Crazy Diamond
Crazy Diamond (クレイジー・ダイヤモンド, Kureijī Daiyamondo) is the Stand of Josuke Higashikata, featured in the fourth part of the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure series, Diamond is Unbreakable.
A powerful Stand with strength comparable to Star Platinum, it possesses the ability to heal or repair objects and/or people.
Appearance
Crazy Diamond is a humanoid Stand with a muscular build and tall stature, usually standing at around Josuke's height or taller.
It is clad in circular, oval, cylindrical, and heart-shaped armor plates that cover most of its body. On its head is a tall helmet shaped like a heart from the top, that occasionally resembles a Corinthian helmet. Some type of cables or tubes connect its upper back to the back of its head, or in some early cases, to the back or sides of its neck. It bears a heart motif between the top of its helm, chin, shoulders, upper abdomen, belt, and knees. Short spikes protrude from its shoulders, ankles and head. Towards the end of the Part 4 manga, Crazy Diamond is depicted in some panels with a small nose visible underneath its helmet.
It was designed to contrast with Star Platinum's blackish color scheme.[6]
Color Schemes
Personality
Crazy Diamond has no distinct personality, usually with an angry or blank expression during fights apart from shouting its Stand Cry "DORARARA!" when attacking; which is similar yet uniquely distinct from that of Stands belonging to other Joestars. In a very small handful of scenes, Crazy Diamond has shown emotion through facial expressions, such as fear during the fight with Bug-Eaten.
Crazy Diamond was named by Jotaro Kujo.[7]
Abilities
Crazy Diamond is a Close-Range Stand, which like Jotaro Kujo's Star Platinum, is characterized by its physical might and speed at the cost of a short range of 2 meters. Its basic characteristics are:
- Super Strength: Crazy Diamond possesses immense physical strength, having been able to easily punch through the abdomens of two people at once. Its strength is somewhat comparable to that of Star Platinum, having once successfully broken its defense. Jotaro was initially caught off guard by this encounter, prompting Jotaro to remark that Star Platinum in its unused state would have difficulties against Crazy Diamond with its shortened time stop.[8]
- Super Speed: Not only is it capable of surprising an on-guard and fully charged Red Hot Chili Pepper, but Crazy Diamond can also outpace other Stands such as Highway Star in close combat. Josuke estimates that its strikes exceed 300[9] km/h (190 mph). It was also able to catch a bullet fired in close proximity to Josuke.[10]
- Precision: According to Jotaro, it can effectively fire off a rifle bullet from its fingers up to 50 to 70 meters when Josuke concentrates.[11]
Thus, Crazy Diamond is a powerful Stand in close-quarter combat whose capabilities are enhanced by its unconventional power of repairing broken items, making it a redoubtable and unpredictable Stand in a fight, but also an invaluable fighting partner as it can effectively heal any wound.
Restoration
Crazy Diamond's unique ability is to restore or revert objects or organisms to a previous state in their history through contact.
It can repair damage, heal injuries, revert chemical changes and complex structures to their raw components (e.g. a table into its constituent timber). When restoring a divided object, the user is able to control which part acts as the starting points for the rest to gather towards.[12] Feats of this nature include trapping an enemy by restoring pieces of a broken crate around him; exposing a Stand formerly bound to an object;[13] and tracking by restoring a severed hand, forcing it to seek out and reattach itself to the body from which it was cut off.[14]
