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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.

Stardust Crusaders

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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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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

Diamond Is Unbreakable

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A stand that has the ultimate kindness. Star Platinum is kind of blackish, so I gave this one a contrasting color scheme. Josuke has an out-of-date appearance, but he keeps it that way on purpose.
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—Hirohiko Araki, JOJOVELLER Stand Guide page
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I imagined a deviant lurking in the town. This one's another slime-type. The stand's design comes from ritual dolls and Jomon-era clay figures. I researched various sources to make it.
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—Hirohiko Araki, JOJOVELLER Stand Guide page
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It's really strong, with no limit to its powers. If Okuyasu were smart, he'd be unstoppable (laughs). He's impusive and only sees what's right in front of him, so there are blinkers like you see on a racehorse to block the sides of its eyes and give it a narrow range of vision.
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—Hirohiko Araki, JOJOVELLER Stand Guide page
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I think the idea for this came from G.I. Joe action figures and the like. Anyway, I wanted to make a stand unlike any other I'd done before. So, this Stand is an entire army that emerges from a single soul.
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—Hirohiko Araki, JOJOVELLER Stand Guide page
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A suspense story where you're trapped by a psychological attack, in Stand form. This extortion ability puts a lock on your heart. I gradually shrunk the host down so it would be easier to have him interact with Koichi.
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—Hirohiko Araki, JOJOVELLER Stand Guide page

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At first, I gave made it look like an alien larva. Then, it would gradually grow to adulthood. Anyway, I wanted to draw Koichi's growth, so I designed it knowing it would change forms.
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—Hirohiko Araki, JOJOVELLER Stand Guide page
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In its second stage, it's grown from a larva to a child. It's hands and feet are like... a raccoon, right? A standing raccoon.
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—Hirohiko Araki, JOJOVELLER Stand Guide page
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It's got its own personality, so it's like a friend... It's the image of Koichi made into a stand. I thought, if you can turn sound into a physical object, you can do that with gravity, too.
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—Hirohiko Araki, JOJOVELLER Stand Guide page

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Did I ever have one of these dolls on hand? If anything, I was more interested in drawing how tricky its host was. Judging by the screw on its forehead, it might have been based off of the copy robot in Perman.
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—Hirohiko Araki, JOJOVELLER Stand Guide page
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A horror that's close to you in your daily life. Like Misery, maybe? In shojo comics in the 80s, girls were objects to be longed for, but from the 90s on, there were more stories with strong girls in lead roles.
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—Hirohiko Araki, JOJOVELLER Stand Guide page
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t's a cooking stand, so I gave it a somewhat crazy appearance based off of tomatoes and Italian vegetables. The idea was, how can I create suspense using cooking as the theme?
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—Hirohiko Araki, JOJOVELLER Stand Guide page
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When I saw the dinosaur with a strong headbutt from Kyoryu Daikiko, I thought, I like this guy! Also, the way he's strong despite being small might have been influenced by Frieza from Dragonball.
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—Hirohiko Araki, JOJOVELLER Stand Guide page
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I made this one to draw a story about Joseph and Josuke, and that's all there is to this Stand. It's a Stand that turns things invisible, so is its physical form invisible as well, or does it just not have one?
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—Hirohiko Araki, JOJOVELLER Stand Guide page
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It's an ability that turns people into books, so I figured it didn't need a physical form of its own. For the characters that appear in Part 4, I tried to depict only their interactions with Josuke, without clearly defining whether they were allies or enemies, good or evil.
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—Hirohiko Araki, JOJOVELLER Stand Guide page
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An idea I came up with because I wanted to draw the suspense of hunting rats. I just wanted to make it look like a tool. It's a bit of a fusion between a retro cannon and bones, to give it a creepy feeling.
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—Hirohiko Araki, JOJOVELLER Stand Guide page
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Its design is a worker bee. If you look at its back, there's an abdomen. You've had those times when you're collecting coupons, and you wish you had just one more, right? I combined that with the image of bees collecting honey.
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—Hirohiko Araki, JOJOVELLER Stand Guide page
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A cat and a skull... It's a simple design, but I really like it. The design of the gloves and belt are nice, too. When you consider a bomb-based ability, you can do just about anything, so it was tough to work with.
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—Hirohiko Araki, JOJOVELLER Stand Guide page
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Around this time, everyone was talking about beauty shops and cosmetic surgery, so I thought I'd add an aesthetician. The appearance is a feminine silhouette plus beauty shop tools or a dentist.
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—Hirohiko Araki, JOJOVELLER Stand Guide page
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Based off of Killer Queen's face, while giving off an aura like nothing in the world can break it... so, it's a tank. The dagger on its forehead represents an assassin, maybe?
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—Hirohiko Araki, JOJOVELLER Stand Guide page
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The Stand's name comes from the Pink Floyd album Atom Heart Mother. The idea came to me because I thought it would be cool to have a cursed or haunted photo as a Stand.
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—Hirohiko Araki, JOJOVELLER Stand Guide page
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I envisioned a guardian spirit protecting a young boy. The design might have come from the robots from Mr. Mitsuteru Yokoyama's manga or something like that. That's why it's got the rows of rivets and the mask over its mouth, and stuff.
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—Hirohiko Araki, JOJOVELLER Stand Guide page
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I wanted to draw the character of Mikitaka Hasekura. He's a self-styled "space alien", but it's a mystery whether he's that, or a Stand user! Within the worldview of Jojo, aliens are just barely acceptable.
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—Hirohiko Araki, JOJOVELLER Stand Guide page
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A tracking stand. The way it splits up like a daruma otoshi toy leaves an impression on you, doesn't it? Did I have a thing for net patterns back then? It looks like a 3-D object, even though it's a flat image!
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—Hirohiko Araki, JOJOVELLER Stand Guide page
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When I was a kid, my grandpa had a cat named Chako. We doted on it, but I rememeber once it hurt me when I ignored it... I've never trusted cats ever since (laughs).
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—Hirohiko Araki, JOJOVELLER Stand Guide page
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When I was a kid, there were these, well, free spirits around. They would live in caves, turn abandoned cars into their personal homes, and stuff. For a moment, that sort of survival lifestyle might seem fun (laughs).
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—Hirohiko Araki, JOJOVELLER Stand Guide page
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The effects that appear when things turn flat is based off of M. C. Escher's art. Drawing his attacks was tough... I had to make sure the drawings joined up with each other just right.
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—Hirohiko Araki, JOJOVELLER Stand Guide page
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The motif is a piggyback monster. That, plus a touch of horror where you can't turn around. It's more of a supernatural creature than a Stand. Its host is just a pitiable man...
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—Hirohiko Araki, JOJOVELLER Stand Guide page
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I didn't want to make a Stand that could do anything, so by splitting its abilities up like this, I added a limitation of sorts.
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—Hirohiko Araki, JOJOVELLER Stand Guide page

