Chameleon Juné

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Chameleon Juné
Saint Seiya character
Juné, the Chameleon Bronze Saint, in a screenshot from the anime
Created by	Masami Kurumada
Voiced by	Hiromi Tsuru (鶴 ひろみ)
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Age	14
Gender	Female
Date of birth	May 17
Nationality	Ethiopia
Class	Saint
Loyalty	Athena
Cloth	Chamaeleon
Rank	Bronze
Training	Andromeda Island, Ethiopia
Height	1.60 m
Weight	45 kg
Blood type	O
Secret moves	None revealed, though she uses the Chameleon Whip
First appearance	manga: chapter 28, vol.8 Anime: ep.40

Chameleon Juné (カメレオン星座のジュネ, Kamereon-seiza no June^?) is a character from the manga, Saint Seiya authored by japanese mangaka Masami Kurumada, and later was adapted to anime. Juné is a secondary Bronze female Saint and Shun's childhood friend. She was introduced by Kurumada in vol.8 of his manga.

[edit] Secret moves

In his manga, Kurumada never showed Juné's signature attacks, he drew her fighting only with her whip. Additionally, Juné's appearance in the manga is somewhat shorter than in the anime adaptation. In the manga she just appears, tries to fight/convince Shun, and is defeated, though she reappears in a flashback during Shun's battle against Pisces Aphrodite. It is her who informs Shun of their master Cepheus Daidalos' death. Toei Animation didn't give her any extra techniques from outside Kurumada's original manga.

There is a lot of false information saying she has some techniques, like "Mimetism" or "Tail Whip", but these are fan made attacks, not canon ones.

[edit] History (manga)

Juné removes her mask, in a panel from the manga, vol.8. Drawing by the author Masami Kurumada.

Juné was one of Silver Saint Cepheus Daidalos' disciples at Andromeda Island, along with Shun, where they trained together with the wish to obtain their own Cloths someday. Juné was very fond of Shun. When Shun fell unconscious due to the harsh trainings, she takes care of him through all the long cold nights and helps bandage Shun's injuries.

During the final phase of Shun's training, Juné discovered that Shun had asked for the "final sacrifice", the final test to show if he was worthy to obtain the Bronze Andromeda Cloth. Juné was worried and afraid that Shun could die from what seem to be an impossible test, but in the end Shun succeeded and became the Andromeda Bronze Saint.

Some time later, Juné became the Bronze Chamaeleon Saint, but her happiness didn't last for long, because their master Daidalos was murdered by a Gold Saint, Pisces Aphrodite, due to the order of the false Pope. When Juné discovered that Shun was going to the Sanctuary to fight against the Gold Saints, she tried to stop Shun, for she knew about Sanctuary and Gold Saints' power, but failed to convince him not to go. She did, however, manage to tell him that she saw a rose in the place where Daidalos was murdered, and told Shun that this might have been the cause of his regrettable death.

After that Juné did not appear in the manga or the anime adaptation again, and her whereabouts are unknown. As Kurumada showed in his manga, Juné had strong feelings for Shun, and may even have loved him; she didn't hide her face from him, as is the obligation for female Saints.

[edit] History (anime adaptation)

Her story in the anime adaptation is much like the manga one, except for a few minor modifications. The Andromeda Island is destroyed by Scorpio Milo but Pisces Aphrodite was following Milo and helped him killing Silver Saint Daidalos. She traveled to Japan to try to convince Shun not to go by fighting Shun with the help of Leda and Spica, (anime-only characters from Andromeda Island), who were the only survivors. However, her efforts failed, but she was hurt by his companions when she tried to help Shun. Despite all this, Shun was able to defeat the others without using his cloth. After Shun knocked her out, he took her to Tatsumi and asked him to take care of June as he gets on the plane on his way to fight the Gold Saints in the Sanctuary.

It seemed that at some point Juné met Silver Saint Marin (Seiya's teacher), as the latter went to the hospital and Juné told her to protect the Bronze Saints.

[edit] Bronze Chamaeleon Cloth

The Chamaeleon (Chameleon) Cloth is one of the eighty-eight of Athena's "army", the Saints. There are three levels, and Chamaeleon Cloth is one of the lowest one in the Bronze Saints level, along with forty-seven other Cloths. It represents a Chameleon with the tongue out and the tail in spiral, and is one of the few Cloths with weapons.

There are no apparent differences between the manga and anime versions, but the Cloth is never shown off June in the anime.

[edit] Chamaeleon Myth and Constellation

Since the constellation is an addition to astronomy of the 17th century and was not visible to early Mediterranean cultures, there is no mythology associated with it.

For Constellation details, see Chamaeleon

[edit] Notes

• It's known that every female Saint has to cover her face with a mask to renounce her female side. If a man sees her face, she has to love him or kill him. In the manga, Juné reveals her face to Shun, and it's supposed she loves him. In the anime, Hyoga, Seiya, Saori, Tatsumi, and the Steel Saints (these latter are anime-only characters) saw her face when Shun carried her to safety while she was unconscious.

• As with some Cloths, the Chameleon Cloth represents a constellation that wasn't used by ancient Greeks. The Chameleon constellation was added by modern astronomers in the 17th century. Masami Kurumada took some creative liberty when using the Chameleon Cloth, which in his manga plotline, was created in the times of Ancient Greece.

• Juné is the only known female Bronze Saint.

[edit] References

• Saint Seiya manga, vols. 8 and 12, by Masami Kurumada.