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Kenji Harima
Kenji
Kenji Harima
Age 16
Birthday December 1st (Sagittarius)
Relations Osakabe Itoko (cousin)

Harima Shuuji (brother)

Class 2-C
Height 180 cm
Weight 79 kg
Hair Black
First Appearance
(Anime)
Episode 1
Seiyuu Takahashi Hiroki
English Brandon Potter

Kenji Harima is the deuteragonist of the School Rumble series who is in love with Tsukamoto Tenma.

Origins

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Harima, when he was 15

In middle school, he was a well known delinquent. However, after saving Tsukamoto Tenma from some ruffians, he falls in love with her and eventually reforms himself. Currently a high school student, he divides his time between drawing manga and trying to win Tenma's heart.

Talents

Harima’s indisputable talent is fighting. Even though he never studied any form of martial art, his fighting skills, developed through constant street-fighting, matching those of a black belt. Even though he’s fought many times with Hanai Haruki, a black belt in Kempo and Aikido, their matches always end up in a draw.

At some point in the story, Harima develops the ability to communicate with animals, turning him into a sort of psychic, and he uses this to do fortune-telling on the streets. This unusual talent draws the attention of Tenma’s younger sister, Yakumo, who always wanted to read her cat’s mind. He also has a large amount of animals

As a way to express his feelings and to distract himself from Tenma, Harima starts drawing manga. He turns out to be quite good at it and his work impresses the chief editor of a famous publisher, who urges him to continue and participate in a contest. Because of his advice, Harima seeks out Yakumo’s help and she ends up becoming his assistant.

Even though Harima’s ineptitude in schoolwork is only matched by Tenma’s, unlike her, he’s very good at and excels in any kind of sport. Other talents include riding a motorcycle.

Harima's Various Appearances

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Harima, when he was getting interviewed

Relationships

Love Interests

Tsukamoto Tenma

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TRUE LOVE

The centre of Harima's affections. Most of the scenarios in School Rumble revolve around Harima's obsessive pursuit of Tenma. This frequently gets him into all sorts of problems, most notably with Sawachika Eri. Rarely attending class and often picking up fights simply to enjoy the pleasure of beating people up, after falling for Tenma, Harima decides to come to school just so he can be close to her; but because of an earlier misunderstanding, he now has to wear sunglasses and grow a beard and moustache to conceal his identity from her, for fear that she might reject him. Tenma, however, consistently remains oblivious to Harima's amorous intentions untill she's at the airport with Harima and says to herself ( after boarding the plane) that she heard him saying that the reason Harima took her to the airport, ( to fly to America and be with Karasuma) was because he loved her. She also says she might have known about Harima's feelings for her even before then.

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Harima, during his time on the ship

Sawachika Eri

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The bane of Harima's existence. No matter how hard he tries to chase after Tenma, he inevitably ends up in misunderstandings with Eri. Harima and Eri have numerous misunderstandings over the course of the two seasons of anime, the manga, and the OVAs. Despite their constant bickering, Harima and Eri work extremely well as a team. Their love/hate relationship has formed the basis of the ever popular Flag Faction. Harima refers to Eri by the nickname "Ojou," meaning something along the lines of "Madame" (teasing her social status). In the English dub he refers to her as "Rich Girl"

For most of the anime/manga series, Harima seems to hate Eri, and never show any romantic interest in her, however in later parts of the series, Harima comments of Eri being a good person, and even his friend. He even tells her he's helping her as friend when he agrees to pretend to be her fiance at one point.

Harima is the first guy Eri has ever been interested in, despite her being hit on all the time by other guys and Harima's love confession being a mistake he made while being blinded by the sun and injured from fallling down a flight of stair. However, in the parallel world story, School Rumble Z manga, where it shows the School's graduation ceremony, Harima and Eri attend the ceremony together. It then shows Harima and Eri standing in the doorway of Karasuma's hospital room, with Eri holding a baby.

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Husband and Wife ?

Tsukamoto Yakumo

Harima's manga assistant. Based on his interest in Yakumo's sister, Tenma, he refers to her as "Imouto-san," meaning "Little sister." Sawachika Eri mistakes their relationship to mean that the two were dating, leading to further misunderstandings between the two. Yakumo eventually falls in love with Harima and eventually confesses her feelings to him, but it is unclear if Harima felt the same way. (but probably didn't because he was still in love with Tenma at the time).

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Accidental Kiss

Anegasaki Tae

After getting kicked out of his house by his cousin Itoko, Tae gives him a place to stay. Tae continues to show up in his life as she begins working at Yagami High School as the school's nurse. Tae constantly calls Harima "Hario" and is in fact in love with him. According to her, she was his "landlady" and he was her "tenant". Whenever she sees Harima when no one else is around, she hugs him and screams "HARIO!". Eri seems to be jealous of her as she is with Yakumo (since Yakumo fell in love with Harima).

Family

Osakabe Itoko

School Rumble’s science teacher, Itoko is actually Harima’s cousin. After he leaves home, she takes him in and allows him to live in her house; not for free though, and he is often late with the rent. He gets kicked out of the house by her on two separate occasions.

