This article contains a list of fictional characters from the Japanese comics anime and manga series Haré+Guu.
Description Many characters in the series have names relating to weather (including, most obviously 'We-da'). The show's title has a double meaning, sounding like a weather forecast (Mostly fair skies, but then Guu) and a normal title (The Jungle was Nice, then came Guu). Many fans avoid translating the title, some simply referring to it as Hare Nochi Guu or (as the show does) HareGuu. Some fans of the show simply just refer to the show as Guu, being that Guu is a unique character.
Characters Main characters Haré (ハレ) (Hale in the manga)
One of the main protagonists of the series. Haré is a boy who grew up in a jungle village with Weda. He sports a sleeveless white shirt, red shorts, and is always barefoot. The usually patient and sweet-natured Haré (whose name means 'fair weather') is usually troubled by Guu's joy in creating chaos and he is prone to anxious rants or tantrums whenever Guu does something unnatural. This is accompanied by a sudden downpour of rain. Haré is used by Weda to do household chores and he is teased by Guu for having an Oedipus complex, exhibited in his competitive nature trying to keep Dr. Clive away from Weda. He gets worried about any other male character trying to win over Weda, such as Asio, coming to a boil in an episode where he throws himself into a competition over rights to her for a year, with Dr. Clive, Mari, and Uigher. Haré tends to think about things too much, and Guu takes advantage of that by psychoanalyzing Haré at every opportunity, and playfully taking advantage of Haré's neurosis. Hare is also seen reading the Hare+Guu manga. At the end of the manga, six years after Guu suddenly disappeared, Hare has become a teacher at the village school and marries Marie, who gives birth to his daughter. Upon seeing his face, the child gives him Guu's trademark smirk, which comically alarms Hare and prompts him to name her "Guu". In the omake, it appears the baby also has Guu's snarky attitude and generally demeaning behavior towards Hare, and she likes to act spoiled to annoy Hare.
Guu (グゥ) (Goo in the manga)
One of the main protagonists of the series. Guu is a young girl with light pink hair, a pink dress, and is always barefoot. Guu's stomach is a world filled with buildings, hundred-legged cats, and a nice young couple of lovers that have been trapped there for ages (but apparently don't mind their predicament). Other than Haré, no character seems to be aware of Guu's strange nature (or for that matter the bizarre circumstances surrounding everything else in the series). The weird events that occur because of her are only ever acknowledged by Haré. Everyone who is eaten by Guu, only to be spat out later (excluding Haré) dismisses what happened as "sleeping" (occasionally, dreaming about Guu's Stomach world). Haré even dismisses his first time in Guu's Stomach but is quickly proved wrong. There are other strange things Guu can do which defy the laws of physics, logic, and reality which have included but are not limited to teleporting, time travel, reality warping, superhuman strength, elongating her body parts, breathing underwater, causing people to switch bodies, mind reading, causing disco music to play suddenly, switching her face (from a cute face to a completely plain face), transforming into a giant kaiju monster version of herself, and inciting mental breakdowns in Haré, though the latter is more of a talent than an actual power. She apparently has more than one stomach and cares enough about the people and creatures she swallows to keep dangerous things away from the area she keeps her 'guests'. Despite all this, Guu actually cares for some of Hare's personal problems, and often gives him advice with profound sayings- a lot of her powers are used to make Hare learn a lesson. At the end of the manga, Guu leads Hare to her birthplace in a dream (and refuses to let him go further, saying it would be a one-way trip for him), and it's strongly implied that Guu's birthplace is somewhere between life and death, and that she's some kind of physical god. Guu disappears the next morning, releasing the people in her stomach (who turn up in a TV show about missing people suddenly reappear) and erasing everybody's memories of her, except Hare's. Six years later, Hare spots Guu's smirk on his newborn daughter's face, and realizes she might be a reincarnation of Guu.
Adult Guu (Big Guu in the manga) A resident living inside Guu who is separate from Guu and can take over whenever she feels like it, she's a grown-up version of Guu and is very beautiful. Fortunately for Guu and the rest of the residents inside her stomach, she cares about them and their wants and desires, going so far as to steal Ame from Hare. She's also the one responsible for ripping off the village elder's chest hair, making him permanently traumatized of Guu. She also appeared one time to act as the school doctor after Clive tried unsuccessfully to give Guu a physical, causing Guu to tie-up Clive. Big Guu becomes a frequent visitor to the outside world when they are all in the city.
