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Haré
Haré
- Voiced by: Rikako Aikawa (JP), Philece Sampler (EN, credited as Alex Simon)
- Butt-Monkey: Hare being on the receiving end of various abuse, mostly courtesy of Guu, is basically the point of the show.
- Break the Cutie: All the rough stuff that happens to this poor eleven year old.
- Determinator: Compared to Guu's antics normally difficult tasks are child's play to Hare. He can clean a whole house, last long after getting beat up and even keep high stamina during running races.
- Heroic Bastard:The reason he lives in the jungle is because his mother was pregnant with him out of wedlock as a teen and fled to the forest after her father disowned her because of it.
- Horrible Judge of Character: No matter how many times Guu torments him, he's always willing to give her the benefit of doubt when she seems to be nice for once. This almost always backfires on him.
- Incest Subtext: His obsession with not letting his mother date Dr. Clive (despite the fact, that they DO have feelings for each other) (or anyone else) is steering right into this territory, and Guu lampshaded this quite a few times (her aim is, as always, to troll Haré.) In the end, Dr. Clive and Weda did marry anyways and Haré didn't object to that.
- Meta Guy: Being The Straight Man, he does this frequently.
- Motor Mouth: He sometimes talks very rapidly, usually when freaking out about Guu's latest mischief. Additionally, in the opening animation of Deluxe, he is shown very rapidly reading some random song lyrics.
- Only Sane Man: He's the only person who is realistically weirded out by the bizarre things happening in the jungle, and he's often frustrated that everyone else just accept these oddities. Additionally, at least once, he wonders why everyone in the jungle but him have such oddball personalities.
- Otaku: He's a fan of mecha animes and RPG video games, and in Deluxe episode 6, he outright refers to himself as an otaku.
- Spell My Name With An S: While sometimes spelled Hale in Japan, it was localized as Hare.
- The Straight Man: He plays this role to everyone else.
- Would Hit a Girl: He sometimes gives Guu a noogie or tugs her cheeks, for being a giant pain in his toches and sometime to prevent her from doing further mischief.
Guu
Guu
- Voiced by: Naoko Watanabe (JP) Stephanie Sheh (EN, credited as Jennifer Sekiguchi)
- Adorable Abomination: She pretty much has all the "Abomination" classes down.
- Animal Motifs: Cats. She makes "nya" noises, dresses like a cat for Marie's pretend play, grooms herself and even sprouts cat ears.
- Berserk Button: Despite being able to push everyone else's, Guu has plenty herself. She hates people that annoy her (From the students asking questions to Wagi's annoying laugh.) Mostly she would just eat or punch out those that annoy her. She also doesn't like being touched inappropriately even if it's a medical exam. Doctor Clive learned that the hard way. Lastly, but this is rare, anyone that tries to hurt her friends. The bear attack even triggered her ability to turn into her adult form.
- Big Eater: She has quite an appetite, which would come with the territory of having a Pocket Dimension stomach.
- Burp of Finality: Guu lets out a burp in Episode 2 to confirm Hare's suspicions that she has eaten the other students. Of course, this being Guu, they're all fine later.
- But Now I Must Go: In the end of the sequel manga, Guu departs out of concern that Hare couldn't grow and live a normal life with her around. She disappears from most people's memories and years later even Hare begins to forget her face and their time together... until he realizes Guu has reincarnated into the world as his newborn daughter like it's yet another prank.
- Combat Tentacles: Her arms are drawn like tentacles, and can stretch to ludicrous lengths, whether to drag someone closer or to punch people at a distance.
- Comically Inept Healing: When she pretends to be a substitute nurse and tries to give another student a checkup. Her "checkup" consists of placing a stethoscope on his forehead and trying to stab him with a syringe (twice). It's not clear if she is trolling as usual, or if she's genuinely being clueless.
- Creepy Child: While she's not exactly creepy, she's definitely weird, given that no one knows, nor can anyone define what she is.
- Deadpan Snarker: Probably half of her dialogue are cynical jabs at Hare's expense, all of them spoken in her usual deadpan tone.
- Deliberately Cute Child: In her "love-me-I'm-a-cute-little-waif" form.
