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  '''Haruna Sakurada''' (桜田春菜) is the eight grade teacher of [[Usagi| Usagi (Serena) Tsukino]], [[Molly|Naru Osaka (Molly Baker)]] and [[Umino Gurio|Gurio Umino (Melvin)]]. Her first name literally means in [[wikipedia:Japanese|Japanese]] [[wikipedia:Kanji|Kanji]] “spring (haru)” “vegetables (na)” whilst her last name is derived from the [[wikipedia:Kanji|Kanji]] terms “cherry blossom (sakura)”, “rice field” (da)”. She is also known as Patricia Haruna in the dubbed North America version of the anime. In both the anime and manga, Haruna Sakurada share similar characteristics most notably her long brown hair and her young age. She is also noted for upholding high standards in her classroom often punishing [[Usagi|Usagi (Serena) Tsukino]] for her poor grades and tardiness. Despite this, Haruna Sakurada also shares some common interests with her female students such as dating. Lovesick and obsessed with finding a husband, she engages in immature behaviour from mailing a letter to a radio program and unsuccessfully catching a bouquet of flowers from her colleague’s (Higure Akayama [Helen Lambert]) wedding in the anime to forgetting to dismiss two of her students from detention as she attended a date in the live-action series (Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon). Such actions have made her an easy target for the [[Dark Kingdom|Dark Kingdom (Negaverse)]] during the first series of the anime, even though she is always saved by [[Sailor Moon]]. Like most of the other minor characters, she fades into the background as the anime series progresses (and vanishes entirely when the Senshi are promoted to the ninth grade).
  She even appears in the musicals ''Sailor Moon - Gaiden Dark Kingdom Fukkatsu Hen'' and its revision where she invites “Usagi and her friends to accompany her on a foreign vacation during their summer break <ref>URL="http://www.wikimoon.org/index.php?title=Haruna"</ref>” only to reveal herself as a [[youma]] called ''Managin''. The role of Haruna Sakurada was played by two actresses: Kasumi Hyuuga and Kiho Seishi. 
  In the live-action series (Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon), she is not very strict and is in fact friendly to all her students including [[Usagi| Usagi (Serena) Tsukino]]. She does however, assign quizzes and clean-duty when requires and can be eccentric at times. 
  Natsuna Sakurada (桜田夏菜) who appears in [[Naoko Takeuchi]]'s earlier work-''Codename: Sailor V'' has been theorised by fans to be a possible relative of Haruna Sakurada. This is based on the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese Japanese] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanji Kanji] natsu which translates to spring. The same word when combined with the term ''haru'' follows the pattern of the names for the consecutive season’s spring and summer!
  In the original anime, she is voiced by Chiyoko Kawashima and in the dubbed North American version of the anime by Nadine Rabinovitch. She is played by Cheiko Ooduka in the live action version.
  
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