Minor Characters
This is a list of minor named and unnamed characters from the Jojo's Bizarre Adventure series. These characters didn't have much screentime or backstory in the manga.
Part I: Phantom Blood
Unnamed Woman
Manga Debut: Vol. 1, Ch. 1 The Coming of Dio
Anime Debut: Episode 1, Dio the Invader
Seiyuu: Aiko Iwamura (Anime)
She appears in the flashback of the carriage incident in Chapter 1, which is her only appearance. She is the one who notices the dead woman and the baby inside the carriage and tells Dario, but he seems to not care.
- Some fans believe that she could be the mother of Dio but no official source confirms this.
Real life people
Through the series many characters represent people who actually existed in reality, between them are Jack the Ripper and Jesus.
Elizabeth I and Mary Stuart
Manga Debut: Chapter 27, Vengeance Demon From the Past
Anime Debut: Episode 5, The Dark Knights
Seiyuu:Yuka Keichō (Elizabeth I)
Elizabeth I and Mary Stuart were two queens of the Tudor dynasty who fought for the throne 300 years before Part I: Phantom Blood, in 1595. Mary was a beautiful 23-year-old woman with peace in her heart, her charm being enough to make men, no matter how strong, entrust themselves and feel that sense of peace. With great tolerance, she took the lonely dark knights Tarukus and Bruford with a smile, enough for them to pledge loyalty and swear to make her queen, even if it cost their lives. When Mary's husband Darnley died from unknown causes Elizabeth took the opportunity to charge her for his death, turning the population against Mary. Elizabeth took Mary as a prisoner and ordered her to be beheaded, using a impersonator later to trick Tarukus and Bruford into giving up, their executioner, killed by Bruford's hair, being the same who killed Mary. Mary Stuart and Elizabeth I are based on the real Mary Stuart and Elizabeth I.
Darnley
Manga Debut: Chapter 27, Vengeance Demon From the Past (Mentioned only)
Anime Debut: Episode 5, The Dark Knights (Mentioned only)
Darnley was the husband of Mary Stuart. He died in a explosion caused by reasons unknown to history. His death serving as an excuse for Mary's execution, as Elizabeth put the blame of his death on his wife. Darnley is based on the real Lord Darnley.
Unnamed Ripple User
Manga Debut: Chapter 32 Chamber of the Two-Headed Dragon
Anime Debut: Episode 6, Tomorrow's Courage
He is a young man who called himself a doctor. He, as a doctor, used the ripple to heal the diseases and injuries of his patients. When Zeppeli found him, he was healing a patient using the ripple by simply touching his patient's leg with mortification, and magically heals it to functionality. Zeppeli asks how the doctor got his powers and he tells him to go up the Nuu River and look for his master Tonpetty.
The 77 Rings Challenge Winners
Winzaleo, Eijkman and Caineghis
Manga Debut: Chapter 28, The Hero of the 77 Rings
Winzaleo, Eijkman and Caineghis are three of the only five knights who survived the 77 Rings knights challenge, winning the challenge years before the dark knights Tarukus and Bruford, who won in 1563. Winzaleo, known as the Lion King, won in 1327, Eijkman the Lightning Knight won in 1389 and Caineghis, who only had one eye, won in 1408. The three are playable in the game Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Phantom Blood, where Winzaleo carries a giant battle-axe capable of breaking the ground, Eijkman uses an electrified halberd and Caineghis wields a poisonous scimitar.
Poco's Father
Manga Debut: Chapter 37, The Monster Doobie
Anime Debut: Episode 8, Blood Battle! JoJo & Dio
Seiyuu: Kenshirō USUKI
When Poco returns home, he finds his father who slaps him and asks him where he had been. Poco doesn't answer the question and instead he ask his father where is his sister in which his father says to him that she went to look for him.
Windknights Lot residents
Manga Debut: Chapter 41, A Demon's End (Mentioned only)
Jeff Back and Dan Hamar
Jeff Back was a farmer who spotted 4 outsiders: (Jonathan Joestar, Speedwagon, Tonpetty and Straizo) burning Dio Brando's clothes under the cliffs of his empty mansion 2 weeks after Dio's defeat. Dan Hamar was a fisherman who reported to the police his boat was stolen by some easterners the night of the incident, but his boat has yet to be found. Police are investigating if these two cases have any relation to the missing people of Windknights Lot.
