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! "Josuke Higashikata" (Stand: Soft & Wet)
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-> Voiced by: Creator/MitsuakiMadono (''All-Star Battle'', ''Eyes of Heaven'')

A muscular youth who Yasuho happens upon one day, wearing nothing but a sailor hat and half-buried near an uplifted fault line colloquially called "Wall Eyes". While he ([[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} mostly]]) knows the things any normal person would, he has no memories regarding his own identity. Along with his quirky personality, he has numerous odd physical attributes, such as a star-shaped birthmark on his back and ''four testicles''. Yasuho decides to name him after her childhood dog, Josuke, and decides to help him investigate his identity. Along the way, she sets him up with family friends the Higashikatas as his guardians.

Josuke's Stand is Soft & Wet[[note]]Whose name comes from the {{Prince}} song [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_and_Wet Soft and Wet]][[/note]], which produces "soap bubbles" which [[LiquidAssets steal "something"]] from whatever they come in contact with. Soft & Wet has plundered objects and people of their odors, the sounds they produce, their friction, fur and hair, and moisture, as well as oxygen in the lungs and eyesight (resulting in an interesting EyeScream). Another bubble can then release the attribute or imbue a different object with what had been stolen. The soap bubbles are also capable of concussive force, as well as being able to push and move people.

While he is [[spoiler:initially]] named Josuke after the protagonist of ''Diamond Is Unbreakable'', it should be noted that his name is actually written differently (part 4 仗助 versus part 8 定助). In the All-Star Battle localization, they differentiate between the two by referring to them as "Josuke Higashikata 4" and "Josuke Higashikata 8" respectively. [[spoiler: He is actually a fusion of two men: Yoshikage Kira and Josefumi Kujo.]]
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* {{Adorkable}}: The guy is so goofy that it's cute. For instance, the way he eats buns.
* AmbiguouslyBrown: it may be the shading, but he's sometimes drawn with what looks like olive skintone.
* AmnesiacsAreInnocent: Although Josuke isn't exactly childlike, he has [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} somewhat strange]] misconceptions about many day-to-day things -- for example, he doesn't seem to grasp that you sleep on ''top'' of a mattress, not between it and the bed frame.
* AmnesiacHero
* AwesomenessByAnalysis: He seems to have amazing peripheral vision. While Standing straight up and looking forward, he notices a man's hand near his ankles out of the corner of his eye. Keeping in mind that he had no knowledge or expectation of anyone else being around at the time. Despite the hand (and the person to whom it belonged) somehow disappearing instantly, Josuke managed to track where the person had been positioned before disappearing
* BerserkButton: ''Try'' to harm Yasuho, and Josuke will stop at nothing to end you. Case in point; when Yotsuyu takes her, the same "Dark Determination" Johnny had in his eyes in Part 7 appears in Josuke's; the same cold, fiery look that means that he ''really'' wants to kill you. [[spoiler:Chapter 58 reveals that the same applies to Holly.]]
* CatchPhrase: "I won! Completely!"
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: His vast intellect is inversely proportional to his grasp on common sense.
* CompositeCharacter: Taken to ridiculous extremes. While he's technically the AU counterpart of Josuke, early on, we are led to believe his true identity is Yoshikage Kira. Later on, not only do we find out that [[spoiler:Kira himself is a CompositeCharacter of Kira and ''Jotaro'', but that Josuke himself is a FusionDance (i.e. the ''literal'' version of this trope), being a synthesis of Kira and a man ultimately revealed to be Josefumi Kujo, who has elements of Josuke Higashikata from Part 4 and Jotaro in his character design.]]
** In terms of his character design, his face and build are almost identical to Jotaro as drawn in the new art style, he spouts his "ORA!" (although one randomly becomes "ARA!") and RapidFireFisticuffs when fighting, wears sailor clothes referencing Jotaro's marine profession (though those originally belonged to Kira, who was a ship's doctor), and occasionally bears Jotaro's "raised hand/halt" insignia.
** His personality has a lot of similarities to Kira from "Diamond is Unbreakable", being extremely analytical and mathematically inclined, with some really weird habits such as sleeping ''under'' mattresses for comfort. Though he's not amoral or deviant.
** He also has a strong value for friendship and GuileHero tendencies like his actual namesake, Josuke. It helps that their Stands work more by affecting the environment than actually combating enemies, so they go about fighting in the same manner.
* ContinuityNod: Soft & Wet's "Plunder" ability is similar to The Spin used in the previous installment of the series by Johnny Joestar and Gyro Zeppeli. It can apply and remove properties of the target like the Super Spin, and is manifested through perfect spheres. The earlier counterpart to the Spin, the Ripple, was also manifested as bubbles by Caesar Zeppeli in ''Battle Tendency''. Finally, it is interesting to note that the japanese word for "bubble" is pronounced ''shamon'', being extremely similar to ''Hamon'' which is used interchangeably with the Ripple.
* ContrastingSequelMainCharacter: Josuke from Part 4 is a good contender for the most normal main character in the series. Aside from [[HeroicBastard the circumstances of his birth]], [[BerserkButton his ire towards anyone who insults his hair]], and [[TheGamblingAddict his gambling habit]], he was basically an easy-going high school student with a good heart. Josuke from Part 8, on the other hand, is a good candidate for the weirdest main character, being physically abnormal, amnesiac, behaviorally eccentric, and [[spoiler:the result of a FusionDance.]]
* EasyAmnesia[=/=]TraumaInducedAmnesia: "Josuke" claims he has no recollection of even his name. [[spoiler:As we soon discover, it's not so much that he ''lost'' his memories -- since he's the combination of two people who were buried near the Wall Eyes, he may just ''not have'' any memories]].
* FlowerMotifs: On the [[http://ultra.shueisha.co.jp/update/78/ August 2012]] cover of ''Ultra Jump'', while Yasuho is surrounded by roses, Josuke is surrounded by orchids. "Orchid" is Greek for "[[RunningGag testicle]]".
* FusionDance: [[spoiler:"Josuke" is the fusion of the reset universe's Yoshikage Kira (who is an amalgamation of Jotaro and Kira) and a second man named Josefumi Kujo (who is based on Part 4's Josuke), resulting in four testicles, eyes split down the middle in two colors, a tongue split down the middle into two merged but still different and uneven halves, and ''VideoGame/JoJosBizarreAdventureAllStarBattle'' features a costume that gives him patchy, two-toned skin in the manner of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitiligo vitiligo]]. Soft & Wet is also the combination of both Yoshikage Kira and Josefumi Kujo's Stands; Kira's worked by popping soap bubbles while Josefumi's absorbs aspects.]]
* GeniusDitz: He's very good with numbers and extremely tactical despite having no memories to work off of.
* GenreSavvy:
** While running from a chilly Stand, he comments that in horror movies, running to the second floor is a bad idea.
** Another great moment is when he's investigating a mysterious library against the owner's wishes and he needs to make sure that no one can tell he was there. He puts everything back in order, and once he leaves the room, the panels ominously zoom in on a bookmark he overlooked. Cue Josuke barging back in, grabbing the bookmark, and placing it where it originally was. Close shave!
* HeartIsAnAwesomePower: As to be expected from a [=JoJo=] hero, he makes clever use of an incredibly weird power, and can think of and execute ridiculously complex battle strategies within a few brief moments.
* HelloSailor: Let's face it, he may not be ''gay'' as far as can be told, but he's totally rocking that sailor fetish outfit. Some promotional images don't bother to pretend otherwise and just show him stripping.
** CampStraight: Ironically, he's one of the most unambiguously heterosexual Jojos, since his LoveInterest is his sidekick.
* HumanoidAbomination: [[spoiler:Aside from the four balls issue, he has eyes split down the middle in two colors and his uneven tongue as a result of being a FusionDance]].
* IAmWho: Currently, Josuke's motivation is to discover who he really is. [[spoiler:It's revealed through several dozen chapters that he is the FusionDance between the reset universe's Yoshikage Kira and another person revealed to be named Josefumi Kujo.]]
* LiquidAssets: Soft & Wet can form soap bubbles that, when popped, can plunder anything from whatever they were on. So far, he was able to steal water from a woman's body, causing her to become thirsty, to stealing the sound in a room, making it soundproof. It can even steal stuff such as hair, and even small wounds. When they pop, they release whatever they stole to whatever popped them, making the noise they kept from sounding sound, placing hair on someone else, etc.
** In ''All-Star Battle'', he uses Soft & Wet to steal the opponent's vision with his HHA and their friction with his GHA, as well as his ''own'' friction in one of his attacks.
* MemoryGambit: How he defeats Daiya.
* NakedFirstImpression: Seems to have scarred Yasuho for life.
--> '''Yasuho''': "Between his legs, in his pelvic region... There were a total of four... Absolutely, there were four testicles... Four! Four testicles. Thankfully, there was only a single penis. the important point is, there were two pairs of testicles. This is completely insane... The moment I saw them is scorched into my memory eternally... Perhaps it was better that I never mentioned it at the time?"
* NamesTheSame:[[invoked]] He shares the same name and character traits as Josuke from Part 4 to imply he is a reincarnation of him.
** [[spoiler:Later, we find out his other half's identity is in this universe's Kujo bloodline.]]
* NiceGuy: He's very sweet and earnest to people who haven't screwed him over yet. Especially to Yasuho.
* NiceHat: A sailor cap that is apparently a Joestar tradition, having started all the way back with Johnny Joestar, shortly after the end of "Steel Ball Run".
* SerialEscalation[=/=]BiggerIsBetterInBed: He has four testicles. [[spoiler:This is a side effect of his being a FusionDance]].
* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: Though he speaks perfectly casually depending on who he's with.
* SherlockScan: Presumably a take on the original Kira's somewhat impressive analytical abilities.
* ShipTease: With Yasuho, big time. Both Josuke and Yasuho blushed heavily when asked about one another by others, and become either defensive or nervous when asked about their relationship. They've thought sincerely about each other and even held hands on more than one occasion. At this point, the only thing not making this Official Couple is the lack of the words "Boyfriend and Girlfriend".
* SuperReflexes: Josuke and Soft & Wet react extremely quickly, as seen when he essentially outdraws Nijimura and Yotsuyu Yagiyama on separate occasions, despite them having a significant range advantage/the element of surprise. Tellingly, Josuke/Soft & Wet seems to like surprising his enemies with a short barrage of nigh-instantaneous rabbit punches, as opposed to the extensive and drawn-out beatdowns that other Joestars inflict on their cornered opponents.
* TechnicolorEyes: Looking closely shows that each eye is split down the middle and a different color on each half of the iris. [[spoiler:This is because each eye is actually two fused together.]]
* TopHeavyGuy: Soft & Wet is built like a boxer, with a huge barrel chest and long, well-muscled, if unusually lean, arms.
* VagueAge: Younger than 29, could pass for a high-schooler, but also looks and acts a little older than college-age Yasuho and Joshu. Josuke refers to himself as being (tentatively) nineteen.
* WouldHitAGirl: Multiple times. [[RapidFireFisticuffs Very quickly]]. As she had been trying to kill him and nearly succeeded.

