Jun Uehara

Jun Uehara (上原 隼, Uehara Jun) is a major character of Hang On! Climbing Girls.

Appearance
Jun is a young girl with well build muscle body and shoulder length hair.

Personality
Jun is a passionate climber with sharp determination and competitive fervor. Ever since engaging in climbing during her childhood she has deemed the sport to be her everything, as she has practiced it relentlessly. Her love for the sport runs very deep, sometimes to unhealthy degrees, as she tends to lash at others thinking they don't take climbing seriously enough, or drive them away as she's not as aware of certain popular trends.

However, she's by no means a bad person and is fundamentally a socially awkward girl who has difficulty verbalizing her love for climbing without being too aggressive and in truth seeks friends with whom to share her passion. To her credit, she's self-conscious of this bad habit of hers. At first she was hostile towards Konomi Kasahara as the latter believed Climbing to be fun like puzzle solving, to which Jun took offense believing she was taking it lightly. When Konomi displayed genuine effort on her part to answer to Jun's challenge, her opinion changed and the two have become good friends.

Plot
Jun notices a student next to the climbing wall and tells her only club members can touch it. As she notices its a new student, Konomi Kasahara, and seeing her interested, Jun decides to let her try climbing.

She gives Konomi basic instructions and Konomi attempts to climb and eventually a lunge, but falls. Jun realizes that Konomi though she may be talented in this, and tells her to use only yellow stones. As Konomi fails, Jun explains that's the beginners route and comments it's not as easy and she isn't talented. Before leaving Konomi takes a look at the wall and requests another try. To Jun's surprise, Konomi manages to reach quite high. Sayo Yotsuba and Nonoka Sugiura arrive to see Konomi climbing and Sayo decides to welcome her to the club.

Abilities
Jun is an incredibly fast climber, causing her to gain the title "Speed Star" and she has also shown some competence at on-sight challenges.

Etymology

 * The name Jun means "falcon" (隼).
 * Jun's surname Uehara means "above, top, upper" (上) (ue) and "field, plain" (原) (hara).