JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Characters

Will A. Zeppeli

Hamon master · Jonathan's mentor

Baron Zeppeli is an Italian adventurer in a top hat who has spent his life preparing to fight the stone mask's power. He teaches Jonathan the Ripple in a matter of days and treats him like a son. His line continues through Caesar in Part 2 and, in another universe, Gyro in Part 7.

Voice

Keiji Fujiwara (JP)

Robert E. O. Speedwagon

Reformed thug · Loyal friend

Speedwagon starts as a London street tough who tries to rob Jonathan, sees his character and decides on the spot to follow him. He narrates fights with total enthusiasm and later becomes an oil magnate whose foundation supports the Joestars for generations.

Voice

Yoji Ueda (JP)

Erina Pendleton

Jonathan's love

Erina is a gentle doctor's daughter whom Dio targets early on to hurt Jonathan. She marries Jonathan, survives the end of Part 1, and is still alive as Joseph's grandmother in Part 2.

Tarkus and Bruford

Undead knights

Two legendary warriors from British history, raised by Dio as zombies. Bruford's fight with Jonathan ends with an unexpected moment of respect, while Tarkus is the brutal giant who forces the Part's most painful sacrifice.

Caesar Anthonio Zeppeli

Hamon user · Will's grandson

Caesar is a stylish Italian who fights with Ripple-charged soap bubbles and carries a grudge over his family's history. He and Joseph clash constantly at first, then become close friends during their training. Their partnership is the emotional core of Part 2.

Voice

Takuya Sato (JP)

Lisa Lisa

Hamon master

Lisa Lisa is the cool, severe teacher who trains Joseph and Caesar on her island. She guards the Red Stone of Aja, the gem the Pillar Men need. Her connection to Joseph turns out to be far closer than either of them knows.

Voice

Atsuko Tanaka (JP)

Rudol von Stroheim

German officer · Cyborg

Stroheim is a Nazi officer who first appears studying a Pillar Man in Mexico and comes back rebuilt as a cyborg loaded with weapons. The series plays him as a loud, absurd ally against a greater threat rather than as a hero.

Kars

Leader of the Pillar Men

Kars is the genius who created the stone masks, wanting a way to survive sunlight and become perfect. Elegant and utterly without honour, he fights with light blades that extend from his body. His drive to become the Ultimate Life Form is the threat the whole Part builds toward.

Wamuu

Pillar Man · Warrior

Wamuu controls wind and lives by a strict warrior's code, which makes him the most respected villain of the Part. His final duel with Joseph is fought by chariot under ancient rules, and he earns real admiration from his enemy.

Esidisi and Santana

Pillar Men

Esidisi controls his body heat and boils his own blood into weapons, and he hides a ruthless mind behind sudden fits of crying. Santana, the youngest, is found in Mexico and shows Joseph how dangerous the Pillar Men's bodies really are.

Noriaki Kakyoin

Stand: Hierophant Green

Kakyoin is a polite, reserved student who first appears under DIO's control and joins the group once Jotaro frees him. His Stand stretches into long tendrils and fires "Emerald Splash." He has never had friends who could see his Stand, which gives his loyalty to the group a quiet weight.

Voice

Daisuke Hirakawa (JP)

Jean Pierre Polnareff

Stand: Silver Chariot

Polnareff is a hot-headed, vain French swordsman hunting the man who killed his sister. His Stand is a fencing knight that can shed its armour for more speed. He's the group's comic relief and its most emotional member, and he reappears in Part 5 in a very different state.

Voice

Fumihiko Tachiki (JP)

Muhammad Avdol

Stand: Magician's Red

Avdol is an Egyptian fortune teller and old friend of Joseph, whose bird-headed Stand controls fire. He is the group's sensible voice and the one who explains how Stands work, which makes him the reader's guide to the new rules.