Part II: Battle Tendency
Unnamed Gangster Customer
Manga Debut: Chapter 48, Straizo's Ambition
Anime Debut: Episode 10, New York's JoJo
Seiyuu: Kanehira YAMAMOTO
He first appears at the restaurant where Joseph, Erina and Smokey decide to eat at, complaining about how they can allow African American people (refering to Smokey) in the restaurant. Smokey tries to calm down the situation by leaving but is stopped by Joseph, who angrily starts a fight with the man and easily defeats him. Afterwards, his subordinate comes foward with news about Speedwagon.
Brute
Manga Debut: Chapter 51, Cold and Cruel, Straizo
Brute was one of the many people who were outside the cafe during Joseph's and Straizo's battle. Trying to show how strong he is to a girl, he temporarily detains Joseph due to have committed the crime of blowing up the cafe. Joseph quickly kicks him in the nose and runs off, leaving Brute on the ground holding his face while the girl comments how Joseph is way cooler than him.
Unnamed Woman Reporter
Manga Debut: Chapter 51, Cold and Cruel, Straizo
Anime Debut: Episode 11, The Game Master
Seiyuu: Seiko Yoshida
She arrives at the cafe where Joseph and Straizo were fighting and begins to take some photos, saying it would reach the front page of the newspaper. Straizo catches her off guard and uses her as a hostage to approach Joseph; he ends up ripping her tooth out to enrage Joseph. After Joseph defeats Straizo and saves the girl, she punches him in the face for insulting her, saying she was ugly, and then kicks his knee, after which she scream from the delayed pain in her mouth.
Part III: Stardust Crusaders
Captain Tennille
Manga Debut: Chapter 127, Dark Blue Moon (2) (Mentioned only)
The Captain Tennille was introduced to the Joestar group by the Speedwagon Foundation to aid in their trip to reach Dio Brando. His background was checked to make sure he wasn't a stand user, so everyone could trust him. The Captain Tennille Imposter killed him on Hong Kong and threw his body at the bottom of the sea, taking his place. Though the reader is never shown the true Captain Tennile, one can assume that he was practically identical to the imposter, since his men, who had worked for ten years on the same ship, did not even suspect the replacement.
Mohammed Avdol's chickens
Manga Debut: Chapter 174, Judgement (1)
Prince, Michael and Lionel=
Prince, Michael and Lionel are three of the five chickens Avdol raised on the secluded island he started living on after faking his death, only until he healed from The Emperor's bullet wound. Disguised as his father so no one would come after him at the time, Avdol fed the chickens so they would grow fat and tasty, but didn't like it when they ate too fast. When Avdol joined the Joestar group again he left the chickens on the island with no one to take care of them. Prince, Michael and Lionel are named after musicians: Prince, Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie.
Daniel J. D'Arby's victims
Manga Debut: Chapter 212, D'Arby the Gambler (2)
Daniel J. D'Arby, thanks to his stand Osiris, took the soul of many people through gambling. He would usually trick one of them to bet their souls and then search for that person's family, convincing them to try to get the soul back.
Moor Family
One day, D'Arby won the soul of Mrs. Moor through gambling, leading to her husband Stephen Moor to gamble with him on September 22nd, year 1984, around 11:15PM in California to win her soul back. Stephen, however, was beaten and had his soul taken too. His father Garie Moore tried to win his soul back, but also was beaten. It's possible Stephen almost won the gamble, as D'Arby remembered the date, place and even what he said before losing (the same words Mohammed Abdul said when Jean Pierre Polnareff was beaten).
Christian Vander
Christian Vander was one of the many victims of Daniel J. D'Arby, losing his soul in a gamble to him some unspecified time after the Moor Family. His soul was eventually returned to his body after Daniel's defeat by Kujo Jotaro. Christian Vander is named for French musician Christian Vander.
Terence T. D'Arby's victims
Manga Debut: Chapter 229, D'Arby the Gamer (3)
Like his brother, Terence T. D'Arby also made many victims thanks to his stand, Atum. He took the souls of many people making them bet their souls on video games. Aside from Noriaki Kakyoin, who also fell victim to the gamer, their souls didn't return to their bodies.
