Sun Television, the broadcasting station in Japan’s Hy?go Prefecture that is Japan’s first station to run The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya anime’s “renewed airing” in 2009, has aired the first new anime episode in almost three years on early Friday morning. The 2009 airing has been running its episodes in the story’s chonological order, and “Sasa no Ha Rhapsody” (“Bamboo Leaf Rhapsody”) is the next story chronologically in Nagaru Tanigawa and Noizi Ito‘s original science-fiction comedy light novels. However, this episode was not animated during the anime’s first airing in …

Haruhi Suzumiya is the title character of the Haruhi Suzumiya series, created by Nagaru Tanigawa and developed into a media franchise. First introduced in the light novels, which were then adapted into two manga and an anime series, with a forthcoming sequel, she is the main focus of the series. In an interview with Tanigawa, he stated that the idea for her character came during a sleepless night at the beginning of the 21st century.