!Yasuho Hirose (Stand: Paisley Park)
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-> Voiced by: Creator/EriKitamura (''All-Star Battle'')

A girl who discovers an unnamed naked man near one of the mysterious "wall-eyes" and ends up embroiled in the mystery surrounding his identity. She has a long-range Stand named Paisley Park, which has the power of leading people to where they want to go, generally through digital interfaces. When she becomes aware of her own abilities, she is able to manipulate digital interfaces at whim, although Paisley Park does still react instinctively at times.
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* {{Adorkable}}: Namely her reaction when she sees Josuke again at the hopsital.
* AlcoholicParent[=/=]ParentalNeglect: Her mother.
* BrainBleach: She really wanted some after getting a good look at Josuke's... nonstandard anatomy.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Not as much as Josuke, but she definitely has her share of out there, ditzy moments. For example, [[http://mangagiga.com/jojos_bizarre_adventure_part_8_jojolion/22/19/ getting excited when she finds out she can lick her elbow.]]
* {{Deuteragonist}}: She does most of the detective work helping Josuke find his memories, and does about half the narration.
* FlowerMotifs: It's in her [[PunnyName name]], her [[RoseHairedSweetie hair-color]], and even on her skirt. Hirohiko Araki even feels guilty for the way he drew the latter because the design must make it uncomfortable to sit down.
* GirlNextDoor: Yasuho isn't as heavily feminine or "developed" like Hato or Daiya, but she isn't a tomboy like Hot Pants or Ermes. Yasuho is somewhere in between, as well as reserved and down to Earth.
* GuileHero: In comparison to Josuke, who himself has many of those traits. While Josuke gets involved with more Stand conflicts, Yasuho spends her time puzzling out the wall-eyes, the Higashikata and Joestar families, and Josuke's past.
** Paisley Park is also a bit of a GuileHero, being an independent Stand who prefers to stay away from fighting and manipulates others to help.
* HairDecorations
* ImpracticallyFancyOutfit: Her skirt is covered in large, realistic rose decorations.
* TheIngenue: Subverted, more or less. Josuke seems to be expecting this, since every time Josuke tells her to look away, she does, which Josuke uses as an opportunity to beat Oujirou for info. But considering he's beating up Oujirou in the same room she's in, she ends up watching the whole thing anyway, which says as much about Josuke as it does about her.
* MissionControl: Occasionally, since the Higashikatas barred her from seeing Josuke, which forces her into long distance contact. Because Josuke has trouble adjusting to the world as an amnesiac, she often guides him over the phone. However, the story often follows what she's doing at the same time, and both threads tend to be plot relevant.
* MundaneUtility: Paisley Park mostly just unconsciously helps optimize web searches and GPS tracking at first.
* NamesTheSame: [[invoked]]Named after ''Koichi'' Hirose from Part 4 and has likewise gained a Stand she can't control yet.
* TheNicknamer: She nicknamed our unnamed hero Josuke, because he reminded her of her dog.
* PressXToNotDie: Part of Paisley Park's skill set is reminiscent of this. When seen through some computer or phone, it provides Yasuho with multiple vague options that might help her overcome a critical situaton, but she must choose quickly or nothing will happen.
* RoseHairedSweetie: Though she's more depressed and anxious than most instances of this trope, it is her kindness and willingness to accept and befriend Josuke despite his...eccentricities that draws him to her and forms one of the strongest bonds in this part of the series.
* ShipTease: With Josuke, big time. Both Josuke and Yasuho blushed heavily when asked about one another by others, and become either defensive or nervous when asked about their relationship. They've thought sincerely about each other and even held hands on more than one occasion. At this point, the only thing not making this Official Couple is the lack of the words "Boyfriend and Girlfriend".
* SemanticSuperpower: Under great stress, her Stand's power of "guidance" can directly implant hints into other peoples' minds, or help them remember important details.
** And it's not just a support ability. When she is being kidnapped by a group of criminals in a car, Paisley Park "guides" the driver to stop...by twisting his leg, slamming it onto the brake pedal, and making the car crash.

! Kyo Nijimura [[spoiler:(Joestar-Kira)]] (Stand: Born This Way[[note]]Originally named "Going Underground" during serialization[[/note]])
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The young but stern maid to the Higashikata household. Like her namesake, she is initially antagonistic to Josuke before becoming an ally. She is [[spoiler: secretly the daughter of Holy Joestar, making her brother Yoshikage Kira, and by extension, Josuke]]. She is only serving as the Higashikata's maid to spy on them because she believes they had something to do with her mother's mysterious illness. Her Stand Born This Way manifests as a biker and motorcycle that produces a freezing wind if her target opens something.
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* BrokenStreak: [[spoiler:Kyo is Yoshikage's sister, and is thus the first sibling of any main [=JoJo=] (at least, the first who survived to the time of the story)]].
** [[spoiler: Well, unless you count original timeline Josuke and Holly.]]
* DefeatMeansFriendship
* {{Determinator}}: Once you trigger ''Born This Way'', it won't stop trying to freeze/impale/run over you.
* EvilIsDeathlyCold: The Stand warps the environment, especially leaves, to become extremely cold. Though it's subverted, as Nijimura is not really evil.
* GoodAllAlong: After a struggle, she reveals that she was not an enemy of Josuke's, but an ally,
* AnIcePerson: When Born This Way appears, its power causes hurricane-like winds that can freeze and harden objects, which it can hurl as sharp weapons. The wind itself has enough intensity to knock back individuals, as well as freeze their breath, suffocating them.
* JumpScare: The Stand manifests itself whenever its victim opens a door (or anything else for that matters).
* {{Meido}}
* MythologyGag: Her hat is very similar to Jotaro's hat from part 3, only blue instead of black. She also wears star-patterned leggings. [[spoiler: It hints at her true identity as a Joestar.]]
** Josuke and Okuyasu in part 4 were very close BashBrothers, and [[spoiler: in the new timeline, Josuke and Kyo are actual siblings]].
* NamesTheSame:[[invoked]] Named after ''Okuyasu'' Nijimura from Part 4 [[spoiler:who possesses a powerful Stand and becomes Josuke's ally]].
* NotSoStoic: She's seen stonefaced until [[spoiler:Josuke confronts her about why she doesn't want him to see Holy Joestar.]]
* SemanticSuperpower: Her Stand can appear when ''anything'' is opened, including removing the cap of a pen.
* ThemeNaming: The original Nijimura family members' names included kanji for very large numbers. Whereas Okuyasu's name contains the character for "hundred million" and Keicho's has "trillion", Kyo's name means "ten quadrillion".
* YouShallNotPass: She is trying to stop Josuke from reaching Holy Joestar.

! Yoshikage Kira (Stand: Killer Queen)
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A ship's surgeon and this continuity's version of the main villain from Part 4 (''Diamond is Unbreakable''). Here, his father is a man named Yoshiteru Kira, rather than [[TheHeavy Yoshihiro]] as in the original timeline, and his mother is Holy Joestar, making him a direct descendant of Johnny Joestar as well as a member of the extended Higashikata family. He was at first thought to be the protagonist's true identity, but it's soon shown that the truth is far more complicated.