Sophia
Sophia was a really beautiful woman, considered to have beautiful skin, who lived a wonderful love life until she was defeated by Terence in a game and had her soul taken. Terence made her doll wearing Versace that he himself designed, even though she liked Chanel. In her doll form she constantly called for Terence.
Dr. Elliot
Dr. Elliot was a mass murderer who killed eight of his patients, the murder stories being considered interesting for Terence. He had his soul taken by Terence and put in a doll wearing many doctor accessories, all of them made by Terence himself.
Part IV: Diamond is Unbreakable
Hirose Family
Manga Debut: Chapter 286, Koichi Hirose (Echoes) (3)
The family of Koichi Hirose, one of the main allies in Part IV.
Mr. and Mrs. Hirose
Mr. and Mrs. Hirose are the parents of Koichi and Ayana Hirose. Mrs. Hirose is known as a pretty, polite and well educated woman. She always goes to the beauty salon. She was a victim of Tamami's The Lock and almost commits suicide for her son's supposed theft.
His pleads for her to believe in him frees her from the stand, making her not feel guilty anymore for him. She also briefly appears to talk to Koichi when Cinderella just starts working in Yukako, making Yukako believe that luck wasn't on her side due to many people appearing to interrupt her attempts to be alone with Koichi. Mr. Hirose is only seen in a photography. Tamami threatens to use The Lock on him too if Koichi doesn't give him money.
Ayana Hirose
Ayana is the sister of Koichi. An highschool senior who attracted Tamami's attention. She was handing Tamami a cup of hot red tea, but he bumped her feet on purpose so she would pour the tea on his lap and feel guilty, falling victim for The Lock.
She also briefly appeared talking on the phone after Koichi loses weight due to Heaven's Door and keeps forgetting what he was going to do. She also appeared when Cinderella was just starting to work in Yukako, but Ayana's presence made her believe luck wasn't on her side.
Police Hirose
Police is Koichi's sleepy dog. In almost all his appearances he is seen sleeping, one time Koichi even wondered if he was still alive. As the Hirose family already has Police, Koichi isn't allowed to have another pet and has to take him for a walk. He is seen sleeping at the beginning of Tamami's and Yukako's fights and is taken for a walk during Yuuya's fight.
Unnamed Bikers
Manga Debut: Chapter 292, Toshikazu Hazamada (Surface) (4)
Toshikazu Hazamada, with his hand soaked in his own blood, cleaned it in one of their bikes. The bike's owner mocked Toshikazu for this, even though the other one told him to not get into a fight because the student might not have done it on purpose. Toshikazu heard then talking and attacked the two with the help of Surface, even threatening to cut open the mouth of the one who mocked him. They were helped by Josuke, who healed them with Crazy Diamond and instructed them about Toshikazu's location. Later, when Surface was controlling Josuke to attack Jotaro, they found Toshikazu and beat him up, leaving him at the same hospital Tamami Kobayashi was taken to after being attacked by Toshikazu.
Junko
Manga Debut: Chapter 292, Toshikazu Hazamada (Surface) (4) (Mentioned only)
Junko is a girl Toshikazu has a crush on. He made Surface copy her but it also adopted her personality, acting like "a real bitch" and thinking "she's all that". Toshikazu wanted to rape her, but never had the courage to actually do it.
Masashi
Manga Debut: Chapter 302, Yukako Yamagishi is in Love (9)
Gonta Yangu
Manga Debut: Chapter 336, Shigechi's Harvest (2) (Mentioned only)
Gonta is Shigekiyo Yangu's pet turtle. Shigekiyo mentions it after meeting Josuke and Okuyasu.
Ichiro Morishita
Manga Debut: Chapter 338, Shigechi's Harvest (4)
Ichiro Morishita is a guy who bought 10 lottery tickets, but threw all of them in the trash after seeing that not even one was the winning one. Harvest found one of his tickets and gave it to Okuyasu, who discovered it actually was the winning one. A bank employer called him to see if the ticket really belonged to Okuyasu, but Crazy Diamond changed his last name in the ticket to Kinoshita. When asked about the ticket, Ichiro tells the bank employer that he isn't Kinoshita, but Morishita, and asks the bank employer to sell him winning tickets next time.
