Doggy Style
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Doggy Style (ドギー・スタイル, Dogī Sutairu) is the Stand of Rai Mamezuku, featured in the 8th part of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, JoJolion. This mechanical Stand allows Rai to unravel his body into strips.
Appearance
Doggy Style takes the form of a humanoid with an elongated and almost featureless face, save for 6 small eyes and beanpod-shaped protrusions from the sides of its head. It has a heart-shaped torso, whisk-shaped appendages for arms and the kanji for "bean" (豆, mame) written on its shoulders within a circle.
Doggy Style is cyan and silver with a hint of pink in the colored manga.
Color Schemes
Abilities
Skin Peeling
Doggy Style's full capabilities are currently unknown; however, its primary ability allows Rai to "peel" his own body like an apple, unraveling his appendages into "wire rope" that he can control and manipulate.[1]
Rai first uses it while on an aerial lift to retrieve a strawberry from a bush several feet below. The most advanced usage of this ability is when Rai turns his entire arm into a makeshift crossbow, from which he fires a fork using his mouth.[2] Rai can also send his rope fast enough to give it cutting power. He notably cut a garden of Locacaca plants this way.[3] He can also form the his finger into a tight, seemingly sharp cone shape, which he can then extend to attack in a stabbing motion, not much unlike Star Platinum's Star Finger.
Rai is also able to completely unravel himself, as shown when he feigns death from Poor Tom's Ozon Baby. He seems to be able to unravel every part of his body besides his eyes and teeth, making it look like he had been crushed to death.[4]
Chapters
Manga Appearances- JoJolion Chapter 65: The Plant Appraiser - Rai Mamezuku (31), Part 1
- JoJolion Chapter 66: The Plant Appraiser - Rai Mamezuku (31), Part 2
- JoJolion Chapter 67: The Plant Appraiser - Rai Mamezuku (31), Part 3
- JoJolion Chapter 68: Urban Guerrilla and Doremifasolati Do, Part 1
- JoJolion Chapter 69: Urban Guerrilla and Doremifasolati Do, Part 2
- JoJolion Chapter 70: Urban Guerrilla and Doremifasolati Do, Part 3
- JoJolion Chapter 72: North of the Higashikata House. The Orchard
- JoJolion Chapter 74: Ozon Baby's Pressure, Part 2
- JoJolion Chapter 75: Ozon Baby's Pressure, Part 3
- JoJolion Chapter 76: Ozon Baby's Pressure, Part 4
- JoJolion Chapter 82: Doctor Wu and Awaking 3 Leaves, Part 4
- JoJolion Chapter 83: The New Locacaca (Cover only)
- JoJolion Chapter 86: The Wonder of You, Part 3
- JoJolion Chapter 89: The Wonder of You, Part 6
- JoJolion Chapter 90: The Wonder of You, Part 7
- JoJolion Chapter 96: Just Don't Move
- JoJolion Chapter 98: The Wonder of You, Part 15 (Ability only)
- JoJolion Chapter 99: The Wonder of You, Part 16 (Ability only)
- JoJolion Chapter 100: The Wonder of You, Part 17 (Ability only)
- JoJolion Chapter 104: The Wonder of You, Part 21 (Ability only)
Gallery
JJL Volume 19 Cover
JJL Volume 19 Illustration
Profile
Rai summoning Doggy Style in its initial appearance.
Doggy Style unraveling Rai's hand.
Rai using Doggy Style to turn his entire arm into a crossbow.
Rai using Doggy Style to transport the "bugs"
Ultra Jump 2018 Issue #11 (Cover)
JoJolion Volume Spine Illustrations
Rai using Doggy Style to hide under his cellmate's clothes
- Rai Finger Extension.jpeg
Rai using Doggy Style to extend his finger to attack Wonder of U
Rai using Doggy Style to demonstrate the Spin
Trivia
- In a 2013 interview for NHK Educational TV's SWITCH Interview: Tatsujin-tachi with composer Akira Senju, Hirohiko Araki discussed how music has influenced JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, and revealed Snoop Dogg's album Doggystyle is in his music collection, which he listened to when writing Vento Aureo and its gangster protagonists.[5]
- Doggy Style's ability to unravel its user's body into a string-like substance is similar to the primary ability of Stone Free.
- The intergration of both dog and bean motifs in the stand's design could be a subtle reference to the popular japanese merchandise franchise Mameshiba.
References
- ↑ JJL Chapter 67: The Plant Appraiser, Part 4
- ↑ JJL Chapter 69: Rock Human and Rock Animal, Part 2
- ↑ JoJolion Chapter 85: The Wonder of You, Part 2, p40
- ↑ JJL Chapter 76: Poor Tom and Ozon Baby, Part 5
- ↑ Bilibili - 【SWITCH会谈 达人们】荒木飛呂彦X千住明2013
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