Characters / JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: JoJolion - The Higashikata Family

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Main Character Index
Phantom Blood: DIO
Battle Tendency: Joseph Joestar
Stardust Crusaders: The Joestar Group (Jotaro Kujo | Jean-Pierre Polnareff) | Egypt 9 Glory Gods | DIO's Household
Diamond is Unbreakable: Heroes | Yoshikage Kira
Golden Wind: Team Bucciarati (Giorno Giovanna) | La Squadra di Esecuzioni | The Boss
Stone Ocean: Heroes | Enrico Pucci
Steel Ball Run
JoJolion: The Higashikata Family
The JOJOLands
One-Shot Characters | Spinoff Characters

Beware of spoilers. As Spoiler Policy dictates, trope names are not whited out.

The Higashikata Family

T-B, L-R: Joshu, Kei, Josuke, Daiya, Norisuke, Hato, Jobin, Tsurugi, Mitsuba, and Iwasuke
Not pictured: Kaato

An esteemed, wealthy family that adopted Josuke as one of their own. Johnny Joestar married into the family after the events of the Steel Ball Run. They've been dealing with a family curse that takes the form of an illness that affects the first born of every generation, slowly turning their body to stone. The only way to treat it is to exchange the curse with someone else, a role assigned to the child's mother.

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In General

• Action Girl: The women in the family are Stand users. The eldest daughter Hato helped Josuke take down a prominent villain that was threatening her family, while Daiya helped Josuke investigate his identity behind her father's back. Even Kaato doesn't hesitate using her Stand on her son Joshu for mistreating her, and Mitsuba reveals a Stand of her own while fighting Wu Tomoki for ultimately aborting her child.
• Badass Family: All family members are Stand users who don't hesitate to use their abilities when the going gets tough. Including the women and extended relatives.
• Cloudcuckoolander: Every single one of them. Case in point: They all decide to wear bathing suits while eating pancakes for breakfast, because they missed a trip to Hawaii. Joshu meanwhile, refuses, because he doesn't believe in God, apparently.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Those Higashikata women who become mothers die very early to the family curse, because if not, their child(ren) will become the victims. The only one who subverted it is Kaato, who managed to get around it by transferring the curse to a bully that her oldest son badly injured in a Stand-related accident, and burying him alive at the shrine where her husband's mother sacrificed herself to save her son. Unfortunately, it became all for nothing when Kaato still ended up missing a good chunk of her children's lives when she was arrested for child homicide.
• Missing Mom: A common occurrence in this family is that all the women die very young if they have children, due to the curse that originated with Johnny Joestar, who sacrificed himself to save his wife at the time of his death. The curse is a Rock Disease that gradually causes its victims to turn to stone, and currently the only way to avert it is to transfer the curse onto another person. The mothers often do this because if not, the children will die instead. Kaato did go missing for a while, then came back to hostile reception because 15 years ago, she committed child homicide against a bully who was tormenting Jobin and ended up severely injured when Jobin's Stand emerged. Kaato didn't want to sacrifice herself and miss out on her children's lives, and buried the bully alive at the shrine where her husband's mother sacrificed herself, transferring the curse onto the bully instead. Her efforts end up for naught as she was arrested for her crime, and her husband divorced her to ward off shame from the family name.
• Mythology Gag: A huge family of Stand users? Sounds like the Joestar family.
• Quirky Household: A Cool Old Guy and current owner of the family fruit business, his Beetle Maniac eldest son, an airheaded supermodel, an Otaku, a Blind Seer girl who wears bear-themed clothing, and the grandchild, who is currently being Raised as the Opposite Gender. There's also the ex-wife of the family's patriarch who almost nobody remembers nor likes, Jobin's wife who gets excess surgeries to impress him (but both eventually settle with her having a nose of stone), the family maid who is secretly also a relative of the bloodline, an amnesiac being hosted by the family while he finds out who he is, and the dog who can phase through walls and is made of stone.
• Theme Naming:
  • Almost all the men in the family have a name beginning with the kanji Jō (常): Jobin, Joshu, their father's birth name, Josuke.
  • All the women have a name related to playing cards. The daughters Hato and Daiya are named after the Heart and Diamond suits of cards, respectively. Jobin's wife Mitsuba and child Tsurugi are also named after card suits: the Clubs and the Spades. The matriarch Kaato is named after the whole set; appropriate, since she is their mother.
  • Additionally, all of the Higashikata's Stands we've seen so far have "King" in their name. Furthermore, the positioning of the "King" indicates their generation: King Nothing has the "King" come first, because Norisuke is the eldest; his sons, daughters and wife have "King" second (Speed King, Nut King Call, California King Bed, Walking Heart, Space Trucking), and his grandchild has it third (Paper Moon King). It might also be worth noting that Yoshikage Kira, a direct descendant of the original Norisuke Higashika, had the Stand named Killer Queen. Though it's possibly coincidental since his sister's Stand doesn't follow suit.
• Taken for Granite: The entire family suffers from a curse where every first-born child will slowly turn into stone. To remedy this, first-born sons are required to become Wholesome Crossdressers until they reach the age of 12. Much of the conflict comes from the depths Jobin will sink to in order to save his son from that fate. The first born daughters don't begin to exhibit symptoms of the curse until adulthood.
• Wholesome Crossdresser: As per family tradition, all first born sons are required to dress up as girls until the age of 12 to protect themselves from a family curse that slowly turns first-born children into stone.

Norisuke Higashikata IV

Norisuke Higashikata IV, born Josuke Higashikata (Stand: King Nothing)

Voiced by: Jurota Kosugi (Eyes of Heaven)

^{King Nothing}

"Your Stand is like your asshole. You can't go around showing it off to other people."

The patriarch of the Higashikata family. He's laid back and friendly, but caring for his children despite the antics they get into on a daily basis.

His Stand, King Nothing (named after a Metallica song), has a jigsaw puzzle pattern and is able to track scents by replicating their origin's appearance and movement. He can also use his Stand to detach psychic projections of his limbs if his own arms cannot fit through a gap.

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• Anime Hair: While Josuke has too many balls on his crotch, Norisuke has too many balls in his hair. A flashback in Chapter 29 shows that it's been like that since he was a child.
• Boyfriend-Blocking Dad: He becomes angry, swearing to kill Josuke, after witnessing what appears to be a romantic affair between his adoptive charge Josuke and his youngest daughter Daiya.
• Cool Old Guy: He's the Higashikata patriarch and a grandfather, but he's relaxed and amicable to Josuke. He also says some of the most memorable lines in Part 8, such as "Your Stand is like your asshole. You can't go around showing it off to other people."
• Disney Death: In the leadup to the final battle, Jobin seemingly kills Norisuke with Speed King to silence him after his schemes are uncovered by King Nothing, and he is shown in a flash-forward to the aftermath in a bodybag. However, after Tooru is defeated, he is revealed to only be unconscious, and is recovering in hospital in the final chapter.
• Good Parents: 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 Higashikata family Rock Disease and being sorry for Holly'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 too severely.
• Family Theme Naming: Joshu, Daiya, Tsurugi, Jobin, Hato, and Norisuke all have Stands with "King" in their names. His is named "King Nothing" because he is the originator of the "King"-based names of his children's Stands.
• He Knows Too Much: He's seemingly murdered by Jobin when he discovers Jobin's involvement with the Locacaca smuggling group.
• Mythology Gag:
  • He's similar to Joseph, Part Four Josuke's father, a lot more than you would think. Aside from his Cool Old Guy status, having his left arm cut off while in a liquid state is not too far off from Joseph's left arm being sliced 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.
  • Like Part 5's Moody Blues, King Nothing can "replay" scenarios by reconstructing itself into an object or person it seeks to track. This is how Norisuke discovered that Ojiro Sasame tried to steal the Locacaca from Jobin.
• Older Than They Look: He's very attractive for a man who's pushing into his sixties.
• Only Mostly Dead: From the very start of the Countdown to the Harvest, the reader is led to believe that Norisuke will die, the flash forward showing him in a bodybag. Sure enough, this appears to be fulfilled when Jobin seemingly kills Norisuke with Speed King for discovering Jobin's schemes. However, it isn't until the Harvest is over when the cured Tsurugi reveals that Norisuke is still alive and unconscious, Jobin being unable to go through with it and ensuring the burns were only minor. Come the final chapter, and he's said to be okay and to be discharged from the hospital in a day.
• Outliving One's Offspring: He outlives his firstborn son, Jobin.
• Papa Wolf: When Damo questions him on Kira's whereabouts and threatens to kill his eldest daughter Hato, he agrees to talk in exchange that Damo return his children to normal and not kill them.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: After Josuke informs Norisuke about Jobin's partnership with the Rock Humans; rather than freak out he entertains the possibility that Jobin is really up to something. Afterwards he trusts Josuke enough to let him in on a strict company secret to help Josuke find a Locacaca branch; something he doesn't tell to anyone, even Jobin.
• Scarily Competent Tracker: 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. This reveals to Josuke (but not Norisuke) that Jobin is connected to the mysterious Locacaca fruit.
• Shadow Archetype: 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.
• Theme Naming: 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 Josuke (written in Japanese as 常助).
• Wholesome Crossdresser: Until he was 12, due to a family curse that slowly turns all first-born children in his family into stone.
• Wild Card: Events were playing up to Norisuke being behind several events in the arc. It was later subverted when it was revealed that he's on Josuke's side after all.

