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A detailed chronological summary of the life of Rohan Kishibe.

 

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Rohan Kishibe was born in 1979. When he was young, he was often left at his babysitter's house, [[Reimi Sugimoto]]. During the night of August 13, 1983, his [[Rohan's Parents|parents]] had an important thing to attend to and so Rohan was left with Reimi. He was saved by Reimi at the cost of her own life from the serial killer [[Yoshikage Kira]], but was in shock and couldn't serve as a witness. Due to this traumatic experience, Rohan subconsciously suppressed his memories of the incident. Rohan would eventually decide to become a mangaka, publishing his first work at the age of 16. Three months before the events of [[Diamond is Unbreakable]], [[Keicho Nijimura]] shoots Rohan with an [[Arrow]], awakening a Stand ability in him.

 

By 1999, Rohan Kishibe is now a famous manga artist whose series, "[[Pink Dark Boy]]", is a success among children and adults alike. His series is also published in Taiwan and in several European countries, but not in English.<ref>{{Ch|Chapter 371}}</ref>

 

 

[[File:DU_ep14_rohan.png|thumb|Rohan's first appearance]]

To force Josuke to stay, Rohan orders Okuyasu to burn himself if Josuke leaves, forcing Josuke to step into the office. Josuke opts to keep his eyes closed and run into the general direction of Rohan. Somewhat impressed, Rohan throws pen nibs at Josuke's face, who keeps his eyes closed despite the pain. Then, Rohan decides to taunt Josuke about his hairstyle, knowing that he'll lose control of himself. Josuke approaches Rohan and summons [[Crazy Diamond]]. Although Rohan is faster than Crazy Diamond and shows his art before Josuke's Stand can land a punch, Josuke proves to be immune to Rohan's art because he is literally blinded by rage. Crazy Diamond pummels Rohan into his bookshelves. Despite everything, Rohan hears Josuke's tragic backstory and is inspired into etching more manga. However, Josuke finds him and violently beats him up again. Rohan is sent to the hospital. Rohan's manga, Pink Dark Boy, is suspended for a month as a result of his defeat.

 

 

[[File:Rohan_asks_Koichi_for_help.png|thumb|Rohan meets Koichi again]]

When Rohan investigates the cemetery to confirm Reimi's story, he meets a local monk who not only confirms her story, but also informs him that he was present at the time of the crime. Reimi was babysitting him and threw him from the window to keep him safe from the killer when he attacked her.

 

When [[Yoshikage Kira]], Reimi's killer, kills [[Shigekiyo Yangu]], the Stand users in town are alerted and gather at Reimi's place. They all agree to work together to find the killer.

 

Although [[Jotaro Kujo|Jotaro]] and [[Koichi Hirose|Koichi]] acquire a solid lead thanks to a button Shigechi left the heroes, Kira unleashes an automatic sub-Stand on them. After a fight, Kira is seemingly cornered but he manages to flee. Worse, he uses [[Aya Tsuji]] to change his face with an anonymous salaryman. The heroes lose track of Yoshikage Kira, who has changed identity.

 

[[File:Rohan playing Jankenpon.png|thumb|Rohan plays Jan-ken-pon]]

The ghost of [[Yoshihiro Kira]] decides to create as many [[Stand]] users as possible in an effort to kill the heroes. One of them, [[Ken Oyanagi]], is a boy who decides to defeat Rohan to make a name for himself. While Rohan takes photographies of every commuter in [[Morioh]], Ken confronts him and asks him to play rock-paper-scissors. Rohan uses [[Heaven's Door]] to confirm he isn't an enemy and then ignores him as he believes Ken is an ordinary boy. However, when Rohan calls a taxi, Ken overtakes him into the car and forces a first round. Rohan wins with a "rock". At a café, Rohan sees [[Josuke Higashikata|Josuke]], [[Okuyasu Nijimura|Okuyasu]] and [[Yukako Yamagishi|Yukako]] sitting together; although they invite him, Rohan looks down on each of them and decides to sit alone. However, Ken steals his seat and makes a scene, forcing Rohan to play again. Rohan wins the second round with "paper". At a bookshop, Ken again takes a book Rohan was interested in. Angry, Rohan punches Ken in retaliation but loses the round because he technically played "rock" against Ken's "paper".

