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Template:Book JORGE JOESTAR (ジョージ・ジョースター, Jōji Jōsutā) is a novel written and illustrated by Otaro Maijo. The cover depicting George Joestar II and a young Lisa Lisa was drawn by Hirohiko Araki. The novel was released as part of the special JoJo 25th Anniversary project "VS JOJO."
JORGE JOESTAR includes a crossover of characters from parts one to seven of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Ryūsui Seiryōin's JDC Series, and Ōtarō Maijō's previous novels.
George Joestar II (Jorge Joestar) lives on the island of La Palma, part of the Canary Islands in Spain, with his mother Erina Pendleton, and Elizabeth (Lisa Lisa). George and Erina eventually travel to England whereas Lisa Lisa moves to Italy with her adopted father, Straizo. George and Lisa Lisa pledge their love to each other, with George growing up to become a World War I air pilot and Lisa Lisa becoming a strong Ripple warrior.
In another universe, teenage detective Jorge Joestar sets out on a bizarre quest to solve a murder in Morioh. His journey eventually turns into a universe-hopping adventure after the island begins moving on its own, and he meets several Stand users along the way.
Summary
The odd-numbered chapters of the novel depict the life stories of George Joestar II and Lisa Lisa from 1900 to 1920, showcasing their development from children into adults. As children, George would often be bullied by Antonio Torres and his gang of friends, with Lisa Lisa having to save him from them. After Lisa Lisa moves to live with Straizo, George continues living with Erina and a woman named Penelope de la Rosa, who can no longer live at her own house after developing a Wound ability. Their family later moves to England, eventually leading to George becoming the prime suspect in a murder case of one of his friends. As he grows up, George joins the Royal Air Force and marries Elizabeth. However, their wedding is threatened by a zombie invasion. Throughout his life, George makes new friends, such as Tsukumojuku Kato, Steven Motorize, Kenton Motorize, Darlington Motorize, and John Moore-Brabazon.
The even-numbered chapters are set in 2012 after thirty-six universal resets, taking place in the 37th universe. It focuses on teenage detective Jorge Joestar, a Japanese boy adopted by the Joestar family and raised English. While investigating a recent string of incidents, Jorge comes across another young detective named Tsukumojuku Kato, who has somehow traveled between universes. After Tsukumojuku is suddenly found dead in Morioh, seemingly by Yoshikage Kira's hands, Jorge heads there to investigate. He becomes allies with Rohan Kishibe, Reimi Sugimoto, Koji Hirose, Muryotaisu Nijimura, and Fukashigi Nijimura. However, Passione suddenly invades Morioh and orders the assistance of detectives to find their boss, Diavolo. Along the way, Jorge ends up in outer space with Narancia Ghirga, and meets thirty-seven versions of Kars, each from a different universe. The original Kars adapts to creating his own Stands after seeing the abilities of Narancia and Enrico Pucci and accompanies the group back to Earth. Characters from the first universe and 37th universe eventually coincide, ultimately ending in a massive Stand battle with Dio Brando as he attempts his heaven ascension plan to gain unlimited power.
New Abilities
In addition to the Stands from the original manga such as King Crimson and Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap, JORGE JOESTAR introduces several new Stands that are mainly named after films or TV series. There are also three new Stand-like concepts that are not truly Stands but have similar abilities.
- Wounds (ウゥンド, Wundo) are created from repeated trauma to one's mind and body. They are less controllable than Stands are, and tend to serve a purpose of stopping the user's source of pain.
- Bounds (バウンド, Baundo) allow an individual to completely merge with an element or environment and freely manipulate that element.
- Beyond (ビヨンド, Biyondo) is a metafictional concept that can be considered the author of the story. The power chooses its heroes and if the heroes believe in Beyond, they can control their destiny.
Chapters
George Joestar is an eleven year old boy living on La Palma with his mother, Erina Joestar, and Elizabeth Straizo (also known as Lisa Lisa). George recalls the countless times he's been bullied by his Spaniard classmates, including how they just tried to shove dog waste in his mouth as he was on his way home from school. Luckily, Lisa Lisa was always there to save him and constantly beat up Antonio Torres, the boy who led the gang of bullies.
