Kira Residence
Found near the northern coastal area of Morioh, it is the home of the serial killer Yoshikage Kira. After he is forced to change his identity and move to another home, Josuke and the others investigate it to find clues that could guide them towards his new identity.
Description
The Kira residence is a single-story home with a sukiya-zukuri style, or a style based on the aesthetics of Japanese tea ceremonies.[1] This includes low furniture, sliding wood doors, and natural building materials. The home is sparsely furnished, with most rooms only having one or two pieces of furniture, and very little in the way of wall decorations. Several belongings found by Josuke and the others while searching the home give insight to Kira's psychology, such as his records of his nail growth and clippings[2], his 3rd place trophies and awards[3], and a photobook full of photos where, according to Jotaro, he doesn't try to stand out[4]. Other important possessions include a camera which Kira's deceased father Yoshihiro Kira uses to carry out his attack against Josuke and Jotaro, and another bow and arrow, which Yoshihiro later steals to create more Stand users in Morioh.
The rooms that are known to be part of the home include what appears to be an office, a kitchen, a dining room, and a bathroom. Additionally, the land houses a parking garage, and a shed, while the perimeter of the property is surrounded by a fence. The home is found on the outskirts of the coastal area north of the Morioh Grand Hotel[5]. This area was a popular location for samurai to build summer homes, with Kira's ancestors among them. However, after his family fell into hard times around the time of his grandfather, Kira considers the home to be the only thing left of his families former wealth.[6]
The home is a 15 minute drive from Morioh Station.[5]
Residents
History
Rohan Kishibe's Adventure
While telling Josuke and Okuyasu the story of Reimi Sugimoto, Koichi is almost sped over by a car, being saved by Josuke just in time. While the teens apologize, the driver, Yoshikage Kira, leaves without saying a word. To an unseen listener, he tells about how Morioh was originally a favorite spot for samurais to build their vacation homes, including his ancestors. However, during the time of his grandfather, his family fell into misfortune, and lost everything except for the house. A woman's hand reaches over Kira's, and he asks where the watch she was wearing is, before remembering its in her purse. As the car pulls up next to his home, Kira invites the woman inside, with it being revealed that the "woman" is merely the remaining hand of one of Kira's victims. After Kira "makes her" clean up a mess she made bleeding on his car seat, he invites her inside to cook dinner with him.
Atom Heart Father
With Koichi having learned Kira's address during his battle with him behind Mukade Shoe Store, him and the others head over to his home to search for any clues that will make finding him easier after he switched identities with Kosaku Kawajiri. While they manage to find many details about Kira's upbringing and personal life, nothing they find seems immediately helpful in actually finding where he is now, with him having no close friends or lovers, and having no fingerprints, dental records, or medical scars to track him by. Additionally, Jotaro claims that he intentionally made sure to never stand out, with his grades being average, all of his school trophies being for third place, and even positioning himself in photos so he wouldn't be noticed. Josuke manages to find a drawer filled with jars of nail trimmings, labeled by the year they were clipped, along with a book recording their growth. After spotting writing stating "Top condition! No one can stop me." on one page, Jotaro theorizes that Kira uses his nail growth to predict his prospects for killing. Suddenly, a camera on Kira's desk goes off, and prints a polaroid of Josuke and Jotaro - with Kira's father, Yoshihiro, sitting in the corner.
When the two can't find him physically in the room, Jotaro theorizes that Yoshihiro is a ghost, bound to the home in the same way Reimi Sugimoto is bound to the area behind the Owson convenience store. Suddenly, a phone starts ringing, leading Josuke to guess that he is trying to scare them from finding something hidden in the home; subsequently, the phone is smacked into Josuke's face. Amid the commotion, Okuyasu and Koichi begin watching as Yoshihiro tells them that he will never allow them to leave the home alive. Jotaro states that Yoshihiro is calling and attacking them from within the photograph itself, and the two observe him grabbing a knife and beginning to walk towards them. Koichi tells Josuke that Stands can fight ghosts, and he uses Crazy Diamond to tear the polaroid apart, only to find himself and Jotaro being torn along the same spots as the picture. He quickly repairs it, making Yoshihiro aware of the crew having Stands.
Josuke tells Okuyasu to use The Hand to erase Yoshihiro from the picture, but while he obliges and begins to run towards Josuke, he unexpectedly ends up slamming into and breaking a screen door in the house. When Koichi reaches his hands out and sees they reach straight through to the other side of the room, it becomes apparent - Yoshihiro's Stand power has trapped Josuke and Jotaro within the space captured inside the polaroid, with them unable to leave and everyone else unable to enter. As Yoshihiro prepares to behead the two, Jotaro feigns hopelessness and states he's given up, before using the camera to take a picture of the original picture, this time only including where Yoshihiro was standing, effectively freeing them from the space and stopping him from harming them. Still able to move around and reach out, he attempts to use the camera one last time, but Jotaro destroys the camera with Star Platinum, and then folds the polaroid containing him in half, wraps it in tape, and uses a tack to stick it to a wooden beam.