If this ability is used while Josuke is in a foul mood, its target may become warped as a result of improper restoration.[15] Crazy Diamond's ability cannot heal its user,[16] cure illnesses (as victims are not considered damaged),[12] retrieve things erased by The Hand,[17] or restore life to a dead organism.[18]
Josuke frequently uses this ability to heal his allies, pull himself or objects into an advantageous position, or trap enemies by repairing a whole object around them. He can also use outside-the-box stratagems that take advantage of the properties of an object's former state. Finally, Josuke can willingly botch the process and fuse objects together by punching them and affecting them at the same time. For example, he can fuse a person with a rock (as with villain Anjuro Katagiri).[7]
Chapters / Episodes
- Chapter 266: Jotaro Kujo! Meets Josuke Higashikata, Part 1
- Chapter 267: Jotaro Kujo! Meets Josuke Higashikata, Part 2
- Chapter 268: Jotaro Kujo! Meets Josuke Higashikata, Part 3
- Chapter 269: Josuke Higashikata! Meets Angelo, Part 1
- Chapter 270: Josuke Higashikata! Meets Angelo, Part 2
- Chapter 271: Josuke Higashikata! Meets Angelo, Part 3
- Chapter 272: Josuke Higashikata! Meets Angelo, Part 4
- Chapter 273: Josuke Higashikata! Meets Angelo, Part 5
- Chapter 274: The Nijimura Brothers, Part 1
- Chapter 275: The Nijimura Brothers, Part 2
- Chapter 277: The Nijimura Brothers, Part 4
- Chapter 278: The Nijimura Brothers, Part 5
- Chapter 279: The Nijimura Brothers, Part 6
- Chapter 280: The Nijimura Brothers, Part 7
- Chapter 281: The Nijimura Brothers, Part 8
- Chapter 282: The Nijimura Brothers, Part 9
- Chapter 285: Koichi Hirose (Echoes), Part 2
- Chapter 289: Toshikazu Hazamada (Surface), Part 1
- Chapter 290: Toshikazu Hazamada (Surface), Part 2
- Chapter 291: Toshikazu Hazamada (Surface), Part 3 (Mentioned)
- Chapter 292: Toshikazu Hazamada (Surface), Part 4
- Chapter 293: Toshikazu Hazamada (Surface), Part 5
- Chapter 303: Let's Go Eat Some Italian Food, Part 1 (Mentioned)
- Chapter 305: Let's Go Eat Some Italian Food, Part 3
- Chapter 306: Let's Go Eat Some Italian Food, Part 4
- Chapter 307: Red Hot Chili Pepper, Part 1
- Chapter 310: Red Hot Chili Pepper, Part 4
- Chapter 311: Red Hot Chili Pepper, Part 5
- Chapter 312: Red Hot Chili Pepper, Part 6
- Chapter 313: Red Hot Chili Pepper, Part 7
- Chapter 314: Red Hot Chili Pepper, Part 8 (Mentioned)
- Chapter 317: We Picked Up Something Crazy!, Part 3
- Chapter 320: Let's Go to the Manga Artist's House, Part 3 (Photo)
- Chapter 321: Let's Go to the Manga Artist's House, Part 4 (Cover only)
- Chapter 322: Let's Go to the Manga Artist's House, Part 5 (Mentioned)
- Chapter 323: Let's Go to the Manga Artist's House, Part 6
- Chapter 324: Let's Go to the Manga Artist's House, Part 7
- Chapter 325: Let's Go Hunting!, Part 1
- Chapter 326: Let's Go Hunting!, Part 2
- Chapter 327: Let's Go Hunting!, Part 3
- Chapter 328: Let's Go Hunting!, Part 4 (Mentioned)
- Chapter 329: Let's Go Hunting!, Part 5
- Chapter 336: Shigechi's Harvest, Part 2
- Chapter 338: Shigechi's Harvest, Part 4
- Chapter 339: Shigechi's Harvest, Part 5
- Chapter 340: Shigechi's Harvest, Part 6
- Chapter 341: Shigechi's Harvest, Part 7
- Chapter 345: Yoshikage Kira Just Wants to Live Quietly, Part 4 (Cover only)
