Junko Konno

"“I’m going with you because I’m an idol! My name’s Junko Konno, the Showa Idol!”"

Junko Konno (紺野 純子, Konno Junko) was an idol from the 80s whose popularity caused the idol boom of said decade. She died in 1983 in a plane crash. She's also a member of the idol group Franchouchou.

She is titled as The Legendary Showa Idol (伝説の昭和アイドル, Densetsu no Shōwa aidoru).

Human
Junko has short, white hair that curls near the bottom. 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.

Zombie
Like the others, it has grayish-blue skin like a zombie and dots all over her body with different skin tones in each section that make it an homage to the Monster of Frankenstein.

Junko's body is full of frankestein-style patches, the impact of the plane where she was caused a great explosion destroying her body completely and burning some parts more than others, which is why she has patches of different colors.

Idol
Her idol outfit changes throughout the series: On episodes 1-6, Junko wears a gold 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.

Pajamas
TBA

Personality
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 it, both on stage and with the group.

After being shocked by the drastic changes in the idol industry while dead, she barricades herself in a room (with warning signs and "do not cross" tape) and sulks in place for weeks, even growing mushrooms. in your head.

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 be figures of perfection for fans to admire and showing any imperfections in front of them is inexcusable. Just the idea of ​​interacting with her fans makes her uncomfortable because they can find fault with her offstage.

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.

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 due to 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 simply by handing out signed "candid" photos of themselves as "The Shy" of the group, instead of meeting and greeting.

Junko's soft, meek voice turns into a hoarse alto when she sings.

She is frequently shown to be nervous when it comes to heights. The fact that she died in a plane crash probably contributed to this fear.

Skillset

 * Musical Talent - Similar to Ai, being a former pop idol, she is gifted with amazing musical talent.
 * Dancing - On top of her musical talent, she can also move fluidly to the beat of any music.
 * Fishing - In the tenth episode, she reveals that she loves hobbies that involved being alone and concentration, thus showing that she loved to fish as well.

Unique Abilities

 * Immortality - Because she is a zombie, she is granted the ability to stay the age she died forever, without physically aging, as well as be immune to circumstances that could normally kill a human being.
 * Detachable Limbs - She can detach and re-attach any part of her body with ease, whether it be intentional or not.
 * Phosphorescent Vision - Her undead blood-red eyes are shown to be able to glow in the dark.

Etymology

 * The name Junko means "pure, clean, simple" (純) (jun) and "child" (子) (ko).
 * Junko's surname Konno means "navy blue" (紺) (kon) and "field, wilderness" (野) (no).



Trivia

 * Junko is the revived representation of the idols "Showa" of the 70's and 80's. Calm, reserved and fearful, Junko is the image of what the artists showed the public on the small screen.
 * Junko died three months after her nineteenth birthday.
 * Based on the timeline, Junko's actual age is 54 as she remarked in Episode 6 that she would have been a grandmother if she was still alive.
 * Junko's death is similar to that of Kyu Sakamoto's death on how he died in the crash of Japan Airlines Flight 123.
 * Junko has same cup size and body type as Ai Mizuno, together having one of most slimmest figures in group.
 * She shares the same English voice actor as Hayasaka Ai from Kaguya-sama: Love is War.
 * Because of her cause of death, she has acquired acrophobia, alongside her new, more timid personality, in her afterlife.