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The older sister, tough and proud—that was Mukuro. The younger sister, smart and cute—that was... Hyaaaahaha! Me! Junko f*cking Enoshima! And together, we were the Despair Sisters! AKA the Ultimate Despair!
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~ Junko Enoshima comparing herself to her twin sister Mukuro Ikusaba, and most famous quote.
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Puhuhu... Puhuhuhu! So this is how the despair of death feels... Ahhh, it's so wonderful! Even a tenth of this despair... Even a hundredth!.. I want every last soul on this planet to taste such despair! I want the entire world to die with that despair in its mouth! Okay, let's do this! I've reserved an extra special punishment for last! Let's give it everything we've got! It's... PUNISHMENT TIIIME! Haahahahaha!
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~ Junko's last words before executing herself.
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Hope is harmony. A just heart, moving toward the light. That is all. Despair is hope's polar opposite. It is messy and confusing. It swallows up love, hatred, and everything else. Because not knowing where you will end up is despair. Despair is even what you cannot predict. Only despair's unpredictability can save you from a boring future.
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~ Junko Enoshima
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Junko Enoshima (in Japanese: 江ノ島 盾子, Enoshima Junko) is the main antagonist of the Danganronpa franchise.
In the video games, she was titled Ultimate Fashionista and founder of Ultimate Despair. Junko has a hidden talent, known as Ultimate Analyst. She is the younger twin sister of Mukuro Ikusaba and had an alternate identity known as Ryōko Otonashi, which her memories were lost and counts as a different person that was not in any of the games. In the games, she controls and interfaces with the victims of the killing games through Monokuma and serves as the archenemy of Makoto Naegi. Despite executing herself in Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc, her influence and legacy are ultimately the driving forces behind every installment's major conflicts.
Portrayals[]
- She is voiced by Megumi Toyoguchi in the Japanese dubbed version for both the video games and the anime adaptations.
- She is voiced by Amanda Celine Miller and Erin Fitzgerald in the English dubbed versions of the games. The latter of whom also voiced May Kanker from Ed, Edd n Eddy.
- In the anime adaptations, she was voiced by Jamie Marchi in the English dubbed version.
- In the stage play adaptations, she was portrayed by the late Sayaka Kanda, who also portrayed her sister Mukuro Ikusaba and later voiced Kaede Akamatsu in Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony.
Personality[]
Junko is a young woman who took the country by storm with her extravagant tastes and cheerful charisma. Ironically, her popularity as a fashionista was due to an air of being 'not fake.' Junko's personality and mannerisms tend to be very erratic and unstable; her boredom is at a very high and abnormal degree, having little interest in anything, extending to even boredom of her own personality due to her true talent. From this, Junko had an overall extremely dull and predictable life at first.
Her boredom is interrelated with her fascination with despair due to its incalculable, destructive, and overall chaotic nature. From this, she believes it is the only emotion worth having. Her motives center around causing despair either in others or herself. Junko is willing to do anything to bring about despair and destroy any type of hope or positivity.
Though she initially comes off as lacking emotion, she is in fact capable of feeling genuine love and care for others. Her alternate personality, Ryōko Otonashi, is proof of this as she was very much in love with her childhood friend, Yasuke Matsuda, who in turn cared for her, though he often hid his feelings from her. Even outside of her alternate self, Junko's love extends to her sister, Mukuro, and her fellow classmates. However, because she is heavily obsessed with despair, she uses her love as a means to fulfill her desire of falling into greater despair.
Hence, she subjects her sister to constant abuse before ultimately killing her and subjecting her classmates to the torturous experience of the Killing School Life. Ultimately, she is willing to go as far to destroy any bonds and attachments she had with others as a means to fall into despair.
In overall terms of personality, Junko is an incredibly unpredictable, psychotic, apathetic, treacherous, and pitiless sadist by nature, and cares for nothing more than creating despair and misery towards other people. She tends to unpredictably switch between different personalities, each of them more obsessed with despair than she already is. Her facial expressions, voice, and gestures change several times throughout the final school trial in order to represent her changing personalities. These include (but aren't limited to) her acting dedicated to her Monokuma persona, sickening cuteness, severe depression, clinical sophistication, boisterous vulgarity, eerie stoicism, and haughty superiority. She seems to usually do this to imitate other students or to satisfy the boredom of her own personality.
