JoJolion

JoJolion (ジョジョリオン, JoJorion) is the eighth part of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, published in Ultra Jump from May 2011. The story is set in Morioh (JoJolion) in 2011. JoJolion represents the second part of the series set in the new "SBR universe".

The Man in the Sailor Cap
Yasuho Hirose, hiding from Joshu Higashikata near Morioh (Part 8('s Wall Eyes, finds naked man with a sailor's hat half buried underground. She notices a star-shaped birthmark surrounded by fresh human teeth marks on his shoulder, which she takes a picture of with her phone. He awakens, claiming to have no memory as to his name or origin. Shortly, Joshu sees Yasuho and the naked man near one other, and jealously attacks him, before the man activates a Stand power that turns Joshu blind. The man faints, and Yasuho calls an ambulance which takes them all to the hospital. After acquainting further, the man escapes with Yasuho. Seeing this from his window, Joshu complains of emotional hurt, and a bite mark on his knee, before collapsing to a fever. Pledging to help the man discover his identity, Yasuho examines his sailor hat, which produces an "SBR" insignia, referring to a popular hat shop in Morioh. Going there, the shopkeeper shows to have retained record of the hat's sale to "Yoshikage Kira", as well as Kira's address. Yasuho opines that he doesn't "look like a Kira" and nicknames him Josuke, after her childhood dog.

Kira's Apartment
Continuing, after travelling to Kira's apartment, they discover a female hostage in the bathroom, and a photo album involving her in various sordid states of bondage, along with a man that looks like Josuke. Yasuho flees the apartment in disgust, leaving the two in the bathroom. Josuke demands explanation of the hostage, which she gives as that the amnesiac was a prisoner in the same apartment before escaping three days prior, and that she assumed he had returned to help her escape. She mentions that their captor is a Stand user residing on the floor above them, whose powers only come when his victim is directly underneath him. Subsequently, Josuke is violently forced to overcome a plot agreed by the Stand user above and the captive. Apprehending and interrogating him, the attacker identifies as Ojirou Sasame, a surfer that had an issue with Yoshikage Kira, whom Josuke closely resembles (in dress as well as bodily appearance).

The Higashikata Family
Josuke and Yasuho are taken in by the head of the Higahikata family; rich by a fruit importation business inherited from his grandfather (Steel Ball Run's Norisuke Higashikata). Informally adoped by Norisuke as Josuke Higashikata, Josuke is welcomed into Norisuke's family home, and provided with Joshu's bedroom. Norisuke tells Josuke to consider his word "law" in his house, and forbids him from exploring his study, before appointing him the duty of guarding his youngest daughter, Daiya. Yasuho is escorted out the house by the family's maid Nijimura, and warned not to return. Daiya engages Josuke with her Stand, California King Bed; taking away segments of his memory. After defeating her, Josuke elicits her assistance in researching her family, entering Norisuke's study together. A book contains a family tree, revealing that Yoshikage Kira and the Higashikatas are directly related. Elsewhere, having ordered a DNA test, Yasuho recieves the information that Josuke and Kira, "to within 95.8% accuracy", represent "the same person".

Morioh Hospital
With this, Josuke makes a plan to find Kira's mother, Holy Joestar-Kira, in search of more about himself; whom Daiya mentions resides in Morioh hospital. Utilising his phone's GPS on the way, which seems to communicate contradictory instructions, Josuke is trailed and attacked by a mysterious, dark motorcycle rider. Josuke manages to kick off the rider's helmet, revealing a Stand composed of both bike and rider. Josuke soon deduces that his GPS is actually directing him in escape of his pursuer, as well as a key point to the Stand's limitation. Reaching the hospital after an arduous confrontation, noticing an odd sound, Josuke follows and finds Nijimura, overcoming her.

Josuke asks Nijimura whether she attacked him under Norisuke's orders. Nijimura reacts distastefully to the suggestion and insists on killing Josuke if he approaches Holy. Josuke recognizes her intent and resolves to find some other way to approach Holy if it will cause Nijimura pain. As Josuke leaves, Nijimura asks him to show her his tongue. She confirms and explains to Josuke that he has two tongues (fused as one) and four eyes (as two), before revealing that he must be a fusion of Kira and another person, having emerged from the ground near the Wall Eyes; known to fuse together objects that are buried there. At the hospital, after being kicked out, Yasuho's Stand Paisley Park activates subconsciously, leading her to Holy Joestar-Kira. She watches as doctors perform several tests, noting a compromise in Holy's ability to discern people from objects, and that she is missing several vital organs without negative repercussions, as well as several perfectly spherical portions of her brain, all without any evidence of surgical removal.

