Maako Kitani
Maako Kitani (喜谷 真亜子, Kitani Maako), also known as Makorin (マコリン), is a tertiary character featured in the eighth part of the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure series, JoJolion. She has one daughter and is the girlfriend of Ojiro Sasame.
Maako is the CEO of the Seiten Holdings company and the owner of the Seiten Birdies baseball team based in Morioh. She is quite well-off and a respected citizen of Morioh, but is jealous about the Higashikata family's valuable property.
Appearance
Maako is a short, overweight woman with long wavy dark hair. She wears a necklace with a locket shaped like an "M" and a sleeveless dress.
Color Schemes
Personality
Maako is greedy and selfish, acting sociable and friendly with others to get what she wants. However, she is willing to lavishly spend her money on her boyfriend, oblivious that Ojiro is stealing extra money and taking advantage of her. She is not afraid to bend the law to further her goals. Her condo and stadium were built on top of a weak foundation and she had to bend the law to get a building permit.[4] She is also narcissistic, calling her own hand cute and complaining that Mitsuba insulted her despite Mitsuba only being a housewife.[5]
History
Background
Maako Kitani is a citizen of Morioh. She's had a successful career as a businesswoman as she is the CEO of her own company, "Seiten Holdings". She is also the owner of the local baseball team, the Seiten Birdies. Thanks to her wealth, she has her own condominium. However, she is jealous of the valuable hilly land that belongs to the Higashikata Family. In contrast, Maako's own land is of poorer quality and she had to bend the law to build her stadium. Maako thus maintains a good relationship with Norisuke Higashikata IV in the hopes of acquiring his land one day.
Maako has a daughter, but is single. She became Ojiro Sasame's girlfriend at some point in the past.
JoJolion
Maako tries to alleviate the situation when the staff of her child's school and the parent council argue with Mitsuba about Tsurugi attacking his classmate Mina with the school gates. She tells Mitsuba not to worry because she's upbeat and good friends with Mina's mom so she'll be an in-between for the two to settle things out. However, Mitsuba tells Maako to move her "forepaw" off her shoulder. After Mitsuba threatens them all and leaves, Maako points out that all evidence points to Tsurugi being the culprit of the crime. Before she left, Mitsuba placed upward-pointing vectors on the coffee cups that Maako and the others were holding causing it to spill all over them.[4]
Makorin goes home to her condo afterwards. While Ojiro is in her jacuzzi, Maako declares her hate for Mitsuba and mentions about the rumors of Jobin killing his classmate to heal his incurable disease. Meanwhile, Ojiro steals some money out of her purse while she continues her rant. She realizes she's late to pick up her daughter from school and accidentally steps on Ojiro's prosthetic fingers while leaving, but she promises to buy him new ones that are way better.[5]
When Ojiro steals the Locacaca from the Higashikata house, he sends Maako pictures and evidence of Jobin's smuggling and money laundering. She later looks around her condo for Ojiro and then hears his phone ringing. Jobin explains his Stand Speed King's ability before realizing she isn't a Stand user, and then kills her by boiling her blood vessels and causing a cerebral infarction before drowning her in her jacuzzi, where she reunites with Ojiro's corpse.[6] Her corpse is subsequently found and her death makes the news.
Chapters
Manga Appearances- JoJolion Chapter 84: The Wonder of You, Part 1
- JoJolion Chapter 86: The Wonder of You, Part 3
- JoJolion Chapter 87: The Wonder of You, Part 4 (Mentioned only)
- JoJolion Chapter 88: The Wonder of You, Part 5 (Death)
- JoJolion Chapter 89: The Wonder of You, Part 6 (Photo only)
- JoJolion Chapter 91: The Wonder of You, Part 8 (Photo only)
- JoJolion Chapter 95: The Wonder of You, Part 12 (Mentioned only)
Quotes
Quotes- “Mitsuba, don't worry. You've always been kind to our whole family. How is Norisuke doing?”—Maako Kitani, JoJolion Chapter 84: The Wonder of You, Part 1
- “I'll be an in-between for you and Mina's mom... and get this whole thing smoothed out. It would be my pleasure... You can just relax, Mitsuba, don't worry.”—Maako Kitani, JoJolion Chapter 84: The Wonder of You, Part 1
- “Oh, it's going to be a whole big thing now, isn't it? I mean, the evidence and the motive... all point to her child, Tsurugi, don't they...?”—Maako Kitani, JoJolion Chapter 84: The Wonder of You, Part 1
- “Honestly... I just wanna kill that friggin' Mitsuba. Mitsuba Higashikata... That shitty woman...”—Maako Kitani, JoJolion Chapter 86: The Wonder of You, Part 3
- “'Forepaw'. She said that. 'Move your forepaw'. At the school... in front of everybody... she dared insult me like that! My hand! She was talking about my cute little hand!”—Maako Kitani, JoJolion Chapter 86: The Wonder of You, Part 3
- “If you wanna know why I got on good terms with that Norisuke fellow of the Higashikata family. It's because of that wonderful land.”—Maako Kitani, JoJolion Chapter 86: The Wonder of You, Part 3
- “That woman! All she is, is a wife!! And she said that to me?! It makes me so, so mad!”—Maako Kitani, JoJolion Chapter 86: The Wonder of You, Part 3
- “If someone built a casino over here, you could be sure it would be a massive success! It's quality villa land! The harbor! The train station! With an adjacent shopping mall! It could be sooooo much more economically effective that way compared to using it for something like a fruit orchard!”—Maako Kitani, JoJolion Chapter 86: The Wonder of You, Part 3
- “I'm sociable, aren't I?! Everything was going so well... I just thought if I got in close with Norisuke then good things might happen! But that stupid bitch, Mitsuba! She insulted me and got in the way of my plans!”—Maako Kitani, JoJolion Chapter 86: The Wonder of You, Part 3
- “I'll make sure to buy you a whole bunch of new ones later... I'm so sorry. I'll get you wayyy better ones!”—Maako Kitani after breaking Ojiro's prosthetic fingers, JoJolion Chapter 86: The Wonder of You, Part 3
Gallery
Maako's first appearance, asking about Norisuke's well being
Mitsuba uses Awaking III Leaves to spill Maako and the other parents' coffee on them
Getting her money stolen by Ojiro
Maako expresses her hate towards Mitsuba
Explaining why she wants the Higashikata family's land
Maako steps on Ojiro's fingers
Maako speaks to Jobin on her phone, not understanding his explanation of Speed King
Being affected by Jobin's Speed King
Maako dies to a Cerebral infarction caused by Speed King
The corpses of Maako and Ojiro
Maako and Ojiro appear in the news
JJL Volume 21 Preview from Ultra Jump
JJL Volume 22 Preview from Ultra Jump
References
- ↑ JOJO magazine 2023 WINTER: The History of JOJO
- ↑ Timeline for JoJolion
- ↑ JoJolion Chapter 91: The Wonder of You, Part 8, p.11
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 JoJolion Chapter 84: The Wonder of You, Part 1
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 JoJolion Chapter 86: The Wonder of You, Part 3
- ↑ JoJolion Chapter 88: The Wonder of You, Part 5
