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“
I'll be reading through your lives and experiences to get at that "reality" and use it for my work.
”

Heaven's Door (ヘブンズ・ドアー（天国への扉）, Hebunzu Doā) is the Stand of Rohan Kishibe, featured in the fourth part of the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure series, Diamond is Unbreakable, as well as the one-shot series, Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan.

It is a small human-like Stand that turns people into books for Rohan to read.

Appearance

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Heaven's Door was initially decided not to have a physical form of its own because of its ability to turn people into books,[3][4] but it takes on a full-fledged body in later arcs. Rohan may summon it or induce its effect with either drawings of it on paper or an air drawing with his finger, where only its outlines are visible.

Heaven's Door resembles a small boy with the appearance of Rohan's manga character, Pink Dark Boy. It wears a long overcoat, closed to the end of its torso, and a bow tie. Its face has an outline that connects to lines emanating around its eyes. It also wears a transparent top hat with a checkered pattern at the bottom.

In Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan, the hat more closely resembles a bowler hat instead. From Deoxyribonucleic Acid onward, Heaven's Door is depicted with vertically-segmented eyes, rather than its regular eyes in earlier works.

Color Schemes

The series is known for alternating colors between media, the information presented below may or may not be canon.
Colored MangaAnimeThus Spoke Kishibe Rohan OVAAll-Star BattleEyes of Heaven
Body
(White body and overcoat, yellow outlines)
Eyes(Light green)
Body
(Light gray skin, white overcoat, and golden outlines)
Eyes(Green)
Accessories(Mustard yellow bowtie and shoes)
Body
(Light gray skin, light cyan overcoat, and baby blue outlines)
Eyes(Green)
Accessories(Hot pink bowtie and olive green shoes)
Body
(White body and overcoat, golden outlines)
Eyes(Lime)
Accessories(Orange bowtie and shoes)
Body
(White body and overcoat, dark gold outlines)
Eyes(Green)
Accessories(Orange bowtie and light brown shoes)

Abilities

Rohan drawing Heaven's Door in mid-air

Heaven's Door is a weak close-range Stand unsuited for direct combat, but has several powerful abilities. For an inquisitive manga artist like Rohan, Heaven's Door is a handy way to gather research material out of people's pasts without the hassle of an interview.

During its introductory arc, Heaven's Door acts when Rohan's target sees it or an image of it drawn by him.[2] However, closing one's eyes or being simply unable to process the image, like being filled with blind rage, will make the opponent immune to Heaven's Door.[5][6] After being defeated by Josuke Higashikata, Rohan learns to activate Heaven's Door by creating a drawing in mid-air with a pen or with his finger.[7]

Later on, Rohan can also summon a physical form of his Stand. He can affect anyone either by directly touching them or if they enter the limited range of his Stand.[8][9][10]

Book Transmutation

Rohan can turn people into books and read their lives

Heaven's Door's basic ability allows Rohan to turn any living being into a book, with pages unfurling from their bodies in the shape of the body part it opens from (for example, if it opens from the face, the pages take the shape of the person's entire face).[4] While under this effect, targets may experience varying degrees of incapacitation.

The books contain detailed and absolutely truthful information about their subject, including physical characteristics, memories (from their earliest to most recent), thoughts, personality traits, and Stand details, if applicable.[4] Rohan primarily uses this ability on people but it can also be used to turn animals[11][12] and plants[13] into books for the purpose of writing commands. He finds it easier to write commands into animals with higher intelligence than into humans, attributing this to the animals' simpler psyches.[14][14] In animals, the books present relatively literal descriptions of their thoughts and behaviors. He can even use the ability on cooked meat, turning a chicken leg into a book to determine its expiration date.[15]

Rohan can also unfurl his own body into pages, allowing others to read his information.[10] However, he cannot use this ability to retrieve his distant, forgotten memories or foresee his future.[16]

A dying subject's details are shown to gradually fade from the book.[17] Despite this, Heaven's Door is effective on both ghosts and the undead, as demonstrated with Reimi Sugimoto[18] and zombie-like spirits in Rohan au Louvre.

Occasionally, it is demonstrated that since people under the effect of Heaven's Door have their bodies transform into books, Rohan can exploit this forced physical transformation to his advantage. Notably, Rohan has used this power to unravel Okuyasu's limbs,[5] and on another occasion, he saved a man from being crushed between two speeding trains by transforming his body into a book so that he would be flat enough to fit between them.[15] In the TV drama adaptation of Deoxyribonucleic Acid, instead of Heaven's Door's usual ability of transforming certain body parts, the memories of the characters Kyoka Izumi, Mao Katahira, Mai Katahira, and Taro Hirai are shown by literally transforming their entire being into picture books.