- Eats Babies: Literally — give her a baby to take care of, and she will quickly swallow it. She does it because the people living inside her stomach love cuddling with babies (and because it lets her slack off instead of having to babysit). Of course, this being Guu, the baby's always going to return safely. This happens both to Hare's baby brother Ame, and to a baby from a neighboring village that Hare was babysitting.
- Extra Eyes: In a sight gag in episode 6 of Deluxe, her head "scrolls" between various increasingly bizarre faces, including one covered with numerous eyes.
- Extreme Omnivore: She'll eat anything, ranging from elephants, whales, and people with a single bite. In one occasion she even ate such metaphysical things as another person's dream of herself. She is fully capable of spitting out anything she's eaten completely unharmed, making the effect comically disturbing rather than disturbingly sinister.
- Fingerless Hands: In her usual form, she is almost always drawn with noodly, tentacle-like, fingerless arms. However, on rare occasions her fingers are shown.
- Hammerspace: One of the applications of her Reality Warper powers seems to being able to materialize random stuff out of nowhere, e.g. Paper Fans, Molotov Cocktails
or swords. - Healing Factor: She can apparently reassimilate severed body parts by eating them and regrowing the lost limb (episode 3). Most likely an extension of her reality warping power.
- Humanoid Abomination: Whatever she is, she is definitely not human. She looks like a morose little girl, but has abilities far beyond humans, including seemingly arbitrary Reality Warper capabilities, limbs that appear to be infinitely stretchy tentacles, and the ability to swallow anything into a pocket dimension in her stomach.
- Inexplicably Awesome: Just who or what is Guu, and why does she have all these amazing powers? Is she an alien? A god? A spirit? Your guess is as good as ours. The series revolves around the shenanigans caused by Guu's powers, and never tries to explain her true nature. Summed up best with this exchange:Haré: Are you a demon?!Guu: I'm Guu.
- Invocation: In Hareguu, she gains a catchphrase ("All times and places!", in the fan translation) which she sometimes says before using her powers.
- It Amused Me: Her amusement seems to be the main motivation for doing what she does. As she herself puts it in Deluxe episode 2, when Hare tries to get her to stop her latest antics:Guu: No, shut up! I'm having fun and that's all that matters!
- Jerkass: She does some pretty mean things to people and gets a kick out of making them upset.
- Little Miss Badass: After a bear beat up Weda pretty badly and tried to attack her, she transformed into her older persona, defeated the bear and made a fur coat from his fur and everyone had plenty of meat, guess the source.
- Little Miss Snarker
- Magical Girl: Guu adopts a magical girl style in Episode 5 of Deluxe when she goes alongside Hare to the past. Complete with a fancy costume, a familiar (in the form of a Manda fruit) who complains about her misusing her magical abilities, and (briefly) a Verbal Tic.
- Magic Wand: She uses a "Chinchikurin stick" for some of her more spectacular feats. It can apparently take any form, ranging from a matchstick to a baseball bat. Given her trolling personality, it's possible she doesn't really need it and is doing it just for fun and flair. The Hareguu manga reveals that her "stick" is actually a person (a guy named QP) who works for her to support his family.
- Manipulative Bastard: She's a master at trolling Haré and other victim she chooses (although it's almost always Haré).
- Meaningful Name:
- Her name can be read to mean "showers," which gives added meaning to all the times rain falls when she starts to complete her evil plans, as well as sets her up in thematic opposition to Haré, whose name can be read to mean "sunny."
- Also, the kanji for "Guu" (as seen in the title card of Episode 2, among other places) look like an open mouth with fangs about to eat something: ぐー
- Mind Control:
- It's implied she can control people's minds to keep them from noticing her weirder antics. For instance, in Episode 10, Guu makes her hair long and everyone just agrees that she's "always" had long hair. In Episode 21, she takes over as the airplane's captain and the other pilots go along with it without questioning.
- She also has more overt mind-control abilities. In Episode 26 she gives Haré a video game controller which had the ability to control people she chose. In Episode 19, she changed the personalities of Haré's friends and family, just for funzies.
- In the sequel manga, she does... something... to Robert's friend so that he lets the protagonists stay at his home. The next day, he is back to normal and not quite sure why he had agreed.
- Nonstandard Character Design: Even with the series' fairly simple style, Guu's usual form stands out as drawn very cartoonishly and simplistically and being The Noseless. This contrast is also apparent in the manga.