Kaato Higashikata

Kaato Higashikata (Stand: Space Trucking)

^{Space Trucking}

"He may have divorced me while I was in jail, but I'm going to be compensated with money! ...Because I'm taking my life back. Otherwise, it wouldn't have been worth it."

Norisuke IV's wife. She has been absent since the Higashikata family was introduced because she has been in Stone Ocean prison for the past 15 years, only being released shortly after the death of Tamaki Damo.

Her Stand, Space Trucking (named for the Deep Purple song "Space Truckin'"), allows her to hide things in a deck of cards she keeps with her at all times. She can also use the cards to pin objects in one place.

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• Adrenaline Makeover: Very subtle, but it's there between her two costumes so far. Both are very similar and keep the same playing card theme, but her first design when she got out of prison was a long dress, whereas once she reappears after Tooru's attack, taking a more active role, she's wearing long pants with an odd half-skirt on the back. The top is mostly similar and the decorations are shuffled around, but her second costume looks less "ladylike" and more like it's easier to move on, which In Universe could be easily justified if she didn't want to deal with a long dress that day.
• Anime Hair: Long black hair with tiny buns and pigtails that end in spiral ringlets. When she was younger and pregnant with Daiya, her hair was fashioned into simpler braids instead.
• Asshole Victim: The child she was imprisoned for killing was a bully—he not only forced Jobin to steal her underwear and take racy photos of her, but after a girl tattled on him to the authorities, he also threatened to burn off Jobin's face with oil as a threat if he didn't set fire to said girl's house.
• Bag of Holding: Kaato's Stand, Space Trucking, allows her to hide and hold objects in between a deck of playing cards, including, but not limited to, a chair leg. Joshu never saw that coming. Space Trucking is also not limited to inanimate objects, as revealed when she pulls a petrified Tsurugi out to thwart Tooru's plans.
• Berserker Tears: Already distraught by her family's curse as is, when Kaato forces Tooru to undergo Equivalent Exchange with Tsurugi to remove the Rock Curse, she's visibly crying Ocular Gushers while putting her plan into motion.
• Black Sheep: When she finally meets her family almost everyone aside from Jobin is either shocked and/or filled with disgust towards her. Considering she was accused of killing a child, this trope is not unwarranted. Norisuke divorced her for that reason and he wants nothing more to do with her. When Joshu starts to abuse her and no one (besides Daiya) is bothered by it; it's clear that there's some real bad blood between most of them.
• The Bus Came Back: After a long absence, she ominously reappears in Chapter 106, just to encounter a badly wounded Tooru hit by Josuke's Invisible Spin.
• Call-Back: A dark-haired Action Mom absent from her child's/children's life for a significant period of time because she committed a crime that involved killing a bad person who hurt her family. She wants to teach her son to become strong and be able to defeat his enemies. She is actually in her fifties, but appears to be in her twenties. Is this Kaato, or Lisa Lisa from Battle Tendency?
• Character Development: Kaato's past showed she valued self-preservation over what was expected of a Higashikata matriarch, that is to sacrifice herself to save the first born from the family's curse, the mindset that lead her into the perfect scenario where she used Jobin's bully as the scapegoat to save her son and herself; many years later however, Kaato is then ready to put her life on the line to save her grandson Tsurugi, her gamble against Tooru succeeded in saving the boy, at cost of a mortal injury per Wonder of U's Calamity.
• Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: She's the second non-Jojo character (the first being Emporio) to kill a Big Bad, and Tooru at that.
• The Dragon: While she taught her son Jobin selfish ideals, in present times, she's content to leave Jobin in charge of his own schemes; only offering him support from time to time. That said...
• Dragon Ascendant: After Tooru brutally murders Jobin via Calamity, she returns to the spotlight and takes it upon herself to finish what Jobin started, by finishing off Tooru and using him to heal her grandson Tsurugi.
• Expy: Her character is reminiscent of an older Jolyne who has taken up the parental role this time to a son. She is introduced being released from an all-female prison wearing a jumpsuit with "Stone Ocean" written the back, and was imprisoned for 15 years, the same amount of time that Jolyne faced for the framed car accident. She wears her hair in similar style, and is extremely protective of her loved ones while ruthless to enemies. She teaches and reminds her son to perservere and hold steadfast to his goals, something Jolyne learned while in Green Dolphin Street. And ultimately, just like Jolyne, she performs a Heroic Sacrifice in order to save a young child.
• Freudian Excuse: She feels entitled to things that she believes both the world and her family denied her, and will do anything to get recompensated. Flashbacks showed that she was supposed to sacrifice herself to protect Jobin from the family's Rock Curse, but instead replaced herself with a bully her son accidentally injured with his Stand so she could continue raising her children. Then the bully's corpse was discovered, and she resorted to Taking the Heat to protect Jobin (who was suspected to have ample motive for the bully's death as one of his victims). Despite being a model prisoner, the judicial systems refused to lessen her prison sentence for it, so she ended up missing out on a huge chunk of her children's lives. By the time she finally came back, she found her husband divorced her, and half her children want nothing to do with her because of her crime. From her perspective, she loved her family and did everything she could to keep them happy and safe, but because she didn't die like she was supposed to, she was rewarded with nothing but scorn for her actions.
• The Gambler: While she isn't seen gambling, 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 grandson have playing card-themed names, as well as herself being "Card". Her Stand also operates using playing cards.
• Greater-Scope Villain: She is responsible for Jobin's skewed morality in the past, teaching him to rise higher than everyone else and to prioritize their family above all. She does take a backseat to his schemes however, mostly due to her being in prison for 15 years.
• Heroic Sacrifice: She takes a fatal Calamity from Wonder of U to feed Tsurugi the sap from the Locacaca plant, saving his life and proving once and for all that she would sacrifice her life for her family.
• History Repeats Itself: She attempts to transfer Tsurugi's curse to Tooru in Chapter 107.
• I Did What I Had to Do: Claims she did the right thing, in regards to murdering Jobin's childhood bully, and sacrificing the bully instead of herself to save her son from the Rock Disease.
• Improbable Weapon User: Her first offensive use of her Stand summons the legs of a chair, catching Joshu off-guard with a blow to the chin.
• Killed Off for Real: The last major character to die in the arc, as she's forced to take a calamity from Wonder of U to save her grandson.
• Knight Templar Parent: She transferred Jobin's curse to a bully in his scout group so she can continue looking after him rather than sacrificing herself like her husband's mother did for him.
• Loophole Abuse: She manages to avoid triggering Tooru's Stand as her Stand doesn't actually hurt those affected by it.
• Meaningful Name: Her Stand's name, "Space Trucking", alludes to its ability to store and carry (like a truck) objects inside its own dimensional space.
• Missing Mom: Was absent for a good chunk of her family's lives until she came back after 15 years due to being imprisoned for committing homicide.
• Older Than They Look: She looks like a young woman in her thirties. She's actually in her fifties.
• Outliving One's Offspring: She outlives her firstborn son, Jobin... though not by very long.
• Playing Card Motifs: Compared to Daiya, Hato, Tsurugi and Mitsuba, Kaato doesn't point to one suit directly, as her name seems to imply the english word "Card". In fact, she could represent all of the qualities seen in the Bartle taxonomy of player types. Like the Clubs suit that represents "Killers", Kaato had killed a child who was bullying Jobin and used said child to transfer Jobin's curse to. Like the Hearts suit that represents "Socializers", she did it so that she could be with her family and take care of them. Like the Diamonds suit that represents "Achievers", she's trying to get compensated by Norisuke for the divorce he's forced her into, wanting half of his fortune for it, and she also pushed Jobin to become a person he is today. Like the Spades suit that represents "Explorers", she's come back to her family and wants to get to know of the children she wasn't able to raise.
• Screw Destiny: Kaato was not keen on the idea of replicating the sacrificial mother role it was expected of her in order to save Jobin's life when that time would come, she loved her son but Kaato wanted to enjoy life for herself too; the whole mishap between the bully and Jobin, resulting in the latter's death, was the perfect opportunity Kaato needed to pass the burden of sacrifice on someone else, thus the reason the event is portrayed in a more selfish light, as Kaato was out to escape her "duty" other than just save Jobin from his curse.
  • Happens again as Tooru tries to attack her to Equivalent Exchange his injuries out with her. Instead she pins him down with Space Trucking's playing cards, and because she isn't attacking him she's safe from Wonder of U. And then with Tooru just out of reach, she takes a petrifying Tsurugi out of Space Trucking to touch Tooru instead, meaning injuries and healthy flesh will transfer between them both.
• Stacy's Mom: A dark example. Her victim was a bully that forced Jobin to steal her bra and underwear and take photo of her in the shower.
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Of Yoshihiro Kira from Part 4. Like Yoshihiro, Kaato is fiercely protective of her son to the point that she would go to extreme lengths (and that includes murder) to secure Jobin's safety. And like Yoshihiro did with Yoshikage, her actions led to Jobin's descent into villainy.
• Taking the Heat: The child homicide charge turns out to be a downplayed example of this. Jobin was about to be killed by a middle school bully, only to accidentally activate his Stand and nearly kill the bully in self-defense. After learning of this, Kaato instructed Jobin to bury the bully's body in the Equivalent Exchange ground to transfer the family curse onto him, believing the child to be dead. When the body was found, she pled guilty after her DNA was found on the boy's corpse.
• Technicolor Eyes: 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.
• Theme Naming: Like the other women in the family, Kaato's name has a playing card theme. Rather than a suit like her daughters, daughter-in-law, and grandchild, her name is derived from the word "card" itself.
• Unperson: After she was convicted of child homicide, Norisuke made an effort to not mention her name around his children or show them photos of her, to ward off shame of being related to a murderer. He was partially successful; while Jobin and Hato still remember her, Joshu and Daiya do not, with the latter two reacting with disgust and amazement towards her presence, respectively, when she shows up 15 years later.
• Would Hurt a Child: She was arrested for murdering a child 15 years ago. However, Jobin was the one who mortally injured the bully in self-defense when his Stand Speed King first manifested. Kaato then transferred Jobin's curse to the other boy and buried him.

