Yuya Fungami
Yuya Fungami (噴上 裕也, Fungami Yūya) is a minor ally featured in the 4th part of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Diamond is Unbreakable. Introduced as an antagonist in "Highway Star", he becomes an ally in "Enigma Boy".
Yuya is a motorcycle gang member who was made into a Stand User by Yoshihiro Kira and prompted into attacking the Joestar Group. Selfishly attacking Rohan and Josuke in a high-speed road chase with his Highway Star, Yuya later assists Josuke in the fight against Terunosuke.
Appearance
Yuya is a young man of average height and slim to fit build. He has a short undercut and his chin is tattooed with a stylized "H☆S", implying the name of his stand - Highway Star.
Like Josuke, Okuyasu, and Mikitaka, Yuya wears a dark, modified school uniform. His uniforms's torso has a pattern on the front and back, two golden pins on each collar and a belt over the torso with two gold buckles on the both sides. He wears a long, bouffant, light bow tie with the words "Highway" and "Speed King".
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Personality
Yuya is a vain and selfish young man with a sense of morality. He’s introduced recovering from a biking accident.
Yuya is very prideful about his skills and looks. He exclaims often about how handsome he looks and claims at one point that his face is chiseled like Michelangelo’s David.[1] This vanity becomes a bartering tool for Josuke. His exceptional ability to pick up scents gives him a greater sense of pride, often boasting about it in-front of his fangirls.[2] This confidence can be a weakness whenever he underestimates the determination of his opponents.
Despite his pride Yuya can be quite cowardly, panicking against adversities and hoping to avoid fighting when possible. When Josuke Higashikata confronts him at the hospital, he begs him to stop claiming it’d be cowardly to hurt an injured man.[2] When he joins Josuke against Terunosuke Miyamoto he arranges a deal that leaves him out of the direct fight.[1] The tell for his fear is touching his chin.
When the situation calls for it however, he shows a sense of loyalty, bravery and good skills of deduction, notably during the battle against Terunosuke. He is protective towards his three admirers, who, in turn, are very close to him. He maintains a sense of morality that doesn’t allow him to let people like Yoshikage Kira run loose, as he claims that it'd hurt his image.[3]
Abilities
Stand
Yuya's mainly automatic Stand is Highway Star, which tracks targets at a speed of 60 km/h in order to efficiently absorb their vitality. This allows Yuya to recover from injuries at a significantly faster pace.
Yuya also has a powerful sense of smell that developed when his Stand ability awoke, allowing him to pick up on very specific scents. Using his sense of smell he demonstrates impressive skills of deduction, he could tell when a peach is rotten or when someone is enraged because of the smell of adrenaline.[4]
History
Background
Yuya Fungami is a member of a biker gang. Two days prior to appearance in the story, Yuya Fungami suffered from a severe motorcycle accident as he was racing across the Twin Pines tunnel. With his spine and all four limbs broken, Yuya was brought to the Budogaoka Hospital. At one point, he was pierced by Yoshihiro Kira with the Bow and Arrow and acquired a Stand ability.
Diamond is Unbreakable (1999)
Highway Star
Wanting to heal faster, Yuya uses his stand Highway Star to absorb the nutrients and energy from unsuspecting people. The stand makes its first appearance by luring the stand user mangaka Rohan Kishibe inside of its room. When Rohan investigates it begins its attack as Rohan scrambles to get away on his motorcycle. Despite his speed the ability catches up and latches onto Rohan, dropping him from the motorcycle and slowly draining him of his life force. Highway Star drags him back to the room but fortunately for Rohan, Josuke Higashikata arrives to the scene to investiage the tunnel alongside him. Through Highway Star, Yuya tempts Rohan into luring his most hated acquaintance into the room in exchange for freedom. Rohan makes a declaration refusing his offer out of principles. He warns Josuke about the stand's ability and demands the user's defeat. Back at the hospital Yuya recovers rapidly from the life force he sucked out of Rohan. After not being able to breathe properly Yuya was able to speak to his fangirls because of his nourishment.
