Junko Konno

Junko Konnowas an idol from the 80s whose popularity caused the idol boom of said decade. She is a member of the zombie idol group Franchouchou and is titled as The Legendary Showa Idol. Junko has short white hair that curls near the bottom with her bangs are bunched in the middle and she has ice blue eyes. Junko sports a rather very slim and slender figure which is proportionally identical to those of Ai Mizuno with only slight differences in sheer numbers. Normally, Junko wears a navy sailor dress with white accent lines and a white tie. She also wears white socks and black shoes. Like the others, Junko has grayish-blue skin like a zombie and stitches all over her body with different skin tones in each section, which is a homage to the Monster of Frankenstein. Junko's body is full of Frankenstein-style patches, the impact of the plane she was on caused a large explosion destroying her body completely and burning some parts more than others, so she has different colored patches. Junko's idol outfit changes throughout the series: On episodes 1-6, Junko wears a white T-shirt with the word "Four" written on it, along with an white skirt with white ruffles. Using makeup, she and the other zombies make their skin look like a normal human. Junko also wears contact lenses to achieve her blue eyes that she had as a living person. After Saga rock, her idol outfit changed to a red jacket with a plaid decoration, blue skirt with cotton inside it and knee-high boots. She was already a professional idol before her death. In her case, she was considered a pioneer of the idol genre as it was during the 1970s and 1980s that the trope took off and first solidified in Japan. One of her signature songs is called "50 and 4 Things Left Behind", and it is still used today for commercials and is incredibly popular online. Junko always seems to be calm, collected and a bit shy of her surroundings. As the series progresses, she manages to take more security about herself, both on stage and with the group. Junko is quite discreet with her comments. Both she and Ai believe that the whole plan of the "undead idol singer group" is doomed to failure, but while Ai's complaints center on the lack of experience of others and the legitimate difficulties of the industry, Junko often reminds the girls that they are real zombies. With all that that entails, she remains nervous about the one member who still hasn't gotten her head back, frequently commenting on how ridiculous the situations they are in are. The reality of being hunted down and rejected by the living for being a zombie leaves Junko deeply discouraged to the point where she and Ai barely have the will to act. Like Ai, she also begins to recover after covering for Sakura when the latter changed the lyrics of her guerilla performance, deciding that she wants to try singing in a group. Junko does not hate the idea of ​​acting in a group, but she is not sure that she can work well in one, since she had always acted alone, which compounds her reluctance to cooperate with Kotaro's plan, defends the idea that idols should Being figures of perfection for fans to admire and showing any imperfections in front of them is unforgivable. Just the idea of ​​interacting with her fans makes her uncomfortable because they can find fault with her person offstage. Along with Ai, she refuses to join Franchouchou's guerilla show in Episode 3. Seeing Sakura's determination inspires them to the point that when Sakura messes up her lines, they band together to save what little they can of the performance. She leaves Franchouchou in Episode 6 after both Kotaro and Ai scolded her for refusing to participate in the photoshoot, feeling that the idols' expectations have changed too much for her to feel comfortable since she died. After being shocked by the drastic changes in the idol industry while she was dead, she barricades herself in a room (with warning signs and "no crossing" tape) and sulks in her place for weeks, even growing mushrooms on her head. After Kotaro kicks down a door by its hinges to give her a pep talk, he nonchalantly asks Junko to fix the door after him. Surprisingly, she simply picks up some power tools and puts the door back on competently. She is very reserved and soft-spoken, and is deeply intimidated by Tae. She is also very uncomfortable with the idea of ​​fan photoshoots, both because of her shy nature and because idols didn't interact as much directly with their fans when she was alive. The band decides to sidestep this and start marketing by simply handing over signed "candid" photos of themselves as "The Shy" of the group, rather than meeting and greeting. Junko's soft, meek voice turns into a hoarse alto when she sings. She is frequently shown to get nervous when it comes to heights. The fact that she died in a plane crash probably contributed to this fear. It is mentioned repeatedly that Junko is not a very good dancer, but she actually only appears once in practice, and she is on par with everyone else in every performance. Even more evident is the fact that Junko is able to dance perfectly at Saga Rock after not practicing for two weeks. Although she ultimately doesn't catch anything, she seems to have a solid knowledge of fishing, putting together a fishing pole and looking for a suitable bait on her own. At the same time, she gives Sakura a surprisingly philosophical lecture that you wouldn't expect from a girl who has spent much of the series in an abysmal spirit. Fishing is even listed as one of her hobbies. She is very prone to blushing, either from embarrassment or from the rude comments of others. When she saw Yugiri in her Oiran outfit, she blushed in amazement at seeing someone so elegant. In the last episodes of the series, Junko can be seen with a quite calm and collaborative personality with the other girls, in addition to giving advice to Sakura about looking at what happens around her. The change in her personality when realizing the new era and accepting it makes her relate more to Sakura and when she loses her memory, she goes to talk to her, but her shy personality does not allow her to do so and she simply surrenders. and starts crying. At the end of Arpino's concert she looks happy because Sakura finally recovered the memories of her. Don't be fooled by her shyness. She is an experienced performer who will go out of her way to help her friends and bandmates. Whenever she feels depressed, she will pick up a guitar and sing to herself. When she Sakura hears it, she reveals that she sings it to reassure herself. The song itself was one of her hit singles when she was alive. When Iron Frill arrives at Saga she cares a lot about the group and says that she is useless belittling herself for not knowing how to guide the girls, after they witness Shiori trying to recruit Ai, Junko looks nervous and sad because she thinks that Franchouchou is not the best for her. When she thinks that Ai plans to leave her and Franchouchou to meet with Iron Frill, Junko tries to pressure the former for an honest answer and gets an answer that only reaffirms her fears. She then she runs to a nearby beach and cries with all her heart. Kotaro later encourages her to break everything in her path and get Ai back by breaking everything, words that she takes very literally since she later breaks her electric guitar, but now Junko is determined to get what she wants by giving a great impact and realizing that her time and her way of being must change to have what she wants, leaving aside once and for all her shy personality and becoming determined. She takes Kotaro's expression "Break it all, Junko!" in the sense of literally smashing his guitar, which she does at the end of her solo concert. Once she realizes that she needs to take over the opening of Iron Frill, she and the others put on an absolutely mind-blowing metal performance with her as guitarist and vocalist and confronts Shiori as the latter makes one last attempt to get Ai leave Franchouchou. In episode 11 of Revenge, when Franchouchou's mansion is washed away by a flood, Junko rescues a set of tools for making Ozaki dolls. After the mansion collapses and is destroyed, it is noted that all of the group's costumes, instruments, and makeup were inside. Junko apologizes for not rescuing them, but none of the other zombies reproach her.