He seems to have had certain obsessive-compulsive tendencies, keeping a stock of entirely green foods, and shelves of containers of his fingernails in his bathroom, labelled by date.

His Stand is still Killer Queen, but its powers have changed somewhat in the JJL universe. It now generates explosive bubbles, rather than turning objects into bombs. This version of Killer Queen has its own version of Sheer Heart Attack, as well, although its abilities have yet to be revealed.
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* AdaptationalBadass: The original Killer Queen had only one Sheer Heart Attack in its arsenal, and that could only follow the most basic attack pattern. This version of Killer Queen can create multiple Sheer Heart Attacks and give them complex instructions.
* AntiHero: Despite Kira being one of the more cold and uncaring individuals in the manga he sets himself against a dangerous secret organization of fruit smugglers for the sole reason of trying to save his mother [[spoiler:from the mysterious illness that plagues the first born of each generation of the Higashikata family]]. Kira even follows in his mother's footsteps of helping people by becoming a ship's doctor despite being really unenthusiastic about it. Despite his attitude he isn't above asking others for help either; when he asks albeit indirectly for Josefumi's help. He also seems to genuinely care about Josefumi, [[spoiler: apologizing to him for getting him involved in the whole mess and trying to save him when they're confronted by Yagiyama and Damo.]]
* BreakThemByTalking: Talks Oujirou into biting his fingertips clean off to prove himself a man, as well as to punish him for using his Stand to hurt innocent women.
* CompositeCharacter: [[spoiler:In the AlternateUniverse, he takes the place of Jotaro Kujo in the Joestar family line as the son of Holy and Yoshiteru Kira, instead of a Kujo male. He therefore takes after both Kira and Jotaro, such as Kira's name, Stand, and fascination with hands and Jotaro's appearance and selflessness.]]
* DeadAllAlong: [[spoiler:He died from what is apparently cardiac arrest three days before the the manga began and was buried along with Josefumi in the Wall Eyes, resulting in the FusionDance that created Josuke.]]
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: Kira is a nasty piece of work, but he was apparently trying to save his mother's life before his death. [[spoiler:Holy Joestar is dying of a disease that would harden parts of her body (apparently the same disease that afflicts first-born Higashikatas). It is implied that Kira somehow noticed the disease in his mother in its early stages when it was still in the brain and, possibly in desperation, used his Stand to destroy those parts of her brain, explaining the mysterious holes in her x-rays as well as her brain damage.]]
** [[spoiler:Turns out Kira's not so bad after all. Like Jotaro, he can be a bit of a jerk, but he's actually a selfless individual who despises killing and needless violence. This is in direct contrast to his namesake, a merciless sociopathic serial killer who gleefully partook in the murder of countless innocent men, women, and children.]]
* GoodIsNotNice: The best way to describe him. He tries to save his mother from [[spoiler:the Rock Disease.]] Cripples Sasame for using his Stand to hurt innocent women, and when fighting [[spoiler:The Rock Humans]] he tries to avoid hurting uninvolved people such as limiting the damage done to Karera to only her hair.
* IdenticalStranger: Looks like an older [[spoiler:Josuke. In fact, a DNA test shows that there's a 95.8% chance that Kira and Josuke are the same person, and that's because "Josuke" is the fusion of Yoshikage Kira and Josefumi Kujo.]]
* {{Irony}}: In a flashback, he told Oujirou Sasame that he hated things which are 'in-between' or ill-defined. [[spoiler:After his death, he became half of the FusionDance which created Josuke.]]
** Kira possesses "Killer Queen" a Stand designed to kill people. Not only is he not a murderer, he actually uses his Stand to help save lives when his surgical skills aren't enough.
* MythologyGag: His Stand's ability is highly reminiscent of the Killer Queen/Stray Cat tandem attack, shown in the final battle of Part 4. The author was deviously skirting the line with Kira's introduction. While revealing that Kira's apartment reflected the original's tendency to collect nail clippings and other minor traits. The apartment also had a naked kidnapped woman in it alongside photos of women both scared and gagged. This sets up Kira as a potential serial killer, but the trope is then averted when it's revealed that Ojirou Sasame was the one who had kidnapped the woman and planted the pictures.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Unlike Josuke, his name is written exactly like it was in part 4, so he still has a given name meaning "lucky shadow" and a family name that sounds like "killer".
* {{Narcissist}}: He kept sculptures of his own hands around his house, apparently as proof to their ideal state.
* NiceHat: He owns several sailor hats, one of which Josuke ends up wearing.
* PosthumousCharacter: [[spoiler:Unless of you take into account that he's now the half of "Josuke".]]
* TheReveal: [[spoiler:Yoshikage Kira is Holy's son, not Jotaro -- and 'Josuke' is a fusion of Kira and Josefumi Kujo, the alternate universe's incarnation of the Kujo bloodline]].
* SecretlyWealthy: Jojolion's latest chapter revealed that up until his death; Kira was paying Holy's hospital bills. Josuke learns that he was paying up to around 1200$ per night for her uninsured medical expenses.
* StuffBlowingUp: His Stand power: [[spoiler:soap bubbles]] that cause explosions. He can make them in the air or within someone's flesh. [[spoiler:He can also create miniature Sheer Heart Attacks small enough to run through someone's bloodstream. This is how he ''saved the life'' of a young Josefumi, no less.]]
* TsurimeEyes: [[spoiler:The art style doesn't really feed into the tsurime/[[TaremeEyes tareme]] dichotomy, but this is the main point where his features differ from Josuke's; Kira's eyes are cold and much sharper than Josuke's]].
* WhatIf: ''[=JoJolion=]'' Kira is essentially Araki's answer to what would have happened; had the original Yoshikage Kira's mother survived and was a positive influence on him. Kira 8 is the other side of Kira 4's spectrum. While still an impersonal jerk, Kira is never shown in the manga to commit murder; and this is despite having Killer Queen, the ultimate killing Stand. The only times Kira is shown using it is when he saved a life or defending himself, and Kira abstains from killing when it would have proven to be a safer and more easy option. Most importantly, while Kira 4 was a sociopathic serial killer; Kira 8 is capable of empathizing with other people.

! Josefumi Kujo (Stand: [[spoiler:Soft & Wet]])
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The other half of Josuke who had fused with Yoshikage Kira under the Wall Eyes near the Lone Pine. Like Kira, he had a Stand which when they merged became half of Soft & Wet which is Josefumi's Stand's ability to steal aspects of things, although Josefumi's had the power of absorption rather than stealing. Josefumi also has the ability to use his bubbles to fuse things as well, such as how he "grafted" a tree branch of one tree onto a completely different tree.
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* AnimeHair: He had a pompadour similar to Part 4's Josuke Higashikata. However, his hair resembles a grilled steak and he has no hair on the sides or back of his head, except for a pair of rattails. It's also nowhere near as big as Part 4 Josuke's.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: He fed a fatally injured Kira with one of the Rokakaka fruit, despite the EquivalentExchange effect act on Josefumi himself]].
* IOweYouMyLife: [[spoiler: To Kira and Holy. This is the main reason why he works alongside Kira.]]
* LiquidAssets: [[spoiler: It's his Stand's ability to absorb that formed part of Josuke's Soft & Wet.]]
* MeaningfulName: Josefumi contains the Japanese Spelling of Joseph in it, as in, [[Characters/JoJosBizarreAdventurePart2 Joseph Joestar]]. It's also noted in one chapter that the kanji 'Jo' in his name is the same as part four's Josuke.
* MythologyGag: [[spoiler: Much like Part 4's Josuke his backstory involves nearly dying only to be saved by a complete stranger. This time however those strangers are the Joestars Holy and Kira; and this time he actually finds out who they are.]]
** Its implied that Josefumi was supposed to be the original Alternate Counterpart of Part Four Josuke. By that logic, that would make him the eighth [=JoJo=] by technicality and "Josuke" the ninth by extension.
* PosthumousCharacter: [[spoiler: Sort of. He's still alive, but like Kira, he's just mostly Josuke.]]
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Hoo boy.
** A piece of paper in chapter 48 has his name written in English as "Kujo Jyosefumi". [[spoiler:This could also be a mistake on Tamaki Damo's part.]][[note]]"''Jyo''" is a less common but acceptable romanization of "Jo" and has no deeper meaning.[[/note]]
** In a flashback in chapter 52, we see Josefumi's cellphone which has "Josephmi" written on it in English.
** And in chapter 55, the same sheet of paper from chapter 48 says "Kujo Josefumi" in English, while also featuring what is allegedly his signature as "Kuujou Josefumi".
* WalkingSpoiler: Well, not as himself anyways.

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[[folder:Higashikata Family]]

!In General

An esteemed family that adopted Josuke as one of their own.
* ThemeNaming:
** All the men in the family have a name beginning with the character ''Jo''.
** All the women have a name related to playing cards.
** Additionally, all of the Higashikata's Stands we've seen so far have "King" in their name.

