Josuke Higashikata/Games
Major Battles
- Josuke vs Anjuro Katagiri[1]
- Josuke vs Okuyasu Nijimura[2]
- Josuke vs Keicho Nijimura[3]
- Josuke vs Toshikazu Hazamada[4]
- Josuke vs Akira Otoishi[5]
- Josuke vs Rohan Kishibe[6]
- Josuke vs Mushikui[7]
- Josuke vs Shigekiyo Yangu[8]
- Josuke vs Yuuya Fungami
- Josuke vs Toyohiro Kanedaichi
- Josuke vs Terunosuke Miyamoto
- Josuke vs Yoshikage Kira
In Video Games
Cult Jump (GB Game)
Josuke appears as one of the ten characters from the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure franchise who appears on the game.
Jump Ultimate Stars (DS Game)
Josuke appears as a support and help character. In his 2-Koma support, Josuke uses Crazy Diamond to heal the character that the stand punches and in his 3-Koma support he uses his stand to punch the oponnent multiple times using his battle cry Dora. His help Koma makes shorter the time that the character is affected by any status effects (such as poison, blinding and burning). He has an ally boost with Jotaro.
Giogio's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Whirlwind (PS2 Game)
Josuke makes a brief appareance on the game's introduction as an image behind Giorno (along with PART IV Jotaro, PART III Joseph and Jonathan), similiar to how Koichi said that Giorno had a simiiar kindness to the Joestar bloodline.
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure All-Star Battle (PS3 Game)
Josuke appears a playable character in the PS3 game, and was confirmed along with Okuyasu, Jolyne and Hermes. Josuke is a powerful and easy-to-use character. Much like Jotaro, many of his attacks includes the famous "DORARARA!", but Josuke can use them in a variety of ways.
One of his attacks makes him rush into the opponent's direction as Crazy Diamond beats him/her with blazing fists by ending with a low punch attack. Josuke can also use Crazy Diamond to hit rapidly hit the ground multiple times (damaging enemy in the process if he's close enough), and with follow-up input, Josuke can quickly travel to the point where Crazy Diamond dug up the ground. Crazy Diamond can shoot a rifle bullet towards the enemy or a glass shard towards the enemy (depending on input). Josuke's "DORARARA!" can be used in two different ways (normal and as a "throw" style of attack with animation), and can use Crazy Diamond to create a rock barrier to both attack and protect him (similar to how he defended himself and Okuyasu from Killer Queen's contact air bombs). Among his moveset is a special counter where the opponent makes an insult/comment about Josuke's hair which causes him to go into a rage, making his hair stand on end and gaining an attack, defense, and speed boost as well unflinching, but forces the Josuke player to be moving constantly towards his opponent for a certain period of time.
His HHA has Crazy Diamond punching his opponent with a "DORARARA!" barrage, ending with an uppercut that sends them flying. By spending about an extra half of a bar of his Heart Heat Gauge, Josuke can add a supplementary attack to the move, replacing the uppercut with Crazy Diamond shooting a shard of broken glass at the opponent that boomerangs back through them, dealing more damage.
His GHA has Crazy Diamond blow the opponent back, before Josuke decides to heal them to their maximum health (this is purely visually cosmetic) to "make the fight fair" as he sends Crazy Diamond to unleash an extremely powerful "DORARARA!" barrage, ending with an uppercut that brings the opponent's health back down to their true health plus the normal GHA damage taken (similar to how he defeated Yuuya Fungami).
Josuke also possess alternate costumes, most of them are taken from the artbooks such as JOJO-A-GOGO and JOJO 6251. Besides the entire cast from Part IV, Josuke also possess two special dialogues before a match against Jotaro and Old Joseph (in both cases he asks both if it's really them, since Josuke recognizes them, but Part III Jotaro and Joseph don't recognize Josuke).
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Eyes of Heaven (PS3/PS4 Game)
Josuke was one of the first confirmed characters for the game (alongside PART II Joseph, Caesar, Stomhein, Jotaro, Kakyoin and Diego).
Since most of the game's animation, effects and attacks were reused from All-Star Battle, Josuke's moveset remains the same. His only new move allow's him to use the rock barrier to trap and hold the opponent for a while.
Trivia
- According to Araki, as of Steel Ball Run, Josuke is his favorite "JoJo". He explains that because of the general everyday neighborhood setting of Part IV, he felt more attached to Josuke, and considered him somewhat like a friend or a senior. In contrast, Jotaro was "more of someone you would admire as a hero". [9]
- Josuke and Koichi have the odd trait of "beating the evil out of people". At the end of part four the total number of people they've fought that became allies was six (Okuyasu Nijimura, Toshikazu Hazamada, Yukako Yamagishi, Rohan Kishibe, Tamami Kobayashi, Yuuya Fungami).
- Josuke is the JoJo with the smallest killing spree, with only killing Mushikui and Yoshihiro Kira (indirectly).
- Josuke's favorite phrase is the English word "Great!" (グレート!). He often extends the word depending on the situation.
- Japanese fans sometimes refer to Part IV with "hamburger patty", referring to the appearance of Josuke's hairstyle. This goes along the same lines as Part V being represented by chocolate cornets, which refer to Giorno's look.
- Josuke's surname, Higashikata, is written using the same kanji as Touhou (東方). The video game series sharing the same name has been known to reference the series frequently; the creator ZUN himself is a fan.
- By the end of Stone Ocean Josuke is one of three JoJo's who were not killed prior to Made In Heaven's universal reset, the other two being his father & Giorno. It is assumed that Pucci indirectly killed them as well.
- If Josuke fights against "Old Joseph" on JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: All-Star Battle, they will have a special dialogue before the fight, where Joseph says that he looks like Jotaro (Since PART III's Joseph still didn't know Josuke at that time) and Josuke says "Joestar-san, is that really you!?"
References
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