City Living is a JoJo's Bizarre Adventure fancomic by JonyDrake
The year is 2013 in the fictional city of Chutowan (ちゅとわん) located in Japan. After a series of unfortunate events, 23 y/o Yoh Yomi ends up living as a hikikomori (Japanese term to describe shut-ins), being sustained by his wealthy parents with the promise of finishing his education at college.
After receiving the news of their parents getting hospitalized, Yeri Yomi, Yoh's sister, a successful psychologist and stand user, goes to inform his brother that he may lose his source of income due to the possibility of their parents dying, but after getting to him, she discovers that his brother has been living as a hikikomori for 4 years.
We follow Yoh in his recovery journey to try to fit in Japan's competitive society alongside other companions while a mystery regarding stand users unveils across the city.
It can be read on Webtoons, here
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Is on indefinite hiatus as of January 2022.
City Living contains examples of the following tropes:
- Animal Motifs: Stone Roses is fairly obviously a frog, from them having a stand that lets them extend their tongue to partnering with a Rock Frog.
- Dr. Feelgood: Feel Good Inc., a pharmaceutical company that has dabbled in making Red Happy Pills, an illegal narcotic that has been implied to grant Stands.
- Drives Like Crazy: Barney and Jay need to get Kobayashi back to Pearl Jam Café quickly so the group there can get him to deactivate his Stand before it kills them. In the process, they flagrantly ignore traffic laws, crash into a bus, and even soar high above the city.
- Empowered Badass Normal: Downplayed, as Rock Organisms do have powers, but they come from strange aspects of their biology instead of stand powers. However, the Rock Frog Ri Di Bi Di does have their own stand, Microcosms.
- Hikikomori: Yoh, as well as numerous other residents of Chutowan; this is the central conceit of the story and the source of the main conflict.
- Homing Projectile: Bullets affected by Pumped Up Kicks will relentlessly home in on their targets, in one instance even splitting into tiny pieces to go though the vent of a locker.
- Immune to Bullets: Due to his stand, Foster cannot be harmed by gunshots. But it can't do anything about pens.
- The Last Dance: Opera No. 2 allows people affected by it to perform this. No relation to the stand called Last Dance.
- Lethal Harmless Powers: Jay's Strawberry Fields Forever can create doors on objects. Seems like a support power at first, until you realize it isn't limited to nonliving matter.
- No Sympathy: Dietrich establishes himself rather quickly as this trope; in contrast to Sawyer, he loathes the idea of giving hikikomori support and appears to believe the crisis to be an organized conspiracy.
- Perpetually Protean: Opera No. 2 has a large degree of control over its manifestation and switches between forms rapidly, creating a meme at one point.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Kobayashi Issa isn't aware that he's a stand user, it's just that Souk Eye automatically activates inside an enclosed space whenever he leaves it.