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!Norisuke Higashikata IV (Stand: King Nothing)
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-> Voiced by: Jūrōta Kosugi (''Eyes of Heaven'')

The patriarch of the Higashikata family. His Stand King Nothing has a jigsaw pattern and is able to track objects by replicating their appearance and movement. He can also use his Stand to detach psychic projections of his limbs if his own arms cannot fit.
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* AnimeHair: While Josuke has too many balls on his crotch, Norisuke has too many balls in his hair.
* CoolOldGuy: Says some of the most [[Funny/JojosBizarreAdventure memorable]] lines in Part 8, such as "Your Stand is like your butthole: you can't go around showing it to other people!"
* GoodParents: Norisuke has a deep love for his family and can be quite insular. He looks over all of them and loves them, working with Josuke in order to retrieve the cure he thinks Kira had for the Rock Disease and being sorry for Holy's state as she is a relative. Norisuke is particularly close to his eldest son Jobin and his daughter Daiya, while considering Joshu a problem child without scolding him to severely.
* FamilyThemeNaming: Joshu, Daiya, Tsurugi, Jobin, Hato, and Norisuke all have Stands with "King" in their names.
* MythologyGag:
** He's similar to Joseph, Part Four Josuke's father, a ''lot'' more than you would think. Aside from his CoolOldGuy status, [[spoiler: having his left arm cut off while in a liquid state is not too far off from Joseph's left arm being melted off by Kars.]]
** He also has throwbacks to the original Josuke, insofar as his childhood name actually ''was'' Josuke, and his mother's name was Tomoko.
** His Stand is also similar to Part 4's Highway Star in that it's a scent tracking Stand that is capable of breaking apart and can switch to an automatic mode.
* OverprotectiveDad: He becomes angry, swearing to kill Josuke, after witnessing what appears to be a romantic affair between Josuke and Daiya.
* PapaWolf: When Damo questions him on Kira's wherabouts and threatens to kill Hato his daughter he agrees to talk in exchange that Damo return his children to normal and not kill his children.
* ScarilyCompetentTracker: King Nothing can take a "scent" of someone off an object they touched, and then reconstruct their movements.
** It can also be set to automatically "reconstruct" a given "scent", if any trace is nearby. [[spoiler:This reveals to Josuke (but not Norisuke) that Jobin is connected to the mysterious Rokakaka fruit]].
* ShadowArchetype: To the main character in a sense. His given name was also Josuke before taking the title of "Norisuke", and his mother's name was Tomoko (the same as Josuke's from Part 4). All with different kanji, of course.
* ThemeNaming: It's apparently a tradition that all heads of the Higashikata family be renamed "Norisuke" upon becoming patriarch, and all men in the family have names starting with "''Jo''". Norisuke IV was originally named [[spoiler:Josuke (written in Japanese as 常助)]].
* WholesomeCrossdresser: Until he was 12.
* WildCard: Events were playing up to Norisuke being [[BigBad behind several events in the arc]]. It was later subverted when it was revealed that he's on Josuke's side after all.
** Although Yagiyama then tells Josuke that the Higashikatas [[spoiler:still can't be trusted and will eventually betray him]], so nobody knows whose side he's truly on.

!Tomoko Higashikata
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Norisuke IV's mother.
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* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Gave up her life to take the Higashikata family illness from Norisuke and died in his place.]]
* PosthumousCharacter: Passed away when Norisuke was young.

!Caato Higashikata [[spoiler:(Stand: Name unknown)]]
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Norisuke IV's wife. She has been absent since the Higashikata family was introduced because [[spoiler:she has been in Stone Ocean prison for the past 15 years, only being released shortly after the death of Tamaki Damo. Her Stand allows her to hide things in a deck of cards she keeps with her at all times.]]
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* AnimeHair: Long black hair with tiny buns and pigtails that end in spiral ringlets.
* BlackSheep: When she finally meets her family almost everyone aside from Joubin is either shocked or filled with disgust towards her. [[spoiler:Considering she killed a child this trope is not unwarranted.]] Norisuke divorced her for that reason and he wants nothing to do with her; while Joshuu trips her up and almost destroys her sweater. Norisuke merely watches, while Hato stops Daiya from running to Caato, when Joshuu starts to abuse her it's clear that there's some real bad blood between most of them.
* TheGambler: Her outfit has several playing card motifs (at least the backs of the cards), and all of her daughters, her daughter-in-law even, and her one grand[[spoiler:son]] have playing card themed names, as well as herself being "Card". [[spoiler:Her Stand also operates using playing cards.]]
* NoodleIncident: Shortly before her release from prison, the guards tell her that society likely hasn't forgiven her for her crimes, and three chapters later, Hato reveals that she [[spoiler:murdered a child]].
* ImprobableWeaponUser: Her first offensive use of her Stand summons the ''legs of a chair'', catching Joshu off-guard with a blow to the chin.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Her name 花都 is made to be read as ''Kaato'' (かあと) in ''[=JoJolion=]'', even though the name is normally read as ''Kato'' (かと). However, her wedding ring from Norisuke IV has "N to C" inscribed in it, suggesting her name is written in English as "Caato".
* TechnicolorEyes: [[spoiler:Her eyes are split down the middle just like Josuke's. However, her eyes have a zigzag pattern going down the middle instead of a single line.]]
* ThemeNaming: Like the other women in the family, Caato's name has a playing card theme. Rather than a suit like her daughters, daughter-in-law, and grandchild, her name is derived from "card".

!Jobin Higashikata (Stand: Speed King)
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The eldest son of the Higashikata family. Aloof and often disappears. Has a wife, Mitsuba, and a child, Tsurugi. He possesses the Stand Speed King which is able to produce heat through objects he has touched.
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* AloofBigBrother: He treats his little brother Joshu like dirt.
* BeetleManiac: Jobin is a beetle afficionado, and his room includes several tomes about them, a collection of insects, and a vivarium in which he breeds stag beetles to fight.
* CoolCar: Jobin owns a golden Lamborghini.
* ManChild: Played with. Tsurugi repeatedly warns Josuke that Jobin ''is'' a sharp, competent, mature businessman as long as he thinks there's even the remotest possibility of business being discussed. Otherwise, he's somewhat obsessed with his hobbies and can't resist a challenge. Even his room reflects this dichotomy--it's spartan and plainly furnished, ''except'' for the many silly-looking toy robots and the many preserved or pet beetles along the walls.
* OlderThanTheyLook: He doesn't look that much older than his 18-years old brother, despite being nearly twice his age.
* PlayingWithFire: His Stand Speed King, while unable to produce actual flames, produces localized warmth conducted through an object he has held to where he can melt wax by brushing one of his pet beetles with a paintbrush or give Josuke a nosebleed by giving him a tissue to wipe his face with, bursting a blood vessel in his nose.
* PolitenessJudo: Engages in this with Josuke in his first appearance.
* SeriousBusiness: Beetle Fighting. Yes, he is very serious about gambling on his prized fighting beetles. So serious in fact that his Stand appears during it.
* ShoutOut: Jobin of fond of Japanese poet Aida Mitsuo's quotes, and is overjoed when someone recognizes them.
* SpikesOfVillainy: He works with the Rockmen and his suit is spiky everywhere.
* ThemeNaming: All of the men in the Higashikata family have names starting with the kanji "''Jo''" (常).
** [[spoiler:Should Norisuke IV die, Jobin would become Norisuke V.]]
* WholesomeCrossdresser: Until he was twelve.

!Mitsuba Higashikata
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Jobin's wife.
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* ThemeNaming: All of the women of the Higashikata family have playing card themed names. Mitsuba is the Suit of Clubs (''mitsuba'' is Japanese for "three leaves" or "trefoil", the shape of the Clubs).
* TheVoiceless: Of all of the characters in Part 8, Mitsuba has yet to have had a line of dialogue. There's not even a hint that she has a Stand like everyone else.

