Might contain spoilers. Yep Im doing it again Im writing another review for another light novel in the Haruhi Suzumiya series. Let me just ask you this though why hasnt most of this novel been adapted into an anime? I mean in the fifth book The Rampage of Haruhi Suzumiya there were three short stories only one of them not being in the actual anime. This time in the sixth book there are five short stories and only two of them are in the anime Its really a shame as I enjoyed reading not only the short stories that were adapted into the anime but I also enjoyed the ones that were not. Enough chitchat. Lets get started with my review of the sixth light novel in the Haruhi Suzumiya series The Wavering of Haruhi Suzumiya shall we? In case youre not familiar with The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya Ill explain to you what its about. A boy nicknamed Kyon starts his first year of high school at North High and he ends up meeting an eccentric girl named Haruhi Suzumiya. Haruhi isnt interested in ordinary humans what she desires is to meet aliens time travelers and espers. After talking with her for a while Kyon accidentally gives Haruhi the idea to form a club called the SOS Save the World by Overloading it with Fun Haruhi Suzumiya Brigade. The clubs purpose? Find aliens time travelers and espers and hang out with them Of course Kyon is forced into joining the SOS Brigade and so are the stoic bookworm Yuki Nagato the timid upperclassman Mikuru Asahina and the eternallysmiling mysterious transfer student Itsuki Koizumi. As it turns out however there is more to these three than what meets the eye Yuki Mikuru and Koizumi are respectively the alien time traveler and esper Haruhi has been looking for. Of course Haruhi herself doesnt know this and she also doesnt know that she is basically a goddess with the power to destroy the world if she gets fed up with it. Thus Kyon and the rest of the SOS Brigade must go along with whatever Haruhi is plotting to do next or they can kiss the world goodbye. If youve read my review for The Rampage of Haruhi Suzumiya read it herehttps://anilist.co/review/19031 you should know how I feel about the characters and the art since I wrote that review my feelings havent changed. Thus Im just going to cut to the chase and review the five short stories in this novel. First weve got Live Alive one of the two short stories that was in the anime. This chapter covers the school festival and in the anime its wellknown for insert songs like God KnowsIm actually listening to it as I write this part of the review. Dont get me wrong because I enjoyed it in novel form its just that I felt that the anime expressed it better. You know how Haruhi and Yuki fill in for two members of the band ENOZ because their vocalist has tonsillitis and their guitarist sprained her wrist? Well the vocalist and the guitarist are two different people in the anime but in the light novel theyre the same person. The causes for those two members of ENOZ to be absent in the anime also applied to the girl in the novel apparently she had tonsillitis and a sprained wrist at the same time That girl really needed some medical attention am I right? Im not saying that this is a major issue but without revealing what my overall score is for this novel quite yet it bugged me enough to not make it a 10. Oh speaking of the school festival in the second novel adapted into five episodes of the second season giving a reason for people not to hate that season just because of Endless Eight because THAT SEASON WASNT JUST ENDLESS EIGHT the SOS Brigade filmed a movie for it Its very rare to actually see the finished project that was done in any kind of medium Im pretty sure that was Nagaru Tanigawas reason for writing the actual story for the film that the SOS Brigade filmed which eventually went on to become the pilot episode of the anime The Adventures of Mikuru Asahina Episode 00. In this movie/short story/anime pilot Mikuru Asahina is a battle waitress from the future who was sent to protect an esper boy named Itsuki Koizumi who of course isnt aware of his powers quite yet from the evil alien witch Yuki Nagato. Insert claim that the fact that they all have the same names and faces as certain people is just a coincidence here. I really enjoyed this short story and what made it even better was Kyons narration. If Kyons narration in the story wasnt already amusing its even more so in this one Alright now that were done with the short stories that were in the anime lets start talking about the ones that werent starting with the third short story in this novel Love at First Sight. In this story Kyon gets a phone call from a classmate in junior high named Nakagawa. Nakagawa seems to have fallen for Yuki at first sight and he wants Kyon to.... tell her to wait for 10 years for him to become successful and then propose to her. Yeah Nakagawa is one crazy dude even if its Yuki were talking about would a girl really want to wait for a guy she doesnt even know to propose to her in 10 years? Well there is Bakuman.... but Mashiro and Azuki knew each other when they made that promise If you dont know what Im talking about look it up because I refuse to change the subject. Anyway Yuki rejects this offer instead saying that she must see him immediately. Thus Nakagawa invites Kyon and Yuki although the rest of the SOS Brigade ends up coming as well to an American football game that he is playing in. Im going to be honest I would have loved it if this chapter were in the anime because I really got a kick out of it Nakagawa going on and on about his future plans had especially amused me. Im going to be honest about another thing in this chapter too I did not know they played football in Japan. Anyone who knows me would know Im not a football fan although the opposite could be said about my mother but that was interesting to know Where Did the Cat Go? That question just so happens to be the title for the next short story. It takes place pretty much immediately after Snowy Mountain Syndrome which was the short story in The Rampage of Haruhi Suzumiya that wasnt in the anime and follows the winter version of the murder mystery from Remote Island Syndrome a short story in The Boredom of Haruhi Suzumiya that was in the anime. This time everyone knows that the murder was fake.... oh and it also involves Kyons cat Shamisen or Shami as his unnamed younger sister likes to call him. It takes a while for the actual murder to take place but the fact that it took some place does serve a purpose in the end. I was genuinely stumped as I read on but when the two who ended up figuring it out laid out the hints it was also an Aha moment for me. I wont tell you their names to avoid anymore spoilers but I think you can correctly guess who one of them was. Now that I think about it the identity of the killer was obvious from the start yet I was still as stumped as everyone else. Props to you Nagaru Tanigawa Well done Finally weve got the fifth and final short story in this volume The Melancholy of Mikuru Asahina. In this one Mikuru asks Kyon to accompany her to buy some tea leaves. To Kyon this seems like a date but in reality there was an order from Mikurus superiors that could have affected whether or not Mikuru would be able to stay in the past. No Im not talking about Haruhi although this particular reason happens to know her. I absolutely loved this chapter If there is anyone out there who thinks Mikuru is useless shes absolutely not useless shes been helpful at times other than this this chapter throws that statement back at you like a boomerang especially with something Kyon says to Mikuru I also found the ending quite humorous. Overall The Wavering of Haruhi Suzumiya was a great addition to the Haruhi Suzumiya series. Its definitely a notmiss for any Haruhi fan Of course season 3 would be a notmiss too if there was one.... Well I believe itll get one one day even if I have to wait forever and this belief shall not waver