OVER HEAVEN

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Over Heaven is a light novel written by Nisio Isin with illustrations by Araki Hirohiko. It was released as part of the special JoJo 25th anniversary project "VS JOJO."

About
The book is written as a monologue on DIO's thoughts throughout the events in the original series. In the book, he reflects upon his battles, and talks about the concept of death, as well as his unfortunate mother.

Mentioned Characters

 * Jonathan Joestar
 * Erina Pendleton
 * Robert Edward Speedwagon
 * William Antonio Zeppeli
 * Dio Brando
 * Enrico Pucci
 * Jotaro Kujo
 * Joseph Joestar
 * Jean Pierre Polnareff
 * Mohammed Abdul
 * Holly Kujo
 * Enya
 * Hol Horse
 * Boingo
 * Telence T. D'Arby
 * Daniel J. D'Arby
 * Nijimura Patriarch
 * Vanilla Ice
 * N'Doul
 * Enrico Pucci

Mentioned Stands

 * The World
 * Hermit Purple
 * Tower of Gray
 * Dark Blue Moon
 * Tohth
 * The Empress
 * The Emperor

Book-Only Information
(The information below derives from a Light Novel not written by Araki. As such, it may or may not be considered canon.)


 * Despite seemingly different in the manga, Dio thought his mother was a fool due to her kindly nature and placed his father above her in terms of respect due to his father's more ruthless and hard nature. He also admitted to regret killing his father.
 * Enya once suggested to DIO that he should have Holly Kujo killed so he can take her blood while Jotaro and the others were still making their way to him. DIO rejected this idea because he thought it would only drive Jotaro to defeat him even more.
 * The blood of young women is more effective in healing and satiating a vampire's thirst.
 * Violent and mad people make for tougher zombies.
 * Evil people tend to have more powerful souls.
 * DIO theorizes that the worth of a human soul can be calculated as 10.
 * DIO never adapted to Jonathan's body. Due to this, DIO was left unable to use most of his vampiric abilities that he used in Phantom Blood. In order for DIO to adapt to his new body, he needed the blood of the Joestars to do so.
 * DIO discovered he needed a "friend" with a noble personality and no ambition. He first considers Daniel J. D'Arby but abandons that plan out of disdain for D'Arby's greed. After meeting Pucci, he chooses him as a suitable candidate.
 * DIO entertained the idea of forming a truce between himself and Jotaro, but abandoned the idea because he felt that even if there was a way to relieve Holly of her Stand, they would still want to defeat him because he is inherently evil. That, and he has absolutely no clue how to save Holly even if he wanted to.
 * DIO theorizes that Erina Joestar placed both him, herself, and the infant Lisa-Lisa in the casket on the boat where Jonathan died in order to escape the boat's explosion. DIO at first believes that Erina did this in hope DIO may return some day as a better man with Jonathan's body. He quickly dismisses the idea, stating that if it was the case that Erina reminded him of his mother.
 * DIO had a secondary Stand, the one Jonathan would develop, which is noted to be called "Hermit Purple", the same name Joseph's Stand would use.
 * The flesh buds were a new vampire technique DIO uses upon Enya's suggestion that he control people. DIO makes good use of these at first, but finds that the flesh buds weaken whoever they are placed on, hence why Noriaki Kakyoin and Jean Pierre Polnareff were easily beaten when they were first met. After losing two allies to Jotaro, he abandons the use of flesh buds, though he uses one last bud on Enya as a precaution.
 * In order to discover "Heaven", Dio learned first the concept of Fate, Future and Gravity.
 * It is hinted in this book that The World actually belongs to Jonathan and not DIO, which may make this non-canon according to JOJO A-GO!GO!.