DU Episode 24
Sheer Heart Attack, Part 2 (シアーハートアタック その2, Shiā Hāto Atakku Sono 2)[1] is the ninety-eighth episode of the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure anime and the twenty-fourth episode of Diamond Is Unbreakable. It covers a panel on the last page of Chapter 359, and Chapter 360 through Chapter 364 of the manga.
Summary
While Josuke Higashikata and Okuyasu Nijimura run toward Centipede Shoes to help Koichi Hirose fight Sheer Heart Attack, Yoshikage Kira drags himself through the streets with his left hand weighed down due to its link with the now-heavy Sheer Heart Attack, frightening two thugs away who tried to mug him in an alley.
Meanwhile at the shoe store, Koichi talks with Echoes ACT 3 who explains that Sheer Heart Attack will only stay weighed down if it is within 5 meters of him. Koichi then see Kira approaching him, and deduces that he is the killer. Angry, he sends Echoes to punch Kira, but Killer Queen easily parries Echoes and sends it flying; Echoes lands outside of his 3-Freeze attack's range, releasing Sheer Heart Attack and Kira from its weight. Disconcerted at the sight of Kira seemingly having two Stands, Koichi is easily defeated when Killer Queen stomps Echoes on the floor. Kira, deducing that he has three minutes to kill Koichi, decides to pay him back his public humiliation with a severe beating. However Koichi shatters Kira's confidence when he steals his wallet, learns all of his personal information from his driver's license, and exposes how easily Kira will be caught. Outraged, Kira makes Killer Queen punch through Koichi.
While Josuke and Okuyasu are still running, Kira tries to disintegrate Koichi, but is distracted by Koichi's inside-out sock. After fixing it, he is interrupted by Jotaro Kujo, still heavily wounded, but whose Star Platinum is more than enough to pummel Kira and send him crashing into a garbage bin. Kira and Jotaro then both fall unconscious. When Kira wakes up, he hears Josuke and Okuyasu, and sees that Josuke is healing Koichi and Jotaro. When Josuke and Okuyasu corner him, he decides to fake being a bystander who was caught in the explosion. His masquerade works until Kira makes the mistake of mentioning Josuke's power, which convinces the teenager that Kira is the enemy due to the fact that no ordinary person would have any knowledge of Josuke's abilities or Stands in general. However, Kira, still determined, cuts off his own hand and unleashes Sheer Heart Attack on the group before fleeing, no longer needing to worry about the burden of his left hand. Josuke, instead of fighting the sub-Stand, decides to repair Kira's hand so he can follow it back to its proprietor. The group eventually enters the Cinderella beauty salon where an injured Aya Tsuji reveals that Kira forced her to switch his face with that of a random bystander. Aya explodes before revealing Kira's new identity, and the explosion unfortunately distracts the group, and they lose the hand within a crowd of commuters. Yoshikage Kira has escaped, having taken on someone else's face, clothes, and life.
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Manga/Anime Differences
- Removed that Kira's jacket is from the brand "Valentina".
- Removed Koichi's thoughts about Kira's very normal face and pianist-like hands.
- Changed Kira's address from Jozenji, the street of Josuke and Okuyasu, to Kotodai, the street of Reimi. It can be noted that during Kira's death scene in the manga, he is said to live in Kotodai.
- Added Okuyasu using his Stand to pull Josuke and Koichi away from Aya's explosion.
- As Koichi looks for Yoshikage Kira, characters Mikitaka Hazekura, Yuya Fungami and Terunosuke Miyamoto are added to the crowd of people.
- Additionally, Kira (now disguised as Kosaku) can be seen from far away leaving the area in a white suit and dark purple pants.
Trivia
- In the official English subs, this episode's title is changed to "Heart Attack, Part 2" to match Sheer Heart Attack's name change to "Heart Attack".
- It's interesting to note that in the manga it can be seen that Kosaku has his eyes shut when he's dead, in the anime this was changed to show his eyes are missing instead.
