Nagato Yuki-chan

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beneficii, I didn't know that you referring her behaviors to conditions of that in real life. I am also making the assumption that you watched only the anime. The anime has the criticism that it doesn't fit and "over-hyped." Well this is because it wasn't originally an anime. The series was based off a short novel series, which became a manga and anime afterwards.

Nagato does show emotions, but does not explicitly "express" them. The only person who seems to notice this is Kyon, but he notes that only mere millimeters of changes to her expression. It seems that all of these humanoid interfaces feel something beyond what they were designed to do:
Nagato: A world where she can freely interact and express herself
Asakura: Kill Kyon and discover Haruhi's power
Kimidori: None. She doesn't stray.
Kuyuo: Tap into Sasaki's (childhood friend of Kyon who shares Haruhi's gift, except with a certain degree of control) power and fulfill Fujiwara's dream by eliminating Haruhi. (not in the anime, member of the IDTE)

In aftermath of what happens in the Disappearance, Kyon, Mikuru, and Nagato return to the past to fix the world. The older Mikuru knocks out her "past" and then Nagato removes Asakura and confronts the frightened Nagato by restoring her personality. "Why have you done this?" she says.
"Because I had wished so." Which is one the times where Nagato expresses an opinion, like when she mentions visiting the library with Kyon various times. So there is one human side to it, while occasionally pushed aside her programming and work.

Finally, Nagato was based a girl that Tanigawa met in high school:

Let me rephrase what I'm talking about. Psychiatry has grappled with the question of, If a person does not display emotional expression, then does that person have emotions? I think it's really cool that the Haruhi series also grapples with this question and I find the answer that appears to be emerging really refreshing.

Just want to mention that the recent episode was kind of awesome for the new Yuki point of view as she is afraid as the two mix with that static like effect. The emotions too as we saw something like her floating in the library as a great extension to what was essentially a one second moment in Melancholy, though with large implications. Melancholy scene bellow.



And just because the expressionless thing is coming up, I feel the need to mention Henneko, it is kind of totally different really to both series of the Haruhi-franchise, it is a an ecchi series, but an ecchi series with heart. And a character well done with the expressionless but emotional debate.

The whole thing where Nagato undergoes dissociation, having experiences that made me reach for the Examination of Anomalous Self-Experience (EASE) (she seemed to at least somewhat match 1.2 Loss of Thought Ipseity, 1.15 Discontinuous Awareness of Own Action, 2.2 Distorted First-Person Perspective Subtype 1, 2.6 Hyperreflectivity, and 2.7 I-Split)*, made this series really interesting, but now it's back to there being a whole bunch of other characters crowding out the main 3 (Yuki, Ryoko, and Kyon) again.

* Copy can be found here:

http://www.nordlandssykehuset.no/getfil ... r/EASE.pdf

I don't know how to respond to the scientific paper, but I thought it really sad for the personality change, and it is cute to see Kyon and Yuki getting closer.

Well, that's the end of the series! Kyon and Yuki had a sweet moment at the bon-odori when watching the fireworks. At the end, BGM from the Haruhi series plays.

Some may be disappointed at the stasis, but one should remember that the characters are still in high school.

I wonder if now they're going to make a Haruhi season 3, adapting the later books! You've got some interesting features, such as "Snow Mountain Syndrome" (in which Yuki is put out of commission), the amefuto (American/gridiron football) player from another school who seems to have a crush on Yuki, the Student Council President who makes what he calls the literature club actually engage in literature club activities (where those cool, surreal stories from Yuki come from), travelling back in time to complete the time loop at the end of Disappearance and a big time-travelling story in itself (with Mikuru in a more prominent role) which introduces characters from rival factions, and the huge Dissociation/Surprise arc which is notable for having a true villain and putting Yuki out of commission again (and which should be adapted as a movie).

I was not entirely happy that the series felt like it ended without much warning, the episode count was odd. It did end on some interesting references to the main season with some real Endless Eight stuff. It was interesting to get some Kyon side, but him saying he was more interested in Yuki's alternate personality felt a little rude that he did not seem to pick up on the similarities between the two. Alternate Yuki chose to confess because she was running out of time, but that same pressure of some resolution did not seem to be even through the show as it came to its final episode.

There might be more material that takes him further, I would like to see that done as anime, but worry if that is possible and thus I feel a little let down. But it was a very cute series with a protagonist I liked, and a particularly good arc towards the end that had a lot of work put into it, and likely worth a re-watch some time.