Junko Enoshima

Category:Dangan Ronpa Characters
Junko Enoshima is a student from Dangan Ronpa. She was an extremely prominent character within the series and popular with fans. Enoshima debuted in the first game of the series, Dangan Ronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc, though did not survive the killing game.
Enoshima is the central antagonist in Trigger Happy Havoc, and her shadow lingers in the central antagonists of Dangan Ronpa 2: Goodbye Despair, (Izuru Kamukura,) and Dangan Ronpa V3: Killing Harmony, (Tsumugi Shirogane.) She is also an antagonist in Dangan Ronpa 3: End of Hope's Peak High School.
Enoshima is the "mastermind" of Dangan Ronpa's first killing game and she is the originator of the killing game formula overall. Many Alternate Universes, called Mastermind AUs, focus on other students being the mastermind instead of Enoshima. She also went by Ryoko Otonashi in Dangan Ronpa Zero, a manga spin-off.
== Canon Overview ==
[characterization, story role, further important appearances]
TBA
Enoshima's birthday is December 24th. She shares this birthday with Mukuro Ikusaba. On Twitter and Pixiv, art tagged with #江ノ島盾子生誕祭[year value] are commonly released on her birthday. More birthday tag listings can be found on Dangan Ronpa Birthday and Anniversary Tag List.
==Popular Tropes & Fanon==
All of the above are wrangled tags on Archive of Our Own. Other places where fandom lives may portray Enoshima with one or all of these attributes.
Enoshima is also popular for self-shipping works.
==Subjects of Fannish Interest & Meta==
===Cosplaying Popularity===
Alongside the mascot character Monokuma, Enoshima is considered one of the most recognizable Dangan Ronpa characters, even by those outside the fandom. She is incredibly popular, and in 2018 was even named the "most popular game character for cosplay" in the Gamers Edition of Guinness World RecordsJunko was named most popular charcter... reddit post.. This popularity often mystifies, and sometimes even spoils, new fans who are confused about how a character who seemingly dies in the first chapter of the first game has become so iconic.
====Snowthesaltqueen / Yandere.Freak / Mary-Anne Oliver-Snow ====
Snow is an infamous, yet popular cosplayer in various fandoms. For many, they're most known for their Enoshima cosplays.
On January 27th, 2019, Snow (as Mikan Tsumiki) and a friend, Discount.yam (as Nagito Komaeda), did a CMV and a photoshoot in West Hill Cemetery. They sat on graves with in their cosplay without permission from the cemetery or the deceased, causing a major stir on Instagram by those in the Danganronpa cosplay scene. Later, both Snow's and Yam's accounts were mass flagged and deleted. The cemetery was called by multiple people, and now both have since been banned from the location. Much of the fandom's reaction to this is archived on the IG tag.
Around January 18th, 2021, Snow accidentally killed their friend Helen Hastings in an accident with a gun Snow believed was unloaded. Helen was a fellow cosplayer, having done Karkat Vantas and Mystery Girl from Steven Universe in the past on RollingStone in October 21st, 2021. When this news got out in October, the already infamous Snow flounced from the scene, returning in 2023. Many major news outlets covered the story and often referenced Danganronpa by name in them.
==Relationships==
This is purposefully an incomplete list, as Enoshima is shipped with much of Dangan Ronpa's cast. Please add any notable relationships in fanworks if they are missing.
Due to the nature of Enoshima's popular couplings spoilering the plot twist of Trigger Happy Havoc, Japanese pairing names involving her are often specific phrases or keywords.
The order seen should be what's most popular unless marked with "possibly." ENG portmanteaus are also subject to change. Relationships listed fall into GL, NL, BL, Poly, Combi or Cargo.
With... 	Full Label 	Type 	Portmanteau 	Kanji or Katakana 	Information
Mikan Tsumiki 	Junko Enoshima/Mikan Tsumiki 	GL 	Junkan 	罪江 (Tsumien) 	(Seen on its page.)
Makoto Naegi 	Junko Enoshima/Makoto Naegi 	NL 	Naejunko 	絶望×希望 (Zetsubō×Kibō, meaning Despair×Hope) 	(Seen on its page.)
