Jungle wa Itsumo Haré Nochi Guu

ジャングルはいつもハレのちグゥ
The Jungle Was Always Nice
Then Came Guu

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Synopsis

The story is about Haré, a 10-year-old boy who lives with his mother Weda in a small village in a very strange jungle. Haré's mom is a bit of a "party girl" and likes to sleep in all day and party with her girl friends all night. Things change one evening when Weda comes home with a little "playmate" for Haré, a pretty little girl named Guu. But when Haré wakes up the next morning, Guu has "transformed" into a sullen, nasty and sarcastic joker who takes great pleasure in making Haré's life utterly miserable. Guu can also swallow anything, and regurgitate it whole. Guu also seems to have various magic powers, which lead Haré to consider her a demon of some sort, but he can't convince most other people of that.

Published

Jan 24, 1997 to Dec 12, 2002

Authors

Kindaichi, Renjuurou

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Sequel

HareGuu

Adaptation

Jungle wa Itsumo Hare nochi Guu (anime)

Main characters

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Guu's stomach is a world, filled with buildings, hundred legged cats, and a nice young couple of lovers that have been trapped there for ages (but apparently don't mind their predicament). Other than Hare, no character seems to be aware of Guu's strange nature (or for that matter the bizarre circumstances surrounding everything else in the series). The weird events that occur because of her are only ever acknowledged by Hare. Everyone who is eaten by Guu, only to be spat out later (excluding Hare) dismisses what happened as "sleeping" (occasionally, dreaming about Guu's Stomach world). Hare even dismisses his first time in Guu's Stomach but is quickly proved wrong. There are other strange things Guu can do, which defy the laws of physics, logic, and reality, such as (but not limited to) superhuman strength, elongate her body parts, breathe underwater, teleport, time travel, cause people to switch bodies, read minds, cause disco music to play suddenly, switch her face (from a cute face to a weird face), transform into an older version of herself, transform into a giant kaiju monster version of herself, incite mental breakdowns in Hare, though the latter is more of a talent than an actual power and can connect anything to video game controllers and play around with it (even peoples minds). In one scene Guu hints towards being programmed to do what she does.
Haré40 fan favorites
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A loud and short-tempered, yet happy boy living in the jungle. When he's not trying to keep Guu and his mother from trouble, he's worrying about the things they do.
Weda14 fan favorites
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Age: 25 Height: 168 cm Haré's mother. Carefree and inclined to binge drinking. Because of her laziness, Haré looks after her. She left life in a rich home at the age of 14 and raised Hare in the jungle by herself which, due to her chronic irresponsibility, is quite difficult to fathom. Somehow manages to miss out on Guu's insane behaviour.