Haku Kurenai

**Haku Kurenai** (紅ハク) is a rival in Cap Revolution Bottleman DX. He is voiced by Tetsuya Kakihara.

## Description

Haku is one of the top Bottle Battlers, and shares the title of "Bottle Star Three Champions" together with Tsubasa Akaushi and Leo Kinjishi. He is also Ponta's old rival and friend, whom he previously idolized as his king.

Prior to becoming one of the Three Champions, Haku used to receive Bottle Battling training under two coaches. After the coaches acknowledged his talent, Haku was ecstatic and challenged Citrus, only to be defeated. However, he then saw how Citrus volunteer to fix the damaged walls, and realized how lonely yet humble Citrus is. Therefore, Haku has since sworn loyalty to Citrus and yearns to be his right-hand man.

After Ponta decided to go undercover, Haku became aimless and unmotivated, even locking himself in his home and giving up L Milkaiser DX, until Episode 30, where he decided to get L Milkaiser back after Ponta found it back for him.

During the BMA crisis, Haku temporarily joined BMA, but then pulled the stunt of switching to B-DACT. After Citrus's return, he immediately switched his alliance back to Citrus, and formed Team Citrus with the Bottle King.

In Episode 43, Haku challenges Ryo to a match, and tries guilt-tripping Ryo to give himself leverage and justify his actions for blindly following Citrus. However, Ryo ends up defeating him with being powered up by Sparkling Nova, and shows Haku the message of Team Citrus forfeiting, leading to Haku forced to accept defeat.

After the events of the BMA crisis, Ponta forgives and apologizes to Haku, and Haku finally realizes how much Ponta, as an individual, cares about him as a friend. He has begun respecting Ponta as a person more afterwards and is glad that Ponta has regained motivation in Bottle Royale which decides the new Bottle King after Ponta defeats him, Leo and Tsubasa.

He is last seen cheering for Cota and Ryo with their friends and rivals after the AI crisis is over.

## Appearance

Haku is a young man with dark crimson and beige hair, split into two even halves; his crimson hair is on his right, while his beige hair is on his right. His eyes are generally closed, but when he opens them, they are shown to be in a hue of sharp golden yellow.

He wears a long shirt with blue accents and white wing logos that consists of two colors; left for cream yellow, and light blue for right. His shirt is donned His attire also consists of black pants, and light russet brown sneakers with white soles.

## Personality

Haku usually maintains an even-mannered and mild disposition, mainly for his fans. However, he blindly worships Citrus and has an extremely selfish side that will make him choose what benefits himself more, even if it means betraying other's trust. Whenever he unleashes his dark side, he becomes ruthless and violent, manically trying to trump his foes.

With his two drastic characteristics, it is heavily implied that Haku has a disorder of split personalities. He also tends to become deranged whenever a battle peaks.

He actually has a third personality, which is a mix of his controlled and wild disposition. In this third personality, he is more self-assured of himself, while still unleashing his more reckless side.

Before he was able to meet Citrus again, Haku had been concealing his wilder personality from the public eye, in order to appease the public perception of him.

Despite his flaws, Haku does have an understanding and determined, albeit one-track minded, side, as he understands how Citrus has been very lonely as a person, and therefore he wants to help him with all his thoughts and actions regardless of any costs. Unfortunately, this blind loyalty does make him fail to think for his own goals that are not revolved around Citrus and believes his strong allegiance is what Citrus wants, until Ryo defeated him and broke him the news about Team Citrus disbanding, which prompts him to finally think for himself. He also begins to respect Ponta more after the events of the BMA crisis.

## Bottlemen

Haku owns two different Bottlemen: R Greno DX, a control-type Bottleman, and L Milkaiser DX, a speed-type Bottleman. Both of them are themed after the Gemini Constellation and can combine into one multi-type Bottleman named Royal Gryphon DX.

## Trivia

### Background

* "Kurenai" and "Haku" mean "crimson" and "white" in Japanese respectively, which are references to the primary colors of the the drinks his Bottlemen are based on, black tea and milk.
* He shares his surname with Shu Kurenai from Beyblade Burst, another battle hobby franchise created by Takara Tomy.

### Notes

* Haku having split personalities is likely a reference to Teruma Kamioka from *Crash B-Daman*.
	+ Him having a third personality might also be a reference to Bull Borgnine from *Battle B-Daman*.
* In his concept artwork, Haku was designed to wear an asymmetrical black and white shirt and shorts, with differently colored pockets.
* He previously referred to Ponta as Citrus due to his obsession for the latter, but after the BMA crisis, he starts calling Ponta by real name.
* R Greno DX and L Milkaiser DX symbolize the two dichotomous halves of Haku; R Greno DX as Haku's calmer half, and L Milkaiser DX as his wilder half. Without either half together, Haku will feel lost when only having one part of his own personality, which also corresponds to him previously shutting himself in after Ponta went undercover by giving up L Milkaiser DX.
* As revealed in Side Story Episode 8, Haku proposed and received Royal Gryphon DX as a reward when he reached the Bottle Star rank. When he suddenly redacted his words on the original concept of a fusion Bottleman in his calm personality, the researchers ended up first making R Greno DX for him. Unfortunately, he then backtracked in his wild personality after seeing R Greno DX, so the researchers had to make L Milkaiser DX for him. The researchers were so afraid of Haku flipping the tables with his request again, they decided to give both R Greno DX and L Milkaiser DX the ability to fuse into Royal Gryphon DX. Haku later showed up to check on Royal Gryphon DX in his third complete personality, and he was finally satisfied with the final result of Royal Gryphon DX, much to the researchers' confusion and relief.

## Gallery

### Other media

Haku first personality illustration by Sayaka Ono Haku's second personality by OnoHaku's third personality by Ono Illustration of sad Haku for episode 43 by Sayaka Ono
## Links

### References

1. ↑ https://twitter.com/sayalene/status/1624596245078773760?s=20
2. ↑ https://twitter.com/sayalene/status/1609070111905968130?s=20
3. ↑ https://twitter.com/sayalene/status/1609070111905968130?s=20
4. ↑ https://twitter.com/sayalene/status/1619499846322515968?s=20