Haruchika – Haruta & Chika

6.7

2016•24m

Production

Haruta and Chika are members of their high school wind instrument club that is on the verge of being shut down. The two are childhood friends, and they spend their days practicing hard while also trying to recruit new members. When a certain incident happens within their school, they work together to solve it.

Seasons

12 Episodes • Premiered 2016

Things look bleak for the school’s Wind Instrument Club until childhood friends Haruta and Chika step in to save the day. When they aren’t practicing to perfect their own playing, they’re working hard to save the club by recruiting new members. After a series of mysteries shock the school, they’ll have to add junior detectives to their already impressive resumes.

1. Melodious Cipher

High school brass band club members and newly reunited childhood neighbors Haruta and Chika decode a mysterious message hidden in the music of Bach and become rivals in love.

2. Cloth Cube

The brass band club is recruiting new members! Haruta hopes to enlist fellow first year student and former oboist, Miyoko Narushima. She wil join on one condition: Haruta and Chika must first solve an unsolvable Rubik's cube.

3. Exit Game

It's now fall and the brass band club has grown. Haruta, Chika, and Miyoko stumble upon Sei Maren, a former saxophonist, at the drama club. The brass band club and the drama club engage in dramatic battle to help Sei come to terms with his past.

4. Vernacular Modernism

It's Christmas Eve and the brass band club has nowhere to practice. And, even worse, Haruta is homeless! Haruta's sister, Minami, shows up to help him find a new apartment and the listing they find presents them with a mystery and a miracle.

5. Elephant's Breath

Akari Gotou, a junior high bass trombonist, comes to the high school in search of Haruta and asks him to help her solve the puzzle of her grandfather's time abroad. Their clues include three paintings and a mysterious color called "Elephant's Breath."

6. Springraphy

It's spring break and the clubs are on the prowl for new members as students get ready to enter high school. During the break, there's been a tresspasser in the music room. Can the brass band club members figure out what she's been doing there?

7. A Frequency of 77.4 MHz

The band club is growing. In order to get a budget increase, Chika and Haruta agree to track down one of the student council's problem club leaders. Why is the geology club leader on the run? What is her connection to a mysterious radio station?

8. First Love Sommelier

Naoko volunteers to help Chika rehearse for the upcoming qualifying round, but wants her help in return. Her aunt has returned to Japan in search of information on her first love and goes to the school's First Love Sommelier for assistance.

9. The Gaze of Asmodeus

Mr. Kusakabe has collapsed from exhuastion! To help out Mr. Kusakabe, Chika and Haruta investigate the mystery behind the Fujigasaki High School brass band club advisor's suspension and the peeping Tom known as Asmodeus.

10. Jabberwock's License

The day of the district contest has arrived! When Haruta goes missing, Chika goes to look for him and runs into a writer who's interested in Mr. Kusakabe's past. Can the mystery of a lost dog's true owner appease the writer's curiosity instead?

11. The Valley of Eden

According to the will of Mr. Kusakabe's former teacher, his granddaughter, Makoto, is the only one who knows the whereabouts of the key to his beloved piano. Can they figure out the secret of the key's location?

12. Sympathy Triangle

Mr. Kusakabe got an offer to conduct for the Hamamatsu Orchestra. Will he leave the Shimizu South High School Brass Band Club? Why did he skip on the performance as a conductor years before? Haruta and Chika follow him to find out.