- The Noseless: In her usual form, she is drawn without a nose, being the only character to do so. It makes her even more odd-looking and less conventionally cute. (The manga very rarely draws a tiny nose on her in chapter title pages, but that's about it.)
- Older Alter Ego: Has one that appears occasionally
- Paper Fan of Doom: Wadi was laughing incessantly and annoying the hell out of Guu (and anyone else), so she shut him up with a paper fan she pulled out of fuckin nowhere.
- Pocket Dimension: Guu has multiple dimensions in her stomach (e.g. she put some sharks, who attacked Haré in a different dimension than she put some people).
- The Prankster: She loves messing with people (especially Hare) for kicks.
- Reality Warper: Apart from her ability to swallow anything, she is capable of doing things such as: changing people's personalities, changing people's ages, making it snow in the jungle, switching people's minds between bodies, travelling into the past, going into people's dreams... Several episodes revolve around Guu pulling off some new reality-warping trick.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: Her "cutesy" form, which she uses to befriend people, has wide red eyes — and her real self is not exactly a nice person.
- Rei Ayanami Expy: She's a short haired little girl who isn't exactly human with the occasional deadpan expression.
- Shapeshifting: She has the ability to turn into an adult form. In Episode 2 of the Final OVA, she also briefly turns into Mari, much to Hare's shock. Additionally, depending on how literally you take the anime's visuals, her switching between her "cutesy" and normal form might be interpreted as this, since they are drawn in very different ways.
- Slasher Smile: In Episode 4 the Final OVA, she gets an uncharacteristically wide, sharp-toothed grin on her face as she ponders playing a prank on Toposte. Similarly, in the manga Hareguu, she sometimes makes a wicked, toothy grin when looking forward to some exquisite chaos.
- The Stoic: Outside of her "cute" form, Guu doesn't emote much; her range of expressions is mostly limited to a neutral stare or a sly smirk. Additionally, she's almost always calm and self-assured, and is utterly unperturbed by anything weird or dangerous (of course, most of the weird things happening in the show are her doing anyway, and with her level of power it's hard to imagine what could put her in danger). However, she does get irritated or disappointed at times.
- Super Mode: She is able to turn into an adult-looking form, which she uses in Episode 9 to beat up a bear who attacked Weda and Hare. The other times she uses it are for less serious purposes: in Episode 17, she briefly pretends to be an adult substitute nurse after she accidentally knocks out Dr. Clive, and in Episode 4 of Deluxe, it's shown she took this form to rip out the Elder's chest hair.
- Telepathy: Guu can read minds, mostly Haré's, and uses this knowledge to troll him. Can apparently also implant Fake Memories (in episode #10 she manipulated everyone in remembering her with too long hair, except Haré, to troll him, of course). In the sequel manga, she occasionally speaks to Hare telepathically.
- Time Travel: She once traveled into Haré's past to teach him a lesson and/or to troll him.
- Trickster Mentor: Seems to be the primary character of Guu's interaction with Hare, though it's up for debate if he's actually better off from what he's learned.
- Verbal Tic: Parodied in episode 5 of Deluxe: after going with Hare into the past, Guu adopts a Magical Girl persona, and for a brief time adds random nonsense syllables (such as "dabada" or "choroge") at the end of her sentences, which Hare lampshades.
- Victoria's Secret Compartment: Despite being far too young to have boobs (as far as we know her age to be, probably she's messing with people's brains again), but pulls the Elder's chesthair from there. Apparently when she does, the chesthair disappears from the Elder's chest.
- Weather Manipulation: Guu can make it rain or make the sun come out.
Weda
Weda
- Voiced by: Kaoru Morota (JP), Wendee Lee (EN)
Hare's carefree mother. She may have an interesting past.
- A-Cup Angst: An unusual version: when she became pregnant (at the age of 14), she was afraid that she couldn't nurse her baby due to her breasts being too small. Bell trolled her by telling she could make her boobs bigger by rolling around in the bed, which didn't work. Later, her boobs grew to the size they're now (F-cup).
