'I wanted to create a character who is bad because she is evil, who only desires outright desperation. Kodaka later elaborated that Junko 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.

Junko was conceived by series' creator and scenario writer Kazutaka Kodaka as a 'fully unsympathetic' villain with no tragic backstory to explain her actions, due to his personal dislike for the popular sympathetic villain trope. 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 the true identity of its amnesiac protagonist, Ryōko Otonashi ( Japanese: 音無涼子, Hepburn: Otonashi Ryōko).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 ), by the Servant's intended successor, 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 primary overarching antagonist of Spike Chunsoft's Danganronpa series.

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