!Hato Higashikata (Stand: Name unknown)
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The eldest daughter of the Higashikata family. She works as a fashion model, and when she first meets Josuke she tries to sell him a magazine she appears in. Tsurugi claims that she too has a Stand, [[spoiler: but she didn't reveal it until Josuke helped her see through Damo's lies in Chapter 54. Her unnamed Stand allows Hato to extend her high heels to sharp points. She can use them to climb up walls or pierce through glass and stone to attack someone (namely Damo) from a distance.]]
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* BerserkerTears: When she is forced to attack Damo. She genuinely fell in love with him before she discovered his real nature.
* CombatStilettos: Literally. [[spoiler:Her Stand gives her the power to stretch the heels of her shoes into deadly spikes.]]
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: [[spoiler: As of Chapter 54, she inflicts a CurbStompBattle to Damo after having been only portrayed as a Ditz.]]
* TheDitz: She is very airheaded.
* DumbBlonde: She ruins a family trip to Hawaii because she thought it was a part of Japan and didn't need to get her passport. Her excuse? Because Pearl Harbor (真珠湾) is written in kanji in Japanese, rather than in katakana like other foreign terms in Japanese. And so is [[DragonBall Kamehameha]] (カメハメ波).
* DumbMuscle: Her Stand is one of the most straightforward in her family in terms of abilities and conventional strength.
* KickChick: [[spoiler:Her Stand's ability to extend her own high heels into spikes makes her kicks lethal.]]
* LetsGetDangerous: Her airheadedness is played for laughs early on into the series, [[spoiler:but once Damo threatens her family, she pulls out all the stops.]]
* MythologyGag:
** She greatly resembles Leone Abbacchio from Part 5. [[ArtEvolution By coincidence, even their facial features change similarly throughout their tenure]]-started out with a rounded face when they first appear and slowly turn angular after that.
** [[spoiler:Her piercing Damo's throat with narrow sharp heels of her Stand is similar to Dio delivering a fatal blow to Jonathan with his EyeBeams at the end of Part 1. She then proceeds to walk on walls much like Dio shortly after regaining his vampire powers.]]
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Rather pronounced when Caato shows back up again. While it took Damo actively trying to kill her for her to realize he was no good, the ''second'' she sees Caato again, she takes her mother's presence more seriously than everyone else except Norisuke. [[spoiler: Helps that she was old enough to remember her mother went to jail for ''murdering a child''.]]
* ProudBeauty: She evidences a degree of narcissism, self-identifying as beautiful.
* ThemeNaming: All of the women of the Higashikata family have playing card themed names. Hato is the Suit of Hearts.
* TranquilFury
* WomanScorned: After Damo revealed his true nature, Hato was a woman on a mission to kill Damo as viciously as possible.

!Joshu Higashikata (Stand: Nut King Call)
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-> Voiced by: Hiroaki Miura (''All-Star Battle'', ''Eyes of Heaven'')

The second son of the Higashikata family. His Stand Nut King Call can materialize nuts and bolts onto objects. It can then unscrew the bolts at will, at which point the object falls apart as if it was actually being held together with those bolts.
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* ADayInTheLimelight: The Milagro Man arc.
* AnimeHair: It's a bit difficult to describe. Apparently, he only has hair follicles on the very top of his head and his hair grows in very neat "sheets", so it looks like he has a couple pieces of black construction paper glued to his otherwise bald head.
** This is of course his hair in later appearances. [[http://imgcc.naver.jp/kaze/mission/USER/20130504/25/2202745/0/238x360xc6ee9020e8ccd122e72a7fea.jpg His hair at his debut is something else altogether.]]
** His own mother points out how ridiculous his hair looks.
* AwesomeByAnalysis: Similar to his rival, Joshu's immature and hysterical nature masks an unexpectedly keen mind. Case in point, before he gained the ability to see Stands, he still managed to outsmart the "users" of Shakedown Road that were trying to use him and Josuke as patsies for a drug deal by determining how the transaction was going to work before [[spoiler:sticking his foot out into the path of leaves so that the transferred money would go into his pocket instead of the bag on the other side of the street.]]
* BreakTheHaughty: A minor one in the "Milagro Man" arc where he is forced to let go of both his ego and his greed in order to escape the curse inflicted upon him.
* ButtMonkey
* TheCameo: Both the stage obstacle and Situation Finish of the Wall Eyes stage in ''All-Star Battle'', before being PromotedToPlayable.
* CrazyJealousGuy: He really, ''really'' dislikes Josuke for "stealing his girl", which is basically a conclusion he jumped to all by himself.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: In the Milagro Man arc, he proves he can pull off a trademark [=JoJo=] ruse, using Nut King Call to [[spoiler:put a bill ''inside'' Zaihei's bottle by screwing the two objects together, passing on Milagro Man's curse to him since it was an (accidental) theft.]]
* DefrostingIceKing: Warms up to Josuke somewhat, while still being as much of an ass as he was before. The fact that abandoning him for a couple of bucks and promising to treat him to a meal after he's bailed out of jail may actually be seen as a positive development for the character says a ''lot'' about Joshu.
* DumbassTeenageSon: He's vindictive, he's whiny and he's self-absorbed with a comically powerful self-serving memory. He definitely holds the IdiotBall tighter than anyone else in his family could.
* EvilKnockOff: Chapter 21 implies that Nut King Call's powers are meant to mimic Soft & Wet's Plunder as Joshu was capable of understanding it. So while its ability to remove, reattach, and displace objects is comparable to what Soft & Wet does, its a much cruder and close-range imitation of what Josuke's bubbles can do.
* HeartIsAnAwesomePower: His Stand basically makes screws everywhere, on anything. He can screw things together, or take things apart by unscrewing them (by taking the bolt off). Like most simple [=JoJo=] Stands, it's absolutely dangerous - Joshu accidentally unscrews a thug's hands from his wrists when it automatically protects him. [[CrossesTheLineTwice And then screws them back on the wrong way around]]. Even moreso when he learns how to actually use it (complete with pose!) and easily subdues a bunch of ne'er-do-wells in a cramped space.
* InferioritySuperiorityComplex: The "Milagro Man" arc reveals that his Jerkass tendencies are rooted in his jealousy of the 'talented people'.
* InstantDeathRadius: Nut King Call can manifest its screws anywhere within its range and can affect several targets at once.
* {{Jerkass}}: He's a whiny, self-absorbed brat.
* LockedOutOfTheLoop: Out of all the Higashikatas that have been given focus, he's the only one with almost no knowledge about the family's supernatural side. It's pathetic when you consider that ''his young [[spoiler:nephew]]'' isn't left in the dark, yet Joshu is.
** Possibly justified since he had no Stand prior to the start of the series and so he would struggle to grasp the concept of Stands and the like.
* NoSocialSkills
* PersonalityPowers: Nut King Call's Stand powers reflect both the violent and meticulous aspects of Joshu's personality.
* PowerPerversionPotential: The first time he consciously uses his Stand is trying to undress Yasuho. Does again on his mother Kaato when accusing her of being a fake. [[spoiler: [[LaserGuidedKarma The second time nets him a chair leg to the bottom of his mouth in retaliation.]]]]
* SpoiledBrat: Joshu behaves something like a spoiled child. He complains that the center spot in the family photograph is taken from him by Josuke, and is exasperated when his room is also given to him, only to be pacified when his father bribes him with money.
* ThemeNaming: All of the men in the Higashikata family have names starting with the kanji "''Jo''" (常).
* UnknownRival: Josuke's.
* WildCard: At this point, no one knows what side he'll end up on when all is said and done.
* {{Yandere}}: He attempts to bash Josuke's head in with a rock when he sees him with Yasuho for the first time.

!Daiya Higashikata (Stand: California King Bed)
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-> Voiced by: Creator/SaoriHayami (''Eyes of Heaven'')
The youngest daughter of the Higashikata household. She is blind and loves classic rock, and is completely infatuated with Josuke. Her Stand is California King Bed, which allows her to steal other people's memories should they break a rule in a game she makes. The stolen memories are turned into chess pieces that she collects. However, if she steps on her victim's shadow, the memories are returned.
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* ClingyJealousGirl: Harbors jealousy towards Yasuho, since she often has the attention of Josuke.
* DefeatMeansFriendship: It helps that she was already obssessed with Josuke.
* DisabilitySuperpower: Sure enough, although she is blind, her other senses work extremely well. She can even tell when Josuke has moved unnaturally. On top of that, she has memorized the layout of the entire estate and every object in it. And she has memorized exactly where the sun is at any time during the day, after telling the time using a special blind wrist watch, as well as every window in the house, all to know exactly how to keep Josuke under the thrall of California King Bed.
* FilleFatale: Subverted against Josuke.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: Upon her defeat, she settles for a warmer attitude, helping Josuke enter the secret room of the Higashikata household for his investigations]]
* InsistentTerminology: When first introduced, Daiya says her Stand's name is "California King Bed''-chan''" in Japanese. It turns out this is actually its name rather than just UsefulNotes/JapaneseHonorifics to signify her age.
* MsFanservice: She is... very... ''gifted''.
* MemoryWipingCrew: Basically has this as a power.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Looking at her traits, along with the other members of her family, she seems to resemble Bucciarati or Narancia, given her hairstyle and the way she acts. Adding to this, most of her family has someone that resembles someone from Giorno's Gang for that matter...
** Her appearance is also quite similar to Sugar Mountain of the previous part.
* ThemeNaming: All of the women of the Higashikata family have playing card-themed names. Daiya is the Suit of Diamonds.
* {{Yandere}}: She falls almost instantly for Josuke, much to his confusion.

