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ジョジョの奇妙な冒険
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Jojo no kimyou na bouken
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Hideki Futamura<br/>Hiroyuki Kitakubo<br/>Kazufumi Nomura<br/>Noboru Furuse
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19 November 1993
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'' (ジョジョの奇妙な冒険 ''Jojo no kimyōna bōken'', alternately translated as '''''JoJo's Venture''''') is a
Japan ese
Manga written and illustrated by
Hirohiko Araki . It is famous for its original art style (complete with over-the-top violence), intricate plot, and numerous Western rock music references. Every main character's name in each series can be read as ''JoJo''. The manga, published by
Shueisha in their magazine
Weekly Shonen Jump , started in 1987 and went on to 2004. The latest part was initially published in Weekly Shonen Jump, but changed to
Ultra Jump in 2005.
The manga is published in
English by
VIZ Media , although Parts 1 and 2 have been skipped for the time being, arguably to capitalize on the popularity of part three.
It should be noted that the artwork of the series as well as the over the top violence is reminescent of another popular manga and anime series ''
Hokuto No Ken '' (Known to western audiences as ''Fist Of The Northstar'') which has led to the popular belief that Araki worked on the project in some way.
Part 1:
The story begins in
Victorian England with young nathan estar living at his father's wealthy estate. Another young man, Dio Brando, is adopted by them having recently lost his father, Dario Brando, who once saved Lord Joestar from an accident. (Actually Dario Brando did not attempt to save him at all, he just happened to be in the place where the nearly-mortal accident took place, and he was also trying to take advantage from the situation by stealing his belongings)
Jonathan tries to befriend him but Dio's plan is to achieve wealth and power by any means necessary. Hoping to drive Jonathan mad, Dio acts like a perfect gentlemen around his adoptive father Lord Joestar but is physically and psychologically abusive to Jonathan whenever possible.
Seven years later Jonathan's father falls ill. Dio is very attentive and brings him his medicine every day. Jonathan is suspcious as he is certain Dio is up to no good. Jonathan discovers an old letter written by Dario Brando on his deathbed requesting Lord Joestar care for Dio. In his letter, Dario describes his symptoms, which are identical to Lord Joestar's mystery aliment. Jonathan believes that Dio must have poisoned his own father and is now trying to do the same thing to Lord Joestar. Dio discovers Jonathan with the letter and Jonathan accuses Dio of poisoning Lord Joestar. Dio decides that he must kill Jonathan before he is exposed.
In order for Dio to kill Jonathan, he puts on a cursed mask that transforms its user into a vampire permanently. Fighting ensues and Jonathan is able to burn down their house with Dio inside. However, Dio survives, and takes off to plot his revenge. At this time, Jonathan meets a man called William Zeppeli with a strange power called the (波紋 ''hamon'') which is most effective against vampires. It is basically a martial arts technique that allows the user to focus bodily energy into other kinds of energy via proper breathing (obviously they focus it into the energy of sunlight, which is effective against vampires). After teaching Jonathan how to use the ripple they set out, along with Jonathan's fanboy
Robert E. O. Speedwagon , to seek out and defeat Dio.
Their chase takes them to a village in Europe where most of the villagers have been turned into vampires by Dio. They fight their way to Dio; William Zeppeli loses his life in battle on the way. Zeppeli's master in hamon,
Tom Petty , and his two disciples
Dire And Straits then show up to help Jonathan and Speedwagon go on. Eventually, a fight between Dio's eye beams and Jonathan's ripple ends with a loss for Dio.
Somehow Dio's head is still intact, and when Jonathan is on a cruise ship for his honeymoon, he is ambushed by Dio. Dio manages to sink the ship and take Jonathan's body with him to the bottom. Jonathan's young wife (who is pregnant) manages to escape, along with a baby she saved from the ship.
Part 2: (''sentō tyōryū'')
The second JJBA series takes place in the
1930s , and follows the misadventures of seph estar, the grandson of Jonathan Joestar, as he fights
Vampire s and ancient super beings with some help from a
Cybernetically-enhanced Nazi and an
Italian man he has a lot in common with.
Joseph lives in New York with his grandmother Erina and seems to have inherited the power of hamon (the ripple), as he has a natural ability to use it. When old family friend Speedwagon is reported dead (or missing) in Mexico, Joseph takes it on himself to go check it out. His curiosity is piqued when he is attacked in New York City by an old friend turned vampire. When he goes to Mexico he discovers a secret underground Nazi facility where the Nazis are trying to revive a man who seems to have been trapped in a stone pillar for 2,000 years. Here Joseph meets the Nazi Stroheim (whose character design is said by many to have influenced
Capcom when they created
Guile ).
Unfortunately the Nazis are successful in awakening the man, who is christened "
Santana " before he kills most of them. Joseph and Stroheim battle Santana and manage to defeat him, though Stroheim is fatally wounded.
Joseph then heads to Rome, where three more "sleeping pillar men" have been discovered. In Rome, Joseph meets Caesar Zeppeli, a trained hamon user near his age who is supposed to show Joseph the ropes. Before they can do anything besides arguing, they find themselves present when the three sleeping men awaken after their 2,000 year nap. These creatures are something like vampire gods; it turns out that they created the stone mask that turned Dio into a vampire. These three are named
Wham ,
ACDC , and
Cars , and their goal is to find the "Red Stone of Asia," which, used with a stone mask, will allow them to become ultimate life forms.
They are extremely powerful; untrained Joseph doesn't stand a chance. Luckily, he manages to talk them out of killing him. Wham and ACDC both end up giving Joseph "wedding rings" which are internal time bombs set to release poison into his blood if he doesn't defeat them within a month. Joseph realizes that he'll have to train or he's going to die, and Caesar introduces Joseph to his master, the beautiful (and extremely talented)
Lisa Lisa .
However, before the month is up, ACDC finds out that Lisa Lisa has the Red Stone of Asia and comes to take it. Joseph uses his new skills to defeat ACDC, thus earning the wrath of Wham and Cars (who previously thought of him as an amusement rather than a threat). Joseph ends up facing off with Wham in a deadly chariot race and then in a massive showdown with Cars, who has become an ultimate life form.
Parts one and two are heavily influenced by the manga
Fist Of The North Star .
Part 3:
The most popular series of the JoJo compendium is series 3 by far. Series 3 follows taro Ku'''jo''' (空条 承太郎 ''Kū'''jō''' '''Jō'''tarō''), the grandson of Joseph Joestar. Jotaro is a troublesome student given to getting into fights at school and antagonizing his teachers. He is put in prison after beating up three armed men and a trained boxer, but he refuses to leave, claiming he's possessed by an evil spirit. To demonstrate, he takes a gun and shoots himself in the head, but the bullet is stopped by an arm shooting from his hand that only he and his mother Holly can see. Joseph Joestar soon arrives with his friend Mohammed Abdul (Avdol in the American version). A battle ensues between Abdul and Jotaro in which Abdul manifests his own evil spirit, using it to provoke Jotaro out of the cell. Joseph reveals that Jotaro's "evil spirit" is actually a
Stand , a manifestation of psychic power. Jotaro's Stand, named '''Star Platinum''', possesses incredible precision and strength; Abdul's, known as '''Magician's Red''', can control fire; Joseph's Stand, '''Hermit Purple''', manifests as thorny vines that allow him to manipulate cameras and other mediums, capturing images from a great distance.
