Hakuren is a character in the Tenchi Muyo! OVA continuity, mainly appearing in Tenchi Muyo! GXP, featuring much more prominently in the novels. She, along with her partners, Gyokuren, Karen, & Suiren, eventually becomes a wife of Seina Yamada.
History
Hakuren is the first princess of the Kihaku Kingdom in the Renza Federation. Her real name is Lady Shirohana Renne Kihaku.
She, along with her Renza partners, becomes a Lady-in-waiting to Lady Seto. This was initially part of a plan to steal secrets, possibly a Juraian Royal Treeship, so they could gain enough power to battle the pirates in their home territory.
Hakuren is the 'heart' and leader of the group. The plan to gather the girls from the different Renza factions and band together to find a way to defeat the pirates seems to be completely her idea. Her initial plan was to steal a Royal Tree Ship, a plan they realized could take hundred's of years to accomplish.
Her bio-enhancement is 6 but she is a coward in battle. Her enhancements have been specialized for thought acceleration in order to be an effective tactician and she can usually come up with an optimal solution to any question asked.
A drawback is that she can get stuck in a thought loop that is usually solved by Karen smacking her on the back of the head. This happens when faced with an illogical question, when in lots of stress or exhausted. If not brought out of it she will usually come up with a solution but one only she can understand.
Meeting Seina
Hakuren and the others meet Seina much earlier in the novels than the anime, in fact the four of them escorted Seina and the others to Mikagami after he had gathered the pirates for Seto to capture and she had them follow him almost constantly. She served as a secret guard to Seina at the Academy, crew on his ships and even a maid in Amane's house with the other three. Hakuren was made the leader in all of Seto's tasks for the four of them.
When Haruken was with Seina on the vacation planet, Imuim, and each of the girls met with Seina separately to convince him that he could accept being in a romantic relationship, she ended up slapping him (if he hadn't been bio-enhanced, it would have broken all his teeth) when he said he couldn't bring his luck to others and ran away crying, getting caught in one of her thought loops without a solution.
A Scandalous Wedding Day and Escape to Renza
On the day Seina was to marry Kiriko, Amane, Ryoko, and Neju, the girls revealed their true identities to him just as he was about to be married and took him aboard their ship to go to the Federation. The brides, infuriated, chased after on the Kamidake II.
In the anime, to make themselves faster, the girls got rid of their and Seina's clothes, as well as several items on their ship, The brides demanded him back, but they refused, claiming Seina had "eloped" with them and to prove it, proceeded to molest him on video in the full view of the various delegates and dignitaries who had been invited to the wedding. The anime ends with a flash forward of them all working together on the Kamidake II.
In the novels it was a more conventional kidnapping. The quartet escaped to Racepshi, a planet sized entertainment starship that they contracted to jump them from the Galactic Federation to Renza Federation territory, with Kiriko and the girls barely sneaking in before the jump. Being a neutral area, both they and Kiriko's group can set up their headquarters there without having to commit to one Renza nation or run afoul of Galaxy Federation policies.
Hakuren and the others only got a few fruitless trips with Seina and Zinv to find and take out space pirates, (being stopped each time by royal forces who claimed the pirates were their prey) before Seina was lost in a fight with HIMC, having to randomly jump to a location no of them know the location of. Hakuren and the others now work with Kiriko and company on two fronts, to continue battling pirates and also to search for Seina. Flash forward sections do show all get back together and fight in tandem. After the still ambiguous end of their time in Renza, Hakuren and the others return to Earth and are now married to Seina (presumably done partially to solidify ties with Jurai and The Galaxy Federation).
Trivia
- In the anime, after their reveal as Renza Federation Agents, Hakuren and the other girls wear nearly identical uniforms with only their sleeves having a different color. The colors are the same colors as the other girls' GP uniforms. Hakuren & Neju in yellow, Karen & Amane in red, Gyokuren & Ryoko in orange, and Suiren & Kiriko in green. In the final scene on the Kamidake the pairs a seating next to each other and appear to be doing the same duty.
- This does not correspond well with the situation in the novels where their specialties in these pairings do not exactly correspond to the girls they are paired to here.