| rdfs:comment | - Kenji Harima is the deuteragonist of the School Rumble series who is in love with Tenma Tsukamoto.
- Harima is an ex-delinquent who loves Tenma. However he still retains aspects of his delinquent persona such as riding his motorcycle to school and getting into fights with other delinquents. He has a little brother, Shuuji, who likes Tenma's younger sister, Yakumo, although they do not live together. Harima is a fan of the jidaigeki TV show called "The Three that were Slashed", which Tenma is also a fan of. Harima's name is once mistaken for the name of another person in class 2-D, Harry Mackenzie, because of the similarities in pronunciation.
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| abstract | - Kenji Harima is the deuteragonist of the School Rumble series who is in love with Tenma Tsukamoto.
- Harima is an ex-delinquent who loves Tenma. However he still retains aspects of his delinquent persona such as riding his motorcycle to school and getting into fights with other delinquents. He has a little brother, Shuuji, who likes Tenma's younger sister, Yakumo, although they do not live together. Harima is a fan of the jidaigeki TV show called "The Three that were Slashed", which Tenma is also a fan of. Harima's name is once mistaken for the name of another person in class 2-D, Harry Mackenzie, because of the similarities in pronunciation. Harima begins the series wearing sunglasses with a mustache and goatee. He originally adopted this look to avoid being recognized as the boy who saved Tenma from a thug the previous year, but was subsequently accused by her of being a pervert. Tenma apparently no longer remembers that incident, and Harima also tries to change the subject when she is on the verge of remembering. His hair is pulled back with a headband, leaving an ahoge. He also undergoes several changes in appearance throughout the series. The style he sports most often in the anime is sunglasses without a mustache and goatee, which lasts from the last few episodes of the first season and throughout the entire second season. In the manga, Harima grows back his mustache and goatee and returns to his old look, making it the style he sports for the longest time. Later in the story, Harima decides to choose Tenma's happiness over his own and starts to help her and Karasuma be together. He even drives Tenma to the airport so she can find Karasuma in America. He sadly tosses away his trademark sunglasses after Tenma's departure, having no more need to disguise his face. Tenma's absence turns Harima back to his old delinquent self, until Eri knocks some sense into him. During the final chapters of the story, Eri asks Harima to pretend to be her fiance in order to fool her family into letting her stay in Japan. However, he is expelled from his cousin's apartment and ends up living at the Tsukamoto household with Yakumo and Sara, while simultaneously posing as Eri's fiance. The arc is never explored further, as there is a sudden several year jump in the story, and it is revealed that one day Harima disappeared without leaving a trace. He is seen in the United States, roaming through the country playing a guitar and drawing for a living, in what he deems as a purification journey to improve his skills. It is implied that he still has feelings for Tenma, as he adds her trademark pigtails on the portraits of the people he draws, claiming they signify good fortune. The School Rumble manga ends with Harima never confessing his feelings for Tenma or ending up with any of the female characters with whom he had close relationships with. However, it is strongly implied in one of the later chapters that Tenma noticed Harima's feelings for her - Harima was talking to himself out loud about his love for Tenma while driving her to the airport and she heard him despite the din of his motorcycle's engine. Also, when Tenma was about to board her plane, Harima tells her that someday he will try to win her away from Karasuma in the future. According to the last Japanese poll performed by the publishers of the manga, Harima is currently the third most popular character in the series.
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