George cries when he returns home and Erina gives him a stern talk. He discovers that Lisa Lisa will be leaving them to go live in Italy with her adopted father Straizo, when she turns twelve. While George refuses to accept it at first, a strong speech from Erina and seeing Lisa Lisa cry for the first time convinces him to be brave. He becomes determined to stand up to his bullies and beat them up on his own. The next morning, George tries to avoid Antonio's gang so he goes to school very early and hides in a storage room. He soon discovers his plan was for naught, as when he goes to class, he is immediately interrogated by Julio Gonzales, one of his bullies. Antonio was murdered that morning, and Julio was accusing either George or Lisa Lisa to be the suspect because both of them had left their house early, and Lisa Lisa wasn't at school yet. As Julio continues to harass George, their teacher, Mr. Fernandes, enters the room and tells Julio and the other bullies of George to be ashamed of themselves. Julio reveals that Antonio died by being crushed to death, leaving him flat as a sheet of skin with no blood, no muscle, and no bones.
Tsukumojuku Kato, George's only Asian classmate, suddenly enters the room. He was a child detective, and had been eavesdropping on the conversation. Declaring that he had already solved the case, he brings out Antonio's "corpse". The sheet of skin was a work of art by Antonio's mother, Maria Torres, who carefully peeled off pieces of her son's skin to make This Year's Antonio. She had been making one a year since Antonio was a baby, and thus his body would adapt to the loss of skin by speeding up his skin cell production three days before Maria's customary skinning day. George ponders whether the real Antonio is still alive and Tsukumojuku opens the door, telling the person standing there to enter. Although the person looked like Antonio, George could tell he was actually dead.
Lisa Lisa steps out of Antonio's skin and introduces herself to the class. She says the person who murdered Antonio is nearby, and Lisa Lisa had worn his skin to lure the murderer to the police. Lisa Lisa describes four rules that her classmates must follow in order to stay safe, warning them that they must be home before sundown, and need to stay there with their doors and windows shut until sunrise. Tsukumojuku then states that Lisa Lisa's plan had worked, and the sunlight-hating killer was already in the school. George notices that the hallway had turned dark and gloomy, before spotting Mr. Fernandes close the curtains. Lisa Lisa reveals that since she was a baby, she had special breathing powers like her adopted father and George's father. As Mr. Fernandes clutches the last curtain, he is killed by the sunlight and his body crumbles into dust. George states that Mr. Fernandes had been human while he was with them in class, so he must have been turned into that creature by the murderer of Antonio, who had forced him to close the curtains.
Lisa Lisa, George, and Tsukumojuku walk down the hall and are confronted by a man who looks like Antonio, standing on the ceiling. The man's name is Alejandro Torres, and he asks if they've seen his son. Alejandro had already eaten Antonio in the morning but then heard he went to school afterwards. Lisa Lisa argues with the man and he decides to kill her, but is destroyed by Lisa Lisa's Indigo Blue Overdrive. As an attempt to be brave, George unexpectedly runs in front of her at that moment to Lisa Lisa's surprise, and is also knocked out by the attack. George wakes up the next morning on his bed and talks to Straizo, who explains that the remains of Antonio and Alejandro had been cleaned up, and other monsters on the island were destroyed. George asks if he has a power like Lisa Lisa's, but realizes he doesn't want it because he would be too scared to fight. Straizo cheers him up, and says he was brave enough to act in the fight against Alejandro.
Tsukumojuku soon comes to visit George and the two become best friends. Tsukumojuku talks about how he had a Beyond, but it abandoned him. George just thinks he's delusional. When it is time for Lisa Lisa to leave, she jokes about marrying George and they both say they love each other. For the next four years, Tsukumojuku and George go on detective adventures and solve many mysteries. When he turns 15, Tsukumojuku has to go back to Japan and George cries a lot about being alone. George declares that he would come to Japan in the future and they could go solve more mysteries. However, two months later, the boat Tsukumojuku had left on is found at the bottom of the sea by the army.
