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The Kawajiri Residence is a recurring location featured in the fourth part of the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure series, Diamond is Unbreakable. It is a home situated in the Japanese town of Morioh.

After Yoshikage Kira steals the identity of Kosaku Kawajiri to evade capture, he is forced to move into this house and assimilate into his new identity.

Description

Located in the suburbs of Morioh, the Kawajiri residence is a two-story home. While not being visibly in disrepair, Shinobu Kawajiri considers the home to be cheap and in poor condition.[1] The monthly rent of the home is ¥130,000[2], and according to the landlord, pets are forbidden as per the lease.[3] At some point, Hayato Kawajiri secretly installed surveillance cameras which he uses to spy on his parents.[4] When threatened by Kira after witnessing and filming the murders of Minako Okura and Satoru Nakae, Hayato claims the tapes from those cameras aren't kept in the Kawajiri residence, but somewhere where they would definitely be found should something happen to him.[5]

The home's rooms include a foyer, a living room, a kitchen, at least 2 bedrooms, a bathroom, a basement, and an attic. The backyard, which is also accessible, features a variety of flora including several flowering shrubs and cacti.

Residents

Residents of the Kawajiri's House

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Yoshikage Kira

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Shinobu Kawajiri

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Hayato Kawajiri

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Kawajiri Family Cat

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Tama

History

Background

Kosaku and Shinobu Kawajiri moved into their home sometime before 1989,[6] and in recent months, had fallen behind on their rent.[2] At an unknown point, their son Hayato installed surveillance equipment throughout the house.

Diamond is Unbreakable

Yoshikage Kira's New Situation

After adopting the identity of Kosaku Kawajiri, Kira arrives at the Kawajiri home, and struggles to open the door to his new home for the first time. Upon hearing the sound of his keys, Shinobu begins having derisive thoughts about her husband, lamenting her loveless marriage to him. As an act of spite, she lies about being to busy to cook, and leaves him an uncooked pack of instant noodles. Expecting him to spinelessly eat it, she's surprised when he proceeds to cook a meal for the both of them.

The droppings of the crow that Yoshihiro Kira tied himself to fatefully lead us to his son's new home.

The surprises surrounding her husband continue into the next day. While going to yell at her husband for leaving their cat out overnight, she notices him shaving with a safety razor instead of his electric razor, despite the former giving him razor burn. When the landlord arrives to collect the past two months of rent, and she asks him to collect ¥100,000 they have in a safe, she notices his reluctance to open the safe. When Kira steals ¥520,000 yen from the landlord's bag and gives it right back to him as payment for the prior two and following two months, she is able to immediately deduce what happened, despite not knowing exactly how. Despite believing the behavior to be reprehensible, Shinobu finds this behavior romantic, and begins to fall in love with the man she believes is her husband.

As the summer season arrives in Morioh, Kira struggles to suppress his murderous urges. Shinobu brings him tea, and after waiting for him to reciprocate, begins to change for the night. Seeing this, Kira loses his restraint and attempts to strangle her, but accidentally startles her. While he apologizes, she mistakes his actions as a sexual gesture, and one again realize her revitalized feelings for him. Unbeknownst to the two, Hayato is in his room monitoring their actions through a security camera. He finds it unusual that the two are behaving romantically, and is intrigued by his father's recent actions.

Cats Love Yoshikage Kira

Kira enters the home on a rainy day, and takes off Kosaku Kawajiri's shoes, noticing they're too big for his feet. As he decides he'll slowly replace Kosaku's shoes with pairs that are his own size, Shinobu barges into the room in a panic, and recounts the events that just happened to her. When she went down to their basement in order to replenish their mineral water, she noticed a British Shorthair cat sitting on a sack of potatoes. While she found the cat to be beautiful, she didn't want it to soil their potatoes or bring fleas, so she carefully attempts to approach and befriend it. After several unsuccessful attempts, she begins to attack and chase the cat, swinging at it with a broom. When the cat jumps and clings to the ceiling, she notices a hold in the cat's neck the size of a ¥1 coin, through which she heard a meow. Curious as to whether the hole was caused by the arrow, Kira accepts Shinobu's request to check on the cat in the basement. He finds that the cat has died from glass shards, including several in it's throat that make it difficult to determine if it was hit by the arrow. He comforts Shinobu, and buries the cat's body in the backyard.

