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| “ | Back in elementary school, my classmates' address books were filled with their friends' phone numbers. Was it fifty phone numbers? A hundred? Mom had dad, and dad has mom, but I don't have anyone. I bet rockstars and people on TV have thousands and thousands of friends, but I don't have anyone. I bet I'll never have any friends. I'm positive of it because nobody but me can see my Hierophant Green. If they can't see him, how can they ever understand me? That's what I thought until I met Joseph, Jotaro, Polnareff, and Avdol. I wonder why the hairs on my back stand up when I think of Avdol and Iggy? It's probably because they were my first friends, and we share a common goal. To defeat Dio together! Our trip only lasted a few weeks, but they were my friends. I trusted them from the bottom of my heart. | „ |
| “ | Now, it's time for your punishment, Baby. | „ |
| ~ Kakyoin while encountering Death 13 inside the dream |
Noriaki Kakyoin is a major protagonist in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders, and a posthumous character in its spinoff Crazy Diamond's Demonic Heartbreak. He is a japanese high school student who was originally a brainwashed servant of DIO before being broken free of his mind control by Jotaro and joining his quest to save his mother. He wields the Stand known as, Hierophant Green which possesses the ability to shoot emerald projectiles and unravel its body in tentacles.
He was voiced by Kōji Yusa in the video game JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: All-Star Battle, Daisuke Hirakawa in the Japanese version of the anime adaptation, and by Kyle Hebert in the English version.
Appearance[]
Kakyoin was a young man of average to above-average height and fit to slender build. He is only seen wearing his school uniform (commonly colored dark green). Kakyoin keeps medium-length hair (often red), characterized by a large, twisting appendage hanging before his face. He wears earrings in the shape of a long, fine arch, tipped by small spheres. Later, Kakyoin acquires two thin scars vertically crossing both eyes; which he variously hides with a fine pair of dark sunglasses.
Personality[]
Kakyoin's strange quirk of licking cherries
| “ | rerorerorerorerorerorerorerorerorerorerorero... | „ |
| ~ The sounds Kakyoin makes while licking a cherry |
Though Kakyoin comes as a cold person, he was actually a kind and loyal man. He will support his comrades actively and fights for things that are ethically right. He hates bowing down or brown-nosing and only respectable people can be viewed as his friends. He is straight to the point but nice and cares very strongly for his friends. He resents people who plot secret schemes. He mentions he could never relate to people because of his ability, and thus never desired to make friends for most of his life; this changed when he discovered other people who also had Stands. Kakyoin also appears to have some weird quirks, such as a strange habit to lick cherries.
After Jotaro releases him from DIO's control, Kakyoin joins Jotaro's group in the quest to destroy DIO as compensation for having acted as DIO's pawn. Some of his personality undergoes changes in the middle of the story, and this is attributed to the events after his encounters with Mannish Boy and N'Doul. He eventually sheds his "repentant" attitude. In addition to the above traits, he now has more confidence and has regained a lot of his pride.
He also has a profound respect for his parents, remembering them before his eventual death.
Biography[]
Past[]
Kakyoin was withdrawn person as a child, voluntarily avoiding to make any friends out of fear that none of them would understand his stand which had already developed. 2–3 months prior to the start of Part 3, Kakyoin was approached by DIO while traveling in Egypt with his family. The vampire, having sensed Kakyoin's Stand powers, asked for a demonstration which led to them fighting. When Kakyoin lost, he was brainwashed into following DIO's will via buds from DIO's own cells and given the mission to kill Jotaro Kujo. Kakyoin returned to Japan around the same time as Jotaro left prison and attended the same school as him.
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders[]
Kakyoin carries out DIO's orders on his first meeting with Jotaro. He manipulates the school nurse with his Hierophant Green, using her to attack Jotaro. After being hit by an emerald splash, Jotaro defeats him by using Star Platinum to deflect the attack. Hierophant Green was later grabbed and beaten up, resulting in Kakyoin's defeat. Jotaro ends up dragging him home, both considerably injured. Joseph was able to recognize the flesh bud on the teenager's forehead, explaining that it was a method for DIO to spread his influence. Jotaro uses Star Platinum to remove the flesh bud from Kakyoin's head - despite the risk that it might openly attack both of them. Kakyoin is freed from DIO's control as a result and joins Jotaro, Joseph and Avdol on their trip to Egypt to fight DIO.
