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Kenji Harima (播磨 拳児 Harima Kenji?) Voiced by: Hiroki Takahashi (Japanese), Brandon Potter (English) The male protagonist. Harima is a stubborn, paranoid ex-delinquent who is in love with Tenma who still retains some aspects of his former persona, especially riding on his motorcycle and getting into fights with other delinquents during the beginning of the series. Harima's name is occasionally mistaken for the name of another person in class 2-D, Harry Mackenzie, because of the similarities in pronunciation.[n 2] Harima, like his crush, Tenma, is a fan of the jidaigeki television show The Three For The Kill. Harima lives with his older cousin who is also Yakumo's homeroom teacher, Itoko. Harima began drawing manga as a means of escape after realizing Tenma was in love with Karasuma. In his manga, Harima inserts himself and Tenma into various storylines where the Harima-like character often defeats the Karasuma-like character and always wins the heart of the Tenma-like character. Later, he became serious about it after deciding to enter an amateur manga contest which he gets an honorable mention. Yakumo becomes his editor as she becomes the only person he trusts reading his manga. This results in misinterpretations by others, especially Tenma, who think they are dating because of Harima's desire to keep his work secret. Although, due to his infatuation with Tenma for most of the manga, he doesn't show feelings for Eri. However, in the anime where Eri is talking with a male student while they were fixing the Christmas tree, Harima overhears them. The student shows Eri how the decorations are properly done, making Harima quite jealous and causes him to mess up on one of the tree's bells. After Tenma leaves to follow Karasuma, he becomes closer with Eri. Harima's appearance changes throughout the series. He begins wearing sunglasses with a mustache, goatee and with his hair is pulled back with a headband, leaving an ahoge. He originally adopted this look to avoid being recognized by Tenma. The year before, he saved Tenma from a thug. However, as Tenma passed out Harima brought her back to rest at his place and when she woke up, Tenma, while grateful for the help against the thug, accused him of being a pervert. While Tenma has forgotten the incident, and his appearance fools her initially, as the series goes on she comes closer to remembering the incident. To avoid this, Harima tries to distract her when she appears to be on the verge of remembering. As the series progresses, he undergoes several changes in appearance. He has a long beard for a time (which he grew in an attempt to impress Tenma), a shaved head shortly following him shaving his beard off, and because Eri was mad at him for that she shaved the top of his head, and for a time has a shaved face because Eri accidentally cut it, and upon hearing that Tenma didn't like beards he shaved it off completely. Eventually he returns to the look the series started with. In the anime adaptation of Natsu no Arashi!, he and Tenma made a brief cameo appearance with no spoken lines. Eri Sawachika (沢近 愛理 Sawachika Eri?) Voiced by: Yui Horie (Japanese), Leah Clark (English) From her introduction onwards, Eri is characterized as having a dual nature. Talented, beautiful, wealthy, and popular, she is admired and envied by her classmates for the glamorous lifestyle that many believe her to lead. In reality, however, Eri uses this image and her outward confidence to mask her inward feelings of loneliness and insecurity. Her social status makes her unapproachable to many of her classmates and leaves her somewhat isolated from her peers. Even at home, her parents are away on business more frequently than not. The process by which Eri grows and matures, as she starts to develop deeper friendships and searches for love, forms the backbone of one of the main plotlines in the story. She also develops feelings for Harima, she usually denies it, but as the story goes on her feelings for Harima get stronger. These are typical Tsundere traits. Born into wealth, Eri is the daughter of a prominent English businessman. Her mother is from Kyoto. Although Eri was born in Japan, she moved to England for her early schooling before returning to Japan to attend high school. As a result, her knowledge of kanji is limited, causing her to occasionally make humorous linguistic mistakes. Eri's most striking features are her amber eyes and long blond hair (which she usually ties into pigtails), which signify her mixed British-Japanese heritage. While she is often admired for her looks, her origin is occasionally the subject of derisive remarks, such as during the class trip to Kyoto. Harima's nickname for Eri is Ojo (お嬢 Ojō?), as a somewhat mocking reference to her status.[n 4] In the English dub, Harima would call her by the name "Rich Girl." Conversely, she addresses to Harima as Hige (ヒゲ?, loosely translated as "bearded guy"), even after he does away with his facial hair. In the English Dub, Eri calls him "Whiskers". She appears to be married to Harima in the future with a new baby in the last chapter of School Rumble Z. Yakumo Tsukamoto (塚本 八雲 Tsukamoto Yakumo?) Voiced by: Mamiko Noto (Japanese), Caitlin Glass (English) Beautiful, smart, and shy, Tenma's younger sister, Yakumo, is the most admired girl in school. She displays the ability to read the minds of those who find her attractive (though she once read Harima's mind before they got properly acquainted, and "heard" nothing but silence).[n 1] Yakumo tries to cook all the meals for the house being afraid of the mess and taste of Tenma's cooking. Despite her many positive qualities, Yakumo has never had a boyfriend having turned down at least eight would-be suitors. Yakumo is scouted by several High school clubs because of her many talents; however, she declines joining most of them because she dreads spending time with Hanai who follows her with the intent of joining the same clubs. Thanks to a ban on Hanai decreed by Akira, Yakumo becomes a member of the Tea Club along with her best friend, Sarah. As the story progresses and she becomes a manga editor, Yakumo develops a romantic interest for Harima. In the anime, she confessed to him in a flashback scene as seen in the first episode of the 2 episode long OVA School Rumble Third Term. Later, they are rumored to be a couple to the annoyance of Eri, who tries to interfere due to her own romantic feelings for Harima. During Yakumo's childhood, she is often mispronounced by Tenma as "Yamo", and it seriously irritates her. Not only that, she also gets annoyed when Tenma messes up her work, resulting her to hate Tenma. On top of that, she gets seriously injured mentally when Tenma put the only picture book that Yakumo's father left her before he died in the washing machine. However, as Yakumo grows, she understands that Tenma may have a lot of negative qualities, but her warm and caring heart is undeniably the only reason that Yakumo accepts Tenma as her older sister. Yakumo finds a stray black cat with a X-shaped scar on its forehead who follows her to school. After several failed attempts, the cat no longer runs away from her. She gives him the name Iori (伊織?) and brings it home to live with her though he is continually wary of Tenma. Later, when Iori avoids Yakumo, Harima saves Iori from drowning, then pulls a thorn out of his leg and the cat begins liking him. According to the last Japanese poll performed by the publishers of the manga, Yakumo is currently the most popular character in the series.