Joseph reveals that Jotaro's and his own Stand, having both manifested recently, appeared because of the reemergence of Dio Brando. When he sank to the bottom of the sea, Dio attached his severed head to Jonathan Joestar's body, using his new body's energy to remain alive. However, Dio's Joestar blood linked him to the rest of the family, and thus when Dio began to develop a Stand, Joseph and Jotaro did as well. Dio vows to destroy the Joestar family and sends a student, Noriaki Kakyoin, to dispose of Jotaro. Kakyoin's Stand, , possesses a nurse and attacks Jotaro with its Emerald Splash maneuver, but Jotaro defeats him soundly.
It is soon discovered, however, that Holly has developed a Stand. Her Stand appears as ivy growing from her body, but because she lacks the fighting spirit to control it, the strain of its activity begins to slowly kill her. Joseph and Abdul determine that unless they kill Dio within fifty days and thus break his Stand's influence, Holly will die.
Star Platinum's keen eyesight helps the three determine that Dio is somewhere in Egypt. Kakyoin, freed by Jotaro from Dio's mind control, comes along to help the group. On a jetliner the group is ambushed by the insectile stand , forcing Kakyoin to prove his worth. Jean-Pierre
Polnareff , user of the swordsman Stand '''Silver Chariot''', challenges Abdul in Hong Kong but is eventually freed from Dio's control, joining the group to avenge his sister. The heroes take a ship to Singapore but are forced to battle the aquatic Stand '''Dark Blue Moon''', controlled by an assassin who has murdered and impersonated
Captain Tennille , who sinks their ship. Accompanied by a stowaway girl, the group boards an abandoned freighter but discover that the entire ship is a Stand called '''Strength''', controlled by an orangutan.
Devo the Cursed (
Soul Sacrifice in the American version) uses his Stand, '''Ebony Devil''', to accost Polnareff in Singapore, while
Rubber Soul and his '''Yellow Temperance''' impersonate Kakyoin before attempting to consume Jotaro. In Calcutta they encounter the team of
Hol Horse , user of a gun Stand called the '''Emperor''', and
J. Geil , the man with two right hands and the user of the '''Hanged Man''', a Stand of light that attacks from mirrors. Polnareff avenges his sister by slaying her murderer, J. Geil, but Abdul is apparently killed by Hol Horse, who flees the scene.
Joseph is infected with a boil that turns out to be the , a Stand controlled by
Nena , but outsmarts the cancerous foe. En route to Pakistan the party battles '''Wheel of Fortune''', a car Stand controlled by
ZZ .
Enya Geil, mother of J, attempts to use her stand ('''Justice''') to avenge her son, sending an army of animated dead after Polnareff and Jotaro. In Karachi,
Steely Dan uses '''The Lovers''' to hold Joseph hostage, forcing Jotaro into the role of personal manservant. Arabia Fats, user of '''The Sun''', attempts to thwart the group in the Arabian desert but is discovered and easily defeated. The group is soon saddled with the baby
Mannish Boy , who uses his Stand, '''Death 13''', to attack in dreams. Only through Kakyoin's quick thinking does the group survive Death 13's dreamworld. On an island in the Red Sea Polnareff is accosted by the genie Stand '''Judgment''', but Abdul returns and saves the day. Avdol appropriates a submarine, but the vehicle is infiltrated by the '''High Priestess''', a Stand controlled by
Midler that can take the form of anything metallic; however, Star Platinum's power proves a simple but effective counter.
Upon arriving in Abu Simbel the heroes are joined by
Iggy , a
Boston Terrier and the user of , a simple but powerful Stand of sand. They are immediately attacked by the blind Stand user
N'Dour , who attacks with '''Geb''', a Stand of water and the first of the nine Egyptian god Stands; he is able to slash through Kakyoin's eyes before he is defeated by Jotaro and Iggy.
Oingo And Boingo , users of the face-altering stand '''Khnum''' and the future-predicting comic book '''Thoth''' respectively, attempt to defeat the heroes, but Oingo is incapacitated without the heroes even knowing he was there. '''Anubis''', a sword with a Stand, possesses a farmer named
Chaka , a barber named
Khan , and then Polnareff, nearly killing Jotaro.
Mariah , the sultry user of '''Bast''', magnetizes Joseph and Abdul and leads them on a wild goose chase. Polnareff and Silver Chariot are reduced to children by '''Sethan''', the Stand of the child-abuser Alessi. Later, the group encounters Daniel J. D'Arby, who offers information if they gamble with him, but when Polnareff and Joseph lose, D'Arby's stand, '''Osiris''', transforms their souls into poker chips. Only by laying everything on the line can Jotaro hope to defeat the gambler. In Cairo the group meets Hol Horse again, who has partnered himself with Boingo. Later, Iggy battles
Pet Shop , Dio's pet falcon and the user of the ice-slinging stand '''Horus'''. Kakyoin returns soon afterwards, his eyesight mostly recovered.
The doorway to Dio's mansion is guarded by
Terence Trent D'Arby , younger brother of D'Arby the Gambler. His Stand, , steals Kakyoin's soul after a round of video games, but despite D'Arby's mind games Jotaro is able to outwit him. Meanwhile, Polnareff, Iggy, and Abdul dispose of
Kenny G , whose '''Tenor Sax''' Stand creates an illusory maze. Abdul is then killed by an invisible force that is revealed as Dio's henchman,
Vanilla Ice , whose Stand, '''
Cream ''', swallows itself into another dimension and instantly obliterates anything its sphere of destruction touches. Ice, who killed himself for Dio but was revived by Dio's blood, is able to nearly eliminate Polnareff, but a valiant maneuver by Iggy allows Polnareff to ultimately win. Unfortunately, this results in Iggy's death. Meanwhile, Jotaro, Joseph, and Kakyoin encounter Nukesaku, the '''Idiot''', but easily defeat him.
Though wounded and alone, Polnareff confronts Dio but is confounded by the vampire's powers. When the four surviving heroes are reunited they climb to Dio's tower with the Idiot in tow, but when the Idiot opens the casket he inexplicably ends up mutilated inside it. Dio chases Joseph and Kakyoin across Cairo until Kakyoin, at the price of his life, discovers that Dio's Stand, , is able to stop time. With most of his friends dead or injured Jotaro confronts Dio. Though The World has a huge advantage in the ability to stop time, Jotaro nearly defeats Dio, but the vampire restores himself by draining Joseph's blood, becoming even stronger. Finally Dio attempts to finish off Jotaro by crushing him with a steamroller, forcing Jotaro to use Star Platinum in ways he never thought possible.
This arc has been made into a series of OAVs as well as a PSX fighting game from Capcom.
Part 4: (''daiyamondo wa kudakenai'')
This series focuses on Josuke Higashikata (東方仗助 ''Higashikata suke''; 助 ''"suke"'' can also be read ''"'''jo'''"'') (Stand:
Crazy Diamond ), the illegitimate son of Joseph Joestar, with Jotaro Kujo and Joseph Joestar along in a supporting role. Apparently feeling that Stands needed more explanation, Araki retroactively introduces the "Bow and Arrow", an ancient artifact (and yes, it is a bow and arrow) which causes latent Stand ability to develop in people. Apparently Enya used this artifact on Dio, which then caused Stands to develop in the Joestar bloodline as well.