A very smart woman, Itoko possesses a strong personality and she finds it amusing to see such a strong guy like Harima, being so helpless and weak when it comes to Tenma, for this reason she doesn’t waste the opportunity to pick on him and show him up whenever there’s one.

Harima Shuuji

Harima’s younger brother, Shuuji gets along well with his brother and has a big crush on Tsukamoto Yakumo.

Best Friends

His best friends are his animals:

Alexander

This little frog is responsible for one of Sawachika Eri’s bursts of anger, when he predicts her father liking curry better than nikujaga. That is the last time Harima ever told a fortune. 

Napoleon

Harima’s pig, Napoleon causes an accident at the Sports Festival, when he crosses Umezu Shigeo’s path during the track race. Also in Suou Mikoto's hotpot party when he saw Harima and Tenma eating and talking about a pig soup, he trembles and began to destroy the party.talks to harima and says que

Pyotr

As big as he is, this Giraffe is only a kid and loves Harima very much. After Osakabe Itoko decides to move all the animals away from her house, where Harima keeps them, Pyotr runs away looking for Harima, and gets lost in the city. He later finds Harima just in time to stop him to confess his feelings to Tenma. In season 2, Pyotr finds out that Tsukamoto Yakumo was sick, Pyotr looks for Harima. He appears to have been under his blanket table and telling him that he needs help for his important friend. But, Harima misunderstoods that the one who was in danger was Tenma. So he rode on Pyotr's back and he goes to the Tsukamoto residence where he finds Yakumo, lying on the floor finding out she has high fever. He places Yakumo on her floor bed and accidentally he fells asleep beside her. Iori, come by and puts his paw on Yakumo's forehead as seen in an flash back where Tenma Tsukamoto makes a rabbit out of a snowball and puts in Yakumo's forehead when they were small and Yakumo was sick. And Pyotr saw Iori's doing and he done the same thing. Putting his foot on Harima's forehead which leads Harima into uneasiness.

Anastasia

Harima’s pet penguin.

Rivals

Karasuma Ouji

At first, Harima sees Karasuma as a fellow comrade, mistaking him to be an outsider like himself. He is one of the few students Harima actually tries to befriend and have lunch with. However, when Harima discovers that Tenma is romantically interested in Karasuma, he comes to hate his guts. Normally, if a guy was after Tenma, Harima wouldn’t think twice before he beat the crap out of him; but since in this case it is Tenma who is after Karasuma, Harima decides to step aside and not interfere, thinking of her happiness instead of his own. Harima’s hatred for Karasuma goes up a notch, when, while trying to get acknowledged for his manga, he discovers that Karasuma just happens to be the famous mangaka whom Harima’s always admired.

Hanai Haruki

Harima’s relationship with Hanai could be somewhat described as friendship/rivalry. Their so-called enmity began with a misunderstanding over Tsukamoto Yakumo, whom Hanai loves. Since it’s the custom in Japan to call people by their family name, Harima believes Hanai to be after Tsukamoto Tenma, Tsukamoto Yakumo’s older sister and Harima’s love interest. From then on, the multiple misunderstandings and epic battles that erupt as a result of this, make for some of the most enjoyable moments in School Rumble. Despite all this, Harima and Hanai respect each other as fighters, and eventually join forces to defeat their common rivals from class 2D, during the Sports Festival.

Tennoji Noboru

The first guy to get beaten by Harima in the anime, Tennouji has vowed to defeat Harima and take over the title of school tyrant. After losing many fights to Harima, he achieves his dream after finally beating Harima, who depressed and heart-broken over Tenma, has lost the will to fight.

Nara Kentaro

Small and fragile, Shy and cowardly, Nara makes for an unlikely rival for Harima. Despite this, however, rarely have we seen Harima more worked up and preoccupied, than when Nara is around his beloved Tenma. The reason for this is that contrary to the likes of Tennouji Noboru, Nara is well liked by Tenma and she always acts friendly with him; so every time Nara comes near Tenma (whom he has a crush on), Harima somehow always manages to get in between and scare him away.

Harry MacKenzie

Harima’s rivalry with Harry is solely based on male ego, and is a rather insignificant one, at least during the first season of School Rumble. Harima meets Harry in a street alley by chance, during Harry’s fight with Hanai, who initially mistook Harry for Harima. Harima then joins in the fight, leaving Harry impressed by both his and Hanai’s fighting skills. Later on they face each other again during the Sports Festival, where Harima beats Harry at the relay race.

Quotes

  • "DAMMIT! How can one girl be so cute, yet so stupid?!"
  • "WHAT THE HELL?!?!!"
  • "Shut the flunk up!"
  • "Thank God I was born stupid!"
  • "Now, now, these things happen to everyone... EXCEPT ME!!!!! That's for making fun of my masterpiece! If there's one thing I hate, it's criticism!"
  • "Don't you worry your pretty little head, Tenma!"
  • "That was just a love tap. That's what happens when people distract me"
  • "How do you like them apples now?"
  • "A man in love cannot afford to lose his dignity"
  • "You can't get blood from a stone, silly broad!"
  • "Do you like... apples? WELL HOW'D YOU LIKE THEM APPLES?"
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