Jobin Higashikata

Jobin Higashikata (Stand: Speed King)

"It's okay to make mistakes, right...? You're only human, after all."

^{Speed King}

"What do you feed a stag beetle? You shouldn't feed it watermelon rinds or things like that."

The eldest son of the Higashikata family. Has a wife, Mitsuba, and a child, Tsurugi. He is associated with the Rock Humans, and has been in conflict with Josuke because of this. He likes to live as though every day were summer vacation, but this belies a hidden, serious side, willing to do anything to achieve what he desires.

His Stand, Speed King (named after a Deep Purple song), lets him build heat up in an object he has touched, without letting it disperse (the highest it has gone so far is 300 degrees Celsius). He can then release it all at once to be conducted to other objects. He may also be named after bossa nova musician Antonio Carlos Jobim, also known as Tom Jobim.

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• Ambition Is Evil: Wants to be stronger than anyone else, something his mother Kaato taught him after she sacrifices a child for his sake.
• Anti-Villain: He wants to save his family from the Rock Curse... but also wants to become stronger than anyone else in the process. It's implied that if Jobin and Josuke didn't have different reasons for wanting the fruit they'd be easily able to cooperate with each other in obtaining the Locacaca Fruit, but since only one person can get the fruit, they're at odds.
• Apologetic Attacker: His words as he uses his Stand to attack his father:
  Jobin: I'm sorry... Dad... please... I can't turn back from this "path." Please forgive me.
• Asshole Victim: Downplayed. While Jobin had done some very dubious crimes in his pursuits, even nearly murdering his own loving father, he was doing it out of an effort to free his family from the curse that had burdened them for generations, and his brutal death at Tooru's hands is still framed as a tragedy.
• Art Evolution: Jobin looked very different in his debut, initially looking more akin to Pannacotta Fugo, although he is barely shown in the background. Also, Speed King itself undergoes quite a few design changes, eventually gaining spikes on its cap and goggles in later appearances.
• A Taste of Their Own Medicine: A bully tried to set him on fire, but he awakened Speed King and proceeds to heats up said bully's face to the point where he knocks him unconscious.
• The Bad Guy Wins: Though he doesn't live to see his plans come to fruition, his actions ultimately pave the way for Kaato to successfully break the Higashikata family curse and deal the finishing blow to Tooru; royally screwing over all the heroes' efforts to save Holly in the end.
• Beware the Silly Ones: He's only serious when he feels he needs to. When he's not, he's a fun-loving airhead.
• Beetle Maniac: Jobin is a beetle aficionado, and his room includes several tomes about them, a collection of insects, and a vivarium in which he breeds stag beetles to fight.
• Big Bad Wannabe: Acted as the most prominent antagonist of the story, as he is connected to both Rock Human organizations and has been in conflict with Josuke for the New Locacaca. Even after he cuts ties with the Rock Humans, he continues to screw over Josuke by making him deal with the last few Rock Humans, and has stolen the fruit for himself. That is, up until Tooru's Stand kills him and takes the fruit.
• Big Bad Ensemble: Shares this status with Satoru Akefu, the mastermind of the Rock Human Organization. Though part of the same organisation, Jobin has his own agenda in mind.
• Character Development: Flashbacks showed Jobin was once a very meek, withdrawn child who was often bullied by his older peers and, because of his family's curse, also suffered short-term memory loss, which his bullies gleefully took advantage of to become Karma Houdinis. After Kaato advises him to climb his way up in the world, he takes it to heart and becomes more assertive and outgoing in the present.
• Cool Car: Jobin owns a golden Lamborghini.
• Dark and Troubled Past: As a young boy, Jobin suffered from the Rock Curse, which included short-term memory loss. His bullies gleefully exploited his chronic forgetfulness to torment him and get away with it, including making him steal his mother's underwear and take photos of her in the shower. When a young girl saw what the bullies were doing and tattled on them, Jobin was later forced to set fire to the girl's house (with her still inside), then was doused in oil and threatened to be burned alive when he refused. That was when he awakened Speed King for the first time and rendered his bully unconscious by superheating his face. Kaato helped him bury the bully in the family shrine assuming he was dead (he wasn't, albeit barely), then advised him to climb his way up in the world if he desired happiness.
• Entitled Bastard: His ill-thought schemes were primarily motivated under the conceit that his family wasn't as respected and rich as it ought to be.
• Foil: To Josuke. Both of them are airheaded goofballs, yet cold, calculating, and vicious otherwise. Both of them also have a beloved family member they want to save at all costs. However, Jobin tends to step on everyone else to achieve his goals, to climb higher than anyone else, even willing to destroy Morioh if he has to; while Josuke simply wants to save his mother. Their Stands also contrast each other; Both have abilities related to storing things up and releasing them, however Soft & Wet can make soap bubbles, while Speed King can heat objects up. They are also blue and orange respectively, in the colorized manga.
• Forgetful Jones: Thanks to the family curse, he was unable to remember events other than from the current day. This unfortunately made him a target for bullies, knowing that he would quickly forget who tormented him. This stops when his mother transferred the curse to a bully who tried to kill him.
• Freudian Excuse: His belief in getting stronger than everyone else comes from Kaato advising him as a young boy to essentially Earn Your Happy Ending even if he has to make sacrifices to do so, all while he watched his mother bury the (barely alive) body of a bully who tried killing him inside the family shrine.
• Karmic Death: Downplayed. Jobin involves himself with the villanous Rock Humans and commits evil acts in order to benefit from the Locacaca. He ends up getting killed by the leader of the organization after stealing the New Locacaca branch.
• Kiai: "SPEEEYYYY" and "SPEYAHH" for Speed King.
• Kids Are Cruel: The older kids Jobin was boy scouts with frequently bullied him and took advantage of his short-term memory to get away with anything they did to him. They would have gotten away with coercing Jobin into stealing his mother's underwear and taking racy photos of her had a girl not found Jobin and tattled on the bullies. One of said bullies ended up severely injured when Jobin tried to defend himself and accidentally manifested his Stand for the first time, and then Buried Alive beneath a shrine by Kaato, who then transferred Jobin's family curse onto him so she wouldn't have to sacrifice herself to save her son's life.
• Killed Off for Real: Ambiguous at the time, but confirmed later on, and it's one of the quickest and least ceremonious deaths in the series - his lung is pierced by the dip tube from a can of hairspray, courtesy of Wonder of U. He doesn't notice at first, but soon, he starts bleeding at an alarming rate, collapses, and dies screaming Mitsuba and Tsurugi's names.
• Laser-Guided Karma: After the flow of Calamity causes a hairspray tube to pierce him, Jobin falls to the ground. This causes the New Locacaca pot he was holding to land on the tube and push it all the way in. The very same plant that he murdered for ends up killing him.
• Like Parent, Like Child: His philosophy of stepping on anyone and everyone if it means achieving great things is something taught to him by his mother, after she used the ground near the Wall Eyes to send away his Rock Disease.
• 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.
• Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal: Poor Tom tries to kill him by lying about Ozon Baby's powers. Jobin responds by stealing the Locacaca Branch and leaving the Rock Humans with a fake one.
• Motive Rant: Goes on on one to his wife, after being told about what happened to Tsurugi being bullied and possibly retaliating.
  Jobin: There is good and bad luck in this world... That's... something I've been told... There are situations where if you'd gotten somewhere one second sooner... You might have been in an accident or avoided an accident... Or... You met or didn't meet someone important when you went somewhere... Things where the result... is good or bad. And the cause is good or evil. There are situations like that... I've been told. But that is a misapprehension. A societal misunderstanding caused by large numbers of people living together. Once you clear away everything extraneous and view each individual in individual situations... What we find existing around us is... simply... Strength and Weakness. Good and bad luck... Good and evil, legal and illegal... You can forget all that. There exist simply the strong that survive and the weak which are destroyed. Those two, and nothing more.
• My God, What Have I Done?: After accidentally harming his childhood bully with Speed King and later watching Kaato drag his unconscious body out of the car's trunk, Jobin freaks out, pleading for his mother to call an ambulance. Kaato calms Jobin by telling him he "didn't do anything" and advising him to "climb" to earn his own happiness.
• Mythology Gag:
  • Speed King's ability to store heat in an object and then release it is remarkably similar in practice to the original universe Yoshikage Kira's first bomb.
  • His Stand's name may reference Yuya Fungami from Part 4, who had the words "Speed King" on his tie.
• Oh, Crap!: Has this reaction after witnessing Josuke kill Damo in public, one of his Locacaca smuggling associates.
• Older Than They Look: He doesn't look that much older than his 18-year-old brother, despite being 32.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: The fact that he didn't suffer from memory loss or physical problems well into his teenage years, despite having had previously suffered from the family's Rock Disease, was extremely suspicious to Norisuke.
• Patricide: Narrowly subverted. He seemingly murders Norisuke when the latter finds out about his criminal connections, but the epilogue reveals he was narrowly able to survive.
• Playing with Fire: His Stand, Speed King, while unable to produce actual flames, can essentially let him heat objects up to a ludicrous degree.
• Politeness Judo: Engages in this with Josuke in his first appearance.
• Pyrrhic Victory: One of his goals with the Locacaca was to save his son without having to sacrifice his father. He technically succeeds, but his schemes ended up getting his mother, himself, the family maid, and a family friend all killed, his wife and brother are permanently disfigured, and the family orchard that is the cornerstone of their livelihood is burned to the ground.
• Serious Business: Beetle fighting. Yes, he is very serious about gambling on his prized fighting beetles. So serious in fact that his Stand appears during it.
• Shout-Out: Jobin is fond of Japanese poet Aida Mitsuo's quotes, and is overjoyed when someone recognizes them.
• Social Darwinist: Just look at his speech above.
• Speaks in Shout-Outs: When he's not in a serious mood, he practically lives off of Aida Mitsuo's words.
• Spikes of Villainy: He works with the Rockmen and his suit is spiky everywhere. Even his head has spikes (at least on the shaven parts).
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute: He is considered to be the true alternate counterpart of Yoshikage Kira from Part 4, instead of the actual Kira of this universe, who takes more of Jotaro's traits instead. Both are snazzy, smart businessmen who pride themselves on style and efficiency, down to wearing similarly structured outfits (suits with accented details and personal flairs). Both also have a hidden "wackier" side, with Jobin being almost child-like in his hobbies and Kira having his fetish with hands. Both have a dark secret they're willing to kill for, albeit Jobin's secret fruit harvesting for his son is far more justifiable than Kira's serial killer tendencies. Both also want a "quiet life" in different ways- Kira wants a quiet life without interruption so he can kill unimpeded, where Jobin realizes that for him to live through every day as if it were summer vacation, he also needs security. Their Stands are also very similar, with Speed King and Killer Queen being able to cause small explosions at localized areas, though their means and end results differ. Lastly, like Kira, he dies a brutal, yet unceremonious death with his lung pierced by a hairspray can while Kira's head is crushed by an ambulance.
• Tears of Remorse: He breaks down into tears after being forced to attack his own father in front of the rest of his family, incapacitating him.
• Theme Naming: All of the men in the Higashikata family have names starting with the kanji "Jo" (常).
  • Should Norisuke IV have died instead of him, Jobin would've become Norisuke V.
• Traumatic Superpower Awakening: He activated his Stand for the first time when a bully in Jobin's scout group tried to threaten him by burning him alive for refusing to burn down the house of a girl who tattled on him.
• The Unfought: Is technically this, as despite being built up to be the main antagonist of JoJolion, he is never fought once (at least not physically) by Josuke.
• Unwitting Pawn: He didn't realize that the Rock Humans were willing to harm his family to get the Locacaca Fruit. In Chapter 72, he buries the model White House in the orchard, only to realize that Poor Tom lied about Ozon Baby's powers. Unlike most examples, he survives their attempt to dispose of him and come out of it with the long end of the stick.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: He believes working with the Rock Humans will help the family business stay afloat and save his son from the family curse.
• Wholesome Crossdresser: Until he was twelve, due to a family curse that slowly turns every first-born child into stone.
• The Worf Effect: After it seemingly appears that Jobin would come out on top, he quickly gets dispatched by the Head Doctor to show how formidable the latter is.