- Abusive Parents:
- She has shades of this towards Hare, although depicted comedically: she has him do most of the housework, occasionally punches or slaps him if he annoys her, and sometimes seems oblivious to his well-being—for example, in Episode 22 she isn't very concerned about Hare being out in cold weather without warm clothes.
- Her father hit her and disowned her for being pregnant with Haré, which prompted her to leave her home and not come back (until she did). She was also very cross with her mother for not having the guts to stand up to her husband (until they made up).
- Cain and Abel: Because the will of her late father named her as the inheritor, her siblings tried to have her assassinated.
- Children Raise You: Haré does help out a lot, especially when she got pregnant from Dr. Clive a second time, they married and now firstborn and father had to guard their normally beer-loving mom resp. wife from falling to the temptation of drinking and harming her unborn child.
- Foreign Fanservice: Weda could be one, since in the school class Haré goes to (in "The City", where she was born) hangs an American flag (although it's also possible, that it's the room of the English class) and everyone has names common in Anglophone countries. The village also seems to be outside of Japan, since they called some Japanese dude Guu swallowed into one of her "stomachs" foreign.
- Fur Bikini: Well, not a bikini but she wears a leopard-skin tube top.
- Hard-Drinking Party Girl: Enough to be the trope image!
- Heroic Sacrifice: She was ready to do it, so a bank robber wouldn't murder her son, but luckily, she was saved by some kinda super-powered Dama, the insane barber granny.
- Idiot Hair: And the personality to BOOT!
- Let's Get Dangerous!: She may be an irresponsible drunk all the time, but she DID save Haré from the same bank robber two times with some kind of martial art skills.
- Mama Bear: Shows this side in episode 23, where she helps take down some bank robbers who had taken Hare hostage.
- Ms. Fanservice: Weda wears a leopard-skinned tube top and skirt that shows off her stomach. She also dons a bikini at the beach and a "wedding dress" that leaves her almost completely exposed.
- Teen Pregnancy: She became pregnant when she was 14.
- The Ditz: Very much, even though she read Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment (as seen in the episode #5 of the Deluxe series, where Guu travels with Haré in time to see his mother, when she was young and frail) as a child.
Doctor Clive Northey
Doctor Clive Northey
- Voiced by: Mitsuaki Madono (JP), Liam O'Brien (EN)
A perverted doctor.
- Demoted to Extra: He is one of the major characters in the anime and the first manga, but in Hareguu he appears in just a few chapters and is rarely even mentioned.
- Dirty Old Man: Downplayed in that he's not that old. He's 29 and acts perverted towards his young female students. He also got Weda pregnant when she was 14 and he was 18.
- Disappeared Dad: After getting Weda pregnant, he disappeared from her life. Hare grew up without knowing who his father was, though he seemed pretty unbothered about it.
- Embarrassing Animal Suit: Has had several of these given to him by Marie.
- Handsome Lech: He loves to chase skirts and leaves no risk-less opportunity unused to grope women, although this stops when he marries Weda after he made her pregnant again. His previous rekindling of their relationship and the subsequent marriage do seem to be motivated by genuine mutual affection and the pregnancy does only speed up the process but doesn't start it.
- Only One Name: Averted, but not quite: No-one refers to him by his last name, but according to documents Haré found in his office, he has one.
- Parental Neglect: His mother was busy sleeping around and took no time to be a mother to him. This memory still bothers Dr. Clive.
- Running Gag: Whenever Bel chokes Clive to near death he finds himself in the afterlife talking to an old man. The old man turns out to be his grandfather who advises him to marry Weda, which he in the end does.
- Unknown Rival: To Wiggle and Bel over the affections of Weda.
Marie
Marie
- Voiced by: Yuki Matsuoka (JP), Sandy Fox (EN)
A girl who goes to school with Hare. She's the teacher's younger sister and has a tendency to over dramatize things. She has a crush on Haré and has an obsession with families.
- Cloudcuckoolander: More than Guu so happens to be.
- Shipper on Deck: She really wants Clive and Weda to get together, which they actually do in the first OVA, including siring Haré's brother Amé.
- Unlimited Wardrobe: Moreso in the manga, having a new outfit (if not several of them) almost every chapter, quite a few of which border on Rummage Sale Reject territory.