Voice

Kenta Miyake (JP)

Iggy

Stand: The Fool

Iggy is a Boston terrier with a love of coffee-flavoured gum and no interest in anyone's mission. His Stand shapes itself out of sand. He joins in Egypt under protest, and his slow turn from a selfish dog into a member of the team is one of Part 3's best arcs.

Holly Kujo

Jotaro's mother

Holly is Joseph's cheerful daughter, married into a Japanese family. She is too gentle to fight, and her Stand slowly poisons her. Saving her is the reason the journey happens.

Hol Horse

Stand: Emperor

Hol Horse is a cowboy assassin whose Stand is a gun with steerable bullets. He's a coward who prefers to work with a partner, which keeps getting him beaten in funny ways. He's one of the few enemies who keeps coming back.

Vanilla Ice

Stand: Cream

Vanilla Ice is DIO's fanatically loyal servant. His Stand swallows him and erases anything it passes through. He's one of the most frightening enemies in the series.

Enya and the D'Arby brothers

DIO's servants

Enya is the old woman who gave DIO the means to awaken Stands, and she uses Justice to control the dead. The D'Arby brothers, Daniel and Telence, bet souls on games of poker and video games. Their fights are among the cleverest in Part 3.

Koichi Hirose

Stand: Echoes

Koichi starts as a small, nervous classmate. His Stand hatches from an egg and evolves through three forms as he becomes braver. He grows more than anyone else in Part 4, earning even Jotaro's respect, and makes a brief appearance in Part 5.

Voice

Yuki Kaji (JP)

Okuyasu Nijimura

Stand: The Hand

Okuyasu is a dim but devoted friend whose Stand's right hand erases whatever it swipes. He often doesn't realise how powerful that is. He starts as an enemy alongside his older brother Keicho, and his loyalty to Josuke is the Part's warmest friendship.

Voice

Wataru Takagi (JP)

Rohan Kishibe

Manga artist · Stand: Heaven's Door

Rohan is a brilliant, arrogant manga author whose Stand turns people into books he can read and write in. He'd do almost anything for good material. He was popular enough to get his own spin-off stories, Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan.

Voice

Takahiro Sakurai (JP)

Shigechi, Yukako and Tonio

Morioh locals

Part 4 is full of townspeople with odd Stands. Shigekiyo "Shigechi" Yangu sends hundreds of tiny Harvest units to collect coins. Yukako Yamagishi controls her hair with Love Deluxe and is obsessed with Koichi. Tonio Trussardi is an Italian chef whose Stand, Pearl Jam, cures his diners in disgusting ways.

Hayato Kawajiri

The boy who suspects

Hayato is a young boy who notices that his father is not his father. Without a Stand of his own, he takes on Kira, and he's at the centre of the Part's tense final stretch.

Reimi Sugimoto

Ghost of Morioh

Reimi is the ghost of a teenage girl killed by Kira fifteen years earlier. She haunts a hidden alley with her dog and gives the heroes their first clue to the killer.

Leone Abbacchio

Stand: Moody Blues

Abbacchio is a former police officer who fell into the mob after a mistake cost his partner's life. He's hostile to Giorno for most of the Part. His Stand can replay anything that happened in a place, so he's the team's investigator.

Guido Mista

Stand: Sex Pistols

Mista is a laid-back gunman with a deep fear of the number four. His Stand is six tiny creatures that ride and redirect his bullets. He's the most cheerful member of the team.

Narancia Ghirga

Stand: Aerosmith

Narancia is the youngest of the team, a runaway Bucciarati took in when no one else would. He's hot-tempered and can't do simple maths. His Stand is a small fighter plane that tracks enemies by their breath.

Pannacotta Fugo

Stand: Purple Haze

Fugo is a brilliant former student with a violent temper. His Stand releases a flesh-eating virus so deadly he can barely use it. He leaves the story at a key turning point. The light novel Purple Haze Feedback follows what happened to him afterwards.