Vento Aureo

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I had the concept of the Egyptian symbol of life, the scarab, and the ladybug is also a beetle. Then, I needed a symbol of peace... so, angel wings or something? It has a slender silhouette, to go along with its host.
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—Hirohiko Araki, JOJOVELLER Stand Guide page

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The Rolling Stones album Sticky Fingers had a zipper on it. So, I thought it would be cool to have a zipper Stand, and made this one.
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—Hirohiko Araki, JOJOVELLER Stand Guide page

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Venetian carnival dress... like something out of Casanova? That, combined with the image of a god of death. It has a wide-brimmed hat and collar because it's wearing medieval Italian clothing.
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—Hirohiko Araki, JOJOVELLER Stand Guide page

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Is that a leotard, or full-body tights? Either way, it's covered in vinyl from head to toe. I saw this sort of fashion in a movie or something. It has an unorthodox ability, so it's not suited for combat.
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—Hirohiko Araki, JOJOVELLER Stand Guide page

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The design uses dots to differentiate itself from Kraft Work's lines. Because it stabs things with its saber and deflates them. I think I put more focus on the Stand users themselves rather than their Stands in Part 5.
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—Hirohiko Araki, JOJOVELLER Stand Guide page

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They got their name because it sounds like "Six Pistols." Six bullets... They each have slightly different faces, and drawing them got a little complicated. I might not remember them too clearly anymore (laughs).
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—Hirohiko Araki, JOJOVELLER Stand Guide page

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I try not to give similar silhouettes to Stands that appear together. On another note, now that I look back on it, I might have been obsessed with giving Stands gritted teeth around this time (laughs).
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—Hirohiko Araki, JOJOVELLER Stand Guide page

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Considering the balance of the team, I wanted a type of stand that could fly around in combat. A simple ability is better for main characters. Aerosmith was a fun Stand to draw.
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—Hirohiko Araki, JOJOVELLER Stand Guide page

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I begin by thinking about the situation. Like, you have people turning flat, people turning small, that sequence of physical phenomena. As for the design, maybe this one was also influenced by Enki Bilal's characters?
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—Hirohiko Araki, JOJOVELLER Stand Guide page

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This stand has Roman armor and stitching to play up its weirdness. Its poison gas ability can do anything, but its host consciously restrains it. Fugo is actually a restrained individual.
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—Hirohiko Araki, JOJOVELLER Stand Guide page

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With inspiration from Michael Jackson's music, I thought it would be cool to go inside the mirror. This one also has a design based off a Venetian mask. Yes, some of them do have these tengu-like noses.
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—Hirohiko Araki, JOJOVELLER Stand Guide page

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A turtle is like a house on legs, right? Like, doesn't Gamera look like a spaceship? The pattern on the shell also looks like a jigsaw puzzle, and I had the idea of slotting a special, fancy-looking key in there.
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—Hirohiko Araki, JOJOVELLER Stand Guide page

Stone Ocean

Steel Ball Run

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A visualization of the energy of Gyro's steel balls, breaking through dimensions. The art of the steel balls also ultimately turns into a Stand ability. I made this Stand appear to explain that.
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—Hirohiko Araki, JOJOVELLER Stand Guide page

JoJolion

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The design was created to match up with Josuke's outfit, rather than its ability. Maybe I imagined a sailor's uniform combined with the floatation devices in a lifevest. Its ears have grown a bit longer since it first appeared.
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—Hirohiko Araki, JOJOVELLER Stand Guide page
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A GPS Stand that shows you the way. The idea started with those bad GPSs... Like, you've had those times when your car's GPS keeps giving you the wrong directions, right? The fear of opening things was the theme for the chapter where this one first shows up.
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—Hirohiko Araki, JOJOVELLER Stand Guide page

References

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