Mitsuba Higashikata

Mitsuba Higashikata (Stand: Awaking III Leaves)

^{Awaking III Leaves}

"You know, back in my school days, I was Miss Cherry. Rero~♡"

Jobin's wife and Tsurugi's mother. For most of the story she has been silent, or absent. It is later explained that she has been secretly been getting treatments at T.G. University Hospital for a breast augmentation that resulted in her teeth turning to stone and she tried to not speak in order to hide this disfigurement. She has been the unwitting guinea pig of a Rock Human posing as a physician at the hospital.

Her Stand, Awaking III Leaves, allows her to manifest arrows that directly change vector quantities, essentially letting her "push" things in the direction they're pointing at.

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• Ascended Extra: Mitsuba's first appearance was in Chapter 7, originally published in December 2011, and she had no dialogue and had no relevance in the story at all other than being "Jobin's wife and Tsurugi's mother". Seventy chapters and over six-and-a-half years later with Chapter 77 released in July 2018, Mitsuba has a completely different appearance and has dialogue across several panels and pages. She finally has some relevance to the plot where it is revealed that she is the unwitting guinea pig of the Rock Human Wu Tomoki with the Locacaca while acting as her personal doctor.
• Attack Reflector: Awaking III Leaves allows her to redirect attacks away from her.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Mitsuba is a loving, motherly woman, but she's perfectly willing to get physical against people who threaten the well-being of her family.
• Call-Back: She tells Yasuho in Chapter 78 that, when she was a teen, she was a model known as "Miss Cherry" — and, after saying that, she mouths "rero" (Japanese SFX for "lick"). Kakyoin approves.
• Fingore: Due to the effects of Wonder of U, she cuts off two of her fingers while cooking dinner. She manages by placing two arrows on them to keep them attached.
• Foil: To her mother-in-law Kaato, when Mitsuba finally gets properly fleshed out she is the then shown to be quite similar to Kaato when it comes to being a little too focused on herself, capable of seeing others as not worth of her time; however, when it comes putting her own body at risk for the sake of her unborn child, Mitsuba didn’t think twice about harming herself, with death being an actual possibility while at it, in contrast Kaato had serious concerns about ever needing to sacrifice herself for Jobin if the time ever came.
• Gravity Master: Awaking III Leaves manipulates vectors, and gravity is a vector quantity. She demonstrates this by first picking herself and Yasuho up in the air with one vector arrow, before delivering a dropping kick to Dr. Wu's head, and then using another upward pointing arrow to slam him into the ceiling.
• Heroic Sacrifice: She willingly takes a Locacaca fruit sans Wu's protection to save her unborn child even though she risks permanent brain damage in the process since without Wu there's no telling what part of the body the fruit will choose for the Equivalent Exchange. Thankfully, and poetically, it just petrifies and disfigures her nose.
• Informed Attribute: In Chapter 77, Yasuho comments on the fact that she's always covering her mouth with her hand (to hide the stone-like teeth she used to have), but, in the few appearances she's made before that, she's not seen doing that.
• Jerkass: She deliberately closes an elevator door in the face of an elderly lady so she can have the elevator to herself. This peels away the second she realizes Wu may have killed her unborn child.
• Later-Installment Weirdness: Her first appearance in Chapter 7◊ is much, much different from her second appearance, 70 chapters later.
• Mama Bear: Once freed from Doctor Wu's control, Yasuho explains to Mitsuba that she had been tricked into taking the Locacaca fruit, resulting in an Equivalent Exchange in some part of her. Upon realizing that there's nothing externally wrong with her, Mitsuba confides in Yasuho that she's pregnant, and she needs to know what she has lost in Equivalent Exchange. This is enough for Mitsuba to summon her Stand to confront Dr. Wu and learn what, if anything, has happened to her unborn child.
  • Mitsuba beheads him and throws his head off a window in the third floor of the hospital. His Stand ability allows him to survive, but the intention remains.
  • Also seen in Chapters 83 and 84, when, after receiving the news that Tsurugi got in an altercation with a girl, Mitsuba protects her son all the way, even threatening to have the class leader fired if she does anything against him. When the same girl gets wounded after the school gates close on her and everyone blames Tsurugi, Mitsuba gets livid at the other mothers, threatening to break the fingers of anyone who dared to touch Tsurugi, and even using Awaking III Leaves to make them burn themselves with scorching hot coffee.
• Odd Name Out: Awaking III Leaves is one of the only Stands in all of JoJo that isn't named after a tarot card, an Egyptian deity, or a musical reference, instead being a pun on its ability ("awaking" is pronounced the same way as "away king"; her Stand pushes things away and follows the Theme Naming of the Higashikata family of having "king" in their Stand names) and on Mitsuba's name (mitsuba means literally "three leaves", representing the Suit of Clubs).
  • This is the case as far as it comes to obvious musical references. In the months since the Stand's initial reveal, fans have dug incredibly deep to find anything that comes close to resembling the Stand's name in any music. Choices have ranged from the Taiwanese pop duo "Awaking", German metal group Haggard's song "Awaking the Centuries", and the ultimately obscure Native American flute instrumental "Awakenings: No. 3. Leaves Floating (On a Slow Stream)" by flautist James J Pellerite. Araki's intent here is still not known.
• Playing Card Motifs: Is named after the Clubs suit of cards; in video games, the Clubs suit is associated with players who enjoy causing physical destruction and killing other players. She appropriately eviscerates Wu Tomoki in her fight against him, and is very aggressive to people who try to harm her son's image.
• Puppeteer Parasite: After Yasuho begins questioning the absence of Dr. Wu in the room Mitsuba just left, shards of stone begin attacking the women, and Mitsuba under the control of Dr. Wu drags Yasuho's body into the office and shuts the door.
• Sigil Spam: Awaking III Leaves is covered in arrows, which also show on Mitsuba as well.
• Stripperiffic: In later appearances, she wears a long, translucent dress that shows off her bare legs underneath.
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Was first introduced looking very similar to Trish Una, in line with the Higashikata children being visually based off of various Vento Aureo protagonists. Also resembles Aya Tsuji, since both have a storyline connected with beauty and aesthetic (Aya is a beautician, Mitsuba seeks to have a "perfect body" while unwittingly being a test subject for the Locacaca) and they both have a... fascination with boobs, with Aya groping Yukako's breasts and smiling after being slapped by the latter, and Mitsuba trying to do so to Yasuho.
• Taken for Granite: In Chapter 77, we find out she has been going to T.G. University Hospital and been under the care of her physician Dr. Wu Tomoki, a Rock Human, who's been secretly using the Locacaca on her, exchanging various parts of her body, including her unborn child. She later eats another one to save her baby and gets a rock nose in exchange.
• Tarnishing Their Own Beauty: The moment she settles for her rock nose is the same time she stops getting cosmetic surgery from the university doctors and saves her unborn child. Surprisingly, Jobin is incredibly on-board with the rock nose, calling it "cool" and "sexy".
• Theme Naming: 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). She also follows the Higashikata family theme naming of Stands: Awaking III Leaves.
• Vanity Is Feminine: The original reason she went to the University Hospital was to get a breast enhancement surgery. Unbeknownst to her, the treatment was Locacaca and she lost her teeth and sense of taste in Equivalent Exchange.
• What You Are in the Dark: She has the chance to let Yasuho, currently drowning, to die through inaction. If she dies, then Mitsuba and her family can get the Locacaca fruit and save her son, but in doing so hurt Josuke's chances to save Holly and killing woman who saved her life. She seems to side with Jobin before turning around and trying to push Yasuho through the pipes using her Stand before she's interrupted by the head doctor.