Jorge Joestar narrates about his heritage and the spelling of his name. He is fifteen years old and lives in Fukui Prefecture, Japan. His Japanese birth parents were unable to look after him for unknown reasons and handed him over to the authorities when he was a baby. He was adopted by the Joestar family and raised in English. When he turns eighteen, he has to pick either English or Japanese citizenship as well as decide on a formal name. Although his name is romanized in his passport as "Joji Joestar", he prefers the spelling "Jorge", as he fears English speakers would pronounce "Joji" incorrectly and "Jorge" would allow his friends to continue calling him with the nickname "Detective JoJo" rather than "George".
Before going to bed, Jorge recalls his past detective cases, including solving fifteen locked room mysteries in a row two years prior and catching two serial killers in the current year, Guruguru Majin and Nail Peeler. He would often make a full report of his cases to his father, Jonda Joestar. However, something about the fifteen locked room murders still bothered him. Jorge finds a map in a newspaper article detailing the locations of each murder and discovers that it is actually a puzzle. He imagines a large 4x4 grid on top of the map and sees that there is an empty square. Jorge easily solves the puzzle by moving each number by one square and realizes that there must have been a mastermind who designed this puzzle as well as the fifteen locked room murders, despite the fifteen murderers they caught having nothing in common. He struggles to find a meaningful conclusion behind this puzzle and goes to investigate.
Jorge gets on his bike and rides north towards Takefu, attempting to find something like a locked room. Instead, he finds a farmhouse on fire, belonging to the Kato Family. Serika, Satoshi, and their four year old son, Seshiru, stand outside their house in shock when Seshiru suddenly blurts out to Jorge that there is a pool inside their house with a boy swimming in it. Jorge looks through the windows and sees that their house is filled with water moving at whirlpool speeds. Serika mentions that the incident happened randomly while they were eating dinner. Seawater started pouring down and when they exited their house, the house started burning. Jorge notices that the person inside is clinging to the window and rushes to save him. He breaks the glass on the nearest ground floor windows, allowing him to open the door. All of the water exits out the door, bringing the boy who was trapped inside onto the front lawn.
The boy was actually Tsukumojuku Kato, who reveals that he was on a boat in between the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico before suddenly ending up in that house from a tornado. However, Jorge had never heard of the Gulf or the Atlantic and says that there's only one ocean. Tsukumojuku reveals that his home address is the same as Serika's parents. Despite them having the same last name, the Kato family does not answer Jorge when he asks whether they're related, as they are still in shock from their house burning down. Tsukumojuku and Jorge discuss more details of what he was doing before ending up there and Jorge reveals that there is only one continent that he knows of, which is named Panlandia. The two teenagers introduce themselves as detectives and Tsukumojuku is shocked to learn that the boy he was talking to is also named Jorge Joestar. He wonders what Beyond is planning and what role it has in mind for him.
After going to the hospital, Tsukumojuku discovers that he traveled through time to 2012. However, after comparing maps of each other's worlds, they both realize there is no way the land could have shifted so much in only one hundred years. The two assume that Tsukumojuku must have ended up in a parallel world after traveling to the Bermuda Triangle. After deducing a way on how to get Tsukumojuku back home, Tsukumojuku tells Jorge about his friend, the other George Joestar. Both Tsukumojuku and George had solved the same or similar cases that this Jorge had solved. Tsukumojuku and George had just captured the true mastermind behind the fifteen locked room murders, Javier Cortes. Before Tsukumojuku could explain, Jorge decides he wants to solve it by himself, eventually deducing that Javier must have the supernatural power to enter dreams. Tsukumojuku confirms his theory, stating that Javier would dress up as a clown and haunt the dreams of random victims while he was sleeping, drawing out their darkest emotions and convincing them to kill someone. Javier had been abused by his mother Leonora Cortes, who had felt lonely after her husband Juan Rovira Cortes would often be away having affairs. After being caught, the Spanish police in La Palma beat Javier to death and sink his body in the sea at night, leading to Leonora killing herself afterwards.
