veemonjosh
Stone free, do what I please
Opening theme: “Great Days” by Karen Aoki and Daisuke Hasegawa
Ending theme: “I Want You” by Savage Garden
Characters
Josuke Higashikata
Voiced by: Billy Kametz
Stand: Shining Diamond (JP: Crazy Diamond)
Ability: Strength, Speed, Precision, and Restoration
Stats: Destructive Power - A / Speed - A / Range - D / Durability - B / Precision - B / Developmental Potential - C
Namesake: “Shine on You Crazy Diamond” (Pink Floyd song)
Josuke is a high school student in the small Japanese town of Morioh, a kind teenager towards those he cares about and a badass toward those who get him angry (especially when insulting his hair). The son of Joseph Joestar from an affair, Josuke was tracked down by Jotaro to inform him of being included in Joseph’s will, but is now caught up in the family business of dealing with bizarre threats. More recently, he is now on the hunt for a serial killer lurking in Morioh who murdered his friend Shigechi. Josuke’s Stand, Crazy Diamond, fits his personality to a T, being a destructive force similar to Star Platinum, but also capable of compassion by healing as well. However, it cannot heal Josuke, cannot revive the dead or heal illness. Also, if Josuke tries to “fix” something while upset, it may come out looking a bit weird.
Koichi Hirose
Voiced by: Zach Aguilar
Stand: Reverb (JP: Echoes)
Ability: Sound Generation, Sound Effect, and 3 Freeze
Stats: Destructive Power - E (ACT 1) C (ACT 2) B (ACT 3)/ Speed - E (ACT 1) D (ACT 2) B (ACT 3)/ Range - B (ACTs 1 & 2) C (ACT 3)/ Durability - B / Precision - C / Developmental Potential - A
Namesake: The Hirose River (a river in Sendai, Hirohiko Araki’s hometown and the real life basis for Morioh) / “Echoes” (song by Pink Floyd)
A classmate of Josuke, Koichi is friendly and courageous, polite towards others, and possesses a gentle heart. This allows him to see the good side of people, even his girlfriend Yukako, who thought kidnapping and holding him hostage was a romantic gesture. Unique among Stands, his Stand, Reverb, can alternate between three different “Acts”, each progressively more powerful than the last. ACT 1 can generate physical words that can be used to create sounds (examples include creating a simulated dial sound to use a payphone or influencing someone to believe Koichi). ACT 2 takes this one step further by creating physical sound effects that create an effect similar to the sound produced when touched (such as the word “hot” creating a hot surface). The strongest, ACT 3, his the ability “3 Freeze”, which greatly increases the weight of whatever it punches.
Okuyasu Nijimura
Voiced by: Jalen K. Cassell
Stand: The Hand
Ability: Elimination
Stats: Destructive Power - B / Speed - B / Range - D / Durability - C / Precision - C / Developmental Potential - C
Namesake: The Band (band)
Okuyasu Nijimura met Josuke under rocky circumstances involving his brother Keicho, but they’ve become fast friends. He’s not too smart, but has a strong heart. His Stand, The Hand, is an extremely dangerous one capable of erasing space with its hand and closing the gap between, with its user having no knowledge where the erased material goes. While this Stand seems overpowered, it’s balanced out by the fact that Okuyasu is an idiot.
Rohan Kishibe
Voiced by: Vic Mignogna
Stand: Heaven’s Door
Abilities: Book Transmutation, Memory Removal, Written-In Commands
Stats: Destructive Power - D / Speed - B / Range - B / Durability - B / Precision - C / Developmental Potential - A
Namesakes: “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door” (Bob Dylan song)
Rohan Kishibe is a manga artist, passionate and dedicated to his craft, with his wish being to have as many people as possible experience his work. As a teenager, he became the author of the popular Shonen Jump series, “Pink Dark Boy”, which Koichi is a fan of. For those who do manage to meet the man himself, they’ll find he is generally unpleasant to be around, being rather arrogant and impolite towards others. He actively seeks new experiences and information, in an effort to gain inspiration for his manga. His Stand, “Heaven’s Door”, helps him do this by turning a person into a living book of sorts, with their skin peeling away like pages to reveal written information detailing their life, including their darkest secrets. Rohan can also write information on the inside to make someone do what he wants, or to erase their memory of an event.
