Crazy Diamond

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It can be said that humans live by destroying. In the midst of that, your power is kinder than anything else.
—Jotaro Kujo to Josuke Higashikata

Crazy Diamond (クレイジー・ダイヤモンド, Kureijī Daiyamondo), or simply known as Crazy D (クレイジー・(ダイヤモンド), Kureijī Daiyamondo), is the Stand of Josuke Higashikata, featured in Diamond Is Unbreakable.

Appearance

Crazy Diamond is humanoid, with a powerful build and tall stature (about two heads above Josuke).

It is clad in tall headgear, part of a mask (occasionally resembling a Corinthian helmet); and armor-like plates on many large surfaces of its body. Cables join the back of its head to its upper back. It bears a heart motif between the top of its head, its chin, shoulders, celiac plexus, belt and knees; with pairs of short spikes protruding from its shoulders and ankles.

Its most common color scheme consists of a bubblegum pink interior (given its name, likely as a reference to Pink Floyd) and light blue or silver armor.

During his first appearance, it had multiple irides with a ripple-pattern on its eyes, and its "flesh" and armor seemed to be inverted in which layer of it they resided on, giving its "flesh" the appearance of some sort of membrane.

Personality

Crazy Diamond's Stand Cry is "DORARARA ..."; similar yet uniquely distinct from that of Stands belonging to other Joestars.

Abilities

Crazy Diamond is a short range Stand, limited to a reach of around 2 meters from Josuke, in contrast with great physical power.

Crazy Diamond's effect restores a broken nose

Restoration: Crazy Diamond's unique ability is to restore or revert objects or organisms to any previous state in their history. It can repair damage, heal injury, revert chemical changes and complex structures to their raw components (e.g. a table into its constituent timber). It may also fuse objects, such a person with a rock (as with villain Anjuro Katagiri).[2] Other feats include trapping an enemy by restoring pieces of a broken crate around him; exposing a Stand formerly bound to an object;[3] and tracking by restoring a severed hand, forcing it to seek out and reattach itself to the body from which it was cut off from.[4] If this ability is used while Josuke is in a foul mood, its target may be warped, improperly restored.[5] Crazy Diamond can neither heal its master,[6] retrieve things erased by The Hand,[7] nor restore life to an organism.[8]

Super Strength: Crazy Diamond possesses immense physical strength, having been able to easily punch through abdomen of two people at once. Its strength is possibly greater than even that of Star Platinum's, having once successfully broken its defense and prompting Jotaro to question whether he could defeat Josuke at all without the use of Time Stop.[9] It can effectively shoot ball-bearing up to 20 meters but is still less effective than a gun. It can shoot a rifle bullet up to 70 meters.

Super Speed: Not only is it capable of surprising an on-guard and fully charged Red Hot Chili Pepper, Crazy Diamond can outpace other Stands such as Highway Star in close combat. Josuke states that its strikes easily exceed 300 km/h.

Precision: This stand has great precision but still noy perfect. When shooting cans with ball-bearing, it is worth 85 out of 100.

Trivia

  • Crazy Diamond bears a resemblance to DIO's Stand The World. Crazy Diamond's restorative ability could be described as a sort of time manipulation.
  • Crazy Diamond's image is seen chalked or painted on a road by a street artist in JJL Chapter 12.
  • In the Japanese version of Monster Hunter 3G, a Hammer named Crazy Diamond can heal your allies; for its international release, the weapon was renamed Majestic Scepter.
  • Crazy Diamond's namesake most likely draws from the nine part Pink Floyd composition, Shine on You Crazy Diamond, coming from Araki's frequent usage of song and band titles for Stands and characters.

Gallery

References

  1. Love Deluxe - Vol.14 "Shueisha Jump Remix Diamond is Unbreakable Edition" P86 The origin of STANDS! Part 2
  2. Chapter 273: Josuke Higashikata! Meets Anjuro (5)
  3. Chapter 305: Let's Go Out for Italian (3), pp.16-18
  4. Chapter 363: Sheer Heart Attack (10), pp.18-19
  5. Chapter 266: Jotaro Kujo! Meets Josuke Higashikata (1)
  6. Chapter 271: Josuke Higashikata! Meets Anjuro (3), pp. 5-6
  7. Chapter 295: Yukako Yamagishi Is in Love (2), p.22
  8. Chapter 270: Josuke Higashikata! Meets Anjuro (2), pp.16-17
  9. Chapter 267: Jotaro Kujo! Meets Josuke Higashikata (2)

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