Hato Higashikata

Hato Higashikata (Stand: Walking Heart)

^{Walking Heart}

"Someone dropped a magazine with such a pretty girl on the cover in a place like this?! Gee, I'm sure I've seen this person before somewheeeere... IT'S MEEEEE~ MMHUHUHUHU!"

The airheaded eldest daughter of the Higashikata family. She works as a fashion model.

Her Stand, Walking Heart (a portmanteau of the band Heart and their song, "Walkin' Good"), allows Hato to extend the heels of her feet to sharp points, up to 4 meters with the heels of her shoes stretching alongside them if she's wearing any. She can use them to climb up walls or pierce through glass and stone to attack someone from a distance.

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• Anime Hair: Somehow, the ends of her hair form triangular arrowheads. Flashbacks in Chapter 64 revealed her hair was still like that when she was a kid.
• Astonishingly Appropriate Appearance: Her Stand resembles a wooden mannequin, with hearts adorning its body. Damo only saw her as a pawn to get close to her family and squeeze information about Josefumi and Kira out of them, and then kill them. Hato severely misjudged his character and when she learned the truth, she didn't take it too well.
• Berserker Tears: When she is forced to attack Damo. She genuinely fell in love with him before she discovered his real nature.
• Big Brother Instinct: Gender-inverted; when she finally realizes that Damo does not love her and intends to kill her entire family, she uses her Stand-enhanced heels to kick his face in. When her mother, Kaato, comes back after a 15-year imprisonment for child murder, she immediately gets on guard, even preventing her younger sister Daiya from interfering when Joshu starts attacking Kaato.
• Brainless Beauty: She's beautiful as she's dumb. Once she sees her boyfriend Damo as the bastard he is after he attacks her family, she (with Josuke's help) doesn't hesitate in attacking in kind. And when she was younger, she went behind her father's back and discovered the truth that her mother's "disappearance" was being arrested for child homicide.
• Butt-Monkey: She and Joshuu provide the comic relief, with him constantly making his big sister a victim of his pranks.
• Children Are Innocent: Was initially this after her mother Kaato was arrested for child murder when she was nine years old. Her father wanted to protect her from the knowledge of Kaato's actions by saying Kaato left/died to justify her disappearance, but sometime before the manga's events she discovered the truth for herself.
• Combat Stilettos: Literally; her Stand gives her the power to stretch the heels of her shoes into deadly spikes.
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: As of Chapter 54, she inflicts a Curb-Stomp Battle to Damo after having been only portrayed as a ditz. In Chapter 58, it's revealed that she was smart enough to go behind her father's back and researched the real reason why her mother "disappeared" 15 years ago.
• The Ditz: She is very air-headed. Despite it, she acknowledges that her boyfriend Damo is evil and attacks him for trying to kill her family.
• Dumb Blonde: She ruins a family trip to Hawaii because, thinking it was a part of Japan, she never got her passport. Her excuse? Unlike most foreign locations, Pearl Harbor has an actual Japanese-language name (Shinjuwan).^note In Japanese, foreign locations will typically be called by a local name transliterated as a loanword (i.e. Pāru Hābā from the English)—though Pearl Harbor is not a toponym but a descriptive term adapted from the Hawaiian Wai Momi, "waters of pearl", and so the more popular Japanese name is also literally "pearl harbor". That said, Japanese-language sources can and do also call it Pāru Hābā. As the story wears on, it becomes apparent that she isn't book-smart, but she does have some street smarts. Despite being in love with him, she is able to see that Damo is evil when he tries to kill her and her family. She also researched the sinister truth of her mother's disappearance 15 years ago behind her father's back.
• Dumb Muscle: Her Stand is one of the most straightforward in her family in terms of abilities and conventional strength]
• Et Tu, Brute?: The look on her face when Damo attempts to murder her with Vitamin C is heartbreaking.
• Family Theme Naming: Like the rest of her family, her Stand's name has "King" in it, although not as a standalone word.
• Horrible Judge of Character: Fell for Damo not knowing of his evil character, and even after discovering the truth, it took a long time for it to sink in until she and her entire family was put in danger of being killed.
• Kick Chick: Her Stand's ability to extend her own heels into spikes makes her kicks lethal. Basically, she kicked Damo to (near) death.
• Let's Get Dangerous!: Her air-headedness is played for laughs early on into the series, but once Damo threatens her family, she pulls out all the stops.
• Love Makes You Dumb: What made her initially reluctant to attack Damo. Once the truth sinks in, however, she has no problem using her Stand on him and kicking Damo to death.
• Ms. Fanservice: She has a prominent figure while wearing a full-body outfit.
• Mythology Gag:
  • She greatly resembles Leone Abbacchio from Part 5. 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.
  • Her piercing Damo's throat with narrow sharp heels of her Stand is similar to Dio delivering a fatal blow to Jonathan with his Eye Beams at the end of Part 1. She then proceeds to walk on walls much like Dio shortly after regaining his vampire powers.
• Odd Name Out: As JoJolion winds down, the fandom has retroactively realized that "Walking Heart" has no clear musical theme naming and may just be a pun on its abilities and Hato's name, as is the case for Hato's sister-in-law Mitsuba and her Awaking III Leaves.
  • However, the fans now debate on two different musical references to be the namesake of the Stand. Either Holland K. Smith's album and its title track Walking Heart Attack or Heart and Sarah McLachlan's song "Walkin' Good".
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Rather pronounced when Kaato 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 Kaato again, she takes her mother's presence more seriously than everyone else except Norisuke. Helps that she was old enough to remember her mother went to jail for murdering a child.
• Playing Card Motifs: Takes after the Heart Suit of cards, which her name is reminiscent of. In video games, the Heart Suit is associated with socializers; she falls for the Rock Human Tamaki Damo which nearly gets her killed when Damo reveals himself to be evil. Her Stand is named Walking Heart, and hearts adorn its body.
• Proud Beauty: She evidences a degree of narcissism, self-identifying as beautiful.
• Reused Character Design: For some reason, she looks a lot like Abbacchio.
• Savvy Guy, Energetic Girl: While Tamaki Damo is a soft speaker who always approaches things in a formal manner, Hato is spunky and energetic.
• Theme Naming: All of the women of the Higashikata family have playing card-themed names. Hato is the Suit of Hearts.
  • She also follows the Higashikata family theme naming of Stands: Walking Heart.
• Tranquil Fury: During her fight with Damo, she both cries Berserker Tears and stomps on Damo with her Stand-enhanced heels as viciously as she could while keeping a completely straight face, showing how ''pissed off' she was at being betrayed by the man she genuinely loved.
• Woman Scorned: After Damo revealed his true nature and tried to kill both her and her family with Vitamin C, Hato turned into a woman on a mission to kill Damo as viciously as possible.

Joshu Higashikata

Joshu Higashikata (Stand: Nut King Call)

Voiced by: Hiroaki Miura (All-Star Battle (R), Eyes of Heaven)

"I told you about it before at the Wall Eyes. About Yasuho... Yasuho is my woman. She even let me kiss heerr... It was a deep and hot one."

^{Nut King Call}

"Hey, hey, heeey! You've got some pretty big tits, don't yaaaa?! Are you really our mom?! Why don't you let me suckle a bit?! It's not too late, c'mon!"

The second son of the Higashikata family. He is introduced as Yasuho's unrepentant suitor, and initially has a hair-trigger temper when it comes to interacting with Josuke, who he sees as a rival in a love triangle.

His Stand, Nut King Call (a punny alteration of Nat King Cole), can materialize nuts and bolts onto objects. If the nut and bolt are separated, the affected object falls apart as if it was always held together by a nut and bolt. This even extends to human limbs. The bolts can also be used to restore the object or put two different objects together.

