| “ | The moon's people, too, have committed a foolish mistake. It seems this earthling is far more weak than you all thought. My stagnated engagement with the people of the moon was just beginning to exhaust my interest. My mortal enemy, Chang'e. Are you watching!? Look at the numerous lives and deaths, the impurities, this poor soul brings! | „ |
| ~ Junko |
Junko (純狐) is a major antagonist from Touhou Project, serving as the main antagonist of Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom.
She is a sworn enemy of the Lunarian species who orchestrates an invasion of the Moon in order to force out the Lunarian people living there and assassinate the Lunarian Goddess, Chang'e.
Appearance[]
Junko wears a Chinese outfit of a red and yellow tabard with a red sash over a wide-sleeved black dress and a black Phoenix crown. She has long, blonde-orange hair and red eyes. Behind her are seven light-purple flame-like tails.
Personality[]
She is known to be a wise spirit, having a rather formal way of speaking and knowing perfectly well the weakness of the Lunarians. She was able to use it so efficiently that it caused them to have to leave the capital. In ocasions, she is melodramatic.
Still, it is also known that she used her purification powers to purify her own resentment towards Chang'e until she became a spirit of pure fury. In fact, she has gone to such extremes that she hates Chang'e and the Lunarians when they have nothing to do with her son's death (despite Chang'e being the wife of Hou Yi, her son's murderer, she had nothing to do with the murder).
It does not seem to care her, however, whether or not to carry out complicated strategies, probably due to its purity. Still, she seems to be able to have some kind of temper and adapt in the face of unexpected change. She even admitted defeat when she saw that her plan had failed.
However, it seems that she may have some standards, when she realizes that, as collateral damage, her plans caused Gensokyo to be indirectly involved and he calls the Lunarians "inhumans."
Biography[]
Having a grudge against Hou Yi for killing her son, Junko decided to seek vengeance upon Hou Yi and Chang'e. She plotted the invasion to the Moon in order to get revenge on her. She filled the Near Side of the Moon with fairies, in other terms, with life; forcing the Lunarians to retreat so that she could use that moment to kill Chang'e. Knowing the Lunarians would likely flee to the Dream World, she sent Hecatia to trap them there.
Over half a year the Lunarians took no action against her, causing a stagnation in Junko's plan and a steady appease of her anger, growing bored every time. It was at that time when the protagonist appeared before her, clean of all impurity much to her surprise. Because her anger was already appeased, she saw no goal in continuing the invasion and admitted defeat before the battle.
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- Junko may be based on Chún Hú (纯狐), a Chinese legendary figure mentioned in the Zuǒ Zhuàn historical narrative and Tiānwèn poems. Chún Hú, also known as "Xuán Qī" (玄妻, lit. "dark lady"), became the wife of a Xia Dynasty ruler, Hòu Yì (后羿), who usurped the previous ruler (Chún Hú's former husband) and married Chún Hú; later killing her son Bó Fēng (伯封). Chún Hú then conspired with Yi's minister to kill him as revenge. This account seems to line up with statements about Junko's past from Reisen's ending in Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom.
- Despite sharing a name, the Hou Yi of the Xia Dynasty was not necessarily the same one who married Chang'e and shot down the ten suns in legend. The conflation of various historical figures named "Hou Yi" has been the subject of at least one contemporary academic paper. Within the Touhou Project however, the disparate Hou Yi's appear to be treated as a single person.
- Junko's japanese name uses the kanji "狐" which means "kitsune", possibly alluring the seven fiery tails at her back.
External Links[]
- Junko on the Touhou Wiki
- Junko on the Magnificent Baddie Wiki
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