However, Kodaka claims Junko can be killed. Kodaka compared the theory of whether or not she is dead or alive to Western villains like the Joker from Batman who continuously are brought back to life. The character's resurrection in Goodbye Despair was left to the player's interpretation. Early concept art for the character depicts her with smaller pigtails, a white skirt, and an overall golden color scheme with red and black highlights, elements of which were also adopted for the character's fraternal twin sister Mukuro Ikusaba. Kodaka later confirmed Junko's motives to be rooted in her polyamory and love for the entirety of her 77th (and 78th class), seeking to induce more despair on someone the more they meant to them. However, at the same time Kodaka felt he was "cheating" himself when writing Junko as her character almost has no motivation for the harsh crimes she commits in the story. So one way I thought of showing that was to make a very cute character that was visually appealing to look at." - Kazutaka Kodaka As bad as she is, she is so powerful and charming that she draws you in. With no possibility of redemption, the idea that absolute evil is something desirable and pleasant. "I wanted to create a character who is bad because she is evil, who only desires outright desperation.
Kodaka elaborates that Junko's appears to have toxic love towards her classmates due to how rather than killing them, she forces them to kill each other as she believes that despair is the ultimate salvation for people. Originally conceived as an early murder victim, the idea of Junko as an antagonist was conceived by creator and scenario writer Kazutaka Kodaka as a fully unsympathetic villain with no tragic backstory to explain away her actions, due to his personal dislike for the popular sympathetic villain trope.
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The character has also appeared in manga and musical adaptations of the series, in Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony in a cameo appearance, and in the light novel series Danganronpa Zero, in which she is depicted as its amnesiac protagonist.Įarly unused artwork of Junko Enoshima by Rui Komatsuzaki. The identity of Junko is also adopted by her fraternal twin sister and body double Mukuro Ikusaba ( Japanese: 戦刃 むくろ, Hepburn: Ikusaba Mukuro), the pair and their cult being known as the Despair Sisters ( Japanese: 絶望の姉妹, Hepburn: Zetsubō no shimai), and by the showrunners of the Danganronpa reality television series.
Blackbear), and in the anime Danganronpa: The Animation and the "Despair Arc" of Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak High School. Whitebear) and Kurokuma ( Japanese: クロクマ, Hepburn: Kurokuma, lit. Monobear), in the spin-off Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls in the guises of Monokuma variants Shirokuma ( Japanese: シロクマ, Hepburn: Shirokuma, lit. Junko is featured as the main antagonist and mastermind in the first two games of the series as the true identity of the robotic teddy bear headmaster Monokuma ( Japanese: モノクマ, Hepburn: Monokuma, lit. Junko Enoshima ( Japanese: 江ノ島 盾子, Hepburn: Enoshima Junko) is a fictional character and the secondary antagonist of Spike Chunsoft's Danganronpa series.