One of the most popular icons and characters in Japan is a brown haired girl with yellow ribbons in her hair named Haruhi Suzumiya. People mimic the opening dance from her anime, dress up like her, collect toys that look like her character, read about her and even play video games where she is the star.

Thanks to companies like Bandai Entertainment, Little Brown Books and Yen Press, people in North America can start to read and watch Haruhi Suzumiya’s adventures. However, no video game publisher has taken a chance on her eclectic games.

Before we look at five video game adventures, lets take a brief look at what Haruhism is all about…

First Haruhi Suzumiya took Japan by storm in a series of light novels, of which there have been nine with another on the way. Then she infiltrated television in the anime The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya. After that, she slipped into video games as the star of The Perplexity of Haruhi Suzumiya (PS2), The Promise of Haruhi Suzumiya (PSP) and a forthcoming, yet unnamed Wii title. Now she has forced herself into the Pinky St world as a new P:Chara release.

JBox is one of the first retailers online to offer this character figure. Haruhi is expected to be released sometime in March 2008, and by preordering you can guarantee that you will have own the diminutive leader of the S.O.S. Brigade.