Name:Ryoko Asakura
Gender:Female


At first, I appear to be a compassionate and hard-working high school girl. One of Kyon's friends, Taniguchi, places me in the top three first-year girls in the school with a grade of A++: indicative of me pleasant personality, beauty, and athleticism. My enormous popularity made me the unanimous choice for class president of Kyon's homeroom class. I also showed particular concern about how Haruhi had distanced herself from the rest of the class.
However, it turns out that I am Yuki's backup, and as such, is also another "humanoid interface". Much like Yuki, I find it difficult to empathize with humans, but unlike Yuki, possesses exceptional social skills. Initially I cheerfully supports Kyon's reaching out to Haruhi, often encouraging him to "open me up to the class," making Haruhi easier to observe. However, I later decide to try and kill Kyon with a combat knife in the hopes of catalyzing an observable reaction from Haruhi. my efforts are stopped, after Yuki defeated and removed me from the physical world. It's interesting to note that my cheerful personality doesn't falter, even at the moment of my own demise. Afterwards, Yuki fabricated a cover story that I moved to Canada. Ironically, the death/disappearance that provoked Haruhi's reaction in the end was my own.
Asakura makes a reappearance in volume four, on an alternate timeline in which Haruhi never attends North High or forms an SOS Brigade. It is revealed that, even without being a Humanoid Interface, I am still a psychotic killer, even more so in this timeline.