Kei Nijimura
Kei Nijimura (虹村 京, Nijimura Kei) est une alliée secondaire figurant dans la huitième partie de JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, JoJolion. Introduite comme une antagoniste dans l'arc narratif "Paisley Park et Born This Way", elle devient ultimement une alliée dans l'arc "The Wonder of You (Ton Amour Miraculeux)".
Kei Nijimura est la femme de ménage de la Famille Higashikata. On découvre alors qu'elle est la fille de Holy Joestar-Kira et donc la petite soeur de Yoshikage Kira. Kei est une manieuse de Stand et son Born This Way poursuit automatiquement une cible, l'attaquant en générant un vent glacial.
Apparence
Kei est une jeune femme japonaise de taille inférieure à la moyenne et à la stature maigre. Elle a de longs cheveux noirs qu'elle attache normalement en un chignon à l'arrière. Une fois, on peut voir Kei avec les cheveux détachés longs, qui lui descendent en dessous des épaules et remontent partiellement en bataille.
Kei porte une uniforme de bonne avec une blouse à coupe courte noire qui lui laisse les bras découverts, avec un tablier blanc. Lorsqu'elle confronte Josuke Higashikata, le tablier est décoré avec deux pins métalliques de la forme d'un G et U stylisés avec un éclair derrière. Elle porte des collants avec un motif d'étoile, et des ballerines décorées avec des noeuds papillon. Sur sa tête, Kei porte une casquette de fourrure sombre qu'elle garde attachée avec une lanière, la casquette étant décorée d'une petite plaque métallique lisant "GU" sur le front. Elle porte aussi des gants sans doigts.
Lorsque Josuke la confronte, on découvre qu'elle porte sur son épaule gauche la Tache de naissance Joestar, marquant son appartenance à la lignée.
Palettes
Personnalité
Kei typically performs all the duties expected of a maid and shows no emotion whatsoever. It is eventually revealed her emotionless demeanor is a façade when Josuke asks her if she attacked him on the Higashikatas' orders. Kei reacts harshly to this, showing that she hates the Higashikatas, calling them "the goddamn Higashikatas". She also threatens to kill Josuke if he approaches Holy because she is revealed to be Holy's daughter, shedding tears and becoming more emotional.[1]
After Josuke finally gives into her demands, she breaks down and reveals that they knew each other in the past, and she is surprised that he has really lost all of his memories. She also points out the seams in his halved eyeballs and tongue.[2]
Kei's great love for her mother is shown again when she cares for the comatose Holy at TG University Hospital, cleaning her up and referring to her as "mama" as she does so.[3]
Pouvoirs
Stand
Born This Way, le Stand de Kei, est un Stand automatique prenant la forme d'un motard robotique. Born This Way peut cibler une personne et la poursuivre automatiquement et sans relâche, apparaissant automatiquement lorsque la cible "ouvre" n'importe quoi (un téléphone, une porte...). Born This Way conjure alors un vent violent et glacial.
History
Background
Kei is born from the union between Holy Joestar-Kira and Yoshiteru Kira, and she is Yoshikage Kira's little sister.
Although aware of her mother's illness, Kei took no part in helping Yoshikage steal and keep the Locacaca from the Locacaca Smuggling Organization. Instead, wary of the Higashikatas, she infiltrated the Higashikata Family, posing as an unrelated maid and taking the name "Nijimura" to investigate their secret.
After the earthquake of March 11, Kei discovers the supernatural properties of the soil near the Wall Eyes, which can exchange parts between two buried objects.
Meeting Josuke
Upon entering the Higashikata household, Josuke Higashikata is coerced into taking a family photo. Kei appears and attempts to remove his hat, causing Josuke to feel threatened, and ask who she is. Norisuke Higashikata IV answers for her and introduces her as the Higashikata family's housekeeper. When Norisuke shows Josuke around the house, he tells him to ask Nijimura for anything he needs. Later, as she helps Yasuho Hirose exit the premises, she relays a message from Norisuke, stating that Yasuho is not allowed near the Higashikatas' house again.[4]
Seeing that Josuke has investigated her family tree and taking him for an enemy, Kei unleashes her Stand, Born This Way, on Josuke just as he decides to go see Holy. Nonetheless, Josuke escapes Born This Way and surprises Kei standing near the hospital. Kei tries to summon Born This Way one last time by tossing an opened pen to Josuke but Soft & Wet knocks her out before it can attack. Josuke manages to defeat her, but Kei stays aggressive and warns Josuke not to approach her mother. Josuke decides to be diplomatic and concedes, leading Kei to trust him. Examining his face, Kei notices that Josuke's eyes and tongue are in fact a blend of two organs.[2]
Kei subsequently leads Josuke to the Wall Eyes and shows him that he is a fusion of her brother Yoshikage Kira and another person. She demonstrates using a lemon and a tangerine, burying them underneath the soil. She then unearths the fruits and then slices each of them in half, showing some of their sections swapped.
