Sakurada, Haruna

桜田春菜

Haruna Sakurada, known as Patricia Haruna in the English dub, serves as Usagi Tsukino's junior high school teacher.
She acts very young for her age across all versions of the series, though her personality shifts slightly. In the anime and manga, she has long brown hair and can be quite strict, particularly regarding Usagi's laziness and the messes it creates. However, she is also lovesick and obsessed with finding a husband, making her an easy target for the Dark Kingdom during the first series. Like most other minor characters, she fades into the background as the anime progresses (and vanishes entirely when the Senshi leave middle school).
The kanji in her name mean "cherry blossom" (sakura), "rice field" (da), "spring" (haru), and "vegetables" (na). The "spring" element of her name becomes a pun in the context of other works by Naoko Takeuchi: Haruna appears very briefly in the earlier series The Cherry Project, which features her sister Fuyuna in one of its side stories. Two other characters with similar names appear in Takeuchi's works: Natsuna in Codename: Sailor V and Akina in PQ Angels. The Japanese words fuyu, natsu, and aki mean "winter," "summer," and "autumn."