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• A Day in the Limelight: The Milagro Man arc.
• An Arm and a Leg: Sacrifices his right arm to restore Yasuho's with the New Locacaca Fruit so she and Paisley Park can get back into fighting shape. While he didn't completely lose it, he is left with essentially a baby arm dangling on his shoulder.
• Anime Hair: 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. His hair at his debut is something else altogether.◊
  • His own mother points out how ridiculous his hair looks.
  • Flashbacks in Chapter 64 showed that his hair looked exactly the same as a toddler.
• Awesome by Analysis: 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 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.
• Big Damn Heroes: After Jobin almost kills Yasuho, Joshu helps Paisley Park escape into the electrical outlet.
  • Later subverted when he brings the New Locacaca to Yasuho seemingly to save her life, only to reveal his downright creepy intentions to use the Locacaca to fuse with her forever. It doesn't work out well for him, as Yasuho uses the Locacaca to restore herself back to normal in exchange for Joshu's arm.
• Brick Joke: Gets this treatment in the "Hato Brought Her Boyfriend Home"/"Vitamin C and Killer Queen" arcs after he is melted down by Vitamin C into a puddle of goo and accidentally flushes himself down a sink in Chapter 48. He is completely absent for the rest of the story arcs, despite having been a victim of the Stand as much as the rest of his family. He finally reappears on the last page of Chapter 55 "Walking Heart, Breaking Heart", by crawling out of a manhole accompanied by the caption "And he ended up okay too!" JoJolion is published monthly with some one-off break months, which means it was eight months before Joshu's fate was revealed.
• Break the Haughty: 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.
• Butt-Monkey: Taken to the point of deconstruction. Joshu's demeanor and attitude are born from how other people typically mistreat him and his own, often disproportionate reactions, and as seen in the Milagro Man arc he has little self-esteem as a result.
• The Cameo: Both the stage obstacle and Situation Finish of the Wall Eyes stage in All-Star Battle, before being Promoted to Playable.
• Children Are Innocent: Like his little sister, Daiya, he doesn't remember his mother or what happened to her, being 3 years old at the time due to Norisuke wanting to deflect shame from being related to a child killer by keeping the truth from his children. When he learns the truth, however, unlike Daiya, who responds with amazement that she had a mother at all, he reacts with disgust and the first thing he does is to attack his mother.
• The Cobbler's Children Have No Shoes: Yasuho mentions that he's enrolled in a sociology course at college, but the ironic thing is that nobody in his class, not even himself, knows how to socialize.
• Crazy Jealous Guy: He really, really dislikes Josuke for "stealing his girl", which is basically a conclusion he jumped to all by himself.
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: In the Milagro Man arc, he proves he can pull off a trademark JoJo ruse, using Nut King Call to 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.
• Defrosting Ice King: 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.
• Detachment Combat: His Stand can do this to people of course, but he can also detach parts of himself and move it around, like he did by detaching his tongue and making it lick Hato's ears. He hasn't actually used it in a fight yet, though.
• Did Not Think This Through: Apparently, he didn't realize that the New Locacaca's Equivalent Exchange would bestow Yasuho's injuries onto him.
• Dirty Coward: Has immediate regrets after his Equivalent Exchange with Yasuho saves her life but costs him his right arm and starts demanding she to give it back to him even though it was his idea in the first place. He gets a hold of himself eventually.
• Dumbass Teenage Son: He's vindictive, he's whiny and he's self-absorbed with a comically powerful self-serving memory. He definitely holds the Idiot Ball tighter than anyone else in his family could.
• Evil Knock Off: 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, it's a much cruder and close-range imitation of what Josuke's bubbles can do.
• Get A Hold Of Yourself Man: Harshly smacks himself in the face multiple times (sometimes between sentences) in the lead-up to giving up his arm to heal Yasuho with the New Locacaca Fruit to psyche himself up as he's very aware of the risks involved.
• Goofy Print Underwear: Briefs with bolts and screws on them.
• Gun Stripping: Nut King Call allows him to do this to general objects and even humans. When coming in contact with a target, their bodies will disassemble into nuts and bolts, which he can then reassemble at will.
• Heel–Face Turn: Played with. While more of a general nuisance and Unknown Rival to Josuke more than an outright villain, he saves Yasuho from being killed by Jobin by kicking the phone Paisley Park was inhabiting to an outlet and later brings her the New Locacaca to heal her injuries.
• Heel–Face Revolving Door: Downplayed. His first ever scene in the manga is him trying to bash a newly awakened Josuke's head with a rock before being knocked out, but during most of the story he flip-flops between being an Unknown Rival to Josuke, a Heroic Comedic Sociopath in his own arc, and a well-intentioned but incompetent ally to the heroes, and his interactions with Yasuho don't exactly help in the manner.
• Hidden Depths: Despite his Jerkass Butt-Monkey status, he's the one that tries to rally the Higashikata family and raise morale when Tsurugi's Rock Disease starts taking a turn for the worst. In Chapter 95, he's also the only one to stand up against his older brother Jobin after he seemingly kills Norisuke, by kicking Yasuho's phone to the power outlet and saving Paisley Park.
• Inferiority Superiority Complex: The "Milagro Man" arc reveals that his Jerkass tendencies are rooted in his jealousy of 'talented people'.
• "Instant Death" Radius: 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.
• Jerkass Has a Point: While he uses the opportunity to lay himself atop Yasuho in a not entirely wholesome manner, he winds up being correct that two bodies need to be in very, very close proximity for the New Locacaca Fruit's version of Equivalent Exchange to take effect.
  • At the begining of the story, he was in his right to complain about the fact that his own father gave his room, without asking first, to Josuke who was a total stranger at that time.
• Laser-Guided Karma: He trips his mother Kaato with a chair after she comes home from prison for child homicide for the first time in 15 years, commenting how there's a lot of chairs in their house and she should be careful, and humiliating her further by using his Stand to "unscrew" her dress, making her spill her playing cards. When he picks up a card and gets stabbed in the jaw by a chair leg, Kaato tells him that there's a lot of chairs in their house and he should be careful.
  • He attempts to fuse himself and Yasuho together permanently using the New Locacaca and loses his right arm for his troubles.
• Locked Out of the Loop: 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 even Tsurugi, who is ten years younger than him, 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.
• Mythology Gag: His Stand works similarly to Bruno Bucciarati's Sticky Fingers from Part 5, involving an inanimate object-based mechanism that can take apart things or put them back together.
• No Social Skills: Despite this, he's a sociology major in university. Yasuho comments on how ironic this is.
• Personality Powers: Nut King Call's Stand powers reflect both the violent and meticulous aspects of Joshu's personality.
• Power Perversion Potential: The first time he consciously uses his Stand is trying to undress Yasuho. She takes a toilet cistern lid and bashes him in the head with it. Does it again on his mother Kaato when accusing her of being a fake. This time he gets a chair leg to the bottom of his mouth in retaliation.
• Sanity Slippage: After giving up his arm to heal Yasuho with the new Locacaca, he suddenly becomes stark-raving mad and aggressive towards Yasuho, his face practically covered in snot and tears. Considering he began acting like this right after Yasuho made clear her intention to pursue Tooru, it's highly implied it's an effect of Wonder of U's Calamity.
• Spoiled Brat: Despite being 19 and a university student, 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.
• Stalker with a Crush: Towards Yasuho.
• Theme Naming: All of the men in the Higashikata family have names starting with the kanji "Jo" (常).
• Unknown Rival: Josuke's.
• Villainous Breakdown: Goes into one after his attempts at fusing himself with Yasuho using the New Locacaca ends up transferring her injuries onto him instead. He begins backpedalling and demands that she undergo Equivalent Exchange with him again to return his body to normal, lashing out and attacking when she refuses. It's also highly implied that this is more due to Wonder of U's Calamity than something he's doing out of his own free will.
• Yandere: He attempts to bash Josuke's head in with a rock when he sees him with Yasuho for the first time.

Daiya Higashikata

Daiya Higashikata (Stand: California King Bed)

Voiced by: Saori Hayami (Eyes of Heaven)

^{California King Bed}

"Josuke, do you like big and fluffy girls? I was wondering how far you'd gone, but you haven't even kissed yet, huh? I'm so happy... I think I can win."

