She has more of a loli and cuteness factor to her than Suzumiya.

Suzumiya and Fujioka are so different that even as loli I have a hard time with this. Both of them are not about invoking pity but they resort to very different means to get to where they are. In some sense Suzumiya is Fujioka’s antithesis (but that’s the high-school era Haruhis)

Suzumiya’s narriative paints out a picture of herself very clearly with her loli days and the piece invokes thought whereas Fujioka stands out less since Suzumiya and the number crunch is rather unique. Suzumiya fails to make peace with the nature of things and sets forth to change everything later on while Fujioka accepts the surrounding but not herself.

I can’t decide.

That said, if you want to compare them as characters, I find Suzumiya far more outstanding. Fujioka is stoic and sensible in the midst of a frivolous, snobby, and just plain annoying elitny. She’s a situational rebel. Suzumiya’s a rebel for the sake of rebellion, ‘a thing I like is obviously weird’ and all that. They have that in common. It makes both of them interesting in their settings. But Suzumiya would be interesting anywhere that even remotely resembles our world. Fujioka is only interesting because she’s surrounded by the Host Club, who bring out her perceptivity, her wit, and her past… like Kyon, she’d be a nobody (albeit a much high-achieving nobody) if she wasn’t surrounded by such eccentrics.

If I knew Suzumiya personally, I wouldn’t like her. Can’t let things like that whole computer extortion deal slide just because she has a lot of magnetism. But even if what she does with it is often wrong or meaningless, I’d envy her drive and pride. I’ve known an extraordinary person who made me question the value of a conventional life in the past, and I don’t think a fictional one would be any different.

Gah, that long-winded and I still don’t think I said what I wanted to. Well, it’s something to read, I guess.

By that logic Naruto’s the hottest kid sister around, how many minutes of screentime were filled with flashbacks of that god damn swing exactly?

She’s just irresistibly kawaii. Her maturity is/was far beyond her years and it makes her admirable. She’s just a great character overall.

Unless it’s texas hold’em (terrible bluffer).

a Haruhi who in spite of suffering genuine family hardship and being denied many of the opprutunities that a child should have had by circumstance, willingly picked up vacated responsibilities and grew up into a wonderful adult with a strong sense of self and moral uprightness…

and…

a self absorbed little brat who was so crushed by merely the fact that she wasn’t the bright center of everything that she grew into a bigger self absorbed brat who walk over everything and everyone around her with no regard whatsoever in a selfish campaign to bring meaning into her own self inflicted emptiness.

It’s so hard to choose…maturity and growth versus denial and maladjustment.

I do have to admit that by Suzumiya Haruhi grew as a person by the end of the chronological series but her problems at the beginning of the series was entirely her own fault.