Every Day Is a Summer Vacation
After Jobin returns from his trip, he gives souvenirs he's bought from the trip to his family, including Kei and Josuke. He gives Kei an Oscar statue from a trip to Southeast Asia, which Hato grows jealous of.
Hato's Boyfriend
When Hato brings her boyfriend Tamaki Damo home, Kei is the first to be liquefied by Damo's Vitamin C as she tries to wipe off strange hand prints on the windows and furniture of the house. She spends the rest of the fight in a liquefied state.
Ozon Baby
During Poor Tom's attack on the Higashikata family, Kei falls under the effects of Ozon Baby's pressure based attack, passing out while bleeding.
The Wonder of You (The Miracle of Your Love)
During Tooru's pursuit in the Higashikata household, Yasuho immediately eats a Locacaca fruit after realizing that Tooru himself is the user of Wonder of U, who is then causing the calamity. She proceeds to use Joshu's phone to contact Kei Nijimura. At the TG University Hospital, Kei takes care of her mother in bed until she receives Yasuho's call. Yasuho tells her to hand the phone to Josuke as soon as possible. Kei notices that Holy has written notes about Josuke and his whereabouts and thus Kei is now able to go find Josuke in the secret Locacaca lab.
In the Locacaca laboratory, the Stand Wonder of U manages to take down Josuke and nearly incapacitates him. As it approaches Josuke, Born This Way breaks into the room and freezes Soft and Wet's bubbles, which then strikes Wonder of U multiple times. Kei then enters the laboratory. However, the attack has broken Wonder of U's cane, which lodges itself into Kei's eye. Before she collapses and dies, Kei barely has time to inform Josuke that she's come to give him her cell phone so that he can talk to Yasuho. Later, Josuke somehow feels her hand touching him even though she's still on the floor.
After Wonder of U flees, Josuke walks over to Holy's room and takes a moment to think about Kei, Holy, and Rai Mamezuku.
Combats
- Kei Nijimura vs Josuke Higashikata
- Kei Nijimura, Josuke Higashikata, Rai Mamezuku & Yasuho Hirose vs Tooru (décès)
Chapitres
- JoJolion Chapter 6: Soft & Wet, Part 5
- JoJolion Chapter 7: Josuke, Go to the Higashikata Family
- JoJolion Chapter 8: California King Bed, Part 1 (Flashback(s))
- JoJolion Chapter 10: California King Bed, Part 3 (Flashback(s))
- JoJolion Chapter 11: Family Tree
- JoJolion Chapter 12: "Paisley Park" and "Born This Way", Part 1
- JoJolion Chapter 13: "Paisley Park" and "Born This Way", Part 2 (Mentionné)
- JoJolion Chapter 16: "Paisley Park" and "Born This Way", Part 5
- JoJolion Chapter 17: The Lemon and the Tangerine
- JoJolion Chapter 18: "Shakedown Road", Part 1
- JoJolion Chapter 26: Tsurugi Higashikata's Goal, and the Architect (Mentionné)
- JoJolion Chapter 27: Norisuke Higashikata, Tsurugi Higashikata, and Yotsuyu Yagiyama, Part 1
- JoJolion Chapter 33: Josuke! Go to the Higashikata Fruit Parlor (Mentionné)
- JoJolion Chapter 34: It's a Summer Vacation Everyday, Part 1
- JoJolion Chapter 43: Love Love Deluxe, Part 1 (Mentionné)
- JoJolion Chapter 44: Love Love Deluxe, Part 2
- JoJolion Chapter 47: Hato Brought Her Boyfriend Home, Part 1
- JoJolion Chapter 48: Hato Brought Her Boyfriend Home, Part 2
- JoJolion Chapter 49: Hato Brought Her Boyfriend Home, Part 3
- JoJolion Chapter 50: Vitamin C and Killer Queen, Part 1 (Flashback(s))
- JoJolion Chapter 53: Vitamin C and Killer Queen, Part 4 (Couverture)
- JoJolion Chapter 55: Walking Heart, Breaking Heart
- JoJolion Chapter 56: Milagroman, Part 1 (Couverture)