Jorge calls Masami Shirai, a cop at the Fukui Police Department, to interrogate the fifteen murderers they caught about their dreams. A while later, he calls back and confirms they all had similar dreams. However, their dreams had a man named Yoshikage Kira, who left a message in their dreams stating "If Jorge Joestar ever comes to Morioh, I'll kill him". Shirai warns Jorge to stay away from there, but Jorge was only more tempted to go investigate. He decides to head home for the night, saying his goodbyes to Tsukumojuku and offering to pay for his travel expenses. The next morning, Jorge learns that Tsukumojuku was murdered in Morioh.
- THREE: Wounds
- Chapter 4: Morioh
- FIVE: The Box
- Chapter 6: The Island
- SEVEN: Airplanes
- Chapter 8: Nero Nero Island
- NINE: Cliff
- Chapter 10: The H.G. Wells
- ELEVEN: Gremlin
- Chapter 12: Rhinoceros Beetle
- THIRTEEN: The Enemy
- Chapter 14: Desolation Row
- FIFTEEN: Beyond
- Chapter 16: Beyond II
Characters
Characters from Jorge Joestar (1st Universe)
Characters from Jorge Joestar (2nd Universe)
Characters from Jorge Joestar (37th Universe)
Characters from Jorge Joestar (Unknown Universe/Alternate World)
Notable Events
- The 36 Kars living on Mars are presumably the 36 souls of sinners that DIO required for his plan to reach Heaven.
- The DIO of Part 3 was not the real Dio Brando but rather Giorno Giovanna with a part of Dio's soul inside his body after the real Dio Brando becomes the Ultimate Life Form.
- The Saint's Corpse of Steel Ball Run are actually parts of Dio's body, which Jonathan Joestar soon combines with after being resurrected.
- Morioh and Passione's island headquarters both suddenly sprout legs from their foundations. They split from the mainland and sail across the sea. The islands eventually encounter one another, which is how the heroes are able to meet one another. The same eventually happens to England and Manhattan Island.
Trivia
- As Erina and George II move to the Canary Islands, he is renamed "Jorge", the Spanish equivalent of "George", despite its completely different pronunciation in Spanish (xoɾxe; "Hor-hay").
- As far as JoJo's Bizarre Adventure as a series goes, the JORGE JOESTAR novel is considered the most disconnected from the events of the canon, with its own exclusive plot elements and characteristics.
- The novel seems to rely heavily on a meta-narrative, often making very plot significant allusions to the fact that it is a work of fiction, and frequently hinting at Maijo's other works that contain the same themes.
- Despite no official English translation of the novel being available, Jorge Joestar recieved an English fan-translation by BuddyWaters in 2017
Gallery
Daily life of the Joestar family (1)
Daily life of the Joestar family (2)
Daily life of the Joestar family (3)
Daily life of the Joestar family (4)
Jorge and Lisa Lisa (1)
Jorge and Lisa Lisa (2)
Jorge and Lisa Lisa (3)
Jorge and Lisa Lisa (4)
Bully Antonio Torres (P.006)
Balsa Blanca (P.006)
"What!? Jorge, you idiot!" (P.010)
"I was a boy, and couldn't keep relying on a girl my whole life." (P.011)
This Year's Antonio (P.019)
"Jorge. I promise I'll protect you." (P.029)
"Señorita," "Have you seen my son?" (P.030)
"I am Jorge Joestar's guardian!" (P.032)
Jorge: "Oooooh! Wow, Lisa Lisa!" (P.032)
Lisa Lisa: "You idiot!" (P.032)
Boom! (P.032)
The greeting
The send-off
New Year in the Joestar family
Middle school classmates (1)
Middle school classmates (2)
Middle school classmates (3)
Incident in middle school
Detective JoJo (1)
Detective JoJo (2)
Detective JoJo (3)
Detective JoJo (4)
Detective JoJo (5)
Heading north on Route 365 (P.057)
Kato Family house going up in flames (P.057)
Dododododo (P.059)
Sea water? (P.059)
Gogogon, goron-goron... (P.059)
That's... (P.059)
Women around Jorge
Jorge and Penelope of La Palma
Two members of the Straizo family have arrived in La Palma.
