Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya: Ryoko Asakura

Among all the Hare Hare Yukais and time-traveling esper aliens, there is not often another anime series that generates as much buzz and a huge fanbase like The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya. Since its debut in 2006, the anime adaptation of Nagaru Tanigawa's light novels has swept up a horde of otaku in a wave of Haruhi-ism to make it one of the most spectacular (or over-hyped) series to come out of the Japanese animation system in a while. However, regardless of what one might think about the series, there is no denying that the over-whelming popularity of it has made it into a phenomenon across the anime world. And as is the case with a lot of these kinds of series, the ...