All-Star Battle R/Keicho Nijimura

"Once Dad's finally dead, my life can actually begin! (こいつを殺した時にやっとおれの人生が始まるんだッ！)"

Keicho Nijimura (虹村形兆), along with Bad Company, was confirmed for as the third playable DLC character on March 3, 2023, and released on March 24, 2023. For Season Pass and Deluxe Edition Holders, he was announced to release on March 22 for an unspecified time zone but was made available on March 21 PST. Like the rest of the DLC characters, he is included inside the game's Season Pass, and therefore also the Digital Deluxe Edition.

For the English versions of the game, Keicho's Stand is localized to be "Worse Company"—a name which has been used since the English dub of the Diamond is Unbreakable anime adaptation and VIZ's English translations of the manga.

Having neither previously appeared in nor  as a playable character, he has an original moveset based on his limited appearance in Diamond is Unbreakable.

Tomoyuki Shimura reprises his role as Keicho's voice actor from the Diamond is Unbreakable anime, with new audio recorded for All-Star Battle R.

Gameplay
Keicho has 840 health and uses the Stand (スタンド) Battle Style, fighting foes with Bad Company (バッド・カンパニー). During a fight, he can use several different attacks of his that were featured in Diamond Is Unbreakable.

Special Interactions

 * For his assist attacks, Keicho has special dialogue depending on who summons him. This character is, in which Keicho yells his name.

Dialogue
Keicho has unique interaction dialogue for both his match entrances and victories when facing certain characters.

Due to the availability of certain voice actors, most of these interactions re-use existing dialogue for Keicho's opponents. In this case, only, and  have new dialogue - Joseph because the voice actor returned for his character's "Your next line is..." interaction, Risotto and Stroheim due to the three characters being DLC released close to each other.

Music
Keicho's theme is Bad Company (バッド・カンパニー), and is automatically unlocked when purchasing Keicho's DLC. In the game's localizations, the song is titled as "Worse Company".

The song's title is taken from the name of Keicho's Stand, Bad Company (also localized as "Worse Company").

Commemorative Giveaway
In commemoration of the release of as the 3rd paid DLC character for ASBR, the Japanese ASBR Twitter account hosted a giveaway of 20 sets of 3 ASBR Diamond is Unbreakable badges, although only to be delivered to addresses in Japan. The badges in question contain the ASBR render images of, Keicho, and respectively.

The campaign started on March 24, 2022, and lasted until April 9 at 11:59pm JST. To enter the giveaway lottery, users only had to:
 * 1) Follow the @jojo_games_jp Twitter account.
 * 2) Retweet the tweet that announced the giveaway in the first place.

However, Twitter accounts set to private were ineligible for the giveaway. Unfollowing the ASBR Twitter account before the end of the giveaway also deemed users ineligible. Furthermore, attempting to join the giveaway with multiple accounts disqualified all of the associated accounts from the giveaway.

The giveaway was directly implemented by Bandai Namco themselves, with no third party involvement, and the winners of the giveaway were notified via Twitter DMs. Said winners were then announced sometime towards the end of April 2023. The gifts were only eligible for people in Japan, and were scheduled to be delivered in mid-May 2023.