Jotaro Kujo
Voiced by: Matthew Mercer
Stand: Star Platinum The World
Abilities: Strength, Speed, Precision, and Time Stop
Stats: Destructive Power - A / Speed - A / Range - C / Durability - A / Precision - A / Developmental Potential - A
Namesakes: The Star and The World (tarot cards)
The previous JoJo, Jotaro Kujo was a high school student when his grandfather Joseph took him on a global trek from Japan to Egypt in order to take down the vampire DIO, who had been a plague on his family’s bloodline for over a century. On the journey, he came to learn and master his Stand, Star Platinum, eventually gaining the same time-stopping abilities as DIO’s own Stand, The World, which he used to put an end to the demon once and for all. Now, a decade later, Jotaro is a marine biologist, and was helping his grandfather put together his will, when the discovery of his illegitimate son Josuke brought Jotaro to the small town of Morioh. Currently, he is helping to deal with an elusive killer with an extremely dangerous Stand. Jotaro’s Stand, Star Platinum, has amazing strength, speed, and precision, which on its own makes it one of the most powerful Stands around. On top of this, with its added ability The World, which Jotaro learned during his fight with DIO, he can stop time for a second.
Hayato Kawajiri
Voiced by: Laura Stahl
The son of Kosaku Kawajiri, the man who Kira killed and stole the identity of. He’s a quiet boy who has a strained relationship with his parents. Upon discovering the Stray Cat plant and overhearing Kira muttering to himself, Hayato has realized the man now living with his father’s face isn’t really his father, and is setting out to prove it.
Mikitaka Hazekura
Voiced by: Mark Whitten
Stand(?): Earth Wind and Fire
Ability: Shapeshifting
Stats: Destructive Power - C / Speed - C / Range - N/A / Durability - A / Precision - C / Developmental Potential - C
Namesake: Earth, Wind & Fire (American R&B band)
Eccentric high schooler or extraterrestrial? Stand user or shapeshifting alien? Mikitaka is one of the oddest of Morioh’s residents, claiming to be a 216 year old alien who’s come to Earth to observe humans, breaking out into horrible rashes when he hears sirens and being fond of eating tissues. He seemingly can’t see Stands and the Stand Arrow bounced right off his neck when it was fired at him, leaving him with only a scratch. Despite this, he has the ability to transform on a cellular level into any inanimate object he chooses as well as any size he chooses, though whether this is a Stand ability or some sort of natural alien ability is up for debate.
Toyohiro Kanedaichi
Voiced by: Sean Chiplock
Stand: Super Fly
Ability: Occupant Restraint and Damage Reflection
Stats: Destructive Power - E / Speed - E / Range - N/A / Durability - A / Precision - E / Developmental Potential - E
Namesake: Superfly (Curtis Mayfield song and album)
Three years ago, Toyohiro, who desired the lifestyle of a hermit, bought a decommissioned transmission tower for 100,000 yen, and converted it into a self-sufficient home. However, at some point he developed a Stand named Super Fly which bonded to the tower; The positive to this is that Toyohiro has absolute control over the tower, such as being able to fire the bolts within it in any direction. The massive downside, however, is that one person must always be within the tower, trapping that person inside until another person enters. If they try to leave, their body will turn to metal and become part of the tower. The tower also reflects any damage sent at it back towards the attacker, meaning it cannot be destroyed, and even if Toyohiro were to die, his Stand would continue to exist forever. Toyohiro was trapped inside the tower until he met Yoshihiro, who alerted him to the existence of Morioh’s other Stand users. This led him to hatch a plan to trap one of them inside the tower and finally leave.
Yoshikage Kira
Voiced by: D.C. Douglas
Stand: Deadly Queen (JP: Killer Queen)
Ability: Bomb Transmutation
Stats: Destructive Power - A / Speed - B / Range - D / Durability - B / Precision - B / Developmental Potential - A
Namesakes: “Killer Queen” (song by Queen) / “Sheer Heart Attack” (song/album by Queen)
Yoshikage Kira was an office worker who lead the most ordinary life possible, something he intentionally strived for in order to maintain a quiet peaceful lifestyle. This facade he had created masked his true nature, a serial killer with a sexual fixation on women’s hands, and he will go to any lengths to hide it and eliminate those who discover it. He maintained this cover for decades, until a run-in with (and subsequent murdering of) Shigechi brought him to the attention of Morioh’s Stand community. After they uncovered his name, he managed to change his appearance and successfully took on the identity of another man, Kosaku Kawajiri, as well as his family. His Stand, Deadly Queen, has the power to turn any surface into a bomb which detonates when someone touches it, vaporizing the victim to the atomic level with an explosion completely silent to those around them.
