Holy Kujo
Holy Kujo (
Holy is afflicted by an illness when DIO gains a Stand, leading to Jotaro and Joseph departing to Egypt to defeat DIO for her sake.
Appearance
Holy Kujo is a fair-headed woman in her forties who has shoulder-long hair she keeps in a chignon. As a member of the Joestar family, Holy, like her father and son, has a small star-shaped birthmark at the back of her left shoulder, near her neck.
Holy's first outfit consists of a coat, long-skirt, pantyhose, and high heels. Holy's second outfit consists of a long-sleeve shirt, long-skirt, an apron, and slippers/houseshoes. Every piece of media has depicted these clothes differently.
Personality
Holy's sweet charm is known by all. She believes in her son Jotaro deeply, proud of the compassion that he has despite his hard shell and somehow isn't disturbed in the least by his insults. Her passivity in front of Jotaro's insults can be explained as her knowing that he does care about her beneath his rough exterior. As a woman who loves her family, she will deliberately lie about her illness so as to lessen their worry. She is caring even to strangers, as shown when she tends to Kakyoin's wounds. She is cheerful, carefree and always shown with a smile. Kakyoin himself describes her as the type of person he would fall for because she can make anyone feel at ease and soothe their heart.
Holy comes as rather childish, notably tickling her father Joseph in public even as an adult and refusing to answer if she isn't called by the Japanese name she gave herself.
As a foreigner living in Japan, Holy has acclimated herself well to her new country. One man has noted that she speaks Japanese very well and she also has given herself a Japanese name, Seiko (聖子), which is derived from her name and means "holy child".
Abilities
Stand
- Main article: Holy's Stand
While DIO was alive, she developed a Stand, but was incapable of using it, both due to her gentle nature and not having the need to battle or fight. Her Stand gave her high, fever-like symptoms while deteriorating her health until she dies in approximately 50 days. Her "ability" was the reason why her father, Joseph, and her son, Jotaro, went to kill DIO and caused the events of Stardust Crusaders to unfold.
History
Battle Tendency
She is first mentioned at the end of Battle Tendency when a Japanese man bumps into Joseph with his suitcase, asking if he is alright but also blaming Joseph for not looking where he was going. While Joseph is about to dismiss this, he notices the man is Japanese and knees him in the stomach. He then claims that he hates the Japanese because his beloved daughter fell in love with a Japanese man and left home to the other end of the world, rarely coming home to visit for the next twenty years.
In the anime, she was also shown as a little girl alongside her parents as they overlook Erina on her deathbed.
Stardust Crusaders
Holy is introduced as the loving mother of Jotaro Kujo. When he locks himself in jail, claiming to be possessed by an evil spirit, Holy calls her father, Joseph Joestar, to see him. Joseph tells Jotaro and Holy that DIO had acquired the body of Jonathan Joestar, and with it had somehow developed a Stand ability, but yet he fails to convince him even with proof. However, Holy does not care much about it and continues to live as if everything was normal.
Because of this, all of Jonathan's descendants had also developed a Stand, the "evil spirit" Jotaro mentioned. Holy eventually develops one too, but doesn't have the strength to support it and falls ill after hiding her condition for a time to no worry her family. Holy's ailing condition becomes the catalyst for Jotaro and company's quest to Egypt, as the defeat of DIO would stop Holy's stand of showing itself. As the Joestar Group travels from Tokyo to Cairo, Holy's sickness worsens. At one point, she receives the visit of her mother Suzi Q.
At the end of the adventure, she is back on her feet and once more the loving person she was.
