Haruka Etou

Haruka Etou (江藤 悠, Etō Haruka) is a student of 9 Grade Class 3 in 1998 at Yomiyama North Middle School. She's also a member of the Swimming Club and who sits behind Yuuya Mochizuki in the classroom.

Appearance
Haruka is a fair skinned girl of average height. She has neck length pale purple hair and purple eyes.

She is only seen wearing the standard female uniform.

Personality
She is shown as a calm, sociable, friendly, and sporty girl, who likes to hang out with Naomi Fujimaki, Kazue Satou, San Watanabe and Matsuko Arita. However, after witnessing the final suicide of her teacher, she was shocked, anguished, scared and mainly in shock, thus showing herself to be a sensitive and easily disturbed person, despite said attitude being understandable in the circumstances.

Plot
Haruka was one of the students of class 3-3, though she didn't take part in many of the class's discussions about the curse, suggesting she may have been one of the students who didn't believe in it in the first place. She was friends with Naomi, whom she often ate lunch with.

Haruka was in class when her teacher committed suicide ("Sphere Joint"), and was one of the students who fled the class following that event. She was later seen sitting on the floor, in shock.

In "Body Paint", she appeared in Kouichi's nightmare along with the rest of the class, suggesting Kouichi was concerned for her safety, though this was probably more in a general sense as the two never actually spoke.

Probably as a result of her traumatic experience in class, Haruka didn't go on the class trip, meaning she is almost certainly still alive.

Etymology

 * The name Haruka means "permanence, long distance" (悠)
 * Haruka's surname Etou means "bay, inlet" (江) (e), and "wisteria" (藤) (tō)

Trivia

 * Haruka is ranked A+ in the Another characters ranking. She is the highest ranked minor character in the series.
 * Her home address is 7-22 Harakawacho, Yomiyama City.