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I am planning on re-watching _The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya_ , and all of
a sudden I see that there are 28 episodes now when I was pretty sure the anime
had ended at around 14 episodes (?).

Is there a sequel or did I just not see the other 14 episodes being released?


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Why is there a difference in number of episodes between anime and TV broadcast of Haruhi?


Officially, Season 2 is a sequel to Season 1; it was released after Season 1
and doesn't repeat any material. The US DVD releases for the two are
completely separate. But because of the jumbled continuity of the Haruhi
Suzumiya series, the Japanese TV broadcast of Season 2 included a rebroadcast
of Season 1. That's why when you looked it up, your source said there were 28
episodes; it was going by the TV broadcast, and wasn't being careful about the
distinction between Season 1 and Season 2.

Since the timelines of Seasons 1 and 2 are interleaved, when Season 2 was
broadcast on Japanese TV, it was shown along with a rebroadcast of Season 1,
with all the episodes in chronological order. For example, _The Sigh of Haruhi
Suzumiya_ (in Season 2) was played before "Live Alive" (in Season 1) because
_The Sigh_ takes place before "Live Alive". (The movie the Brigade shows at
the culture festival during "Live Alive" was filmed during _The Sigh_.)

The merging of Season 1 and Season 2 was only for the TV broadcast; if you buy
the DVDs, they're separate, so if you haven't bought the Season 1 DVDs yet,
make sure to get those along with the Season 2 set. The Season 2 DVD set only
includes the new episodes. The DVD sets don't have the episodes
chronologically ordered; they have their own ordering for the episodes which
is different from both the chronological ordering and the TV broadcast. You
can read more about that on [the Wikipedia
page](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_Melancholy_of_Haruhi_Suzumiya_episodes),
but I'll give a little summary:

  * Season 1 was originally broadcast in weirdo order, then later broadcast in chronological order **without** the Season 2 episodes.
  * When Season 2 came out, it was shown along with the episodes from Season 1; the entire series was shown in chronological order for this broadcast.
  * The US DVD sets have their own ordering. The Season 1 DVD sets are ordered chronologically amongst themselves, except that "The Adventures of Mikuru Asahina Episode 00" is the first episode. The Season 2 DVD sets are ordered chronologically amongst themselves.

(I'm not even going to go into whether the various repetitions of "Endless
Eight" have a chronological ordering or not--the metaphysics of time is off
topic here.)


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