Taiwanese TV Show Calls Haruhi a Hentai Novel, Angry Fans Request an Apology, Kadokawa Shoten Apologizes

On 9/1, the hosts of a Taiwanese variety show called "The Guess Show" (我猜我猜我猜猜猜) introduced the light novel The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya as an adult light novel by saying it's "obviously H" and "so A[dult]," and went on to read out "adult scenes" from the book. The episode caused an uproar from the online community and the fans. The host's response was: "Obviously what I said weren't from the novel, I'm also a Haruhi fan, it's not my fault if they can't take a little joke." In the end, the show did not apologize.

A few days ago, Kadokawa Taiwan issued a statement explaining that the Haruhi novel is in fact not an adult novel, and asks the TV show to better organize its programs in order to avoid further confusion:

On the September 1st, during "The Guess Show," the hosts, while describing our company's light novel The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, associated the contents with descriptions such as "There's H" and "So A". The descriptions don't match the content of our light novel. Such action could confuse the general public, and may create an unfavorable environment for our readers. We are very sorry about this.

We hope in the future "The Guess Show" would better research its topics and respect its guests in order to prevent sending the wrong message to the audience.

We'd also like to thank our readers, fans and supporter of Haruhi. Our company will not be affected by the show, and will continue to publish quality light novels and contribute to Taiwan's anime market together with the fans.

Kadokawa Media (Taiwan) Co., Ltd.
September 3rd, 2007

The controversial episode can be found here (starts around 1:20 and "climaxes" around 2:20).

A brief transcript of some of the dialogues for your pleasure (Contains adult situations. Parental discretion advised):

Then a men dragged me out, his fingers massaging my white skin. With his flame of desire ignited, he begin to suck me really hard...I am a cigarette.