Mio Bonkohara

Mio Bonkohara (盆子原 美緒 Bonkohara Mio) is a third year student at Komosawa Middle School in Goutsu, Shimane prefecture and a member of their mahjong team.

Appearance
Mio has wavy long hair, with bangs framing her face.

She wears a bandanna and she is very expressive. With a height of 184cm, she towers over most other middle school students.

Personality
Mio is a quite open and frank girl who jokes about putting Chihiro Mukunoki on a leash for the individual tournament to make sure she's on time.

Shimane Tournament Arc
Mio notes that Chihiro Mukunoki is late and that they should put a leash on her for the individual tournament.

Mio was almost late for her match, but she arrived in time and she starts very well winning multiple hands. However, Hayari Mizuhara makes a comeback and prevents Mio from winning.

Mixed Training Camp Arc
Akiko Tokiyama mentions that Mio is inviting others to their training camp where most others complain, but Mio doesn't care.

At the training camp, Mio greets Shino Shiratsuki's group but ends up scaring Kanna Ishitobi. Back in their room, she notices Tomoko is depressed and she is baffled to find out it's because she forgot her pillow.

That night, Mio and Yui discuss Shino and why she didn't do so well during the days matches.

2nd Children's National Tournament Arc
When she arrives at the hotel she starts stripping for the bath and tells Chihiro that the team meeting is in a restaurant.

During the semifinals, she crushes the competition and makes sure the captain did not have to play. Komosawa ends up winning the national tournament.

Etymology

 * The name Mio means "beautiful" (美) (mi) and "thread" (緒) (o).
 * Mio's surname Bonkohara means "tray" (盆) (bon), "child" (子) (ko) and "field, plain" (原) (hara).