At the beginning of the trip, the group is attacked by Gray Fly, whose Tower of Gray proves to be a match even for Star Platinum. Trying to prevent a fight to take down the plane, Kakyoin volunteers to fight the enemy stand by himself. After using the emerald splash several times and almost having his tongue ripped out, Kakyoin revealed that he had tricked Tower of Gray into staying in a predictable spot. This has allowed Hierophant Green to wrap its tendrils around the enemy stand before ripping it apart, defeating the enemy stand user in the process. However, Tower of Gray had already killed the pilot, forcing Joseph to fly it instead.
The Crusaders later arrived at Hong Kong where they meet Polnareff for the first time in a restaurant. After he joined them, they continued the journey on boat where they were attacked by 2 enemy stand users. They were however still able to arrive in Singapore. At a hotel room, Joseph's stand reveals that Kakyoin cannot be trusted, making everyone suspicious of him. Meanwhile outside, Kakyoin, Jotaro, and Anne were looking at sights in which the former began acting suspiciously, going as far as to push Jotaro off a building as a "joke". However after being punched into a cable car, it is revealed that Kakyoin has merely been impersonated by Rubber Soul. The real Kakyoin was still at the hotel, sunbathing with his uniform on. After the defeat of the enemy stand user, Jotaro returned to the group, telling them about the battle and the impersonator.
When Polnareff is attacked by Hol Horse and J. Geill he is saved by Kakyoin and Avdol, but not before the latter is almost killed. Kakyoin manages to discover The Hanged Man's true ability and tricks the enemy stand into having only one place to go: a coin. This allows Polnareff to injure Hanged Man before chasing down and finishing off its stand user. After surviving Wheel of Fortune and arriving at a suspicious hotel, the crusaders managed to capture an important minion of DIO. This however brings unwanted attention to them which came in the form of Steely Dan who kills Enya and implants his stand in Joseph's head. Kakyoin and Polnareff were able to send their stands into Joseph's head to hunt down the Steely Dan's stand, The Lovers. After a tricky battle due to the enemy stand's self-replicating abilities, Kakyoin was able to defeat it by attacking all the clones at once using his stand's tendrils. This eventually led up to Steely Dan being beaten up by Jotaro.
In the desert, the group is attacked by an enemy stand The Sun, who was able to precisely shoot Hieoraphant Green down. The crusaders soon took cover underneath a rock where Kakyoin was the first to notice an obvious hiding spot. Some time later, the team were tasked with taking care of a "baby" named Mannish Boy. The "baby" decided to use his stand on Kakyoin first, bringing him into a dream where he was tormented. Kakyoin ended up having to scratch his own arm in order to remind himself that the "baby" is a stand user and that his stand attacks when people are asleep. Though the rest of the group don't believe him and come to believe he has succumbed to stress, Kakyoin is ultimately able to defeat the enemy stand by bringing Hierophant Green into the dream with him. He then teaches Mannish Boy a lesson by mixing some of the baby's own poop with the baby food.
The Crusaders later visited an island to pick up a recovering Avdol before going to their destination on Submarine where they were attacked by another enemy stand. After arriving in Egypt, Joseph decided to ask the Speedwagon Foundation to bring in Iggy, a dog stand user which Avdol found some time ago. They were then attacked by N'Doul and his stand, Geb. Kakyoin in particular was injured by the enemy stand, resulting in his eyes being scratched. The crusaders survived the ordeal and Kakyoin was brought to a hospital where he recovered. He was able to recover just in time to join the rest of the crusaders in their hunt for DIO which led them to the vampire's mansion. Upon entering said mansion, he along with Jotaro and Joseph were separated from the others and was forced to play video games against the butler, a man named Terence D'Arby. Despite Kakyoin's determination and proficiency in video games, he was defeated by Terence and temporarily lost his soul. Luckily, Jotaro and Joseph were able to defeat the butler, allowing them to win Kakyoin's soul back. He later joins the crusaders in an attempt to confront DIO, only to immediately bail out with the rest of the crusaders due to the strength of the vampire's stand.
