Pearl Jam
Pearl Jam (パール・ジャム, Pāru Jamu) is the Stand of Tonio Trussardi, featured in the fourth part of the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure series, Diamond is Unbreakable.
When mixed with other ingredients, it is capable of healing a person's ailments.
Appearance
Pearl Jam is a Stand possessing multiple bodies; each appearing as a cross between a tomato and a pearl onion, with arms and a face. The bodies are extremely small (as they need to be ingested to do anything); as well as seemingly invisible whilst bound to Tonio's dishes. Its design is based on a tomato and various Italian vegetables.[2]
Color Schemes
Personality
When uncovered by Josuke with his stand Crazy Diamond, they appear to express surprise, along with vocalizations like "meshaa!"/"meshii!" and "gii!".
Abilities
Although shocking to witness, Pearl Jam is an entirely beneficial Stand centered around cooking and curing illnesses and is exclusively used as part of Tonio's restaurant service.
Curative Cooking
Pearl Jam has the ability to cure ailments through the ingestion of a specific dish. The limits of this ability are unknown, though it can heal incurable illnesses provided the right ingredients are involved.
After Tonio diagnoses specific ailments through palm reading,[3] he prepares a high-class dish and in the process infuses Pearl Jam in it.
It is ambiguous whether Pearl Jam influences the eater's perception of the dish or not between Okuyasu Nijimura's overenthusiastic reactions to each dish and Tonio's inherent skill as cook. However anyone who has tasted a dish of his acknowledged that it was delicious.[3]
Once inside the body, Pearl Jam uses the nutrient contained in the meal and the curative properties of the ingredients to cure whatever ailment is targeted by triggering physiological processes such as tear excretion[3] or tooth growth[4] of unnatural intensity or speed, or forcibly ejecting whatever organ is ill while replacing them. In a more extreme case, Pearl Jam opened Okuyasu's belly up in order to eject his intestines affected by diarrhea.[5] The customer's body then comes back to normal as if nothing had happened, but with the ailment now completely cured.[3] It is notable that a specific dish is compatible with a specific ailment, meaning the eater may be served a dish they are unwilling to eat (for instance Okuyasu detests spicy food but is given pasta made with peppers)[4] and inversely an incompatible eater won't be cured (Josuke doesn't react to the still water of the restaurant).[3]
The quality of the food and ingredients also affects how quickly and how strong the healing ability of his Stand is: the greater the ailment, the more expensive and high quality the ingredients have to be. In a spin-off, Tonio illegally harvests particularly high-class abalones in the hopes that the ingredient cures his lover, Virginia's cancer, something he couldn't cure with ordinary ingredients. However, once he fed her a dish made with the expensive rare abalone with Pearl Jam's abilities, she was fully healed.[6]
Chapters / Episodes
Manga Appearances- Chapter 303: Let's Go Eat Some Italian Food, Part 1
- Chapter 304: Let's Go Eat Some Italian Food, Part 2
- Chapter 305: Let's Go Eat Some Italian Food, Part 3
- Chapter 306: Let's Go Eat Some Italian Food, Part 4
- Chapter 412: Cheap Trick, Part 1 (Mentioned only)
Anime Appearances- Diamond is Unbreakable Episode 10: Let's Go Eat Some Italian Food
- Diamond is Unbreakable Episode 39: Goodbye, Morioh - The Golden Heart
Novel Appearances- Purple Haze Feedback Chapter 7: luna nova (Mentioned only)
Gallery
Pearl Jam causes Okuyasu to cry excessively
Okuyasu's eyes deflate as the Stand cures him of insomnia
Pearl Jam makes Okuyasu scratch the flesh off his shoulder...
...and cures its stiffness
Forcing teeth with cavities out of Okuyasu's mouth...
...and giving him new, healthy teeth
Pearl Jam ejects Okuyasu's intestines...
...in order to cure his diarrhea
Pearl Jam and its master, Tonio
Chapter 308 Tailpiece
Key Art
Chara Heroes; Part 4 Vol.1
Pearl Jam figure
Statue Legend figurine
Statue Legend second color
Pearl Jam in All-Star Battle PV5
Weekly Shonen Jump #13, 1997
Pearl Jam's namesake confirmed in Vol.16 "Shueisha Jump Remix Diamond is Unbreakable Edition
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Adventure Battle Card; Pearl Jam
Trivia
- Araki was inspired to create Pearl Jam by challenging himself to somehow create a suspenseful story using cooking as the theme.[2]
References
- ↑ Heaven's Door - Vol.16 "Shueisha Jump Remix Diamond is Unbreakable Edition P90 The origin of STANDS! Part 3
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 JOJOVELLER: Araki's Stand Commentaries - Pearl Jam
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Chapter 303: Let's Go Eat Some Italian Food, Part 1
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Chapter 305: Let's Go Eat Some Italian Food, Part 3
- ↑ Chapter 306: Let's Go Eat Some Italian Food, Part 4
- ↑ Thus Spoke Rohan Kishibe - Episode 6: Poaching Seashore
