Yuya Fungami
Yuya Fungami (噴上 裕也, Fungami Yūya) is a secondary ally featured in the fourth part of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Diamond is Unbreakable. Introduced as an antagonist in "Highway Star", he becomes an ally in "Enigma Boy".
Yuya is a motorcycle gang member who was made into a Stand User by Yoshihiro Kira and prompted into attacking Josuke and the others. Selfishly attacking Rohan and Josuke in a high-speed road chase with his Highway Star, Yuya later assists Josuke in the fight against Terunosuke.
Appearance
Yuya is a young man of average height and slim to fit build. He has a short undercut and his chin is tattooed with a stylized "H☆S", implying the name of his stand - Highway Star.
Like Josuke, Okuyasu, and Mikitaka, Yuya wears a dark, modified school uniform. His uniform's torso has a pattern on the front and back, two golden pins on each collar and a belt over the torso with two gold buckles on the both sides. He wears a long, bouffant, light bow tie with the words "Highway" and "Speed King", possibly a reference to the Deep Purple song Speed King.
Color Schemes
Personality
Yuya is a vain and selfish young man, introduced feeding off of the nutrients of unsuspecting people with his Stand.
Yuya is very prideful about himself. He exclaims often about how handsome he looks and claims at one point that his face is chiseled like Michelangelo’s David.[1] His exceptional ability to pick up scents gives him more reason to boast, often showing off in-front of his fangirls.[2] This confidence can be a weakness whenever he underestimates the determination of his opponents.
Despite his vanity Yuya is quite cowardly, panicking against adversities and hoping to avoid fighting when possible. When Josuke Higashikata confronts him at the hospital, he begs him to stop claiming it’d be cowardly to hurt an injured man.[2] When he joins Josuke against Terunosuke Miyamoto he arranges a deal that leaves him out of the direct fight.[1] The tell for his fear is touching his chin.
When the situation calls for it however, he shows loyalty, bravery and skills of deduction. He is protective towards his three admirers, who, in turn, are very close to him. His sense of morality doesn’t allow him to let people like Yoshikage Kira run loose, as he claims that it'd hurt his image.[3]
Abilities
Stand
Yuya's mainly automatic Stand is Highway Star, which tracks targets at a speed of 60 km/h in order to efficiently absorb their vitality. This allows Yuya to recover from injuries at a significantly faster pace.
Yuya also has a powerful sense of smell that developed when his Stand ability awoke, allowing him to pick up on very specific scents. Using his sense of smell he demonstrates impressive skills of deduction, he could tell when a peach is rotten or when someone is enraged because of the smell of adrenaline.[4]
History
Background
Yuya Fungami was a member of an unnamed biker gang. Two days prior to his appearance in the story, Yuya Fungami suffered a severe motorcycle accident as he was racing across the Twin Pines tunnel. Yuya was brought to the Budogaoka Hospital in, with his spine and all four limbs broken. At one point, he was pierced by Yoshihiro Kira with the Bow and Arrow and acquired a Stand ability.
Diamond is Unbreakable (1999)
Highway Star
Wanting to heal faster, Yuya uses his Stand Highway Star to absorb the nutrients and energy from unsuspecting people. The Stand makes its first appearance by luring a manga author, Rohan Kishibe inside of a hallucinatory room. When Rohan investigates, it begins its attack as Rohan scrambles to get away on his motorcycle. Despite his speed, Highway Star catches up and latches onto Rohan, dropping him from the motorcycle and slowly draining him of his life force. Highway Star drags him back to the room but fortunately for Rohan, Josuke Higashikata arrives to the scene to investigate the tunnel alongside him. Through Highway Star, Yuya tempts Rohan into luring his most hated acquaintance into the room in exchange for freedom. Rohan makes a declaration refusing his offer out of principles. He warns Josuke about the Stand's ability and demands the user's defeat. Back at the hospital Yuya recovers rapidly from the life force sucked out of Rohan. After not being able to breathe properly Yuya was now able to speak to his fangirls.
