Karera Sakunami

“

Vivre ta vie pour que ton présent soit une expérience chérie, plaisante et merveilleuse... c'est çà le bonheur.

”

—Karera Sakunami, JoJolion Chapter 44: Love Love Deluxe, Part 2

Karera Sakunami (作並 カレラ, Sakunami Karera) est une alliée tertiaire figurant dans la huitième partie de JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, JoJolion, qui apparait pour la première fois dans l'arc narratif "Love Love Deluxe".

Karera Sakunami est une étudiante en agriculture qui connaissait Josefumi Kujo, l'identité passée de Josuke Higashikata. Elle fut mêlée à l'assaut des Hommes-rocher contre Josefumi et Yoshikage Kira et est en fuite depuis.

Karera est une manieuse de Stand et son Love Love Deluxe la permet de faire pousser et de manipuler les cheveux.

Apparence

Karera Sakunami est une jeune femme japonaise de taille moyenne et avec une carrure svelte. Elle a de long cheveux sombres bouclés avec certaines mèches sur le front qui forment de grandes boucles. Karera porte sur sa tête un bandana avec un motif de poisson tropicaux imprimé dessus, soit un scalaire et un poisson-clown.

Karera porte sur elle un haut court en cuir avec une fermeture éclair sur le devant et un short très court en denim qui laissent la majorité de ses jambes à découvert. Elle porte en plus une longue veste dont les côtés sont couverts de trous ovales entouré de petits trous circulaire. Une paire de lanières en deux bandes trouées connecte son haut à son short.

Pendant sa première apparition, Karera porte des sandales avec des talons épais et haut avec des lanière qui lui enserrent tout le bas des jambes. Dans des apparitions ultérieures, elle porte des sandales plateformes décorés avec des pins en forme de coquillage et d'étoiles de mer, complété avec des chaussettes longues à bande qui lui couvre jusqu'aux genous.

Palettes

Les palettes changent souvent entre les médias. L'information ci-dessous ne devrait pas être considérée comme canonique.

Manga Couleur

Peau(Peau claire, rouge à lèvres oranges)

Cheveux(Cheveux noirs, reflets verts)

Yeux(Gris)

Bandana

(Bandana jaune avec motif de poissons gris et violets)

Tenue

(Veste vert olive, haut court noir avec fermeture dorée, jeans bleus, lanières pervenche)

Personnalité

Karera is a temperamental, cunning, and crude woman who tends to pick fights with anyone in case she can benefit from them, irritating whoever she speaks to. She generally acts carefree and unpredictably. Although she is usually energetic and playful, she is prone to suddenly changing the subject and her mood. She is quite clingy and flirty with Josuke, whom she mistakes for being her crush, Josefumi. As soon as Josuke meets her, he can tell that she is the type of woman he would never love.

Karera acting like a slob

Karera has a surprisingly high number of bad habits. Firstly, Karera is a serial con artist, who exploits her Stand ability to commit several petty crimes and scams for her own benefit. She scams a yakitori vendor and later a taxi driver into giving her money by faking evidence that they provided her with bad customer service. She also manages to steal money from a credit card. She has experience with offering to grow hair for bald people in exchange for money, but as soon as her Stand goes out of range, the hair she grows for them just falls out. Karera starts most of her scamming cases by causing a big scene, aggressively yelling and swearing at her victims, and even assaulting them in the case of the yakitori vendor. Secondly, Karera is rather slovenly due to her current living style. For instance, she has no qualms about leaving a mess behind her after eating or cleaning the space between her toes in a restaurant by using water from a cup on the table. As she is homeless, she sleeps wherever she can such as a train station, and carries nothing with her except for a shopping bag. She begs Josuke for money as soon as she sees him just so she can spend it on pachinko, and after losing that money, she begs him for more. Karera is frequently seen snacking on various unhealthy foods. She nearly dumps an entire container of a cafe's cane sugar packets into her bag. She pours a lot of the sugar along with soy sauce onto tallow which she placed on top of bread, notably avoiding to eat the bread crusts. After buying a laptop, she charges it by using an outdoor outlet of a random stranger's house. She also has a characteristic staggering gait, always wobbling when she walks.

Karera prefers to think about the present

Karera hates to dwell on the past, going so far as to completely avoid associating herself with it, except for her unrequited love for Josefumi Kujo. She does not know or care about what her family is doing. For Karera, happiness depends on the treasured experiences she makes in the present. She claims that she dreams about becoming a fashion designer but has no talent for drawing, so she buys a laptop instead, planning to create her designs with CG software.

