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"Your date of death is the Harvest Moon! But think of it conversely. If you live past midnight tonight, your treatment will go well, and your health is guaranteed to recover, because on any other day, the Mochizuki family is immortal."

- Noboru Mochizuki

Mochizuki Family
The Mochizuki Family (望月家) is first seen in Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan - Episode 4: The Harvest Moon and consists of five family members during the story but the full family goes back sixteen generations as far back to the. They reside in Morioh as Rohan Kishibe states they live near him. Their real name is unknown since Rohan used "Mochizuki" as a pseudonym before telling the story about them. Every direct descendant of the family all share the same date of death of September 8th, the date of the Harvest Moon which ties to a curse that has been dealt with for every generation.

Family curse
Every year during the Harvest Moon, they must view the moon all together until 12 AM. If they follow this rule, they will live long lives as shown by Seizo Mochizuki and his wife Sae both living to 100+ in good health. However, if a member of the family doesn't follow the rule, they will be killed by unfortunate events. Seen with Noboru's brother Mamoru who died by drowning at 17 while trying to help a neighbor's kid from drowning and his father Sakuzo who died of an allergic reaction to a sting at 46. Unbeknownst to them, the family is stalked by a spirit known as the Moon Rabbit who is the one that brings the misfortune to anyone in the family who doesn't follow the rule. A way to avoid the misfortune is if a family member accepts someone's hand in marriage, seen when Aki is narrowly spared of misfortune by hornets by accepting her boyfriend's proposal, thus causing the spirit to proclaim she is no longer part of the family in mind or body. The misfortune was instead redirected to a motorcyclist driving by that caused them to crash and be killed to even the balance. The origin of the curse is unknown.


 * Tsukiji Mochizuki (Died at 53)
 * Unknown Sibling
 * Unknown Sibling
 * []entaro Mochizuki (Died at 85)
 * Kayo Mochizuki (Died at 92)
 * Sae Mochizuki (Died at 103 of natural causes)
 * Seizo Mochizuki (Died at 101 of natural causes)
 * Yoshigoro Mochizuki (Died at 87)
 * Unknown Sibling
 * Mitsu Mochizuki (78 years old)
 * Sakuzo Mochizuki (Died at 46 by a hornet sting)
 * Yamato Mochizuki (Died at 78)
 * Miwa Mochizuki (Died at 28)
 * Unknown Sibling
 * Akiko Mochizuki (Unknown age)
 * Mamoru Mochizuki (Died at 17 by drowning)
 * Noboru Mochizuki (50 years old)
 * Haruko Mochizuki (46 years old)
 * Aki Mochizuki (21 years old)
 * Takeru Mochizuki (15 years old)

Family Tree

 * Dashed lines indicate adopted children, couples who have divorced, extramarital affairs/unmarried couples, or illegitimate children.
 * Blue boxes indicate direct descendants of the Mochizuki lineage.
 * Red boxes indicate family members through marriage.
 * Gray boxes indicate pets that are part of the family.

Trivia

 * In the Author's Note for the one-shot, Araki states the family reminds him of the Higashikata Family in JoJolion.

Steel Ball Run Vomic

 * VOMIC, short for Voice Comic, is the name given a manga adaptation that adds accessories such as voices, sounds and music, very similar to Motion comics. The idea was conceived in November 2007 by Shueisha. They've done vomics for several series they have serialized,, , and being some notable series they've done it for. In 2009, Steel Ball Run had a VOMIC created for it that covered parts of chapters 1, 5, 6 and 7.
 * https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm1717132
 * https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm1773092
 * https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm1829963
 * https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm1946233
 * http://web.archive.org/web/20090830062536/http://vomic.shueisha.co.jp:80/sbr/
 * http://web.archive.org/web/20090909195155/http://vomic.shueisha.co.jp/index.html
 * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSirx76szaQ
 * http://vomic.shueisha.co.jp/vomiccv_new.html
 * https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCW24lhKvPT007MuvZoNhTtw
 * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuLbuVDl4y0