Haruko Haruhara

Haruko Haruhara (ハルハラ・ハル子, Haruhara Haruko) is the focal character of the FLCL franchise. A former investigator for the Galactic Space Police Brotherhood. A former invetigator for the Intergalactic Space Police Brotherhood, Haruko has travelled to Earth several times in her quest to find Atomsk, the most powerful space pirate in the galaxy. She leaves Earth in FLCLimax, but returns as a teacher in Mabase in FLCL Progressive. In FLCL Alternative, she's back on Earth again tackling a whole host of new Medical Mechanica problems.

appearance
Haruko is a tall, slender woman with yellow eyes and a pink bob cut. Though her outfit often changes throughout the series, she is most often seen in a bright red coat, black pants, white boots, a white scarf, and a pair of goggles.

After her other half, Jinyu, splits off from her, Haruko's hair becomes light orange. After consuming Jinyu, Haruko's hair returns to its original pink color, but her eyes become red.

personality
Haruko has an extremely manic and chaotic personality, making her disposition and behavior very unpredictable. She loves to manipulate and toy with the people around her for her own amusement or benefit. At times, she has also seemed to act as a maternal or mentor figure. Ultimately though, she seems to be mainly concerned with achieving her own ends without any regard for anyone that might suffer because of it. Though she has shown the capacity to care for or at least be kind to other people.

During the events of FLCL Progressive, after she has split off from Jinyu, her selfish nature becomes much more prominent. During this time she is solely concerned with chasing down Atomsk and will manipulate or destroy as many people as she needs to to reach her goal.