Jun Kubota
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| Jun Kubota | |
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| Game series | Variable Geo series |
| First game | Variable Geo |
| Voiced by | Chiharu Tezuka (Games), Ai Orikasa (OVA) |
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| Birthplace | Kanagawa prefecture, Japan |
| Blood type | AB |
| Height | 178 cm (5'7) |
| Weight | 56 kg (123 lbs) |
| Measurements | 85/60/86 (34-24-34) |
| Birthday | December 18 (Sagittarius) |
| Likes | Watching sports, stuffed animals |
| Dislikes | Weak men, cockroaches |
| Restaurant | Sukaraku |
Jun Kubota (久保田潤 Kubota Jun?) is a fictional character from Variable Geo series. She is notable as being the series' most masculine character.
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[edit] Background
A wrestler with vast amounts of strength, Jun once participated in the Olympics while in high school. However, she was ejected from the games due to repeated unsportsmanlike conduct. She later joins the V.G. competitions because she can treat her opponents as roughly as she pleases. Despite this however, Jun operates by her own personal honor code. She fiercely believes that the use of weaponry in a martial arts bout is unacceptable.
[edit] Fictional Character History
[edit] V.G.: Variable Geo / Advanced V.G.
Jun is Yuka Takeuchi's first opponent in the tournament. Despite losing the bout, Jun is impressed by Yuka's honesty and compassion and the two become friends. In the Advanced remake, she also strikes up a rivalry with Erina Goldsmith, largely because the latter is of American heritage and Jun harbors a form of prejudice against foreigners (Although this is somewhat commonplace in Japanese society).
[edit] Advanced V.G. 2
Jun puts aside her feud with Erina upon learning that Yuka has been suffering an emotional breakdown after the previous tournament, and has seemingly lost her spiritual powers as a result. Jun and Erina team up to face Yuka and her student, Tamao Mitsurugi, in a tag team match. However, Yuka is still unable to fight and Tamao becomes so enraged at the fact that Jun would attack her powerless teacher, that she beats both Jun and Erina single handedly.
Jun would later appear alongside Yuka's good friend Satomi Yajima, to aid in putting an end to Miranda Jahana, who had been manipulating the tournament behind the scenes for years. Along with Yuka, Tamao, Satomi, Kaori Yanase, and Miranda's daughter Reimi, Jun focuses her ki energy into a single destructive burst that destroys the jet that Miranda had attempted to flee in after being defeated by Yuka and Tamao.
Later, after working so well with Erina despite their earlier differences, Jun becomes slightly more tolerant of foreigners and becomes friends with Erina, who introduces Jun to her grandmother.
[edit] V.G. Rebirth
[edit] Other Appearances
Jun is also a playable character in V.G. 2: Bout of Cabalistic Goddess, Super V.G., V.G. Custom, and V.G. Max, all of which occur outside of the regular series canon.
[edit] Anime
Jun appears as a secondary character in a three-part OVA series based on Super V.G. She is voiced by Ai Orikasa in this appearance.
Jun is first seen shortly in the first part of the series when she challenges Yuka to a match in the middle of a shopping district. Although at first the two appear to be evenly matched, Jun uses a momentary lapse in Yuka's concentration to her advantage. As Jun gloats and is about to prematurely strip Yuka without having officially won yet, Yuka is rallied by her nearby friend Satomi Yajima, allowing her to stage a dramatic comeback and defeat Jun. Although the victory was declared to be a low-level one, and thus not requiring Jun to remove all of her clothing, she does so of her own accord, stating that such shame is the price that the defeated must pay, and anything less is a sign of weakness.
Jun reappears as Yuka is exiting a hospital where Satomi's younger brother, Daisuke, is being treated for a serious illness. Having taken a shine to Yuka, Jun offers her a ride home on her motorcycle, during which they encounter Reimi Jahana. Following a visit to Satomi's home where Yuka learns that her friend has disappeared, Jun offers Yuka moral support as they visit Daisuke the next day in Satomi's place.
When Yuka receives an annonymous phone call directing her to Osaka. Jun offers to drive Yuka there. After two hours of reckless driving, they arrive, and Yuka is immediately groped by Manami Kusunoki, who offers to take them to Yuka's opponent. They then spend a few hours at a roadside food stand, where Jun procceds to down several glasses of beer. As she is about to order another, the group is accosted by a group of violent women wearing bunny outfits led by Erina, who orders them to assault Yuka's group in order to test their abilities. Although Jun is initially eager to fight, she becomes shocked and enraged when one of the bunnies uses a chain to smash her favorite helmet. Jun complains that they aren't fighting fair, to which the bunnies reply that there's no such thing as a fair fight. The bunnies are repelled by Manami, who uses a large cat paw mitten to attack them. Both surprised and amused by this, Jun sarcastically repeats the Bunnies' remark.
After Yuka fights and defeats Erina, and Manami is revealed to be the one who had called Yuka for that exact purpose, as she had been Erina's actual opponent and was afraid that Erina would easily defeat her, Jun, Yuka, and Erina return to Tokyo, being stopped along the way by a police officer because Jun was not wearing a helmet.
Stopping at the Karate dojo where Yuka trains, Jun and Manami are attacked and knocked unconscious by an unknown assailant, who is repelled by a mysterious old man.
The next day, Jun and Manami report to Yuka that Daisuke has made a full recovery from his illness. After Yuka expresses worry that Satomi may truly be in danger due to a psychic premonition she had, Jun and Manami agree to search the city with Yuka. Arriving at the final battleground of the V.G. tournament, the group is attacked by a brainwashed Chiho Masuda. Jun tells Yuka to hurry ahead and save Satomi.
After Manami seemingly sacrifices herself to shield Jun from a dagger thrown at them by Chiho (Manami had actually slipped out of her uniform seconds before the attack hit and then proceeded to distract Chiho), Jun renders the ninja unconscious by using her Kubota Shuttle lariat technique. When Manami attempts to show Jun her supposed figure while wearing nothing but a childish undershirt and panties, Jun is apparently unimpressed and tells Manami that she has "Bad taste", before hurrying on into the colisseum.
At the series' end, Jun, along with Manami, Chiho, Kaori Yanase, and Reimi Jahana, watch on as Yuka and Satomi prepare to fight the final match of the tournament amidst the now exploding colisseum.
[edit] Trivia
- Jun is one of the few female wrestlers in video games, and along with Angela Belti is one of the first. The games in which each character debuted were both released in 1993.
- Jun is extremely masculine, to the point of using a rough form of Japanese, complete with the use of the rough masculine pronoun "Ore" to refer to herself.
- Despite her outward tomboyishness, Jun has a secret love for cute things and keeps a collection of stuffed toys in her home. She frequents carnivals and amusement parks in the hopes of obtaining more.
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