veemonjosh
Stone free, do what I please
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.
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.
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.
Shinobu Kawajiri
Voiced by: Jennifer Losi
The wife of Kosaku Kawajiri. She met her husband in junior high and dated him because her friends thought he was cool, and they got married when she became pregnant with Hayato. However, they only stuck together because of their son, and the marriage had become completely void of passion for years. That all changed recently, as her husband’s personality seemed to suddenly change into someone she found attractive, not suspecting that her husband is quite literally a different man now.
Episode 26 (100)
“Rosham Boy is Here!”
Chapters adapted: 371-376
Previously on JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure:
In an average house in Morioh lives the apathetic Shinobu Kawajiri and her equally apathetic son Hayato. Shinobu's husband, Kosaku, has always been a very dull man, living life by a very basic routine. One day, however, when Kosaku returned home, he started cooking dinner for the first time in their marriage.
Meanwhile, Jotaro, Josuke, Koichi, and Okuyasu were at Yoshikage Kira's old home looking for any noteworthy traits that they could use to track him down. However, they only saw that Kira made sure not to stand out in his life, and used the lengths of his nails to divine his good luck when he wanted to kill someone. A polaroid camera suddenly snapped a picture of Jotaro and Josuke, strangely containing the image of Kira's late father Yoshihiro sitting behind them. It was the ghost of Yoshihiro who had trapped Jotaro and Josuke with his Stand Heart Father inside the photographed space, and Yoshihiro, able to influence anything from inside the photo, prepared to behead Josuke and Jotaro. However, Jotaro took a photograph of Yoshihiro alone, which forced the ghost out of the original picture and trapped him in the second one, before folding this new photo in two, taping it shut, and tacking it onto the wall.
The gang continued their search, but Yoshihiro managed to bluff Okuyasu into releasing him. Yoshihiro escaped, stealing the second Arrow from Josuke and fleeing successfully. Jotaro determined that this must have been a different set and deduced that DIO and his assistant Enya must have used multiple arrows to efficiently create a team of powerful henchmen during his reappearance a decade ago. While leaving, Yoshihiro contemplated how even though his son is a killer, he is willing to protect him as long as it makes him happy.
Back at the Kawajiris' place, Shinobu continued to notice her husband changing his lifestyle in many small ways. This soon came to a head when their landlord showed up, demanding money that Kosaku had been failing to pay for several months. As Shinobu's insisted on taking some cash from their safe, Kosaku approached the landlord and summoned Deadly Queen, destroyed the lock on the landlord's bag, stole his money, then pretended to pay the man upfront with enough money to cover the Kawajiris' debt both now and in the months ahead. Thus Kosaku Kawajiri was revealed to be Yoshikage Kira in disguise, and Kosaku was indirectly revealed to be the man he killed to acquire his look. As the landlord left, Shinobu accused her "husband" of having secretly stolen the money from him. However, despite this complaint, she finds his new behavior romantic.
Meanwhile, Jotaro, Josuke, Koichi, and Okuyasu were at Yoshikage Kira's old home looking for any noteworthy traits that they could use to track him down. However, they only saw that Kira made sure not to stand out in his life, and used the lengths of his nails to divine his good luck when he wanted to kill someone. A polaroid camera suddenly snapped a picture of Jotaro and Josuke, strangely containing the image of Kira's late father Yoshihiro sitting behind them. It was the ghost of Yoshihiro who had trapped Jotaro and Josuke with his Stand Heart Father inside the photographed space, and Yoshihiro, able to influence anything from inside the photo, prepared to behead Josuke and Jotaro. However, Jotaro took a photograph of Yoshihiro alone, which forced the ghost out of the original picture and trapped him in the second one, before folding this new photo in two, taping it shut, and tacking it onto the wall.
The gang continued their search, but Yoshihiro managed to bluff Okuyasu into releasing him. Yoshihiro escaped, stealing the second Arrow from Josuke and fleeing successfully. Jotaro determined that this must have been a different set and deduced that DIO and his assistant Enya must have used multiple arrows to efficiently create a team of powerful henchmen during his reappearance a decade ago. While leaving, Yoshihiro contemplated how even though his son is a killer, he is willing to protect him as long as it makes him happy.
Back at the Kawajiris' place, Shinobu continued to notice her husband changing his lifestyle in many small ways. This soon came to a head when their landlord showed up, demanding money that Kosaku had been failing to pay for several months. As Shinobu's insisted on taking some cash from their safe, Kosaku approached the landlord and summoned Deadly Queen, destroyed the lock on the landlord's bag, stole his money, then pretended to pay the man upfront with enough money to cover the Kawajiris' debt both now and in the months ahead. Thus Kosaku Kawajiri was revealed to be Yoshikage Kira in disguise, and Kosaku was indirectly revealed to be the man he killed to acquire his look. As the landlord left, Shinobu accused her "husband" of having secretly stolen the money from him. However, despite this complaint, she finds his new behavior romantic.
Now:
Yoshihiro begins his task of creating new Stand users, starting with a young boy obsessed with rock-paper-scissors. This boy then goes after Rohan, determined to challenge him to a game.
JOJO'S JUKEBOX
This week’s Jukebox song is “End of the Road” by Boyz II Men.
Notes:
- JoJo has reached its 100th episode!
- The chapters which this episode covers can be found in volume 40 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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I'd posted this back in 2016, over ten years ago!
