History Characters / JojosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakableHeroes

'''''[[Characters/JoJosBizarreAdventureGoldenWind Golden Wind]]:''''' [[Characters/JoJosBizarreAdventureTeamBucciarati Team Bucciarati]] ([[Characters/JojosBizarreAdventureGiornoGiovanna Giorno Giovanna]]) | [[Characters/JojosBizarreAdventureDiavolo The Boss]]\\

* GoodIsNotSoft: When you cross him, the retaliation will be swift and brutal, even if he is a generally chipper and friendly person.

* LostInTranslation: Josuke appears to be the only protagonist to not have a variation of "Jo" in his last name. However, in Japanese, the character for "suke" can be read as "Jo", making his name "[=JoJo=] Higashikata". Most English translations use the fact that he's blood-related to Joseph as a means to HandWave this.

* ThouShallNotKill: Notable for being one of two [=JoJos=] with a really low body count. He even went to great lengths to save the life of some of his foes. However, he does inflict many a FateWorseThanDeath on the more evil foes, multiple times going into AndIMustScream territory.

'''''[[Characters/JoJosBizarreAdventureBattleTendency Battle Tendency]]:''''' [[Characters/JoJosBizarreAdventureJosephJoestar Joseph Joestar]] | [[Characters/JoJosBizarreAdventureKars Kars]]\\

'''''[[Characters/JoJosBizarreAdventureJojolion JoJolion]]:''''' [[Characters/JoJosBizarreAdventureJoJolionTheHigashikataFamily The Higashikata Family]] | [[Characters/JoJosBizarreAdventureToru The Mastermind]]\\

* SuperSpeed: Crazy Diamond has A-rank speed; while Josuke estimates that it can attack at 300km/h, he's likely greatly underestimating it as Crazy Diamond can easily match Star Platinum's speed (who can itself keep up with the near light-speed Silver Chariot). Its healing is also nearly instantaneous, to the point where it can [[spoiler:put Hayato back together as he's being blown to bits by Killer Queen]].

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/YukiOno (TV anime, JP, ''Last Survivor'', and ''All-Star Battle R''), Creator/BillyKametz (TV anime, EN), Creator/WataruHatano (''Ultra Jump'' CM, ''All-Star Battle'', and ''Eyes of Heaven''), Luis Fernando Orozco (TV anime, [=LatAm=] Spanish)

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/YuukiKaji (TV anime, JP, ''Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan'' OVA, JP, ''Last Survivor'', and ''All-Star Battle R''), Creator/ZachAguilar (TV anime, EN and ''Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan'' OVA, EN), Creator/RomiPark (''All-Star Battle'' and ''Eyes of Heaven''), Creator/RioNatsuki (''Vento Aureo'' video game), Diego Becerril (TV anime, [=LatAm=] Spanish), Emilio Treviño (''Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan'' OVA, [=LatAm=] Spanish)

* GeniusBruiser: He is quite cunning for a 15-year-old teenager who has just now started to fight Stands that give the experienced Jotaro and Joseph a run for their money.

* NiceGuy: Second only to [[GentleGiant Jonathan]] in terms of this. Josuke's primary trait is his overall kindness, reflected in his Stand which repairs and heals. Upon meeting someone in not particularly antagonistic circumstances, Josuke will generally be polite and friendly.

* CluelessChickMagnet: The audio drama, "An After School Chit-Chat", establish Josuke as this trope, not even aware that he's popular with girls until Koichi and Okuyasu points it out.

* HeroOfAnotherStory: Is this in ''Rohan at the Louvre'', a graphic novel written by Araki where he investigates a supposedly cursed painting at the Louvre in Paris.

* ArchEnemy: In some sense, Hayato is this to Kira more than Josuke himself. Case in point: he found that he has replaced his father, defeats Bites the Dust by calling Josuke early and tricking Kira into revealing his identity in front of him, but not before attempting to assassinate him with Stray Cat's ability, and assists Josuke during the last battle when Kira used Okuyasu's body like a bomb, by touching Okuyasu's body and triggering the bomb early, betting that Josuke could heal him fast enough to survive the explosion.

* BerserkButton: If you value your life whatsoever, do not, I repeat, '''do not'' insult his hair. It will almost certainly lead you to being hospitalized at best and turned into an inanimate object at worst. It's pretty telling that the only person to do so (though it was [[InnocentlyInsensitive not on purpose]]) and avoid this fate is [[WorldsStrongestMan Jotaro]].

* BerserkButton: Don't talk shit about his hair, unless you want your face to literally be rearranged. It's pretty telling that the only person to do so (though it was [[InnocentlyInsensitive not on purpose]]) and avoid this fate is [[WorldsStrongestMan Jotaro]].

* AbsurdlyYouthfulFather: An uncle variant. He's actually twelve years ''younger'' than his nephew Jotaro. This is mostly because Joseph was ''60 years old'' when he impregnated his mother.

* CallingParentsByTheirName: He insists on calling Joseph "Joestar-san"/"Mr. Joestar", which is more polite than usual for this trope, but expresses that he doesn't see Joseph as his father. [[spoiler:By the end of ''Diamond is Unbreakable'', while he still doesn't calls him "dad", [[SubvertedTrope he affectionately calls Joseph "old man"]] [[note]]Although to be fair, Jotaro also addresses Joseph, his grandfather, as "old man".[[/note]], and has clearly accepted him as his father. He does steal his wallet though, calling it his "allowance."]]