In Morioh town, Josuke is one of the more popular guys in high school, and becomes quick friends with one of his classmates, Koichi Hirose. But when Josuke's "nephew" Jotaro (who happens to be quite a bit older than him) shows up, things get truly crazy. One of Dio's henchmen has brought the Bow and Arrow to Morioh, and someone has been using it on various people in the town--as discovered when one of them, the murderer "Angelo", uses the power of his water-Stand to get revenge on Josuke's grandfather for putting him in prison. When Josuke and Koichi go to investigate Koichi is struck by the arrow, unleashing his stand
Echoes . They discover that the culprits are Okuyasu and Keicho Nijimura, whose father - formerly Dio's lackey, and injected with Dio's cells - has now turned into a monstrous creature with Dio's death. Keicho wants to create Stand users so that someone will be able to kill his monstrous father. Josuke manages to show the brothers that their father is still at least partially human inside, and dissuades them from their activities. However, they are attacked by the Stand
Red Hot Chili Pepper , which kills Keicho and takes the Bow and Arrow. Okuyasu joins with Josuke, Jotaro and Koichi to fight the Stand that killed his brother, and eventually becomes close friends with Josuke as well. Only when Joseph Joestar, the father Josuke never knew, arrives in Morioh are they finally able to defeat Red Hot Chili Pepper. The Bow and Arrow are taken into Speedwagon's custody, and all seems to be over for the moment.
Koichi soon takes center stage when he is kidnapped by his psychotic classmate Yukako Yamagishi (
Love Deluxe ), who is in love with him and is determined that he will love her back. He escapes from her, and in the process his Stand evolves into a stronger form. Yukako is impressed, and decides to pursue Koichi in a more consensual but no less aggressive manner. Later Koichi meets manga author Rohan Kishibe (possibly a self-insert of Hirohiko Araki's), whose
Heaven's Door ability allows him to open up a person's face like a book and both read and write their memories; Rohan finds himself drawn to the plucky Koichi, but does not get along with Josuke. Yukako and Rohan both become part of Josuke's band of Stand users.
Soon they meet a young female ghost named Reimi, who was killed by a serial killer over a decade before. She begs Koichi and Rohan to find her killer, who has stayed in Morioh and is still preying on innocent people. This killer turns out to be Yoshikage Kira, a serial killer who destroys women's bodies using his explosive
Killer Queen Stand and keeping the hands as ghoulish romantic objects. But when Josuke and Okuyasu's new friend Fatty discovers Kira's secret and is killed for it, Kira escapes with a second Stand-creating Bow and Arrow, and the stage is set for a showdown of epic proportions between Kira and Josuke.
This series is most notable for taking place both in Japan and in an imaginary place, without any trips to real locations. (The plot is mystery-oriented, not travel-oriented; the characters try to locate Kira without being killed, but mostly they just wander around and encounter weird people.) Also, it really pumps up the rock references; there's even a villain jamming on a guitar, which might cross the line into total ridiculousness. For its sheer inventiveness, and its artwork, it occupies a high rank among many fans, even though it's probable that "JoJo's Bizarre Adventure" could have ended with Series 3, since killing Dio was the last thread that needed to be tied up from the preceding parts.
Part 5: (''ōgon no kaze'')
Stars rno vanna, the son of Dio Brando (conceived using Jonathan Joestar's body) and a Japanese woman. He uses the stand
Gold Experience , which gives life to anything it touches. When Giorno was a child, his mother married an Italian man; Giorno hence grew up as an Italian. Giorno is determined to rise to the top of organized crime and become a Gang Star in order to help people and make the world a better place, so he joins Passione, an organized crime group that employs many Stand users. He is placed in the group of Bruno Bucciarati (
Sticky Fingers ), who is at first suspicious of Giorno but is eventually won over and decides to work with him to take over the mob from within. Bucciarati is also the superior of fellow Stand users Guido Mista (
Sex Pistols ), Leone Abbacchio (
Moody Blues ), Narancia Ghirga (
Aerosmith ), Fugo Pannacotta (
Purple Haze ). Through various missions, the group - suspicious of Giorno - soon discover his courage and generosity, and slowly warm to him.
After several successful missions, Bucciarati's group is assigned a secret mission by the Boss himself - escort his teenaged daughter, Trish Una, safely to him. With the help of a Stand-using turtle, they fend off various attempts by other Stand-using factions within the mob, and Trish discovers her own Stand ability,
Spice Girl . However, Bucciarati's group soon discovers that they are the only ones who can keep Trish safe from the Stand
King Crimson , and they soon find themselves opposing the entire organization in order to protect her.
This arc has been made into a PlayStation 2 game by Capcom (in Japan only).
Part 6:
The story of Jotaro Kujo's (Part 3) daughter, lyne Ku'''jo'''. She is framed for a murder and ends up in the
Green Dolphin Street Prison. She is given an amulet inherited from her father, which cuts her hand and unlocks her Stand ability,
Stone Free , which allows her to unravel her body into living string. The string can form a humanoid Stand within 2 meters of her body, and can extend further as string. In the prison, she soon becomes uneasy allies with fellow convicts and Stand users
Hermes Costello (
Kiss ) and
Guess (
Goo Goo Dolls ).
Her father Jotaro soon comes to visit her and informs her that a Stand user named
Jongalli A , a disciple of Dio's, framed her so that he could kill her in prison, and urges escape. Jolyne's anger at her father, who has been absent for most of her life, is interrupted by a double attack by Jongalli A's Stand,
Manhattan Transfer , and another mysterious stand named
White Snake . White Snake uses its power to remove Jotaro's super-powerful Stand, Star Platinum. Jotaro sinks into a deathlike state, and Jolyne must somehow find a way to recover Star Platinum from White Snake's user, the mysterious
Pucci . Along the way, she picks up allies such as
F.F. , a Stand of living plankton that took the form of a dead prisoner, and the murderer
Annasui (
Diver Down ), who likes to take things apart and put the pieces side by side (he was imprisoned for doing the same to his wife and her paramour).
Part 7:
Was recently officially declared a part of the JoJo story line.
This series stars Gyro Zeppeli, who uses a set of steel balls that spin incredibly fast, and hnny estar, a former hot-shot rider who was crippled by an ambusher, and lost his fame and fortune. They race, along with others, in a mad-dash across America for 50 million dollars. This series is likely caused by the after effects of the stand "
Stairway To Heaven " (the name was changed to メイド・イン・ヘブン "
Made In Heaven " in the
Tankōbon release, "Stairway to Heaven" was written without any katakana
Furigana ), which was reputed to create a perfect universe for everyone. This explains the inclusion of characters such as a Higashikata - someone of Josuke's lineage - an Avdol lookalike, and Diego "Dio" Brando.
It seems to largely be a retelling of Series 1, but the inclusion of stands and the
Western turn-of-the-century setting add a new element to the old coming-of-age story.
According to Jojo publisher, Steel Ball Run is a parallel world of Jojo. Hence, Steel Ball Run does not have any story-relation to the Jojo's Bizarre Adventure Universe.
''Steel Ball Run'' is being published by
Shueisha in
Ultra Jump . The first 23 chapters (4 volumes) were serialized in
Weekly Shonen Jump .
