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“
This baby, it's not only her that can disappear! She can make stuff around her turn invisible too!
”
Achtung Baby (アクトン・ベイビー, Akuton Beibī) is the Stand of Shizuka Joestar, featured in the fourth part of the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure series, Diamond is Unbreakable.
It is a pure ability Stand that grants Shizuka the power to turn herself and her surroundings invisible.
Appearance
Achtung Baby is bound to Shizuka's own body, granting her the ability to turn invisible. Thus it doesn't have any appearance to speak of.
Abilities
While theoretically useful, Achtung Baby is in practice an inconvenience as the user is a vulnerable baby that hasn't yet learned to control her power.
Invisibility
Achtung Baby has the power to render its user Shizuka invisible.[2]
Shown to be linked to Shizuka's stress level, hinting at the ability being a defense mechanism, Achtung Baby enables her to become invisible. In cases of great distress, it will also cause everything within a certain distance of her to become invisible, be it Joseph's hands holding her,[3] her baby carriage or even the ground. At its full power, the invisibility will expand to a several foot-radius.[3]
The invisibility status seems to last even when affected objects leave Achtung Baby's ability range, as shown when the carriage which was carrying Shizuka had left a trail of objects with visually voided portions.[3]
Although everything under Achtung Baby's influence is invisible, they can still be detected if they emit a sound or an odor, as Joseph discovered when Shizuka defecated in his hand.[4]
By default, Shizuka is always shown to be invisible when calm, but the range of her power increases if she's startled. Should her emotional state be recovered, objects that were turned invisible by the ability will return back to normal.[3]
Chapters / Episodes
Manga AppearancesChapters in order of appearance
- Chapter 315: We Picked Up Something Crazy!, Part 1
- Chapter 316: We Picked Up Something Crazy!, Part 2
- Chapter 317: We Picked Up Something Crazy!, Part 3
- Chapter 321: Let's Go to the Manga Artist's House, Part 4 (Cover only)
- Chapter 335: Shigechi's Harvest, Part 1 (Flashback)
- Chapter 347: The People of Morioh
- Chapter 348: Yukako Yamagishi Dreams of Cinderella, Part 1
- Chapter 351: Yukako Yamagishi Dreams of Cinderella, Part 4
- Chapter 359: Sheer Heart Attack, Part 6 (Cover only)
- Chapter 371: Rock-Paper-Scissors Kid is Coming!, Part 1
- Chapter 375: Rock-Paper-Scissors Kid is Coming!, Part 5
- Chapter 376: Rock-Paper-Scissors Kid is Coming!, Part 6
- Chapter 398: Let's Live on a Transmission Tower, Part 1 (Cover only)
- Chapter 412: Cheap Trick, Part 1 (Mentioned only)
- Chapter 439: Goodbye, Morioh - The Golden Heart
Anime AppearancesEpisodes in order of appearance
- Diamond is Unbreakable Episode 13: We Picked Up Something Crazy!
- Diamond is Unbreakable Episode 20: Yukako Yamagishi Dreams of Cinderella
- Diamond is Unbreakable Episode 26: Rock-Paper-Scissors Kid is Coming!
- Diamond is Unbreakable Episode 31: July 15th (Thursday), Part 1
- Diamond is Unbreakable Episode 33: July 15th (Thursday), Part 3
- Diamond is Unbreakable Episode 39: Goodbye, Morioh - The Golden Heart
Gallery
Achtung Baby turns Joseph's hands invisible.
Achtung Baby's effects of invisibility.
Shizuka disappearing in Joseph's arms
Achtung Baby's namesake confirmed in Vol.16 "Shueisha Jump Remix Diamond is Unbreakable Edition
Weekly Shonen Jump 1997
Trivia
- Araki admitted the sole reason for creating the Stand was for Josuke and Joseph to have a bonding adventure.[5]
- The term "Achtung" is German and translates as "Attention/Caution".
References
- ↑ Heaven's Door - Vol.16 "Shueisha Jump Remix Diamond is Unbreakable Edition P90 The origin of STANDS! Part 3
- ↑ Chapter 315: We Picked Up Something Crazy!, Part 1
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Chapter 317: We Picked Up Something Crazy!, Part 3
- ↑ Chapter 316: We Picked Up Something Crazy!, Part 2
- ↑ JOJOVELLER: STANDS - Comments by Hirohiko Araki
