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A fictional character from the anime and manga Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon, Haruka Tenoh (other variations include Tenno) is stubborn, xenophobic, and overprotective but also strong-willed, capable, charming, and occasionally even doting. She is formerly introduced in the third season, although her possible existence is alluded to in the second season. She is part of the four person group known informally in American fandom as The Outer Senshi (In the east, Jupiter is not considered an outer planet and due to its visibly from earth more easily, has different mythological properties)
As Sailor Uranus, her powers are air-based, including firing a concentrated air bomb along the ground and using a magic sword (which she aquired explictly in the tv series). In addition Haruka hersef is quite strong and shows skill in close-combat judo fighting.
In the tv series Sailor Uranus's initial power is "World Shaking." When she does this move she makes a fist above her head, and then a yellow energy concentrates withing. Then quickly she slams the fist upon the ground and a transparent yellow sphere with a ring around it zig-zags back and forth until it lifts off the ground. The second attack Sailor Uranus uses in the tv series is called "Space Sword Blaster." Using her tailsman, a scimitar, she raises it above her heard and begins to strike. Energy off the sword is what usually hits the enemy, and not the sword itself.
Despite not even being sixteen, Haruka ia also apparenty a race car driver, a logical plothole in the original manga once mentioned in the tv series as a good-natured rub. Her other hobbies, as well as anything about her family life are never discussed.
In the United Stats, Haruka was (and likely is) the most famous overtly lesbian character in anime. Although her relationship with Sailor Neptune (Michiru Kaioh) is not explictly implied to be *sexual* until later in the series, their romantic situation refered to early on and generally understood by most of the series' characters fairly quickly. Haruka is also extremely flirtatious and loves to tease pretty girls who sometimes confuse her gender due to Haruka's 'male' manner of speech and dress., although most people who confuse her for a man are either distracted by her good looks or simply not very observant.
While most Americans are more familar with the anime version of Haruka (an absolute crossdresser) in the original manga Haruka is more androgynous, wearing both feminine and masculine outfits well. Unusually, the manga artist goes as far as to draw Haruka physically different and more masculine when she is crossdressing, perhaps as an easy visual aid. Nearly all fan rumors about Haruka being a man, the reincarnation of one, or a hermaphrodite are false.
However, while superfically appearing as a femme/butch relationship, Haruka is generally regarded to be much more emotional and visiceral (assuming you apply that to being 'feminine' in the first place), and shows quite motherly tendancies towards her adopted daughter Hotaru.
In yuri fandom, Haruka & Michiru are considered a hands-off pair due to their healthy love for each other, aloofness towards others, and writing scope of the plot. It is extremely difficult to slash them with anyone else, although many good natured lemons sometimes have Haruka in explicit trysts with other sensei. (Officially, it is recognized only Usagi Tsukino and Minako Aino have any long-standing attraction to Haruka - Minako slightly more so - Ami Mizuho, surprisingly, had never seemed interested in her looks.)
The anime and manga versions of the character are reasonably interchangeable, although arguably her masculine traits and stubborness are slightly exaggerated in the tv series. Haruka (and the Outer Senshi in general) is sometimes considered more cold and slightly unlikable by some some fans, due to the anime's more fatalistic and grim additions to the original manga plot. Aside from a brief vignette in a special, Haruka and the others do not return after the third season until the final fifth season, generally with the same personalities.
Haruka and the others do appear in the SuperS movie, although because its story is derived from the manga than the television, there are some changes. Notably, they are more overtly friendly and helpful, and Sailor Pluto is present (a contradiction to certain events in the third season) One of her most amusing scenes is the implication while Haruka is a flatterer, she can get flustered herself if flirted with.
The American english dub changes her given name to Amara (an unusual non-phoentic twist, although it is Greek or Latin for 'eternal'). Although Michiru (now Michelle) is stated to be her cousin - mentioned several times, actually - a noticable amount of flirting is inexplicably left in the translation. Although this semantically does not prove Amara isn't a lesbian - simply a relative to Michiru - most fans of the original are not particularly interested in this version of the character, considering by the time the relevant episodes of the series were dubbed most fans were well aware of adaption changes.
