Name: Jun the Swan
In the beginning, Ken, Jun and Jinpei were to be the featured characters in Gatchaman. Jun would be ranked G-2, and her relationship with Ken would be focused on. However, that and many other ideas on the Tatsunoko planning sheets were phased out. Joe took the position of G-2, then ran off with the lion's share of popularity. Jun was left to act as cheerleader for the guys. There were exceptions: the Jigokiller two parter (where woman-eating flowers threatened to overrun the world), the Gezora two-parter (where Jun and Jinpei become Gallactor prisoners), and "Bitter Bird Missile," a Gatchaman and G-Force episode where Jun had to deal with an ex-boyfriend who had become the leader of a Gallactor Blackbird squadron. But mostly, Jun played dumb and stayed in the background.Jun has two different sides, depending on who wrote the screenplay. She can be strong-willed, smart and self-sufficient. She runs a bar by herself, can more than hold her own in battle against groups of big goons, specializes in computer work and detonations, and has a powerful way with words when she wants to make a point. On the other hand, she often acts as female stereotype or damsel in distress, blathering about how pretty everything is, going "Eek!" at the sight of bugs or monsters, or gasping out the over-used, "Oh, Ken! What do we do now?" Gatchaman II and Fighter weren't much better, with Jun hanging all over either Joe (G-II) or Ken (G-Fighter). When she was given the spotlight in G-II, she only acted to avenge some female acquaintances who had died at Gallactor's hands. You could blame this on the older Japanese view toward women. The modern OAV version of Jun isn't much better: she became little more than a big-chested Barbie doll in battle gear.
One advantage the American dubs have over the original Japanese stories was that Jun became a much stronger character when she left Japan. You wouldn't tell Princess, Aggie or Kelly Jenar (especially Kelly) that a woman should be seen and not heard--not unless you were in the mood for a cracked skull.