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 (named after a Rihanna song), 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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• All Love Is Unrequited: She is obsessed with Josuke, who is only interested in Yasuho.
• Animal Motifs: Bears; many of her outfits have bear ears on the head, and she's a cute, blind teenage girl who loves stuffed animals. However, underneath her cuteness is an analytic and possessive Stand user who can remove and destroy memories on a whim.
• The Baby of the Bunch: Daiya is Norisuke and Kaato's youngest child. However, she is not the youngest member of the family; that would be her nephew Tsurugi.
• Bad Powers, Bad People: The power of stealing memories is owned by an immature and possessive teenage girl who sees memories as things to collect and can destroy those memories as she sees fit. Subverted when she turns good after Josuke defeats her in her own game, and helps him in his identity investigation.
• Call-Back: Daiya is one of the younger members of a group of Stand users, and suffered an eye injury when she was younger. She has an innocent and childish personality despite being in her late teens, which is represented by her Stand looking like a toy. And despite being young, cute and childlike, she is a dangerous Stand user in her own right. She shares all of those traits with Narancia Ghirga from Golden Wind.
  Daiya: Happiness is...sharing memories with someone.
  Narancia: The most important thing in this world is friendship!
• Children Are Innocent: A little older than the usual example, but she doesn't know that her mother Kaato was in prison for 15 years for murdering a child, having had been just a baby when it happened, and her father suppressing all knowledge of Kaato right after her imprisonment. When Kaato comes back home from prison for the first time in 15 years, Daiya is amazed to find out she had a mother all along.
• Clingy Jealous Girl: Harbors jealousy towards Yasuho, since she often has the attention of Josuke.
• Defeat Means Friendship: Becomes Josuke's ally after she is defeated in her own game. It helps that she was already obsessed with Josuke.
• Disability Superpower: Sure enough, although she is blind (or at least severely sight-impaired), 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.
• Discard and Draw: As a toddler, she fell into a fault near the Wall Eyes. She gained a Stand, but lost her eyesight as a result.
• Double Standard Rape: Female on Male: After removing Josuke's memories of Yasuho, she tells him she's the first woman he met in his life and tries to seduce him with the implications they're about to have sex (with Daiya undressing, all that) before the bubble in which the switch's sound was stored pops, leading Daiya to stop in order to check out if Josuke hasn't deceived her. Daiya essentially nearly committed rape by deception, and this is glossed over once she is beaten and becomes an ally.
• Fille Fatale: Subverted against Josuke. She initially tries to seduce him, but doesn't follow through with it and then later throws a tantrum when it's clear Josuke was about to beat her in her own game. Her actions paint her as an immature teenager who was selfishly acting on feelings of infatuation towards an adopted family member.
• Girls Love Stuffed Animals: Her room is full of plush toys. Her Stand, California King Bed, is modeled after one as well.
• Handicapped Badass: Despite being completely blind, she effectively beat Josuke by stealing important memories informing him she was the enemy and almost removed other memories from existence.
• Heel–Face Turn: Upon her defeat, she settles for a warmer attitude, helping Josuke enter the secret room of the Higashikata household, her father's private study, for his investigations.
• Hypocrite: She insists on fairness with the rules of her game, but when Josuke throws it in her face by revealing he hid her cell phone in her family's fridge as part of a gambit, she throws a tantrum.
• Kiddie Kid: A 16-year old girl who is always wearing bear ears and has a childish attitude.
• Kissing Cousins: Downplayed, she's Josuke's (or at least the part of him that's Yoshikage Kira) fourth cousin, with both her and Kira being the great-great-great-grandchildren of Norisuke Higashikata, but she falls for him and attempts to seduce him anyways, although it doesn't work out.
• Insistent Terminology: 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 Japanese Honorifics to signify her age.
• In the Hood: Her first outfit has a hood with cute bear ears.
• Laser-Guided Amnesia: What her Stand, California King Bed, can do. She can remove specific memories in the form of chess pieces, which are forced out of different body parts. She can even remove knowledge of Stand abilities. If the chess pieces are broken in some way, the memories contained within them are lost forever.
• Playing Card Motifs: Is named after the Diamond Suit of cards; in video games, the Diamond Suit is associated with achievers who play games to earn something, which is exactly what Daiya does, playing a game with Josuke while removing his memories so she can keep them (Josuke) forever.
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute: 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.
• Theme Naming: 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. She uses her Stand, California King Bed, to force him to playing a game with her and steal his memories so he can stay with her forever. When she discovers he was trying to call Yasuho on her cell phone, she tries to destroy his stolen memories of Yasuho in a jealous rage.

Tsurugi Higashikata

Tsurugi Higashikata (Stand: Paper Moon King)^note simply Paper Moon in serialization, the volumes appended King for thematic reasons

Voiced by: Yuka Iguchi (Eyes of Heaven)

"It's just your imagination, big sis Yasuho. It's all in your head."

^{Paper Moon King}

"The Higashikata Family has believed in charms against evil spirits for generations... When the first son is born, he is dressed as a girl until he is 12 years old to trick the demons that causes disease."

The nine-year-old child of Jobin and Mitsuba, and future head of the Higashikata family. Tsurugi has been disguised as a girl his entire life in an attempt 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 (named after a 1930s jazz standard), has power over origami creations. Anything Tsurugi makes out of origami gains innate abilities and behaviors belonging to what the origami represents; a frog or cicada comes to life and moves on its own, paper fortune tellers read minds, bananas make someone slip and fall, and so on. Paper Moon King is also not limited to paper, and can fold other flat objects like a smartphone into an origami creation. Another effect of Paper Moon King is that people who come into direct contact with one of its creations will begin to hallucinate, which Tsurugi claims is a result of indecision in the afflicted's heart. The effects go from making every person have the same indistinct face and making every sign have the same text to directly distorting the target's depth perception or wholesale illusions to benefit Tsurugi.

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• The Baby of the Bunch: Tsurugi is the youngest member of his family.
• Badass Adorable: Despite being frightened and cornered, he manages to trick Aisho into getting hit by a bus thanks to Paper Moon King's illusions. Tsurugi also gives a Declaration of Protection for Jobin.
• Body Horror: Once the Rock Disease starts kicking in, he starts to what can only be described as liquifying. It gets worse when he gets himself attacked by the Head Doctor, and ends up looking like he's fusing with his Stand, looking paper-like and and with an origami crane lodged in him.
• Break the Cutie: The poor kid is getting caught up in smuggling cartels and Stand fights at age nine. He even has to kill Aisho with his Stand in self-defense, causing him to break down in tears. It gets worse once the stone disease sets in in earnest.
• Creepy Child: At first until Yasuho warms up to Tsurugi.
  • Comes back in full force when he's accused of trying to kill a classmate by closing the school gates with her between them. As of Chapter 84 it's unclear whether he actually did that, but most if not all evidence points to him. It's later revealed it happened because his control over his Stand is starting to suffer from Power Incontinence as the stone disease sets in, and implied that it's the result of Wonder of U narrowing in on the family as the possessors of the New Locacaca.
• Dirty Kid: Tsurugi likes touching Yasuho too much.
• The Dragon: After a stint as an ally of Josuke and Yasuho's, he seems to have pretty firmly settled into playing this part in his father Jobin's attempts to save him.
• Freudian Excuse: 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.
• Heel–Face Revolving Door: He starts off as a villain before being defeated (standard JoJo fare) and working alongside Josuke for much of the early manga, but even then, is willing to partake in quite a bit of Troubling Unchildlike Behavior. Ultimately though, as his father Jobin is made to appear to be the ultimate Big Bad of Part 8, Tsurugi is pretty willingly acting as his lackey, taking his side in the conflict against both the Rock Humans and Josuke out of his own fear of the Rock Disease and the New Locacaca being a cure.
• Kid Sidekick: 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.
• Master of Illusion: Paper Moon King gives propsopagnosia to anyone that touches Tsurugi's origami. Later in the part, its illusion abilities become more complex, like messing with people's depth perception, or exagerrating his and his father's injuries.
• Older Than They Look: Looks more like a chubby three year old than a nine year old. This is due to Araki retconning Tsurugi's age from two years old.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: His usually worried personality dramatically changes as of Chapter 83, as the Rock Disease sets in and he becomes more involve in Jobin's attempts to cure him at the behest of the rest of the family knowing the truth.
• Paper Master: Tsurugi's Stand power involves the art of origami. Tsurugi is covered in them and uses a cootie catcher to easily predict information about Yasuho and Josuke. Later Tsurugi manages to fold up Yasuho's phone into a frog, which then leaps at her and its contact makes her suffer with a form of prosopagnosia.
• Playing Card Motifs: Takes after the suit of Spades, which his name refers to. In the Bartle Test of player types, the Spades suit represents players who like exploring, finding out secrets and whatnot. This fits Tsurugi as he wants to find out a means to prevent the first born curse from affecting him, which Josuke tries to do as well.
• Precocious Crush: He has one for Yasuho, though he's quite serious about it, and goes to some extreme lengths to make it happen.
• Retcon: His Stand was originally just "Paper Moon". The "King" was added later to fit the Theme Naming of the Higashikatas.
• Theme Naming: 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). However, Tsurugi is not a girl, and we don't know what his real name is until he turns 12. As Jobin's son, he also has the potential to be named Norisuke VI should his father and grandfather die.
• Vague Age: Presented as a 2-year-old, then retconned into a 9-year-old, claimed to be 10 years old in Chapter 91 and in Chapter 107 a flashback states that he is 11 years old.
• Wholesome Crossdresser: Turns out it's a Higashikata custom to crossdress the firstborn children until they're 12 to protect them from the evil curse that turns them to stone.
• Yandere: Towards Yasuho, even more so 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.
• You ALL Look Familiar: Weaponized. Paper Moon King appears to be able to afflict its victims with an abstract form of propagnosia that makes them unable to differentiate between objects that they are 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 is trying to go to. When used on Aisho Dainenjiyama while he is looking for the combined Paper Moon King and Paisley Park as an origami frog, all leaves at Dainenjiyama's feet turn into origami frogs. 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.

Iwasuke

Iwasuke

A Rock Animal resembling a dog. Initially found wandering the Higashikata Estate, he is adopted by Tsurugi and the rest of the Higashikatas.

Iwasuke can inexplicably phase through walls.

