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Asahina is more immediately pleasant and conventionally cute, but the other two are definitely far more interesting. Kyon grows to understand Haruhi and especially Nagato over the course of the story, but his fawning over her is a running gag all the way up to the most recent LNs.
He should realize by now that Nagato is obviously the perfect angel of the trio. Also, Haruhi significantly chills the fuck out as the books go on. She doesn’t change fundamentally, but stuff like blackmailing the computer club and getting Mikuru drunk are long in the past for her. She’s pretty cool, and her exploits are more funny than annoying. Part of her arc was slowly getting rid of her icy, antisocial side.