Tama, dead in the Kawajiri's basement.

In the backyard the following day, a mysterious plant blooms from the cat's grave. It is the cat, who remembers climbing a tree, being shot by the arrow, and being drawn to the Kawajiri residence, but nothing after that. While getting used to his new body, he notices and recognizes Shinobu after she enters the backyard while holding a broom. Enraged, he unintentionally shoots a bubble of air that rips off one of her toenails, and after proceeding to kill a sparrow, he intuitively understands the power of his Stand, Stray Cat. Kira arrives and, believing he could kill the plant very easily, decides to conduct several tests to figure out what exactly it is. After observing it's behavior, he comes to the understanding that the plant is the cat, reincarnated as a Stand

Shinobu notices Kira, and warns him to not go near that part of the backyard, since it's where she was hurt. Stray Cat notices her approaching, and begins to prepare an attack, causing Kira to worry that if she sees the plant talking, Jotaro will eventually come to investigate the rumor. He rushes to detonate the plant with Killer Queen, but Stray Cat nullifies it's bomb by depriving it of oxygen, and manages to land an attack on Shinobu. With Shinobu unconscious, Stray Cat knocks Killer Queen's bomb away, leading Kira to determine that he has control over air. Vowing to make sure she isn't hurt further, Kira attempts to stomp on the plant to no avail. Stray Cat shoots out another air bubble which hits a nearby cactus, sending pieces of the plant flying at high velocity. He is shocked at his own feelings of relief that Shinobu's eyes were not struck by spines, but tells himself that he was only relieved that nothing happened that could draw Jotaro to their house.

Stray Cat shoots another air bubble, which ends up inside the blood vessels in Kira's left arm. Realizing the potential fatality of this, and unable to block the air from traveling with just his fingers, he uses Killer Queen to create a miniature explosion on his vein to release the air. Realizing that he's underestimated his enemy, and that Stray Cat is preparing another attack, Kira is uncertain on how he'll defeat him. Just then, he notices a golf ball on the ground, and rolls it over to Stray Cat, who immediately begins to play with it. Though he's still concerned about the plant's grudge, Kira accepts his narrow victory.

In the backyard, Stray Cat plays with a golf ball.

The following day, Shinobu reflects on the events that occurred in the backyard, and concludes that she must've just caught her toenail on something. As her husband eats breakfast, she blushingly reminisces about fainting in front of him, and having him take care of her. Kira notices Hayato spying on him, and as he and Shinobu discuss his behavior, she notices that he's eating from a plate that has shiitake mushrooms, which the real Kosaku hated. While Kira is immediately anxious, she expresses that she's just happy that he seems to like them now. She tries, albeit unsuccessfully, to give Kira a kiss goodbye as he heads out for work. Unbeknownst to either, Hayato didn't leave for school, and has been spying on the two, noting the increasing number of strange behaviors his father has been exhibiting. He particularly hones in on footage of Kira entering his own closet with a pot of soil and a bag of cat food, and decides to investigate.

While walking to work, Kira notices several schoolchildren wearing a hat that he suspects to be part of their uniform, and recalls seeing it hanging on the hat rack before he left. Hayato can't find the pot of soil or cat food in the closet, so he decides to sneak into the attic to search there. Suspicious of Hayato's behavior, Kira decides to go back home to check the attic just in case. Hayato finds Stray Cat sleeping in the pot of soil, and decides to search for the cat food. When he opens the shutters to let more light in, the plant springs back to life, and Hayato notices that it has eyes. As he hears Kira has arrived back home and rushes to close the shutters, Stray Cat launches several bubbles in the shape of cuffs at Hayato's neck and wrists, which hold him up in mid-air.

Hiding in a box in the attic, Hayato realizes the truth about his "father".

Stray Cat launches another air bubble which hits Hayato in the chest and sends him crashing towards the wall. The ensuing sounds are heard by Kira, who realizes it's coming from the attic and rushes upstairs. Hayato uses a compass needle to pop the cuffs, the released air closing the shutters, and Stray Cat quickly falls asleep again. Hayato quickly spreads around some cat food, and hides just as Kira reaches the attic. Upon seeing the scene, he concludes that Stray Cat was using its powers to reach the cat food and caused a mess. Out loud, he states that he's glad that he was overthinking things, because if Hayato had found out, he would've had to kill him, before heading back to work. Inside a nearby box, Hayato realizes that the man he thought was his father has been replaced.