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• Astonishingly Appropriate Appearance: Of course the rock dog looks like a rock.
• Intangibility: Apparently can travel through stone walls easily. This is never explained.
• Meaningful Name: Iwa means rock, and the -suke part comes from either Josuke and/or Norisuke. Both of them immediately notice and they glare at Tsurugi. Not too surprising, coming from a child.
• Only Mostly Dead: At first it's implied that he died due to Ozon Baby's pressure, but he manages to survive by hardening his skin into rock.
• Progressively Prettier: Zigzagged, as his appearance is... variable, to put it one way. His initial appearance made him look partially like a boar, then later he gets some Iggy-style Gonk, some chapters after that he's drawn like a normal-looking dog, and finally he's back to Gonk, this time with rat-like traits instead.
• Team Pet: Adotped as the family dog. Doesn't do much after his initial appearance, though.
• Token Heroic Orc: The only established Rock Creature to be completely benevolent to normal humans. While he did try to bite Tsurugi when he was first adopted, he is otherwise a docile good boy.

Historic

Rina Higashikata

Rina Joestar, born Higashikata

^{Rina in Steel Ball Run}

Rina is the eldest daughter of Norisuke Higashikata I, originally from Morioh in the 19th century. She married Johnny Joestar after the events of Steel Ball Run, making her an ancestor of both the Higashikata and Joestar-Kira families. At some point after giving birth to their son George II, Rina became afflicted by the stone disease, prompting Johnny to bring her back to Japan to recover, while he stole the Holy Corpse to try to save her. The subsequent events lead to the stone disease entering his body, and his death on Shakedown Road, implied to be a result of the power of Les Feuilles. Rina was tried for his murder, but was acquitted due to lack of evidence.

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• Decomposite Character: Of Parts 1 and 2's Erina Joestar née Pendleton. From her, Rina takes her first name and the role of Johnny's wife and ancestor of the subsequent JoJos. The one who takes the maiden surname and the role as the main female character of her respective Part is Steel Ball Run's Lucy Steel née Pendleton.
• Early-Bird Cameo: First appeared in the final pages of Steel Ball Run.
• Posthumous Character: She is long dead by the time the story of JoJolion begins in 2011.
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute: She is the new universe's incarnation of Erina Pendleton, as they have similar names and both married into the Joestar family.

Johnny Joestar

Jonathan "Johnny" Joestar (Stand: Tusk ACT 4)

^{Tusk ACT 4}

In the ten years after Steel Ball Run, Johnny Joestar marries Rina Higashikata, daughter of fellow Steel Ball Run racer Norisuke I. Discovering that Rina and, eventually, his son is suffering from a mysterious disease, Johnny is desperate to cure them and steals the Holy Corpse in an effort to save them. Despite saving them, the disease ultimately transfers to him and he dies in an accident on Shakedown Road shortly thereafter.

See Steel Ball Run

Tomoko Higashikata

Tomoko Higashikata

Norisuke IV's mother. She sacrificed her life a long time ago to save a young Norisuke from the Rock Disease.

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• Good Parents: She loved her son enough to perform a Heroic Sacrifice to save him from a family curse.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Gave up her life to take the Higashikata family illness from Norisuke and died in his place. She was only the first person in the family to do this.
• Mythology Gag: She's named after Part 4's Tomoko, who was a doting mother for that arc's Josuke. Her son's childhood name was originally "Josuke" as well.
• Posthumous Character: Passed away when Norisuke was young.

"Fumi" (SPOILERS)

Joseph "Fumi" Joestar (Stand: Unnamed)

^{Joseph's unnamed Stand}

"My name is Joseph Joestar. My Japanese name is written Josefu, so I'm called Fumi. My grandma Rina who lived with me in S City gave me that name... She married an American named Johnny Joestar, that's why I have that sort of name."

A 17-year old denizen of Morioh in 1941 under the alias of "Fumi", and the grandson of Johnny Joestar. After his wallet is stolen, he accepts a job from Lucy Steel to act as a porter and guide during her second investigatory trip to the countryside. After he and Lucy narrowly escape the Radio Gaga creature, he accompanies her to America, where he eventually meets and marries Suzi Q.

His Stand is similar to the original Joseph's Hermit Purple, manifesting as thorny vines that come out of his birthmark and wrap around his hands. Unlike the original Joseph's Hermit Purple, this version can manifest itself as a humanoid, at least partially.

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• Anime Hair: Most of his hair is shaven off in a buzz cut except for three balls and two strands of hair pointing left and right smack dab in the middle of his forehead. It looks like a fusion of his relative Norisuke IV's, Young Joseph's more spiky hair, and buzz cut similar to how Norisuke I's and Josuke cut their hair short.
• Art Evolution: Joseph's Stand can now manifest itself in humanoid form, at least partially as a head.
• Badass Bystander: He saves Lucy's bags from a random thief by flinging one of his geta at the back of his knees with a single well-aimed kick.
• Birthmark of Destiny: He wouldn't be a Joestar without it, as Lucy spotted it during the fight against the Radio Gaga. It also seems to be from where his Stand springs forth.
• But Not Too Foreign: A quarter Japanese and American on his father's side, at least. His mother is still named Elizabeth in this continuity but her full background is not known as of this time.
• Car Fu: How he ultimately defeats the Radio Gaga. He uses his Stand to turn on the car and ram it into the guard rail, sending it and the creature over the edge.
• Chekhov's Skill: His introduction has him stop a thief who stole Lucy's luggage by flinging his geta with a kick. A chapter later, he uses this same maneuver to stall Radio Gaga long enough to save Lucy from being consumed by it.
• Chronic Hero Syndrome: His devotion to Lucy's well being is quite absurdly beyond just honoring a paying job, his life chronicle states Joseph simply dropped everything in Japan and assisted Lucy all the way back to the United States as he was concerned for her health.
• Contrasting Sequel Main Character:
  • Unlike Joseph of the original continuity, this version of Joseph Joestar managed to develop his Stand at the age of 17. It's also more developed, to the point it has a face, compared to the original Hermit Purple that was just a strand of thorns.
  • This version of Joseph is much kinder and less abrasive than the original Joseph was, to the point he acts more like Joseph's son Josuke. Whether it is because he is no longer an only child, raised by a grandma who could only really discipline him with violence, or any other factors are not specified, but the changes are notable. Joseph stands out in his kindness and willingness to help a stranger to the point of leaving his home country to help her as an assistant. It should also be noted that, as far as the ending of JoJolion reveals, he did not cheat on his wife in this universe.
  • Joseph's version of his Stand isn't augmented with Hamon, unlike his original universe counterpart's Hermit Purple. That said, Joseph was still able to defeat the Radio Gaga creature without it. It can also conduct electricity, but whether it can do divinations or use Spin similar to how Joseph in Part 2 could use Hamon with his Stand is never revealed.
  • Unlike original continuity Joseph, who contributed greatly to the family wealth himself by being a real estate tycoon, so far it seems this Joseph worked a modest job at a hotel casino. Overall, financially, the Joestar line of the new continuity is much more modest but Fumi stands out compared to original Joseph's more bombastic accomplishments. He does, however, seem to be long-lived like original continuity Joseph since no mention of his death is made so far. This is notable since the narration gives special mention to Lucy's death.
• Disappeared Dad: And Mom, it seems. No mention is made of Fumi's parents, with more mention of him living with his grandmother. Whether it's because his parents are constantly working or are not a part of his life is never specified. Not even his older sister is mentioned much, thus far.
• Good Old Fisticuffs: Like his original counterpart, Joseph beats Radio Gaga this way, albeit with some help from his Stand.
• Irony: The first thing we hear from Old Joseph in Part 2's ending is how much he hates Japan and Japanese people; in this timeline, Joseph's equivalent is Japanese.
• Foreshadowing: In the 2022 Kono Mystery ga Sugoi! interview, Araki says that Joseph's appearance at the end of Part 8 is a setup for Part 9, with the story being about his descendants. Part 9's protagonist and deutragonist are Jodio and Dragona Joestar, both being Joseph's grandchildren.
• Last Episode, New Character: First appears in the second-to-last chapter and formally named in the last.
• Mythology Gag:
  • Just like Joseph Joestar, his wallet is stolen during his very first appearance.
  • When being attacked by the Radio Gaga creature, he eventually comes across a pair of Clackers which are similar to the original Joseph Joestar's weaponry, instead of using them he just throws them away and begins using his own Stand to punch the creature.
  • Like the novel version of his father, he has a bilingual name spelled in the language of where he was raised (Spanish for George II/Jorge, Japanese for Joseph).
• Nice Guy: In contrast to the boisterous Joseph of the original universe (at least in his younger years), Joseph is a nice and respectful guy from his introduction onwards, more akin to Part 4's Josuke than any other Joestar.
• The Reveal: "Fumi" is none other than Johnny Joestar's grandson, and the SBR-verse counterpart to Joseph Joestar, sharing the same name and with very similar Stands.
• Undying Loyalty: To Lucy Steel. Fumi didn't have to stay with Lucy and only took her job because someone had knicked his wallet and money. But after the Radio Gaga creature attacked them, Fumi defended her when he could've left her to die, and he even went back with her to the United States because he was worried about her health from the fight.
• Walking Spoiler: He only appears in a flashback story told as part of the epilogue, but his existence explains a lot of the lore concerning Jojolion and how it connects to Steel Ball Run.
• You Can't Go Home Again: Joseph's timing with leaving Japan to assist Lucy put him a bad spot regarding trying to go back to his country, as WWII prevented passage through the Pacific for a while. Thus, he just settled in the U.S. by becoming Lucy's handler and leaving his Japanese girlfriend behind, moving on to know and marry Suzi Q.

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