Furious, Ken takes Shizuka hostage and forces a new game. Determined, Rohan wins easily. To neutralize Ken, he decides to write a command preventing Ken from ever playing rock-paper-scissors. Desperate, the boy throws himself in front of a truck. Amused, Rohan also throws himself in front of the truck. Luckily, Yoshihiro's photo blocks the view of the driver, forcing him to swerve. Rohan and Ken survive. Ken recognizes his defeat and Rohan merely tells him not to use his Stand. However, they have lost Shizuka and must look for her even though she's invisible.

 

[[File:Rohan furious at his bad luck.png|thumb|left|Josuke is obviously cheating]]

When [[Josuke Higashikata|Josuke]] finds a shapeshifting alien named [[Mikitaka Hazekura]], he concocts a plan that will allow him to win big. Josuke rings at Rohan's doorstep and begs him to play Cee-lo with him. Despite his contempts, Rohan accepts. As a precaution, the mangaka refuses to play with the dice Josuke has brought and uses his own. Unbeknownst to him, Josuke has planned for this and planted Mikitaka beforehand in Rohan's drawer. During the first round, Josuke wins five times his wager with a triple 6. Then, Rohan has the worst possible result. Suspicious about the results and Josuke being visibly panicked, Rohan takes the dice, goes inside his home to take a magnifying glass, and calls [[Tamami Kobayashi]]. First, Rohan examines the dice but doesn't see the trick thanks to Josuke's lies. During the second round, while Rohan has a seemingly normal result, Josuke gets a triple 6 again.

Humiliated, Rohan cuts his finger with a pen and declares that he'll discover how Josuke is cheating by the next round. If he does, he'll take Josuke's pinky as punishment. With Tamami's help, Rohan forces Josuke to cheat again. Mikitaka's dizziness threatens to undo his disguise and Josuke is forced to throw the dice with Mikitaka on the verge of being discovered. However, a fire starts in Rohan's house and the mangaka is distracted. This allows Josuke to flee after he quickly heals Rohan's finger. Rohan's hate for Josuke increases.

 

[[File:Rohan sees Kira in a room.png|thumb|left|Rohan sees a room in a tunnel]]

Some time later, Rohan crosses path with Josuke again in the bus. Rohan's passive-aggressive behaviour makes Josuke uneasy. Inside of a tunnel, Rohan sees a room in the walls of the tunnel, where someone is cutting off a woman's hand. Rohan tries to warn Josuke but he isn't believed thus Rohan checks on the room alone. Driving his motorcycle in the tunnel, he soon finds the room but realizes that something is pursuing him. Rohan flees on his motorcycle and manages to keep the enemy away as long as he drives above 60kmph. Forced to slow down because of a passing truck, Rohan is caught by the Stand [[Highway Star]]. Highway Star proceeds to sap Rohan's lifeforce and takes him out. Josuke comes back and also sees the room, where Rohan is kept. Highway Star promises to let Rohan go if he lures Josuke inside, but Rohan refuses out of principle. The mangaka warns Josuke to stay away. When Josuke still steps inside the room, an angry Rohan calls him out on his stupidity. When Highway Star attacks, Rohan makes Josuke fly out of the tunnel and warns him about Highway Star's limitations. To shut him up, Highway Star takes the last of his strength.

After Josuke finds and defeats [[Yuya Fungami]], Rohan is found and recovers although his opinion about Josuke doesn't improve.

 

[[File:Cheap Trick 1st.png|right|thumb|Rohan discovers Cheap Trick has transferred to his back]]

During his investigation, Rohan notices the strange behaviour of a boy named [[Hayato Kawajiri]] filming someone in one of his photos. Because his house has been burned down, Rohan makes an appointment with an architect named [[Masazo Kinoto]] to appraise the cost of repairs. When Kinoto appears, Rohan uses [[Heaven's Door]] to confirm Kinoto is not a Stand user and even writes a command on him. Sure of his safety, Rohan lets Kinoto free. Intrigued by Kinoto's obsessive fear of having his back exposed, Rohan traps the architect to take a look. At first disappointed by Kinoto's ordinary back, he sees the back open and Kinoto dying. [[Cheap Trick]] then appears on his back.

