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JOSUKE HIGASHIKATA

Josuke Higashikata (
!, Gurēto daze)

,, Higashikata
Jōsuke; the Suke — — in his name may also be
pronounced as "Jo") is the protagonist of Diamond is
Unbreakable and the fourth JoJo of the JoJo's
Bizarre Adventure series.

Josuke is a high school Frst-year residing in the town

of Morioh. He soon meets Jotaro Kujo, who informs
him that he is Joseph Joestar's illegitimate son. After
his grandfather dies, Josuke takes it upon himself to
protect his beloved town from malevolent Stand
users. Josuke wields Crazy Diamond, a powerful
Stand with the power to repair almost anything.

JAPANESE NAME

ALIAS JoJo (given to him by delinquents)

STAND Crazy Diamond

Quiz

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GENDER Male

HEIGHT 180 cm (5 ft 11 in)

WEIGHT 82 kg (181 lb)

BLOOD TYPE B

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NATIONALITY Japanese

HAIR COLOR Black

(Digital Color, ASB, EOH, Anime)
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EYE COLOR Purple

Appearance (Digital Color, ASB, EOH)

“
Blue (Anime)

OCCUPATION Student (First-year )

Excuse me... What did you say about my hair?!

FAVORITES
JOSUKE HIGASHIKATA

MUSICIAN Prince

Josuke is a tall, handsome teenage boy of average

HOBBIES Watching TV
build. He wears a small stud in each ear. The feature
Video Games
most important to him Listening
is his well-maintained
to Music Elvis-
style

pompadourW
, styled after that of an INFORMATION
OTHER unknown man who saved his
life as a child.[5] His pompadour has a tendency to
DISLIKESspiky with his mood,
Insults against hiswhen
hairstyle
become such as he is
Turtles
irritated or angry.

Josuke wears a dark, modiFed Japanese school

RELATIVES

uniform. His jacket conforms

Joseph to his
Joestar body, extending to
(Father)
Tomoko
the middle of his thigh,Higashikata
accompanied by a pair of
(Mother)
Ryohei Higashikata
wide-legged pants. He keeps his jacket unbuttoned
(Maternal Grandfather)
and pinned aside, revealing a light undershirt with a
Shizuka Joestar
short zipper on each side of his
(Adoptive chest.
sister)
Jotaro Kujo (Nephew)
Holy Kujo (Half-sister)
Josuke wears a number of metallic/golden emblems.
Giorno Giovanna (Granduncle)
On the left of hisJolyne
collar, Cujoh
he wears a modiFed anchor,
(Grandniece)
See:
and on his rightFamily
Joestar a row of two small hearts. Pinning his
Tree

open jacket to his chest on his right is a

peace signW
AFFILIATION Higashikata Family

( ), and on the left is a heart (occasionally enclosing

a palm, like on Jotaro'sSTATUS
hat). He wears a gold band at
both wrists, above his sleeves (under more elaborate
STATUS Alive
pieces in several illustrations). A man with expensive
taste, Josuke wears Mr. Junko original socks, ¥25,000
black

BallyW MEDIA
shoes[6] and
MANGA DEBUT Chapter 266Jotaro Kujo! Meets Josuke
Higashikata, Part 1
MoschinoW
[7].
brand underwear
FINAL Chapter 439Goodbye, Morioh Town -
APPEARANCE The Golden Heart
Josuke's most common color scheme consists of
either
ANIMEaDEBUT
dark blue or purple uniform
DU Episode and Kujo!
1Jotaro a green
Meets or

yellow undershirt. Josuke Higashikata

Color
GAMESchemes
DEBUT Cult Jump

JAPANESE
Skin VOICE ACTOR
(Fair)

Yūki Ono (Anime, Diamond Records)

Hair (Black with purple highlights)
Yō Taichi (Anime, Child)
Wataru Hatano (All Star Battle / Eyes of Heaven, Ultra Jump
Eyes (Purple)
CM)

OutEt

(Purple uniform with lime

DUB VOICE ACTOR
green undershirt and gold
accessories.
Billy Kametz (English Dark
Dub) green
Maureenshoes.)
Price (English Dub, Child)
Luis Fernando Orozco (Latin Spanish Dub)
The anime marks a shift in Josuke's portrayal in promotional
Yuri Chesman (Brazilian Portuguese Dub)
materials as most media featuring Josuke post-anime will

portray him with his anime colors.