Two
OVA series have been adapted from Series 3 by A.P.P.P. (Another Push Pin Planning) Company in Japan. The original six-episode series in 1993 began with Joseph, Jōtarō, Polnareff and Kakyōin in the
Egypt ian desert on their quest to find Dio (volume 20 in the manga). The series offered very little exposition, assuming the viewer already knew the backstory. A
Prequel seven-episode series was released in
2001 , offering an explanation for those unfamiliar with the story in the previous series. It started with Joseph coming to Japan to explain Jōtarō's strange behavior (volume 12 in the manga). The entire 6-volume (13-episode) anime series has been released in English in chronological order by
Super Techno Arts . A theatrical film is currently in the planning stages that will cover the events in Series 1.
(The following section is a stub based on the recaps from Super Techno Arts' advertising copy. Used with permission.)
Episodes listed in chronological order as used in the English release:
Jotaro Kujo refuses to leave his jail cell, believing that he is possessed by an evil spirit (later revealed to be a "Stand"). When Jotaro's mother, Holley, his grandfather Joseph and the mysterious Avdol come to try to coax him out, a battle erupts between two Stands—Jotaro's "Star Platinum" and Avdol's "Magician's Red."
Jotaro learns the secret of his Stand power and about his family's enemy, the vampire Dio. Later, Jotaro is attacked by “Hierophant Green,” an enemy Stand controlled by Dio's assassin, Noriaki Kakyoin who is under Dio's control. When Holley falls into a Stand-induced coma, Joseph, Jotaro and the others embark on a dangerous journey to Egypt to save her life and end the 100-year battle between Dio and the Joestar family!
When the private jet carrying Jotaro and his companions to Egypt suddenly bursts into flames, the plane is forced to land in the ocean. As the party drifts in a lifeboat, a large freighter pulls alongside and they climb aboard. To their shock, there is no crew to be found—and the only passengers left aboard are an Orangutan and enemy Stand user Jean-Pierre Polnareff.
At a stopover on the way to Egypt, Polnareff is attacked by "The Hanged Man," an enemy Stand who has two right hands and can only be seen in reflections. Realizing that it must be controlled is the same Stand user that killed his younger sister, Polnareff breaks away from the rest of the group to seek his revenge. Polnareff is lured into a trap set by The Hanged Man and his partner, Hol Horse. When some of the party come to his aid, one is killed by Hol Horse's Stand, "The Emperor."
Kakyoin and Polnareff desperately seek a way to defeat The Hanged Man, who can strike out at them from "the world inside the mirror" while remaining invulnerable to their attacks. How can they hope to defeat an enemy who can move at nearly the speed of light and attack from almost any direction?
A thick fog envelopes the group as they travel towards Egypt, so they seek refuge in a nearby town. There, the companions stumble across a strangely mutilated dead body lying on a street corner. An old woman arrives on the scene with the police, and offers to let them stay at her hotel for the night. In the hotel bar, Polnareff encounters N-Yah, a beautiful and mysterious young woman on a deadly quest of her own.
Polnareff becomes a living puppet under the control of N-Yah and her incredible Mist of Death Stand, "Justice." The group battles its way out of the hotel, only to find themselves surrounded by legions of the dead. All seems lost when Jotaro falls prey to a bizarre sneak attack, leaving him vulnerable to N-Yah's control as well.
Jotaro and his companions finally reach Egypt. There, they are met by a Speedwagon Foundation helicopter that delivers a new addition to their group—the mysterious Iggy "The Fool." When the helicopter crashes just a short time later, the group investigates, only to find themselves pitted against another of Dio's assassins—N'Dul and his deadly Stand, "God Geb." After they finish the battle, Iggy a dog comes out of the helicopter and presents his stand The Fool. Polenerff begins to dislike the dog and Iggy jumps on his face and begins to eat his hair. The helicopter pilot mentions that Iggy likes human hair.
Jotaro and the others find themselves stranded and at the mercy of N'Dool's incredibly strong and mercurial Stand, "God Geb." Faced with almost certain death, Jotaro makes a desperate gambit and forces Iggi to help him strike back at N'Dool, but Iggi has other plans. He betrays Jotaro at a critical moment, offering him to "God Geb" in order to save his own life.
The companions search the huge Egyptian capital of Cairo, showing everyone they meet the photo of a mysterious building where they think Dio resides. In an odd cafe, they encounter a gambler named D'Arby who claims to have the information they need. The catch is, they have to beat him in the ultimate wager—one where their very souls are at stake! Can the Joestar party outwit a master gambler at his own game?
Jotaro and his companions finally arrive at Dio's lair and find their way to the room where his coffin resides. Just as they prepare to strike the fatal blow, Dio's mysterious Stand powers, coupled with that of his finest assassin, Iced, slay one of the party before the group's horrified eyes. But even that doesn't quench Dio's thirst for blood...
Dio pursues Joseph through the streets of Cairo, leaving an incredible swath of death and destruction in his wake. Another of the companions comes to Joseph's aid, only to be crushed by the power of Dio's Stand, "The World." As the shattered hero lies alone and dying, he realizes in the last moments of life the true nature of Dio's Stand...but can he warn the others before it's too late?
The century-old blood feud finally comes to a close in the final battle between Jotaro and Dio. "The World" seems invincible as Jotaro is struck time and again with murderous blows. If Jotaro cannot discover the secret of Dio's Stand and find some way to counter it, the Joestar line will come to an abrupt and bloody end. When he finds the weak spot to Dio's stand The World, he makes his final attack and finshes him. After the battle, Holly recovers from the coma and awaits Jotaro and his friends in Japan.
version (U.S. version), featuring the face of Jotaro Kujo]]
Several in 2002. This game was supposed to be released in
Europe as ''GioGio's Bizarre Adventure''. Characters from ''JoJo's Bizarre Adventure'' were also featured in the
Shonen Jump Crossover game ''
Jump Superstars ''.
A new game, based on part 1, was revealed in the beginning of 2005 for the PlayStation 2; the release of the game will coincide with the release of the new movie and the 25th anniversary of Araki Hirohiko's manga career.
The concept of "stand" (stands for "stand by me") was introduced in part 3 of the manga series. According to Joseph Joestar, it is the manifestation of an individual's innate power over the "ripple" (hamon) and represents, to an extent, the individual's psyche. In fact, Joseph once referred to it in the manga as the "ghost ripple" (quite apt, as most of them take on humanoid forms and hover around the wielders like wraiths). To people without the power of the Stand, who naturally cannot see them, the activities of the Stands are comparable to ghostly and poltergeist activity. This behavior is evidently seen in the JoJo anime, in the episode with Jotaro imprisons himself, where other prisoners and even the guards feared Jotaro.
It is interesting to note that the stands began to take on names of distinguished bands and album titles starting from part 4 of the series. Most of them are progressive rock bands, as Araki himself is a fan of this music genre. In part 3 they are named after tarot cards, and later after Egyptian gods.
(Jotaro Kujo)
One of the strongest stands in the Jojo universe. Star Platinum possesses super human senses, strength, stamina, accuracy and speed. In fact, it is inferred among fans that Star Platinum's incredible speed is basis to its ability to stop time. At his peak, Jotaro can stop time for as long as 10 seconds with his stand. Like other physically powerful stands, Star Platinum suffers from a narrow range of activity. It can only be active within a 2-3 metre radius from Jotaro.
