Yasuho Hirose
Yasuho Hirose (広瀬康穂) is a major protagonist featured in Part VIII: JoJolion.
Appearance/Personality
Yasuho is a pretty young woman of slim build, 166cm (5'5") tall. She has light hair of bra-strap length, tied into several pigtails with spherical hair clips. Her first outfit featured a wide-necked, cap-sleeved blouse; while her second features a sleeveless top, adorned at the front of both shoulder straps with a decorative rose. Both light-coloured tops contrast with a dark, short skirt; half covered with roses. She wears short leg warmers, and footwear that has alternated between walking boots and athletic shoes. Her precise measurements are given on the cover page of Chapter 23;[2] as well as by Josuke via his singular powers of observation.
Yasuho is a mild-mannered yet inquisitive girl who lives in Morioh. She is somewhat innocent, in one instance unquestioningly following Josuke's requests to look elsewhere so he could beat Sasame during interrogation. She harbors a growing fondness for Josuke.
Synopsis
Yasuho is first introduced huddled on the ground near the Wall Eyes after coming across the naked body of the Jojolion Protagonist half submerged into the soil. Scared at first, she rushes to help him, but is interrupted by her childhood friend, Joushuu Higashikata. Joshuu misunderstands the situation and starts a fight with the protagonist, resulting with both of them being sent to the hospital.
Later, she visits and brings flowers to Joushuu and the Protagonist. While visiting him, she was surprised by the protagonist's odd behavior and his amnesia, but followed him in his escape to find his true identity when the guard left her post. Following the brand of his hat, Yasuho and him visit the shop and find the name, Yoshikage Kira, and an address. Determined to find out more, both travel to the apartment only to find it empty. However, the protagonist hears a noise and follows it the source, which appeared to be naked woman in the bathtub. When he tells Yasuho of the situation, she shows some suspicion at first, but after looking for herself she feels embarrassed and apologizes, but ends up going back anyways to ask if the naked girl was his girlfriend. The girl doesn't answer and Yasuho searches for other clues, eventually coming across a photo album. After a quick look at it, she starts screaming, panicking, after discovering lewd pictures of the protagonist and bound women. Crying, she tells the Protagonist to stay away and runs out of the apartment. She returns later on after doubting the protagonist's true nature, but is attacked upon entering the room by Sasame Ojirou, a stand user in the room above. The protagonist promptly defeats the stand user and discovers that neither he or Sasame was Yoshikage Kira.
Later, Yasuho, alongside the protagonist, discover the real Yoshikage Kira 's corpse in a body of water near the Wall Eyes. Without any leads, she decides to lodge the protagonist with the Higashikata family until they can find his real identity and gives him the name "Josuke," named after her dog.
After a quick introduction with the family, Yasuho is eventually escorted out of the Higashikata household by the maid and is threatened to never return or meet with Josuke. She returns to her house to find the place in shambles with her mother inebriated on side of the couch with a recognizable mark over her breast. Before leaving home and finding her way back inside the Higashikata manor, she learns that Josuke and Kira's genetic make-up are a 95.8% match before learning that the protagonist is somehow connected to both the Kira and the Higashikata family.
The two eventually discover that Holly Kira, Yoshiakage's mother was a world-renowned opthamologist and was currently being kept in Morioh's hospital as a patient. She makes a call to Josuke and agrees to meet with him at the hospital. Yasuho manages to get into the hospital and speak with Holly, but not before noticing a strange bite mark on her ankle. After being taken away by hospital security for talking to Holy without permission, Holy notices that Yasuho has also developed Stand powers of her own, but she can only use them at a subconscious level. Using the pain from the bite mark before, Yasuho is repermited into the hospital, and discovers more of Holly's condition.
The next day, Josuke calls Yasuho at school, but she doesn't answer as he was using Josuhu's cell phone. She does however notice that he was, at the time, located on Extortion Road and near a landmark statue called the Joestar Jizō. She discovers, with Paisley Park's help, that the jizō was built as a memorial to Johnny Joestar, who died in Morioh from what was ultimately determined to be a freak accident in 1901.
Later that day, Yasuho travels to the Meditation Pine Tree near the Wall Eyes and realizes she can see both the Higashikata mansion and the spring where she previously found Josuke. She finds another article in the newspaper of a small infant that was discovered beneath the pine tree around the same time of Johnny's death. Upon further inspection, Yasuho spots a hole at the base of the pine tree and goes in for a closer look, but is suddenly grabbed by a hand reaching out of it causing her to lose her shoe. She is pulled under where a mysterious figure begins to caress her body.
A moment later, Yasuho finds herself in the Higashikata Family's cellar directly below the Meditation Pine. The room is filled with several memorabilia dating back to Showa Era (~1937) and there she encounters Tsurugi Higashikata, who attempts to play a game with her using a somewhat profane Paper fortune teller. Yasuho eventually realizes her phone is missing and grabs Tsurugi demanding where it is. It's at this point that she discovers that Tusuri is actually a male. Tsurugi explains that eldest son of each generation in the Higashikata family is raised as a girl until his 12th birthday to ward off a curse, just as his father and grandfather did beforehand. To aid Yasuho, Paisley Park summons itself and travels to Josuke's location, where it mysteriously persuades Josuke to send her a text message. Yasuho's phone goes off and she traces the source of the noise from underneath the carpet. Tsurugi tries to stop her by grabbing her hand, but after breaking free, Yasuho finds the phone folded like a frog and it attacks her.[3]
Video Games
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure All-Star Battle
Yasuo appears as part of the stage hazard and Situation Finish in the Wall Eyes stage. If one of the fighters is knocked down on the "hazard" indication area, Yasuho Hirose backs away in fright, causing Joshuu to appear and run through the stage punching anyone who gets in his way until he reaches her. Before Joshuu starting his action, her stand, Prasley Park, will appear and track Joshuu's way (much like it did to Josuke's way on the events of PART VIII's BORN THIS WAY).
As a situation finish, the losing side is knocked out near Yasuho, causing Joshuu to become angry and finish the character off with a large stone (similar to how he attacks Josuke during their first encounter) and Yasuho appears surprise with Joshuu's action.
Trivia
- Yasuho mentions that she once had a dog named Josuke.
- Yasuho shares her surname with Koichi Hirose, and could represent his SBR counterpart.
- Both Yasuho and Koichi were the first characters introduced in their respective stories.
- Like Trish Una, Yasuho manages to lose her shoe at one point; doing so once again later on.
References
- ↑ JoJoLion Chapter 2: Soft & Wet (1)
- ↑ JoJolion Chapter 23 cover page
- ↑ JoJoLion Chapter 23: The Secret Room
