A new song and music video for Haruhi Suzumiya the series is in production. The announcement tweet from the official X account (formerly known as Twitter) teased a new Haruhi dance for the Reiwa era.

The Haruhi dance in question refers to the dance the characters perform at the end of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya Anime adaptation, “Hare Hare Yukai.” Many fans made covers on sites like YouTube and Nico Nico Douga. At the height of the covid-19 pandemic in 2020Aya Hirano, who voices Haruhi, made an instructional video on how to perform the dance at home.

Here is the official teaser:

Just like “Hare Hare Yukai,” the new song will be performed by Aya Hirano, Yuko Goto, and Minori Chihara. They are the voice actresses for Haruhi, Mikuru and Yuki respectively. The announcement image includes Kyon and Koizumi, but they will likely only appear as dancers in the music video.

Although the height of Haruhipopularity was in the mid-2000s, there has been a recent revival due to the new The Theater of Haruhi Suzumiya novel. It will come out November 29, 2024and it comes out at the same time in Japanese and English. This is the direct sequel to the previous volume, The Intuition of Haruhi Suzumiyawhich came out on November 25, 2020.

More information about the new Haruhi Suzumiya song and music video coming out in the near future; we’ll likely hear more about it later this month to coincide with the new light novel.