(Mohammed Avdol)
Avdol's stand takes the form of a man with an eagle's head. This fiery stand can be remotely controlled and generates intense flames capable of melting steel within moments. Magician's Red can also produce a "heat radar", a cruciform mass of flame that indicates direction of heat sources.
(Joseph Joestar)
Hermit Purple appears as multiple thorny vines that spawn from Joseph's right hand. Apart from combat purposes, this versatile stand can perform remarkable feats. It can produce psychic photographs and live psychic videos on a television, but at the expense of a camera and television, respectively. It can also conjure real-time maps (capable of tracking moving subjects) and (apparently) read minds. Joseph can also use the vines to swing himself around like
Spider-Man .
(Noriyaki Kakyoin)
This is another remote stand with the ability to alter its form. It can stretch over impressive distances (in his fight with Dio, Kakyoin "webbed" an entire city district with Hierophant Green), and can reduce to microscopic sizes (as in the fight with Lovers). It can also shoot emeralds like bullets, and can possess people, if it uncoils itself inside a person.
(Jean-Pierre Polnareff)
A stand in a shiny suit of armor, wielding a rapier (incidentally, Polnareff is dedicated to the code of chivalry). Silver Chariot is a speedy remote stand that deals lightning-fast strikes with his sword. It's also capable of shedding its armor to increase its speed dramatically.
(Iggy)
The Fool is the most basic Stand, yet it possesses a remarkable amount of power. It can levitate, appear, disappear or animate objects out of sand. It's no wonder Iggy is able to stay untouched in the urban streets of New York...
(Gray Fly)
The weapon of an old thief and murderer who likes to instigate disasters and pillage the dead victims of the same, it looks like a stag beetle with a sharp proboscis. Tower is so fast that even bullets wouldn't be able to touch it at point-blank range (if it were tangible, anyway), and its proboscis can tear through the human spine (Gray Fly likes to harvest the tongues of his victims by having Tower tear through the backs of their necks).
(impersonator of Captain Teneille)
It looks much like the
Creature From The Black Lagoon , but with a four-eyed mask and some metallic plating. Strong enough to tear a shark in half with its claws, it can also create whirlpools, then shed its razor-sharp scales into them. On top of that, its touch can bind psychic barnacles to a victim, draining away his strength as they cover him.
(Forever)
One of the few tangible Stands, it binds itself to a shipwreck and transforms it into a massive freighter called "Big Daddy". Every part of the ship--decks, fire hoses, loading hooks, bulwarks, even shards of glass from the windows--is under Forever's total control. Forever actually uses Strength to cross the oceans.
(Devo or D'Bo)
This Stand is in the form of a horned figure with a face like an oval mask, carrying a knife. Controlled by Devo (called D'Bo outside Japan), he waits for the enemy to attack first. Then, binding Devil to his grotesque, heavily armed doll, he exacts revenge upon the enemy. The damage done by the Stand is proportionate to the amount of hatred and scorn the attacker has inspired in the user. Devo is a hired killer, and supposedly originated from South America.
(Rubber Soul)
Its "form" is actually a vile composite of the flesh it has consumed, transformed into an amorphous yellow goo. The Stand itself is impervious to everything, since Rubber Soul can alter its consistency, shape, and conductivity at will (the same can't be said for Rubber Soul himself, as Jotaro discovers). In addition to attack and defense, Yellow Temperance can be formed into a disguise.
(J. Geil)
The man with two right hands, J. Geil, can use his Stand to appear within any reflective surface, then attack from it with his knives. Over the course of his and Hol Horse's battle with the heroes, Hanged Man strikes while leaping back and forth between mirrors, shards of glass, the reflective chrome of a steering wheel, and even a man's eyes. However, Kakyoin and Polnareff manage to disable the Stand as it leaps from surface to surface, then make short work of J. Geil himself.
(Hol Horse)
As a Stand that is a gun, the ability of Emperor is bullets that change directions long after being launched. It is wielded by Hol Horse, a cowboy that at first, hesitated to work for Dio. This ability needed another Stand to have any kind of effectiveness, and so, Hol Horse got the partnership of J. Geil (to allow for pincer attacks), and then by Boingo (to chart out where Hol should send his bullets). Avdol was felled by Hol Horse and the Stand, Emperor, ableit temporarily. (It was supposed to be permanent, but tremendous fan feedback forced Avdol's return.)
(Nena)
When it begins its attack, Empress appears as a small drop of blood. Once it lands on a victim, it begins to grow, first looking like a vaguely face-like tumor, then, as it absorbs the victim's flesh and bone, becomes more humanoid. Eventually, it will completely devour its host. Apparently, its final form is a duplicate of the victim, since the Indian woman that Jotaro's group thought was Nena was really a cloak of flesh for the real Stand User, a short, fat, white woman. The Indian woman was presumably Nena's most recent victim.
(ZZ)
Like Strength, Wheel of Fortune needs a vehicle (in this case, a car) for a substrate. While it usually resembles an ordinary, albeit very dusty, car, it can do things no other vehicle can (e.g. drive on sheer walls, compact itself through narrow crevices). When pressed, Wheel of Fortune can turn into a spiked, heavily armored juggernaut.
(Enya/N-Yah Geil)
Once Enya's Stand inflicts a single wound upon her adversary, she can summon the "Mist of Death" to thread through the wound and drag the victim around by it, much like a marionette. Eventually, the victim will become a member of her army of zombie minions. This ability is used to great effect as she holds her own against Jotaro and Polnareff. When Enya was defeated by Jotaro, Justice was disabled, and both her army and her city (actually a solid projection of Justice, superimposed upon a graveyard) crumbled into nothingness.
(Steely Dan or S'Terry Dan)
Steely Dan claims that although his Stand is the weakest of all in combat, it can still be one of the most dangerous. The Lovers operates by attaching itself to an individual other than Dan, where it receives all sensations he experiences. These sensations are then multiplied by ten times the intensity that Dan felt them. For example, when Jotaro punched Dan in the face, Joseph Joestar (to whom the Lovers was attached) went flying several meters and was dazed. The only way to prevent its effects is to shrink down the party's other Stands, enter the host, and remove the Lovers.
(Arabia Fats)
A very simple stand, it simply acts (and looks) like the Sun, creating heat...in fact, as much heat as Arabia Fats wants. His tactic is just to increase the area's heat to a degree that his victims die of overheating. In order to keep himself from overheating or being discovered, he tracks his targets in a small jeep equipped with a cooling device and a mirror shield.
(Cameo)
Although it bills itself as a
Jinn , it has a very robot-like appearance. Cameo's tactic is to get his victim to request wishes, then use Judgment's real ability--animation of the earth--to appear to grant those wishes. He then has the seeming fulfilments of those wishes (often to resurrect deceased loved ones) turn on and kill the victim.
(Midler)
Previously, the wielder of High Priestess was unknown. Only in the game made by Capcom was the space filled in, by Midler, a woman resembling a belly dancer (the design of which actually appeared as the garb of the victims Hol Horse found in Dio's mansion). High Priestess uses its own ability to morph into any objects. It initially disguised itself as a mug, which caught Joseph off-guard. It was defeated by Jotaro later on.