Extortion Road
The next day, when Josuke sits down at the table for a normal breakfast, he sees Hato Higashikata arriving in a swimsuit and later Daiya, who appears to be in a swimsuit as well. She explains that the reason they are wearing swimsuits to breakfast is due a failed trip to Hawaii. When Norisuke come along, Josuke asks for his own cell phone, as well as the privilege to go to school. Norisuke agrees, but orders Joshu to escort him. After a short conversation involving Josuke's advanced skill in Mathematics, Joshu asks him to walk with him to a different high school as a favor. Josuke and Joshu travel to the Extortion Road, a street that is known for extorting strangers. There Joshu planned to videotape some thugs robbing him to use as evidence when reporting to the police.

Only a short moment after arriving, Josuke had unintentionally broken a turtle tank in a nearby store window and killed all the turtles inside. A old man nearby asks Josuke for recompense, which results in Josuke giving him 20,000 yen and a monthly fee until he is able to pay off 330,000 yen. Joshu had caught the entire event on his camera phone and discovered that Josuke had stepped on the leaves and then teleported to the tank, and back. Josuke, who is still confused, assumes this may be the work of a nearby stand user and uses Soft & Wet to grab the old man by the throat. By doing so, he discovers that the man cannot see the stand, and therefore may not be the stand user. The two continue forward and Josuke asks Joshu to use his phone in order to record himself the next time he teleports. Josuke is suddenly confronted by three gangster types who had been watching them from afar. One of them accuses Josuke of having made him drop his cell phone into a puddle, and points toward said phone. Josuke watches the recording he made on Joshu's phone and watches himself suddenly slide backward and then forward again instantly. The thugs offer a proposal that Josuke deliver a package underneath a nearby flower pot to a nearby women with large breasts in order to repay them for the phone.

It's eventually revealed that Josuke and Joshu are set up for a illegal exchange of an unknown substance, and two are promptly arrested soon after. Fortunately, Joshu discovers the secret behind the mysterious actions between the lady and the gangsters during the exchange, discovering a way to intercept the telelporting ability of the ginkgo leaves and runs off with the money for himself. Meanwhile, Josuke is pinned down by the two cops, and the gangsters discover the money gone from the purse and give chase. Using the gingko leaves, the gangsters are easily able to catch up to Joshu and attempt to harm him, but a screw suddenly materializes on one of the gangster's hand. Confused, the gangster unscrews the nut on the screw and his hand immediately falls off. Panic rises among him and the other gangsters as more screws form, causing his other hand to fall off and Joshu's stand's full body comes to light. Joshu uses the opportunity to escape and after he is far enough the stand's effects wear off. The gangster's hands return to him, though on the the wrong arms. Joshu also discovers that the money he had stolen was nothing more than leaves. Meanwhile, the cops discover the package Josuke had contained nothing more than candy and were forced to let him go. Josuke reveals that he had also discovered the secret of the gingko leaves ability and during the exchange had taken the money for himself using his stand ability. After paying the old man for his turtles, Josuke makes a call to Yasuho while she's in class, though she doesn't answer due to seeing Joshu's caller ID.

Joestar Jizo
Yasuho discovers Joshu's call originated from Extortion Road and finds a landmark nearby named Joestar Jizō, which gradually reminds her of Holy and her connection with the Joestar Lineage. Subconsciously using her stand Paisley Park, Yasuho learns that the monument was built as a memorial to Johnny Joestar, who has accordingly died an ominous, but tragic death approximately a hundred years ago. Johnny had come to Japan as a visiting American Jockey to aid the government's horsemanship program as well as the importation of Foreign-grown fruits. On the afternoon of the 11th, he was murdered by an unknown assailant via a boulder crushing his head. His body was discovered on the morning of the 12th, and though no perpetrator has been found, his wife Rina Higashikata was a prime suspect before being released. Back at Extortion Road, Josuke comes across the statue and notices that the man on it has a hat similar to his own. The old pet shop owner comes along and fills him in with the legend behind the statue which he heard from his grandmother.