- JoJolion Chapter 58: Dawn of the Higashikata Family
- JoJolion Chapter 59: Dolomite's Blue Lagoon, Part 1
- JoJolion Chapter 61: Dolomite's Blue Lagoon, Part 3 (Mentionné)
- JoJolion Chapter 72: North of the Higashikata House. The Orchard
- JoJolion Chapter 75: Ozon Baby's Pressure, Part 3
- JoJolion Chapter 102: The Wonder of You, Part 19
- JoJolion Chapter 103: The Wonder of You, Part 20
- JoJolion Chapter 104: The Wonder of You, Part 21 (Décès) (Fantôme)
- JoJolion Chapter 107: When All Curses Are Broken (Flashback(s))
- JoJolion Chapter 110: Higashikata Fruit Parlor (Flashback(s))
Citations
- “The Higashikata Family... that family has secrets. In order to find those secrets and in order to protect my mother, I infiltrated that house as Nijimura the maid. The only living member of the Kira family left are my mother and I.”—Kei Nijimura, JoJolion Chapter 17: The Lemon and the Tangerine
- “You are you... I know that... It's the same for everyone in this world... you are your own self.”—Kei Nijimura, JoJolion Chapter 17: The Lemon and the Tangerine
- “I can say this decisively... I'm sure of it. Your true identity is my older brother, Yoshikage Kira... there's no doubt about it. But that's only part of you. There's another person. You are a fusion of Yoshikage's body and your own. Your minds are fused as well. Your spirit taken form, your Stand, it's different from the shape of Yoshikage's Stand. Your Stand is also a combination of two.”—Kei Nijimura, JoJolion Chapter 17: The Lemon and the Tangerine
- “Y-Yasuho, I understand... I know where Josuke is right now!”—Kei Nijimura, JoJolion Chapter 102: The Wonder of You, Part 19
- “Josuke... I came here... to give you... to give you... this. It's from... Yasuho...”—Kei Nijimura, JoJolion Chapter 104: The Wonder of You, Part 21
Galerie d'Images
Détails
- Le nom de Kei est une référence au personnage de Keicho Nijimura de la partie 4. En plus de leurs noms de familles similaires, leurs prénom suivent aussi le thème des puissances de 10 : le (億, oku) d'Okuyasu veut dire 100 million (108), le (兆, chō) de Keicho veut dire 1 billion (1012), et le (京, kei) de Kei veut dire dix mille quadrillions (1016).
- Le nom de "Nijimura" est en fait un faux nom que Kei a pris, et son vrai nom serait Kira, comme son frère Yoshikage.
- Les initiales "GU" sur sa tenue font probablement référence à son Stand, qui était nommé "Going Underground" avant que son nom ne soit changé en Born This Way.
- Le personnage était autrefois connue comme "Kyo" (きょう, Kyō) depuis le tome 4. Cependant, son nom a été changé en "Kei" (けい, Kei) depuis le tome 24. En effet, Araki a signalé que le personnage devait s'appeler Kei, qu'il y a eu une erreur dans la lecture du nom, et qu'il a pas vérifié les furigana associé à Kei en près d'une décennie.[5]
- Dans une scène de flash-forward, on voit que Kei n'est pas affichée sur la photo de famille commémorative de la Famille Higashikata pour l'accueil de Josuke Higashikata en leur sein, malgré le fait qu'elle a participé à la séance photo.[6][7]
Références
- ↑ JoJolion Chapter 16: "Paisley Park" and "Born This Way", Part 5, p.21, 23
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 JoJolion Chapter 16: "Paisley Park" and "Born This Way", Part 5, p.28-29
- ↑ JoJolion Chapter 102: The Wonder of You, Part 19, p.35
- ↑ JoJolion Chapter 7: Josuke, Go to the Higashikata Family
- ↑ Ultra Jump December 2020 Comment
- ↑ JoJolion Chapter 83: The New Locacaca, p. 30
- ↑ JoJolion Chapter 34: It's a Summer Vacation Everyday, Part 1, p.1