In Book One of JOJOVELLER is written an exhaustive guide of all the Stands featured at the time of the artbook's publication. Each page is dedicated to one particular Stand, containing a short commentary from Hirohiko Araki about the inspiration(s) he's had for the Stand or for its user.
Each page also includes a picture of the Stand, basic information about it such as its user and its statistics, and a description of its powers as well as its feats.
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It's the main character's Stand, so I made it a simple, combat-oriented type. It's designed to look like a guardian spirit. The shoulder pads look like Fist of the North Star? The spiral patterns symbolize the Ripple and the concept of infinity.
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—Hirohiko Araki, JOJOVELLER Stand Guide page
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I gave it a bird-like head, modeled after a phoenix, so the heroes' silhouettes wouldn't look too similar to one another when they're side by side. It's a pretty simple ability, right? The design might be influenced by
Enki Bilal's characters.
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—Hirohiko Araki, JOJOVELLER Stand Guide page
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It's the Stand of the previous part's main character, so I wanted a departure from the humanoid appearance. Ultimately, it got more scenes to show off, but I was trying to make a Stand that wasn't very combat-oriented.
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—Hirohiko Araki, JOJOVELLER Stand Guide page
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I wanted some color balance between the allies and enemies, so he ended up green. And, Jotaro mentions this too, but green kinda reminds you of melons (laughs). At that time, I was really into green, and a lot of my illustrations were also heavy on the greens!
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—Hirohiko Araki JOJOVELLER Stand Guide page
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I started with some of the less popular tarots for the enemies. The idea came from how annoying it would be if a bug got inside an airplane. But, the meaning of this card is a pretty scary one.
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—Hirohiko Araki, JOJOVELLER Stand Guide page
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Star Platinum looked like a human, so I made this one European armor plus robot. Contrasting punches with a sword! Both Polnareff and Chariot are fun characters to draw. They're classic-style, and highly mobile.
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—Hirohiko Araki, JOJOVELLER Stand Guide page
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I just had the simple idea that it would be easy to have a fight against a fish-man in the water. I imagined Stands to be a combination of the inorganic with life energy, so a lot of them appear to be a fusion of living creatures with machines.
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—Hirohiko Araki, JOJOVELLER Stand Guide page
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It's a ghost ship. Also, I might have been thinking about the tale of the Mary Celeste, which was found adrift and unmanned. I might have made its host a monkey due to influence from the movie
Link.
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—Hirohiko Araki, JOJOVELLER Stand Guide page
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The idea came from Chucky in
Child's Play, among other horror movies. The design of the doll is based off an African shaman. I went with a distinctive, primal design.
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—Hirohiko Araki, JOJOVELLER Stand Guide page
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At first, many of my ideas for enemy Stands came from horror items. You have a fish-man, a mummy, a cursed doll, and so on (laughs). And, this is another one in the horror items series. It's a slime.
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—Hirohiko Araki, JOJOVELLER Stand Guide page
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gun stand to fight against a sword. I thought it would be novel to have the gun instantly appear in his hand, instead of being drawn from a holster. Its appearance combines the designs of a revolver and an automatic pistol.
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—Hirohiko Araki, JOJOVELLER Stand Guide page
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Wouldn't it be scary if the reflection in a mirror moved differently from the original person (laughs)? As for the design, it's a mummified man. I added some mechanical elements so it doesn't seem biological.
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—Hirohiko Araki, JOJOVELLER Stand Guide page
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our typical horror item, the human-faced tumor. The design is a modified form of an Indian Buddha statue. In Jojo, you don't need to keep inflating the enemies' strength, so it's easy to add some irregular enemies.
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—Hirohiko Araki, JOJOVELLER Stand Guide page
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You've got a car coming after you, like in
Duel or
Christine. The Design is a 60's-70's American car remodeled to look like an animal. The stand's master exists only to make a joke.
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—Hirohiko Araki, JOJOVELLER Stand Guide page
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A scary natural phenomenon of the desert, bringing down a verdict of death. It's a great stand, because you just draw a skull, add some holes, and you're done! Fundamentally, I start drawing without thinking about how the enemies will get defeated, so there's a lot of times where I'm in some trouble because I make them too strong (laughs).
