Josuke Higashikata Quotes

His Stand can fix anything except himself, and the first villain of the Part is defeated by the fixing: Angelo is fused into a rock that becomes a landmark, and Morioh's children are shown throwing balls at it. Two episodes in, the series has told the reader what kind of justice this town runs on. It is not a death; Josuke's grandfather was a policeman and the boy inherits the job in both senses, so the killer gets the sentence a cop would want, permanent and visible. What the line commits Josuke to is a rule he keeps for the whole Part: he does not kill. Kira dies under an ambulance, not under Crazy Diamond. The rock is the precedent, and it is still standing on a Morioh street corner with a face in it when the story ends.

The hair is a running gag, and the reason it is not just a gag is a story the series tells early and never repeats: a feverish four-year-old, a snowstorm, a car stuck on the road, and a stranger with a pompadour who pushed it free and walked away. Josuke does not know who the man was and neither does the reader. He copied the haircut. So the fury is not vanity, it is a memorial, and the show's habit of routing his only real violence through it is a way of saying the boy is fighting for a debt he cannot name. Here the target is Rohan, who has just used Heaven's Door to write "cannot attack Rohan Kishibe" into Koichi's face; the hair remark is what lets Josuke break the rule, since he is not attacking Rohan, he is blacked out. Araki knows exactly what he built.