Haruka Tenou (天王 はるか, Tenou Haruka) is the civilian identity of Sailor Uranus (セーラーウラヌス, Seeraa Uranusu).
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Etymology[]
Haruka: Even though her name is written in hiragana and is not inherent, Haruka (遥か) means "distant".
Teno: The kanji for ten (天) means "sky" while the kanji for ō (王) means "king."
Thus, Haruka's full name means "distant sky king."
Personality[]
Although being in a relationship with Michiru, Haruka often flirts with other women. Haruka is often seen to be somewhat hotheaded and somewhat flirtatious, although this appears to be moreso how she teases other women than actual romantic interest. Also interesting to note is that Michiru seems to somewhat enable this, not minding finding Haruka flirting with others in her presence.
Haruka can be very hotheaded, stubborn, and set in her ways; this can be seen on numerous occasions but primarily in Sailor Moon Super, where she is adamant that the Inner Sailor Guardians ideals will not work and that theirs (the Outer Sailor Guardians) is the only way to do things. She is also seen to be very protective of others, putting her own well-being in harm's way in order to protect those important to her, especially Michiru and Usagi. She generally does not seem to grow close to many people, as she is suspicious of outsiders (such as the Sailor Starlights) and their intentions. This is especially true for those who become close to Usagi or Chibiusa, as she recognizes their importance as future Neo Queen and Princess of Crystal Tokyo.
Haruka can also be somewhat manipulative and condescending to others, refusing to let people aside from Michiru see hidden agendas she may have, even to those she does trust such as Usagi. This can be seen on occasions such as her taking Usagi's brooch to force the latter to not interfere, or with pretending to betray Usagi in the final season and not bothering to even tell their fellow Outer Sailor Guardians.
Despite this, Haruka often appears to have a relaxed and nonchalant side; she rarely seems to grow agitated outright and is often the most calm one in the group, only becoming visibly upset when provoked or things do not go according to plan. Sometimes, she even taunts Daimons or Phages in battle with them, such as Hurdle, which Haruka perceives to be a sort of race.
Haruka has a desire to move quickly and extremely fast, which is shown to have stemmed at least partially from her trying to escape her own fate as a Sailor Guardian in the past; due to this, she has picked up interests in several high-speed activities such as racing, driving a motorcycle, or sprinting. Haruka and Michiru are also shown to own personal helicopters.
Appearance[]
Civilian[]
Haruka is an older teenager with short, pale tan hair and dark blue eyes. She is the tallest Sailor Guardian.
Haruka is shown wearing masculine or unisex clothing, and there are zero to two instances of her wearing feminine clothing. She is often mistaken for a boy and doesn't correct people. In her introduction episode, Haruka wears the Mugen Academy winter school uniform for boys, a red long formal suit jacket with the black Mugen Academy emblem at the left side, a white long-sleeved button-up shirt with a green neck tie at the collar, green and black checkered school pants, brown loafers with black soles, and white socks. At the end of the episode, she carries her red formal suit jacket but without the tie and her button shirt is partially open.
She also wears a boy's summer school uniform: a white short-sleeved button-up with a single pocket at the left side that retains her tie, school pants, and loafers from her winter school uniform.
Her primary casual appearance until the fifth and final season is a light yellow formal suit jacket with a green short-sleeved undershirt, matching white pants with a brown belt around her waist, and light brown leather shoes. She also wears a black necklace with a golden cross as a pendant. In one episode, both her jacket and pants are light green and her shirt is black.
In Sailor Stars, the color of her jacket and pants are gold.
Sailor Guardian[]
Sailor Uranus’s sailor uniform consists of a white, chest-armored leotard, a navy blue sailor collar with no stripes, a navy blue choker, a navy blue skirt with a white puffy belt sat above it, and a light yellow bow at the chest and a navy blue bow at the back of her skirt. She wears lace-up loose navy blue boots, as well as white wrist-length gloves with three navy blue arm fittings at the ends, and a navy blue circular gem at the center of her chest bow. Her shoulder pads have three layers, a golden tiara with a navy blue, oval-shaped gem is located on her forehead, and she wears a golden hoop earring on each ear.
As Super Sailor Uranus, she wears an upgraded version of the Sailor Uranus sailor uniform. The only things that change are the length of her back bow, a navy blue heart on her front bow, the sailor collar now features one white stripe, her choker has a yellow star attached to it, and the shoulder pads last pad is more wing-like and translucent.
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Sailor Moon R[]
While she does not make a formal appearance in the second season, Haruka appears as a silhouette alongside Sailor Neptune in the final episode, which acts as a "teaser" to the third season.