After a harsh chase across Morioh Josuke eventually finds his way to Yuya's hospital room. Despite this Highway Star still manages to catch up while he struggles to confront Yuya directly. As Josuke is slowly drained, Yuya's satisfied to be the victor and optimistic about his improving condition. With his new source of nourishment he notices that his sense of smell has sharpened considerably and boasts about the ability. Relaxed on the bed he notices the sharp smell of adrenaline, and blames one of his fan girls to be the source. Unfortunately for Yuya, Josuke suddenly springs back to action having sipped on his IV. Josuke gets in range and strikes Yuya faster than Highway Star can act. Yuya pleads for mercy, invoking that it would be terrible to fight a crippled man like him. Josuke agrees and heals Yuya to perfect condition, just to make it a fair fight. Crazy Diamond proceeds to pummel Yuya and sends him flying through the window.
Back to square one as far as his injuries are concerned, Yuya's face has now been ruined and his fangirls stop caring about him. Josuke later dissuades Yuya from using his Stand to heal himself.
Enigma Boy
When Koichi is kidnapped by Terunosuke Miyamoto, Josuke visits Yuya to ask for his help, and offers to heal him. Although Yuya remains spiteful about their last encounter, he cannot pass up the opportunity to be healed. Without his looks, his fangirls have seemingly left him. With Crazy Diamond, Yuya is now completely healed and open to help out Josuke. His fangirls return suddenly, shocked to find him fully recover, and he takes a little bit of time to boast about his sense of smell to them.
They get to work, and Yuya tracks Koichi's smell up to a square where they find his school-bag. Yuya also picks up on another’s scent in the area. He reminds Josuke of their deal that keeps Yuya out of the fight and watches. He witnesses Terunosuke Miyamoto ambushing Josuke using his paper-based Stand ability Enigma. Josuke is caught in a trap where Koichi's assumed paper is thrown in the path of a car. His tell of fear is exposed, allowing Enigma to trap him using his ability. Josuke is sealed into a paper but not before declaring that that he expected a trap and still wanted to save it just for the small possibility that Koichi could be in it. He then threatens to kill Miyamoto, if he fails to kill him first. Miyamoto compliments Yuya for not interfering, and leaves the scene in a taxi cab, summoned from his ability.
Inspired by Josuke's speech, Yuya decides to join him in the fray, declaring that letting someone like Yoshikage Kira loose would hurt his image. He sends out Highway Star to chase the car and confront Miyamoto. When Yuya eventually catches up to the taxi he finds it parked on the side of the road with a piece of paper put on the passenger seats. Yuya manages to avoid a first trap as he opens the door and a paper stuck in it releases fire. He picks the paper and realizes that while Josuke and Koichi are in there, other items are folded together in it. Yuya lightly unfolds the paper only to realise that scorpions have come out of it. Highway Star dispatches them but then the paper releases some sort of chemical that eats away at the rest of the paper. It doesn't end there for Yuya though, and a spark of electricity shoots out towards him.
Yuya unfolds the entire paper and it releases a shredder that's going to kill Josuke and Koichi. Unable to break the machine or pull the papers, Yuya shows his fear tell allowing Miyamoto to finally turn him into paper. Yuya expected this though and uses his transformation to fit his hand into the shredder pulling out both Stand users. When Miyamoto threatens to rip Yuya's paper, Koichi's Echoes weights his hands and immobilizes him. Josuke and Koichi defeat Miyamoto and turn him into a book, releasing Yuya from his trap.
Goodbye, Morioh - The Golden Heart
Yuya is last seen saying goodbye to Reimi Sugimoto at the end of the part.
In the anime adaptation Yuya is seen with his fangirls at Tonio Trussardi's restaurant after a lunch, all happy with the curing effects of Tonio's cooking.
