The Hand
The Hand (ザ・ハンド（手）, Za Hando) is the Stand of Okuyasu Nijimura featured in the fourth part of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Diamond is Unbreakable. It is a muscled humanoid Stand whose ability is to erase everything its right palm touches.
Appearance
The Hand appears as a humanoid figure typically in attire similar to football pads, though it has several spikes jutting from them. A towel-like object drapes over its shoulders, with a $ symbol on one end and a ¥ symbol on the other – corresponding with Okuyasu's own fashion theme of currency symbols. On each side of the Stand's face are blinders that cover its headlight-shaped eyes and limit its vision, a result of Okuyasu's own impulsive demeanor.[2] Its right hand has spiderweb-like lines on the inside, along with two bumps on its palm. However, these features on its right hand were not shown until later chapters.
The Hand is generally portrayed as being white and wearing blue armor with golden decorations.
Color Schemes
Abilities
The Hand is a heavily battle-oriented Stand. Similarly to Crazy Diamond, The Hand is a powerful short-ranged Stand who can easily wrestle with the former, although it is not as fast.
Its unique power of space erasure makes it theoretically one of the strongest Stands of Diamond is Unbreakable, but as Josuke points out,[3] Okuyasu's slow wit dampens its potential.
Elimination
Anything The Hand's right palm touches when it does a swiping motion with its arm is erased from this universe, be it physical matters or space itself.[3]
Similar to Cream's, this ability effectively removes whatever is in the Stand's path from existence in accordance with the user's will. Objects that are subjected to the ability appear as if an extremely sharp blade had sliced clean through them.[3] Okuyasu also states that not even he knows where the voided objects go.
Whenever The Hand erases something, the voided space is usually immediately filled and "stitched up" by adjacent space and objects, effectively removing any traces of the removed object's existence.[3] The space elimination and this curious property gives the normally short-ranged Stand substantial ranged capabilities, as it can simply remove the space between itself and a target to bring them closer [3] or have Okuyasu come to them.[4] Okuyasu likes to refer to this technique as "teleportation".
However, that last property is not always portrayed as it was shown that The Hand swiping through the ground could leave craters.[5]
This power has several weaknesses. Because the elimination is concentrated within The Hand's palm and it must make a swiping motion, it is possible to grab the arm and block it as Crazy Diamond did[3] and for a fast Stand like Red Hot Chili Pepper to evade it.[5]
Chapters / Episodes
Manga Appearances- Chapter 274: The Nijimura Brothers, Part 1
- Chapter 275: The Nijimura Brothers, Part 2
- Chapter 276: The Nijimura Brothers, Part 3 (Mentioned only)
- Chapter 277: The Nijimura Brothers, Part 4
- Chapter 285: Koichi Hirose (Echoes), Part 2 (Mentioned only)
- Chapter 295: Yukako Yamagishi Falls in Love, Part 2
- Chapter 303: Let's Go Eat Some Italian Food, Part 1 (Mentioned only)
- Chapter 306: Let's Go Eat Some Italian Food, Part 4
- Chapter 308: Red Hot Chili Pepper, Part 2
- Chapter 309: Red Hot Chili Pepper, Part 3
- Chapter 310: Red Hot Chili Pepper, Part 4
- Chapter 320: Let's Go to the Manga Artist's House, Part 3 (Photo only)
- Chapter 322: Let's Go to the Manga Artist's House, Part 5
- Chapter 336: Shigechi's Harvest, Part 2
- Chapter 339: Shigechi's Harvest, Part 5 (Mentioned only)
- Chapter 340: Shigechi's Harvest, Part 6
- Chapter 341: Shigechi's Harvest, Part 7
- Chapter 364: Sheer Heart Attack, Part 11 (Cover only)
- Chapter 367: Atom Heart Father, Part 3
- Chapter 400: Let's Live on a Transmission Tower, Part 3
- Chapter 412: Cheap Trick, Part 1 (Mentioned only)
- Chapter 423: Another One Bites the Dust, Part 6 (Temporary death)
- Chapter 427: Another One Bites the Dust, Part 10
- Chapter 435: Crazy Diamond is Unbreakable, Part 8
Anime Appearances- Diamond is Unbreakable Episode 3: The Nijimura Brothers, Part 1
- Diamond is Unbreakable Episode 4: The Nijimura Brothers, Part 2
- Diamond is Unbreakable Episode 5: The Nijimura Brothers, Part 3
- Diamond is Unbreakable Episode 8: Yukako Yamagishi Falls in Love, Part 1
- Diamond is Unbreakable Episode 10: Let's Go Eat Some Italian Food
- Diamond is Unbreakable Episode 11: Red Hot Chili Pepper, Part 1
- Diamond is Unbreakable Episode 14: Let's Go to the Manga Artist's House, Part 1 (Photo only)
- Diamond is Unbreakable Episode 15: Let's Go to the Manga Artist's House, Part 2
- Diamond is Unbreakable Episode 18: Shigechi's Harvest, Part 1
- Diamond is Unbreakable Episode 19: Shigechi's Harvest, Part 2
- Diamond is Unbreakable Episode 24: Sheer Heart Attack, Part 2
- Diamond is Unbreakable Episode 25: Atom Heart Father
- Diamond is Unbreakable Episode 31: July 15th (Thursday), Part 1
- Diamond is Unbreakable Episode 36: Another One Bites the Dust, Part 2 (Temporary death)
- Diamond is Unbreakable Episode 37: Crazy Diamond is Unbreakable, Part 1
- Diamond is Unbreakable Episode 38: Crazy Diamond is Unbreakable, Part 2
Gallery
First appearance
The Hand's ability: erasing space
The Hand erases space to "teleport" Josuke into range
The Hand grabbing Josuke
The Hand putting out a fire on a students head
The Hand swipes at an empty space in front of Okuyasu...
