Atom Heart Father

MangaAnime

Japanese Name

アトム・ハート・ファーザー

Stats^?

Destructive Power

E

Speed

E

Range

∅

Stamina

A

Precision

E

Developmental Potential

E

A: Very Good

B: Good

C: Average

D: Poor

E: Very Poor

Destructive Power	Speed	Range
E	E	Null

Stamina	Precision	Developmental Potential
A	E	E

“

What the hell? You're saying his ghost dad is inside this picture?

”

—Josuke Higashikata, Chapter 366: Atom Heart Father, Part 2

Atom Heart Father (アトム・ハート・ファーザー, Atomu Hāto Fāzā) is the Stand of Yoshihiro Kira, featured in the fourth part of the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure series, Diamond is Unbreakable.

It allows Yoshihiro to remain and move inside of a photo, potentially trapping other people with him inside of it.

Appearance

Atom Heart Father is an ability bound to a dark Polaroid camera and the pictures it produces,^[4] thus it doesn't have an appearance. Yoshihiro uses its ability often to hide inside the pictures and sometimes visibly stick out. Due to the encounter with the Morioh group, the picture Yoshihiro resides in is pricked with holes on its border.^[5]

Color Schemes

The series is known for alternating colors between media, the information presented below may or may not be canon.

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Polaroid camera

(Overall black with white details and gray lens)

Picture

(Light-to-dark cyan gradient with a white border)

Polaroid camera

(Overall black with white details and gray lens)

Picture(Black background with a white border)

Abilities

The abstruse power of Atom Heart Father makes it a fearsome and seemingly invincible Stand when it is set up. However, it has a glaring weakness in that anyone is free to use the camera the ability is bound to, allowing Jotaro to take advantage of it and render the Stand harmless.^[6]

Supernatural Photography

Atom Heart Father is bound to a Polaroid camera which takes pictures with several extraordinary properties.^[4]

The most obvious one is that it allows people to see the ghost of Yoshihiro Kira who is normally invisible to human eyes.^[4] More precisely, Yoshihiro only exists inside the pictures the camera takes and he alone can move inside them.^[7] In case the picture is a close-up, he can even extend his head and arms out of the photography to interact with the world.^[5] If need be, the photograph can float around by itself and Yoshihiro can store items like the Arrow inside the photographs.^[8]

Not only can Yoshihiro move inside the picture, but he can also interact with objects that are within the photographed area. For instance, he could call Josuke with a phone from the photograph.^[7] Whatever happens inside the picture will be reflected in the real world no matter what the victims do, thus if Yoshihiro was to decapitate Josuke inside the picture with a knife, that same knife would burst out of a drawer and fly at Josuke to cut off his head.^[6]

Moreover, two properties protect Atom Heart Father from interference:

Damage on the photo is transferred to the subjects

First, the photographs cannot be destroyed to stop the power because the damage to the pictures will be transferred as equivalent wounds to those depicted inside.^[7]
Secondly, everything inside the photo becomes an effectively isolated space delimited by the frame of the photograph. While people inside trying to get out will find themselves bumping into an unbreakable and invisible wall, people outside trying to go inside the photographed space find themselves transported to the other side of the space. Yoshihiro describes this last property as people being literally trapped inside the photographs.^[6]

Although this set of abilities makes Atom Heart Father seemingly impossible to stop, it has one glaring weakness. Anyone is free to use the camera the ability is bound to, and Jotaro uses that to take a photograph of Yoshihiro alone and then destroys the camera.^[6] Thus, everything that is supposed to happen inside the old photograph is interrupted and Yoshihiro finds himself trapped within the small frame of a photograph, unable to use his power again.

Despite the destruction of the camera, the supernatural photograph can persist indefinitely.^[8] However, if the photograph containing Yoshihiro is destroyed, his ghost will disappear forever.^[9]

Chapters / Episodes

Manga Appearances

Chapters in order of appearance

Chapter 365: Atom Heart Father, Part 1
Chapter 366: Atom Heart Father, Part 2
Chapter 367: Atom Heart Father, Part 3
Chapter 368: Atom Heart Father, Part 4
Chapter 369: Atom Heart Father, Part 5
Chapter 371: Rock-Paper-Scissors Kid is Coming!, Part 1
Chapter 374: Rock-Paper-Scissors Kid is Coming!, Part 4
Chapter 375: Rock-Paper-Scissors Kid is Coming!, Part 5
Chapter 376: Rock-Paper-Scissors Kid is Coming!, Part 6
Chapter 377: Yoshikage Kira's New Situation, Part 2
Chapter 384: Highway Star, Part 1
Chapter 389: Highway Star, Part 6
Chapter 398: Let's Live on a Transmission Tower, Part 1 (Cover only)
Chapter 399: Let's Live on a Transmission Tower, Part 2
Chapter 401: Let's Live on a Transmission Tower, Part 4 (Mentioned)
Chapter 402: Let's Live on a Transmission Tower, Part 5 (Mentioned)
Chapter 403: Let's Live on a Transmission Tower, Part 6 (Mentioned)
Chapter 406: Enigma Boy, Part 3 (Mentioned)
Chapter 407: Enigma Boy, Part 4 (Mentioned)
Chapter 412: Cheap Trick, Part 1 (Mentioned)
Chapter 418: Another One Bites the Dust, Part 1
Chapter 419: Another One Bites the Dust, Part 2
Chapter 433: Crazy Diamond is Unbreakable, Part 6 (Death)

Anime Appearances

Episodes in order of appearance

Diamond is Unbreakable Episode 25: Atom Heart Father
Diamond is Unbreakable Episode 26: Rock-Paper-Scissors Kid is Coming!
Diamond is Unbreakable Episode 27: I'm an Alien
Diamond is Unbreakable Episode 28: Highway Star, Part 1
Diamond is Unbreakable Episode 29: Highway Star, Part 2
Diamond is Unbreakable Episode 31: July 15th (Thursday), Part 1
Diamond is Unbreakable Episode 32: July 15th (Thursday), Part 2
Diamond is Unbreakable Episode 33: July 15th (Thursday), Part 3
Diamond is Unbreakable Episode 35: Another One Bites the Dust, Part 1
Diamond is Unbreakable Episode 38: Crazy Diamond is Unbreakable, Part 2 (Death)

Creation and Development

The Stand's basis is rooted in superstitions of photography capable of capturing the forms and images of ghosts, and an old Japanese superstition from the Meiji Era, where it was believed that cameras stole the souls of those who were taken a photo of. Araki came to the idea when thinking of how having a haunted photograph as a Stand would be interesting.^[2]

Gallery

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StoryChapter Covers

Atom Heart Father's first appearance
Printing an image of Jotaro and Josuke
The photo coming out of the camera
Yoshihiro uses the stand to hit Josuke with a phone
Josuke tears the image, causing the damage done to the print to be reflected on Jotaro and himself
Jotaro destroys the camera after trapping Yoshihiro, rendering the stand useless
Yoshihiro using his stand to escape the Joestar Group on a crow