Tohth (トト神, Toto-shin) is the Stand of Boingo featured in the third part of the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure series, Stardust Crusaders.
It takes the form of a comic book that allows its user to see future events.
As a Materialized Stand, Tohth takes the form of a comic book that even non-Stand users can see and interact with. The comic is called "Oingo Boingo Brothers Adventures," and adopts a peculiar, whimsical art style, comprised of distorted representations of the characters and the environment complete with abstract symbols or similar stylistic quirks.[1]
It represents the Egyptian God, Tohth, the god of knowledge, alluding to the Stand's ability to predict the future.[1]
As a comic-book, Tohth is not sentient in the original manga and the narration only reflects Boingo's thoughts or describes what will happen in the third person perspective.
However, in the Crazy Diamond's Demonic Heartbreak spin-off, the Stand begins to show hints of personality. The narration in the book starts to directly address Boingo. For instance, it thanks him for always reading and then tells him to part way with the book.[2] Boingo actually thinks that Tohth is not truly his Stand and that there is a real 'Tohth' somewhere in the world who has merely chosen him to be the comic-book's guardian.[3]
As a mere foretelling comic book, Tohth is not suited for direct combat at all but is a valuable tool if one wants to take the upper hand in any situation. Thanks to it, the Joestar Group was almost killed in Aswan by Oingo and in Cairo by Hol Horse.[4][5]
Tohth's ability is to predict the future.
The book is mostly filled with blank pages, but as time passes, more pages will fill up, predicting coming events up to several minutes ahead in the future.[1] Moreover, the predicted events will be relevant to the reader, thus an artist reading the book has read his own future death[1] while Oingo reads about his future attempts at assassinating the Joestar Group.[4] Boingo claims the events depicted in the comic-book are guaranteed to always come true;[6] in all its appearances, the predictions happen without fail, although sometimes in a roundabout way. For example, while it depicts Jotaro's head being split up by a blast,[6] it is Oingo, with the appearance of Jotaro, who is blasted apart by his bomb.[7]
However, Tohth only predicts key events without showing what happens between them or significant details. Because the drawings are incomplete and the narration texts misleading, everything Tohth predicts is subject to interpretation. For instance, Tohth stated that Hol Horse would kick a woman, after which she would be thankful and give him all her jewelry, leaving out the fact that Horse would do so to save her from being stung by a poisonous scorpion.[8] Furthermore, it only predicts up to several minutes in the future meaning that an action that seems beneficial may have consequences later. Because of the comic-book, Oingo mugged a man he thought was easy prey,[4] but the man later came back with several thugs to beat him up.[7] This makes Tohth incredibly difficult to use.
If someone were to not act as the comic-book predicted, even by accident, such as when Hol Horse shot two minutes ahead without realizing it,[5] Boingo claims that they would be punished and events would conspire to make the predictions true at the expense of the offender.[9] Thus Hol Horse was shot by his own bullets through the page depicting Jotaro being riddled with bullets, making the predictions true in a way while almost killing Hol Horse.[5]
In the Crazy Diamond's Demonic Heartbreak spin-off, Boingo claims that Tohth is actually not his Stand, but rather, something that was entrusted to him, with a real 'Tohth' somewhere in the world being Tohth's real user.
As such, it means that Boingo and the book share a unique link. Boingo states that even if someone were to get rid of the book (e.g. selling it), Tohth would reappear by his side without explanation.[10]
Manga Appearances
Anime AppearancesAraki wanted to create an intriguing story by making an enemy with precognitive powers. He was inspired to create Tohth by thinking about his own future at the time, having recently been married.[11]
In Crunchyroll's release of the anime adaptation, the "Oingo Boingo" part of the title that's seen on Tohth was censored and removed entirely; however, there are some scenes when it is accidentally visible.
Japanese broadcast
Crunchyroll simulcast
A rumor states that Tohth predicted the September 11 attacks 11 years before the event, because of depictions of the number "911" and a laughing plane. Hirohiko Araki states that he drew those as part of the story but didn't know what it means, and states that it's just a coincidence.[12]
Tohth predicts the tourist's death
Stardust Crusaders as depicted in Tohth
Tohth predicts Jotaro's "death"
Tohth's initial appearance
Tohth's Egypt 9 Glory Gods card
Hol Horse and Boingo as depicted in Tohth
Tohth's first prophecy of Jotaro's death
Tohth predicts Hol Horse will kick a woman and be rewarded for it
Tohth predicts Emperor's bullets will be fired into a pipe, killing Jotaro
Both Tohth and Hol Horse are shot by Emperor's bullets
Tohth's stats
Khnum and Tohth's silhouette from the JoJo Sono Chi no Kioku ~end of THE WORLD~
Hol Horse & Boingo's portrait from Heritage for the Future
Hol and Boingo: Select (Color: B)
Hol and Boingo: Select (Color: C)
Hol and Boingo: Select (Color: Stand)
Hol and Boingo: Select (Color: Start)
Boingo's Idle Sprite
Boingo's sprite animation
Boingo's color 2
Boingo's color 3
Boingo's color 4
Boingo's color 5
Tohth in the Menu loading screen of Eyes of Heaven
Tohth in JoJo's Pitter-Patter Pop!
Adventure Battle Card; Tohth
Hol Horse & Boingo
Oingo & Boingo
Japanese Manga Artist
OVA card
Weekly Shonen Jump #13, 1997
Chara Heroes; Part 3 Vol.3
Tohth in the spin-off
