Yukako Yamagishi Falls in Love, Part 1 (山岸由花子は恋をする その1, Yamagishi Yukako wa Koi o Suru Sono 1)[1] is the eighth episode of Diamond is Unbreakable and the eighty-second episode of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: The Animation. It covers Chapter 294 through most of Chapter 297 of the manga.
One day, the girl Yukako Yamagishi confesses her love to Koichi. However, it becomes apparent that Yukako is deranged and obsessed with Koichi, who must find a way to push her away from him.
Summary
Josuke and Okuyasu discuss what Hazamada revealed after Josuke and Jotaro interrogated him at the hospital. Hazamada doesn't know anything about Red Hot Chili Pepper's user but assures that Stand users are bound to meet each other and the user will eventually reveal himself. Suddenly they see Koichi and one of Okuyasu's classmates, Yukako Yamagishi, in a café, where she confesses her love to Koichi, shocking everyone. However, Koichi's joy at being proposed to and Okuyasu's jealousy at Koichi is cut short when Koichi doesn't answer clearly to how much he reciprocates Yukako's love, which makes Yukako enter a brief state of rage before calming herself and leaving in shame. Abashed by Yukako's temper, Koichi sips his cola and realizes that it is full of hair. The next day Yukako tries again to approach Koichi and goes overboard with her display of affection, thus Koichi uses his class representative as an excuse for fleeing. Later Yukako jealously plants some of her hair on the representative, which results in the girl gagged and blindfolded by hair as her own hair burns. Fortunately, Okuyasu uses The Hand to erase the fire and some of the representative's hair. Josuke and Okuyasu realize that Yukako is up to no good.
Later Koichi, Josuke, and Okuyasu meet to discuss what to do with Yukako. Stressed by Yukako, Koichi's English grades are dropping, and he wants to stop Yukako. Unwilling to incur her wrath, the trio eventually settles for indirectly discouraging Yukako from seducing Koichi by ruining his reputation. Josuke and Okuyasu proceed to loudly slander Koichi near Yukako, aware that she is listening. However the same night, Yukako kidnaps Koichi, wanting to work for his "betterment." Later, Koichi finds himself in a villa and unable to contact the outside world. He's realized that Yukako is a Stand user, but has the advantage of surprise, so decides to play along. While Yukako prepared a copious breakfast, she forces Koichi to attend an English quiz where a false answer results in being force-fed things such as soap or asparagus rolled in dictionary pages. Koichi interrupts the quiz and tries to flee, but Yukako effortlessly restrains him as she planted some of her hair on Koichi, and can lift him up to the ceiling. Yukako leaves, assuring that no one will come to the villa until summer and that they will have time to "make progress". Koichi then desperately cries for help.
Appearances
Credits
馬場 充子
Kohei Ashiya
Rie Arakawa
Tatsufumi Ito
Yoko Uchida
Takahiro Okawa
Mayumi Oda
Teruyo Kato
Yui Kinoshita
Nozomi Sakamoto
Hitomi Shiroki
Yoshiko Takemoto
Miho Tanaka
Natsue Chibayama
Yu Matsuo
Haruki Miura
Shogo Morishita
Shuhei Fukuda
Makoto Yaguchi
Takashi Yasui
Yuki Yabuta
Haru Watanabe
芦谷 耕平
荒川 理恵
伊藤 達文
内田 陽子
大川 貴大
小田 真弓
加藤 照代
木下 由衣
阪本 望実
白木 仁美
竹本 佳子
たなか みほ
千葉山 夏恵
松尾 優
三浦 春樹
森下 昇吾
福田 周平
矢口 真琴
安井 貴司
薮田 裕希
渡邊 葉瑠
大根 椛司
川上 遥
山村 有理
山崎 菜奈
山内 遼
Park Soo Kyung
Kang Sul A
Kawn Hyun Ae
Lee Zan Di
PARK SOO KYUNG
KANG SUL A
KWAN HYUN AE
LEE ZAN DIz
Hanjin Animation
HANJIN ANIMATION
In-Between Animation Inspection
White Line
Ku Ja Chun
KU JA CHUN
Mai Oshima
Rie Takahashi
Yuta Shinohara
Tomoko Inoue
Nana Nomiya
Daiki Ito
Shiori Kubo
Sonomi Sakuragi
大島 舞
髙橋 梨恵
篠原 佑太
井上 知子
野宮 菜那
伊東 大輝
久保 詩織
櫻木 苑美
Dr. Movie
Busan Dr.
ANIK
Jiwoo Animation
Hanjin Animation
Asahi Production -
Miyagi Shiraishi Studio
Sunrise Origin Studio
DR.movie
Busan DR.
ANIK
JIWOO animation
HANJIN ANIMATION
旭プロダクション -
宮城白石スタジオ
サンライズ オリジンスタジオ
Music
Manga/Anime Differences
- Further details of Koichi's test are briefly visible, including some fragmented thoughts on his situation with Yukako, such as "Hair", "Sweater" and "I must talk to her".
- While quizzing Koichi on what Prince's lyric "funky music" means, an image of Prince performing is added.
- An issue of Pink Dark Boy can be seen in Koichi's room.
- During the montage after the revelation of Stand users always meeting, Super Fly is teased.
In other languages
| Language | Title | Translation |
|---|---|---|
 Japanese |
山岸由花子は恋をする その1 | Yukako Yamagishi Falls in Love, Part 1 |
 English |
Yukako Yamagishi Falls in Love, Part 1 | |
 Spanish |
Yukako Yamagishi está enamorada - Primera parte | Yukako Yamagishi is in Love - Part 1 |
 Portuguese |
Yukako Yamagishi Se Apaixona - Parte 1 | Yukako Yamagishi Falls in Love - Part 1 |
 French |
Yukako Yamagishi est amoureuse, Partie 1 | Yukako Yamagishi is in Love, Part 1 |
 German |
Yukako Yamagishi verliebt sich, Teil 1 | Yukako Yamagishi Falls in Love, Part 1 |
 Hebrew |
יוקקו ימגישי מתאהבת, חלק 1 | Yukako Yamagishi Falls in Love, Part 1 |
 Arabic |
يوكاكو ياماغيشي تقع في الحبّ، الجزء 1 | Yukako Yamagishi Falls in Love, Part 1 |
 Italian |
Yukako Yamagishi si innamora, Parte 1 | Yukako Yamagishi Falls in Love, Part 1 |
 Polish |
Yukako Yamagishi się zakochuje: część 1 | Yukako Yamagishi Falls in Love: part 1 |
Commentary
In terms of animation, this "hair" Stand was difficult to draw. When adding auras to Stands, there are often cases where the aura will extend to the user. In Yukako’s case, this aura will of course extend itself into her hair. For example, there is this one scene where she implants her own hair into Koichi’s scalp allowing herself to control him. We had to use separate cels to differentiate between Yukako and Koichi's hair, which required a little more time than it normally would.
Let’s take stock. Up until now, we saw someone get his teeth broken for having tried to hit on a woman, a high schooler was roasted, and here is a girl that kidnaps you when she falls in love… It's at this moment that I've realized Morioh is frankly a really frightening town (laughs).Gallery
Echoes ACT1 Eyecatch
Trivia
- Oddly, neither this episode nor the next features a Stand Card for Love Deluxe.
- The English Dub features a subtle Duwang scans reference in Okuyasu's dialogue as they discuss Yukako and Koichi's English test results.