Chapters / Episodes
Manga Appearances- Chapter 386: Highway Star, Part 3 (Voice only)
- Chapter 387: Highway Star, Part 4 (Mentioned only)
- Chapter 388: Highway Star, Part 5 (Mentioned only)
- Chapter 389: Highway Star, Part 6 (Mentioned only)
- Chapter 390: Highway Star, Part 7
- Chapter 391: Highway Star, Part 8
- Chapter 398: Let's Live on a Transmission Tower, Part 1 (Cover only)
- Chapter 404: Enigma Boy, Part 1
- Chapter 405: Enigma Boy, Part 2
- Chapter 406: Enigma Boy, Part 3
- Chapter 407: Enigma Boy, Part 4
- Chapter 408: Enigma Boy, Part 5
- Chapter 409: Enigma Boy, Part 6
- Chapter 412: Cheap Trick, Part 1 (Mentioned only)
- Chapter 439: Goodbye, Morioh - The Golden Heart
- Crazy Diamond's Demonic Heartbreak: Chapter 2 (Mentioned only)
Anime Appearances- Diamond is Unbreakable Episode 24: Sheer Heart Attack, Part 2 (Glimpse)
- Diamond is Unbreakable Episode 29: Highway Star, Part 2
- Diamond is Unbreakable Episode 32: July 15th (Thursday), Part 2
- Diamond is Unbreakable Episode 33: July 15th (Thursday), Part 3
- Diamond is Unbreakable Episode 39: Goodbye, Morioh - The Golden Heart
Quotes
Quotes- “One more of you's really pissed off. I can practically taste the adrenaline!”—Yuya Fungami to his fangirls, Chapter 391: Highway Star, Part 8
- “You're not going to hurt an injured man, are you? That'd be underhanded! Unmanly!”—Yuya Fungami to Josuke Higashikata, Chapter 391: Highway Star, Part 8
- “I still have my pride, you know! I'm not going to just help you out!”—Yuya Fungami to Josuke Higashikata, Chapter 404: Enigma Boy, Part 1
- “Just so gloriously handsome! Check out this face of mine. It wouldn't be a stretch to say I compare with the chiseled features of Michelangelo's David. That's how beautiful I am.”—Yuya Fungami, Chapter 404: Enigma Boy, Part 1
- “That's how good I am. You know I can't live without these gals. You perserved my beauty, so of course I'll help.”—Yuya Fungami to Josuke Higashikata, Chapter 404: Enigma Boy, Part 1
- “Yeah it's dumb but when I think about those girls and I think about how they see me... then I gotta fight! You think I can let people like you and Yoshikage Kira off so easily?! Letting you off just hurts my image!”—Yuya Fungami to Terunosuke Miyamoto, Chapter 407: Enigma Boy, Part 4
- “It's fucking scorpions! He folded in scorpions! Almost got stung!”—Yuya Fungami, Chapter 408: Enigma Boy, Part 5
Creation and Development
Casting
Yuya's English voice actor, Phillip Reich, would later voice Giorno Giovanna.
Video Games
Diamond Records (Android/iOS)
Yuya Fungami (噴上 裕也, Fungami Yūya) appears in Diamond Records as a playable character in both the Action Battle and Tactical Battle game modes. He has a variety of unlockable statues varying between the 'Unity', 'Courage', and 'Tactical' types, ranging from 3 stars to 6 stars. His 'Tactical' type statues are only playable in Tactical Battle. Yuya's moveset in both game modes is comprised of various attacks inspired by the anime, using his stand Highway Star.