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—Hirohiko Araki, JOJOVELLER Stand Guide page
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his isn't a tournament fight, so you can have a weak, tiny enemy right after a huge, powerful enemy. I'd say its appearance is something like the robot from
Short Circuit, crossed with a tick or a fly.
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—Hirohiko Araki, JOJOVELLER Stand Guide page
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When you have a Stand representing the sun, I think this is really the only option (laughs). I depicted him as a really strong enemy to make you think the fight's going to drag on for several weeks, but it's all a feint and he gets killed off right away.
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—Hirohiko Araki, JOJOVELLER Stand Guide page
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One way to make a story interesting is the mystery behind trying to find who the enemy is. So, here we have a world within a baby's dream. The stand's design uses a Venetian carnival mask.
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—Hirohiko Araki, JOJOVELLER Stand Guide page
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—Hirohiko Araki, JOJOVELLER Stand Guide page
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This one has a motif of an African shaman's traditional dress. It looks like it's wearing a straw raincoat or something. The host is a woman, but I didn't make her very feminine so it would be more unexpected.
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—Hirohiko Araki, JOJOVELLER Stand Guide page
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I wanted to add a pet to the team at some point. Whites and blacks are easy to depict in manga, so that's how I chose his breed. The design is a fusion of dog and car. And, because it's sand(man), I added some Native American elements.
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—Hirohiko Araki, JOJOVELLER Stand Guide page
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I heard about someone drowning from a cup of water in a wash basin, and thought it would be cool to have someone drown in a desert. N'Doul was based off of
Zatoichi. In my mind, Zatoichi is just a scary guy, rather than the hero.
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—Hirohiko Araki, JOJOVELLER Stand Guide page
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Up until this point, I had only been thinking about various ways to attack, like with fire or water, and it was around this point that I wanted to bring in an ability that could add some suspense to the story.
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—Hirohiko Araki, JOJOVELLER Stand Guide page
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I thought I could create an cool story by making an enemy with precognitive powers. This was around the time I got married. Not that I have precognition, but I was thinking about my own future while I was drawing this Stand.
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—Hirohiko Araki, JOJOVELLER Stand Guide page
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When I was drawing the
Egypt 9 Glory Gods' Stands, I placed more importance on the story and tricks than the designs. For instance, you have people getting possessed and allies getting mind controlled.
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—Hirohiko Araki, JOJOVELLER Stand Guide page
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I do wonder what would happen a person became a magnet. It was around this time that I was writing about
Nikola Tesla in the manuscript to
The Lives of Eccentrics, and I was pretty interested in electromagnetism at that time.
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—Hirohiko Araki, JOJOVELLER Stand Guide page
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I've turned people into magnets and into kids. Its design comes from the Nazca lines and the opening to the anime
Tetsujin 28-go. Seeing that shadow stretch across skyscrapers left a deep impression me.
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—Hirohiko Araki, JOJOVELLER Stand Guide page
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I wanted to draw a shwodown between cheaters. It's a tradition from my first work,
Poker Under Arms (laughs). The stand's visuals are another fusion of an African-style desgin with mecha elements.
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—Hirohiko Araki, JOJOVELLER Stand Guide page
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This one's kinda creepy, looking like just a regular bird skeleton. He's Iggy's enemy in a battle between animals. As you'd expect, an enemy that attacks from the air is pretty strong.
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—Hirohiko Araki, JOJOVELLER Stand Guide page
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Modelled after a military robot. The cool part is how it looks like it's half man and half puppet. It was at this point that I started adding hearts to my designs, which eventually ties into Josuke's Stand.
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—Hirohiko Araki, JOJOVELLER Stand Guide page
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A stand I put in to add some resting time to the story. I really like Kenny G's sax music, so I'm sorry to him for making him a disposable mook.
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—Hirohiko Araki, JOJOVELLER Stand Guide page
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A Stand where you eat yourself... I was thinking about nothingness and infinity. The design comes from the god of death and executioners. Like, the guys that decapitated people in medieval France.
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—Hirohiko Araki, JOJOVELLER Stand Guide page
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This is the stand I designed first, as a boss, to contrast with Star Platinum's color and other traits. By countering Star Platinum's super speed with time stop, we get a battle between two characters with similar abilities.
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—Hirohiko Araki, JOJOVELLER Stand Guide page
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