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Daiya Higashikata

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“
Happiness...is sharing memories with someone.
”
—Daiya Higashikata, JJL Chapter 8

Daiya Higashikata (東方 大弥, Higashikata Daiya) is a side character featured in the eighth part of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, JoJolion. Introduced as an antagonist in the "California King Bed" story arc, Daiya becomes a neutral character in subsequent arcs.

Daiya is the outgoing youngest of Norisuke Higashikata IV's four children. When Josuke Higashikata is introduced to the family, she develops a crush on him. Daiya is a Stand User and can take memories away with her California King Bed.

Appearance

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Daiya is portrayed as an outwardly "cute", petite teenage girl. She has long, dark hair (originally chin-length) with eyebrow-level bangs, and large, dark eyes. Her outfits usually feature headwear with faux bear ears and occasional vertically-striped thigh highs. Her chest is also notably large, which Kaato explains is common of female members of the Higashikata family up until age 20.[3]

Personality

Daiya is the youngest member of Norisuke Higashikata IV's progeny at 16 years of age. She personifies a certain kawaii, between the toy-like nature of her Stand's appearance and the game-playing it facilitates, her childlike possessiveness of and offense at Josuke Higashikata's betrayal and the playful manner of her speech. She is close to her father, who tends to spoil and is overprotective of her, and she returns this affection for her father.

She is infatuated with Josuke. After engaging him with her Stand, she assumes a threatening possessiveness; however, upon her defeat, she settles for a warm preference. Josuke finds Daiya as an easy source of information and guidance in the Higashikata household by relying on her need for him to like her, as if to atone for her prior actions. However, he seems to have grown somewhat fond of her at the very least as a friend.

Daiya is severely sight-impaired, being barely able to see light or read a paper right under her nose, yet she is highly self-reliant and capable of orientation, at least within the family home.

Abilities

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Main article: California King Bed

Daiya's Stand, California King Bed, allows her to capture a person's memories after engaging and beating them in a unique game. There are specific rules in said "game" and if the victim/target breaks these rules one memory of theirs is taken. Once the memory is taken, the victim will not remember anything related to that specific memory.

Memories that are taken are placed into an item resembling a chess piece with a pearl in the middle of it and a picture that has something to do with the memory (e.g. a memory about riding a bike would have a picture of a bike). It is impossible to physically take the memories once they are inside and if the chess pieces are destroyed, the memories in them are lost forever. The only way to regain stolen memories is for Daiya to step in the victim's shadow.

History

Daiya was born the second daughter and youngest child of Norisuke Higashikata IV and Kaato Higashikata. When Daiya was two, she fell into the area where the Wall Eyes are nowadays. Her vision continuously worsened from that instant, but she acquired her Stand California King Bed in exchange.

At one point, Kaato went to prison but Daiya was too young to remember her, thus she forgot about her mother.

Meeting Josuke Higashikata

Main article: California King Bed (story arc)

Daiya is first seen when Josuke is introduced to the family, she questions him if he likes the Misty Mellotron, an electronic instrument. When her father asks Josuke to look after her. She refuses to be treated in a special way for being blind, saying that he should act natural. She quickly infatuates herself with Josuke.

Daiya uses her Stand on Josuke in order to take advantage of him via seduction. She takes his very limited memories of what transpired since he was discovered by Yasuho. While taking his memory of the symbol that Yoshikage Kira had that the Higashikatas had, the memory of Yasuho and the memory of using his Stand, Soft & Wet. She almost succeeds in keeping them until she finds herself standing on his shadow (which reverses the memory taking abilities of her Stand).

Despite her mischief, Josuke uses her to go into the secret room that he was forbidden to enter only to come across a book of the family tree which connects Yoshikage Kira of the Joestar family as a distant relative to the Higashikata family. Afterwards, she still is infatuated with Josuke, albeit harmlessly, but the feelings are definitely not mutual, much to her father's increasing dismay & worry.