(N'Dour)
Although named for an earth deity, Geb's form is actually that of a mass of water that breaks forth, usually in the form of a monstrous claw, whenever it senses sound that N'Dour thinks belongs to one of his targets. The claw is strong enough to cut flesh, and even rip a man's head off and pull it completely into a metal canteen.
(Oingo)
Khnum does not truly have a distinct form--in fact, it's more like an ability. Specifically, it allows Oingo to resculpt his face into any form he chooses. Unfortunately, Oingo doesn't seem to have figured out how best to use it...
(Boingo)
One of the few Stands with a tangible, viewable form, Thoth takes the form of an American comic book (i.e. it reads left-to-right) with decidedly bizarre linework. The book is not complete, though--many of the pages are blank. In fact, the pages fill up with visions of future events. However, it's not always easy to understand what Thoth is really forecasting, as Oingo found out when he tried to kill Jotaro's group.
(Mariah)
It looks just like an electrical socket. Touching it--even the outside, not just the openings--will shock the victim. But that's just the beginning of the attack. The real power of Bast is to imbue the victim with an ever-strengthening magnetism, causing metallic objects of increasing size to propel themselves at him. Mariah herself carries a supply of kitchen knives, wires, nuts, and bolts to make sure there's always something that can be pulled towards her targets.
(Alessi)
This Stand takes form as Alessi's shadow, although when in profile, it has a crest and beak. The ability of this Stand is to turn anyone who touches his shadow into children. The actual amount of age lost depends on how long the victim is in contact with it--enough exposure can even make one regress into a fetus. It can also manifest on its hands a weapon that Alessi himself wields (e.g. an axe), and actually attack with it. Jotaro and Polnareff both fell prey to his Stand, in the series. Its name may be a conflation of
Seth and
Satan .
(Daniel J. D'Arby)
This statue-like Stand has the power to capture the souls of those defeated by D'Arby in gambling (specifically, it takes advantage of the momentary loss of willpower that accompanies the feeling of defeat) and turn them into (tangible) poker chips. It also grants D'Arby a superhuman sense of touch, powerful enough for him to distinguish, without sight, the number of even the thinnest pages of a book.
(Chaka, Khan and Polnareff)
Called the Stand with no wielder, it existed without one because of the sword it was imbued in. When the forgesmith who crafted the sword died, the Stand lived on. Chaka unsheathed the sword accidentally, causing Anubis to take control of Chaka. When Chaka was defeated by Polnareff, he took the sword and entrusted it to a barber, named Khan, who also got possessed by it. Finally, after breaking the sword, Polnareff also got possessed, after holding the sword to sheathe it, but is freed by Jotaro later on. The tip of the sword ended up in a river to rust. The ability of the this Stand is to remember any attack of the enemy it encounters. It will not fall for the same attack twice. It can also phase through objects, and yet still cut other objects it touches at the same time.
(Pet Shop)
This Stand has the form of an ice-encrusted bone centipede with a pterodactyl's head. It can freeze the surrounding area, generate bolts of ice, and even create car-sized blocks of ice, given enough time.
(Terence Trent D'Arby)
It takes the form of a red-and-white robotic figure emblazoned with the letters T and D (i.e. its User's initials). It can steal souls in the same way as Osiris, although these souls are bound into dolls, and are not dormant (they constantly beg for Terence to play with them). Rather than heightening his sense of touch, Atum allows Terence to mentally interrogate an opponent with yes-or-no questions, which will always be answered truthfully.
(Kenny G)
This Stand has the ability to generate illusions. Specifically, it created an illusory room for Terence to challenge Kakyoin and Jotaro in, a labyrinth to confuse Abdul, Polnareff, and Iggy, and generally cast other illusions to mask the true form of the interior of Dio's mansion. However, it could not mask Kenny G's scent, and so Iggy could easily have Fool strike him down and dispel the illusions.
(Vanilla Ice or Iced)
For a Stand with a sweet and delicious pun (Vanilla Ice + Cream = Vanilla Ice Cream), it has a deadly ability to destroy objects using its interdimensional ability, turning itself into a void. He is the one who permanently killed Avdol and Iggy. Vanilla Ice also takes away Polnareff's toes and some of his fingers.
(Dio Brando)
Very similar to Jotaro's Star Platinum, this stand has phenomenal strength, senses and stamina - but faster and more accurate. It can also stop the time (for a longer duration as well). He also has at least a measure of Joseph's psychic abilities (specifically, the ability to create a vision on a photograph). World may originally have been the dormant Stand of Jonathan Joestar, which would explain why it has powers of two of the Stands of Jonathan's descendants.
(Higashikata Josuke)
A melee stand with short range (3m), Crazy Diamond has an ability of "restoration". It can repair damages and heal injuries (apart from Josuke's own injuries)--although it can not resurrect the dead. It can, however, restore an item to its raw materials (eg. a table can be restored to timbers). This ability allows Crazy Diamond to perform a range of interesting feats, including trapping the enemy (by restoring pieces of a broken crate around the target) and tracking (eg. restoring a torn piece of clothing, and it will seek out and reattach to where it came from). Its restoration ability often "malfunctions" when Josuke is angry, causing the object to be improperly put back together. Its physical appearance is similar to that of World.
(Katagiri "Angelo" Anjuuro)
Like Geb, it's a Stand of liquid. It can't control as much water as Geb could at any one time, but in return, it can control any sort of liquid (e.g. milk, blood), and it can also possess the liquid if it's a mist. However, if all the liquid it controls is bound in something, such as a bottle, Aqua Necklace can't get out. Its normal shape is that of a humanoid with evil eyes set about its body, and pin-like teeth.
(Nijimura Okuyasu)
A well-armored humanoid with large glass-like eyes, cylindrical plating about its head, and dollar and yen signs on its body armor. Its right arm is amazingly strong, and its right hand can actually erase the space it swipes through from all existence if Okuyasu so chooses. The spaces at the edge of the erased area then will instantly pull together. Okuyasu can use this ability to pull objects or people closer to The Hand by erasing an intervening area of air.
(Nijimura Keicho)
This is actually a multi-bodied Stand. It consists of sixty tiny American-style infantry (one could probably hold two or three of them in the palm of one's hand) with bandage-pattern faces, parachutes, M16 rifles, and mines; seven scaled-down-to-the-tiny-infantry tanks; four likewise-scaled missile-carrying gunships; and an unknown number of Navy SEALs. Despite how small Bad Company's components are, they can still inflict deadly damage, especially considering that they always follow Keicho's intricate strategies and commands perfectly. Perhaps because of the Stand's multi-part nature, killing one of the soldiers will not harm Keicho (in fact, Josuke killed three infantry, and Keicho was none the worse, except for being annoyed at the formation being compromised).
(Hirose Koichi)
Unlike most other Stands, Echoes has three distinct forms, or Acts (Koichi can only call upon one at any given time). Act 1 resembles a flying (although wingless) turtle with a long tail and wheels surrounding its beak. Its power is to write a given sound effect in kana on a surface. The effect will then constantly sound with increasing volume, until Echoes dispels the writing. Until his confrontation with Yukako, this was the only Act that Koichi could access. During that battle, he gained access to Act 2, which has a more humanoid form. Rather than just making sounds, Act 2's tail can create sound effect writings that actually invoke the associated quality when activated (e.g. if "whoosh" is written, activation will create an actual wind current). Finally, during his first confrontation with Kira, Koichi discovered Act 3, a completely humanoid Stand with turtle shell-like bosses on its body (and a somewhat independent, foul-mouthed personality). Unlike the first two Acts, Act 3 cannot fly. However, it is extremely fast, and can "freeze" any one thing within 2 meters by rapidly punching it, at which point the object will suddenly become extremely heavy (it even caused Sheer Heart Attack to sink into solid pavement).