Makoto Naegi 	Junko Enoshima & Makoto Naegi 	Combi	n/a 	n/a 	(Seen on its page.)
Mukuro Ikusaba 	Junko Enoshima/Mukuro Ikusaba 	GL 	Despair Sisters 	絶望シスターズ (Zetsubō Shisutāzu, meaning Despair Sisters) 	(Seen on its page.)
Mukuro Ikusaba 	Junko Enoshima & Mukuro Ikusaba 	Combi	Despaircest 	絶望姉妹 (Zetsubō Shimai, meaning Sisters of Despair) 	(Seen on its page.)
Yasuke ‎Matsuda 	Junko Enoshima/Yasuke Matsuda 	NL 	MatsuShima 	松音 (Matsuo) (o comes from Ryoko Otonashi) 	(Seen on its page.)
Nagito ‎Komaeda 	Junko Enoshima/Nagito Komaeda 	NL 	Junkomaeda 	左手の恋人 (Left Hand Lovers), 盾狛 (Junkoma), 狛江 (Komaeno) 	(Seen on its page.)
Nagito ‎Komaeda 	Junko Enoshima & Nagito Komaeda 	Combi	n/a 	n/a 	(Seen on its page.)
Izuru ‎Kamukura 	Junko Enoshima/Izuru Kamukura 	NL 	Junkozuru 	絶望×絶望 (Despair x Despair) and カム盾 (Kamujun) 	(Seen on its page.)
Izuru ‎Kamukura 	Junko Enoshima & Izuru Kamukura 	Combi	n/a 	n/a 	(Seen on its page.)
Kyoko ‎Kirigiri 	Junko Enoshima/Kyoko Kirigiri 	GL 	Enogiri 	n/a 	(Seen on its page.)
Chiaki ‎Nanami 	Junko Enoshima/Chiaki Nanami 	GL 	Enonami, Chunko 	n/a 	(Seen on its page.)
Tsumugi ‎Shirogane 	Junko Enoshima/Tsumugi Shirogane 	GL 	Junmugi; Shiroshima	n/a 	(Seen on its page.)
Celestia Ludenberg 	Junko Enoshima/Celestia Ludenberg	GL 	Celesjunko 	n/a 	Both wish for world power in one way or another.
Sayaka ‎Maizono 	Junko Enoshima/Sayaka Maizono 	GL 	Maizoshima 	n/a 	(Seen on its page.)
Izuku ‎Midoriya (My Hero Academia)	Junko Enoshima & Izuku Midoriya 	Combi	n/a 	n/a 	Midoriya may turn to despair in Darkfic AUs for this series.
Chihiro ‎Fujisaki 	Junko Enoshima/Chihiro Fujisaki 	NL 	Enosaki 	n/a 	Both have suvived partially after their deaths by AI counterparts of themselves.
Leon ‎Kuwata 	Junko Enoshima/Leon Kuwata 	NL 	Junkeon 	n/a 	Often featured in fanart together, along with Maizono, to hide Enoshima's twist.
despair 	Junko Enoshima/Despair 	Cargo	n/a 	n/a 	It's what she loves.
== Example/Notable Fanac==
=== Blogs===
*ask-junkeon, an Enoshima x Kuwata askblog.
===Cosplay===
* (2023), a cosplay on TikTok with over one million likes.
* (2019)
* (2021)
===Fan Art===
* (2022), Enoshima with Izuru Kamukura and Hajime Hinata
===Zines===
*Enoshima Insider
=== Meta ===
* (2017)
* (2017)
=== Wikis ===
* on Danganronpa Wiki
* on PixivEncyclopedia
* on Shipping Wiki
==Links and Resources ==
*Wikipedia:Junko Enoshima
*Junko Enoshima on the Danganronpa Fandom.com wiki
*Danganronpa — Junko Enoshima at TVTropes
*Enoshima Junko works on AO3 
*#junko enoshima on tumblr
*#junko #junko enoshima on Pixiv
== References ==