Yoshihiro Kira
Voiced by: Steve Kramer
Stand: Heart Father (JP: Atom Heart Father)
Ability: Supernatural Photography
Stats: Destructive Power - E / Speed - E / Range - Null / Durability - A / Precision - E / Developmental Potential - E
Namesake: “Atom Heart Mother” (song/album by Pink Floyd)
Yoshihiro is the father of Yoshikage, an elderly man who passed away several years ago. However, his spirit never departed, with his love for his son and concern that Yoshikage’s murderous tendencies would eventually catching up to him keeping him bound to the land of the living. To this end, he possesses one of the Stand-granting Arrows, which gave both him and his son abilities. Yoshihiro’s Stand, Heart Father, takes the form of a polaroid camera; Yoshihiro exists in whatever the latest image taken by the photo is, sealing off the area within the photo and allowing him to manipulate objects shown in the photo. If anyone attempts to destroy one of these images, it will kill anyone shown within the photo. However, Jotaro managed to trap Yoshihiro within a photo of himself, essentially negating his Stand. But Yoshihiro still managed to escape with the Arrow, determined to make a slew of new Stand users to distract Josuke and his friends from tracking down Yoshikage.
Tama
Stand: Stray Cat
Abilities: Reincarnation, Plant/Cat Constitution, Aerokinesis
Stats: Destructive Power - B / Speed - E / Range - Null (within line of sight) / Durability - A / Precision - E / Developmental Potential - C
Namesake: Stray Cats (rockabilly band)
Tama was originally a blue British Shorthair cat who lived his life as a stray. One day, he was stabbed in the neck by the Arrow, and shortly after found his way to the basement of the Kawajiri residence. However, after a run-in with Shinobu, he was accidentally killed and buried in the backyard. The next day, strangely, a flower sprouted on his grave, which turned out to be Tama reincarnated as a Stand, Stray Cat. Now being a Stand (though visible to non-Stand users), his ability is the power to create pressurized air bubbles that are fast and deadly, but completely invisible. He initially reacted with murderous intent towards Shinobu, recognizing her as the person who killed him, and attacked Kira when he attempted to protect her. But he eventually took a liking to Kira, who put him in the attic and brings him cat food.
Episode 32 (106)
“July 15th (Thurs), Part 2”
Chapters adapted: 401-406, 412-413
Previously on JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure:
Yoshihiro flew through Morioh, searching for his son Kira. After some deliberation, and realizing that Kira most likely disguised himself to avoid detection, Yoshihiro found his son walking to work as Kosaku Kawajiri. However, Yoshihiro's happiness quickly turned to anger when he saw Hayato filming Kira. Knowing that Hayato sought to expose his son, Yoshihiro flew off to create more Stand users.
The date was July 15, 1999, and many events were about to transpire. Such as a strange dark-skinned, white-haired man who was stalking Koichi and Tomoko, a weird-looking man in a trench coat hovering by Rohan's house, and Hayato who sought to expose his "father" for the faker he is after the Stray Cat incident. There was also Josuke and Okuyasu, who ran into Mikitaka, still attesting that he's an extraterrestrial. Mikitata pointed Josuke and Okuyasu in the direction of a defunct electrical pylon and revealed to them that there was a strange man living on it. The man took notice of them, having expected their arrival.
