Junpei Yoshino

Junpei Yoshino is a withdrawn high schooler who eats lunch alone and gets shoved around by classmates who've decided he's an easy target. A quiet obsession with horror films is the one thing that seems to bring him any joy. When he crosses paths with Yuji Itadori, it's the first real kindness he's had in a long while.

Yamaya plays him with a careful, guarded softness — the voice of someone used to being invisible and bracing for the next unkindness. The show spends real time on his ordinary loneliness before anything supernatural touches him, so the friendship that follows feels fragile and earned rather than convenient, and you find yourself hoping, quietly, that this one goes well for him.