My Dad Is Not My Dad

Kira attempts to kill Hayato in their bathroom.

After witnessing and filming Kira murder Minako Okura and Satoru Nakae, Hayato rushes back home, and takes a bath to attempt to gather his thoughts. Kira notices Hayato running after leaving the couple's apartment, and rushes back home to look through Hayato's room for his camcorder. While contemplating who he can trust with the evidence he has, Kira enters the bathroom, and asks Hayato if he can join him for a father-and-son bath. Hayato, who is hiding the tape in a bucket, states that he was just about to get out, but Kira insists. After the two tensely disagree over who will need the bucket to wash the other, Hayato sneaks the tape onto himself and allows Kira to wash his back. Eventually, Kira reveals that he noticed Hayato running away with his camcorder, and decides to kill him after failing to find the tape. However, Hayato reveals that a camera has been recording everything, and that if Kira kills him, someone will eventually find the tapes. For the moment, the two have reached a temporary stalemate.

Another One Bites the Dust

Kira is revealed to have lost his temper and killed Hayato. Amidst his panic, his father finds him and tells him that with Rohan Kishibe and the others closing in on the Kawajiri residence, he must leave Morioh. While vehemently refusing to leave Morioh and live in fear for the rest of his life, he is suddenly pierced by the arrow his father carries. The next morning, Hayato is mysteriously alive and well in his room, and Kira boldly reappears with a brand new hairstyle. Over breakfast, Hayato nervously observes Kira's newfound confidence, becoming especially shocked when he finally reciprocates Shinobu's affections and gives her goodbye kiss.

AS he carefully makes his way out of the house, Kira reveals he was waiting behind the front door, and gives Hayato his school hat. Kira credits Hayato for helping him develop his new power, and encourages him to just accept their new situation before leaving to work. While questioning what Kira meant, Hayato is confronted by Rohan, who attempts to question Hayato before resorting to using Heaven's Door. While looking through his pages, Rohan finds unusual passages that seem to tell future events, and eventually reads that Kosaku Kawajiri is Yoshikage Kira in disguise. His excitement is cut short when he reads that he was also killed by Kira, whose new ability, Bites the Dust reveals from Hayato's pages, and makes Rohan partially explode. Through Killer Queen, Kira explains that anyone who learns his identity through Hayato will be blown up, and Rohan is fully blown destroyed.

Hayato wakes up in his own bed, believing the events he witnessed to have just been a dream. However, as several events from the past morning repeat, such as a specific newscast, Shinobu's Wedgdwood tea set almost breaking, and the phone ringing, Hayato realizes he is reliving the past morning. Kira notices Hayato's horror, and deduces that he must've killed Rohan. On his way out, Hayato leaves through the window in order to avoid Kira, and tries his best to make it to school without seeing Rohan or his allies. However, just like it happened during breakfast, the events of the past day are now fated to occur no matter what, and Rohan is killed again despite never seeing Hayato. Disheartened, Hayato eventually runs into Josuke Higashikata and his allies, who were going to meet with Rohan. They recognize him, and realizing that they'll question him and potentially be killed, Hayato attempts to take his own life. However, Bites the Dust prevents Hayato from doing so, causing Josuke, Jotaro, Okuyasu, and Koichi to explode, and once again sending Hayato an hour into the past.

Back in his room, Hayato realizes that the events of the past mornings he's experienced are fated to repeat unless Kira disarms the bomb early or is killed. Determined, Hayato takes Stray Cat as a weapon, and decides to attack Kira outside, so as not to potentially harm his mother. Hayato kisses his mother on the cheek as he leaves the house for his final opportunity to stop Kira.

Goodbye, Morioh Town

On the evening of July 15th, Hayato returns home, and wearily waits to eat dinner while Shinobu wonders where Kosaku is. When she tells him to eat his dinner before it gets cold, Hayato tearfully tells his mother that he'll wait so they can eat together as a family, despite knowing the truth about his father.

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    Hayato's bedroom

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    Hayato's bedroom

Trivia

  • Despite Shinobu mentioning the family recently purchasing a car,[7] the vehicle itself is never shown. It is unknown if the Kawajiri residence has a garage, and Kira later states that he commutes to Kosaku's job via train.[8]

References

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