𖠵 愛 ⨾ UMEMIYA HAJIME !

Bofurin(防風鈴, Bōfūrin?) is a local group formed by the students of Furin High School with the objective of protecting the town of Makochi from harm. It is led by Hajime Umemiya.

Umemiya is an easygoing, friendly person. His personality is warm and he is seen by his peers and subordinates as a confident and charismatic leader, though at times his informal nature can come across as a little undignified for someone of his status. He is often shown to be very proud of and encouraging to his team. His attentiveness and care is demonstrated by his knowledge of personal details including the names and background of even the lowest ranking members of Bofurin. This shift in energy is at times so drastic and perceptible that it can be jarring and frightening to see even from his allies.

Umemiya is a tall teenager with white swept-back hair, gray downturned eyes, and white eyebrows with a slit through his left brow.

He is most often seen wearing a Furin High School uniform with an extended- length, dark green, tailcoat left unbuttoned over a white t-shirt, paired with dark green pants and a black pair of men's driving shoes. When engaging in fighting, much of the levity in his mannerisms disappear and he appears incredibly intimidating and serious.

Despite this, his compassionate and empathetic nature is also still present in his approach to fighting. He believes fighting to simply be another form of having a conversation, and uses it to connect with his opponents in a way that may more successfully facilitate mutual understanding than the use of verbal communication alone. Umemiya was the first son born to very loving parents, who taught him at a young age things that remain as his core values into his young adulthood as the leader of Bofurin. Around the time when he was 9 years old, his father and pregnant mother were killed in a vehicular accident. It was at this time that he entered into the foster care system, where he was taken to multiple different facilities before he arrived at Furinen Orphanage located in the town of Makochi and within the territory of the pre-Bofurin Furin High School gang. He refers to almost everyone as his little sibling.