Meeting Hato's Boyfriend

Main article: Hato Brought Her Boyfriend Home

Hato Higashikata, her older sister, eventually introduces her new boyfriend to her whole family, including Daiya who is excited at the prospect of meeting her sister's first boyfriend. Said boyfriend, named Tamaki Damo, reveals himself as the malevolent leader of the Locacaca Smuggling Organization and incapacitates the whole family. Daiya is liquefied into a puddle in the foyer and spends the remainder of the confrontation in that state before returning to normal once Damo is defeated.

Meeting Kaato

Main article: JJL Chapter 58

One day, Daiya meets her mother Kaato, who has returned from prison. Stunned to learn that her mother is alive and present, Daiya is confused, but Joshu's antics ruin the reunion.

Ozon Baby

Main article: Ozon Baby's Pressure (story arc)

Daiya is subsequently seen having breakfast at her family's home, during which she eats a bunch of Joshu's fish sausages.

The New Locacaca

On the day of the harvest, a string of events result in the Higashikata Family catching Jobin and Mitsuba trying to drown Paisley Park. Daiya is forced to see her family tearing itself apart as Norisuke exposes Jobin's murder of Ojiro Sasame and Jobin induces a heat stroke in Norisuke with Speed King. Jobin then tells her to help move the unconscious Norisuke to the second floor.

Chapters

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Chapters in order of appearance

Quotes

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  • “
    Don't fuss over me... that's your job, just act natural. I know everything there is to know about the room. I can pour tea myself. I know where the doors are, where the phone is, where the remote is... what's in the fridge, the places to put away the knives and the ustensils, where the trash can is... I know all about what's going on everywhere in it. So dooon't fuss over me.
    ”
    —Daiya Higashikata, JoJolion Chapter 7: Josuke, Go to the Higashikata Family
  • “
    Hey, what do you think about the misty mellotron?
    ”
    —Daiya Higashikata to Josuke, JoJolion Chapter 7: Josuke, Go to the Higashikata Family
  • “
    I'm not trying to put pressure on you or anything. But not acting natural is... a land mine. Understand? A land mine. Just like a prog rock band that has a fight and disbands... even if you try to put it back together again, things will never go back to how they used to be...
    ”
    —Daiya Higashikata, JoJolion Chapter 7: Josuke, Go to the Higashikata Family
  • “
    Fairness is rules, and rules are power, Josuke. You can't fuss over me... that's a rule.
    ”
    —Daiya Higashikata, JoJolion Chapter XXXX : JJL Chapter XXXX
  • “
    Its name is California King Bed-chan! Can you see it? Caaalifooorniaaa... I can take just one memory from a person...! and that's because you broke the fair rule...
    ”
    —Daiya Higashikata, JoJolion Chapter 8: California King Bed, Part 1
  • “
    Have you ever thought about true happiness? True happiness...? I already know. Happiness is to share memories with someone. Being together, going places together, seeing things together, hearing things together, eating together, laying around together, thinking together, that's happiness...
    ”
    —Daiya Higashikata, JoJolion Chapter 8: California King Bed, Part 1
  • “
    I love you, Josuke. I'll always have your memory here with meee.. sharing them. One by one, lots of them, lots and lots... that happiness is my goal.
    ”
    —Daiya Higashikata, JoJolion Chapter 8: California King Bed, Part 1
  • “
    Josuke, do you like big and fluffy girls?
    ”
    —Daiya Higashikata, JoJolion Chapter 9: California King Bed, Part 2
  • “
    I really love Josuke. I want to kiss him and lick him all over soon... and I want him to love me. And to immerse myself in those memories...
    ”
    —Daiya Higashikata, JoJolion Chapter 9 : California King Bed, Part 2
  • “
    We had to cancel our family trip to Hawaii... PANCAKES! So today we put on our bathing suits just so we'd have the feeling of a poolside breakfast!
    ”
    —Daiya Higashikata, JoJolion Chapter 18: "Shakedown Road", Part 1
  • “
    Here's miiiiiine! It's an ash tray made from broken coconuuuut! It's a souveniiiiir! But I'm only sixteeeeen... And nobody in our family smokes, why'd he give me an ashtraaay?
    ”
    —Daiya Higashikata, JoJolion Chapter 34: It's a Summer Vacation Everyday, Part 1