...and even allows him to 'teleport'
The Hand attacks Red Hot Chili Pepper
The Hand versus RHCP
Rapidly stomping RHCP
Relentlessly attacking RHCP
The Hand seemingly kills RHCP
The Hand is attacked by RHCP with only its little finger...
...and loses its arm
The Hand attacking Rohan
The Hand unraveled by Heaven's Door
The Hand pulling up Crazy Diamond & Josuke
The Hand attacking
The Hand performing a rush attack
The Hand striking Super Fly
The Hand being used to save Josuke from Killer Queen
The Hand erasing the air bomb
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[Chapter 309]] Cover
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[Chapter 364]] Cover
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[Chapter 423]] Cover
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The Hand, along with its master.
Crazy Diamond stops The Hand's assault.
The Hand erasing part of a sign post
The Hand scraping away the space between it and Josuke
The vacuum created by The Hand scraping away air
The Hand grabbing Josuke
The Hands hand up close
The Hand helps to pull Koichi to safety.
The Hand putting out a fire on a students head
The Hand erases Red Hot Chili Pepper's lower torso.
The Hand's arm sliced off by Red Hot Chili Pepper.
The Hand tries to punch Rohan Kishibe.
The Hand unraveled by Heaven's Door
The Hand pulling up Josuke & Crazy Diamond
The Hand swiping the air, moving Shigechi's check closer to itself.
The Hand alongside Okuyasu
The Hand performing a stand rush alongside Crazy Diamond
The Hand erasing the space between Josuke & Kira
The Hand about to swipe away one of Stray Cat's air bubbles
The Hand swiping away space to steal Stray Cat away from Killer Queen
The Hand's stats.
The Hand erasing the screen in Crazy Noisy Bizarre Town.
The Hand swiping the screen in the third opening, Great Days.
The Hand ready to swipe.
Closeup of the Hand's palm.
The Hand about to swipe.
The Hand attacks Crazy Diamond.
Okuyasu explains his stand's ability to Josuke.
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The Hand as seen in All Star Battle
The Hand Normal, All Star Battle
The Hand as seen in Eyes of Heaven
The Hand Normal, Eyes of Heaven
Stardust Shooters "Gotcha now bastard!"
Stardust Shooters "Come with it"
Stardust Shooters "Custom Campaign"
Stardust Shooters "Platinum Ring"
Stardust Shooters "Login Bonus
Stardust Shooters "Gaon"
Stardust Shooters "I've caught it!"
Stardust Shooters "Okuyasu Nijimura"
Stardust Shooters "Continious attack"
The Hand alongside Okuyasu in Diamond Records
The Hand Super Action Statue
The Hand Super Action Statue 2nd Color
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Banpresto Keychain
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Chara Heroes figure
JOJO A-GO!GO! (Inside Illustration)
Trivia
- Unlike most Stands that have a confirmed namesakes, The Hand's name is not identical to its source. When written in Katakana, The Hand (ザ・ハンド, Za Hando) is almost identical to The Band (ザ・バンド, Za Bando) except the dakuten marks on "バ" have been removed.
References
- ↑ Love Deluxe - Vol.14 "Shueisha Jump Remix Diamond is Unbreakable Edition" P83 The origin of STANDS!, Part 1
- ↑ Artbook: JOJOVELLER
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 Chapter 275: The Nijimura Brothers, Part 2
- ↑ Chapter 308: Red Hot Chili Pepper, Part 2
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Chapter 309: Red Hot Chili Pepper, Part 3
