Jun Yamato
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Jun Yamato (大和 ジュン Yamato Jun) is the precocious young sister of series protagonist Takeshi Yamato, and is a major character in the 1982-1983 animated series Warrior of Love Rainbowman. She and her best friend Shosuke Yamada often try to help other people, which ends up getting them kidnapped by the Die-Die Gang, and needing to be rescued by Rainbowman. Jun is adapted from the character Miyuki Yamato from the original 1972 series, but is depicted considerably younger than her counterpart, and lacks Miyuki's damaged leg, but retains her twin pigtails.
History
- Warrior of Love Rainbowman (TV 1982)
Showa era
Warrior of Love Rainbowman
"Go! Warrior of Love"
One night, Jun got out of bed to ask her mother about Takeshi. She was reminded that Takeshi was abroad, so she shouts a greeting so he can hear her before going back to bed. While Takeshi trained in India, he thought back to a time he carried Jun on his shoulders to give him the resolve to face a gauntlet of fire.
"Fight! Rainbow Seven"
Jun accompanied Gota and Shosuke Yamada to the airport, where they met with her brother Takeshi, who was returning from a long time abroad in India. Jun cried on seeing her brother, and called him an idiot for leaving for so long. Takeshi apologized, and the four of them went back to Jun and Takeshi's mother's cafe. Later on, Jun was playing baseball with Shosuke and their friend Hiroshi Toyama, when Hiroshi's mother arrived, and angrily took him away.
"Secret of the Underground Cavern"
When Gota Yamada caught a young boy named Goro stealing fruit, Takeshi invited him in for a free meal and Jun and Shosuke listened to him explain himself. When his father went missing, Goro walked to Tokyo to search for him with only water to drink, and was starving by the time he arrived. Jun admired his courage, and he did regret being forced to turn to theft, so they banded together to search the city with pictures of the man to gather leads. While they were out, Shosuke spotted Goro's father, but he seemed not to recognize his son. This led to them being kidnapped by the Die-Die Gang, and tossed in the back of one of their work trucks. They were brought to a Die-Die Gang base in the countryside, where they were kept tied up. When Rainbowman began to menace the base, they were brought out as an ultimatum: Rainbowman would either stop his attack, or the children would be shot. Goro's father, who had been freed of his mind control, used construction equipment to scare the gang off, and Rainbowman set the kids free. When Rainbowman had defeated the gang, Jun and the others said goodbye to Goro and his father at the train station.
"The End of Dongolos"
On Jun's birthday, Rainbowman finally defeated the Die-Die Gang. While waiting for her brother to arrive at her birthday party, Jun was shocked and delighted when he came home with their long-missing and thought dead father, Ichiro Yamato, as a birthday present. The two of them then embraced for the first time in a very long time.
Gallery
Production
Character size model sheet
Jun's animation model sheet and coloring guide
Screenshots
Jun hugging her father
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