Village Elder
Village Elder
- Voiced by: Tesshō Genda (JP), Michael McConnohie (EN)
- No Name Given: He's just called "Village Elder"
Gupta
Gupta
- Voiced by: Soichiro Hoshi (JP), Richard Cansino (EN)
- Cannot Spit It Out: He is in love with Lavenna but is too shy to confess to her. During his first attempt, he loses his nerve and instead blurts out that he wants to learns Swahili (much to his chagrin, as he needs to keep studying the language to avoid losing face in front of Lavenna). He eventually manages to confess.
- Gender Bender: After Guu switches the sex of everybody in the world for a day, Gupta is one of the few people whose sex change sticks. Girl Gupta doesn't mind, though, since (besides Hare and Guu) neither she nor anyone else remembers that she used to be a man. Conveniently, Gupta's love interest Lavenna had her sex switched too.
- Surfer Dude: The English dub gave him this voice.
- Why Did It Have to Be Dama: The only barber in the village is a kooky old lady, who claims to see spirits, which freaks Gupta out to no end, he needs someone to hold his hand, while she does the haircut.
Lavenna
Lavenna
- Voiced by: Yuri Shiratori (JP), Karen Strassman (EN)
- Crush Blush: In Hareguu, she and Gupta get mutual blushes after Gupta confesses his love to her.
- Nothing Exciting Ever Happens Here: An extreme example. It's shown she never really writes anything in her diary despite the exciting stuff that happens around her.
Chet and Addy
Chet and Addy
- Chet is voiced by: Takahiro Yoshimizu (JP), Johnny Yong Bosch (EN, credited as Kevin Hatcher)Addy is voiced by: Emi Uwagawa (JP), Michelle Ruff (EN)
- Make-Out Kids: They're almost always kissing.
Wagi/Wadi
Wagi/Wadi
- Voiced by: Daisuke Kishio (JP), Yuri Lowenthal (EN)
- Ambiguous Gender: Was originally never written with a specific gender in mind, though
the author noncommittally says he might be a boy, because he has a male voice actor in the anime. - Annoying Laugh: Wadi's laughter is high-pitched and hyena-like, and sometimes he laughs at inappropriate moments.
- Dark and Troubled Past: In one of the manga chapters, it's suggested that he grew up in a violent household where his father abused both him and his mother, which is what lead to his habit of constantly laughing. That said, this was just a wild guess by Wiggle... though, given that in Final episode 4, Lavenna sees Wadi crying to himself when nobody's looking, there might be some truth to it.
- The Hyena: He finds almost everything funny and is constantly seen laughing loudly.
Wiggle
Wiggle
The oldest of Hare's classmates. He has a major crush on Weda.- The Generic Guy: Lampshaded in Hareguu, in a very fourth-wall breaking chapter. Once Wiggle gets over his infatuation with Weda, the other characters realize that there's nothing particularly memorable about him anymore, and try to come up with some interesting gimmick so that he isn't written out of the manga. In a much later chapter, Hare realizes that he forgot what Wiggle's face even looked like.
Hiroko Yamada
Hiroko Yamada
- Voiced by: Ayumi Furuyama (JP), Julie Ann Taylor (EN)
Another Japanese office lady Guu inadvertently swallows one day while fishing (i.e., draining the ocean and keeping the fish) with Haré. She's a bit ... VERY crazy. Poor Seiichi and Tomoyo.
- Ax-Crazy: She's three fries short of a happy meal even after she isn't suicidal anymore.
- Driven to Suicide: To temper herself in hell so she can get revenge on her cheating boss as an evil ghost.
- Took a Level in Kindness: After ending up in Guu's stomach world, she eventually mellows out, and becomes a happy-go-lucky person similar to Tomoyo and Seiichi.
- Yandere: She fell in love with her division chief, but after he broke up with her (since he was married with children), she went as far as to attempt suicide so that she could come back as a ghost and haunt him as revenge.
Dama
Dama
A hairdresser living in the village next to Hare's. She is an elderly woman with a large afro.
- Abhorrent Admirer: Exaggerated to a cartoonish degree. She is obsessed with chasing men with white hair (mistaking them for her dead husband). In her debut episode, she is rather over-the-top but ultimately human-looking in her chase of Dr. Clive. However, in her later appearances she becomes an animalistic, feral Humanoid Abomination, who is chasing down white-haired men to tear them to pieces (all while her Imagine Spots show her as a beautiful young girl trying to reunite with her husband).