The subject of the Locacaca and the threat of the Rock Humans makes her nervous as she understands the stakes and danger they pose. Although she is a Stand User, Karera prefers to flee from her enemies, only coming to assist Josuke after leaving for long enough to be forgotten about so she can make a successful sneak attack. After she defeats the A. Phex Brothers, she states her resolve to not run anymore and declares that she wants the Locacaca for herself because it's worth a lot of money. She is also more knowledgeable than she acts, being aware of the equivalent exchange process and deciphering that Josefumi and Kira must have underwent equivalent exchange to become Josuke.

Pouvoirs

Stand

Main article: Love Love Deluxe

Le Stand de Karera, Love Love Deluxe, lui permet de faire pousser des cheveux là où une cible donnée touche quelque chose de ses doigts. Les cheveux peuvent pousser n'importe où, sur la tête, sur des bouts de viande ou même sur un écran LCD.

Love Love Deluxe (ラブラブデラックス)

Introduction

JJL Chapter 43

Type

Courte Portée, Artificiel Humanoïde

Pouvoir(s)

Manipulation Capillaire

Histoire

Passé

Main article: Vitamin C and Killer Queen (story arc)

Karera attaquée par I Am a Rock

On ne sait rien ou presque de la jeunesse de Karera. Karera dit qu'elle ne garde pas de contact avec sa famille et n'est pas intéressé par ceci, ce qui sous-entend qu'elle est en froid avec sa famille.

Karera devient une étudiante en agriculture à l'université TG et fréquente la même faculté que Josefumi Kujo. Elle a le béguin pour Josefumi et commence à le suivre partout plus ou moins discrètement. A un moment, elle prend une photo avec Josefumi et Yoshikage Kira, mais il semble que Karera ne les a jamais formellement rencontré.

Karera prétend à Josuke que Josefumi vivait dans l'appartement de Kira et que Kira disposait de plusieurs plant de Locacaca dans sa cuisine. Elle va aussi prétendre que Josefumi et elle avaient une relation mais elle revient sur cette déclaration en restant ambigue.

Le 19 août 2011, Karera se poste au port de Morioh pour probablement attendre le retour de Josefumi d'un petit tour dans le bateau de Kira. Le bateau accoste près d'un quai. C'est alors que Tamaki Damo et Yotsuyu Yagiyama attaquent et capturent Josefumi et Kira. Kira va cacher secrètement des Sheer Heart Attack dans la chevelure de Karera et l'attire près du quai en l'appelant avec le portable de Josefumi. Karera s'approche en croyant que Josefumi s'intéresse enfin à elle mais Yotsuyu l'immobilise à terre avec son I Am a Rock. Kira déclenche l'explosion des Sheer Heart Attack créant une déflagration conséquente. Dans la confusion, Josefumi et Kira s'échappe, et Karera parvient à se cacher dans l'eau. Damo envoie des subordonnés à ses trousses. Les frères A. Phex la pourchassent apparemment pendant six mois.

Rencontre avec Josuke

Main article: Love Love Deluxe (story arc)

Karera contacts Josuke, mistaking him for Josefumi

Karera is introduced in the story as a mysterious woman who lures Josuke into a back alley, having mistaken him for Josefumi. She is revealed to have some familiarity with Yoshikage Kira and Josuke's other half. She's eventually convinced that Josuke was the one she mistook him for after he uses his Stand to obtain her name through the card in her back pocket wallet. After the exchange, she borrows money from him and swindles a free meal from a yakitori shop by producing a hair from a tsukune using her Stand ability.

Later, she and Josuke go to a cafe in downtown Morioh where she shoves nearly an entire container of cane sugar into a plastic bag, before eating bread with tallow, sugar, and soy sauce. She offers it to Josuke claiming it tastes like sukiyaki. After she cleans the spaces in between her toes with a napkin dipped in water, she walks into the bathroom with an old man using her Stand power to grow hair on his head. However, she is interrupted by Josuke, who mistakenly thought she was prostituting herself. The man runs away from them, and Karera explains to Josuke that she gets paid growing hair for bald men while they are in her Stand's radius. Josuke interrogates her asking what her goal is, and she replies that she still loves him. She also states that she doesn't care for her family and prefers to live in the present. Immediately after that, she yells at two men for staring at her before leaving the cafe.

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Karera shows a photo of Josefumi

Outside the cafe, Karera shows Josuke a photo of herself standing with Yoshikage Kira and another young man who she calls Josefumi Kujo, allowing Josuke to learn the real name of one of his former halves. She then uses her Stand to steal an ATM card belonging to one of the men she yelled at. She later uses her Stand to get the number of the ATM and steal money to 'treat' Josuke, when in reality she goes shopping to buy various items including a laptop for her dream to become a fashion designer. After fully charging the laptop by stealing the electricity from the outdoor outlet of a house belonging to someone named "Yamada", Karera and Josuke then enter a cab. They plan on going to Kira's apartment and Josefumi's house, and Karera uses her Stand in the process to scam the cab driver into a free ride.