LIVE-ACTION ACTOR
Skin (Fair)
Kento Yamazaki
Hair (Black with navy highlights)

Eyes (Blue)

OutEt

(Navy uniform with yellow

undershirt and gold
accessories. Purple shoes.)

Hair (Black with purple highlights)

Eyes (Purple)

OutEt

(Indigo uniform with yellow

undershirt and gold
accessories. Green shoes.)

Hair (Black with indigo highlights)

Eyes (Purple)

OutEt

(Navy uniform with yellow

undershirt and gold
accessories. Olive green
shoes.)

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Personality

Josuke is a savvy, conFdent and courageous

teenager. Friendly and loyal, his amiable personality
helps him make friends throughout the story.

Swearing to protect Morioh

Josuke's primary trait is his overall kindness, reXected

in his Stand, Crazy Diamond, which repairs and heals.
[8] When he was a child, a random bystander helped
save a feverish Josuke out of kindness,[9] Josuke
subconsciously reXected that kindness in him. Even
upon the revelation that he was Joseph's bastard
son, Josuke had thought Frst and foremost about the
troubles he's caused to the Joestars and disregarded
any claim for a heritage, only wanting to reassure his
biological father that he was doing Fne.[10] Agreeable
by nature, Josuke isn't as prone to violence as other
JoJos and can even calmly tolerate bullying by
upperclassmen[11] or Shigechi's selFshness.[12] Josuke
is loyal to his friends and loved ones; risking his life
after Koichi is hit by Keicho's Bow,[13] and carrying
Okuyasu's body while apparently dead throughout the
Frst part of his battle with Yoshikage Kira.[14] When his
grandfather died, Josuke took it upon himself to
become the protector of Morioh.[15] Upon meeting
someone in not particularly antagonistic
circumstances, Josuke will generally be polite and
friendly.

Overall, Josuke behaves like a teenager, and aside

from his general goal of protecting Morioh from any
Stand menace, is concerned by more down to earth
matters, such as hanging out with his friends. As a
consequence, Josuke is almost never seen alone in
the streets of Morioh. Josuke passively protects his
town, and only acts when directly asked by the much
more proactive Jotaro or when he directly encounters
a Stand user. Curious, Josuke is quick to investigate
any unusual phenomenon, which often leads him into
a Stand User. Josuke is very prone to openly
communicate his feelings, either expressing
amazement, amusement, fear and anger thus he
appears as a goofy individual.

Su]ciently humble, Josuke confesses to being

nervous around famous people, opting not to go with
Koichi to Frst meet Rohan Kishibe due to his great
fame as a mangaka.[16] Josuke also has a fear of
turtles, and has tried to touch a turtle to get rid of
that fear.[11] Josuke isn't shy to admit his limits, and
has confessed that he doesn't know much about
manga, or isn't good at videogames, even though he
isn't happy to have someone know these factoids. In
the same way, Josuke tries to live up to Jotaro, whom
he admires, and has been nervous around him for fear
of not living up to the task Jotaro entrusted to him.[17]
He has also shown a mild fear of ghosts (in the
beginning), as shown when Koichi wonders if he saw
a ghost in the house next to Josuke's, and Josuke
nervously tells him to cut it out.