Appearance[]
Junko is 5'7" with a fair complexion. As Ryoko, she originally had red eyes and hair. As Junko, she has blue eye contacts and bleached, pale, strawberry-blonde hair. In her first appearance, she has her hair tied into twin pigtails with a white bear hairclip on the right and a black bear hairclip on the left, resembling the two sides of Monokuma. She wears a black, red-buttoned top with white symbols over it and a white collared-shirt underneath, with both the top and shirt being slightly unbuttoned to reveal a black/red bra. Further more, she wears a white/black tie with a red prohibition sign around her neck, red pleated miniskirt, black, heeled, platform boots with red laces, red nails, a thin black choker, and a red bow hanging on the left side of her top.
In the Despair Arc during Danganronpa 3, her outfit mostly resembles the former, but with an all-white tie and a cute white rabbit and large red-and-white bow for her hairclips. She wears a similar outfit to this with her Hope’s Peak Academy uniform with her top being light brown and her skirt being dark blue. Generally, as with the aforementioned outfits and even additional ones that appear on her magazine covers, her fashion style resembles the typical "Gyaru" subculture fashion (more specifically "Kogyaru") and having a flashy and feminine appearance (via bleached hair, colored contacts + nails, platform shoes, miniskirts, various accessories, heavy makeup).
Her appearance exaggeratedly and comically changes slightly to match her personas, such as holding Monokuma in front of her face as she acts out a certain persona (via Monokuma’s personality); a more simplified, cutesy appearance to match her cute persona; a melancholic appearance with mushrooms on her head to match her depressive persona; a ponytail and glasses that are akin to a more sophisticated appearance to match her intellectual persona; a wild/unhinged appearance while constantly holding up the hand-horn gesture to match her foulmouthed persona; a stoic appearance while doing a certain pose to match with her stoic persona; and finally, a red and gold crown with jewels on her head to give her a haughty appearance to match with her queen persona.
Talents/Abilities[]
Junko was born with superhuman analytical abilities, in which she possesses extraordinary abilities to swiftly analyze and comprehend virtually anything. She can effortlessly discern the personality, capabilities, thoughts, and past of a person with a glance. Her analytical prowess is so advanced that she can foresee future events, though to an extent depending on the factor(s) of what she is dealing with. A few examples of her using her talent are creating her own A.I. from studying Chihiro Fujisaki’s coding skills, creating certain videos from observing Ryota Mitarai’s animations, erasing very specific memories of others (and herself) using advanced technology from observing Yasuke Matsuda’s neurology research, and possibly being able to gain other skills.
These abilities granted her the additional titles of the 'True' Ultimate Despair and Ultimate Fashionista. The former stems from combining her analytical skills with a penchant for despair and using it onto people. Using her talent, Junko can sense a person’s weaknesses, deducing what brings the most despair within said person and using it against them. She is shown to be highly manipulative; whether through intense charisma, intimidation, or blackmail, she finds ways to get people to succumb to her desires. She can use more forceful methods through the aforementioned videos, which can brainwash others into causing despair (via the "despair video") and fall madly in love with her (or, alternatively, force them to commit suicide, via the "suicide video"). Her Ultimate Fashionista title comes from her capability to predict fashion trends, allowing her to establish a facade as a popular model to appear innocent. However, her talent does have some limitations , albeit rarely, as she was unable to properly analyze Makoto Naegi due to his unusual and unpredictable luck pattern.
