Mandom

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Your actions are meaningless to me. I've already expressed this.
—Ringo Roadagain

Mandom (マンダム, Mandamu) is the Stand of Ringo Roadagain, featured in Steel Ball Run.

Appearance

Mandom takes the shape of a head as the centre of what looks like an enlarged, wrist-based item of metallic jewellery, splitting and extending at its ends into long, flowing tendrils. Dark, its face is featureless except where patterned by a number of small spheres resembling eyes; joined by lines to form a pattern of horizontally oriented lozenges.

Its design was inspired by the "Major League Training Brace" from the Star of the Giants manga series.[2]

Ability

Time Reversal: By turning a hand on his wristwatch, Mandom will rewind time by exactly 6 seconds; returning everything to how it was 6 seconds ago. However nearby individuals affected by this ability will partially remember the events of those rewound seconds. The ability has a 6 second cool-down period after activation, this is to prevent Ringo from exploiting Mandom by rewinding beyond 6 seconds.

Even though the process of rewinding back 6 seconds is supposedly instant and unnoticeable according to all individuals effected, Time Reversal is represented by everything being rewound. Similar to replaying a video in reverse.

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Trivia

  • The wristwatch that Ringo wears, acts as a psychological switch. Ringo cannot activate Mandom without it.
  • Aside from the 2nd Diego Brando's THE WORLD, Mandom is the only time-manipulation Stand belonging to a minor antagonist.
  • Mandom is a Japanese brand of perfumes and deodorants. Ringo and his Stand's name are likely to be inspired by their TV commercial featuring Charles Bronson and the song "Lovers of the World";[3] named "男の世界" ("True Man's World") in its Japanese release; the lyrics of which mention "living in the world of Mandom".
  • Mandom makes a sharp mechanical switch sound when activating it's main ability. [4]

References

  1. [citation needed]
  2. JOJOVELLER: STANDS - Comments by Hirohiko Araki[1]
  3. Charles Bronson Mandom commercial, YouTube
  4. http://annex.s-manga.net/sbr/

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