Afterward, they walk down the road to Kira's place. Josuke tells her that Kira is dead, causing her to break down under the assumption that he was murdered. She reveals to him that Kira owned a Locacaca Tree in addition of disposing of several more. Josuke then suddenly spots one of the A. Phex Brothers and asks if she knows him, which she denies. Shortly after, she is lit aflame by the older brother's ability and extinguished by Soft & Wet before later fleeing.

However, Karera returns soon after. She sneakily uses her Stand to light the older of the twins on fire and the two are killed quickly afterward. Following their defeat, she tells Josuke that she likes him, and she will be sticking around Morioh for a while longer. She reveals that she can tell he made an "equivalent exchange" with Kira, and then, after mentioning that they will see each other again at some unknown time in the future, she leaves him without another word about the situation.

At some point during Tamaki Damo's attack on the Higashikata family, Karera reveals to Josuke the identity of Josefumi's mother.

Combats Majeurs

• Karera Sakunami & Josuke Higashikata vs Frères A. Phex

Chapitres

Apparition dans le Manga

Chapitres (ordre chronologique)

• JoJolion Chapter 43: Love Love Deluxe, Part 1
• JoJolion Chapter 44: Love Love Deluxe, Part 2
• JoJolion Chapter 45: Love Love Deluxe, Part 3
• JoJolion Chapter 46: Love Love Deluxe, Part 4
• JoJolion Chapter 47: Hato Brought Her Boyfriend Home, Part 1 (Mentionné)
• JoJolion Chapter 48: Hato Brought Her Boyfriend Home, Part 2 (Mentionné)
• JoJolion Chapter 51: Vitamin C and Killer Queen, Part 2 (Flashback(s))
• JoJolion Chapter 52: Vitamin C and Killer Queen, Part 3 (Flashback(s))
• JoJolion Chapter 53: Vitamin C and Killer Queen, Part 4 (Couverture)
• JoJolion Chapter 55: Walking Heart, Breaking Heart (Flashback(s))
• JoJolion Chapter 110: Higashikata Fruit Parlor (Mentionné)

Citations

Citations

• “

  You call that woman Yasuho-chan? But you called me Karera, right? That's special then. You're the only one that calls me Karera without any honorific.

  ”

  —Karera Sakunami, JoJolion Chapter 43: Love Love Deluxe, Part 1
• “

  Family? I don't have a clue about what my family's doing. And I couldn't care less. They're off living their lives. What really matters is the here and now... right? Who cares about the past? What I care about is the present! Living your life so your now is a treasured, fun, wonderful experience... that's happiness.

  ”

  —Karera Sakunami, JoJolion Chapter 44: Love Love Deluxe, Part 2
• “

  It was Kira's knowledge that hid me from the world, right? I promise I won't tell anyone, Josefumi Kujo-kun.

  ”

  —Karera Sakunami, JoJolion Chapter 44: Love Love Deluxe, Part 2
• “

  I decided... not to run after all. I think I'll stay in this town a little longer. I really like you, Secchan! Also... I can't let you have the Locacaca all for youself. That thing's worth money...big money. You hid it well somewhere nearby, right? I wanna do well, too. And you look the way you do... because you did an equivalent exchange with Kira, right?! I can break away... from this piece of shit world, too...

  ”

  —Karera Sakunami, JoJolion Chapter 46: Love Love Deluxe, Part 4
• “

  We'll meet again, okay? But when that'll be is...a...se...cret! Shhhh...!

  ”

  —Karera Sakunami, JoJolion Chapter 46: Love Love Deluxe, Part 4

Galerie d'Images

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  Karera's first appearance

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  Karera always wobbles when walking

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  Close-up of the fish pattern on her bandana

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  Trying to kiss Josuke, thinking he is Josefumi

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  Harrassing a yakitori vendor to get a free meal

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  Karera's unhealthy eating habits

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  Karera helping a bald man grow hair on his head

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  Connection to Josuke's past

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  Photo of her with Kira and Josefumi

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  Stealing a credit card

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  Karera's new shoes

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  Attacked by the A. Phex Brothers

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  Saved by Soft & Wet's bubbles

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  Karera and Love Love Deluxe

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  Karera plans to return some day

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  Josuke mentioning Karera telling him about Josefumi's mother

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  JJL Chapter 43 Tailpiece

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  JJL Chapter 44 Cover

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  Ultra Jump 2016 Issue #5 (Title Page)

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  JJL Volume 12 Cover

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  JJL Volume 12 Illustration

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  JoJolion Volume Spine Illustrations

Détails

• She shares a similar appearance and Stand ability to insert hair into whatever she touches with Yukako Yamagishi. Also like Yukako, she seems to have an unrequited crush, in this case on Josefumi Kujo.