Quotes[]
Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak High School[]
Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc[]
List of Victims[]
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- Students of Giboura Middle School ✞ - indirectly murdered (by Mukuro Ikusaba)
- Countless citizens ✞ - murdered during bombings she committed in order to satisfy her bloodlust
- Several security guards of Hope's Peak Academy ✞ - murdered
- Unnamed member of the Steering Committee - tortured, implied murder
- Student Council of Hope's Peak Academy ✞ - indirectly murdered
- Masaru Daimon - emotional manipulation
- Jataro Kemuri - emotional manipulation
- Kotoko Utsugi - emotional manipulation
- Nagisa Shingetsu - emotional manipulation
- Mikan Tsumiki - brainwashing, physical and mental abuse
- Reserve Course Students of Hope's Peak Academy ✞ - mind-breaking, brainwashing, suicide inducement
- Ryota Mitarai - blackmail, psychological torment
- Chisa Yukizome ✞ - forced brainwashing via lobotomy
- Juzo Sakakura ✞ - blackmail, mental torment
- Chiaki Nanami ✞ - torture, murder
- Sonia Nevermind - psychological torment, brainwashing
- Ultimate Imposter - psychological torment, brainwashing
- Gundham Tanaka - psychological torment, brainwashing
- Hiyoko Saionji - psychological torment, brainwashing
- Ibuki Mioda - psychological torment, brainwashing
- Akane Owari - psychological torment, brainwashing
- Nekomaru Nidai - psychological torment, brainwashing
- Fuyuhiko Kuzuryu - psychological torment, brainwashing
- Nagito Komaeda - psychological torment, brainwashing
- Teruteru Hanamura - psychological torment, brainwashing
- Mahiru Koizumi - psychological torment, brainwashing
- Peko Pekoyama - psychological torment, brainwashing
- Kazuichi Soda - psychological torment, brainwashing
- Izuru Kamukura - psychological abuse (by killing Chiaki Nanami), attempted murder victim, incrimination
- Komaru Naegi - indirect kidnapping (at the hands of Ultimate Despair, who she was responsible for brainwashing into her servants in the first place), indirect mental torment
- Hiroko Hagakure ✞ - indirect kidnapping
- Yuta Asahina ✞ - indirect kidnapping
- Taichi Fujisaki ✞ - indirect kidnapping
- Kenshiro - indirect kidnapping
- Aloysius Pennyworth - indirect kidnapping
- Fuhito Kirigiri - indirect kidnapping
- Grand Bois Chéri Ludenberg - indirect kidnapping
- Kameko - indirect kidnapping
- Ayaka Haneyama - indirect kidnapping
- Kanon Nakajima - indirect kidnapping
- Takaaki Ishimaru - indirect kidnapping
- Fujiko Yamada - indirect kidnapping
- Takemichi Yukimaru - indirect kidnapping
- Yasuke Matsuda ✞ - mental abuse, murdered
- Jin Kirigiri ✞ - murdered
- Mukuro Ikusaba ✞ - physical and mental abuse, murdered
- Sayaka Maizono ✞ - memory erasure, psychological torment, indirect murder
- Leon Kuwata ✞ - memory erasure, psychological torment, murdered, tortured
- Chihiro Fujisaki ✞ - memory erasure, psychological torment, indirect murder
- Mondo Owada ✞ - memory erasure, psychological torment, murdered
- Kiyotaka Ishimaru ✞ - memory erasure, psychological torment, indirect murder
- Hifumi Yamada ✞ - memory erasure, psychological torment, indirect murder
- Celestia Ludenberg ✞ - memory erasure, psychological torment, murdered
- Sakura Ogami ✞ - memory erasure, psychological torment, indirect murder
- Aoi Asahina - memory erasure, psychological torment
- Makoto Naegi - memory erasure, psychological torment, attempted murder victim (via throwing wrench in Despair Arc and attempting to crush him in DR1’s 5th trial)
- Kyoko Kirigiri - memory erasure, psychological torment
- Byakuya Togami - memory erasure, psychological torment
- Yasuhiro Hagakure - memory erasure, psychological torment
- Toko Fukawa - memory erasure, psychological torment
- Millions, if not billions of people worldwide ✞ - murdered, tortured, brainwashed (at the hands of her brainwashed minions, the Remnants of Despair)
- Kyosuke Munakata - indirect mental torment
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Reception[]
Junko Enoshima has received large amounts of praise from both critics and fans alike. She quickly became one of the most popular characters in the Danganronpa franchise, spawning several memes and becoming one of the most popular characters for cosplay. In 2019, Polygon ranked her as one of the best video game characters of the 2010s. In a 2013 poll from Anime Trend, Junko was voted as the 9th best female character of the year based on her role in the first game's anime adaptation Danganronpa: The Animation. In a Danganronpa: The Animation poll, Junko took the ninth place. Comic Book Resources listed her as the third most intelligent character from the franchise, citing how she manipulates most of the game's characters for the sake of entertaining herself even if it costs the lives of those as close to her as her own sister. Kotaku praised her characterization in Danganronpa Zero for providing her with more character depth given her receiving little of it in her appearances before then.
