Problematic because: "Treats everyone like shit based on their appearances (hates "ugly people" and worships "beautiful people", aka celebrities), stalks and harasses a woman because she's "beautiful", disrespects her constantly by trying to make her do things she doesn't want to, and calls her by a name she doesn't go by anymore"
Propaganda: "He's a horrible person but that's what's interesting about him, trying to understand why he became like this and has such extreme beliefs (the series isn't finished yet) that hurts everyone around him and himself. He's a plastic surgeon and thinks beauty is an inherent trait that only celebrities possess, which makes them superior, and thinks that his duty as an inferior being and as a surgeon is to serve them and make them even more beautiful. He wishes he could have their luxuriois life and uses his obsession with them as a coping mechanism so that he won't have to think about his past and trauma (this is why he stalks that woman, who's the daughter of a celebrity. The characters are in a killing game so by obsessing over her he can escape from that reality. Also, in his mind he is helping her and has good intentions when trying to "make her more beautiful", even if he ends up disrespecting her since she doesn't want him to do any of that). To me it's sad how disconnected from reality and brainwashed he is, and even if he's horrible, I do think he's capable of good and of maybe realizing the faults in his mindset and finally facing his trauma. Also his design is cute"
Problematic because: "In the first game, she traps her classmates inside Hope’s Peak Academy, runs the whole murder-game through Monokuma, gives them motives to kill each other, holds trials after each death, and executes anyone who gets caught. She also has her own sister Mukuro pretend to be her, then kills her in front of everyone to sell the lie. She helps kick off essentially a global apocalypse, pushes people into mass despair, manipulates others into spreading it for her, and is tied to the student council mass killing at Hope’s Peak too. Even after she dies, her AI version is still causing problems in Danganronpa 2, because apparently being dead wasn’t enough to stop her from ruining everyone’s lives."
Propaganda: 1. "There is no pretending she’s morally grey. She is terrible on purpose, and the fun is that she knows exactly what kind of story she’s in. I like her because she’s funny, theatrical, unpredictable, and genuinely scary when the game stops playing around with her. She can switch from silly to cruel in half a second, and that makes her feel less like a normal mastermind and more like the whole game’s tone crammed into one person. She is exhausting in the exact way she should be."
2. "junko is such a nightmare but she’s also THE danganronpa villain. like yes she trapped her classmates in a murder school and yes she made despair her whole personality in the worst possible way, but she’s so entertaining that you can’t really imagine the series without her. she’s annoying, funny, scary, overdramatic, smug, weirdly charismatic, and somehow every version of her is doing too much on purpose."