Heaven's Door
Heaven's Door (ヘブンズ・ドアー（天国への扉）, Hebunzu Doā) is the Stand of Rohan Kishibe, featured in the fourth part of the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure series, Diamond is Unbreakable, as well as the one-shot series, Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan.
It is a small human-like Stand that turns people into books for Rohan to read.
Appearance
Heaven's Door is initially introduced as an ability without an appearance,[2] but takes on a full-fledged body in later arcs.
Heaven's Door resembles a small boy with the appearance of Rohan's manga character, Pink Dark Boy. It wears a long overcoat, closed to the end of its torso, and a bow tie. Its face has an outline that connects to lines emanating around its eyes. Its flat-topped hat is similar to a boater. In Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan, the hat more closely resembles a bowler hat, while in its first appearance, it wears an opaque fedora.
Rohan may summon it or induce its effect with either drawings of it on paper or an air drawing with his finger, where only its outlines are visible.
Color Schemes
Abilities
Heaven's Door is a weak close-range Stand unsuited for direct combat, but has several powerful abilities. For an inquisitive mangaka like Rohan, Heaven's Door is a handy way to gather research material out of people's pasts without the hassle of an interview.
During its introductory arc, Heaven's Door acts when Rohan's target sees it or an image of it drawn by him, which he can make in mid-air, with a pen or with his finger.[3] However, closing one's eyes or being simply unable to process the image, like being filled with rage, will make the opponent immune to Heaven's Door.[4][5]
Later on, Rohan can simply summon his Stand and approach people to affect them.[6]
Book Transmutation
Heaven's Door's basic ability is to turn people into books, pages unfurling from their bodies in the shape of whatever body part it opens from (for example, if from the face, the shape of the pages is of the person's entire face).[2]
The contents of the books contain detailed and absolutely true information on their subject, including physical characteristics, memories and thoughts from their earliest to their latest, personality, and any details on their Stand, if they have one.[2] Later on, Rohan uses this ability on a chicken leg to determine its expiration date.[7] Targets may be incapacitated to varying degrees while under this effect. Rohan can unfurl himself[8], but he can't read distant, forgotten memories or his future.[9]
A dying person's details are seen to gradually disappear.[10] However, Heaven's Door is effective on both ghosts and the undead (as shown on Reimi Sugimoto,[11] and zombie-like spirits in Rohan at the Louvre). In animals, details comprise relatively literal descriptions.
Occasionally, it is shown that since people under the effect of Heaven's Door literally turn into books, Rohan can also use this forced physical transformation to his advantage. Rohan has notably used this power to unravel Okuyasu's limbs[4] and at another time, save someone from being crushed by two speeding trains by transforming their body into a book and flattening it enough to fit between the trains.[7] In the TV drama adaptation of Deoxyribonucleic Acid, instead of Heaven's Door's usual ability, the memories of the characters Kyoka Izumi, Mao Katahira, Mai Katahira, and Taro Hirai are shown by literally transforming them into picture books.
Memory Removal
By removing pages, Rohan causes his target to lose any memories detailed there, along with a proportionate quantity of body mass.[12] Should Rohan receive a substantial amount of physical damage or be knocked near unconscious, the removed pages will automatically return to their original source.
Written-In Commands
By writing into the pages of a person or object transformed into a book, Rohan may alter or erase memories, or put hypnotic-like commands into the person's mind.[12]
Rohan's target will obey commands written into them closely, even against mental resistance (for example, despite a phobia of immolation, Okuyasu is forced to hold a lighter to himself). Other impressive feats include commanding Josuke to fly backwards at 70 km/h (43 mph)[13] or allowing Koichi to speak Italian.[14]
While Rohan cannot read his own memories, he may write commands on himself. In one example, by writing on his forehead, he commands himself to repress all memories of the events of Rohan at the Louvre, though they return after the command rubs off. The canonicity of this is questionable, however, given the contradictory nature of the one-shot in terms of how Rohan acquired his Stand.