(Otoishi Akira)
Its basic form is a squat, beaked humanoid of rust-colored metal. However, that's only when it isn't charged--then it will have a nimbus of electricity surrounding it. Red Hot Chili Pepper can manipulate any amount of electricity it can directly touch, even the entire power grid of Moriou. It normally uses the electricity to increase its speed (and apparently strength) to phenomenal levels. It also has the power to instill itself into any electric device, and pull other objects with it (this is apparently fatal for any living thing it does this to).
(Kobayashi Tamami)
The Lock manifests exactly as its namesake--a massive U-lock. In order to use his ability, Tamami must first instill some feeling of guilt in his victim. The Lock will then attach, and begin magnifying the guilt to increasing degrees (as it increases guilt, The Lock's size and weight also increase). Usually, Tamami disengages The Lock once he's gulled his victim into paying him the money he wants, but when pressed, he can try to magnify a victim's guilt to such a degree that he/she is compelled to commit suicide. He has been known to manifest two Locks on different people at once.
(Hazamada Toshikazu)
A tangible Stand, Surface is bound to a large artist's doll in Toshikazu's possession. If someone touches the doll that Surface is bound to, it can adopt the exact likeness of that person--the only distinction is that the screw in Surface's forehead can still be seen. Surface can compel whoever it mimics to perfectly mirror its motions if it can maintain eye contact (e.g. if it juts its right elbow back, the one mimicked must jut his left elbow likewise). It is not perfectly under Toshikazu's control, since it tends to also mimic the target's personality (a source of immense frustration to Toshikazu).
(Yamagishi Yukako)
Just as Khnum was bound to Oingo's face, so Love Deluxe is bound to Yukako's hair. With her Stand's power, Yukako can lengthen her hair to any distance (even to completely surround a small house with hair), and control it with perfect precision. The effect even persists for a short time after she sheds any strands.
(Tonio Trussardi)
Pearl Jam is a multi-body Stand (at least three bodies), each body looking something like a cross between a head of garlic and a pearl onion with arms and a face. The bodies are extremely tiny, as they need to be ingested to do anything. First, Trussardi examines his customer's hands to see what ailments he/she suffers (apparently a granted power of Pearl Jam). From this, he knows what foods to prepare. The meal is served one course at a time, with Pearl Jam's bodies inside. Once inside the "patient"'s body, Pearl Jam invokes a sense that whatever is being eaten is extremely delicious (even if the consumer dislikes the general taste, such as Okuyasu's aversion to spicy foods) to make sure that the food is continuously eaten. It then uses the incoming raw material to repair and replace damaged and diseased tissue, forcibly ejecting anything that falls under "replace", even opening up one's belly for a short while to eject replaced intestine. Unlike most other Stands that Josuke meets, Pearl Jam was not awakened by an Arrow, but by Tonio's zeal to perfect his culinary arts.
(Shizuka Joestar)
Achtung Baby is apparently bound to Shizuka's entire (six-month-old) body. She can use its power to generate an energy field that makes her, and anything touching her, completely invisible. If frightened, she may make the field larger than usual, extending to about a meter radius.
(Kishibe Rohan)
It appears as a humanoid wearing a suit and a brimmed hat with a checkerboard band (it was originally the appearance Rohan gave his manga's main character, before Keicho used the Arrow on him). Heaven's Door allows Rohan to write and draw with superhuman speed and precision, sufficient to let him work without assistants. His drawings have the power to hypnotize other people (or at least other Stand Users), one of the ways he can get to them and use Heaven's Door's primary power. This power is to unfurl someone's surface into a newspaper that carries all their memories. Rohan can then add new memories/commands, take memories away by ripping out the page they're on, and even make their body as vulnerable to fire as actual newspaper.
(Bug Eye and other rat)
There are actually two Ratt's (they were given to rats--possible twins, given the similar marks on their foreheads--by the same Arrow shot). Ratt somewhat resembles the front end of a steam locomotive, complete with cow catcher, that has four legs and a large eye. This is just the mobile form, however. The attack mode involves the front surface swinging up to reveal an artillery cannon (the eye is actually the scope that Bug Eye uses to aim). The ammunition takes the form of barbed darts that render anything they pierce into a semi-liquid state (living beings will not be killed immediately by this, unless a vital organ or artery/vein is affected).
(Yanguu "Fatty" Shigekyo)
Harvest consists of fifty tiny, identical bodies--a hollow striped shell with eyes, six limbs, and a hornet-like abdomen. When Fatty gives Harvest a description of something he wants, the bodies scatter out and search for anything that fits the description, placing found "treasure" in the hollow. If necessary, the abdomen can take captured fluids and inject them into another person. Although Harvest's individual bodies are very weak, together they can make for an appreciable offensive force, even utilizing rudimentary formations (limited more by Fatty's weak intellect than Harvest's actual abilities). They also give Fatty a way to quickly get away from danger, by collectively carrying him.
(Kira Yoshikage)
A humanoid Stand with fox-skull emblems on its shoulders, waist, and knees, and a vaguely cat-like head. Also, the space behind its stomach is hollow, letting it contain small items or creatures there. Killer Queen's abilities revolve around causing explosions. Its primary bombs are actually booby traps--it touches a cohesive object (doorknobs, coins, even living bodies) and charges it. When someone touches it, the energy will be conducted in, and create an internal explosion. On occasion, he will charge an object not to conduct explosive energy, but to simply explode when he finds the time to be right. He also has a secondary bomb called Sheer Heart Attack, normally contained within Killer Queen's left hand. It is a completely autonomous bomb, looking like a tank-treaded ball with a fox-skull face, with unlimited range. Its method is to seek out whatever the hottest thing in the vicinity is, then induce an explosion there. Finally, late in the story, Yoshihiro's Arrow pierces Kira's body and thus grants Killer Queen a tertiary bomb, called Another One Bites the Dust. This bomb is actually a distinct, miniaturized form of Killer Queen, which normally stays with someone who knows Kira's secrets. If someone tries to interrogate that person about Kira, the tertiary bomb will enter their field of vision, get into their eye that way, and induce an explosion. Until Kira finds out who the bomb killed, he lets a brief temporal loop occur to one hour earlier. Even if the victim doesn't ask questions this time around, Another One Bites the Dust will still kill them. Only if Kira is confident about who died will he let time flow normally. Still, if he has to protect himself right away (he can't maintain more than one potential bomb at a time), he will dispel the bomb. In all three cases, internal explosions can potentially completely disintegrate the victim.