Weda (ウェダ)
Weda is Haré's mother. She is carefree and inclined to binge drinking. Because of her laziness, Haré looks after her and does most of the "housewifely" things. She left life in a rich home at the age of 14 when her father disowned her for becoming pregnant and refusing to divulge the father's name (out of fear that her father would destroy Clive's life). Upon living in a jungle village, Weda started sporting a leopard-printed fur bikini and is always barefoot. She raised Hare in the jungle by herself which, due to her chronic irresponsibility, is quite difficult to fathom. She may have survived on the fact that she's a brilliant hunter (her hunting activity is one of a few times when Weda wears sneakers) and is second only to the Elder. Despite her flakiness, Weda does love her son very much and sometimes tries to give him advice and cook lunches for him. Unfortunately, she is a terrible cook and usually injures herself badly when she tries to cook anything but shrimp au gratin. She is extremely maternal despite her sometime immaturity, since she enjoys mothering Marie and Guu, is delighted to discover her second pregnancy, and tells Hare that if he vanished she would follow him anywhere. Weda's relationship with Dr. Clive is an odd one, since she seems to be very fond of him and bears him no ill will, but inexplicably seems to regard any romantic overtures as jokes. She seems to be unaware that Asio and Uighur are in love with her, and she regards the Stupid Couple with contempt and irritation. In the OVAs, she becomes pregnant with her second baby with Clive, and later marries Clive. After the marriage, she appears much less tolerant of Clive's skirt-chasing.
Ame
Hare's baby brother who was born in the OVA Haré+Guu Deluxe, but has barely any significance in the story. His name comes from "Megumi no Ame" (Rain of Blessing), When Haré goes back in time and met up with the past Weda, he claimed that his name was Ame rather than Haré. When he got back in the present, Weda remembered the boy from the past while naming her 2nd child.
Dr. Clive (クライヴ Kuraivu)
The doctor of the school, Dr. Clive is apathetic towards everyone in the jungle, unless they happen to be female. He came in from the city shortly after the series began, and had a 'relationship' with Weda while she was 14 years old, which, as Weda admits, resulted in Haré's birth. The anime and manga state that Dr. Clive is Haré's biological father but despite this, he engages in violent arguments with Haré (most of the time the center of it being Weda). Highly perverted, he uses every opportunity to "reignite his old relationship" with Weda, which usually end in failures until he chases after Weda when she leaves for the city. When Weda later becomes pregnant with their second child, this prompts the doctor to propose marriage at last. He has white hair when the series begins, but eventually Hare dyes it black so Dama will stop stalking him. In the anime, it is shown that Dr. Clive was an abused child with a highly perverted mom that hated him which may explain his promiscuity and his antipathy towards young boys. He is fond of Marie in a paternal manner, even wearing clothes she makes for him and telling her that her food is delicious. His body language and high-strung nature (as well as his awareness of Guu's weirdness) are very similar to Hare's.
Jungle villagers Pokute (ポクテ) The Pokute are creatures abundant in the jungle that are often seen in people's houses. They look like armless rabbits with human faces. While it is said that Pokute were supposedly sent from the heavens as protectors, the villagers use them as a food source. No matter where they go in the world, the characters of this anime will always find pokute.
Marie (マリィ)
A girl who is a student of the school that Haré and Guu attend and Reiji-sensei's younger sister. Mari is friendly towards Haré (Later turning into a crush), and imagines herself as a tragic, shōjo manga-esque character. She really loves Weda because she never had the chance to have a mother, and pictures Dr. Clive (father figure) as a part of her family as well. She gets extremely jealous of Hare whenever he goes to the city, always imagining Hare hooking up with various women. Her love for Hare has become very aggressive. At the end of the series, she marries Hare.
Reiji-sensei/Lazy-Sensei (レジィ) (Leiji)
Reiji is the teacher at the school that Haré and Guu attend and is Marie's older brother. He's taken care of Marie since she was a child after their parents died, and once was very close to Weda when she first came to the Jungle with a newborn Hare. However, he was soon put off by her after taking care of her when she was drunk. He likes to stay up all night watching anime, so he falls asleep during the day. The school does not have many students so they all are in Reiji's class. Unfortunately Reiji would much rather rest than teach. In fact, the only "lesson" he seems to want to teach is "mid-morning siestas." Later in the manga, Rebecca is captured by her pokute family and Lazy rescues her, convincing the pokutes that Lazy is the right love for her, despite his trying to convince them otherwise, and in a sudden twist, becomes the pokute's leader (a position usually reserved for pokutes only).
Chourou/Village Elder (ボーア)
Chourou is an old man with a lot of chest hair, which he feels is a sign of his strength and manliness. Adult Guu steals it and this is used as a plot device. (As a result of this he has taken to calling her "Lord Guu" and keeping a safe distance.) As the Village Elder, he leads the pokute (recurring and common creatures in the jungle) hunts, and has dozens of recipes in which pokutes are used. He falls in love with a cat that looks almost like him which he ends up giving to Hare (much to Hare's chagrin) and even disappears for a while when his chest hair growth goes out of control. By the end, he's merely a furball with a head. His chest hair later becomes a warp zone between his hair and a fuzzball in a closet in the city, in which Hare uses.
Toposte (トポステ)
Toposte is the grandchild of Chourou and like him, does not wear a shirt. He initially does not have chest hair like his grandfather, though he fears it is genetic. He attends at the school. When he does ends up growing chest hair, he accepts it happily after learning that the chest hair is how Chourou got girls attracted to him back when he was young. In the city, he is mind controlled by his chest hair and takes over his new class, becoming an idol because of his chest hair. But he is saved by Hare and Guu when the chest hair is removed. When everyone returns to the jungle he is still being sought out by Yumi-sensei, but he eventually returns her feelings.