Video Games

Eyes of Heaven (PS3/PS4)

Daiya makes a cameo appearance in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Eyes of Heaven. She appears inside the Higashikata House on the Part 8 stage, sitting alongside Hato and Jobin on the couch.

Gallery

  • Daiya is introduced, her poor vision evident

    Daiya is introduced, her poor vision evident

  • Daiya greets Josuke with a hug

    Daiya greets Josuke with a hug

  • Daiya with California King Bed

    Daiya with California King Bed

  • Daiya with Memory chess

    Daiya with Memory chess

  • Daiya.PNG

    Daiya's first outfit

  • Daiya's second outfit

    Daiya's second outfit

  • Daiya's unhooded hair

    Daiya's unhooded hair

  • Daiya in her swimsuit

    Daiya in her swimsuit

  • Ultra Jump 2012 Issue #1 (Title Page)

    Ultra Jump 2012 Issue #1 (Title Page)

  • Ultra Jump 2012 Issue #5 (Cover)

    Ultra Jump 2012 Issue #5 (Cover)

  • Ultra Jump 2012 Issue #5 (Title Page)

    Ultra Jump 2012 Issue #5 (Title Page)

  • Ultra Jump 2012 Issue #10 (Title Page)

    Ultra Jump 2012 Issue #10 (Title Page)

  • Ultra Jump 2013 Issue #6 (Title Page)

    Ultra Jump 2013 Issue #6 (Title Page)

  • JJL Volume 5 Cover

    JJL Volume 5 Cover

  • JJL Volume 5 Illustration

    JJL Volume 5 Illustration

  • Ultra Jump 2013 Issue #12 (Cover)

    Ultra Jump 2013 Issue #12 (Cover)

  • Ultra Jump 2013 Issue #12 (Title Page)

    Ultra Jump 2013 Issue #12 (Title Page)

  • JJL Volume 7 Cover

    JJL Volume 7 Cover

  • JJL Volume 7 Illustration

    JJL Volume 7 Illustration

  • JJL Volume 8 Cover

    JJL Volume 8 Cover

  • JJL Volume 8 Illustration

    JJL Volume 8 Illustration

  • Ultra Jump 2015 Issue #2 (Cover)

    Ultra Jump 2015 Issue #2 (Cover)

  • Ultra Jump 2015 Issue #2 (Cover Background)

    Ultra Jump 2015 Issue #2 (Cover Background)

  • JJL Volume 9 Cover

    JJL Volume 9 Cover

  • Ultra Jump 2016 Issue #5 (Title Page)

    Ultra Jump 2016 Issue #5 (Title Page)

  • Ultra Jump 2016 Issue #8 (Title Page)

    Ultra Jump 2016 Issue #8 (Title Page)

  • JoJolion Volume Spine Illustrations

    JoJolion Volume Spine Illustrations

Trivia

  • In Japanese, daiya is a phonetic shorthand for daiyamondo (Diamond), keeping with the "card" naming theme of the Higashikata girls.
  • When riding a bicycle she makes a reference to the single "Bicycle Race" by Queen, continuing a tradition of Queen references across both incarnations of Morioh, previously centered on the Stand Killer Queen.

References

  1. ↑ JJL Chapter 7: Josuke, Go to the Higashikata Family, p.15
  2. ↑ JJL Chapter 11: Family Tree, p.20
  3. ↑ JoJolion Chapter 58: Dawn of the Higashikata Family

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