Trish Una

The boss's daughter · Stand: Spice Girl

Trish is the girl the team is ordered to protect. She's spoiled at first and becomes much braver. Her Stand makes things soft and elastic, and her awakening is a turning point in the team's fight.

La Squadra di Esecuzione

The assassination team

A team of Passione hitmen who rebel against the boss and hunt Trish for leverage. They include Risotto Nero (Metallica), Prosciutto (The Grateful Dead), Pesci (Beach Boy), Ghiaccio (White Album), Melone (Baby Face), Illuso (Man in the Mirror) and Formaggio (Little Feet). Each one gets a single, inventive fight.

Ermes Costello

Stand: Kiss

Ermes is a fellow inmate who got herself arrested on purpose so she could take revenge for her sister. Her Stand makes copies of objects using stickers. She's Jolyne's first real friend inside.

Foo Fighters (F.F.)

Stand: Foo Fighters

F.F. is a colony of plankton given intelligence by a Stand disc. It takes over a dead inmate's body and switches from enemy to ally. Its curiosity about what it means to be alive leads to some of the Part's gentlest scenes.

Emporio Alniño

Stand: Burning Down the House

Emporio is a boy born inside the prison who hides in a ghost room only Stand users can enter. His Stand calls up the ghosts of objects. He's the group's quiet source of information, and the ending depends on him.

Weather Report and Anasui

Allies in the men's wing

Weather Report has no memory of his past and can control the weather. His secret is tied directly to the villain's. Narciso Anasui, whose Stand Diver Down dives into objects and people, is devoted to Jolyne and keeps asking Jotaro's permission to marry her.

Diego Brando

Jockey · Stand: Scary Monsters

Diego is this universe's Dio: a ruthless British jockey from a poor background who turns into a velociraptor-like dinosaur. He's a rival rather than the main villain, competing for both the prize and the corpse.

Lucy Steel and Hot Pants

Allies in the race

Lucy is the very young wife of the race organiser, Steven Steel. She risks her life spying on the President. Hot Pants is a racer secretly working for the Vatican, whose Stand, Cream Starter, sprays flesh. She is guilt-ridden over her past and wants the corpse to atone for it.

Sandman and Mountain Tim

Early rivals

Sandman is a Native American runner racing on foot to buy back his people's land; his Stand is In a Silent Way. Mountain Tim is a gentle cowboy whose rope Stand, Oh! Lonesome Me, lets him split his body apart.

Yasuho Hirose

Stand: Paisley Park

Yasuho is the girl who finds Gappy and helps him look for his past. Her Stand guides people through maps, phones and networks. She is his closest ally and the reader's anchor through the Part's twists.

Norisuke Higashikata IV

Head of the Higashikata family · Stand: King Nothing

Norisuke runs a successful fruit business and takes Gappy into his household. He's kind, eccentric and hiding a hereditary curse that falls on his family's eldest sons.

Jobin and Joshu Higashikata

Norisuke's sons

Jobin is the polished eldest son. He has quietly allied with the Rock Humans and uses Speed King to store heat. His younger brother Joshu is a spoiled, girl-crazy teenager with Nut King Call, which bolts things together. One is a real threat; the other gets in the way.

Tooru

Stand: Wonder of U

Tooru is the hidden main villain. He is a Rock Human behind the Locacaca trade, and his Stand works as a kind of calamity: anyone who tries to pursue him suffers disaster. He's one of the hardest bosses in the series to understand, let alone beat.

Dragona Joestar

Jodio's older brother · Stand: Smooth Operators

Dragona is fashionable, perceptive and fiercely protective of Jodio. His Stand can move small things, such as a person's features or a lock's parts, by tiny amounts.

Paco Laburantes and Usagi Alohaoe

Crew members

Paco is the crew's hulking muscle, with a Stand called The Hustle. Usagi is a nervous, oddball young man whose Stand is called All Along Watchtower. The crew works for a boss named Meryl Mei Qi.