(Tsuji Aya)
A humanoid, female-shaped framework of what seems like wires, with eyes that look like flared sunglasses. When working on one of Aya's customers at her beauty parlor, Cinderella can slide out part of the person's exterior and implant an appearance that is more likely to gain the customer's desire. It also increases the customer's luck in gaining time with the man she desires, and even gaining his heart. The appearance can be made to last for any given number of half-hours. Nothing special needs to be done if the appearance is kept for just thirty minutes, but for any longer, a tube of lipstick generated by Cinderella must be used every half-hour for the duration. Otherwise, the affected areas will wither into featurelessness, and even the body will wither into nothingness. This can only be undone if Cinderella can be made to restore the customer's original appearance (easy enough, since Cinderella has a perfect memory of all the faces it has altered), or if Aya is killed (which is what happened after Kira made her change his appearance). Like Tonio, Aya's own zeal (in this case, to be a kind of faerie godmother to her customers) apparently awakened her Stand.
(Kira Yoshihiro)
Atom Heart Father is bound to Yoshihiro's body...or rather, Yoshihiro's soul (it only manifested when he died). Yoshihiro can bind himself to cameras and trigger them, at which point he is bound to the resulting photo. He can imprison anyone else caught on the photo so that they can't leave the depicted area, and manipulate anything that's in the depicted area, even if it's otherwise hidden from view (e.g. a knife inside a drawer). If a shot is taken of his part of the photo, he will automatically be bound to the new photo instead. Even if he ends up being the only feature in the photo, though, he can extend anything he possesses (usually threads of his clothing) out of the picture in order to move around.
(Ooyanagi Ken)
The first of the Stands that Yoshihiro awoke to protect Kira, it looks like a knight in battered armor and a conical helmet. In order to activate its power, Ken must first beat a Stand User in a best-of-five jan-ken-pon (rock-paper-scissors) match. For each individual game that Ken wins, Boy II Man takes control of a third of the opponent's Stand's power. After three wins, Ken will then permanently take total control of that Stand. However, if his opponent wins three times, Boy II Man can never affect him/her again.
(Mikitaka)
This Stand is bound to Mikitaka's entire body. It is like a vastly more powerful version of Khnum, allowing Mikitaka to assume any physical form he desires. Although he can take a form vastly smaller than his normal mass, and can separate himself into several components in the process, it is not known if he can take on a much larger form. On the negative side, if exposed to a siren or similar sound, he suffers a painful rash until the sound stops. This power may have something to do with his belief that he is actually an alien (he gives his full name as Nu Mikitakaso Nishi).
(Fungami Yuuya)
A humanoid covered entirely in a diagonal criss-cross on a black field, with glass-like eyes. Both Highway Star and Fungami have a powerful sense of smell, almost as good as a dog's. Highway Star can dissociate into many footprint-shaped components, which can chase something at speeds of up to 60 kilometers per hour. When not dissociated, it can leach nutrients from another person and transfer them to Fungami's own body immediately (the victim's flesh turns transparent in the process). Finally, Highway Star can create illusions to draw in potential victims. Its powers were all created around Fungami's desperate desire to restore his body after a motorcycle accident.
(Erba Gatta)
When the cat Erba Gatta was first shot by Yoshihiro, his Stand apparently did not awaken (possibly a heightened sense of awareness of danger, but that's it). However, when Erba was killed and buried, Stray Cat fully awoke and bound his soul into a plant, which rapidly grew and took on cat-like characteristics. In addition, when able to photosynthesize, Erba can create more oxygen than usual and bind it into near-solid projectiles--usually balls, but occasionally shackles. He normally only attacks those whom he thinks are trying to cause him harm.
("Kanedaichi Toyohiro"--his true name is never revealed)
This Stand bound itself into Kanedaichi's rather unusual choice of a home--an abandoned telephone tower (he bought it some time ago, and has furnished it with an armchair, television, vegetable gardens, toilet, etc.). However, it backfired, perhaps because it was awakened by his dread of being among many people--he can't leave the tower anymore, unless he can trick someone else into stepping in, at which point Super Fly imprisons them instead (the current "prisoner", if trying to leave, is instead stopped by a sheet of bolted metal that conforms to their body). If any sort of attack strikes the tower's structure, Super Fly will either generate a perfect replica of that attack, aimed at the attacker (if a non-ranged attack), or let the projectile ricochet around its beams.
(Miyamoto Terunosuke)
A jet-black humanoid with brocade on its body. Enigma can bind anything into a sheet of blank paper. Once the paper is unfolded, the object, up to then in stasis, re-emerges. If the paper is torn before unfolding, the object still comes out, but it will be shattered. In order to bind a human, Terunosuke must first find out the physical actions they unconsciously take when terrified (e.g. touching one's chin, closing an eye, biting one's lower lip). If they take that same action of fear again when Enigma is present, then it can bind them (the action is depicted as an M. C. Escher-like picture entwining pictures of Enigma and the victim).
(Kinoto Masazo)
In truth, Kinoto did not last long as the User of Cheap Trick (looking something like a large tree frog with vicious teeth and flat eyes). Whoever the User is will find Cheap Trick constantly murmuring commands to them. If they disobey, Cheap Trick will try to get them to let another person see their back, where Cheap Trick is anchored. When that happens (as when Rohan saw Kinoto's back), Cheap Trick will leap off, in the process ripping off the previous User's back and killing him. It will then anchor itself to the viewer's own back. Cheap Trick can choose who hears it. Usually, only the hapless User can, but it can make its voice audible to others, if it's trying to get someone to look at its User's back.
The eerie cry of "WRYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!" (ウリイイイイイイ uriiiiii, pronounced ''ree'' and not
Like The Bread ) is a shriek given off by the vampires throughout JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. While all vampires in the series are prone to doing so, this noise is most commonly associated with Dio Brando.
A resurgence of popular interest in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure occurred when "WRYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY" began making the rounds as an
Internet Meme , sparked by a Flash movie which features stick figures performing the signature attacks of five different characters. Dio Brando's features his use of ''The World'' (often mispronounced intentionally as "Za Warudo", to mimic how Dio pronounces it with his Japanese accent) to freeze time, a barrage of throwing knives, and finishes with a steamroller dropping on his opponent, atop which he leans back and exclaims "WRYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!". While amusing to fans of the series, this proved hilariously random to those unfamiliar with JoJo. This Internet phenomenon has spread mostly from the
Futaba Channel imageboards.
It is of interesting note that a debate has sprung up regarding the proper spelling of "WRYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY", specifically how many Y's it should contain. While many argue that the 20-Y "WRYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY" is the only "correct" spelling (assumedly since this is the amount of Y's featured in the Flash movie), those who have read JoJo's Bizarre Adventure will note that not only is there no set amount of letters in the manga, but "WRYYYYYY" is actually a less common portrayal of the vampire cry, which is spelled as "URIIII", "UREYYYYYYYY" or "URYYYYY" far more frequently. A six-Y "WRYYYYYY" returns over 10,000 entries on Google, which is far more than any other spelling. Strictly speaking, however, there is no one "correct" spelling as WRYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY is
Onomatopoetic and the amount of Y's should be used to show the length of the cry; however, it has been widely accepted that there should only be one W and one R.
The recent English publication of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (which begins at the start of the third arc) uses the spelling "WREEEEEEEEEE", which reinforces the proper pronunciation (at the cost of obscuring the connection to the Internet fad and in turn, earning the ire of most of
4chan 's users).
However, the game
Jump Super Stars for
Nintendo DS also features Dio Brando, and his 3-panel "Koma" (tile) in-game features the speech bubble "WRYYYYYYYYYY---っ".
