Gurio Umino (anime)

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**Gurio Umino** is a smart, stereotypical nerd who was a classmate of Usagi Tsukino and Naru Osaka.

He is usually called by his family name "Umino", is a socially-awkward friend of Usagi Tsukino and her best friend Naru Osaka. He is very intelligent, but at some point, he could be arrogant and a bit of a "Mr. Know It All". He was usually the one who kept the others up-to-date on information on Sailor V, the strange crimes and rumors in Tokyo, and on students such as Ami Mizuno and Makoto Kino.

## Nomenclature & Etymology

### Etymology

**Umino**: family name is like that of the Inner Sailor Guardians, and is supposed to mean "ocean field", or a pun-like meaning of "of the ocean".

**Gurio:** is written in hiragana and has no exact meaning, but it could come from *Guri Guri* meaning "turning" or "to turn" since he wears glasses with swirls in them.

## Appearance

Umino is a 14-year-old boy with blondish-colored hair. He was always seen with his school uniform but the 2nd episode in a scene with Usagi and Naru, he was wearing a different outfit. Also, his most notable trait was his large glasses with swirls in the lenses.

Also, while the Sailor Senshi did imagine that Umino was handsome without his glasses at one point, author Naoko Takeuchi did confirm that he was handsome without them.

## Information

Gurio Umino appears first in the 1st episode. He is usually called by his family name, "Umino." He is a friend of Usagi and Naru, and he attends Juban Public Middle School with them. He is very intelligent and makes excellent grades, but he is also strange and geeky. He often suddenly appears in unusual places, seeming to come out of nowhere. However, he is full of useful knowledge and gossip about secondary characters in the series. He gives the girls additional information about characters such as Mikan Shiratori and Higure Akiyama.

In the 2nd episode, Jadeite's youma possessed him with dark energy, temporarily turning him evil along with a group of other students from Juban Public Middle School until Sailor Moon defeated the youma.

At the beginning of the 1st season, he has a crush on Usagi, although his feelings are unrequited. During episode two, he asks Naru for advice on how to win Usagi's love, but Naru just laughed. Later, Usagi did ask him out one time, but not because she liked him. Rather that was just part of a plan to spy on Rei and Mamoru, whom she got suspicious over. Umino, however, got the wrong idea.

Usagi both started and supported a relationship between him and Naru, after Naru was left heartbroken when her love Nephrite was killed. Although Naru wasn't too fond of the idea initially, their relationship greatly strengthened after Umino's heroic actions impersonating Tuxedo Mask. The relationship develops into one in which Umino cared for Naru immensely.

By the 2nd season, he and Naru are officially seen as a couple.

In episode 95, the couple wins an affection contest.

In the SuperS Special, Ami's First Love, it is revealed that he uses the pseudonym GuriGuri Hakasei (meaning "Professor Squiggles") for exams and that he knows Mercurius (Suri Kurume). His last appearance was in Sailor Moon SuperS.

## Trivia

* Umino bears a resemblance to Princess D and Mercurius from the original manga.

## References

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