Trivia[]
- Junko means "shield" coupled with "child", while Enoshima can literally mean "island of the bay," or refer to the island in the Kanagawa prefecture.
- Her Ultimate ability in the Japanese version is Gyaru; this is a Japanese way of pronouncing the English word "girl."
- One of her poses is the same of Dio Brando from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure; she also says his catchphrase, "Useless, useless, useless," during a Bullet Time Battle.
- At the very last part of her execution, Junko Enoshima assumes a puzzled expression as the crusher slows down and seemingly glitches. The general fan consensus is that this was purposefully done to deny her despair (although it actually was extended).
- Her puzzled expression can also be interpret as boredom. Either crusher being slow down ruin the fun or not even her own dead can satisfy her taste of despair.
- As a prime antagonist of the series, Junko Enoshima appears in all three games (albeit only in flashbacks and as Tsumugi Shirogane's cosplay in the third one) and both novels as well as the Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak Academy anime (including her fake identity as Ryōko Otonashi).
- It is unknown how her body managed to stay intact for Ultimate Despair to retrieve and cut up after it was crushed during her execution.
- According to Spike Chunsoft and even Junko herself, she has no real ulterior motives as to why she commits her heinous acts other than simply that she finds life to be extremely boring and that she finds despair to be absolutely enjoyable.
- Due to her incredibly fickle and constantly changing personality, Junko has no stated likes or dislikes - unlike many other characters in the series.
- In the Guinness World Records Gamer's Edition (2018), Junko was named the "Most popular game character for cosplay."
- Junko has a noticeably similar personality to her minion, Monokuma, as both enforce and generate despair and destruction onto others. But while Junko is cunning, manipulative and sadistic, Monokuma focuses more on manipulating emotions rather than the actions of others and is highly violent.
- Junko's birthday is December 24. The number 4 is considered unlucky in Japan due to its pronunciation being similar to the word “death.” This matches Junko's obsession with causing death and despair.
- In 2019, Polygon ranked Junko as one of the best video game characters of the 2010s.
- Destructoid called Junko the best character in the entire Danganronpa franchise for how she embodies the overall themes of the franchise as a whole that are often discussed by the cast members and for how her legacy still continues in following installments in spite of her death.
- Junko was originally conceived as an early murder victim during the earliest development of the first game (with Kyoko/Gyaru as the Mastermind) before being made into the irredeemable and psychotic mastermind she's known as now.
- It is a canon fact that Junko genuinely cares for her classmates and her sister, but even with this she's irredeemable due to the fact she shows her love through despair. This makes her one of the few Pure Evil villains to have loved ones.
- In 2020, Comic Book Resources ranked Junko as the anime and manga villain with the 3rd highest body count.
- Junko is not only responsible for Chiaki's death and turning everyone in Class 77-B into the Ultimate Despair as her servants, but she is also responsible for the deaths of some of the students of Class 78 (Sayaka, Leon, Chihiro, Mondo, Kiyotaka, Hifumi, Celestia and Sakura) and Kyoko's father, Jin Kirigiri.
- She appears in 2014's Danganronpa: The Stage. Her fate is difference from the games and anime adaptations in that Makoto doesn't allow Junko to kill herself to taste the final despair but say stay alive would be a better punishment. And she accepts it because she is alive after her plans failed and with no one she loves to remain with her is also despair. As such, she's presumably either imprisoned by the Future Foundation, or goes into hiding to abandon her plans. Either way, she lives in despair.
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