Hibino Junta

## Others

**Hibino Junta** (Japanese: 日比野純太, Hiragana: ひびのじゅんた, Rōmaji: Hibino Junta) is a teenager at the age of 15 and a former main cast character. He is the youngest Prince of Japan and younger brother of Shintarou. He was formerly a student of Momos Academy for Boys and currently studies in the unnamed high school in Japan. He introduced in Prince Series 01: Social Etiquette: The Princes' Alliance.

## Biography

### Early life

Junta had a fairly normal life. He had a close relationship with his parents and his brother, Shintarou. They were tolerant of each other until Shintarou suffered a traumatic incident where he was almost buried alive by his once trusted tutor, Mr. Honda. This caused his brother to develop a phobia of human touch and made him more distant and cold towards everyone.

Junta, missing his brother's old demeanor excitedly asked Shintarou to play with him, when he accidentally touched his hand. Instinctively, Shintarou shoved his brother down due to his crippling phobia. Junta took offence to his brother's actions and began developing a hatred against him.

## Appearance

Junta has a head of blue hair styled in a bob-esque fashion, popular between Japanese teenagers. He has a slender body that's short. His eyes are blue and shaped quite slanted and thin as he is Asian decent.

Just like almost all the other characters, he consistently change his clothing but most notable wore the Momos Uniform worn neatly. Now, he sports a traditional Japanese school uniform (gakuran) for boys as he moved schools.

## Personality

Junta is generally one of the more mature characters of the books. This is shown with his usual friendly, calm and collected demeanor towards his friends. However, he isn't always the perfect person he often is. He can be very manipulative and cunning to get what he wants. For instance, the way he manipulated the princes so they went through with the idea of doing the 'Japanese day', despite everything that happened before.

He is also spiteful as seen with his actions against his brother, Shintarou. Though trough his shell, he can be very forgiving when given time to heal as seen with Livio, Gion and even his brother.

## Plot

### The Princes' Alliance

Junta arrived at Momos Academy for Boys with other princes and they was welcomed warmly by the vice principal, Godfreg. After a while, he and other princes was required to go to the hostel to do registration. He greeted the staffs at the counter, did some registrarion and went to his dorm with his friends.

## Etymology

The name Junta is a Japanese masculine name. (纯) (Jun) means "genuine, purity, innocence, net" and (太) (Ta) means "plump, thick, big around".

## Trivia

* During his first day in Momos Academy, he actually brought a sword or katana with him.

* On the day of the reopening of Momos Museum of World History and Culture, he played as Yagyu Jubei, one of the famous and most romanticized samurai in Japan's Sengoku era, during the theater with Vladimir.

* Junta knows how to play baseball. It can be considered as his favorite sport.

* It was revealed that Junta's as well as Shintarou's hometown located in Kyoto, Japan.<ref>Prince Series 19: Defenders of Honour: Japanese Culture, Page 19

## References

1. ↑ Prince Series 15: A Royal Wedding: Marriage Customs
2. ↑ Prince Series 19: Defenders of Honour: Japanese Culture
3. ↑ Prince Series 19: Defenders of Honour: Japanese Culture, Page 129
4. ↑ Prince Series 02: Lords of Time: Temporal Efficiency
5. ↑ Prince Series 19: Defenders of Honour: Japanese Culture, Page 23
6. ↑ Prince Series 01: Social Etiquette: The Princes' Alliance, Page 56
7. ↑ Prince Series 03: Guardians of Heritage: History and Culture Page 132
8. ↑ Prince Series 04: Field of Honour: Sportsmanship, Page 60