- Chapter 346: Yoshikage Kira Just Wants to Live Quietly, Part 5 (Mentioned)
- Chapter 363: Sheer Heart Attack, Part 10
- Chapter 364: Sheer Heart Attack, Part 11 (Cover only)
- Chapter 366: Atom Heart Father, Part 2
- Chapter 367: Atom Heart Father, Part 3
- Chapter 368: Atom Heart Father, Part 4 (Cover only)
- Chapter 374: Rock-Paper-Scissors Kid is Coming!, Part 4 (Mentioned)
- Chapter 380: I'm an Alien, Part 3
- Chapter 382: I'm an Alien, Part 5 (Mentioned)
- Chapter 383: I'm an Alien, Part 6
- Chapter 386: Highway Star, Part 3
- Chapter 387: Highway Star, Part 4
- Chapter 388: Highway Star, Part 5
- Chapter 389: Highway Star, Part 6
- Chapter 390: Highway Star, Part 7
- Chapter 391: Highway Star, Part 8
- Chapter 400: Let's Live on a Transmission Tower, Part 3
- Chapter 401: Let's Live on a Transmission Tower, Part 4
- Chapter 402: Let's Live on a Transmission Tower, Part 5
- Chapter 403: Let's Live on a Transmission Tower, Part 6
- Chapter 404: Enigma Boy, Part 1
- Chapter 406: Enigma Boy, Part 3
- Chapter 407: Enigma Boy, Part 4
- Chapter 409: Enigma Boy, Part 6
- Chapter 412: Cheap Trick, Part 1 (Mentioned)
- Chapter 423: Another One Bites the Dust, Part 6 (Temporary death)
- Chapter 426: Another One Bites the Dust, Part 9
- Chapter 427: Another One Bites the Dust, Part 10
- Chapter 428: Crazy Diamond is Unbreakable, Part 1
- Chapter 429: Crazy Diamond is Unbreakable, Part 2
- Chapter 430: Crazy Diamond is Unbreakable, Part 3
- Chapter 431: Crazy Diamond is Unbreakable, Part 4 (Mentioned)
- Chapter 432: Crazy Diamond is Unbreakable, Part 5
- Chapter 433: Crazy Diamond is Unbreakable, Part 6
- Chapter 434: Crazy Diamond is Unbreakable, Part 7
- Chapter 435: Crazy Diamond is Unbreakable, Part 8
- Chapter 439: Goodbye, Morioh - The Golden Heart
- Steel Ball Run Extra Chapter 3: Untitled Stand Chapter (Mentioned)
- JoJolion Chapter 12: "Paisley Park" and "Born This Way", Part 1 (Cameo)
- Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan Episode 10: Hot Summer Martha (Cameo)
- Crazy Diamond's Demonic Heartbreak: Chapter 1
- Crazy Diamond's Demonic Heartbreak: Chapter 2
- Crazy Diamond's Demonic Heartbreak: Chapter 5
- Crazy Diamond's Demonic Heartbreak: Chapter 6
- Crazy Diamond's Demonic Heartbreak: Chapter 7
- Crazy Diamond's Demonic Heartbreak: Chapter 9
- Crazy Diamond's Demonic Heartbreak: Chapter 10
- Crazy Diamond's Demonic Heartbreak: Chapter 11
- Crazy Diamond's Demonic Heartbreak: Chapter 12
- Crazy Diamond's Demonic Heartbreak: Chapter 13
- Crazy Diamond's Demonic Heartbreak: Chapter 14
- Crazy Diamond's Demonic Heartbreak: Final Chapter
- Diamond is Unbreakable Episode 1: Jotaro Kujo! Meets Josuke Higashikata
- Diamond is Unbreakable Episode 2: Josuke Higashikata! Meets Angelo
- Diamond is Unbreakable Episode 3: The Nijimura Brothers, Part 1
- Diamond is Unbreakable Episode 4: The Nijimura Brothers, Part 2
- Diamond is Unbreakable Episode 5: The Nijimura Brothers, Part 3
- Diamond is Unbreakable Episode 6: Koichi Hirose (Echoes)
- Diamond is Unbreakable Episode 7: Toshikazu Hazamada (Surface)
- Diamond is Unbreakable Episode 10: Let's Go Eat Some Italian Food
- Diamond is Unbreakable Episode 11: Red Hot Chili Pepper, Part 1
- Diamond is Unbreakable Episode 12: Red Hot Chili Pepper, Part 2
- Diamond is Unbreakable Episode 13: We Picked Up Something Crazy!
- Diamond is Unbreakable Episode 14: Let's Go to the Manga Artist's House, Part 1 (Photo)
- Diamond is Unbreakable Episode 15: Let's Go to the Manga Artist's House, Part 2
- Diamond is Unbreakable Episode 16: Let's Go Hunting!