* AbsurdlyYouthfulFather: An uncle variant. He's actually twelve years ''younger'' than his nephew Jotaro.

* CallingParentsByTheirName: He insists on calling Joseph "Joestar-san"/"Mr. Joestar", which is more polite than usual for this trope, but expresses that he doesn't see Joseph as his father. [[spoiler:By the end of ''Diamond is Unbreakable'', while he still doesn't calls him "dad", [[SubvertedTrope he affectionately calls Joseph "old man"]] [[note:]]Although to be fair, Jotaro also addresses Joseph, his grandfather, as "old man".[[/note]], and has clearly accepted him as his father. He does steal his wallet though, calling it his "allowance."]]

* CallingParentsByTheirName: He insists on calling Joseph "Joestar-san"/"Mr. Joestar", which is more polite than usual for this trope, but expresses that he doesn't see Joseph as his father. [[spoiler:By the end of ''Diamond is Unbreakable'', while he still doesn't calls him "dad", [[SubvertedTrope he affectionately calls Joseph "old man"]], and has clearly accepted him as his father.]]

* HorribleHousing: Okuyasu, his brother, and his father live in an old, dilapidated mansion because their lives went down the crapper after Mr. Nijimura became an agent of DIO. For a time, the money and jewels sent as payment kept them afloat, but after DIO's defeat, the flesh bud went haywire and turned Mr. Nijimura into a monster. Keicho had to become the caretaker of the family, and he spent that time trying to create a Stand user who could kill his father, while apparently neglecting the upkeep of the house.

* ExpressiveHair: His hair spikes up when he gets angry, scared of surprised (especially the former). It's even in ''VideoGame/JoJosBizarreAdventureAllStarBattle'', for good measure.

[[caption-width-right:350:''[[Music/SavageGarden ♫ Ooh, I want you, I don't know if I need you but, ooh I'd die to find out... ♫]]''[[note]]'''Counterclockwise from [[BigBad Kira]]:''' [[EccentricArtist Rohan Kishibe]], [[DumbMuscle Okuyasu Nijimura]], [[BewareTheNiceOnes Josuke Higashikata]], [[TinySchoolboy Koichi Hirose]], [[OlderAndWiser Jotaro Kujo]], [[CuteGhostGirl Reimi Sugimoto]], and [[KidHero Hayato Kawajiri]].[[/note]]]]

* GutturalGrowler: In the Latin American Spanish dub, when he gets angry, he's given [[HarshVocals an extremely aggressive-sounding, very gravelly and unusually low gruff voice]] with an incredibly thick Spanish accent that would make a {{deathcore}} vocalist blush. This is more prominent in his face-off against Rohan, where during his UnstoppableRage and having found the mangaka at last after trashing his entire room, as he delivers a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown on the terrified Rohan, Josuke lets out a [[MetalScream horrifically guttural scream]] that goes on for a few seconds until he finishes the beating. This one stands out because whenever he's calm (like he is usually), Josuke has a soothing, deep voice that is a stark contrast to this angry bellowing.

* GutturalGrowler: Creator/WataruTakagi and Creator/JalenKCassell give Okuyasu a very coarse, raspy voice.

* BreakoutCharacter: After his introduction in the story, he became a sort of "bonus" protagonist. Very popular among the fans, he is also TheProtagonist in several {{Spinoff}} stories such as the ''Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan'' one-shots.

* ItCanThink: Discounting the special case of Anubis, Echoes Act 3 is the first Stand that shows sentience separate from its user.

* {{Catchphrase}}: Has a tendency to say 'GREAT,' often sarcastically when things have taken a turn for the worse. Also, [[LikeFatherLikeSon just like his dad]], he says so in [[GratuitousEnglish Engrish]].

* CerebusRetcon: According to the ''Jorge Joestar'' novel, Rohan being unaffected by [[spoiler:Made In Heaven wasn't a joke. He was so utterly absorbed in his work that Made In Heaven simply didn't affect him and he carried over into the next universe ''unchanged''.]] Of course, said novel is a non-canon CrackFic written by the author, so take that as you will.

* DaddyIssues: A {{downplayed}} example happens in regard to his feelings towards Joseph to begin with. Josuke freely admits that he doesn't hate his dad and doesn't even want the massive inheritance that comes with being Joseph's son. However, he admits at the start that he can't see Joseph as his father and that their relationship is at best like strangers to each other. After the stress of the invisible baby incident starts mounting up, Josuke lashes out at Joseph and internally states that he could never respect someone as irresponsible as him, clearly letting some deep-seated anger boil over. However, after Joseph proves himself by almost killing himself to find the invisible baby, Josuke comes to respect him, and by the time Part 4 is over, the two clearly see each other as father and son.

* SuperSpeed: Crazy Diamond's healing is nearly instantaneous. It is so fast that it can [[spoiler:put Hayato back together as he's being blown to bits by Killer Queen]].

* AstonishinglyAppropriateAppearance: His hair looks like the bristles of a paintbrush.