!Tsurugi Higashikata (Stand: Paper Moon King[[note]]simply Paper Moon in serialization, the volumes appended King for [[ThemeNaming thematic reasons]][[/note]])
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-> Voiced by: Creator/YukaIguchi (''Eyes of Heaven'')
The nine-year-old child of Jobin and Mitsuba, and next head of the Higashikata family. [[spoiler:Tsurugi has been disguised as a girl his entire life in order to ward off the curse that afflicts the first born of any generation of his family that slowly turns them to stone.]] Tsurugi's Stand Paper Moon King imbues control over origami creations. Any piece of origami created will have the properties of the object it represents; a frog can jump and leap on its own, a cicada flies, a paper fortune teller can actually predict someone's thoughts, bunch of bananas can make someone slip and fall, etc. If someone happens to come in contact with one of Paper Moon King's creations, the person's sense of perception is completely disrupted, particularly if the target is looking for something or someone, as everything around them begins to look the same.
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* AdultFear: Jobin has no idea that [[spoiler:Aisho, the mysterious man he is secretly meeting with, is hunting down his son.]]
* BadassAdorable: Despite being frightened and cornered, [[spoiler:he manages to trick Aishou into getting hit by a bus thanks to Paper Moon King's illusions.]] Tsurugi also gives a DeclarationOfProtection for Jobin.
* CreepyChild: At first until Yasuho warms up to Tsurugi.
* DirtyKid: He likes touching Yasuho too much.
* FreudianExcuse: [[spoiler: He's under constant fear of a deadly family curse, ready to end his life the second he lets his guard down. It's no wonder he complies to Yotsuyu's demand; anyone in that situation would hang on to even a mere shred of hope.]]
* HeartIsAnAwesomePower: Tsurugi's Stand is able to weaponize the its ability to alter cognitive functions of the brain, most often in the form of prosopagnosia, but up to, and including, [[spoiler:making a public bus look like his own father just before it mows down the man under the illusion's control]].
* KidSidekick: {{Deconstructed}}. Tsurugi's decision to join the investigation is out of a fear for their own well-being and not for adventure. As a nine year old, Tsurugi is realistically frightened, confused, and overwhelmed by the situation they're all caught up in. Finally, when Tsurugi gets into a fight against an enemy that uses lethal force, Tsurugi reacts as any kid would: with complete terror.
* OlderThanTheyLook: Looks more like a chubby three year old than a nine year old. This is due to Araki retconning Tsurugi's age from from two years old.
* PaperMaster: Tsurugi's Stand power involves the art of origami. Tsurugi is covered in them and uses uses a cootie catcher to easily predict information about [[spoiler:Yasuho and Josuke]]. Later Tsurugi manages to fold up [[spoiler:Yasuho's phone]] into a frog, which then [[spoiler:leaps at her and its contact makes her suffer with something similar to visual agnosia]].
** YouALLLookFamiliar: Weaponized. Tsurugi's Paper Moon King Stand appears to be able to afflict its victims with an abstract form of visual agnosia that makes them unable to differentiate between objects that they're looking for. When first used on Yasuho and Josuke, all faces around the two of them, even their own reflections, look the same to them, and all signage and lettering around Yasuho turns into the name of the store she's trying to go to. When used on Aisho Dainenjiyama while he's looking for the combined Paper Moon King and Paisley Park as an origami frog, all leaves at Dainenjiyama's feet turn into origami frogs. [[spoiler:And later Dainenjiyama mistakes a bus for Jobin Higashikata due to another use of Paper Moon King on him, leading to his defeat.]] Tsurugi claims this effect is because the afflicted don't understand who they are in their hearts.
* ThemeNaming: All of the women of the Higashikata family have playing card themed names. Tsurugi is the Suit of Spades (''tsurugi'' is Japanese for "Sword", the Japanese name of the Spades suit). [[spoiler:However, Tsurugi is not a girl, and we don't know what his real name is until he turns 12.]]
* WholesomeCrossdresser: Turns out it's a Higashikata custom to [[spoiler: crossdress the firstborn children until they're 12 to protect them from the evil curse that turns them to stone.]]
* {{Yandere}}: Towards Yasuho, even moreso than Joshu. Tsurugi actually tries to ''break her mentally'', just to get close to her. At least Tsurugi does feel regret for what has been done and apologizes to her.

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[[folder:Neutral]]

!Holy Joestar-[[spoiler:Kira]]
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The AlternateUniverse counterpart of Holly Kujo. Before the earthquake, she served as T.H. Medical University Hospital's resident opthamologist before retiring and working as a professor at T.G. University. When Yasuho finds her, she's a patient at the hospital, having mysteriously lost some of her memory and mental functions.
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* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: This version of Holy is a bit ''off''. [[spoiler:It turns out that a large portion of her brain, along with a number of other organs, have been surgically removed for reasons unknown. However, the doctors have not found any surgery scars. Yasuho believes this may be a result of the Rokakaka fruit's abilities, or it could possibly be the result of the ground near the Wall Eyes or Josefumi Kujo's Stand's ability to steal.]]
* CoolShades
* TheMaidenNameDebate: Unlike her counterpart, Holy doesn't completely assume her husband's surname. Instead opting for a double-barrelled surname.
* NiceHat
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: She bears a striking resemblance to Music/LadyGaga.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: It's all but outright stated that she's more aware of what the hell is going on than most. [[spoiler:She even sees Yasuho's Paisley Park before it makes itself properly known to Yasuho herself.]]
* OlderThanTheyLook: She looks almost as young as Yasuho despite being 52.

! Suzuyo Hirose
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Yasuho's mother.
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* LadyDrunk: Yasuho stumbles upon her dead drunk when she comes home. It's implied this is a common issue.
* NamesTheSame: [[invoked]] Her name shares a kanji (鈴) with [[Characters/JoJosBizarreAdventurePart4 Reimi Sugimoto]].
* ReallyGetsAround: It's implied she sleeps around a lot, leading to Yasuho's resentment of her.

! Karera Sakunami (Stand: Love Love Deluxe)
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A young woman who appears in Morioh after Josuke and Yasuho meet up after the death of Aishou Dainenjiyama. She recognizes Josuke as an old friend she calls "Setchan", and Josuke follows her to try to uncover what she knows about who he used to be. Her Stand Love Love Deluxe allows her to grow other people's hair. She's mostly used it to grift people.
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* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: Karera cannot hold a proper conversation without being distracted by something, usually a potential target to con.
* ConMan: Karera regularly tries to con people out of their money.
* HiddenDepths: Under all her rudeness, Karera has a bad history with her family and lives the present to its fullest to forget her past.
* RapidHairGrowth: Karera can grow hair in area a person has touched. [[HeartIsAnAwesomePower She uses it to make makeshift strings to steal debit cards stealthily and then deduce the card's code by making hair grow on the buttons her victim has touched]]. [[spoiler:She also uses it to create a makeshift fuse to burn the A. Phex Brothers with gasoline.]]
* {{Stripperific}}: Wears cheap clothes that make her look like a hooker.
* WalkingSpoiler: Her introduction sets the plot regarding Josuke's true identity into hyperdrive, taking only 2 chapters to [[spoiler:reveal who his other half was]].
* [[ManOnFire Woman On Fire]]: Gets briefly hit with this when attacked by the A. Phex Brothers (gasoline+lighter=). "Briefly" because Josuke was there to "steal" the fire away.

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[[folder:Opponents]]

!Oujirou Sasame (Stand: Fun Fun Fun)
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A man who despises Yoshikage Kira, staking out his apartment to attack him when he came home. His Stand Fun Fun Fun allows him to control people's limbs so long as they have been injured while he and Fun Fun Fun are located above them; managing to injure both his victim's hands and feet is almost certain death at his hands.
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* ButtMonkey: He's often humiliated and beaten up by either Kira or Josuke.
* {{Fingore}}: Kira somehow manipulated him into doing this to himself, which is the reason for his grudge against him.
* PeoplePuppets: His Stand power.
* {{Sadist}}: He would often pass the time by using his to non-fatally drown any women that came near him. Kira was not pleased when he learned of this.

!The Gingko Trees of Shakedown Road (Stand: Les Feuilles [Autumn Leaves])
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This Stand can make a target slip along a trail of gingko leaves but instantly return to their original location, before the target themselves can notice. It seems that anyone can freely manipulate the Stand ability and accuse someone else of causing some kind of damage, using the Stand to have the ginkgo leaves make the damage real. The target is then extorted into covering the repairs. The phenomenon is only seen in one area of town, which has become infamous and is nicknamed "Shakedown Road". Josuke and Joshu have difficulty pinning down the actual user; according to the townspeople, ''anyone'' can manipulate the phenomenon as they see fit, and there is an unspoken rule that anyone can extort someone else after being extorted themselves.
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* {{Expy}}: The Stand's current application is similar to The Lock from ''Diamond Is Unbreakable'', except the guilt tripping isn't forced by the Stand and more everyone else on the road.
** Later chapters shows that there are hundreds of little Stands moving around the leaves, much like Harvest.
* GeniusLoci: A variant, in that the Stand is relegated to a single location and its users are the gingko trees lining the street. However, its real users can be said to be the people who learn of the Stand's ability and are conned by someone else, allowing them to con others.
* GratuitousFrench: While the Stand's name in Japanese clearly is read as the English phrase "Autumn Leaves", the "English" translated name is the French phrase "Les Feuilles", after its musical namesake "Les feuilles mortes" (still known as "Autumn Leaves" in English).
* MundaneUtility: The inhbaitants of Shakedown Road tend to use the effect of Les Feuilles to make dirty money.
* PlaceOfPower: While everyone knows about Shakedown Road and the strange "rules" that surround it, it's treated like a natural phenomenon since nobody can see the Stand itself, until Josuke and Joshu arrive.
* OurGhostsAreDifferent: One possible truth of the matter is that the ginkgo trees themselves are the "user", the Stand being just an aftereffect of [[spoiler:the Holy Corpse's influence on the local area that stuck around after Johnny attempted to use it to save his wife and child. However, after Johnny lands on the gingko leaves when he directs Rina's illness onto himself, his head is almost instantaneously crushed by a rock, suggesting Les Feuilles has been there the whole time.]]
* PunchClockVillain: When they're not wringing coins out of unwitting suckers, the people on Shakedown Road are somewhat decent, for the most part.
* TeleportInterdiction: The power of Les Feuilles works by creating a pathway with the Gingko leaves as a medium, and from there anyone can send things to or away at near-light speeds as long as the leaves' paths intersect.
* WindsOfDestinyChange