Rohan seemingly loses his mind out of desperation and shows his back to Koichi and Cheap Tricks turns around to possess Koichi. However, Rohan reveals that they are in [[Ghost Girl's Alley]]. The malicious spirits of the alley take Cheap Trick away and to seal its fate, Rohan commands the enemy Stand to go to hell. Out of the alley, [[Reimi Sugimoto|Reimi]] looks at Rohan's scattered items and sees the photo of a certain [[Kosaku Kawajiri]].

 

[[File:Rohan learns of his death.png|left|thumb|"Rohan Kishibe was also killed."]]

During the final investigation of Yoshikage Kira's new identity, Rohan narrows it down to [[Kosaku Kawajiri]] after finding a suspicious photograph of Kosaku being tailed by his son, [[Hayato Kawajiri]], holding a video recorder. Rohan manages to meet with Hayato and uses Heaven's Door to find out more about his father. As Rohan opens contents of Hayato's body book, he discovers a warning on Hayato's pages to not read further. Rohan eventually discovers that Kosaku is actually Yoshikage Kira in disguise. His excitement of this revelation is cut short when a miniature Killer Queen appears, revealing that Kira has unlocked a new Stand Ability, [[Killer Queen#Bites the Dust|Bites the Dust]]. By discovering Kira's identity through Hayato, Bites the Dust marks Rohan. Wounded, Rohan feebly attempts to call out to Koichi and Jotaro who were just a few blocks away from him and is promptly killed by an explosion, which, coincidentally, reminded him of his first time with Josuke. Bites the Dust loops time back an hour and in the second version of the hour, Rohan is killed again as he was already marked by Bites the Dust in the previous time loop, despite not meeting Hayato in the current time loop. In the third and final time loop, Kira is forced to deactivate Bites the Dust in order to protect himself when Josuke discovers his identity, sparing Rohan just seconds before his fate.

Later, Rohan arrives with Jotaro and Koichi, as the gang manages to corner Kira. As Kira attempts to use Bites the Dust to escape, the group witnesses Kira's last moments as the serial killer is crushed by an ambulance.

 

[[File:Reimi_ascends.gif|thumb|Reimi goes to Heaven]]

Later, Rohan and his allies gather to see [[Reimi Sugimoto]] off as she ascends to Heaven. Rohan tries to hide his feelings but Koichi forces him to admit he liked her and will miss her. Reimi finally goes to heaven, her goal fulfilled.

With his investigation over, Rohan's hiatus ends and he starts working on his ''[[Pink Dark Boy]]'' manga again. He is later mentioned by Okuyasu, who states he heard a rumor about Rohan being caught shoplifting at Kameyu store.

 

{{Canon}}

Rohan appears drugging 34 cats to find out the one who invaded his house earlier, but forgets about the cat after finding [[Trinita]] covered in blood. Searching for his master with Koichi they find the corpse of [[Hanae Orikasa]]. Rohan uses his stand on Trinita and discovers that the [[Takuma Hasumi|killer]] has red marks on his arms, and so tags along with Koichi to find him.

 

{{Canon}}

At [[Café Deux Magots]] Rohan overhears everything that [[Josuke Higashikata|Josuke]], [[Koichi Hirose|Koichi]], and [[Okuyasu Nijimura|Okuyasu]] were doing. In order to finally work on his manga in silence, he accepts to use [[Heaven's Door]] on the [[Rika Tachikawa|waitress]]. He learns her name is Rika Tachikawa, a 20 years old college student from downtown. Rohan reads on but doesn't find anything about Okuyasu, so he changes her back to normal and asks them not to bother him further. Rika awakens without remembering what just transpired and happily attends to Rohan, who asks for a coffee and gives her an autograph.

 

Rohan uses [[Heaven's Door]] on Koichi so that Koichi can understand Italian for his trip to Italy.

 

 

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