Though Johnny came to Japan to teach Military Horsemanship, this was a cover up for his true intention which involved his wife, Rina. The two had met on the ship crossing the Atlantic after the Steel Ball Run and fell in love. The two lived together on a ranch and after several years, Rina was struck with an incurable disease. The side effects of disease were at first memory lost, but eventually became Life-threatening where Rina's skin began to fold like origami and became stiff and rigid. Johnny decided to bring his wife back to Japan as he felt it was best that she spend her last days in the land in which she was born. However, Johnny, filled with an unbearable amount of grief, decided to do the unthinkable and decided to head to New York to obtain the Corpse Parts, which would possibly remove Rina's disease. However, the corpse was considered the guardian deity of North America and was suppose to stay sealed underground. Johnny was left with no other choice but to steal the corpse for the one he loved. Chased by government officials, Johnny brought Rina and the corpse to Morioh and he managed to cure her of the disease, knowing that it would send the disease to someone else. However, it afflicts their young son George. Johnny takes George with him and in a final act of selflessness uses Tusk along with the Corpse to take the disease from his son onto himself. He falls down on several gingko leaves, and a boulder crushes his head. The pet shop owner claims it is just one of many versions of the story that is known in Morioh, and others are at the library, but Josuke believes it is the truth and may have something to do with Holy's memory loss.

Paper Moon
Elsewhere, Yasuho has been reading up on more stories of the past of Morioh, including a baby who appeared out of nowhere wearing nothing but a gold necklace. She notes that from the old meditation pine tree she can see the Higashikata house, and she is suddenly grabbed by a hand from inside the tree and she is groped in the darkness. When the lights come on, she finds herself with Tsurugi Higashikata, who is playing with some origami in what Tsurugi reveals is an earthquake shelter. After playing with a fortune teller, Tsurugi starts acting weird towards Yasuho and when she confronts the child, she realizes that Tsurugi is not a girl. Tsurugi reveals that he, like his father Jobin Higashikata, his grandfather Norisuke, and several more generations back, the first born son of the Higashikata family lives as a girl until they are 12 years old to ward off evil spirits. Yasuho, unnerved and wanting to leave, realizes her phone is missing when Paisley Park causes Josuke to send her a coded message on Joshu's cellphone, as when he called the first time she blocked the call. When Yasuho finds her phone hidden amongst Tsurugi's origami paper, she finds it has been folded into an origami frog that leaps at her eyes, causing her face to begin to contort like Rina's years in the past. However, the effects are only temporary, and Tsurugi notes that she must have seen his Stand, a concept that she cannot yet understand. She leaves the room, phone in hand, until she spots another room set up almost like a prison cell. A change of clothes identical to that of Josuke and Kira's is in the room, and all of the posters and toys in the room have no face. Yasuho heads back into town, passing by a strange dog and birds, and trying to get Tsurugi to leave her alone. She speaks with a woman asking for directions until another woman passes, and Yasuho sees that she has the exact same face. She leans on a storefront display window when a cleaner asks her to move and he has the same face as the women. She looks in the display and even the mannequins have the exact same face. Everyone around her has the exact same face. Everyone but Tsurugi. She rushes home to replace her contacts, believing they may be related, but upon putting them back in even her mother has the same face as everyone else, as does her own reflection. Upset, she rushes out of her home to the street, crying, feeling that the confusion caused by all of the faces is getting to her. She looks up and sees Tsurugi, still unchanged. She frantically calls Joshu's phone, hoping Josuke will pick up, and when he does she asks for them to meet at the café he had mentioned in his coded message immediately. He says it will take him 5 minutes and she thanks him. Yasuho confronts Tsurugi once more, but all Tsurugi says that he will always be available to help her in that room in the basement. He has folded an origami cicada which flies away before Yasuho can say anything. Elsewhere, Josuke steps on it, his foot contorting a bit, and he looks down to inspect the object, unaware that everyone around him has the same strange face.

Chapters not yet in tankōbon format

 * 23. The Secret Room (秘密の小部屋)
 * 24. Tsurugi's Secret (つるぎのフシギ)
 * 25. I'm Meeting Josuke Higashikata! (東方定助に会え！)
 * 26. The Basement Dwellers (地下室の住人)
 * 27. People Under Suspicion (疑惑の人々)
 * 28. Horror in Higashikata Garden (東方家庭園の恐怖)

Trivia

 * On the inside cover of Volume 2, Araki explains that the title comes from both the Christian concept of blessing and the gospels ("evangelion" in Greek).