A decent follow-up to The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya. This second installment in the series maintains the light and fun atmosphere of the first. The movie plot is quite thin, and while I'm fairly sure the series has no real overarching storyline, I still found myself wanting some sort of development in addition to reading the everyday adventures of Haruhi and the gang. The little information that was revealed about the characters weren't really enough for one book. Still, it was enjoyable enough. ( )

This was one of the funniest novels I’ve ever read. It’s a short book but took awhile to read as I had to stop at times I was laughing so hard. Long Live the SOS


Reread and re-laughed my through this novel again, is it the talking cat, is it the Data Entity is it Kyon, I don't know just love this series. ( )

A good story, but some of the characters actions don't really fit with the way they were presented in the earlier book, which makes it a bit weaker than the first one. ( )

The Sigh of Haruhi Suzumiya is the second volume in the series following the lives of the members of the SOS Brigade and their extraordinary adventures.

In this volume, Haruhi vows to make a student film for the school's cultural festival, with all the parts filled by SOS Brigade members and friends. However, to everyone except Haruhi's annoyance and dismay, when filming begins, her powers and unconsciously manifested which could lead to the rewriting of reality itself.

Tanigawa provides both light-hearted fun following these high school students around but he also provides a surprising depth to his work - a extract where the brigade members sans Haruhi come across a talking cat and debate the meaning of language is just one example of the philosophical trend in the series.

An excellent continuation to the already-best selling first volume, the adventures of Haruhi Suzumiya are set to continue! ( )

As fun as Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya was, The Sigh of Harushi Suzumiya seems to fall short of the feeling of fun and excitement that was prevalent in the first book. In some ways that's not surprising since (from my understanding), Tanigawa never originally anticipated in creating a sequel, and this book in some ways feels a bit light in content and plump in filler. After all, how can one top a (potentially) world ending cataclysmic event that occurred in Melancholy?

Compared to that, the 'crisis' that is prevalent throughout this book seems somewhat anti-climactic and in some ways petty. For the most part, this book is basically about the ego of Haruhi. Although it was present in the previous book, it was only visible in palatable doses, while here, we're treated to the whole enchilada. In addition, about five percent of the book is of Koizumi's (for better lack of word) technobabble, as he talks one theory of 'reality vs fiction' after another.

Frustratingly, most of this would have been bearable if not for the odd translation decisions made by the translator throughout this book. For a book that's set in Japan, most of the cultural references were replaced with an American equivalent. While that is certainly understandable to give the non-Japanese speaking reader a certain context to understand, it leaves me somewhat puzzled as to why then, certain terms themselves are left untranslated? Unless, one is familiar with Japanese or has a dictionary handy, I doubt anybody would know what 'hikkikomori' or 'tokusatsu' means. Personally, I'd have been find if the translator left the name of a Japanese band in the script, if it meant translating the rest into English. At least with the bands, I would still understand the context.

Overall, it's a decent book, but mainly for fans of the series who would be reading this just to barrel through to the next book in the series. ( )