Memory Removal

By removing pages, Rohan causes his target to lose any memories detailed there, along with a proportionate quantity of body mass.[19] Should Rohan receive a substantial amount of physical damage or be knocked near unconscious, the removed pages will automatically return to their original source.[6]

Written-In Commands

Rohan writing a command

By writing into the pages of a person or object transformed into a book, Rohan may alter or erase memories, or put hypnotic-like commands into the person's mind.[19]

A particular command Rohan likes to instill in targets is the Safety Lock (安全装置(セイフティーロック), Seifutī Rokku), in which he writes in a command that prevents the target from attacking him.

Rohan's target will obey commands written into them closely, even against mental resistance (for example, despite a phobia of immolation, Okuyasu is forced to hold a lighter to himself). Other impressive feats include commanding Josuke to fly backwards at 70 km/h (43 mph)[20] or allowing Koichi to speak Italian.[21]

After stealing 1/3 of Heaven's Door with his Stand Boy II Man, Ken Oyanagi has shown the ability to undo Rohan's commands.

Rohan may write commands on himself. In one example, by writing on his forehead, he commands himself to repress all memories of the events of Rohan au Louvre, though they return after the command rubs off.[a]

Techniques

Safety Lock(安全装置(セイフティーロック) Seifutī Rokku) Link to this section
Debut: Chapter 320: Let's Go to the Manga Artist's House, Part 3 / Diamond is Unbreakable Episode 14: Let's Go to the Manga Artist's House, Part 1

Rohan makes use of Heaven's Door's ability to write in commands by writing in the command "I cannot attack Rohan Kishibe" (岸辺露伴を攻撃できない, Kishibe Rohan wo kōgeki dekinai) on one of the person's pages, rendering them incapable of bringing themselves to attack him.


Chapters / Episodes

Book Icon.png Manga Appearances
Chapters in order of appearance
Part 4Part 7Spin-Offs
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Episodes in order of appearance
Part 4OVA
Book Icon.png Novel Appearances
Chapters in order of appearance
MiscThe BookTSKRJORGE
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Episodes in order of appearance

Video Games

Puzzle & Dragons (Android/iOS)

Heaven's Door was obtainable for a limited time as an Assist Evolution in the mobile game Puzzle & Dragons.

PAD Heaven's Door Assist.png
Balanced
Heaven's Door
ヘブンズ・ドアー
Attributes: WoodIcon2.png
Rarity: 7★ (Assist Evolution)
No. 9604
HP
4,509 (Lvl.99)
ATK
3,268 (Lvl.99)
RCV
601 (Lvl.99)
Active Skill: "Write new memories."
Delays enemies' next move for 3 turns; all enemies' Att. change to Water (ignores barriers) for 3 turns
Leader Skill: "N/A"
N/A


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Trivia

  • In an interview with Shoko Nakagawa, Araki mentions that if he were to have any Stand, it would be Heaven's Door.[22]

Notes

  1. ↑ The canonicity of this is questionable due to the contradictory nature of Rohan au Louvre in terms of how Rohan acquired his Stand.

References

  1. ↑ Heaven's Door - Vol.16 "Shueisha Jump Remix Diamond is Unbreakable Edition" P90 The Origin of STAND! part.3
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Chapter 322: Let's Go to the Manga Artist's House, Part 5
  3. ↑ JOJOVELLER: Araki's Stand Commentaries - Heaven's Door
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Chapter 319: Let's Go to the Manga Artist's House, Part 2
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Chapter 323: Let's Go to the Manga Artist's House, Part 6
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Chapter 324: Let's Go to the Manga Artist's House, Part 7
  7. ↑ Chapter 331: Rohan Kishibe's Adventure, Part 2
  8. ↑ Chapter 412: Cheap Trick, Part 1
  9. ↑ Chapter 419: Another One Bites the Dust, Part 2
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan Episode 10: Hot Summer Martha
  11. ↑ Chapter 416: Cheap Trick, Part 5
  12. ↑ Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan Episode 6: Poaching Seashore
  13. ↑ Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan Episode 11: Drip Painting Style
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 Chapter 416: Cheap Trick, Part 5, p.5
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan Episode 7: A Rainy Monday
  16. ↑ Chapter 334: Rohan Kishibe's Adventure, Part 5
  17. ↑ Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan Episode 2: Mutsu-kabe Hill
  18. ↑ Chapter 331: Rohan Kishibe's Adventure, Part 2
  19. ↑ 19.0 19.1 Chapter 320: Let's Go to the Manga Artist's House, Part 3
  20. ↑ Chapter 386: Highway Star, Part 3
  21. ↑ Chapter 440: Gold Experience, Part 1
  22. ↑ Tameike Now (August 2007)

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