!Yotsuyu Yagiyama (Stand: I Am A Rock)
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The architect of the Higashikata household and self-described as someone obsessed with social status. He is first seen assaulting Yasuho in the Higashikata household without the family's knowledge. He is also apparently the man responsible for taking Josuke's memories away. His Stand I Am A Rock has gravity-themed power that allows him to turn anyone he touches into a gravitational point for any object of his choosing such as heavy pottery, prickly chestnuts, or bottles of toxic pesticide. He can also form a film from his eyes and mouth that can more easily direct his gravitational powers, such as waterboarding by pouring water onto it. He also possesses the ability to turn his skin and body into stone; however, Norisuke IV and Josuke surmise this cannot be because of a Stand ability, but rather a natural ability he has on his own as he is a member of a race of humanoid beings known as Rock Humans.
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* AmbiguousGender: Extremely androgynous in appearance, and [[spoiler:after he falls apart Norisuke wonders where the penis has gone. It's possible that Yagiyama may have never had one at all.]]
* DudeLooksLikeALady
* GenreSavvy: Knows of the existence of Stands and knows how to coerce a Stand to come out of their users, even those that are automatic.
* HumanoidAbomination: One of the first things he does is manhandle a Stand, which is usually only possible BY Stands (his own Stand is barely visible in helping him do this, but the presentation is still very unusual for the series). Similarly, he can make magic plastic-wrap come out of his eyes (also presumably a Stand-ability) which is decidedly freaky in presentation. And if that isn't enough, ''[=JoJolion=]'' Chapter 30 reveals that his body's constitution is made up of... rocks. The implication within that chapter is that that ''wasn't'' a Stand ability.
* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: He explicitly uses waterboarding (although without the board).
** Later, he has this done to him by Josuke, only he ends up getting KilledOffForReal because Josuke underestimates his SuperDrowningSkills.
* NoSenseOfPersonalSpace: Possibly necessary, since he was waterboarding Yasuho while trying to talk to her.
* RummageSaleReject: His clothes are weird as hell, and include what seems to be a breast plate worn over a tunic worn over a black spike-covered body-suit, as well as spiked shoulder pads on top of all that.
** However, it's just another example of Araki [[http://fashionindustryarchive.com/Editorials/Vogue-Japan-Ediorial-October-2013--Sasha-Luss-by-Daniele-and-Iango/ finding some weird real outfit]].
* SpikesOfVillainy: They are present in all of his body. He also wants Josuke dead and isn't afraid of using villain-like techniques to achieve his goals.
** Chapter 30's special illustration in the April 2014 ''Ultra Jump'' shows this trait extends to his Stand.
* StalkerWithACrush: He doesn't want Josuke to be sad because he claims that Josuke will die again, and therefore, wants to erase Josuke's memories again. And he's been stalking both Josuke and Yasuho the whole time.
* ThemeNaming: "Yagiyama" is a neighborhood and mountain range near Morioh and S-City (as well as in real world Sendai). [[spoiler:It's suggested that he and Dainenjiyama have simply used these nearby mountains as pseudonyms in order to infiltrate human society.]]
* WeaksauceWeakness: Thought it seems that Yagiyama has no need to breathe, his skin needs continuous access to oxygen for him to function when he's petrified. In fact, it seems that whatever species Yagiyama belongs to is far more dependent on air than mankind, [[spoiler:as he literally cracks and falls apart when underwater after Josuke uses Soft & Wet to steal the oxygen from his body.]]

!Aishou Dainenjiyama (Stand: Doobie Wah!)
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A mysterious dealer with access to fruit-trees that cure the Higashitaka illness; [[spoiler:the Rokakaka fruit actually has an EquivalentExchange aspect, as someone who eats the fruit is cured of one affliction while gaining another]]. He has associated with both Yotsuyu Yagiyama and Jobin Higashikata in the past. It is also revealed he is a Rock Human, and knows Yagiyama personally. His Stand, "Doobie Wah!", allows him to create an automatically attacking tornado that grows in intensity with the breathing of his targets.
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* AvengingTheVillain: He quickly realizes that Yotsuyu is most likely dead and swears to find the ones involved.
* BlowYouAway: His Stand Doobie Wah! takes the form of a little tornado.
* ButtMonkey: is frequently ridiculed, to the point it could cross into IneffectualSympatheticVillain and TheWoobie if not for his WouldHurtAChild tendencies.
* DeepSleep: When he sleeps, he has to sleep for a month and cannot possibly wake up during that time.
* DoNotTouchTheFunnelCloud: His Stand takes the form of a miniature twister that tracks down and tears its victims apart. What's worse is that it can reform in your presence by ''using your breath''.
* EtTuBrute: He's a victim of this when his human girlfriend takes advantage of his month long sleep to sell his land.
* PunctuatedForEmphasis: Doobie Wah!
* StupidCrooks: In chapter 51, Josefumi and Kira steal parts of the Rokakaka tree right under his nose.
* ThemeNaming: Like Yotsuyu Yagiyama, "Dainenjiyama" is a mountain near Morioh and S-City (as well as real world Sendai).

! A. Phex Brothers (Stand: Schott Key No. 1 and No. 2)
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A pair of street performers after Karera Sakunami. Both have pierced ears; the older brother has his right ear pierced while the younger brother has his left ear pierced. The older brother's Stand has the ability to transform (what's left of) his right hand into whatever his left is touching. The younger brother's Stand constantly generates a deadly gas. They, too, are Rock Humans like Yagiyama and Dainenjiyama. This time we learn that [[spoiler:Rock Humans aren't fireproof]].
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* DeadlyGas: Schott Key No. 2 never stops creating that poison gas. Unlike other examples, the A Phexes ''aren't'' immune to it, so it's kept inside the soccer ball where the gas can't escape. The elder twin can use Schott Key No. 1 while touching the zipper to jettison some of the gas at an enemy.
* [[HoistByHisOwnPetard Hoist By Their Own Petard]]: [[spoiler:While the brothers are busy trying to put out the fire Karera set on them, Soft & Wet uses its bubbles to smother them with the very same gas that Schott Key No. 2 generated.]]
* PowerCopying: The older brother's Stand has the ability to make whatever his left hand touches sprout from the rocky stump where his right hand should be.

