Yuki Nagato

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Yuki Nagato
Japanese	長門 有希 Nagato Yuki
Voice actor (jp)	Minori Chihara
Voice actor (en)	Michelle Ruff

Yuki Nagato (長門 有希, Nagato Yuki^?) is a fictional character from the Haruhi Suzumiya light novel series, voiced by Minori Chihara in the original version, and Michelle Ruff in the English dubbed edition. Yuki Nagato is the only member of the SOS Brigade not recruited by Haruhi. She was originally the lone remaining member of the Literary Club and was found within the clubroom reading in solitude. She simply became a part of the SOS Brigade when Haruhi forcibly took over the clubroom.

[edit] Humanoid Interface

Yuki is not a typical human, but a "humanoid interface" or artificial human created by the Integrated Data Entity. As data that lacked a physical manifestation, her humanoid body established a communication link between her masters and humanity. She was sent to investigate the cause of the explosion of data that occurred three years ago which far exceeded anything they had observed. She is capable of superhuman feats and manipulating data, which can have an effect upon the physical world itself, an ability that Kyon refers to as "bogus magic." As a result, Yuki can have amazing athletic abilities (if she chooses to), program and manipulate software with incredible speed, create a baseball bat that always strike home runs, arrange for a student (Asakura) to mysteriously transfer out of the high school, change the weather, predict the future and many other things.

As a "humanoid interface," Yuki has been assigned to observe Haruhi and keep her a stable subject for continued observation for the Data Integration Entity (the intensity of her servitude is revealed in the story "Endless Eight"). It is revealed that she is often manipulating the situation from behind-the-scenes, preventing the occurrences of many erratic and bizarre events caused by Haruhi. In one such case, Yuki allowed the Computer Society's President to mysteriously disappear instead of preventing it in order to alleviate Haruhi's boredom (Mystérique Sign).

[edit] Personality

Yuki is methodical, stoic, succinct, and taciturn. She avoids speaking at all unless she is prompted to do so by a question directed at her or because her duties require it. In fact, she has only ever opened up to Kyon, who claims to be proud of his ability to decipher her expressions, and actually spoken in a full conversation. Having a love for books and knowledge, she is often seen reading a book. After the school festival, she also became fond of working with computer software. Mikuru often feels nervous or intimidated by Nagato due to Nagato's abilities and her silent demeanor.

She finds it difficult to empathize with humans, and often defers to Kyon's better judgment where it concerns ethical problems she has little understanding of. She also has apparently developed some sense of attachment to Kyon and the SOS Brigade. At the start of the series, she is always seen wearing glasses, but following a fight with Ryōko Asakura, she forgets to regenerate them after dropping during the battle, and they remain absent after that. This may largely be due to Kyon commenting that he wasn't a "glasses guy" and that she looked better without them. Kyon appreciates Yuki's reliability and dependability, often relying upon her to diffuse the byproducts of Haruhi's wild schemes and imagination.

During the story of "The Day of Sagittarius", Yuki becomes very accustomed to and fond of computers as a sort of hobby, though never displacing the majority of time she spends reading at school. After the Society's defeat in their own game, Nagato agrees to play with the Society's computers from time to time. In the novel's corresponding chapter, but not the anime, it is also revealed that she has many secret admirers, with the Computer Society's President possibly being one such admirer.

[edit] Relation with Kyon

Unlike from the other characters, Yuki tends to accept Kyon's commands and requests more openly. This tendency is particularly noted when Yuki is unwilling to open a door for Haruhi, because of a command from Kyon prohibiting such action.

Yuki has saved Kyon on more than one occasion; the first being the fight with Ryoko Asakura (mentioned above), and the second being during the filming of the SOS Brigade's movie. In the latter incident, Mikuru's fictional "Mikuru Beam" becomes real, due to Haruhi's power, in the form of a laser emanating from Mikuru's contact lens. Yuki prevents it from hitting Kyon by catching it, then proceeds to knock Mikuru down and take the lens. This scene is shown in the first episode in the anime from Kyon's point of view, however it is never explained. Yuki's ever growing emotions are noticed by Kyon as the novel's progress, by his observation of her eyes. Her contrast of logic and emotions that involve Kyon come to a head during The Vanishment of Haruhi Suzumiya, in which it is revealed that she was the one who created a different future, giving Kyon an average high school life, thinking that it would make him happy. However, she also gave his feelings some consideration, and offered him a chance to change the world back to the way it once was.

Haruhi Suzumiya v • d • e
Series:	The Melancholy (book 1) | The Sigh (book 2) | The Boredom (book 3) | The Vanishment (book 4) | The Rashness (book 5) | The Disturbance (book 6) | The Scheme (book 7) | The Anger (book 8) | The Dissociation (book 9) | The Surprise (book 10)
Characters:	List of characters | Haruhi Suzumiya | Kyon | Yuki Nagato | Mikuru Asahina | Itsuki Koizumi
Lists:	List of anime episodes | List of Haruhi Suzumiya albums | List of character song albums