People stolen by Josuke
Manga Debut: Chapter 388, Highway Star! (5)
While attempting to elude Highway Star, Josuke has the idea of calling Koichi Hirose for help. Unable to stop without being caught, Josuke starts stealing cell phones while on the run.
Yoshioka
Yoshioka is a businessman who is seen talking to his boss on his cellphone. He is instructed to "do as planned" when receiving a important call 1 minute later. The call would grant a business opportunity worth 10 billion. If he missed the call, Yoshioka would be fired by his boss.
Seemingly nervous, Yoshioka agrees but has his phone stolen by Josuke, realizing it was too late. As Josuke grabbed the phone too hard it ended it breaking. Yoshioka probably was fired for not getting the call.
Minayo
Minayo is a woman seen talking to her boyfriend on his cell phone. For unknown reasons she thought he hated her, so Minayo insisted for him to hang up the phone. Her boyfriend was actually trying to propose to her, but had his phone stolen by Josuke before he could do so. She thought he hung up and really hated her. Josuke used the phone to ask Koichi Hirose to locate Yuuya Fungami.
Yuuya's fangirls
Manga Debut: Chapter 390, Highway Star! (7)
Yuuya Fungami's fans.
Akemi, Yoshie and Reika
With his heightened smell, Yuuya could tell that the peach Akemi was going to give him was rotten and that Yoshie was on her period. He also thought that Reika was mad at him because of the adrenalin he smelled but the smell was from Josuke. When Josuke asks Yuuya to help him find Koichi the three girls are still in there, coming from the arcade with chocolates for Yuuya won by Akemi. They threaten to attack Josuke, but Yuuya tells them they are in good terms now. In the battle against Terunosuke Yuuya is inspired by Josuke's attempt to save Koichi, putting his own life in danger, and realizes he would do the same for his three fangirls.
Part VI: Stone Ocean
Charlotte
Manga Debut: Chapter 598, Prisoner FE40563: Jolyne Kujo (1)
Rocco Barocco's alligator puppet. Rocco mentions that the puppet is a girl, which is justified by the bow on her head. She appears to have a separate personality from Rocco himself and acts as his assistant when explaining the rules of the prison. She will also yell at prisoners who interrupt Rocco while he is speaking.
Savage Garden
Manga Debut: Chapter 641, Savage Garden Strategy (8)
Savage Garden was first mentioned as a means of transporting Jotaro's Stand disc to the Speedwagon Foundation. At first, Jolyne confuses the messenger with a man Enrico Pucci was controlling, but it is later revealed that Savage Garden is the name of a carrier pigeon. After Whitesnake's failed attempt to shoot the bird down, Jolyne succeeds in handing over the stand disc and the pigeon flies away, delivering the disc.
One-Shots
Rohan Kishibe Goes to Gucci
Unnamed Interpreter
The interpreter is a beautiful woman hired by Rohan Kishibe in his trip to Italy to visit a Gucci factory and fix the Gucci Bag Stand. Even though he counted on her, she would spend most of the time changing clothes at the boutique and claiming that Rohan was rude, his impoliteness not shared by her. Rohan often scolded her because of that, saying that there wouldn't be any problem if she just did her job. After fixing the Gucci Bag Stand she made Rohan get drunk and stole his money and passport.
Unnamed Leather Goods Artisan
He is one of the leather goods artisan of the Gucci brand and also one of Gucci's "skilled workers". He holds great respect for Frida Giannini and Gucci' traditions. He informs Rohan and his interpreter about Frida and the Gucci Bag Stand, warning Rohan about how he doesn't seem to know the bag's true purpose. The mangaka, however, doesn't seem to care about all his "maniacal information" and just wants the bag to be "fixed".
Frida Giannini
Frida is the creative director of the Gucci brand. The Gucci brand strives the philosophy that respects traditions within the convention of beauty that gives birth to a new beauty that creates the best in quality and innovation, and that's why Frida is at the pinnacle of the brand Gucci has given birth to numerous icons to this day, icons that frida respectes annd, with her unique talents, gives them a new interpretation which gives birth to an innovative design. The artisans give this a physical form and breathe life into them, so they could be called Frida's right hand men. For many generations the artisans continued using traditional skills combined with Frida's innovative design for Gucci, earning the world's trust. She's based on real life's Frida Giannini.