He later joined Joseph and the two chased down DIO. Kakyoin was able to figure out the vampire's stand range and soon devised a plan. He later attacked DIO from a distance, using his stand's tendrils and ranged attack to his advantage. Despite managing to corner his opponent, Kakyoin wound up with a hole being punched through his chest. He was still able to figure out DIO's stand ability, being the ability to stop time due to him seemingly snapping all the tendrils apart at once. He used his last moments to shoot at a clock and stopping it, allowing Joseph to figure out DIO's stand ability.
Powers and Abilities[]
Hierophant Green[]
Hierophant Green
Kakyoin's long-range humanoid Stand is Hierophant Green. It possesses several physical abilities that Kakyoin utilizes in a plethra of clever ways.
- Unraveling: One of the stand's signature abilities is to unravel its own body into tentacles. Hierophant Green's coils can be utilized as thick ropes that Kakyoin can wrap around opponents or objects. In its coiled form, the stand is capable of sustaining damage for the user, although if enough tentacles are destroyed, Kakyoin can be gravely injured. The tentacles also have high sensitivity, making Kakyoin able to detect movements by turning the stand into a large network of strings.
- Emerald Splash: Kakyoin's signature attack. Hierophant Green gathers energy into itself and uses it to create emerald-like projectiles that can be shot directly at the enemy. The Emerald Splash is one of Kakyoin's most poweful abilities that he uses to perform long-ranged attacks.
- 20-Meter Radius Emerald Splash: A more powerful variation of the Emerald Splash. Kakyoin uses his stand's tentacles to create a barrier around the area the opponent is, trapping them into a network of tendrils that can sense their every movement. Kakyoin then makes his stand invisible and begins assaulting the enemy with several Emerald Splashes from every side. The ability is utilized in his fight against DIO, who quickly deflects it using his stand.
- Anatomy Control: Kakyoin is shown to be capable of controlling other people like puppets by sliding the stand's tendrils inside their bodies. In this form, Hierophant Green is protected against most attacks, but it can be forcefully removed from a body by another stand.
- Size Alteration: Kakyoin is able to alter the size of his stand whenever he summons it, being capable of reducing it to microscopic levels.
Trivia[]
- Kakyoin's stand, Hierophant Green is named after the tarot card, The Hierophant.
- Originally, Araki intended for the kanji in his first name to be read as "Tenmei", but due to a miscommunication between him and his editor, his kanji was read as "Noriaki". His original name was later on used as his alias while signing Enya's hotel list.
- Kakyoin is a fan of the american musician, Sting and the japanese actor Masakazu Tamura. He's also a fan of the japanese baseball team Yomiuri Giants.
- According to the anime's director, Nobutaka Kasama, Daisuke Hirakawa, the voice actor for Kakyoin, found the character's "rerorerorerorero" licking sounds especially difficult, claiming that it took 17 takes to be concluded and that Hirakawa had to train it while out of work.
- In a conversation with Joseph, Kakyoin states that his ideal partner is one that he can feel at ease around, stating that if he were ever to fall in love with someone, he'd wish it would be someone like Holy. The line would eventually spark several memes in the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure community about Kakyoin being into mothers.
- In the fandom, Kakyoin is frequently paired with Jotaro, with it being one of its most popular "ships". Most notably, the all-female japanese mangaka group, Clamp (known for creating Sakura Card Captor), created an infamous series of doujinshi in which Kakyoin and Jotaro are a married couple. In one of the issues, Kakyoin gives birth to a child named Jota Kujo, who was born from an egg that he laid. The doujinshi ended up becoming a meme within the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure community, most notably for the phrase "Kakyoin, did you lay this egg?" uttered by Polnareff upon discovering it.
External Links[]
- Noriaki Kakyoin on the JoJo's Bizarre Wiki
- Noriaki Kakyoin on the Near Pure Good Wiki
