Character design sketches for upcoming Japanese anime series The Disappearance of Nagato Yuki-chan.
The anime and manga is a spin-off of the Haruhi Suzumiya series. Based on the alternate universe in The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya movie, the people in this world are ordinary humans instead.
The story will focus on Yuki Nagato and her high school friends and love interest, but Haruhi seems to feature a lot too.
Yuki Nagato
Yuki is a shy, introverted girl. She’s very good at math and also the president of the literature club. Has a crush on Kyon.
Personality wise Yuki is probably the only one with major difference.
Others seem more like who they are in the original Haruhi Suzumiya series, without the supernatural things.
Kyon
Member of literature club. Seems a bit warmer to his friends than original version. An ordinary high school guy to be frank.
Ryoko Asakura
Best friend of Yuki who takes good care of her, almost mother-like. Great cook. Class rep, top student, and also member of the literature club.
Becomes a main character this time.
Mikuru Asahina
Usual self. Kind, attractive and bashful. No more “classified information”.
Tsuruya
Best friend of Mikuru. Hyperactive and multi-talented. It’s a bit like Ryoko who’s very protective of her buddy. Comes from a very rich family.
Haruhi Suzumiya
A girl from different high school who becomes friendly with the rest. Usual self, energetic and bossy, and still interested in alien stuff.
She keeps her long hair this time. And she appears often at the literature club room as the “base” for her activities despite from different school.
Itsuki Koizumi
Went to the same school with Haruhi and has a crush on her. Ordinary guy and often tags along with Haruhi.
The Disappearance of Nagato Yuki-chan will have 16 episodes. It will start showing on April 3rd on Tokyo MX.
Most of the voice actors in the original Haruhi Suzumiya anime will return in this series, including Minori Chihara (Yuki), Tomokazu Sugita (Kyon), Yuko Goto (Mikuru) and Aya Hirano (Haruhi) etc.
The show is not produced by Kyoto Animation like the previous series and movie though, it’s by Satelight instead.
BTW if you watched the original Haruhi series you’ll probably feel a bit sorry for Yuki in that show after this. This is technically the world she hopes for… to be an ordinary girl, to fall in love and to have good friends.
Credit: Official Website (Japanese)
