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Character Profile: Yuki Nagato

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Name
Yuki Nagato Yuki Nagato(長門 有希) Yuki Nagato (The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya)
Alias
   
Race
Humanoid interface(robot/cyborg thing built by the Integrated Data Thought Entity) Humanoid interface(robot/cyborg thing built by the Integrated Data Thought Entity)
Gender
Female Female
Age
3 years old(source: Episodes 3 & 5)(Appears about 17 years old) 3 years old(source: Episodes 3 & 5)(Appears about 17 years old)
Hair
Purplish brown Purplish brown
Eyes
Golden-brown Golden-brown
Height
   
Weight
   
Status
Student, data entity, member of the S.O.S. Brigade Student, data entity, member of the S.O.S. Brigade
Quote
"A humanoid interface for use in contact with organic living creatures, created by the Integrated Data Thought Entity that supervises this galaxy. That would be me...In more common terminology, I would be classified as an alien." "A humanoid interface for use in contact with organic living creatures, created by the Integrated Data Thought Entity that supervises this galaxy. That would be me...In more common terminology, I would be classified as an alien."
Voice
Michelle Ruff Minori Chihara
Debut
Episode 00, "The Adventures of Mikuru Asahina Episode 00, "The Adventures of Mikuru Asahina
Anime
The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuuutsu
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The Disappearence of Haruhi Suzumiya Suzumiya Haruhi no Shoshitsu

Last I checked, this character's cosplay outfit was available at Milanoo.

Character Description: Yuki Nagato

Yuki Nagato is a student in the same high school which Haruhi Suzumiya and Kyon attend. Originally, she was a member of the literature club... but since the rest of the members graduated the term before, she was present when Haruhi took over the club room when she formed the S.O.S. Brigade. She then became the first member to "join", besides Haruhi and Kyon.

Personality-wise, Yuki is a rather dull person. She appears not to pay too much attention to all the chaos Haruhi causes, instead keeping her nose in a book. She also tends to speak in an emotionless monotone. But not long after the club was formed, Yuki had invited Kyon to her apartment for tea. It was there she told him a startling story.

Yuki had revealed that she was, in fact, an artificial data interface serving something called the Integrated Data Entity, and she had been on Earth for about three years – the same time that Haruhi had discovered she was no different than any other person on Earth – and as a result unconsciously recreated the universe. Yuki was assigned to Earth to observe Haruhi, for which the Integrated Data Entity believed that she was the key to human evolution.

Naturally, Kyon didn't think much about Yuki's story, although he got similar stories the next day from Mikuru Asahina, who clamed she was a time traveler observing Haruhi, and Itsuki Koizumi, who claimed he was an ESPer that dealt with the closed spaces often created by Haruhi's moodiness. It was some days later that another student at school, Ryoko Asakura, also claimed to be an artificial data interface, and Yuki's backup – and proved that when she went to kill Kyon, because she became impatient for Haruhi to do something and thought killing Kyon would accomplish this. Thankfully, Yuki had broken through the data shield Ryoko put up in the classroom where she trapped Kyon and not only saved him, but also deleted Ryoko from existence. Yuki then set right the damage Ryoko did and repaired the wounds she suffered.

As a data interface, Yuki has the ability to alter the data environment around her – what Kyon refers to as "bogus magic" – and is able to make unexplainable actions to occur. This ability was shown after Haruhi dragged the S.O.S. Brigade into a baseball tournament and altered both a baseball and a baseball bat so that the club could win against a seemingly-invincible baseball club.

Quotes

  • "A humanoid interface for use in contact with organic living creatures, created by the Integrated Data Thought Entity that supervises this galaxy. That would be me...In more common terminology, I would be classified as an alien." (Volume 1, Chapter 3/Episodes 3 and 5)
  • "My work is to observe Haruhi Suzumiya and upload the data obtained to the Integrated Data Thought Entity...I have been doing this since I was born three years ago." (Volume 1, Chapter 3/Episodes 3 and 5)
  • "I hope that you can both return to this world. Haruhi Suzumiya is an important observation target, an important treasure that might only appear once in this universe. Besides that, I myself also wish for you to return." (Volume 1, Chapter 7/Episode 14)
  • "This bat has been modified with a boost in attribute data." Kyon: What's that mean? "Homing Mode." (Volume 3, Chapter 1/Episode 4)
  • "Permission? ...I see. *Presses the Enter key*" (Volume 5, Chapter 2/Episode 11)
  • "In five minutes and fifteen seconds, you will buy soft-serve ice cream. At five minutes and twenty-eight seconds, you will drop it on you leg. At seven minutes and six seconds, you will hit your head on a sign. You will then bump into your girlfriend. Your girlfriend's things will fall out of her purse..." (Not in novels as far as I know/Episode 12)

Visitor Comments

Average Rating: Total comments: 17 (page 1 of 2)

Flag[admin]#17 - Posted by Kyocat on Sunday, December 11th, 2011 at 7:39pm:

omg yuki is 3 years old! lol when i heard the name of the show i thought Yuki Sohma from fruits basket

Flag[admin]#16 - Posted by 67yroldhobo on Wednesday, November 9th, 2011 at 6:41pm:

yuki pwns all. :3

Flag[admin]#15 - Posted by I've commented. on Tuesday, July 19th, 2011 at 9:18pm:

[@ konata (comment 14)] She's an artificial person.

Flag[admin]#14 - Posted by konata on Monday, July 11th, 2011 at 7:26am:

is she 3 years old? o-o''

Flag[admin]#13 - Posted by I've commented. on Sunday, December 26th, 2010 at 10:42pm:

"Artificial human" is a better and more accurate term for Yuki Nagato.

Flag[admin]#12 - Posted by John on Thursday, December 23rd, 2010 at 12:48pm:

@10 In the dub episode Mystérique Sign, Kyon says that Yuki is an andriod. All androids are robots.

Flag[admin]#11 - Posted by I've commented. on Friday, October 22nd, 2010 at 2:54am:

She is an artificial being and sometimes artificial beings have a different ageing rate than non-artificial beings. Some people tend to find the concept of an artificial being becoming more "lively" so to speak, to be endearing.

Flag[admin]#10 - Posted by Nonofyourbusiness:) on Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010 at 6:05am:

Yuki is not such a thing as a robot. An Interface is anything like a computer.

Flag[admin]#9 - Posted by xXnevermindXx on Thursday, November 26th, 2009 at 10:18am:

I am so totally going to watch this series it looks awsome so does yuki

Flag[admin]#8 - Posted by ImyKyo on Saturday, October 3rd, 2009 at 11:04pm:

Yuki is Just AWESOME! Thats all! XD

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