- Diamond is Unbreakable Episode 18: Shigechi's Harvest, Part 1
- Diamond is Unbreakable Episode 19: Shigechi's Harvest, Part 2
- Diamond is Unbreakable Episode 20: Yukako Yamagishi Dreams of Cinderella
- Diamond is Unbreakable Episode 24: Sheer Heart Attack, Part 2
- Diamond is Unbreakable Episode 25: Atom Heart Father
- Diamond is Unbreakable Episode 27: I'm an Alien
- Diamond is Unbreakable Episode 28: Highway Star, Part 1
- Diamond is Unbreakable Episode 29: Highway Star, Part 2
- Diamond is Unbreakable Episode 31: July 15th (Thursday), Part 1
- Diamond is Unbreakable Episode 32: July 15th (Thursday), Part 2
- Diamond is Unbreakable Episode 33: July 15th (Thursday), Part 3
- Diamond is Unbreakable Episode 36: Another One Bites the Dust, Part 2 (Temporary death)
- Diamond is Unbreakable Episode 37: Crazy Diamond is Unbreakable, Part 1
- Diamond is Unbreakable Episode 38: Crazy Diamond is Unbreakable, Part 2
- Diamond is Unbreakable Episode 39: Goodbye, Morioh - The Golden Heart
- Crazy Heartbreakers Chapter 1: Dire straits
- Crazy Heartbreakers Chapter 2: Dazed date
- Crazy Heartbreakers Chapter 3: Dissonance (Mentioned)
- Crazy Heartbreakers Chapter 4: Descent on
- Crazy Heartbreakers Chapter 5: Disquietude
- Crazy Heartbreakers Chapter 7: DIO
- Crazy Heartbreakers Chapter 8: Diamond
Video Games
Puzzle & Dragons (Android/iOS)
Crazy Diamond was obtainable for a limited time as an Assist Evolution in the mobile game Puzzle & Dragons.
クレイジー・ダイヤモンド
Gallery
Trivia
- Araki has stated that when drawing Atum for Part 3, it was "at this point" he started to incorporate hearts to his designs. This eventually tied itself into Crazy Diamond's design.[19] He also drew Crazy Diamond so that its color scheme would contrast with Jotaro Kujo's Star Platinum.[6]
- In JOJO A-GO!GO! (published in 2000), Crazy Diamond is listed as Araki's overall favorite Stand, followed by Sex Pistols and Sticky Fingers.[20]
- Crazy Diamond's image is seen chalked on a road by a street artist in JJL Chapter 12.
- In DU Episode 2, Josuke is shown playing "Oh! That's a Baseball '99", in which he customizes the members of his team to resemble Crazy Diamond, similar to Jotaro's and Telence T. D'Arby's team members' resemblances to their respective Stands during their battle in Stardust Crusaders.
- Crazy Diamond appears as a special weapon in the Japanese version of Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate, which has the unique effect of healing other players while attacking them. However, when the game was localized into English, the weapon was completely changed and renamed to the "Majestic Scepter."[21]
References
- ↑ Love Deluxe - Vol.14 "Shueisha Jump Remix Diamond is Unbreakable Edition" P83 The Origin of STANDS! part.1
- ↑ JOJO A-GO!GO!: Araki Hirohiko, p.61
- ↑ Billboard Japan (August 2021)
- ↑ JOJO A-GO!GO!: STANDS, p.104
- ↑ Chapter 324: Let's Go to the Manga Artist's House, Part 7
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 JOJOVELLER: Araki's Stand Commentaries - Crazy Diamond
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Chapter 273: Josuke Higashikata! Meets Angelo, Part 5
- ↑ Chapter 267: Jotaro Kujo! Meets Josuke Higashikata, Part 2
- ↑ Chapter 391: Highway Star, Part 8, pp 14
- ↑ Chapter 406: Enigma Boy, Part 3
- ↑ Chapter 328: Let's Go Hunting!, Part 4
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 JOJOVELLER: STANDS, pp.80-83
- ↑ Chapter 305: Let's Go Eat Some Italian Food, Part 3, pp.16-18
- ↑ Chapter 363: Sheer Heart Attack, Part 10, pp.18-19
- ↑ Chapter 266: Jotaro Kujo! Meets Josuke Higashikata, Part 1
- ↑ Chapter 271: Josuke Higashikata! Meets Angelo, Part 3, pp. 5-6
- ↑ Chapter 295: Yukako Yamagishi Falls in Love, Part 2, p.22
- ↑ Chapter 292: Toshikazu Hazamada (Surface), Part 4
- ↑ JOJOVELLER: Araki's Stand Commentaries - Atum
- ↑ JOJO A-GO!GO!: STANDS, p.36
- ↑ Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate Events (Event Image)