TSKR Episode 8 (TV Drama)

Template:Movie infobox Rock-Paper-Scissors Kid (ジャンケン小僧, Janken Kozō) is the eighth episode of the TV Drama series Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan. It adapts the Rock-Paper-Scissors Kid Is Coming! story arc from Diamond is Unbreakable.

In this episode, Rohan Kishibe meets Ken Oyanagi, a young boy obsessed with the game rock-paper-scissors who challenges him at it.

Summary

While Rohan is meeting with Kyoka, a boy who is a fan of Rohan's manga "Pink Dark Boy," suddenly comes to visit him. However, Rohan shuts the front door and turns him away, saying that it is not good for him to suddenly come to his work place. The boy appears before Rohan again, this time proposing to play rock-paper-scissors-paper with him.

The boy shows up everywhere he goes, determined to challenge Rohan to rock-paper-scissors…

Cast

Characters

(1st appearance)

(Mentioned only)

Manga/Drama Differences

Removed Ken Oyanagi climbing on top of a utility pole to eat oranges and Yoshihiro Kira.
Removed Rohan meeting Joseph Joestar and Shizuka Joestar.
Added scene of Ken asking Kyoka Izumi why Hot Summer Martha has four circles instead of three.
Added scene of Rohan petting Bakin and Kyoka asking if Rohan is still angry at her for Hot Summer Martha's design.
Added Ken following Kyoka to Rohan's house and knocking on his door. He also asks Rohan why Hot Summer Martha has four circles.
Changed Ken into being a big fan of Pink Dark Boy who is obsessed with the number 3.
Added scene of Rohan explaining the significance of the number 3.
Changed Ken being struck by the Arrow and falling off the pole to him tripping while he's walking on the crossroads due to the Tsujigami yokai.
Removed Ken's hole on his cheek.
Added scene of Rohan coming back home after a walk with Bakin and Ken waiting by his house, instead of seeing Rohan at the train station.
Added scene of Rohan exercising his arms and fingers.
Changed Ken loving soccer and playing baseball to him liking arithmetic and writing. He likes pointing out when his homeroom teacher makes a miscalculation or typo on the board. In the manga, he stopped playing baseball after his coach complained about his long hair, so he blew his nose on the coach's hat.
Added Ken's favorite Pink Dark Boy volumes being volumes 28 and 40, which he's reread about 20 times.
Removed Josuke Higashikata, Okuyasu Nijimura, and Yukako Yamagishi talking to Rohan at the café. They are replaced with Kyoka instead, who says their dialogue after Ken has a tantrum.
Changed Rohan kicking Ken away to him bumping him away with his back.
Added scene of Ken still staying there and Rohan ordering him to leave before laughing.
Added scene of Kyoka telling Rohan that he should be careful since he'll be in trouble if he goes viral for making a kid cry.
Removed Rohan telling Ken that he'll get Ken's school and parents involved if he keeps bothering him.
Changed Rohan punching Ken so that his fist doesn't actually connect with Ken's face, implying that Heaven's Door punched him since Ken falls.
Removed the visual depiction of Heaven's Door being dragged away by Boy II Man.
Changed Ken's page to say he lined up in the morning to get volume 95 of Pink Dark Boy, excited to see Hot Summer Martha. He's then disappointed and thinks Rohan didn't create the character. In the manga, Ken's page says he coincidentally met Rohan at Morioh Station and wants to be like Rohan when he grows up.
Changed two of Ken's pages to be blank with a thick black "X" covering the pages. The pages after mention 3 being a perfect number and the start of Ken's rock-paper-scissors obsession.
Removed Rohan reading the rules of Boy II Man's ability and seeing its name.
Removed Ken explicitly mentioning which parts of Rohan's body he has control of.
Removed Ken saying Rohan punching himself was payback for Rohan punching Ken.
Changed the location of Rohan and Ken's rock-paper-scissors match to being on top of a building instead of on the street.
Changed Ken calling over Joseph and Josuke to bringing Kyoka over instead.
Changed Rohan using Shizuka to change Ken's hand into rock. Instead, Rohan takes out volume 95 of Pink Dark Boy and puts it in front of Ken. Seeing Hot Summer Martha's design subconsciously causes Ken to make a fist since he hates the design with 4 circles.
Removed Rohan threatening to use Heaven's Door to make Ken never play rock-paper-scissors again.
Removed Ken trying to kill himself by having a car hit him. Instead, Rohan throws a rock at a building's window, causing another glass shower. Ken admits defeat when Rohan is uninjured.
Added scene of Rohan leaving behind a drawing of Hot Summer Martha's original design with 3 circles on the back of the Pink Dark Boy volume.
Added scene of Kyoka visiting Jugo Shishi for an appointment but him not answering the door.
Added scene of Rohan and Kyoka walking with Bakin.
Added Rohan explaining the Tsujigami and telling Kyoka about street fortune-telling.
Added Kyoka saying she wants to travel abroad, kids talking about a haunted house, and Rohan mentioning bizarre phenomena around the world.
Added scene of Rohan exercising his fingers once again.
Added scene of Kyoka thinking about Paris and taking out a note mentioning the Louvre museum.