Junpei Hanasaki

Junpei Hanasaki (, Hanasaki Junpei) is a character featured in Lost Judgment. He is a member of the motorcycle gang Made in Heaven and the leader of the Bakuon Rairyu, its firework punk faction.
== Profile ==
=== Appearance ===
Hanasaki is a short but very muscular man with an eye-catching blue mohawk haircut. He has a large mole on his posterior.
=== Attire ===
While he's with his biker gang, he wears a black singlet with metal plate-guards on the crotch and chest, along with spiked pauldrons on his shoulders. As accessories he wears chain-fastened black gloves, spike-shaped ear piercings, eyebrow piercings and a grey breathing mask. He also paints his face with red paint which resembles norse war paint.
When he returns to civilian life, he removes all his piercings and face paint and shaves off his mohawk. He wears a tan two-piece suit with a white dress shirt and brown shoes.
=== Personality ===
On the surface, Hanasaki is a punk thrill-seeker with a love for explosives and fireworks. However, aside from his wild tendencies, he is also a deep romantic who loves talking to his girlfriend and taking care of flowers, which he studies meticulously to learn how to best care for them. He also has a love of poetry and is not afraid to express his feelings through it.
== Background ==
Hanasaki comes from a family of professional firework manufacturers who have owned the same family-run fireworks company since the Edo period, so he was introduced to the family trade of pyrotechnics from a very young age. However, when he also developed a love for motorcycle racing and joined a street gang, his very strict father refused to let him hangout with them, so he ran away from home and started living in a homeless camp in Isezaki Ijincho.
Hanasaki eventually became the leader of his biker gang, which he renamed the "Bakuon Rairyu" (, Lit. "Explosive Thunder Dragon") after their love of using fireworks in races to distract their rivals, a practice he introduced to the gang because of his pyrotechnics expertise. The Bakuon Rairyu were an independent biker gang for a time, until Reiji Murasaki, leader of the rival gang Made in Heaven, defeated Hanasaki and his top bikers in a race, after which he asked them to join Made in Heaven. Hanasaki agreed and the Bakuon Rairyu became a sub-group within Murasaki's gang. Over the following year, Hanasaki would become a close friend of Reiji's and was devastated when he died in a crash. The fallout from Reiji's death almost led to the Rairyu separating from Made in Heaven once more, until Yuma Suou became the group's new leader and, through his charisma and incredible racing prowess, he convinced them to remain within the group.
Partway through 2021, he ran into a couple of thugs trying to mug 18 year-old high school senior Hiyori on the street and he proceeded to beat them in a fight to save her. Out of gratitude, Hiyori took him out to dinner and the pair bonded over their mutual love of flowers. Soon after, they began dating in secret, since her parents were members of the Japanese Diet and they would not approve of their daughter dating a homeless biker.
== Involvement ==
=== Lost Judgment: 2021 ===
Takayuki Yagami infiltrates Made in Heaven to persuade Suou to leave the gang, at the behest of his Suou's classmate, Kyoko Amasawa. Yagami learns that the only way he can persuade Suou to leave the group would be to beat him in a race, but since Suou will not compete against anybody whose skill fails to impress him, Yagami is tasked with defeating the leaders of all of the group's factions to prove his skill and challenge Suou.
The Bakuon Rairyu are the first faction Yagami challenges and, while working his way through racing the group's top bikers, he decides to look into Hanasaki's background. Through this investigation, he learns about his conflicts with his father and his homelessness. After tailing Hanasaki for a time, he also learns of his forbidden love with Hiyori.
On the day of his showdown with Hanasaki, Yagami manages to beat him in a race and then he tries to talk him into leaving the gang so he can openly date Hiyori and move back in with his family. However, Hanasaki refuses to apologize to his father for running away, since he thinks it was wrong of his father to forbid him from racing. Fortunately, Kotaro Seyama, the leader of a juvenile delinquent outreach group with whom Yagami had been collaborating, managed to track down Hanasaki's father and persuaded him to apologize to his son for throwing him out and to admit that he's impressed by his son's fireworks. After emotionally reuniting with his father, Hanasaki agrees to go back home and to leave the gang.
A few days later, once Yagami has started to challenge Made in Heaven's second faction, the Raging Angels, Hanasaki seeks him out to thank him for his help by telling him about the Angels and their leader, Rina Minagawa. During their conversation, Hanasaki tells Yagami that he enrolled in adult classes to get his high school diploma and started working for his family's fireworks company, in addition to dating Hiyori openly, even meeting her parents, who approve of the relationship now that he has an honest job.
When Yagami and Seyama help Suou convince his mother let him do motocross once more so that he can continue to ride motorcycles without being in a biker gang, Hanasaki is among the many members of Made in Heaven who accompany them to help and shows up in his civilian atire to show Yuma and Yagami's positive influence in his life. Later, he uses his fireworks and puts on his old biker atire to help Yagami and Kotoko Itokura escape the Neo Keihin Gang, and then corners Matsuhisa Koga at Hamakita Park to prevent him from escaping.
== Trivia ==
* Hanasaki's name is a reference to his love of flowers, since his family name () means "flower blossom" in Japanese. His fireworks-making skills could also be a reference to this, since the Japanese word for fireworks (, Hanabi) literally translates to "fire flowers".
== Gallery ==
LJ - Headshot - Junpei Hanasaki.png|Hanasaki's headshot as a civilian
LJ - Headshot - Bomber.png|Hanasaki's headshot as a biker
==See also==
*Biker Gang
==Notes==
==References==
Category:Characters
Category:Made in Heaven
Category:Lost Judgment Characters