Doggy Style
Doggy Style (ドギー・スタイル, Dogī Sutairu) is the Stand of Rai Mamezuku, featured in the eighth part of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, JoJolion. This mechanical Stand allows Mamezuku 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 Mamezuku to "peel" his own body like an apple, unraveling his appendages into "wire rope" that he can control and manipulate.[1]
Mamezuku 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 Mamezuku forms his entire arm into a makeshift crossbow, from which he fires a fork using his mouth.[2] Mamezuku 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 his finger into a tight, seemingly sharp cone shape, which he can then extend to attack in a stabbing motion.[4]
Mamezuku 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.[5]
Spin
In his dying moments, Mamezuku reveals to Josuke Higashikata the technique of the Spin. He demonstrates this with Doggy Style by unraveling his hand and spinning the thread rapidly. The extent of Mamezuku's experience with the spin is still unknown, as it may simply be a demonstration of the principle of "spinning" and not a Spin technique.[6]
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) (Death)
- JoJolion Chapter 104: The Wonder of You, Part 21 (Ability only) (Ghost)
- JoJolion Chapter 110: Higashikata Fruit Parlor (Cover only)
Gallery
Explanation of ability from the tailpiece of JJL Chapter 65
Mamezuku summoning Doggy Style in its initial appearance.
Doggy Style unraveling Mamezuku's hand.
Mamezuku using Doggy Style to turn his entire arm into a crossbow.
Mamezuku using Doggy Style to transport the "bugs"
Mamezuku using Doggy Style to hide under his cellmate's clothes
Mamezuku using Doggy Style to extend his finger to attack Wonder of U
Mamezuku using Doggy Style to demonstrate the Spin
JJL Chapter 66 Cover
JJL Chapter 83 Cover
JJL Chapter 98 Cover
JJL Chapter 110 Cover
Ultra Jump 2021 Issue #9 (Chapter Cover)
Ultra Jump 2018 Issue #11
UJ 2018 Issue #11 (Cover)
UJ 2020 Issue #9
JJL Volume 19 Cover
JJL Volume 19 Illustration
JJL Volume 27 Cover
JoJolion Volume Spine Illustrations
JJL Volume 19 (Inside Illustration)
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.[7]
- 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
- ↑ JoJolion Chapter 67: The Plant Appraiser - Rai Mamezuku (31), Part 3
- ↑ JoJolion Chapter 69: Urban Guerrilla and Doremifasolati Do, Part 2
- ↑ JoJolion Chapter 85: The Wonder of You, Part 2, p. 40
- ↑ JoJolion Chapter 100: The Wonder of You, Part 17
- ↑ JoJolion Chapter 76: Ozon Baby's Pressure, Part 4
- ↑ JoJolion Chapter 100: The Wonder of You, Part 17
- ↑ Bilibili - 【SWITCH会谈 达人们】荒木飛呂彦X千住明2013