Sailor Moon Super[]
Haruka and Michiru make their physical appearance in Episode 92 where she challenges Minako after she defeats Usagi in a car racing game. Both girls are infatuated by her due to her masculine looks and she manages to defeat Minako. Michiru arrives to see Haruka and the girls are shocked to see Michiru; both leave the arcade center. Both are seen talking about what is happening to their world while Michiru senses that the sea is acting up. They are unaware that both, Minako and Usagi, are spying on them. Later, her best mechanic is the target of the Daimon that Kaolinite has summoned. She wants to help him, but Michiru tells her not to and both begin to chase the daimon with Haruka's motocross bike after the daimon gets the Heart Crystal. As they are in mid-air, they transform into their Sailor Guardian forms, off-screen. They are seen in their Outer Sailor Guardian forms, Sailor Uranus and Sailor Neptune, and both, Sailor Moon and Sailor Venus see their appearance and both attack the Daimon with World Shaking and Deep Submerge as Sailor Venus tells Sailor Moon to finish the job and defeat the daimon with Moon Spiral Heart Attack. After that, Michiru and Haruka arrive in the arcade center as she is seen handling her jacket. Minako is shocked to see Haruka's female appearance while in her male uniform and she is slammed comically by Rei and Makoto knowing that they are searching for the handsome guy they were talking about and tells them that they give up. Michiru then shows her true gender to them, that in fact, she is a girl, much to the girls' shock and Haruka happily apologizes to them. Minako is disappointed and Usagi claims to have been right the whole time (even though she was fawning over Haruka just as Minako had been).
Sailor Moon Supers[]
In Sailor Moon Supers, Haruka only appears in the second Supers special alongside Michiru, as well as the Supers movie, alongside Michiru and Setsuna. She is in her standard Sailor form at the time rather than in her evolved Super Sailor form.
Sailor Moon Sailor Stars (Nehellenia arc)[]
By the fifth season, Haruka and Michiru return to Azabu-Juban. They are first seen in an aquarium together; Michiru flirts with Haruka and leaves her stunned. They walk outside to see the "shooting stars", and Haruka is cut by a shard of glass. From the pieces of glass, the Mirror Paredri appear, and the two transform to fight. They are soon shocked to see that Sailor Pluto is alive and has taken custody of baby Hotaru from Professor Tomoe (incidentally, Haruka flirts with Michiru during the fight and implies they've been in bed together). When the three guardians are cornered, Hotaru grants more strength and power and Haruka, Michiru, and Setsuna are upgraded into their much stronger and more powerful Super Sailor forms.
In the next episode, Haruka, Michiru, and Setsuna are living together, raising Hotaru. Hotaru calls Haruka Haruka-papa. The three are surprised to see the growing Hotaru's precognitive abilities and the calamity that will soon affect both the Moon and Earth, and Haruka, desperate to see more, pushes Hotaru past her limit.
The four of them confront Nehellenia along with the other Sailor Guardians during their final battle, but are thrown into random arenas where Nehellenia taunts them. Sailor Uranus and Sailor Mercury are stuck together, and while Uranus tries to overcome Nehellenia with brute force, Mercury figures out how to properly defeat Nehellenia with science, and the two are triumphant until Nehellenia pulls them into mirrors. Uranus is later saved to defeat Nehellenia in full.
Sailor Moon Sailor Stars (Stars arc)[]
Throughout the second arc of the fifth season, Haruka is constantly suspicious of the Three Lights and their origins and becomes extremely protective when Seiya is hanging out with Usagi. Their first meeting is when Michiru and the Three Lights perform together; Haruka, after inviting Usagi to come with her to Michiru's dressing room, walks in on Seiya flirting with Michiru and drives him out. Michiru then, rather self-satisfiedly, flirts with Haruka anyway. A second encounter of this sort happens when Haruka's car breaks down in front of Usagi's house. The two girlfriends walk into the Sailor Guardians and the Three Lights hanging out, and then they all have an awkward get-together that devolves from Haruka and Seiya staring each other down to the Sailor Guardians and Michiru heckling Haruka for not liking men (Michiru specifies 'popular men').
Things soon become more serious, with Haruka actively preventing the Sailor Starlights and Eternal Sailor Moon from teaming up. Healer and Maker make no effort to smooth things over, and their missions are at apparent odds: the Sailor starlights are fighting their own war, while Haruka, Michiru, and Setsuna need to protect Earth. Once Seiya is hurt protecting Usagi, Haruka and co. forbid Usagi from seeing him.
Once Sailor Galaxia has begun to destroy Earth, the four are the first to go confront her, but only go in once the Starlights and Sailor Guardians have been defeated. The four discover their powers aren't nearly enough to defeat her, and when Sailor Galaxia offers another option - ally with her and wear her bracelets - Haruka agrees, saying that being with Michiru will make any sin worth it. Michiru agrees as well and the two take on the bracelets and kill Pluto and Saturn, going with Sailor Galaxia to confront Sailor Moon and the Sailor Starlights for the final time.
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Trivia[]
- In the anime, Haruka has two image songs: "I Want to Become the Wind" and "Initial U".
- In the CWi English dub, Haruka is named "Amara". Both Haruka and Amara sound a little similar and the name Amara has a meaning of bitter, unfading or peaceful.
- In 1998, Irwin released a line of Sailor Guardians of the Outer Solar System dolls well before Sailor Moon Super aired in North America. On the boxes of the Sailor Uranus dolls, she is given the civilian name "Corinn", which means maiden, which is the opposite of what Haruka's personality is because she presents herself as masculine.
- Haruka is infamously changed from being Michiru's lover to her cousin in the CWi English dub.
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