The NPCs in Haruhi Have Names?!?

November 27, 2006 in Commentary by Tom Langston (calaggie) | 3 comments

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Last week, the second volume of H’s magazine was released and within its covers, many of Haruhi’s non-speaking classmates were named albeit in the form of “X-san”. I think the girl in the upper right is Hinata-san but I can’t make out most of the kanji due to the flash and compactness of type. Might have to snag a copy when I visit J-Town this weekend.

It’s nice that these characters were given some personality instead of just being written off as background decoration but I don’t think most people care except for those fans who are very detail-oriented.

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  1. kristalyamaki’s avatar

    kristalyamaki on November 27, 2006 at 10:38 pm

    Reminds me of Negima.

    Yeah, some personality is indeed needed for those non-main characters, but usually, it’s just best for those characters to be neglected. Even Haruhi herself needed more focus on as the main character.

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  2. Kent’s avatar

    Kent on November 27, 2006 at 10:53 pm

    :O thats kool. not that many animes that name their NPCs

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  3. uhsieh’s avatar

    uhsieh on November 28, 2006 at 7:41 am

    I think they have the room chart in the Official Guide with names, although I think your’s is better since it has color pics rather than just sketches of the classmates.

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