Hanazono Hakari

> Being your girlfriend has made me the happiest person in the entire world, Rentarou kun, **I love you**.
>
> Hanazono Hakari to Aijou Rentarou

## Hanazono Hakari

* Anime
* Manga

## Relationships

### Family

* Hakari's Father (father) (deceased)
* Hanazono Hahari (mother)

### Occupation

Ohananomitsu High School Student
Class 1-4

### Relations

* Aijou Rentarou (Boyfriend and Classmate)
* Inda Karane (Classmate)
* Yoshimoto Shizuka (Classmate)
* Eiai Nano (Classmate)
* Kakure Meme (Classmate)

## Media Appearance

### Japanese Voice

* Kaede Hondo (anime}
* Reina Ueda (voice drama}

### German Voice

Jennifer Weiß

**Hanazono Hakari** (花園 羽香里 *Hanazono Hakari*) is a main character and is one of Rentarou's first girlfriends, alongside Inda Karane. She is a 1st year, class 4 student at Ohananomitsu High School, sharing a class with Rentarou, Karane, Shizuka, Nano and Meme.

## Appearance

Hakari has shoulder-length pink hair and green eyes. She usually had white flowers in her hair, much like her mother. Also like her mother, Hakari is very curvy, a trait that some of the other girlfriends envy.

## Personality

Hakari loves Rentarou. She is described as a "clumsy calculative" lady. She is often planning and plotting to achieve her goals which may or may not go as planned due to her clumsiness. She is prim and proper on the outside while inside she is just as degenerate, if not more, as the other member of the Hanazono family. Hakari is also a big teaser towards Inda Karane often leaving her embarrassed or pissed.

Hobby: delusions, breast growth, diet.

Speciality: love schemes.

## History

Hakari is the daughter of Hanazono Hahari and was revealed to be a rich girl. Her mother at first wanted to stop Hakari from dating Rentarou, but Rentarou soon convinced her otherwise.

Hakari met Rentarou while walking with Karane on the first day after bumping into him in the hall, both immediately falling in love with him at first sight. She pretends that her leg is hurt so that he could carry her all the way to the nurse's office.

After hearing the rumors that if you confess to someone while giving them a four-leaf pink clover, you will definitely succeed. She and Karane spent the rest of the day trying to find the clover for Rentarou without success. Regardless, both her then Karane confessed to Rentarou. Nevertheless, Rentarou found the clovers and presented it to both of them on the next day while confessing that he wants to two-time them; they accepted. Hakari simultaneously became Rentarou's 1st girlfriend at the same time as Karane.

## First girlfriend dispute

* It is generally considered that Hakari is one of the first two girlfriends of Rentarou, alongside Inda Karane. However, some people consider Hakari as the first girlfriend and Karane as second.[1]
* Arguments supporting the first theory:
	1. Rentarou's acceptance: After deep thoughts regarding the double confession, Rentarou finally decides to accept both at the exact same time.
	2. Dates and kisses: While Rentarou accepts both confessions, he asks both of the two girlfriends out for a date together. In order to avoid any psychological hurdle on the issue of who Rentarou's first kiss was, the three of them decided to kiss at the same time.
	3. Author's intentions: This is in line of the two arguments above. Supporters of this theory believe that the author intentionally introduced two girlfriends at the same time so that neither of them will be 'the absolute first'.[2] This suits the premises and motives of the manga better in comparison, as the theme is to focus on the solution for 'how can we make all heroines happy'.
	4. 'The Twins' Proposition: This argument has been used to question the significance of the minute time difference between the key events used in determining the order of the two girlfriends (described below under 'Arguments supporting the second theory'):
	> "It's like in a set of ten siblings, they would be twins. There is always an older twin, but it never truly matters who is older, because [they] were born together. So when [you count] the children you count the twins together, even if [you acknowledge] one of them as the older." - u/Izzombie [3]
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* Arguments supporting the second theory:
	1. The confession: Hakari is the one who confessed first.
	2. Acceptance of the polygamous relationship: Noting that she'd rather have Rentarou two-timing on her than rejecting her confession and not be in love, Hakari accepts Rentarou's proposal before Karane did.
	3. The initiative: This is in line of the two arguments above. Hakari was always portrayed to be the first one to take the initiative for Rentarou to accept her as his girlfriend. Karane would then passively follow, very soon after.
	4. Conventions: Regardless of which scenario happens to be the case, it is more intuitively acceptable to have all girlfriends numbered in order; in either case Hakari and Karane will always have the girlfriend order of 1 and 2, respectively.[4] Moreover, Hakari would more likely to have been chosen to represent the front cover of the first volume, had the authors decided to have a single girl as its cover.[5]

## Etymology

* **Hanazono** (花園) means "flower, blossom" (花) (**hana**) and "garden, park, plantation" (園) (**sono**/**zono**).
	+ This is a reference to the phrase "頭がお花畑 (*Atama ga* *Ohanabatake*)" literally meaning "flower garden in the head", used to refer to someone who has constant delusions and fantasies.
* **Hakari** (羽香里) means "feather" (羽) (**ha**), "fragrance, fragrant" (香) (**ka**) and "village" (里) (**ri**).
	+ **Hakari** is also a homophone of the word "plan" (図り)(**hakari**)

## Trivia

* Hakari has kissed and been kissed by Rentarou at least 18 times as of Chapter 107
* In Chapter 44 she was unknowingly french kissed by Hahari while unconscious
* Conversely in Chapter 110, Hakari herself unknowingly kisses Hahari when she demonstrates her lover recognizing kissing skills.
* In Chapter 121, it is confirmed that Hakari masturbates, though it is referred to as "mwehehe practice" instead, presumably for censorship reasons. This is further backed up in Chapter 143 in a flashback where a young Hakari tells Meido Mei about rubbing her crotch on the corner of a table.
* Hakari has a mole at the back of her right thigh (this can be seen in both the manga and anime).
* Hakari's birthday is on June 22nd. This is a reference to her distinctive laughter style, むふふ (*mufufu*), or "mwehehe" in the official translations, being a *Goroawase* (wordplay) for 622.

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