - Yuki spins Achakura [[MemeticMutation right round]] in episodes 6 and 8.
* EyesAlwaysShut

* FanService - [[StupidSexyFlanders Itsuki's]] randomly [[ShirtlessScene open shirt]] in episode 18.

* FlippingTheTable - Same idea. In Achakura's first episode she becomes increasingly irritated with her treatment by Yuki, culminating when Yuki tries to feed her what appears to be pet food in a doggie dish. Yuki claims that this is a joke and goes to give her some real food but leaves it in the doggie dish, so Achakura flips the dish. Achakura actually does this with a few of the things that Yuki gives her.
* FunSize - Everyone, since they are in chibi form most of the time, but Achakura takes it a step [[strike:higher]] lower.

* GamerChick - Yuki. Mostly {{Bishoujo Game}}s.
* GayOption - The Doujin Visual Novel that Yuki has Kyon play advertises ten "[[LoveInterest heroines]]": Haruhi, Mikuru, Yuki, [[{{Yandere}} Asakura]], Tsuruya, Mori, [[LittleSisterHeroine Kyon's sister]], and (Emiri) Kimidori. Yes, you counted right. There are eight girls. [[spoiler:The other two are Koizumi and Arakawa]].

* GivingUpTheGhost: Happens to the Computer Club members after the dodgeball game in episode 5.
* GratuitousEnglish

* {{Hatsuyume}}: The premise of Kyon's dream in episode 01, although with a twist. Koizumi is Mt. Fugi (actually just a regular mountain), Tsuruya is the hawk (or rather, a [[VisualPun crane]] with the heart of a hawk), and Nagato is an eggplant cellphone strap.

* ImTakingHerHomeWithMe - What Yuki does with Achakura. Although she doesn't do it because Achakura is cute, but rather so she can keep an eye on her.

* KickTheSonOfABitch: Yuki’s treatment of Achakura can come off as petty and abusive at times, but once she gets out of the apartment she expresses that she still wants to murder Kyon, validating Yuki’s reasoning for keeping her there.

* LuminescentBlush

* MadeOfExplodium - ''Kyon''.
* MoodWhiplash

* MundaneMadeAwesome

* NinjaMaid - Mori.
* NoodleImplements - Episode 3. We never find out exactly what the "Truck vs Kyon" event involves, but it's hard to forget the line "Here's your firework."

* OtakuSurrogate - Yuki.
* OutOfCharacterMoment - As you listen to the full intro song, towards the end all three seyus of the girls start to loose their character voice, Mikuru going angry and Nagato losing her monotone singing, for one refrain and then jump back into character for the rest of the song. [[https://www.youtube.com/watchv=FBArHQ2Tdxc#t=184s Listen closely!]][[note]]It's worth noting the ''contents'' of that refrain - namely that they're all BreakingTheFourthWall by complaining about the length of the song, that they're not getting paid enough for it, and begging the fans to consider their suffering.[[/note]]
* PaperThinDisguise

* {{Parody}} - The intro to the final episode is a DatingSim intro parody.

* PunnyName - Achakura is a lisped version of Asakura. "Acha" can also be a "wince in pain" interjection, sometimes reacting to metaphoric pain or even someone else's pain. (E.g., watching someone get hit and saying, "Ooh, that's gotta hurt.")
* ReallyDeadMontage - Happens in episode 24 with [[spoiler:Kimidori, as soon as the Time Bomb explodes. Subverted since he gets better]].
* RelaxOVision - Part of Hiruhi's quiz show in episode 3 involves Kyon tied up in fireworks and a small pickup truck. It would have been awesome if we weren't seeing Mikuru feeding and playing with her pet lion the whole time.
* RidiculouslyCuteCritter - Kimidori-san.
* TheRival - Tsuruya vs Mori. This reaches ''Manga/DragonBall'' levels.
* RuleOfCute - Aww!!

* TheScream - Achakura in episode 20.
* SeriousBusiness - The balloon modelling contest, with TrashTalk from Haruhi and Kyon and Itsuki as the judge and commentator.

* SexySilhouette ShowerScene - Non-chibi Yuki in episode 24.
* ShirtlessScene - Twice by Itsuki, and both [[FanService completely unnecessary]]. [[LampshadeHanging He even gets called]] for one of those by Kyon.
* ShoutOut
** One to a particular {{Epileptic Tree|s}} - that of Kyon being the real deity in the series - in episode 1. It's even ''lampshaded''.

* SinisterSilhouettes - Parodied with Asakura claiming to be a member of the [[FourIsDeath Radical Big Four]], which is quickly revealed [[SortingAlgorithmOfEvil to be under]] the [[TerribleTrio three leaders]], all of whom are shown as generic featureless silhouettes. Kyon proceeds to call it cheesy and blame it on [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portopia_Renzoku_Satsujin_Jiken Yasu.]]
* SlapstickKnowsNoGender
* SlowMotionPassBy - In episode 12.

* SpinningClockHands - While Haruhi and the other girls prepare chocolate sculptures.
* SpitTake - Kyon's understandable reaction to finding out [[HGame what Yuki was doing on her laptop.]]
** He has another one when, while trying not to laugh at Mikuru's attempts at a cosplay war with Yuki, she sneaks up behind him in her frog suit[[note]]The caption says "It's rezally a bear"[[/note]]. He turns to look, and subsequently laughs.
* SpotlightStealingSquad - [[NinjaMaid Mori-san,]] although moreso in the comics than in the animation. Just read any of the mangas and you'll see.

* {{Squee}} - An in-story example is Haruhi's reaction to cornering "Santa". Her angrily-flushed cheeks visibly give way to a LuminescentBlush, and the resulting squeal echoes throughout the solar system, and even the galaxy.
* StuffBlowingUp

* SuperDeformed - The predominant art style.
* SuperWindowJump - Via NinjaMaid.

* ThemeTuneCameo - In episode 4, Mikuru hums [[DancingTheme "Hare Hare Yukai"]].
* {{Tsundere}} - Achakura.

* VillainDecay - {{Parodied|Trope}}. Achakura attempts to avert this shortly after [[CameBackWrong Coming Back Wrong]] by escaping from Yuki's apartment in order to kill Kyon, but rapidly changes her mind after a cat starts eyeing her up for lunch. [[invoked]]
* WallJump - Achakura attempts this in episode 10. Guess how it turned out.
* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids - In-universe: In the subbed version, Kyon protested that the game Yuki lent him was rated E... [[{{Eroge}} but that didn't stand for "everyone" in this case.]]
* WikiWalk - Lampshaded, complete with step-by-step explanation.
* WireDilemma - Yuki sets one up for Achakura and Kimidori to solve in episode 24. [[spoiler:They don't even bother]].
* WrittenSoundEffect - All the time.
** WrittenRoar - Mikuru's "Honya~!"(ほにぁー!)
* UnwillingSuspension - Mikuru in episode 25.

* VocalEvolution - A version of it. Haruhi's voice is more high pitched and sounds more similar to [[Manga/LuckyStar Konata]] then her main anime counterpart.
* YaoiFangirl