The crew splits in half to search the remaining two rooms, and as Okuyasu and Koichi continue searching, Yoshihiro weakly states that he can't breathe, begging for just one air hole. While Koichi takes pity on him, Okuyasu mocks him, and proceeds to stick a bunch of thumbtacks through the polaroid. Upon hearing that Okuyasu used thumb tacks, Yoshihiro proclaims he's come up with an idea to escape, and strange noises begin emerging from the picture. Nervous, Okuyasu begins to to unwrap the picture, fearing he let him escape, only for Yoshihiro to successfully escape from the opening Okuyasu now made. He slips through a wall to another room, where Josuke has found another Bow and Arrow, and steals the Arrow from Josuke's hands. He states that the Arrow was given to him by an old woman in Egypt over ten years prior, and was the Arrow that awakened his stand, as well as Killer Queen. Using a string, he ties himself onto a passing crow, and makes his final escape from the Kira residence, stating he'll make new Stand users to stop them from finding his son. In the aftermath, Jotaro discusses the implications of another Bow and Arrow on their mission.
Chapters / Episodes
Manga Appearances- Chapter 334: Rohan Kishibe's Adventure, Part 5
- Chapter 365: Atom Heart Father, Part 1
- Chapter 366: Atom Heart Father, Part 2
- Chapter 367: Atom Heart Father, Part 3
- Chapter 368: Atom Heart Father, Part 4
- Chapter 369: Atom Heart Father, Part 5
- Chapter 438: Town Guardian Spirits (Mentioned only)
Anime Appearances- Diamond is Unbreakable Episode 17: Rohan Kishibe's Adventure
- Diamond is Unbreakable Episode 21: Yoshikage Kira Just Wants to Live Quietly, Part 1
- Diamond is Unbreakable Episode 25: Atom Heart Father
- Diamond is Unbreakable Episode 39: Goodbye, Morioh - The Golden Heart (Mentioned only)
Video Games
The Kira residence serves as a stage for the fighting games All-Star Battle and All-Star Battle R.
All-Star Battle (PS3)
- Stage Gimmick: Yoshihiro Kira attacks characters with a knife, traveling along a curving path.
- Situation Finish: If hit towards Yoshikage Kira's stack of books, the loser knocks one of the books open, revealing his various nail clipping records and a message declaring that he cannot be stopped during months where his nails grow more than 30 cm.
All-Star Battle R (Various)
TranslatedLocalized
The house where Yoshikage Kira lived in, featured in Part 4: Diamond is Unbreakable. Josuke and company visit the house in an attempt to track down Kira, only to discover a different Stand Arrow from Keicho Nijimura's.
The home of Yoshikage Kira. Josuke Higashikata 4 and company visit the place in pursuit of Kira, only to discover another Bow and Arrow, different than the one belonging to Keicho Nijimura. |
第４部『ダイヤモンドは砕けない』で、吉良吉影が住んでいた家。仗助たちは吉良を追跡するためにこの家を訪れ、虹村形兆のものとは別の『弓と矢』を発見した。 |
Gallery
Kira takes his "girlfriend" home for a romantic weekend
The bathroom in the Kira residence
Photos from Kira's childhood
Josuke discovers Kira's nail trimming collection
Kira's records of his nail growth over the years
Kira's office as seen within Yoshihiro's photograph
Okuyasu accidentally breaks a screen door while trying to help
Koichi's hands unable to go into Atom Heart Father's domain
Yoshihiro escapes by tying himself to a crow
Chapter 367 Cover A
Chapter 367 Cover B
Kira and his "girlfriend" walk home for a romantic weekend
Kira prepares a meal for him and his "girlfriend"
The home's entryway
Okuyasu and Koichi search Kira's kitchen
Photos from Kira's childhood
A dresser with Kira's awards and trophies, all for 3rd place placements
Jars filled with Kira's nail trimmings, labelled by year
Kira's records of his nail growth over the years
Kira's office as seen within Yoshihiro's photograph
Koichi's hands unable to go into Atom Heart Father's domain
Yoshihiro escapes by tying himself to a crow
References
- ↑ Chapter 334: Rohan Kishibe's Adventure, Part 5, p.9
- ↑ Chapter 365: Atom Heart Father, Part 1, p.10-15
- ↑ Chapter 365: Atom Heart Father, Part 1, p.9
- ↑ Chapter 365: Atom Heart Father, Part 1, p.10
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Chapter 365: Atom Heart Father, Part 1, p.2
- ↑ Chapter 334: Rohan Kishibe's Adventure, Part 5, p.7