Chapters / Episodes
Manga Appearances- Chapter 319: Let's Go to the Manga Artist's House, Part 2
- Chapter 320: Let's Go to the Manga Artist's House, Part 3
- Chapter 321: Let's Go to the Manga Artist's House, Part 4
- Chapter 322: Let's Go to the Manga Artist's House, Part 5
- Chapter 324: Let's Go to the Manga Artist's House, Part 7
- Chapter 330: Rohan Kishibe's Adventure, Part 1 (Mentioned only)
- Chapter 331: Rohan Kishibe's Adventure, Part 2
- Chapter 332: Rohan Kishibe's Adventure, Part 3 (Mentioned only)
- Chapter 333: Rohan Kishibe's Adventure, Part 4
- Chapter 334: Rohan Kishibe's Adventure, Part 5 (Mentioned only)
- Chapter 366: Atom Heart Father, Part 2 (Mentioned only)
- Chapter 371: Rock-Paper-Scissors Kid is Coming!, Part 1 (Mentioned only)
- Chapter 372: Rock-Paper-Scissors Kid is Coming!, Part 2
- Chapter 373: Rock-Paper-Scissors Kid is Coming!, Part 3
- Chapter 374: Rock-Paper-Scissors Kid is Coming!, Part 4
- Chapter 375: Rock-Paper-Scissors Kid is Coming!, Part 5
- Chapter 376: Rock-Paper-Scissors Kid is Coming!, Part 6
- Chapter 385: Highway Star, Part 2
- Chapter 386: Highway Star, Part 3
- Chapter 412: Cheap Trick, Part 1
- Chapter 413: Cheap Trick, Part 2
- Chapter 414: Cheap Trick, Part 3
- Chapter 416: Cheap Trick, Part 5
- Chapter 417: Cheap Trick, Part 6
- Chapter 420: Another One Bites the Dust, Part 3 (Temporary death)
- Chapter 422: Another One Bites the Dust, Part 5 (Temporary death)
- Steel Ball Run Extra Chapter 3: Untitled Stand Chapter (Mentioned only)
- Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan - Episode 2: Mutsu-kabe Hill
- Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan - Episode 5: Millionaire Village
- Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan - Episode 6: Poaching Seashore
- Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan - Episode 7: A Rainy Monday
- Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan - Episode 8: Deoxyribonucleic Acid
- Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan - Episode 9: The Run
- Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan - Episode 10: Hot Summer Martha
- Rohan at the Louvre
Anime Appearances- Diamond is Unbreakable Episode 14: Let's Go to the Manga Artist's House, Part 1
- Diamond is Unbreakable Episode 15: Let's Go to the Manga Artist's House, Part 2
- Diamond is Unbreakable Episode 17: Rohan Kishibe's Adventure
- Diamond is Unbreakable Episode 26: Rock-Paper-Scissors Kid is Coming!
- Diamond is Unbreakable Episode 28: Highway Star, Part 1
- Diamond is Unbreakable Episode 32: July 15th (Thursday), Part 2
- Diamond is Unbreakable Episode 33: July 15th (Thursday), Part 3
- Diamond is Unbreakable Episode 34: July 15th (Thursday), Part 4
- Diamond is Unbreakable Episode 35: Another One Bites the Dust, Part 1 (Temporary death)
- Diamond is Unbreakable Episode 36: Another One Bites the Dust, Part 2 (Temporary death)
- Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan Episode 5 (OVA): Millionaire Village
- Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan Episode 2 (OVA): Mutsu-kabe Hill
- Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan Episode 9 (OVA): The Run
Creation and Development
Initially, Hirohiko Araki decided to have Heaven's Door not have a physical form of its own because of its ability to turn people into books.[15]
In an interview with Shoko Nakagawa, Araki mentions that if he were to have any Stand, it would be Heaven's Door.[16]
Gallery
Effect on Koichi
Okuyasu turned into paper through Heaven's Door
Mid-air drawing by Rohan
Absorbed by Boy II Man
Heaven's Door struggles against Highway Star
Rohan using his stand on Masazo Kinoto
Attempting to attack Cheap Trick
Hayato's body transmuted into book pages by Heaven's Door
Chapter 376 Cover
Koichi's body transmuted into book pages
Okuyasu's body transmuted into paper scrolls
Mid-air drawing by Rohan
Attacking Reimi Sugimoto
Heaven's Door being attacked by Ken Oyanagi's Stand, Boy II Man
Rohan reading Highway Star through Heaven's Door
Heaven's Door struggles to transmute Highway Star while being choked
Heaven's Door transmuting Hayato Kawajiri
Heaven's Door's stats
Key Art
Heaven's Door reaching for the screen in the third opening, Great Days
Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan Episode 5 (OVA): Millionaire Village
Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan Episode 2 (OVA): Mutsu-kabe Hill
Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan Episode 9 (OVA): The Run
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Weekly Shonen Jump #13, 1997
Heaven's Door's namesake confirmed in Vol.16 "Shueisha Jump Remix Diamond is Unbreakable Edition
Morioh RADIO 4 GREAT Volume 3
Heaven's Door's ability in the TV Drama
References
- ↑ Heaven's Door - Vol.16 "Shueisha Jump Remix Diamond is Unbreakable Edition P90 The origin of STANDS! Part 3
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Chapter 319: Let's Go to the Manga Artist's House, Part 2
- ↑ Chapter 322: Let's Go to the Manga Artist's House, Part 5
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Chapter 323: Let's Go to the Manga Artist's House, Part 6
- ↑ Chapter 324: Let's Go to the Manga Artist's House, Part 7
- ↑ Chapter 412: Cheap Trick, Part 1
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan - Episode 7: A Rainy Monday
- ↑ Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan - Episode 10: Hot Summer Martha
- ↑ Chapter 334: Rohan Kishibe's Adventure, Part 5
- ↑ Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan - Episode 2: Mutsu-kabe Hill
- ↑ Chapter 331: Rohan Kishibe's Adventure, Part 2
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 Chapter 320: Let's Go to the Manga Artist's House, Part 3
- ↑ Chapter 386: Highway Star, Part 3
- ↑ Chapter 440: Gold Experience, Part 1
- ↑ JOJOVELLER: Araki's Stand Commentaries - Heaven's Door
- ↑ Tameike Now (August 2007)
