Junko Enoshima
Junko Enoshima is a female video game and anime and manga character who features in Danganronpa/Zero.
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Biography
Junko Enoshima (Japanese: 江ノ島 盾子, Hepburn: Enoshima Junko)
As children, she and her twin sister came to live in abject conditions and had even been homeless at one point. According to her, she regretted the moment of her own birth, feeling that her birth into the world was a mistake. Due to her analytical skills allowing her to predict the outcome of events, she became bored with the world. Because of that, she took an interest in despair, which she believes is unpredictable and exciting, at a very young age. As a child, she was close with Yasuke Matsuda, as they didn't have any other friends. One particular moment between the two when they were elementary school students was when Junko spent a month building a sand sculpture modeled after the Sagrada Familia church at the public park, and she even used very advanced techniques for her age. The sculpture got closer to completion and many people from around the neighborhood came over just to watch her work. One day, the sandcastle was found destroyed just before it was completed. Junko cried continuously for almost an entire day and Yasuke went around angrily looking for the perpetrator. Not being able to find out anything useful discouraged Yasuke. While he was sitting on a bench in front of the remains of the sand sculpture, Junko ran up to him with a large smile and whispered in his ear that she was the culprit who destroyed the sculpture all along, asking him to keep it a secret. When asked for a reason, she replied that she did so by accident. Truthfully, she had done this to get Yasuke out of his house, upset that his mother's condition had led him to become more withdrawn than usual. In the years following the death of Yasuke's mother, Junko became the person that Yasuke felt he could always lean on. She promised to always be there for him, which helped develop his stronger feelings towards her. She said she'll never forget Yasuke even if she forgets everything else, and they'll always be together. For the first time in his life, Yasuke cried in front of another person, after making her promise she won't make fun of him, won't tell anyone and won't try to console him. Junko had romantic feelings for Yasuke, referring to them as "lovers", though Yasuke denied this.
Junko had a strong desire to "paint the world in despair" and planned to start The Tragedy, the worst, most despair-inducing incident in the history of mankind. She called herself and her sister the Despair Sisters AKA the Ultimate Despair. As a teen, Junko began a modeling career and quickly became an idol amongst the Japanese population with her extravagant tastes. One reason for her popularity was the fact that, ironically, she didn't seem fake. Also, she used her Analytical Prowess talent to predict the latest trends. Her career created a lot of unwanted attention as well; she claimed that the only men who were interested in her were "creeps who did not actually care about her." Junko used to attend Gunma Prefectural Shibutani High School. She was scouted into Hope's Peak Academy as the Ultimate Fashionista along with her twin sister Mukuro, the Ultimate Soldier, into Class 78th. Unlike other students, her admission is a special case by the recommendation of the Steering Committee; her talent is guaranteed by the Committee, with explicit dis-involvement of Jin Kirigiri and Koichi Kizakura. The responsibility of her as a student was placed upon the headmaster after her admission, with the Committee removing their responsibility on her development.
Junko first appeared walking out of a taxi at the airport, leaving a wallet rigged to explode in the car as a "tip" for the driver. She then walked into the airport and waited for her sister Mukuro, while narrating her plan to the viewer and her sister. The two are later seen in a limo. Junko asked Mukuro if she has more freckles than when they last saw each other while picking up an ice pick, trying to repeatedly stab her with it, which Mukuro managed to easily block. Mukuro, in her head, mentioned how her sister was trying to taste the despair of killing her own sister; thinking about how her Mukuro would surely fall into despair if she succeeds. Junko then took out a grenade and, after jumping to the other side of the limo, threw it at Mukuro. Mukuro, however, simply picked up the grenade with her champagne glass and threw it outside the limo, detonating underneath another car and blowing it up. Following that, Junko went back to Mukuro and told her that she stinks, blaming it on her body odor, as she insisted that she had been bathing. Mukuro then asked Junko why she contacted her. Junko explained that the two of them had been scouted by Hope's Peak Academy and that they would be attending school there. The two are later seen at the school ceremony, right behind Makoto, who was about to walk into the school as Junko narrated the story. Mukuro asked Junko if narrating was her current obsession. Junko replied that it was, but that she already got bored of it, as she drew a picture of Monokuma.
Overview
Personality and attributes
In appearance, Junko Enoshima was a young teenager with a tall hourglass figure, light blue eyes, and long, thick, bleached strawberry-blonde hair tied in two twin pigtails. Due to her talent, she wore heavy make-up along with fake long red nails. It was this along with her personality traits that led to her title as the Ultimate Fashionista (超高校級の「ギャル」 lit. Super High School Level Gyaru).
She was noted for having an older twin sister Mukuro Ikusaba who shard several physical characteristics to her though they were not identical.
Powers and abilities
She was noted for having the ability to cause nearly anyone to fall into despair.
Notes
- Junko Enoshima was created by Kazutaka Kodaka and designed by Rui Komatsuzaki where she featured in the Danganronpa universe.
- Kodaka noted on the characters creation, "I wanted to create a character who is bad because she is evil, who only desires outright desperation. With no possibility of redemption, [and that] the idea that absolute evil is something desirable and pleasant. As bad as she is, she is so powerful and charming that she draws you in. So one way I thought of showing that was to make a very cute character that was visually appealing to look at."
In other media
Television
Video games
Appearances
- Danganronpa/Zero:
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