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 in 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.

Personality
Haruka is a strong and quiet person who loves swimming. 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
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, as shown in episode 2, where he draws the poster for the swim club for any possible people who might be interested in joining the club.
 * 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.

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