What fate does the future hold for Kyon and Haruhi?! Koizumi and his fellows from the Agency are constantly cooking up ways to gently (*ahem*) encourage romantic feelings between Kyon and Haruhi, but Koizumi's holiday board game tests the very limit of Haruhi and Kyon's acting abilities! Thankfully there's plenty of other holiday fun to be had, including the many fine offerings of autumn and the dawn of a new year (spent dodging Koizumi's machinations)!! You'll find plenty of gags and guffaws as Haruhi dives into the world of four-panel and short comics!!
Nagaru Tanigawa is a graduate of the Kwansei Gakuin University School of Law. In 2003, he won Kadokawa's Grand Prize for Literary World for his work on the Haruhi Suzumiya series.
After a steady streak of improvement this is unfortunately the first mistep and slightly regresses in quality.
The stories are decent and none I would consider bad. Also none I would consider great either. Not much laughs but decent concepts. I do like the nursery story with Mikuru and Asakura as teachers and the White Day story acts as a nice behind the scenes short that could definitely fit in with the Intrigues Novel. I also wanna shout out the Bucket tournament story which should clearly have been the big final story arc of this volume like the previous volumes battle royale. Overall I do wish the stories had more page time and were expanded on.
The weakest stories still remain the mini Asakura ones. Although it seems like they may have shaked up the status quo with the end of this volume?