| Bamboo Leaf Rhapsody | |
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| Japanese title | Sasa no Ha Rapusodi (笹の葉ラプソディ) |
| Season | 2 |
| Season Two (Chronological) Broadcast No. |
08 |
| Air date | May 22, 2009 |
| Episode Guide | |
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| Previous (Season Two) The Boredom of Haruhi Suzumiya |
Next (Season Two) Mystérique Sign |
- This article is about the anime episode. For the short story, see Bamboo Leaf Rhapsody (story).
Key events[]
- Asahina brings Kyon back in time and meets the older Mikuru Asahina.
- Kyon meets young Haruhi and helps her draw signs on the campus grounds.
- They meet Nagato who brings them back to present time.
- Kyon thinks he may have inspired Haruhi to attend North High.
Summary[]
It's the 7th of July, and Haruhi decides the SOS Brigade should celebrate Tanabata. The members write their wishes down on tanzaku (rectangular pieces of colored paper) and hang them on a bamboo tree. The gods who grant the wishes, Orihime and Hikoboshi, are represented by the stars Vega and Altair respectively, and Haruhi points out that because these stars are respectively 25 and 16 light years from Earth and it is impossible to travel faster than the speed of light, their wishes will take 25 and 16 years to be granted.
Nagato and Asahina each leave a tanzaku with Kyon; Asahina's asks him to stay with her after everyone leaves. Asahina asks Kyon to travel back in time with her. They arrive in a park, exactly three years ago. Asahina falls unconscious and the adult version of her says Kyon must carry the unconscious Asahina with him and assist a person at the school nearby. This person proves to be young Haruhi, who is breaking into her school.
Haruhi orders Kyon to draw symbols on the school grounds with a line marker, which he realizes are the quad scribbles Taniguchi told him about. After he finishes, she asks Kyon whether he thinks aliens, time travelers, espers and sliders exist; he answers affirmatively, except for sliders. To avoid causing a paradox, he remains anonymous, giving his name as John Smith and claiming Asahina is his narcoleptic sister. However, Haruhi recognizes his North High uniform and becomes further interested when he mentions knowing someone like her at North High. Haruhi heads home.
Kyon wakes Asahina. Her TPDD, the device she uses to travel through time, is missing, so they cannot return to Kyon's present. Kyon realizes the TPDD must have been taken by the adult Asahina and looks at Nagato's tanzaku, which has written on it the symbols Haruhi had him draw. They find the younger Nagato at her apartment, gaining entrance by introducing themselves as acquaintances of Haruhi Suzumiya. Nagato freezes time inside her bedroom until the present arrives, allowing Kyon and Asahina to return to their correct time without having to wait and age three years. She tells Kyon the symbols on her tanzaku say "I am here." Startled by her ability to translate, he asks if the symbols Haruhi composed are in an alien language, but Nagato does not answer.
Asahina says she cannot answer Kyon's questions about why they helped young Haruhi because she is just a trainee who only became involved because Haruhi chose her for the SOS Brigade. The next day at school, Kyon finds Haruhi still melancholy from the day before because she has been remembering the events of Tanabata from three years ago. At the SOS Brigade meeting, he discusses with Koizumi and Nagato the contradiction between Asahina's statement that the past and future have no connection and the likelihood that his conversation with Haruhi three years ago caused her decision to attend North High.
Characters[]
Paranormal phenomena[]
Kyon and Asahina travel back in time. Haruhi directs Kyon to draw symbols which, judging by Nagato's ability to understand them, are in an alien language. Nagato suspends time inside her bedroom for three years.
Trivia[]
- This episode was the 8th episode broadcast for Season 2, but was the first new episode.
- This episode is referred to during the following episodes of Season 1.
- This episode is the only episode in Season 2 to be a standalone episode.
- The scene in the novel where Asahina applies ointment to Haruhi's back is omitted.
- In this episode, Haruhi orders Kyon to draw the symbols; in the original short story, she attempts to draw them herself, and Kyon volunteers to do it for her.
- In the subtitled version, Haruhi comments on Kyon's wishes "How crass." In the dubbed version, she instead calls them "pathetic".
- In the subtitled version, Asahina expresses thankfulness that the other members of the SOS Brigade all left the meeting early. She does the complete opposite in the dubbed version, complaining that the other members took so long to leave.
- In the original Japanese audio, Kyon addresses the younger Nagato with "Yo", his usual greeting. In the English dubbed version he instead uses the playfully atypical "Howdy."
- The Disappearance of Nagato Yuki-Chan episode "Her Confusion" is largely a remake of "Bamboo Leaf Rhapsody".
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