After a harsh chase across Morioh Josuke eventually finds his way to Yuya's hospital roon. Despite this Highway Star still manages to catch up while he struggles to confront Yuya directly. As Josuke is slowly drained, Yuya's satisfied to be the victor and optismitic about his improving condition. With his new source of nourishment he notices that his sense of smell has sharpened considerably and boasts about the ability. Relaxed on the bed he notices the sharp smell of adrenlanine and unfortunately for Yuya it's too late as Josuke springs back to action having sipped on his IV. Josuke gets in range and strikes Yuya faster than Highway Star can act. Yuya pleads for mercy, invoking that it would be terrible to fight a crippled man like him. Josuke agrees and heals Yuya to perfect condition, just to make it a fair fight. Crazy Diamond proceeds to pummel Yuya and sends him flying through the window. Josuke then dissuades him from ever using his Stand to steal lifeforce.
Back to square one as far as his injuries are concerned, Yuya's face has now been ruined too and his fangirls stop caring about him. Josuke later dissuades Yuya from misusing his Stand to heal himself.
Enigma Boy
When Koichi is kidnapped by Terunosuke Miyamoto, Josuke asks him to find Koichi with his heightened sense of smell and offers to heal him. Although Yuya is furious with Josuke and initially tells him off, he cannot pass the opportunity to be healed. Thanks to Crazy Diamond Yuya is now completely healed and ready to help out Josuke but saves a little bit of time to boast about his sense of smell in-front of his returning fangirls.
Yuya tracks Koichi's smell up to a square where they find his school-bag. Surprisingly Yuya picks up on Terunosuke Miyamoto's scent in the area. He reminds Josuke of their deal that keeps Yuya out of the fight and watches. He witnesses Miyamoto ambusing Josuke using his paper-based Stand ability Enigma. Josuke is caught in a trap where Koichi's assumed paper is thrown in the path of a car. His tell of fear is exposed, allowing Enigma tp trap him using his ability. Josuke is sealed into a paper but not before declaring that that he expected a trap and still wanted to save it just for the small possibility that Koichi could be in it.
Yuya is impressed by Josuke's speech and decides to join him in the fray. He sends out Highway Star to chase the car and confront Miyamoto. When Yuya eventually catches up to the taxi he finds it parked on the side of the road with a piece of paper put on the passenger seats. Yuya manages to avoid a first trap as he opens the door and a paper stuck in it releases fire. He picks the paper and realizes that while Josuke and Koichi are in there, other items are folded together in it. Yuya lightly unfolds the paper only to realise that scorpions have come out of it. Highway Star dispatches them but then the paper still unreleasing some sort of chemical that eats away at the rest of the paper. It doesn't end there for Yuya though, and a spark of electricity shoots out towards him.
Yuya unfolds the entire paper and it releases a shredder that's going to kill Josuke and Koichi. Unable to break the machine or pull the papers, Yuya shows his fear tell allowing Miyamoto to finally turn him into paper. Yuya expected this though and uses his transformation to fit his hand into the shredder pulling out both stand users. When Miyamoto threatens to rip Yuya's paper, Koichi's Echoes weights his hands and immobilizes him. Josuke and Koichi defeat Miyamoto and turn him into a book, releasing Yuya from his trap.
Goodbye, Morioh - The Golden Heart
Yuya is last seen saying goodbye to Reimi Sugimoto at the end of the part.
In the anime adaptation Yuya is seen with his fangirls at Tonio Trussardi's restaurant after a lunch, all happy with the curing effects of Tonio's cooking.