Josuke calmly aiming at Bug-Eaten in critical moment

However, in a Fght, Josuke is much more calm, and

has unshakable conFdence in Crazy Diamond, but his
conFdence doesn't extend to himself, as Josuke can
still be nervous if things don't go his way. Additionally,
Terunosuke Miyamoto is able to reveal that in terms of
body language, Josuke's Frst unconscious reaction
when unsure is to bite his lip.[18] In general, his
attitude will mix calmness and gooFness, and Josuke
can switch between a taunting one-liner and a serene
assertion of the situation. Josuke is occasionally
distracted in a Fght, often reXecting on the silliness of
the situation he's currently in or trying to act cool.
Even if Josuke is gentle by nature, he has no qualm
about violently pummeling an enemy, and in the case
someone has hurt or endangered a family member,
Josuke will be even more vindictive, as he fused
Angelo with a rock[19] and Terunosuke with a book.[20]

Josuke has a tangential respect of the law at best,

having inherited his father's mischevious side, shown
primarily in regards to winning money. After nearly
emptying his bank account on frivolous spendings,
Josuke has been trying to get extra money in quick
fashion. When he and Okuyasu meet Shigechi, he
quickly devises a plan to exploit Shigechi's Stand
Harvest to Fnd Frst discarded change, and then
discarded coupons from all over Morioh, going as far
as commit felony to earn the money in a winning
ticket.[21] Similarly, after meeting Mikitaka Hazekura,
he takes advantage of his shape-shifting Stand
power, convincing him to turn into dice in order to
cheat money from Rohan, with whom he has a bad
relationship.[22] Lastly, characterized as a knowing
gesture, he steals Joseph's wallet with his Stand by
restoring it to his possession with a piece of a picture
planted there.[23] The fact that his Stand can nearly
repair or heal anything means that Josuke can get
away with destruction of property or endangering
someone, thus he isn't really concerned about the
legal ramiFcations of his actions, since they will be
without consequences, at least for him.

When it comes to women, he is moderate between

Joseph and Jotaro. He does not Xirt relentlessly and
is not perverted like Joseph, but when the girls near
him express interest in him, he is Xattered and has
shown to get along quite well with his female
classmates and admirers.[10] He does not shoo them
away like Jotaro but doesn't relentlessly Xirt or pursue
any. When Jotaro asks Josuke to go hunting, Josuke
initially believes he means hunting for girls and says
with a blush and smile that he is more of a love kind
of guy.[17] However, he seems to be willing to hit them
if they are the enemy as he threatened to kill Yukako if
she tried to do anything to Koichi, whom she was
obsessed with.[24] While he does express interest in
women, it is not his main priority.

As a catchphrase, Josuke often says "Great" in

English. He also displays an odd quirk whenever he
pronounces the Japanese phrase kakkoii (
), a masculine compliment essentially meaning
"cool", where he will always pronounce it weirdly like
"Kappyoii" or "Kacchoii." These mispronunciations are
translated as "kewl" in the English Crunchyroll
subtitles.

"What did you say about my hair?"

In a quintessential idiosyncrasy, Josuke takes a

hyper-sensitive reaction to comments at all
disparaging of his hairstyle;[10] which Koichi interprets
as Josuke reacting to insults towards his savior,
although Josuke personally claims he doesn't know
the reason for his wrath.After an insult, Josuke
automatically enters a blind rage regardless of the
circumstances and interlocutors, and becomes much
more rude and violent. Firstly, a swaggering
upperclassman to whom Josuke initially defers is
punched and stepped on,[11] before his nose is
restored by Crazy Diamond improperly and
indeFnitely, due to Josuke's mood. Later, during his
Fght with Rohan, in an attempt to manipulate Josuke
into gazing upon his Stand by openly taunting him
about his hair, Josuke goes berserk; landing Rohan in
the hospital for one month of hiatus.[25]

Stand

Josuke with Crazy Diamond

Main article: Crazy Diamond

Josuke's Stand, Crazy Diamond, can restore objects
(and organisms) to a previous state in their history.

It is able to repair damage and heal injuries. It can also

revert an item to its components (e.g. a wooden table
into lumber).

With this, Crazy Diamond may perform a range of

interesting feats; including trapping (parts of) an
enemy by restoring pieces of a broken object around
it; and tracking, such as by restoring a torn piece of
clothing, which seeks to reattach itself.

However, this Stand is not without limits: Crazy

Diamond can only restore state, not life, hence a
lifeless body would still remain dead even after being
"Fxed" by Crazy Diamond's power. Also, the healing
power cannot be used on Josuke himself, or strictly
speaking, anything that can be considered a part of
his current self, body or even his own clothes.