! Tamaki Damo (Stand: Vitamin C)
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Hato's new boyfriend. [[spoiler:He's an associate of the Rock Humans who previously took Josefumi Kujo's identity. He's only become Hato's boyfriend in order to get closer to both Norisuke IV and the man he believes to be Yoshikage Kira.]] His Stand Vitamin C can "soften" living bodies into putty or nearly a liquid. [[spoiler:Hato's attacks reveal he is also a Rock Human, a fact that Josuke uses to his advantage when he tracks Damo down and kills him for good.]]
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* BodyHorror: His Stand Vitamin C can, amongst other things, twist your body around and ''melt'' you into a state liquid enough to go down a drain, or seemingly absorb you into itself.
** NoOntologicalInertia: Anything that was liquified by Vitamin C is restored to normal once it's outside its range.
* CoolShades: overlaps with SinisterShades.
* DeadPersonImpersonation: [[spoiler:It's implied that the reason no one is looking for Josefumi Kujo is because Tamaki stole his identity; which is why his face appears on Josefumi's passport.]]
* DiscOneFinalBoss: [[spoiler: Josuke notices that since Damo attacked the Higashikata household without any assistance, he's the leader of the Rokakaka smuggling ring--he has no subordinates left.]]
* {{Expy}}: May be one to Irving Rosenfelt from AmericanHustle, from the general appearance to the hot girlfriend.
* FatBastard.
* FauxAffablyEvil: [[spoiler:Acts polite and lovely to Norisuke, while torturing him for answers. When Norisuke hesistates in answering questions, he casually slices his hand off with a thousand yen banknote, explaining that Vitamin C makes its victims softer than butter and calmly adds he could to the same to Norisuke's daughters.]]
* {{Gonk}}: Noticeably unattractive, with a combover and no chin. When Hato introduces her boyfriend to them, Hato's family and Josuke are left speechless at how he looks and how he managed to pull Hato the glamour model.
* HeartIsAnAwesomePower: Tamaki's case Stands out in that Vitamin C has a similar power to Trish Una's Spice Girl. However, Trish never reduced her enemies to grotesque layers of goo. [[spoiler:With this power, this guy also neutralizes Kira's Sheer Heart Attack with Vitamin C, which is crazy considering how unstoppable it was in Part 4.]]
* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: [[spoiler:After rendering Norisuke immobile into a pile of goo, he announces that he has three things he wants to know and demands answers from Norisuke for each of them. When Norisuke resists cooperation, he slices his arm off with a ''thousand yen banknote''. It's not the first time he has done this.]]
* KnightOfCerebus: [[spoiler: The first character to attack directly the family household. No matter the outcome, the Higashikatas won't return to a normal life after Damo.]]
* ObfuscatingStupidity: Don't let his appearance fool you. [[spoiler:This guy singlehandedly incapacitates almost everyone in the Higashikata family, and they're a ''family'' of Stand users, including Norisuke.]]
* OneHeadTaller: Inverted, Hato is the one who's one head taller in that case.
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: In his introduction, he appears to be some chubby unattractive dude with a horrible taste in fashion and hopeless social skills. [[spoiler:Two chapters later, and he has successfully infiltrated the Higashikata household, incapacitated most of its members and reveals his confident and intimidating self to Norisuke. He also confronted Kira and Josefumi in the past and at least lived.]]
* {{Sadist}}: [[spoiler: Interrogation on his immobile victims seems to be his preferred method of drawing information out, and appears to have a penchant for torturing his softened victims with a thousand yen banknote if they do not comply (he also put a fish in Norisuke's liquefied body just for his fun)]].
* SmugSnake: [[spoiler: His bravado comes apart after he gets skewered by Hato.]]
* [[UglyGuyHotWife Ugly Guy Hot Girlfriend]]: To everyone's wonder, he's dating Hato.
* VillainsWantMercy: Claims he's the only one who can [[spoiler: import the Rokakaka]] shortly before [[spoiler: Josuke offs him in the middle of the sidewalk.]]
* YoungerThanTheyLook: Or so he claims. He says he's 23, but easily looks twice older than that if not more.

! Zaihei Nigatake ("Stand": Milagro Man)
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An idol fan who is robbed by Joshu after he "accidentally" leaves his wallet behind at a local idol goods store. He is one of the victims of Milagro Man, a Stand that "curses" its victim to constantly earn money and never lose any of it until it buries them alive. The only way to escape the curse is [[spoiler:to have Milagro Man's money stolen from them]].

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* BlessedWithSuck: Those under the thrall of Milagro Man constantly earn money every time they try to spend it. Store clerks and taxi drivers outright refuse payment and give even more money back. Vending machines spit the money back out and give back even more money in change. Gambling it away results in winning the highest payout. Even gangsters are aware of Milagro Man and give up their own money to the victim. Money comes pouring in to the point that it threatens the victim's life. The only way out [[spoiler:is to be robbed and pass Milagro Man onto the next greedy victim]]. Nigatake thanks Joshu for freeing him from the curse, as he is finally able to buy things.
* DeathByMaterialism: Milagro Man attacks people who are greedy [[spoiler:enough to steal from someone else]] and eventually kills the target by literally burying them in cash.
* {{Expy}}: Of Toyohiro Kanedaichi from Part 4. Both are tormented by a BlessedWithSuck ability, pass it onto someone else, offer advice on how to get rid of it, and end up stuck with their respective curses again at the end of their arcs. Though, Kanedaichi ended on much more comfortable terms with Super Fly than Nigatake with Milagro Man.
* WoundedGazelleGambit: How he, and everyone else afflicted by the Milagro Man curse, passes it on: [[spoiler:getting someone to steal the Milagro Man's money. Nigatake was cursed after he stole from a man pretending to be a panhandler in Italy. Nigatake purposefully leaves his wallet behind and announces his favorite idol in earshot of Joshu so Joshu can guess his debit card PIN later and steal from him, passing Milagro Man onto him.]]

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* NakedOnArrival
** NakedFirstImpression: Seems to have scarred Yasuho for life.

* Ship Tease: With Yasuho, big time. Both Josuke and Yasuho blushed heavily when asked about one another by others, and become either defensive or nervous when asked about their relationship. They've thought sincerely about each other and even held hands on more than one occasion. At this point, the only thing not making this Official Couple is the lack of the words "Boyfriend and Girlfriend".

* Girl Next Door: Yasuho isn't as heavily feminine or "developed" like Hato or Daiya, but she isn't a tomboy like Hot Pants or Ermes. Yasuho is somewhere in between, as well as reserved and down to Earth.

* Ship Tease: With Josuke, big time. Both Josuke and Yasuho blushed heavily when asked about one another by others, and become either defensive or nervous when asked about their relationship. They've thought sincerely about each other and even held hands on more than one occasion. At this point, the only thing not making this Official Couple is the lack of the words "Boyfriend and Girlfriend".

* Girl Next Door: Yasuho isn't as heavily feminine or as "developed" as Hato or Daiya, but she isn't a tomboy like Hot Pants or Ermes. Yasuho is somewhere in between, as well as reserved and down to Earth.

* Ship Tease: With Yasuho, big time. Both Josuke and Yasuho blushed heavily when asked about one another by others, and become either defensive or nervous when asked about their relationship. They've thought sincerely about each other and even held hands. At this point, the only thing not making this Official Couple is the lack of the words "Boyfriend and Girlfriend".

* WhatIf: ''[=JoJolion=]'' Kira is essentially Araki's answer to what would have happened; had the original Yoshikage Kira's mother survived and was a positive influence on him. Kira 8 is the other side of Kira 4's spectrum. While still an impersonal jerk, Kira is never shown in the manga to commit murder; and this is despite having Killer Queen, the ultimate killing Stand. The only times Kira is shown using it is when he saved a life or defending himself, and Kira abstains from killing when it would have proven to be a safer and more easy option. Most importantly, while Kira 4 was an sociopathic serial killer; Kira 8 is shown to be extremely empathetic.

* BerserkerTears: When she is forced to attack Damo. She genuinely fell in love for him before discover his real evil nature.

!Hato Higashikata (Stand: Walking Heart)

The eldest daughter of the Higashikata family. She works as a fashion model, and when she first meets Josuke she tries to sell him a magazine she appears in. Tsurugi claims that she too has a Stand, [[spoiler: but she didn't reveal it until Josuke helped her see through Damo's lies in Chapter 54. Walking Heart allows Hato to extend her high heels to sharp points. She can use them to climb up walls or pierce through glass and stone to attack someone (namely Damo) from a distance.]]

* PunnyName: Her Stand. All previous Higashikata family members have "King" in their name as a standalone word. Hato instead has it as the component of one (Wal'''king''' Heart).

The eldest daughter of the Higashikata family. She works as a fashion model, and when she first meets Josuke she tries to sell him a magazine she appears in. Tsurugi claims that she too has a Stand, [[spoiler: but she didn't reveal it until Josuke helped her see through Damo's lies in Chapter 54.]]

* BlackSheep: When she finally meets her family almost everyone aside from Joubin is either shocked or filled with disgust towards her. [[spoiler:Considering she killed a child this trope is not unwarranted.]] Norisuke divorced her for that reason and he wants nothing to do with her; while Joshuu trips her up and almost destroys her sweater. Norisuke merely watches, while Haato stops Daiya from running to Caato, when Joshuu starts to abuse her it's clear that there's some real bad blood between most of them.

--> ''Yasuho'': "Between his legs, in his pelvic region... There were a total of four... Absolutely, there were four testicles... Four! Four testicles. Thankfully, there was only a single penis. the important point is, there were two pairs of testicles. This is completely insane... The moment I saw them is scorched into my memory eternally... Perhaps it was better that I never mentioned it at the time?"

* PowerPerversionPotential: The first time he consciously uses his Stand is trying to undress Yasuho. Does again on his mother Kaato when accuse her of to be a fake.

* NoodleIncident: Shortly before her release from prison, the guards tell her that society likely hasn't forgiven her for her crimes, and three chapters later, Hato reveals that she [[spoiler:murdered a child.]]

! "Josuke Higashikata" [[spoiler:Real name: Josefumi Kujo]](Stand: Soft & Wet)

While he is [[spoiler:initially]] named Josuke after the protagonist of ''Diamond Is Unbreakable'', it should be noted that his name is actually written differently (part 4 仗助 versus part 8 定助). In the All-Star Battle localization, they differentiate between the two by referring to them as "Josuke Higashikata 4" and "Josuke Higashikata 8" respectively. [[spoiler: His real name, however, is Josefumi Kujo, as his current form was caused by sharing the rokakaka fruit with a dying Kira and then the two of them getting buried near the wall eyes during a landslide.]]

* BerserkButton: ''Try'' to harm Yasuho, and Josuke will stop at nothing to end you. Case in point; when Yotsuyu takes her, the same "Dark Determination" Johnny had in his eyes in Part 7 appears in Josuke's; the same cold, fiery look that means that he ''really'' wants to kill you.