Josefumi Kujo
Josefumi Kujo (空条 仗世文, Kūjō Josefumi) is a major character featured in JoJolion. According to Karera Sakunami, Josefumi is one of the two original identities and current other half of Josuke Higashikata.
Appearance
Josefumi is a man of slim to medium build and seemingly average height. He is similar to Part 4's Josuke Higashikata in appearance, wearing metallic peace sign and heart pins on his clothes and styling his hair into a pompadour with the sides bleached. Josefumi wears a checker-patterned sweater over a loose-collared shirt with dark slacks.
During his first appearence, he had multiple irides with a ripple-pattern similar to Crazy Diamond during his first appearences.
Personality
Not much is known about Josefumi Kujo, as he had fused with Kira to become half of Josuke Higashikata prior to the start of JoJolion. He holds a sense of sentiment for Holy Joestar-Kira saving his life (with the assistance of her son's power) as a child and would gladly do anything to help her.
Stand
- Main article: Soft & Wet
Originally Josefumi's stand, Soft & Wet had the power to absorb aspects of things, an ability that it retained as power to steal aspects of things post-fusion. It also produced bubbles, but they are not like the bubbles of Killer Queen, as they lack the star marking. Soft & Wet's bubbles eventually gain star markings after the Wall Eyes fuse Josefumi with Kira. Josefumi is first shown demonstrating his Stand's ability when Yoshikage Kira unexpectedly meets him in a Morioh ramen shop when the pepper shaker lid comes off and spills too much pepper into his ramen, resulting in Josefumi using his Stand to pull the pepper out, completely dry. He also is shown using his Stand's power to perform a complex botanical grafting, an act he believes will be instrumental in helping Kira cure the mysterious disease affecting his mother Holy. He later uses this ability to forcibly feed Kira a Rokakaka fruit after the latter is severely injured by Tamaki Damo.
Synopsis
As a child, Josefumi nearly drowned during an outing to the beach with his mother, being drawn underwater and striking his head on a rock, leaving him for dead. He ended up in the care of emergency room doctor Holy Joestar-Kira, who recognized Josefumi was suffering from a fatal blood clot in his brain, and asked her son Yoshikage Kira to use his Stand to remove it, saving the young Josefumi's life.
Years later, he is seen eating in the same ramen shop as Ojiro Sasame and Kira. As Ojiro leaves the shop, he accidentally bumped into Josefumi, causing the latter to spill an excessive amount of pepper into his ramen, which he soon removed using his Stand. Kira quickly recognized him afterwards.
The two meet up in the park later on to devise a plan to steal the Rokakaka Tree from Aisho Dainenjiyama, as Kira wanted the fruit to save his mother. Josefumi insists that he help Kira as he feels some debt towards Kira's mother for saving him years ago, and devises a plan to steal a single branch from the tree and use his Stand's abilities to graft it to another tree and raise a Rokakaka Tree of their own. Sometime after this incident, he took a photo with Kira and Karera.
According to Yotsuyu Yagiyama, he once tried to kill Josefumi, but was prevented from doing so by Kira.
He and Yoshikage Kira were eventually found by Tamaki Damo and Yotsuyu Yagiyama, the former horribly torturing them. Thanks to Kira, they managed to escape and arrive to the location of their Rokakaka graft, but Kira having lost his liver, Josefumi fed him one of the Rokakaka fruit.
Eventually, Josefumi apparently met up with Kira and both were buried in the ground beneath a Wall Eye and left for dead, but were actually undergoing a process of equivalent exchange, with both men's bodies, minds, and spirits combining into the man discovered by Yasuho Hirose who has come to be known as Josuke Higashikata. A few days after their meeting, Josuke and Yasuho return to the same spot and discover the corpse of Yoshikage Kira.
For the next several months, Josuke is unaware of his previous identity as either Josefumi or Kira until Kyo Nijimura reveals the process of equivalent exchange that resulted in him being partly her brother Kira and a chance meeting with Josefumi's friend Karera Sakunami who recognizes that he is also Josefumi, and the A. Phex Brothers who recognize that Josuke's Stand Soft & Wet is similar to both Josefumi's Stand and Kira's Killer Queen.
Gallery
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Josefumi in a photo on Karera's cellphone, alongside Karera and Kira
Kira's recognizes Josefumi as the boy he saved
Trivia
- Josefumi is the first prominently-named Kujo to appear in JoJolion.
- His pompadour, metallic pins, and childhood background, are likely references to the original Josuke Higashikata.
- In his first appearance, his eyes bear a resemblance to those of Crazy Diamond.
- Along with having a star-shaped birthmark, Josefumi Kujo's name makes him a JoJo.
- As he has this birthmark, it can be assumed he is related to the Joestar Family.
- The pronunciation of his name Josefu is the same as Joseph in Japanese.
