The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya

Haruhi is set in **Nishinomiya**, between Osaka and Kobe, where the author grew up. The model for the school is **Hyogo Prefectural Nishinomiya-Kita High School** on the hill above Koyoen station, and the long climb to it — universally called Haruhi Slope — is the walk that opens the series. Two honest notes. The school is being consolidated and renamed, so the name on the gate is going; and it is a working school, which means you look from the public road and nothing else. Along with Lucky Star, this is one of the works that built the practice of anime pilgrimage in the 2000s, and Nishinomiya has stayed friendly to it.