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Originally Posted by Akashin
It's possible to smile/smirk without any visible emotion. That said, the whole thing about unchanging facial expressions for the Incubators only applied to the anime; Kyubey had some facial expressions in the manga adaptation of the anime, too.
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Oh, really? i haven't read the manga.
But that is kind of worse! Smiling without emotion is something even more complex. It means you are trying to force a smile to hide something, for example. Or, you don't feel like smiling but you feel that you should, to show a sign of appreciation, etc.
Smiling and other facial expressions are important social behaviors.
In the anime kyubee never smiles because he has no emotions and also he never feels he is doing something wrong or that he is deceiving... so why even smile? in the anime he even tells some outrageous things with the same tone and facial expression. Smiling, even without being happy, implies complex emotional processes...