Junko Enoshima

is a fictional character and the main antagonist of Spike Chunsoft's Danganronpa series. Featured as the mastermind in the first two games of the series as the true identity of Monokuma, in the spin-off Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls in the guises of Shirokuma and Kurokuma, and in the prequel light novel Danganronpa Zero and anime series Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak High School: Despair Arc, serving as the protagonist of the former as , Junko is a student of Hope's Peak Academy and the Ultimate Fashionista, a charismatic and hyperintelligent gyaru fashion model and amateur detective whose investigations into the school's human experimentation program and obsession with killing games leads her and her fraternal twin sister and body double Mukuro Ikusaba into forming the Ultimate Despair cult of personality, ultimately bringing about the end of civilisation through a politicial and sociological movement known as "The Tragedy". In Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc, Junko arranges a killing game between her former classmates to test their metrics for hope and despair, counting herself and Mukuro as participants, before having her consciousness converted into an artificial intelligence known as Alter Ego Junko upon her death, left to her lieutenant Izuru Kamukura to continue her plans. The identity of Junko is also adopted by Mukuro in Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc and Zero, by the Servant's intended successor in Ultra Despair Girls, and by the showrunners of the Danganronpa reality television series in Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony. The character has also appeared in manga and musical adaptations of the series. Conception and creation 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 trope of being a sympathetic villain. 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.