3-star
~Ability to absorb nutrients~
(Tactical)
Max LVL Stats: 4900 HP/2600 ATK/2000 DEF
Max LVL Tree Stats: 10600 HP/5600 ATK/2900 DEF
4-star
~Ability to absorb nutrients~
(Tactical)
Max LVL Stats: 8100 HP/4200 ATK/3300 DEF
Max LVL Tree Stats: 18000 HP/9450 ATK/4350 DEF
5-star
(Courage)
Max LVL Stats: 10692 HP/5049 ATK/7425 DEF
Max LVL Tree Stats: 15492 HP/6849 ATK/21225 DEF
5-star
(Unity)
Max LVL Stats: 11286 HP/6237 ATK/5940 DEF
Max LVL Tree Stats: 23286 HP/12237 ATK/11940 DEF
5-star
~Ability to absorb nutrients~
(Tactical)
Max LVL Stats: 12200 HP/6400 ATK/4900 DEF
Max LVL Tree Stats: 29000 HP/15400 ATK/5500 DEF
6-star
~Ability to absorb nutrients~
(Tactical)
Max LVL Stats: 14500 HP/7600 ATK/5900 DEF
Max LVL Tree Stats: 31300 HP/16600 ATK/6500 DEF
JoJo's Pitter-Patter Pop! (Android/iOS)
Cooldown: 75
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Cooldown: 65
Date: February 8, 2021 - September 2, 2021
Cooldown: 75
Cooldown: 75
Cooldown: 70
Cooldown: 70
Cooldown: 65
Date: May 11, 2021 - September 2, 2021
Gallery
Yuya lying in his hospital bed
Yuya smelling a strong source of adrenaline, unaware it's Josuke
Losing composure
Yuya punched by Crazy Diamond, which heals his body
Yuya punched out the window by Crazy Diamond
Restored to health
Yuya with his groupies
Distressed about Enigma
Yuya's full body
Yuya and the others bid Reimi farewell
Chapter 391 Cover
Chapter 398 Cover B
Weekly Shonen Jump 1995 Issue #8 (Title Page)
Chapter 409 Cover
Chapter 404 Tailpiece
Chapter 410 Tailpiece
Yuya's initial appearance, surrounded by his loving groupies
Glaring at Josuke
Yuya relaxing in his hospital bed, asking for one of his groupies to help him urinate
Yuya attacks Josuke, draining his nutrients with his Stand
Demonstrating his superhuman sense of smell by detecting a rotten peach
Yuya smelling a strong source of adrenaline, unaware it's Josuke
Yuya punched by Crazy Diamond, which heals his body
Beaten to a pulp by Crazy Diamond
Yuya laying unconscious and battered in the hospital's water fountain
Reading a book as Josuke asks for his help
Checking himself out in a mirror
Admiring his 'handsome' face, after being healed by Josuke
Yuya strikes a pose, agreeing to help Josuke
Sniffing out his groupies
Glad that his three groupies have arrived
Trying to trace Koichi's scent from his schoolbag
Yuya clarifying his role before warning Josuke
Shocked by the mystic Terunosuke's sudden disappearance
Yuya Attacked by Enigma
Yuya trapped in paper by Terunosuke
Yuya and his fangirls enjoying lunch at Tonio Trussardi's restaurant
Yuya's early cameo in DU Episode 24
Yuya Fungami's silhouette in Crazy Noisy Bizarre Town
Yuya featured alongside Kira's minions in the third opening, Great Days
Key Art
Icon
Idle
Flaunting his beauty
Scared
Win Pose
Icon
Stand-up icon
Idle
Sniffing Koichi's bag
In a hospital bed
Akemi, Yoshie, and Reiko by his bedside
Charging to Attack
Win Pose
![[EX] Nutrient-Absorbing Pursuer](https://static.jojowiki.com/images/thumb/3/31/latest/20210208063521/PPPStickerYuyaEX.png/225px-PPPStickerYuyaEX.png)
[EX] Nutrient-Absorbing Pursuer
![[EX] Statuesque Beauty](https://static.jojowiki.com/images/thumb/b/b3/latest/20210506194850/PPPStickerYuya2EX.png/225px-PPPStickerYuya2EX.png)
[EX] Statuesque Beauty
Chara Heroes; Part 4 Vol.2
Statue Legend second color
Adventure Battle Card; Yuya Fungami
Yuya Fungami (Hospitalized)
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Yuya Fungami
Weekly Shonen Jump 1995 Issue #23-25 (Telephone Card Gift)
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Chapter 404: Enigma Boy, Part 1
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Chapter 391: Highway Star, Part 8
- ↑ Chapter 407: Enigma Boy, Part 4
- ↑ JOJOVELLER: STANDS, p.106
