Love Deluxe
Love Deluxe (ラブ・デラックス, Rabu Derakkusu) is the Stand of Yukako Yamagishi, featured in the fourth part of the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure series, Diamond is Unbreakable.
Bound to Yukako's hair, it allows her to grow it to supernatural lengths and remotely take control of it.
Appearance
Love Deluxe is bound to the hair of its user Yukako. Because it is bound to an object, Yukako takes no damage from her hair being attacked or cut. This also makes it visible to non-Stand users.
After taking significant damage, her hair temporarily turns completely white.
Abilities
Hair Manipulation
Love Deluxe is bound to Yukako's hair. This allows her to freely manipulate her hair with her mind with considerable strength and dexterity, as well as grow it to extraordinary lengths.[3]
Love Deluxe is precise enough that the hair can tie around something as small as a tongue, but is also powerful enough to immobilize someone.[4] When angered, Yukako can unleash Love Deluxe and make her hair grow so much it can cover and penetrate the walls of an entire house.[5] It has a range of about 10 meters.[4] Should Yukako herself take enough damage or overuse it, her hair will turn white from too much stress and become unable to extend.[6]
Yukako is also able to shoot strands of her hair which she can controls freely at opponents to attack them at range. As she takes little damage when the hair is destroyed, Yukako can then grow these strands of hair to make them reach dangerous hazards, such as fire nearby, igniting people on fire as well[3] but also to throw people around.[7]
Though the true extent of Love Deluxe's strength is never shown, in the game Eyes of Heaven, Love Deluxe is shown to be strong enough to easily lift an opponent affected by the increased weight of Koichi's Echoes ACT3.
Chapters / Episodes
Manga Appearances- Chapter 294: Yukako Yamagishi Falls in Love, Part 1
- Chapter 295: Yukako Yamagishi Falls in Love, Part 2
- Chapter 296: Yukako Yamagishi Falls in Love, Part 3
- Chapter 297: Yukako Yamagishi Falls in Love, Part 4
- Chapter 298: Yukako Yamagishi Falls in Love, Part 5
- Chapter 299: Yukako Yamagishi Falls in Love, Part 6
- Chapter 300: Yukako Yamagishi Falls in Love, Part 7
- Chapter 301: Yukako Yamagishi Falls in Love, Part 8
- Chapter 302: Yukako Yamagishi Falls in Love, Part 9
- Chapter 303: Let's Go Eat Some Italian Food, Part 1 (Mentioned only)
- Chapter 320: Let's Go to the Manga Artist's House, Part 3 (Photo only)
- Chapter 323: Let's Go to the Manga Artist's House, Part 6 (Mentioned only)
- Chapter 349: Yukako Yamagishi Dreams of Cinderella, Part 2
- Chapter 350: Yukako Yamagishi Dreams of Cinderella, Part 3
- Chapter 351: Yukako Yamagishi Dreams of Cinderella, Part 4 (Mentioned only)
- Chapter 352: Yukako Yamagishi Dreams of Cinderella, Part 5
- Chapter 353: Yukako Yamagishi Dreams of Cinderella, Part 6
- Chapter 412: Cheap Trick, Part 1 (Mentioned only)
Anime Appearances- Diamond is Unbreakable Episode 8: Yukako Yamagishi Falls in Love, Part 1
- Diamond is Unbreakable Episode 9: Yukako Yamagishi Falls in Love, Part 2
- Diamond is Unbreakable Episode 14: Let's Go to the Manga Artist's House, Part 1 (Photo only)
- Diamond is Unbreakable Episode 20: Yukako Yamagishi Dreams of Cinderella
Novel Appearances- Heaven's Door (Mentioned only)
Gallery
Hair strands from Love Deluxe left in Koichi's drink
A silhouette of Love Deluxe
Yukako uses Love Deluxe to ensnare and kidnap Koichi
Yukako controls the hair implanted into Koichi's scalp using Love Deluxe
Barging in as Love Deluxe begins to envelop the entire house
Love Deluxe attacking Koichi
Love Deluxe damaged
Love Deluxe restrains Aya Tsuji and her Stand, Cinderella
Yukako attacks Aya Tsuji with Love Deluxe
Love Deluxe (alongside Cinderella) featured in the second opening, chase
Tanabata Festival in S City Morioh-Tenugui Towel
Adventure Battle Card; Love Deluxe
Morioh: Boing-Boing Cape
Trivia
- Neostygarctus lovedeluxe is a species of tardigrade named by Japanese scientists, Shinta Fujimoto and Katsumi Miyazaki. The name is in reference to Love Deluxe as the scientists joked on how "it looked as if the Stand was controlling the creature's hair".[8]
- Love Deluxe is one of the few Stands in the anime that never received an eyecatch illustration displaying its Stand parameters. Other Stands that are missing an eyecatch illustration in the anime include Tenore Sax, Echoes ACT2, Achtung Baby, Ratt, Boy II Man, Burning Down the House, Marilyn Manson, and Bohemian Rhapsody.
References
- ↑ Love Deluxe - Vol.14 "Shueisha Jump Remix Diamond is Unbreakable Edition" P86 The Origin of STANDS! part.2
- ↑ JOJO A-GO!GO!: STANDS, p.104
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Chapter 295: Yukako Yamagishi Falls in Love, Part 2
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Chapter 296: Yukako Yamagishi Falls in Love, Part 3
- ↑ Chapter 301: Yukako Yamagishi Falls in Love, Part 8
- ↑ Chapter 302: Yukako Yamagishi Falls in Love, Part 9
- ↑ Chapter 299: Yukako Yamagishi Falls in Love, Part 6
- ↑ https://bioone.org/journals/zoological-science/volume-30/issue-5/zsj.30.414/Neostygarctus-lovedeluxe-n-sp-from-the-Miyako-Islands-Japan/10.2108/zsj.30.414.full
