Diamond is Unbreakable - Episode 17
Koichi meets Rohan again. The two of them discover an unmapped alley in the middle of Morioh and decide to explore it. It quickly becomes apparent that the alley is not a normal alley.
Summary
Sneaking up on an unsuspecting Koichi, Rohan, who has recovered from his injuries from Josuke, enlists him to find out about the strange alleyway that isn't on the map of Morioh. His reasoning is due to admiring his character when he read his memories.
As they entered, they find that as they keep going around corners, they keep finding themselves on the same street with a mailbox. They are then approached by a girl named Reimi Sugimoto, whom Rohan immediately suspects to be a Stand User, and proceeds to use Heaven's Door against her. To his surprise, she turns out to be a regular girl as he keeps reading more about her character, while Koichi scolds Rohan for reading far too much of her personal information. After writing down a command for her to forget the ordeal, Reimi then interacts with the two, much to Rohan's displeasure.
When she narrates a Ghost Story, a dog with a slit throat then comes by her side, much to Rohan and Koichi's surprise. She soon reveals that both she and her dog Arnold are the people of the story, and are actually spirits. This also reveals that the Ghost Alley is a limbo between the World of the Living and Heaven. This shocks Rohan, as he remembers that he can only read information of the person of when they were alive. Reimi informs the others that the man who murdered her has been secretly killing others and asks them to stop him. After they agree, Reimi points them towards the exit, warning them not to turn around too soon as they will be pulled into the afterlife by dark spirits.
Just as they near the exit, a panicked Koichi sprints toward the exit, but Reimi assures that he has reached the exit already. Unfortunately, that wasn't Reimi at all, as it turns out that the dark spirits have tricked him, much to Reimi's shock and surprise, as they haven't tried to trick her before. Fortunately, Rohan manages to use Heaven's Door to get both him and Koichi to safety. Afterwards, Rohan meets an old man at Reimi's grave, learning that he was once friends with Reimi, who had saved him from being murdered as well.
Meanwhile, as Koichi informs Josuke and Okuyasu about the murder, Josuke soon says that they can't help her if the man was a regular person since Jotaro and Joseph won't help this way. As Koichi walks away discouraged, Josuke quickly grabs him off the road before he was run over. The man who nearly did merely stares at them when Koichi apologizes, where he then proceeds to close his window. The man, Yoshikage Kira, is talking to a woman about his heritage from his ancestors, where all he is left with now is his Grandfather's old home. The scene soon reveals that he's been talking to a severed hand the entire time.
Appearances
Credits
Hiroaki Imaki
Hiroaki Tsuchiya
Miho Matsuura
Ren Fujimaki
Tomoaki Mimiura
Yukiko Watabe
Yusuke Adachi
Mahora Muraki
Hiroyuki Itai
Tomoya Kosakai
Ayako Kanemaru
Haruka Iida
Koichi Takai
Sotaro Shiraishi
Yuichiro Masuda
Junya Sato
Hazuki Nakawatari
今木 宏明
土屋 浩章
松浦 美穂
藤巻 廉
耳浦 朋彰
渡部 由紀子
安達 祐輔
村木 麻保良
板井 寛幸
小酒井 智也
金丸 綾子
飯田 遥
高井 浩一
白石 創太郎
増田 雄一郎
佐藤 準也
中渡 葉月
Silver Link
GAINAX
Masami Yamashita
Ayano Ogasawara
Hitomi Tsukui
Shoichi Ishimaru
SILVER LINK
GAINAX
やました まさみ
小笠原 綾乃
津久井 瞳
石丸 正一
David Production
Rie Takahashi
Yuta Shinohara
Daiki Ito
髙橋 梨恵
篠原 佑太
伊東大輝
Mitsuko Toyoshima
豊島 光子
(ぴえろ作画室)
Yuka Katsuya
Akiko Ikeda
Airi Taguchi
Aya Takafuji
Manami Sugimoto
Shiori Ariga
勝谷 優夏
池田 晃子
田口 愛梨
高藤 彩
杉本 麻菜美
有賀 詩織
Kyonosuke Yamaguchi
山口 京之介
Music
Manga/Anime Differences
- Several lines present in the manga have been cut.
- Heaven's Door is fully visualized and actually touches Reimi before being affected by the Stand's power.
- Reimi's murder has more visuals.
- The old lady doesn't ask Rohan and Koichi for directions.
- The picture of Reimi is depicted.
- Reimi is now said to be from Budogaoka high-school.
- Rohan does not have to convince the old man to tell him about the night of the murder.
- The scene where Rohan confirms his connection to Reimi occurs before the Kira revelation, which is aired during the closing credits instead of "I Want You".
Commentary
That said, condensing all this exposition into one episode wasn’t easy. In theory, I would have liked more time to develop a more suspenseful atmosphere, but it was clear that it wouldn't fit. It's already the first episode where the opening and ending are cut: the time was extended as far as it could go.
Reimi is an adorable character, I found her depiction very successful. Her voice actor, Sayuri Hara, is still quite young, but is totally in phase with the character, and knows how to take into account the atmosphere surrounding a ghost. Some new blood is always welcome within JoJo’s monstrous cast, which is sometimes hard to direct. In a way, she represents Part 4’s cast the best.
The alley is the frontier between our world and the afterworld. To portray this otherworldly feeling, we used a color palette totally different from the usual.
I want to talk about the clothes again: Take note that starting from this episode, Rohan’s clothes will change every time he appears. It’s always difficult to have so many pattern variations and designs for one character. Honestly, Rohan is making our lives hard (laughs).Trivia
- The sub-title pays homage to the main title of the series - JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, albeit with a different character.
