Original Story: Nagaru Tanigawa
Manga: Gaku Tsugano
Character Design: Noizi Ito
Translation: Christine Schilling
Lettering: Alexis Eckerman
SUZUMIYA HARUHI NO YUUTSU Volume 1 © Nagaru TANIGAWA • Noizi ITO 2006 © Gaku TSUGANO 2006. First published in Japan in 2006 by KADOKAWA SHOTEN PUBLISHING CO., LTD., Tokyo. English translation rights arranged with KADOKAWA SHOTEN PUBLISHING CO., LTD., Tokyo through TUTTLEMORI AGENCY, INC., Tokyo.
English translation © 2008 by Hachette Book Group, Inc.
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The characters and events in this book are fictitious. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended by the author.
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