Junko Enoshima

• The Mastermind of The Tragedy of Hope's Peak Academy, The Tragedy, Killing School Life and Killing School Trip

## Killing Game Status

### Events Participates

• The Tragedy of Hope's Peak Academy• The Tragedy• Killing School Life• Killing School Trip (AI)

### Execution

• The Ultimate Punishment• Forced Shutdown (AI)

### Fate(s)

• Executed herself at the end of the Killing School Life• Survived using Shirokuma and Kurokuma as part of her AI

• The AI version of her deleted from existence as the Forced Shutdown activated.

## Personal Status

### Relatives

Mukuro Ikusaba (Older twin sister; deceased)

### Previous Affiliation

• Hope's Peak Academy• Class 78th

**Junko Enoshima** (Lígia Engrácia in Brazil) is the main antagonist of the *Danganronpa* series' Hope's Peak Academy Saga.

She is the younger twin sister of Mukuro Ikusaba and the founder of **Ultimate Despair**, also known as the **True Ultimate Despair**.

Junko was scouted by Hope's Peak Academy as the **UltimateFashionista** for Class 78th, which allowed her to attend the school. However, multiple installments in the series have revealed that this is only a superficial talent, derived from her "true", inherent talent of being the **Ultimate Analyst**, which borders on superhuman.

## Appearance

She has a tall, hourglass figure. She has blue eyes and long, thick, strawberry blonde hair tied in two pigtails. She has been shown to wear a variety of hair accessories over the series, but her signature accessories are a pair of hairclips seemingly patterned after Monokuma; the right clip is completely white with dot eyes, while the left is completely black with red eyes.

Due to her constantly-shifting personalities, Junko's appearance shifts slightly with her mood. This can be as simple as a new accessory (such as the crown on her "Queen" persona's head), or a complete change in appearance (such as the simplified design of her "cute" personality).

In *Danganronpa 2*, Junko returned as an Artificial Intelligence controlling a giant avatar that resembled her appearance in the climax of the original game. The avatar also carried a heavily-decorated cell phone which Junko used to interact with the others.

## Personality

As a young fashionista, Junko is described as simply "not fake", charismatic and eager to try new things. During her first appearances, she comes across slightly air-headed and hot-tempered. In the official art book, she is described as a person who "drips with dissatisfaction the moment she opens her mouth" and tends to be in trouble with her classmates. She is also mentioned to be a bit too talkative with an overly carefree attitude.

However, Junko's real personality that is revealed at the conclusion of the Mutual Killing incident of Class 78th is notably different. Her true personality appears to be very apathetic and easily bored, to the unhealthy and abnormal degree. Because of this, her behavior and mannerisms tended to be extremely erratic and unstable by her own autonomous design; keeping up one "appearance" for too long bores her, which causes her to often switch between different personas. However, she is capable of maintaining one persona for extended periods of time when necessary, such as when she was overseeing the students through Monokuma. Junko's "moods" included (but were not limited to) her Monokuma persona, sickening cuteness, severe depression, clinical sophistication, and haughty superiority. She switched between "moods" regularly, often imitating other students' expressions, which made for a highly unsettling conversation to the survivors. While entering the Hope's Peak Academy as one of Class 78th students, she often talked in her narration-style and writes it in a notebook.

Above all, Junko was deeply obsessed with despair, having found despair to be the most (and possibly *the only*) enjoyable emotion for her, whether it be the inflicting of despair unto others, or suffering from despair wholeheartedly. This made her extremely dangerous, as she wished to make *the whole world* feel absolute despair. However, this also often proved to be her biggest weakness, as she gave her opponents a "fair" chance to defeat her in order to make their despair all the greater if they fail, and happily welcomed her own despair if her plans fail. Both Junko herself and the game's creators have confirmed that she truly has no reason to do things she does other than despair itself, which makes her all the more dangerous and unable to reason with.

As a mastermind and leader of Ultimate Despair, Junko was shown to be highly intelligent, cunning, somewhat impulsive, and extremely manipulative, violent and cruel without remorse. She was both physically and mentally abusive, highly toxic individual. She manipulated people into falling madly in love with her and used their weaknesses, their *despair*, against them. Things like hope, peace, and happiness disgusted her, but she sometimes gave hope to others, only to turn it into despair later. She often manipulated people into doing bad things instead of directly doing them herself, and then had a habit of blaming these manipulated people and claiming it wasn't her fault, as a part of proving her point that despair exists in everyone and that hope will naturally lose to that despair. While she is very skilled, Junko can also lie and cheat to further her own goals, even if it's hypocritical and goes against her beliefs. It should be noted that even though she claims despair is the great unknown, in the end the road of despair went exactly the way she had planned.

While very abusive and cruel even towards her loved ones, it's implied that she felt at least some care for them, in her own messed-up way. It is interesting to note that the two people who Junko loved the most (Mukuro and Yasuke) are the only people shown in canon to be killed directly by her: Mukuro through the Spears of Gungnir and Yasuke through stabbing, whereas most of her other victims were killed indirectly through executions. This is likely because killing those she holds most dear would cause her great despair and to Junko, the greater the despair, the better.

## Relationships

Junko is bisexual and has a past relationship with Yasuke.

## Skills and Abilities

#### Ultimate Fashionista

Junko's initial talent and the one she is famous for. She is very popular among people and students in Hope's Peak Academy; even the Steering Committee guaranteed her talent. She often appeared in magazines as the cover model. She uses her Ultimate Analyst talent to her advantage, as she can predict trends.

#### Ultimate Analyst

Junko's true talent allows her to quickly analyze her surroundings with near superhuman fast and detailed thinking.

This talent gives her an excellent ability to make very detailed plans in a short amount of time. She is also excellent at reading and thus manipulating others. She can often predict what a person is going to do before they do it - an ability she can use to defeat opponents much stronger than her. It is also this ability that threw her into boredom since she was able to accurately guess how events would play out; this fueled her love of despair as an "unknown".

#### Ultimate Despair

Junko has the ability to cause nearly anyone to fall into despair, even Izuru, someone considered to be the Ultimate Hope. Using her talent as the Ultimate Analyst, Junko could detect everyone's weaknesses and use this information to manipulate or even exploit people around her to do her bidding. This was exampled by how she could prevent the Warriors of Hope from committing suicide and persuaded them to join her in spreading despair by killing adults. It changes human's history as Monaca Towa, the real target and the only member that Junko interested in ended up creating Monokuma in a large, mass number.

The only person she could never get to was Makoto, the other Ultimate Hope. She manipulated the Reserve Course into rioting and then committing a mass suicide thanks to a video she forged of the first killing game.