Yoshikage Kira will make a cameo at some point of the manga.
Just for no other reason than simple Fanservice. He'll have a discreet cameo doing something mundane like going to work or having lunch, honoring his philosophy of not standing out.- Jossed. He did make a small cameo in the novel, though.
Petsounds' Stand ability is memory implanation.
Specifically anyone's memories of DIO. This isn't limited to just people who know or have experienced DIO personally, as we've seen with the inspector.- Jossed in regards to memories of DIO. Chapter 6 shows Petsounds implanting a memory into everyone in the subway station of a helicopter shooting, which Hol Horse surmises to be Petsounds' own memory of a dictatorial regime in Egypt.
Thoth was never Boingo's Stand in the first place.
If anything, Thoth seems more like Anubis, in a sense that the user is just whoever wields it. Boingo himself says that the manga isn't necessarily his and that he's just looking after it, and it's clear that Ryoko can read its predictions as well.- When Boingo first appeared, the luckless tourist noted that his manga had only a few pages. From that, it seems likely that Thoth did start with Boingo, but is not inherently linked to him... which would be just like Anubis, Cheap Trick, and Notorious B.I.G.
- Confirmed! Boingo states in Chapter 6 that he didn't receive Thoth of his own accord, and found the manga out in the open, which even his non-Stand wielding father was able to see in person. More over, Boingo believes Thoth to not be a Stand, but a book of prophecies provided by the Egyptian God himself.
Pet Shop was never meant to be evil.
From the sounds of things, DIO stole Pet Shop away from his original caretaker, which might have kickstarted Petsounds' Start of Darkness.- Jossed. Chapter 10 reveals that DIO not only took in Pet Shop and Petsounds at the same time, but he also ordered for Pet Shop to murder his original owner with Horus, to which Pet Shop wasted no time in doing. The fact that this is shown in one of Petsounds' memories, and he uses it to try and kill Josuke and Boingo, implies that Petsounds, along with Pet Shop, showed a Lack of Empathy towards their original owner.
- Then again, how much could Petsounds do to stop DIO and Pet Shop?
- Chapter 11 further reveals that after DIO douses Pet Shop's owner in gasoline, the bird lights it on fire, and then froze the gasoline (and Pet Shop's owner) with its Stand, all just to toy with the owner and draw out his death. Seems that he really is that evil.
Diavolo is the one using Petsounds, and has some sort of alliance with DIO.
The man carrying Petsounds on his arm at the end of Chapter 4 has an Exotic Eye Design that looks almost identical to Diavolo when he's the one in control of his body. As for his potential alliance with DIO, he could've given Enya the Arrows with the promise that they'll be used to help DIO conquer the world whilst letting Diavolo keep a low profile, and only upon DIO's defeat would he attempt to retrieve the Arrows back from Enya. But seeing as how Enya sold a majority of them, he could be in Morioh to try and get the Arrows back for Passione.- This doesn't seem certain, as Diavolo's eyes never showed both shards and pupils simultaneously; Petsounds' commander, however, does. This could mean he's Diavolo's father, though...
- Jossed. The man carrying Petsounds is revealed to be Karaiya.
Hol Horse and/or Ryoko will die in the end.
The titular heartbreak will be Josuke witnessing his new friends, or at least one, end up dying at the hand of Petsounds and/or his commander, which will result in him adapting the philosophy of not letting innocents come to harm. His savior instilled him with the motto of helping those in need for no ulterior motivations, but having Hol Horse and/or Ryoko die will end up being the catalyst for him bringing wrongdoers to their rightful justice, starting with Angelo.- Jossed, neither of them die by the end.
Petsounds is being controlled by Nukesaku.
It's not out of reason to believe that Nukesaku could fine-tune his self-manipulation to conceal his fangs. In addition, taking care of Pet Shop and Petsounds — meaning he'd know what kind of Stand the latter had developed — sounds like the sort of menial task that someone like DIO would give someone like him. His own trauma of being maltreated by DIO (even if Nukesaku did reassemble) and his elite guard could easily become a case of From Nobody to Nightmare, proving that by controlling Petsounds, he's every bit as much of a danger as DIO, Telence, and Vanilla Ice were.- Jossed. Petsounds is controlled by Karaiya.
Melone will be involved or referenced.
Mariah and Kenny G. are living together as a reference to their namesakes having worked on a song with Babyface — the namesake of Melone's Stand. In the end of the series, Josuke will need to erase his memories of the events of the manga.
It makes sense that, when he's dealing with enemies that can manipulate memories, the key to defeating them would be to forget anything ever happened — thus setting him up for not knowing what Stands are when he meets Jotaro in Diamond is Unbreakable. What is Petsounds' Stand name?
Since it worked with the same trainer as Pet Shop, its Stand might be named after an Egyptian god rather than a music reference like later installments.- My own hypotheses are Noise Record (q.v. the metal label Noise Records
) for recording memories and instilling their "noise" onto others, and Heartbreak Hotel for the series's name. - If we're looking for Egyptian god names:
- Ra would be a good pick; he was the god of the sun, one of the most important gods in the pantheon, and he was also often associated with the sky god Horus (which is the namesake for Pet Shop's Stand) due to their overlapping domains. Like Horus, Ra was also often depicted as a falcon.
- Nemty is also possible; he was a lesser-known falcon god known as the god of ferrymen. An interesting tidbit is that Nemty is also the name of a ransomware program, which might be alluded to in how Petsounds' Stand forcibly controls people?
- Ra
- Since the Stand name was never revealed in the novel, we'll probably never know.
