Aisho Dainenjiyama
Aisho Dainenjiyama (大年寺山愛唱, Dainenjiyama Aishō) is an antagonist appearing in Part VIII: JoJolion.
Appearance
Dainenjiyama is a slender man of average to below average height. His usual outfit is composed of a skintight black bodysuit with a hole in the chest, khaki shorts with a belt, and what appears to be layered sleeves tied around his neck. He also wears what appears to be a pair of sleeves wrapped around his head, allowing some of his hair to poke out through the holes.
Personality
Dainenjiyama is very nervous and paranoid most of the time. He freaks out at some birds just because he is upset, and is easily frightened and intimidated by enemies he can't see. He can get so worried that he will briefly experience flashbacks to previous traumatic times/experiences. He is also noted to have been less capable of controlling his rock physiology, and may very well still be. This is evident in his inability to wake up for at least a month every time he falls asleep. It is a combination of this fact and his naivete that led him to misplace his trust in a previous lover which culminated in her cheating on him and selling his house while he slept in his rock form.
It seems to be implied that Dainenjiyama has some sort of heart condition, as he is commonly shown with several 'Doki Doki' sound effects (a Japanese word that refers to the sound of a beating heart) around his person. This is reinforced later when he is shown taking pills for his heart.
Abilities
Stand
Aisho's Stand is Doobie Wah; able to create automatically pursuing miniature tornadoes capable of cutting flesh using the tornadoes' base.
Synopsis
The Man with the Fruit
In the past Aishou owned a house and property in the countryside which his girlfriend would frequent during his periods of consciousness. During one such occasion, overcome with love and trust for this woman confided in her his secret and the conditions that caused him to disappear for a month at a time, thinking that she could be relied upon. Due to this mistake after waking up from his next sleep cycle he was shocked to find that his house
was being demolished and it was at this stage that his friend Yotsuyu appeared and explained to him the situation; his girlfriend had not only cheated on him while he slept but had also stolen the deed to his land and sold it to property developers so she could disappear with the money.
Heartbroken, Aishou eventually came to be employed at the stadium that Yotsuyu designed, presumably using it as a base of operations to house the mysterious fruits when he wasn't selling them for profit.
He is first introduced into the story being viewed via Paisley Park interfacing with the security footage of Jobin being handed the mysterious fruit at a red light by Aishou. Yasuho proceeds to use her abilities to track his movements back to the stadium where he works and she theorizes that he must be keeping the trees which grow the fruits there.
Through the combined powers of Paisley Park and Paper Moon King, they are able to follow him by shaping a phone into one of Tsurugi's living origami. After witnessing Aishou delivering the fruit to an elderly wheelchair ridden man they observe it's restorative abilities firsthand; regenerating the man's lost leg while simultaneously performing 'equivalent exchange' by rendering him blind, although he rationalizes this by saying he can always buy another fruit to restore his sight and perpetuate the cycle.
Aishou soon realizes he is being followed and stomps on the origami, causing proportionate damage to both Yasuho and Tsurugi and if not for Tsurugi's Paper Moon King making Aishou incapable of differentiating between the living origami and the surrounding foliage their combined stands would have not escaped.
Distraught at the revelation that multiple Stand-users appear to be following him, Aishou promptly attempts to get in contact with Yotsuyu Yagiyama only to become more distress when he finds that his number is out of service. Fearful that unidentified parties might have done something to his friend, he activates and sets his stand, Doobie Wah on his trackers in hopes of killing them swiftly.
While his automatic stand pursues the two of them Aishou tracks Doobie Wah's movement while contacting Jobin Higashikata to inquire about Yotsuyu's condition and to see if he is in any way involved in these occurrences. Satisfied that Jobin is telling the truth, he converges on Yasuho and Tsurugi's location after the pair have had several near-fatal encounters with his stand and confronts the two on their motives.
No sooner than he discovers the identity of one of his stalkers to be that of Tsurugi Higashikata, Jobin's son, does Jobin himself arrive on the scene. Aishou quickly turns to question Jobin about his involvement in this conspiracy and to force him to consent to Aishou killing Tsurugi as a means of assuring his sincerity.
However he is too late to discover that Jobin's figure is none other than the distorted image of an approaching bus and that he has been under the affect's of Tsurugi's Stand this entire time. The revelation comes too late though, and he is struck by the bus and killed, at which point his body shatters into rock and is scattered across the streets.
