The anime starts life as a new student called Suzumiya Haruhi enrolls into a new high school. However her blunt introduction speech to the class, indicates she has no interest in ordinary humans and would much rather that talk to aliens, time travellers, sliders and espers. After alienating everyone in the class with this, she becomes a loner who would much rather spend time by herself than with others. This doesn’t stop her from joining school-clubs, though after 1 day in most cases, she will quit the club and join another at the behest of others. Haruhi’s unusually behaviour doesn’t go unnoticed however and is narrated by the show’s protagonist Kyon, who by fate, is Haruhi’s table-neighbour in the class.

Kyron confronts Haruhi about her club expliots and soon sets in motion the creation of the SOS Brigade, Haruhi’s own personal club. The anime follows the life of this club and the events they take part in.

What really pulled me into this anime was the first episode. Understand that all the infomation you have read above, was shown on the second episode - not the first. The first episode was actually a badly acted, badly written and badly filmed B movie starring the cast of the anime - obviously an episode chronological further than the second, a film production from one of the club’s future activities. This show is very funny and the comedy is just perfect, while still has an underlining serious undertone which has yet to be revealed.