Doggy Style

“

I'll break you apart with my wires.

”

—Rai Mamezuku, JoJolion Chapter 75: Ozon Baby's Pressure, Part 3

Doggy Style (ドギー・スタイル, Dogī Sutairu) is the Stand of Rai Mamezuku, featured in the eighth part of the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure series, JoJolion. This mechanical Stand allows Mamezuku to unravel his body into strips.

Appearance

Doggy Style's upper body resembles a dog, having an elongated and almost featureless face aside from 6 small eyes and beanpod-shaped protrusions from the sides of its head. It has a heart-shaped torso, whisk-shaped appendages for arms and the kanji for "bean" (豆, mame) written on its shoulders within a circle.

During its first appearance, Doggy Style seemed to have thin legs with rectangular protrusions. This was later changed for a half moon hanging from its torso by six tubes.

Color Schemes

The series is known for alternating colors between media, the information presented below may or may not be canon.

Colored Manga

Body

(Sky blue body, gray parts, silver appendages)

Eyes(Orange)

Ears(Silver and pink)

Abilities

Skin Peeling

Mamezuku peeling himself

Doggy Style's full capabilities are unknown; however, its primary ability allows Mamezuku to "peel" his own body like an apple, unraveling his appendages into "wire rope" that he can control and manipulate.^[1]

Mamezuku first uses it while on an aerial lift to retrieve a strawberry from a bush several feet below. The most advanced usage of this ability is when Mamezuku forms his entire arm into a makeshift crossbow, from which he fires a fork using his mouth.^[2] Mamezuku can also send his rope fast enough to give it cutting power. He notably cut a garden of Locacaca plants this way.^[3] He can also form his finger into a tight, seemingly sharp cone shape, which he can then extend to attack in a stabbing motion.^[4]

Mamezuku is also able to completely unravel himself, as shown when he feigns death from Poor Tom's Ozon Baby. He seems to be able to unravel every part of his body besides his eyes and teeth, making it look like he had been crushed to death.^[5]

Spin

Mamezuku "spinning" a thread

In his dying moments, Mamezuku reveals to Josuke Higashikata the technique of the Spin. He demonstrates this with Doggy Style by unraveling his hand and spinning the thread rapidly. The extent of Mamezuku's experience with the spin is unknown, as it may simply be a demonstration of the principle of "spinning" and not a Spin technique.^[6]

Chapters

Manga Appearances

Chapters in order of appearance

JoJolion Chapter 65: The Plant Appraiser - Rai Mamezuku (31), Part 1
JoJolion Chapter 66: The Plant Appraiser - Rai Mamezuku (31), Part 2
JoJolion Chapter 67: The Plant Appraiser - Rai Mamezuku (31), Part 3
JoJolion Chapter 68: Urban Guerrilla and Doremifasolati Do, Part 1
JoJolion Chapter 69: Urban Guerrilla and Doremifasolati Do, Part 2
JoJolion Chapter 70: Urban Guerrilla and Doremifasolati Do, Part 3
JoJolion Chapter 72: North of the Higashikata House. The Orchard
JoJolion Chapter 74: Ozon Baby's Pressure, Part 2
JoJolion Chapter 75: Ozon Baby's Pressure, Part 3
JoJolion Chapter 76: Ozon Baby's Pressure, Part 4
JoJolion Chapter 82: Doctor Wu and Awaking 3 Leaves, Part 4
JoJolion Chapter 83: The New Locacaca (Cover only)
JoJolion Chapter 86: The Wonder of You, Part 3
JoJolion Chapter 89: The Wonder of You, Part 6
JoJolion Chapter 90: The Wonder of You, Part 7
JoJolion Chapter 96: Just Don't Move
JoJolion Chapter 98: The Wonder of You, Part 15 (Ability only)
JoJolion Chapter 99: The Wonder of You, Part 16 (Ability only)
JoJolion Chapter 100: The Wonder of You, Part 17 (Ability only) (Death)
JoJolion Chapter 104: The Wonder of You, Part 21 (Ability only) (Ghost)
JoJolion Chapter 110: Higashikata Fruit Parlor (Cover only)

Creation and Development

In a 2013 interview for NHK Educational TV's SWITCH Interview: Tatsujin-tachi with composer Akira Senju, Hirohiko Araki discussed how music has influenced JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, and revealed Snoop Dogg's album Doggystyle is in his music collection, which he listened to when writing Vento Aureo and its gangster protagonists.^[7]