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The Disappearance Of Nagato Yuki-chan Anime Review

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The Haruhi series is an icon among anime.  Mystery, drama, comedy, dimension jumping, the series has it all.  On top of all that, it also has decent characters.  Yuki Nagato is one of them.  This is The Disappearance Of Nagato Yuki-chan. Of all the characters in the Haruhi series, Yuki is my favorite, so it's nice to see a series focused on her.  In the original Haruhi series, Yuki is a robot/alien disguised as a bookworm teenage girl.  In this spinoff, however, she's a normal teenage girl. Yuki's back and cuter than ever. So, what does Yuki do as a normal girl?  Normal girl stuff like having crushes, worrying about grades, and going to hot springs, among other things.  She even has an identity crisis at some point, just like all teenagers do. That looks like an identity crisis if I ever saw one. Being a normal girl also means that Yuki will finally display a full range of emotions.  No longer a deadpan, monotone alien/robot (at least for most of the se