- Inexplicably Awesome: She starts out as an ordinary hairdresser. Then her obsession with her late husband turns her into a superhumanly strong Abhorrent Admirer who gradually becomes a Humanoid Abomination. Then she becomes a heroic master martial artist. Then she becomes a master assassin. Then she (and her twin sister) accidentally fuse into a world destroying Eldritch Abomination... It's not explained how a harmless old woman can do all this, which Hare lampshades a few times.
Bell and Asio
Bell and Asio
- Asio is voiced by: Ryōtarō Okiayu (JP), Sam Riegel (EN)Bell is voiced by: Mari Yokoo (JP), Melodee Spevack (EN)
A pair of Weda's servants from her old life who come from the city to retrieve her.
- Berserk Button: Bell hates Doctor Clive and much like Hare would do anything to stop him and Weda from seeing one and other. However, she goes as far as trying to kill him. Guu intentionally presses this one by not telling Bell of Weda's marriage to Clive and her pregnancy until she arrives in surprise. This drives her to the point from Laughing Mad to Tranquil Fury, when she tries to reassure Hare that she doesn't intend to harm Clive. Neither Hare nor Clive believe her, especially when she's strangling the latter while further reassuring the former.
- Butt-Monkey: Bell always kicks Asio's ass, without reason.
- Imagine Spot: Bell's is Weda returning her affections.
- Incompatible Orientation: Bell clearly does have feelings for Weda, whereas Weda absolutely doesn't "swing that way".
- Jerkass: Bell is very obnoxious most of the time
- Nosebleed: A Running Gag with Bell, who gets nosebleeds of literal firehose intensity upon the slightest thought about Weda. She is even seen spraying fountains of nose blood in the intro and outro of the original anime. A sight gag in Final's episode 2 shows Hare using an umbrella to shield himself from her nosebleeds.
- Single-Target Sexuality: Bell has only had a crush towards Weda.
- Unlucky Childhood Friend: Asio has known Weda since she was a sick little girl and seems to have some feelings for her.
- Bell could be considered to be something of this as well.
Robert
Robert
- Voiced by: Showtaro Morikubo (JP), Keith Silverstein (EN)
A bodyguard hired by Weda's family who escorts Weda, Hare, and Guu to the estate. He's paranoid. To say the least.
- Crazy Survivalist: Robert is always on the lookout for "terrorist attacks" and "assassins".
- Chekhov's Gun: His Crazy Survivalist side is often played for laughs, but it turns into Properly Paranoid when Weda's siblings try to have her killed.
- Everyone Has Standards: Despite his Trigger-Happy attitude, he never lets someone inexperienced handle a live gun. He uses that to mess with Hare into thinking he accidentally shot Guu to death, when training at the shooting range.
- Drives Like Crazy: Instead of it being bad driving skills, it's due to his extreme paranoia. In his first appearance he even mistakes a couple driving behind him as undercover hitmen.
- Jerkass: When he is not being paranoid, he and Guu pull pranks on Hare. One time he made Hare think he killed Guu.
- Trigger-Happy: Him being paranoid can make him so quick to pull a gun
Yumi-Sensei
Yumi-Sensei
- Voiced by: Junko Minagawa (JP), Kate Higgins (EN)
- Child Hater: Refers to herself as such repeatedly, though that doesn't stop her from becoming obsessed with Haré.
- Comedic Shotacon: There's even an entire episode devoted to her taking Haré out on a date, and finally asking him to sleep with her (which he obviously refuses). Her infatuation with the 11-year-old Hare is treated as entirely comedic, and an excuse for gags such as Hare yelling at her that she's committing a crime when she asks him for sex.
- Creepy Gym Coach: Stalks Haré and insists he's her boyfriend, then almost immediately replaces him with Toposte when Haré finally gets her to back off.
- Extreme Omnisexual: Becomes infatuated with pretty much anyone who shows her an ounce of kindness, with no regard for age or gender.
- Hair-Trigger Temper: Her main schtick, apart from her infatuation with Haré, is how she turns into an ultra-violent, screaming embodiment of fury, whenever anything slightly annoys her.