Chapters / Episodes
Manga Appearances- Chapter 386: Highway Star, Part 3 (Voice only)
- Chapter 387: Highway Star, Part 4 (Mentioned only)
- Chapter 388: Highway Star, Part 5 (Mentioned only)
- Chapter 389: Highway Star, Part 6 (Mentioned only)
- Chapter 390: Highway Star, Part 7
- Chapter 391: Highway Star, Part 8
- Chapter 398: Let's Live on a Transmission Tower, Part 1 (Cover only)
- Chapter 404: Enigma Boy, Part 1
- Chapter 405: Enigma Boy, Part 2
- Chapter 406: Enigma Boy, Part 3
- Chapter 407: Enigma Boy, Part 4
- Chapter 408: Enigma Boy, Part 5
- Chapter 409: Enigma Boy, Part 6
- Chapter 412: Cheap Trick, Part 1 (Mentioned only)
- Chapter 439: Goodbye, Morioh - The Golden Heart
Anime Appearances- Diamond is Unbreakable Episode 24: Sheer Heart Attack, Part 2 (Glimpse)
- Diamond is Unbreakable Episode 29: Highway Star, Part 2
- Diamond is Unbreakable Episode 32: July 15th (Thursday), Part 2
- Diamond is Unbreakable Episode 33: July 15th (Thursday), Part 3
- Diamond is Unbreakable Episode 39: Goodbye, Morioh - The Golden Heart
Quotes
Quotes- “One more of you's really pissed off. I can practically taste the adrenaline!”—Yuya Fungami to his fangirls, Chapter 391: Highway Star, Part 8
- “You're not going to hurt an injured man, are you? That'd be underhanded! Unmanly!”—Yuya Fungami to Josuke Higashikata, Chapter 391: Highway Star, Part 8
- “I still have my pride, you know! I'm not going to just help you out!”—Yuya Fungami to Josuke Higashikata, Chapter 404: Enigma Boy, Part 1
- “Just so gloriously handsome! Check out this face of mine. It wouldn't be a stretch to say I compare with the chiseled features of Michelangelo's David. That's how beautiful I am.”—Yuya Fungami, Chapter 404: Enigma Boy, Part 1
- “That's how good I am. You know I can't live without these gals. You perserved my beauty, so of course I'll help.”—Yuya Fungami to Josuke Higashikata, Chapter 404: Enigma Boy, Part 1
- “Yeah it's dumb but when I think about those girls and I think about how they see me... then I gotta fight! You think I can let people like you and Yoshikage Kira off so easily?! Letting you off just hurts my image!”—Yuya Fungami to Terunosuke Miyamoto, Chapter 407: Enigma Boy, Part 4
- “It's fucking scorpions! He folded in scorpions! Almost got stung!”—Yuya Fungami, Chapter 408: Enigma Boy, Part 5
Video Games
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Gallery
Yuya lying in his hospital bed.
Yuya smelling a strong source of adrenaline, unaware it's Josuke.
Losing composure.
Yuya punched by Crazy Diamond, which heals his body.
Yuya punched out the window by Crazy Diamond.
Restored to health.
Yuya with his groupies.
Distressed about Enigma.
Yuya's full body.
Yuya and the others bid Reimi farewell.
Weekly Shonen Jump 1995 Issue #8 (Title Page)
Yuya's initial appearance, surrounded by his loving groupies.
Glaring at Josuke.
Yuya relaxing in his hospital bed, asking for one of his groupies to help him urinate.
Yuya attacks Josuke, draining his nutrients with his Stand.
Demonstrating his superhuman sense of smell by detecting a rotten peach.
Yuya smelling a strong source of adrenaline, unaware it's Josuke.
Yuya punched by Crazy Diamond, which heals his body.
Beaten to a pulp by Crazy Diamond.
Yuya laying unconscious and battered in the hospital's water fountain.
Reading a book as Josuke asks for his help.
Checking himself out in a mirror
Admiring his 'handsome' face, after being healed by Josuke.
Yuya strikes a pose, agreeing to help Josuke.
Sniffing out his groupies
Glad that his three groupies have arrived.
Trying to trace Koichi's scent from his schoolbag.
Yuya clarifying his role before warning Josuke
Shocked by the mystic Terunosuke's sudden disappearance.
Yuya Attacked by Enigma.
Yuya trapped in paper by Terunosuke.
Yuya and his fangirls enjoying lunch at Tonio Trussardi's restaurant.
Yuya's early cameo in DU Episode 24.
Yuya Fungami's silhouette in Crazy Noisy Bizarre Town
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Yuya featured alongside Kira's minions in the third opening, Great Days.
Yuya's Key art.
Weekly Shonen Jump 1995 Issue #23-25 (Telephone Card Gift)
Statue Legend figure
Yuya as a Di Molto Bene figurine
Trivia
- The referential phrase "Speed King" on Yuya's bow tie is the name of another song by Deep Purple, the band that created the song "Highway Star" which Yuya's Stand is named after.
- Yuya's English voice actor Philip Reich would later voice Giorno Giovanna.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Chapter 404: Enigma Boy, Part 1
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Chapter 391: Highway Star, Part 8
- ↑ Chapter 407: Enigma Boy, Part 4
- ↑ JOJOVELLER: STANDS, p.106