Chapters / Episodes
- Chapter 113: The Man Who Crossed the Atlantic (Mentioned only)
- Chapter 114: Jotaro Kujo, Part 1
- Chapter 115: Jotaro Kujo, Part 2
- Chapter 116: Jotaro Kujo, Part 3
- Chapter 117: The Man with the Star Birthmark
- Chapter 120: Noriaki Kakyoin, Part 3
- Chapter 121: The Power Called a "Stand"
- Chapter 122: Head to Egypt
- Chapter 124: Silver Chariot, Part 1 (Mentioned only)
- Chapter 130: Strength, Part 1 (Mentioned only)
- Chapter 183: "The Fool" Iggy and "Geb" N'Doul, Part 1 (Mentioned only)
- Chapter 184: "The Fool" Iggy and "Geb" N'Doul, Part 2 (Mentioned only)
- Chapter 210: Shooting DIO?! (Mentioned only)
- Chapter 213: D'Arby the Gambler, Part 3 (Mentioned only)
- Chapter 216: D'Arby the Gambler, Part 6 (Mentioned only)
- Chapter 238: The Miasma of the Void, Vanilla Ice, Part 1 (Mentioned only)
- Chapter 246: Suzi Q Joestar Visits Her Daughter
- Chapter 265: The Faraway Journey, Farewell Friends
- Chapter 412: Cheap Trick, Part 1 (Mentioned only)
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Episode 26: The Man Who Became a God
- Stardust Crusaders Episode 1: A Man Possessed by an Evil Spirit
- Stardust Crusaders Episode 2: Who Will Be the Judge?!
- Stardust Crusaders Episode 3: DIO's Curse
- Stardust Crusaders Episode 6: Dark Blue Moon
- Stardust Crusaders Episode 14: Justice, Part 1 (Mentioned only)
- Stardust Crusaders Episode 23: High Priestess, Part 1 (Mentioned only)
- Stardust Crusaders Episode 24: High Priestess, Part 2 (Flashback)
- Stardust Crusaders Episode 25: "The Fool" Iggy and "Geb" N'Doul, Part 1 (Mentioned only)
- Stardust Crusaders Episode 34: D'Arby the Gambler, Part 1
- Stardust Crusaders Episode 35: D'Arby the Gambler, Part 2 (Mentioned only)
- Stardust Crusaders Episode 36: Hol Horse and Boingo, Part 1 (Mentioned only)
- Stardust Crusaders Episode 39: The Gatekeeper of Hell, Pet Shop, Part 2 (Flashback)
- Stardust Crusaders Episode 44: The Miasma of the Void, Vanilla Ice, Part 3
- Stardust Crusaders Episode 46: DIO's World, Part 2 (Flashback)
- Stardust Crusaders Episode 48: The Faraway Journey, Farewell Friends
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Episode 1 (OVA): The Evil Spirit
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Episode 2 (OVA): Hierophant Green
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Episode 8 (OVA): Iggy the Fool and N'Doul the GEB (Pt. I)
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Episode 11 (OVA): DIO's World - The Warrior of the Void: Vanilla Ice
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Episode 13 (OVA): DIO's World - Farewell, My Friends
Video Games
JoJo RPG (SFC)
Holy appears as a character the player can talk with during the first scenario, at Jotaro's house. Besides that, she appears only in cutscenes.
Heritage for the Future (PS1/DC/Arcade Game)
During the game, Holy only appears in cutscenes that are similar to the events of the manga. She is shown when she gets sick and at the end of the game.
In a possible translation error during the game's cutscenes (in Jotaro's story mode), she refers to her father Joseph as an uncle, when in fact Joseph is her father, and Jotaro's grandfather. This was corrected in the HD version as "I'd better tell his grandfather about this."
Gallery
Trivia
- At the beginning of Chapter 120, Holy is seen singing to herself: "Come on, baby, do the locomotion", likely from Gerry Goffin and Carole King's song "The Loco-Motion", made famous in the 1980s when it was covered by Kylie Minogue. Similarly, in the 2014 anime adaption, she hums Seiko Matsuda's 1980s pop song "Ao no Sangosho" ("Blue Coral Reef" in English), fitting well into the timeline as a Japanese song popular around the time Stardust Crusaders takes place in and also making a reference to Holy's Japanese name being Seiko.
- The circular earrings Holy is seen wearing in the first episode of Stardust Crusaders were designed to be inherited from Lisa Lisa.[3]
References
- ↑ Chapter 115: Jotaro Kujo, Part 2
- ↑ JJBA Artbook: JoJo 6251
- ↑ Jojo's Bizarre Adventure AAA: Animation Artworks Archive