The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya is an anime television series produced by Kyoto Animation and directed by Tatsuya Ishihara, based on the Haruhi Suzumiya series of light novels written by Nagaru Tanigawa and illustrated by Noizi Ito.
The series follows a high school boy known only as Kyon who encounters Haruhi Suzumiya, an erratic girl who is unaware that she possesses unconscious abilities that can alter the very universe, as he gets dragged into joining her school club, which also consists of an alien, a time traveler, and an esper.
The first season, consisting of 14 episodes, aired in Japan between April 2 and July 2, 2006, presented in a nonlinear order in its original broadcast.
[3] The television series was followed by an animated film, The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya, released on February 6, 2010.
The English-dubbed version of the second-season episodes of the anime was aired on Animax Asia and its subsidiaries from April 6, 2011.