Junko Hiori

Junko looks youthful and slight, her soft, gentle features closely echoing those of her son Yo. She wears her cyan hair in a neat short bob that frames a small face, and large round eyes above long lashes and thin brows lend her a bright, welcoming air. An open, warm smile completes the friendly impression, while her frame stays athletic from years spent competing in the high jump.

Beneath the cheerful surface runs a lasting bitterness over finishing runner-up at the national high school high jump, and she offloads that regret onto Yo. To Junko, her son functions largely as an instrument for the success she never claimed for herself, an attitude that spills over into strain with her husband. In one telling moment she and Ginji declare in unison that unless Yo becomes the world's number one, they want a divorce.

Junko competed professionally in the high jump, a background that would have taught her plenty about conditioning an athlete. Turned on her own child, that expertise sits at the root of Yo's arc: the pressure she and Ginji applied is cited as the reason he reached Blue Lock without any real purpose or personal ambition in the sport.