Paper Moon King

Japanese Name

ペーパー・ムーン・キング

Stats^?

Destructive Power

E

Speed

E

Range

C

Stamina

C

Precision

B

Developmental Potential

E

A: Very Good

B: Good

C: Average

D: Poor

E: Very Poor

Destructive Power	Speed	Range
E	E	C

Stamina	Precision	Developmental Potential
C	B	E

“

I named my Stand Paper Moon King. It's origami. And the power of my heart.

”

—Tsurugi Higashikata, JoJolion Chapter 26: Tsurugi Higashikata's Goal, and the Architect

Paper Moon King (ペーパー・ムーン・キング, Pēpā Mūn Kingu) is the Stand of Tsurugi Higashikata, featured in the eighth part of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, JoJolion. It is an ability Stand that allows Tsurugi to create living origamis that make anyone who touches them confuse objects.

Appearance

Paper Moon King manifests primarily in the origami created by Tsurugi, which he may impart with a modicum of life, enabling momentary movement. It is typically folded to be shaped like a frog.

Abilities

Paper Moon King presents itself as an ability and possesses no combat ability, whatsoever. Tsurugi doesn't seek fights and prefers to rely on the power of his origami to disorient people instead of harming them personally.

Living Origamis

A phone turned into a frog origami

Paper Moon King also appears to allow Tsurugi to impart actual qualities of the object depicted in the origami into the creation. For instance, Tsurugi can shape an origami cicada that can fly or origami frogs that can hop and move on their own.^[2] Tsurugi can also make vehicles which emulate their respective behavior and movement.^[3]

He does not need to be around to enforce this effect, as all of his origami paper is under his Stand's thrall, as when Yasuho creates origami bananas without Tsurugi around, they still seem to be able to make Yotsuyu Yagiyama trip and fall.^[4] This ability can also work with the Stand.^[5]

Tsurugi could also fold hard objects to the shape of an origami, such as Yasuho's cellphone.^[4]

Sensory Manipulation

Yasuho is affected by Paper Moon King and cannot recognize her face

Once an individual comes into physical contact with an origami model, Paper Moon King is able to distort, or even manipulate the individuals' sensory abilities to perceive reality.^[2]

This renders the victim unable to recognize faces, resulting in seeing the same face on all people, even in reflections and in artificial faces such as in mannequins or video broadcasts.^[6] In addition to other people's faces, those under Paper Moon King's power cannot differentiate between bodies, and voices, as Yasuho still mistook Joshu for Josuke despite having a conversation with him.^[7] Moreover Tsurugi's victims can only read the same sentence in every text they might see.^[7] Paper Moon King can also make its victims confuse two specific objects or people; for instance Tsurugi made Aisho Dainenjiyama see all leaves on the ground as Yasuho's origami phone,^[8] and multiple buses appear as Jobin Higashikata.^[8] This ability was also used to disguise a regular tree branch as the Locacaca branch, fooling Josuke and Poor Tom^[9]

Paper Moon King also possesses the ability to exaggerate the appearance of things, such as when Tsurugi made his and Jobin's injuries appear worse than they actually were.^[10]

Chapters

Manga Appearances

Chapters in order of appearance

JoJolion Chapter 23: Paper Moon Deception, Part 1
JoJolion Chapter 24: Paper Moon Deception, Part 2
JoJolion Chapter 25: Paper Moon Deception, Part 3
JoJolion Chapter 26: Tsurugi Higashikata's Goal, and the Architect
JoJolion Chapter 27: Norisuke Higashikata, Tsurugi Higashikata, and Yotsuyu Yagiyama, Part 1 (Mentioned only)
JoJolion Chapter 33: Josuke! Go to the Higashikata Fruit Parlor (Mentioned only)
JoJolion Chapter 39: Doobie Wah, Part 1
JoJolion Chapter 40: Doobie Wah, Part 2
JoJolion Chapter 41: Doobie Wah, Part 3
JoJolion Chapter 42: Doobie Wah, Part 4
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 80: Doctor Wu and Awaking 3 Leaves, Part 2 (Mentioned only)
JoJolion Chapter 83: The New Locacaca
JoJolion Chapter 87: The Wonder of You, Part 4
JoJolion Chapter 88: The Wonder of You, Part 5
JoJolion Chapter 91: The Wonder of You, Part 8
JoJolion Chapter 93: The Wonder of You, Part 10
JoJolion Chapter 94: The Wonder of You, Part 11
JoJolion Chapter 95: The Wonder of You, Part 12
JoJolion Chapter 110: Higashikata Fruit Parlor (Cover only)

Creation and Development

Ultra Jump (Top) JJL Volume 6 (bottom)

The idea of the Stand came to Araki from a childlike state of mind. It's ability to make it so you can't recognize faces and feel yourself chased into loneliness appealed to him.^[11]

The Stand was originally just named "Paper Moon" (ペーパー・ムーン, Pēpā Mūn) in the Ultra Jump serialization until the release of the JOJOVELLER mini and STANDS plus booklets included with the April 2014 issue of Ultra Jump where it was revealed the name had been changed to "Paper Moon King".