History Characters / JoJosBizarreAdventurePart8

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 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]].

* ADayInTheLimelight; The Milagro Man arc.

* 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 nephew'' isn't left in the dark, yet Joshu is.

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** 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.

* MythologyGag: All of them resemble members of Buccellati's Gang from ''Vento Aureo''.

! Josefumi Kujo (Stand:[[spoiler:Soft & Wet]])

* WalkingSpoiler: Well, not quite walking anymore.

The eldest son of the Higashikata family. Aloof and often disappears. Has a wife, Mitsuba, and a "daughter", Tsurugi. He possesses the Stand Speed King which is able to produce heat through objects he has touched.

* 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 massive amounts of preserved or domesticated beetles along the walls.

* AdultFear: Jobin has no idea that [[spoiler:Aishou, the mysterious man he is secretly meeting with, is hunting down his son.]]

** 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 Aishou 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.

* InTheBlood: Joshu, Daiya, Tsurugi, Jobin, and Norisuke all have Stands with "King" in their names; it's assumed that Hato follows suit as well.

* 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:Although, it turns out Tsurugi isn't a woman.]]

** It's not just a support ability: her Stand once "guided" a car in which Yasuho was being held captive to stop... by twisting the driver's leg so the car crashed. Ouch.

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 Holly 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.

* [[spoiler: BrokenStreak: 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)]].

* {{Determinator}}: Once you trigger ''Born This Way'', he won't stop trying to freeze/impale/run over you.

* NotSoStoic: She's seen stonefaced until [[spoiler:Josuke confronts her about why she doesn't want him to see Holly Joestar.]]

* ThemeNaming: Each of the Nijimura family members' names is a reference to a very large number. 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 Holly Joestar.

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 Holly 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.

* CompositeCharacter: [[spoiler:In the AlternateUniverse, he takes the place of Jotaro Kujo in the Joestar family line as the son of Holly 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.]]

* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: Kira is a nasty piece of work, but he was apparently trying to save his mother's life before his death. [[spoiler:Holly 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.]]

* TheReveal: [[spoiler:Yoshikage Kira is Holly's son, not Jotaro -- and 'Josuke' is a fusion of Kira and Josefumi Kujo, the alternate universe's incarnation of the Kujo bloodline]].

* 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 Holly and Kira; and this time he actually finds out who they are.]]

!Holly Joestar-[[spoiler:Kira]]

* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: This version of Holly 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.]]

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 becomes somewhat of a technopath.

!Hato Higashikata (Stand: Name unknown)

! Kyou Nijimura [[spoiler:(Joestar-Kira)]] (Stand: Born This Way[[note]]Originally named "Going Underground" during serialization[[/note]])

* [[spoiler: BrokenStreak: Kyou 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)]].

** Josuke and Okuyasu in part 4 were very close BashBrothers, and [[spoiler: in the new timeline, Josuke and Kyou are actual siblings]].

* ThemeNaming: Each of the Nijimura family members' names is a reference to a very large number. Whereas Okuyasu's name contains the character for "hundred million" and Keicho's has "trillion", Kyou's name means "ten quadrillion".

* ThemeNaming: All of the women of the Higashikata family have playing card themed names. Jobin's wife Mitsuba is the Suit of Clubs (''mitsuba'' is Japanese for "Three-Leaves", resembling the shape of the Clubs).

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 set a rule. If her target breaks that rule, they will lose memories which will be contained within chess pieces.

* DisabilitySuperpower: Sure enough, although she is blind, her other senses work extremely well.

** 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.]]

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: A frame in chapter 48 has his name written in English as "Jyosefumi" rather than "Josefumi", as most people had assumed it would be translated. [[spoiler:This could also be a mistake on Tamaki Damo's part.]]
** In reality, "Jyo" is simply a less common but still acceptable romanization of "Jo", and has no deeper meaning.
** We later see his cellphone which has "Josephmi" written on it in English. Though that one's likely a mistranslation on Araki's part.
** And to top it off, the sheet of paper that had "Jyosefumi" written on it says "Josefumi" 7 chapters later.