Coulrophobia
In her dreams, a clown is forcing her to commit locked room murders...
The limit (P.097)
After the incident, she cut her hair.
"Javier Cortes is still after me!" (P.098)
"Jorge?... Run" (P.101)
"There's a clown in here" (P.101)
"Penelope! Wait outside!" (P.102)
Constant fear, pain, give people strange powers. (P.105)
Bad, bad, Edvard Noriega (P.108)
"Edvard... Stop it now... or I will kill you...?" (P.111)
Penelope's Wound attacks Edvard! (P.111)
Think! That's all I can do! Think of a way to break this locked room!(P.113)
"I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I'm sorry!" (P.115)
"Don't call me Lisa Lisa" (P.116)
Crackle! (P.116)
Morioh's manga artist and students
Morioh's manga artist, students and...
The three students of Morioh
After 1 p.m., arriving at Morioh (P.126)
The famous Namahage Detective of Tohoku
Owner of the Arrow Cross House (P.128)
"Sorry, I don't read a lot of manga..."
"Then let me show you my art" Splash! (P.128)
Overlooking Morioh Pearl Beach and Morioh bay. (P.129)
"Nyanyanyanonono!" (P.145)
"Hello!" (P.155)
"Wait! I can find Fukashigi." (P.160)
Splash! And I can see it now. (P.164)
Muryotaisu Nijimura and Grand Blue
Front - Jacques, top - Enzo, bottom - Johana (P.164)
Fukashigi Nijimura and NYPD Blue (P.165)
Koji Hirose and Blue Thunder (P.165)
Reimi Sugimoto: "Nice to meet you." (P.165)
Sugimoto: "Sorry. But I wanted to eat with Rohan." (P.166)
The killer whose name shouldn't be remembered and Killer Queen (P.169)
It's not the sky that is moving. (P.170)
Mother's frightening story begins.
"Sorry. But... he really looks like he's still alive..." (P.175)
"Let me start at the beginning" (P.176)
In the basement, mother...
Jonathan Joestar
Unfortunate fate (P.176)
It was Dio who was a severed head before the ship exploded. (P.177)
Purple sky just after the sunset (P.184)
Dio Brando (P.185)
"Then there is only one answer" (P.186)
"All traces of my identity had been destroyed..." (P.194)
Dio: "What are you doing!? You stupid bitch!" (P.202)
"Blood is power, Erina Joestar." (P.204)
Drawings of the Mothman in the church (P.207)
"Jorge, I'm scared. This island is a scary place." (P.207)
Morioh heading south
Yoshikage Kira (2)
Shigetaka Yangu (Shigechi) and Stray Dog (P.219)
"It got it in its mouth" (P.219)
"I was almost killed" (P.219)
The tables have turned (P.219)
The former president of America Funny Valentine (P.222)
Funny Valentine and Singing in the Rain
The Valentine family (left: Funny, right: Funnier, middle: The Funniest)
Zap-zap "Kikiki! Kikiki!" (P.226)
Jozenji temple burning (P.227)
Hirose: ""Leave it to me!" Bam! (P.230)
The roof was blown off in no time (P.231)
"Thank you, thank you! I'm Denta Shishimaru, the mayor of Morioh!" (P.234)
There is a door. A door in the floor. (P.238)
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Translation notes
- The English fan translation of JORGE JOESTAR refers to U-Boat by the name "Das Boot", after the film. The original Japanese text does not feature the Latin text "Das Boot", unlike the other new Stands named after films whose titles differ greatly between the Japanese and English titles.
