Haruka Nanase

Haruka Nanase (七瀬 遥, Nanase Haruka) is the main protagonist of the anime series Free! and the light novel High☆Speed!. He is a freestyle swimmer on the Iwatobi High School swimming team.

Appearance
Haruka is a tall young man with short, straight black hair and blue eyes. He always keeps a serious expression. He seems to wear his swimming shorts everywhere. As pointed out by members of the swim team on multiple occasions, all of his swimsuits look virtually the same, yet he claims they all fit differently.

Personality
Haruka is a strong and quiet person who loves swimming. Haruka is attracted to water, and will swim anywhere and in anything with water (including a fish tank). His style captivates many and he has a strong fixation towards freestyle swimming. He also wants to beat Rin after he sees how much he has improved.

Makoto Tachibana
Haruka and Makoto have known each other since elementary school. They are in the same class at school and he is Haruka's closest friend. He always tries to discourage Haruka to make any stupid acts, but is often unsuccessful.

Nagisa Hazuki
Haruka and Nagisa are childhood friends and were in the swim club together. After the swim club was going to be closed down, Nagisa went to a different middle school from Haruka and Makoto. Nagisa admires Haruka's swimming and enrolls at his school to swim with him again.

Trivia

 * Like all members of the Iwatobi High School Swimming Club, Haruka has a female name.
 * Haruka has exceptionally great art skills, such as drawing and sculpture.
 * Haruka will go anywhere as long as there's a body of water that he can go into.
 * He bathes with his swimming trunks on.
 * He has a certain sexual attraction to water.
 * Rin stated that Haruka has said "Tadaima," which means "I'm home," upon arriving to their swimming club during elementary school.

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