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Haruhi's Day of Sagittarius III Game Offered on iPhone

Not-So-Daily Link of the Day: The Day of Sagittarius III, the game first described in the Haruhi Suzumiya light novels and later seen in Noizi Itō's original light novels in Japan, began offering the space combat game on Apple's App Store on Tuesday. 

The official description of the game simply requotes the character Haruhi's first lines in English and Japanese:

"First off, I'm not interested in ordinary people. But if any of you were aliens, time-travelers or espers, please come see me. That is all."

「ただの人間には興味ありません! この中に宇宙人、未来人、超能力者がいたら、あたしのところに来なさい。以上!」

The game forms a major plot point for episode 13 ("The Day of Sagitarius") of the first Haruhi Suzumiya television series. In the story, Haruhi is an eccentric, assertive girl who creates her own school club for her strange antics. The school's Computer Research Society programmed this game and challenges Haruhi's club at their game to regain the computer Haruhi took from them.

Little, Brown Young Readers is opened in Japan just this month.

Thanks you Bob "Ashyukun" Babcock for the news tip.

Images © Kadokawa Shoten Publishing Co., Ltd.
© 2006 Nagaru Tanigawa, Noizi Itō/member of SOS

Update: More background information added.