The man, Toyohiro Kanedaichi, greeted Josuke and Okuyasu but warned them not to come too close to the pylon. Toyohiro explained that he bought the pylon from the electrical company and had turned it into his own self-sufficient home where he doesn't need to leave. However, a polaroid photo full of holes fell out of his pocket, and after examining it with Mikitaka (who had turned into a pair of binoculars via Earth Wind and Fire), Josuke saw that it was actually Heart Father with Yoshihiro Kira inside. Realizing that Toyohiro was in league with Yoshihiro, Josuke ran up to the pylon, but found himself unable to leave, lest he became a metal sculpture of himself. Toyohiro explained that the pylon is actually his Stand, Super Fly, an independent being that traps whoever steps inside it until another person enters. Having spent three years trapped inside Super Fly, Toyohiro gleefully made his way along the inactive power lines to freedom. Josuke and Okuyasu used their Stands to try to pummel the tower until it broke, only to find out too late that Super Fly absorbs and subsequently reflects any attack used on it. While Josuke wasn't seriously harmed by the resulting flurry of his own punches, Okuyasu failed to avoid his own attacks in time and sustained a large gash in his side.
Suddenly, Mikitaka appeared, having turned into one of the power lines, and directed Toyohiro back into Super Fly, which allowed Josuke to escape. However, Toyohiro incapacitated Mikitaka, taking advantage of Super Fly's defense mechanism by cutting a power line so that the backlash was directed at the "alien". Toyohiro then nailed Mikitaka to Super Fly with a set of bolts, aiming to trap him in the Stand and escape. Back in Morioh, Koichi and Tomoko had mysteriously vanished, the strange man by Rohan's house arrived at his door, and at school, Hayato expressed his desire to expose the man impersonating his father no matter what.
The date was July 15, 1999, and many events were about to transpire. Such as a strange dark-skinned, white-haired man who was stalking Koichi and Tomoko, a weird-looking man in a trench coat hovering by Rohan's house, and Hayato who sought to expose his "father" for the faker he is after the Stray Cat incident. There was also Josuke and Okuyasu, who ran into Mikitaka, still attesting that he's an extraterrestrial. Mikitata pointed Josuke and Okuyasu in the direction of a defunct electrical pylon and revealed to them that there was a strange man living on it. The man took notice of them, having expected their arrival.
The man, Toyohiro Kanedaichi, greeted Josuke and Okuyasu but warned them not to come too close to the pylon. Toyohiro explained that he bought the pylon from the electrical company and had turned it into his own self-sufficient home where he doesn't need to leave. However, a polaroid photo full of holes fell out of his pocket, and after examining it with Mikitaka (who had turned into a pair of binoculars via Earth Wind and Fire), Josuke saw that it was actually Heart Father with Yoshihiro Kira inside. Realizing that Toyohiro was in league with Yoshihiro, Josuke ran up to the pylon, but found himself unable to leave, lest he became a metal sculpture of himself. Toyohiro explained that the pylon is actually his Stand, Super Fly, an independent being that traps whoever steps inside it until another person enters. Having spent three years trapped inside Super Fly, Toyohiro gleefully made his way along the inactive power lines to freedom. Josuke and Okuyasu used their Stands to try to pummel the tower until it broke, only to find out too late that Super Fly absorbs and subsequently reflects any attack used on it. While Josuke wasn't seriously harmed by the resulting flurry of his own punches, Okuyasu failed to avoid his own attacks in time and sustained a large gash in his side.
Suddenly, Mikitaka appeared, having turned into one of the power lines, and directed Toyohiro back into Super Fly, which allowed Josuke to escape. However, Toyohiro incapacitated Mikitaka, taking advantage of Super Fly's defense mechanism by cutting a power line so that the backlash was directed at the "alien". Toyohiro then nailed Mikitaka to Super Fly with a set of bolts, aiming to trap him in the Stand and escape. Back in Morioh, Koichi and Tomoko had mysteriously vanished, the strange man by Rohan's house arrived at his door, and at school, Hayato expressed his desire to expose the man impersonating his father no matter what.
Now:
The stuggle against Toyohiro and Super Fly concludes, but when Josuke finds out Koichi has been defeated by another Stand user, he teams up with an unlikely ally to find a man who’s now targeting his mom.
JOJO'S JUKEBOX
This week’s Jukebox song is “Superfly” by Curtis Mayfield.
Notes:
- The chapters which this episode covers can be found in volumes 43 and 44 of the Japanese manga release.
- Parts 1-3 are all now available on Bluray and DVD from Viz Media.
- Please, no spoilers about upcoming events and future arcs. If you’d like to discuss Part 5, Golden Wind, there’s a discussion thread on the Anime board.
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