Chameleon Juné

Infobox animanga character
name = Chameleon Juné
series = Saint Seiya


caption = Juné, the Chameleon Bronze Saint, in a screenshot from the anime
creator = Masami Kurumada
voiced by = Hiromi Tsuru (鶴 ひろみ)
age = 14
gender = Female
born = May 17
nationality = Ethiopia
class = Saint
paux1 = Athena
paux1 name = Loyalty
paux2 = Chamaeleon
paux2 name = Cloth
paux3 = Bronze
paux3 name = Rank
paux4 = Andromeda Island, Ethiopia
paux4 name = Training
paux5 = 1.60 m
paux5 name = Height
aux1 = 45 kg
aux1 name = Weight
aux2 = O
aux2 name = Blood type
aux3 =
None revealed, though she uses the Chameleon Whip
aux3 name = Secret moves
aux4 =
manga: chapter 28, vol.8
Anime: ep.40
aux4 name = First appearance

nihongo|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, which is authored by Japanese mangaka Masami Kurumada, and was later 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.

ecret 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 she who informs Shun of their master Cepheus Daidalos' death. Toei Animation did not give her any extra techniques from outside Kurumada's original manga.

There is a lot of false information saying she has techniques such as "Mimetism" or "Tail Whip", but these are fanmade attacks, and not canon.

History (manga)

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 training, she took care of him through all the long cold nights and helped 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 whether he was worthy of obtaining the Bronze Andromeda Cloth. Juné was worried and afraid that Shun would die from what seemed 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 did not last for long, because their master Daidalos was murdered by a Gold Saint, Pisces Aphrodite, by 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 Daidalos' 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 did not hide her face from him, as is the obligation for female Saints.

History (anime adaptation)

Her story in the anime adaptation is much like it was in the manga, excluding a few minor modifications. Andromeda Island is destroyed by Scorpio Milo, but Pisces Aphrodite was following Milo and helped him kill 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, and she was hurt by Leda and Spica 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.

Bronze Chamaeleon Cloth

The Chamaeleon (Chameleon) Cloth is one of the eighty-eight Cloths of Athena's "army", the Saints. There are three levels, and the Chamaeleon Cloth is from the lowest Bronze Saint 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 of June in the anime.

Chamaeleon Myth and Constellation

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

For Constellation details, see Chamaeleon.

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 is supposed that she loves him. In the anime, Hyoga, Seiya, Saori, Tatsumi, and the Steel Saints (anime-only characters) also saw her face when Shun carried her to safety while she was unconscious.

*As with some Cloths, the Chameleon Cloth represents a constellation that was not used by the 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 ancient Greece.

* Juné is the only known female Bronze Saint.

References

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