Haruka Minami

About Haruka Minami

Haruka Minami is the eldest of the three Minami sisters and the one who holds the household together. A second year high school student, she cooks, cleans and looks after Kana and Chiaki in their parents' place, and she has been doing it so long that everyone, family and friends alike, treats her as the house's mother. In Minami-ke: Korekara she returns with the rest of the original cast, voiced again by Rina Sato.

Appearance

Haruka has long, light blonde hair that falls well past her shoulders and warm brown eyes. In the Korekara teaser visual she wears her high school uniform, a navy blazer with a red tie and a short pleated skirt. She is the tallest of the three sisters and carries herself with an easy, grown up calm that makes her easy to mistake for being older than she is.

Personality

Haruka is gentle, patient and quietly capable, the sort of person who notices a problem and fixes it before anyone mentions it. She keeps her temper even with Kana at her most chaotic, and her sisters lean on her without thinking twice. Under the reliability she is still a normal teenager, and the household runs on her far more than she ever complains about.

Background & Story

Haruka has effectively raised her younger sisters in the family apartment, taking on the cooking and the running of the home while still attending high school. Her friends Maki and Atsuko, fellow volleyball club members, look out for her in return, and her senior Hosaka's hopeless crush on her is one of the school's worst kept secrets. Across four seasons she stayed the calm centre of the series, and Korekara brings her back unchanged.

Powers & Abilities

• Running the Minami household: Haruka has no powers, but she cooks every meal, keeps the apartment in order and manages two younger sisters on top of her own school life. It is the least glamorous skill in the series and the one everything else depends on.

Key Relationships

• Kana Minami: Haruka's younger sister and her biggest daily challenge. Haruka scolds her, feeds her and covers for her in roughly equal measure.
• Chiaki Minami: Her youngest sister. Chiaki respects Haruka deeply and saves her sharpest politeness for her, a running joke in the family.
• Hosaka: A senior at Haruka's school who is hopelessly in love with her. Haruka remains almost entirely unaware of how far his devotion goes.
• Takeru: The sisters' older cousin, the closest thing they have to an uncle, who drops by the apartment and spoils them when he can.

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