Junko Konno

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)

Appearance
Junko has short white hair that curls in near the bottom with her bangs are bunched together in the middle and icy-blue eyes. Like the others, she has grayish-blue skin and red eyes as a zombie and stitches all over her body with different skin tones in each section make her somewhat like a homage to Frankenstein's Monster.

Normally, Junko wears a navy blue sailor's dress with white accent lines and a white tie. She also supports white socks and black shoes. As an idol, Junko wears a purple and white top along with a short, white skirt.

Personality
Junko seems to be calm, collected, little shy, but also a little serious if not daring. This serious side is shown when she tries to escape the mansion, collaborates with Saki Nikaidō and Sakura Minamoto in going in the Hot Springs, and when it comes to idols. She seems prone to panic whenever something disturbing happens. Because of the different time period she lived in, her views of Idols contrast from modern times.

Early Life
Junko was an idol from the Showa period who operated in the 70s. Like an idol, she participated in many activities including shows and singing concerts, eventually reaching renown popularity. In her time when she was alive, the concept of idols were recently created and Junko was under the belief she can't reveal too much of herself by interacting with strangers, including her fans. One day, while traveling by plane on her way to a tour, her plane suddenly crashed and Junko died in the accident.

Years later, her body was recovered by Kotaro Tatsumi and revived her as a zombie to take her into his zombie idol project.

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Episode 1
After their successful death metal performance in a death metal festival, all of the zombie girls regain their senses, she wakes up along with Ai Mizuno and Lily Hoshikawa but was frightened upon seeing Tae Yamada.

Episode 2
Tae Yamada's habit of biting and chasing after people scares Junko, motivating her to escape the mansion. However, she and Ai Mizuno accidentally startle each other when they run into each other outside, alerting Sakura Minamoto who had come looking for Ai. Although Sakura is against the idea of leaving, the three proceed to climb over the fence and head to town. Sakura's pleas to return to the mansion fall to deaf ears until a policeman notices the zombie bunch and opens fire at them.

Episode 3
During Kōtarō Tatsumi's briefing for a guerrilla performance, she points out she's more used to performing solo, a fact he promptly ignores. Junko and Ai Mizuno show very little enthusiasm in participating in idol activities and remain in the van to merely observe Franchouchou at first during the guerrilla show. However, after witnessing several mistakes, they finally decide to step in and help salvage the performance, with one young girl remaining for audience. Later in the evening, she expresses being glad having tried group performance and thanks Ai for helping out.

Episode 4
Junko becomes excited and blushes when Kōtarō Tatsumi reveals the location of their business trip is in the Ureshino Hot Springs, but quickly tries to hide it. Arriving in the scene, she is a bit doubtful about sightseeing being a good idea at first, but joins the group nevertheless. She walks besides Sakura Minamoto in most following slides showing them enjoying their time sightseeing and helps her splash water on a fish sculpture that is rumored to help with skin and health, although being much more reserved while half of their group is drooling against a display window of a bakery store. She also joins the foot bath with other zombies and assures that despite her solo performer background, she will do her best if others are serious about it as well.

After their sponsored event, Junko overhears Saki Nikaidō and Sakura arguing whether or not to sneak into the hot baths, and expresses her wish to join them.

Episode 5
Preparing for the Drive-In Tori commercial they were about to film, Junko expresses her dismay towards the chicken suits they were ordered to wear, though Ai Mizuno points out it's so they can get some real outfits in the future and Sakura Minamoto says it looks good on her. The rest of the shot goes without incidents for her until she has to help stopping Tae Yamada from biting the Drive-In Tori mascot, Cucco-kun.

Later, in Kōtarō Tatsumi's briefing about his plans to send the girls to participate in Gatalympics, Junko questions the glamorousness of the mud sports and appears totally devastated by the Franchouchou t-shirt design Kōtarō presents to them. The Gatalympics remind her of swimsuit only sporting events from the past, but when asked if she had participated in one, she was quick to point out she made sure not to stand out in them. Her performance in the competition itself was rather poor, on the bicycle track she was hardly stable on a bike to begin with and on the Tarzan swing she accidentally let the rope slip from her hands before even getting to swing on it.

Okoba, who has been watching the competition, recognizes Junko from somewhere and begins investigating the past of Franchouchou's members.

Episode 6
It is revealed that Junko died from a plane crash when she was heading to Saga for her first tour in Kyushu. -->

Trivia

 * The name Junko means "pure" (純) (jun) and "child" (子) (ko).
 * Junko's surname Konno means deep blue (紺, kon) and "field, wilderness" (野, no).
 * Junko was 19 at the time of her death.
 * 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 died three months after her nineteenth birthday.