Haré+Guu
| Haré+Guu | |
Cover art for the first DVD featuring Haré (left) and Guu (right).
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ジャングルはいつもハレのちグゥ (Janguru wa Itsumo Hare nochi Gū) |
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| Genre | Surreal humour, Parody |
| Manga | |
| Jungle wa Itsumo Hare nochi Guu | |
| Written by | Renjuro Kindaichi |
| Published by | Enix→Square Enix |
| Demographic | Shōnen |
| Magazine | Monthly Shōnen Gangan |
| Original run | March 1997 – December 2002 |
| Volumes | 10 |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Tsutomu Mizushima |
| Studio | Shin-Ei Animation |
| Licensed by | |
| Original network | TV Tokyo |
| English network | |
| Original run | 3 April 2001 – 25 September 2001 |
| Episodes | 26 |
| Original video animation | |
| Haré+Guu DELUXE | |
| Directed by | Tsutomu Mizushima |
| Studio | Shin-Ei Animation |
| Licensed by | |
| Released | August 2002 – January 2003 |
| Runtime | 26 minutes |
| Episodes | 6 |
| Original video animation | |
| Haré+Guu FINAL | |
| Directed by | Tsutomu Mizushima |
| Studio | Shin-Ei Animation |
| Released | December 2003 – June 2004 |
| Runtime | 26 minutes |
| Episodes | 7 |
| Manga | |
| Hareguu | |
| Written by | Renjuro Kindaichi |
| Published by | Square-Enix |
| Demographic | Shōnen |
| Magazine | Monthly Shōnen Gangan |
| Original run | January 2003 – September 12, 2009 |
| Volumes | 10 |
Haré+Guu (Japanese: ジャングルはいつもハレのちグゥ Hepburn: Janguru wa Itsumo Hare nochi Gū?, lit. "The Jungle Was Always Sunny, Then Came Guu") is a Japanese anime, based on an original manga which ran in Monthly Shōnen Gangan. Twenty-six TV episodes were made, followed by two OVA sequels: Haré+Guu DELUXE and Haré+Guu FINAL.
The surreal, comical, and occasionally serious series focuses on the story of a 10-year-old boy named Haré who lives in the jungle and his misadventures with Guu, a liminal being who usually presents herself as a young girl.
Haré+Guu opens with a pregnant Weda leaving her home in an unnamed city.
It then flashes forward to the present where Haré is a typical boy living in a village in an unidentified jungle with his lazy mother Weda. On his way back from his errand of fetching bananas, a large dark being overtakes him. Scared, he runs back to the house where his mom has decided to have a new guest, a cute girl named Guu.
The next morning, Haré wakes up to find Guu a completely different person who is no longer cute, social, or energetic. No one seems to notice the change. Guu mostly remains quiet and ignorant of things while Haré has to show her around and explain things. Hare notices Guu likes to eat things. She swallows Haré but, instead of dying, he is taken to another world in Guu's stomach. There he meets Seiichi and Tomoyo, a couple who has accepted their fate in Guu's stomach. After Guu spits Haré out, she accompanies him to school where she meets all of Haré's schoolmates (whom she swallows and spits back out) and the village elder (whose chest hair she rips out).
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