Mastery

Josuke shows great proFciency at using Crazy

Diamond in combat. Thanks to its great physical
prowess, Josuke can use Crazy Diamond's Fsts to
perform outside the box tactics such as breaking
through a wall to escape an attack. Moreover, he has
been shown to throw projectiles with great e]ciency
thanks to his Stand's sheer strength and precision.

Additionally, Josuke has been shown to use his

seemingly restricted power for a wide array of tactical
goals. Crazy Diamond's power of repairing anything
makes Josuke a great healer as long as he can reach
his allies before they die and he works exceptionally
well with a partner as a result. Because he can break
objects and repair them, Josuke is liberal in breaking
anything to get something he wants such as a more
favorable position or a key item like fuel for a
motorcycle, use a precious item as leverage, or even
destroy his motorcycle to avoid a baby carriage; he
then repairs anything he's broken, cancelling any
consequence his antics would have. Josuke can
easily exploit the environment to his advantage
thanks to Crazy Diamond. His ability to repair makes it
so he can manipulate the environment to a certain
point, creating a shield out of concrete, and lay down
a trap with an object's broken pieces only to repair it
around an enemy. The deadliness of his projectile is
also increased as he can create a boomerang ecect
by forcing a piece to come back to him, hitting an
enemy from behind.

Personal

Josuke is shrewd, conFdent and courageous,

possessing considerable Xuid intelligence and a will to
win; like his father.

Intelligence: Josuke is extremely quick to get on his

feet under almost any circumstance, as he is very
aware of the immediate surrounding as well as his
own capabilities. He is proFcient in utilizing anything
he has within reach for dealing with problems at
hand, and is also shown to be capable of planning
several steps ahead by reading opponent's behavior
and habit. Josuke is very conFdent of his abilities to
the point of claiming that there is nothing Crazy
Diamond (indirectly referring to himself) can't Fx, and
expresses mild disappointment after Fguring out what
he thought would have been one such problem. As a
result of his intellect, Josuke can be quite cunning;
manipulating, lying and cheating others occasionally
to achieve certain selFsh goals.

Physical Eneness: Josuke possesses substantial

athletic ability. He has been shown once to have
successfully chased down a moving bus over long
distances completely on foot, and can handle a heavy
motorbike ecortlessly for the Frst and only time riding
it, while achieving many otherwise professional feats
during a high-speed chase in attempts to avoid direct
contacts with the enemy chasing after him. The most
well known demonstration of Josuke's physical
toughness is shown when he withstands exposure to
several explosions generated by Yoshikage Kira's Killer
Queen, sustaining heavy injuries and blood loss but
remaining conscious enough to think of
countermeasures and tactics.

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Chapters / Episodes

Manga Appearances

Chapters in order of appearance

Chapter 266: "Jotaro Kujo! Meets Josuke

Higashikata, Part 1"
Chapter 267: "Jotaro Kujo! Meets Josuke
Higashikata, Part 2"
Chapter 268: "Jotaro Kujo! Meets Josuke
Higashikata, Part 3"
Chapter 269: "Josuke Higashikata! Meets Angelo,
Part 1"
Chapter 270: "Josuke Higashikata! Meets Angelo,
Part 2"
Chapter 271: "Josuke Higashikata! Meets Angelo, Part
3"
Chapter 272: "Josuke Higashikata! Meets Angelo,
Part 4"
Chapter 273: "Josuke Higashikata! Meets Anjuro, Part
5"
Chapter 274: "The Nijimura Brothers, Part 1"
Chapter 275: "The Nijimura Brothers, Part 2"
Chapter 276: "The Nijimura Brothers, Part 3"
Chapter 277: "The Nijimura Brothers, Part 4"
Chapter 278: "The Nijimura
Calling Brothers,
all UK Star Part 5"
Trek Fans!
Chapter 279: "The Nijimura Brothers, Part 6"
WE WANT TO HERE FROM YOU
Chapter 280: "The Nijimura Brothers, Part 7"