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| “ | Did you think the great Rohan Kishibe draws comics because he wants money?! I draw comics because I WANT TO BE READ"! That's the one and only reason. I couldn't care less about anything else! | „ |
| ~ -Rohan Kishibe. |
| “ | Sorry, but I refuse! [Daga kotowaru!] You should know that one of Rohan Kishibe's favorite pastimes is say "no" to fools who think they're tough s**t. So, I'm afraid that your meal's been cancelled. | „ |
| ~ Rohan Kishibe's decision to his refusal to Highway Star's proposal. |
Rohan Kishibe is a major character in the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure franchise.
He is one of the two tritagonists (alongside Jotaro Kujo) of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part IV: Diamond is Unbreakable and the titular main protagonist of its spin-off Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan.
Rohan is a successful mangaka, conducting research for his latest manga. He is also a Stand User who wields Heaven's Door, which allows Rohan to transform others into books to gather information about them to read as inspiration for his manga. First featured as an antagonist, he becomes an major ally in the search for Yoshikage Kira.
He is voiced by Takahiro Sakurai who also voiced Cloud Strife and X. In English, he is voiced by Vic Mignogna in Diamond is Unbreakable, who voiced Edward Elric, and Landon McDonald in Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan.
Appearance[]
Rohan is has a slim average height of a young man. with his bizarre green in a slicked-sideways undercut. He has well made sculpted face with a sharp cheek bones and delicate eyebrows. While his eyes are light green in The anime and the OVAS, there are heterochromatic in the Colored Manga OVAS with ones being blue and gold. He also wears lipsticks with it and his outfit changes regularly.
Personality[]
Rohan looking down on others
Rohan Kishibe is a very passionate manga artist, who is willing to due anything to find inspiration for his work. He takes immense pride of his work and is very dedicated to it. He has a good heart despite his questionable personality and help find the serial killer, Yoshikage Kira, who killed his friend Reimi Sugimoto. At first he only partook in the investigation for inspiration but when he found out that Reimi was a close friend of his and saved him from Yoshikage Kira, the investigation became personal for him and now eager to catch the killer. He appreciate Koichi as not just a friendly fan but also a friend and even helped him learn Italian when Koichi is going to Italy. Rohan love art in all forms and does appreciate them since he has a huge collections of them in his house. Though being a villain at first in his introduction, after being beaten by Josuke he learn his lesson and became a less antagonistic towards others like Koichi. As he said he does not do his work for money and glory but mainly because he loves his work and cares about what material to put in his stories.
Despite all that, he still retains his arrogant behavior and seems to look down on others. His ego and stand allows him to see people only as pieces of material for his work and nothing else. He becomes very unpleasant by others like Josuke, who he develop a rivalry with. But the aggressive nature of the rivalry mostly come from Rohan since he looks down on Josuke like he does to everyone else and hates him for no particular reason. Rohan's arrogance often earns him distain from others that know him personality since he makes his opinions on others no secret. He also develop a passive aggressive behavior when dealing with Ken Oyanagi and has no qualms punching him.
Powers & abilities[]
Heaven's Door[]
Heaven's Door
Heaven's Door is a weak close-range Stand unsuited for direct combat, but has several powerful abilities. For an inquisitive mangaka like Rohan, Heaven's Door is a handy way to gather research material out of people's pasts without the hassle of an interview. During its introductory arc, Heaven's Door is a pure ability that acts when Rohan's target sees it or an image of it drawn by him, which he can make in mid-air, with a pen or with his finger. After Rohan's redemption and return as an ally, Heaven's Door gains a physical form, appearing similar to Rohan's manga character, Pink Dark Boy.
- Book Transmutation: Heaven's Door's primary ability is that it can transform the people it touches into books. The individual affected by the stand will unfurl their body parts into pages that Rohan can read and even alter if he so wants, usually becoming uncounscious while doing so. The contents of the book contain the individual's personal informations, thoughts, memories and personality traits. Rohan primarily utilizes this ability to gather information for his manga, but due to its near limitless potential, it's proven to be useful in combat. Heaven's Door's power is also shown to work on objects, animals and even ghosts like Reimi and Ikkyu, although dying individuals will have their pages gradually fade and become blank.
- Memory Removal: By ripping off pages from a person's book, Rohan is able to remove certain memories from their mind. Initially, this process is shown as quite painful for the affected person, but as Rohan evolves its stand, he's seemingly able to alter and remove memories in a painless way.
- Written-in Commands: By writing on the person's book, Rohan can force commands on them. He's shown to be able to use this ability to make people blind, forcing people to hurt themselves and even send them flying backwards. A particular command Rohan utilizes frequently is the "Safety Lock", which prevents the person from directly attacking him. Besides combat, the ability is also useful to instill any knowledge to anyone he desires, exemplified when Rohan utilized the power to make Koichi fluent in Italian prior to his expedition to the country. In Rohan au Louvre, it is shown that Rohan can even write commands onto himself, although the canonicity of the story remains dubious.
Cheap Trick[]
Rohan with Cheap Trick
After coming in contact with Masazo Kinoto, Rohan is possessed by his stand, Cheap Trick, temporarily becoming its user. Although Rohan cannot use the stand's ability as it has none useful, Rohan is cursed to have the stand attached onto him unless someone looks at his back, allowing it to pass the stand onto someone, resulting in the current user's death. Rohan manages to trick the stand into looking at the Ghost Girl's Alley, leading to it getting dragged by the ghost hands and completely destroyed.
Gucci Bag Stand[]
Rohan with the Gucci Bag stand
In the promotional one-shot Kishibe Rohan Meets Gucci, Rohan acquires an unnamed stand bound to a Gucci bag gifted to him by his grandma. The stand's ability is to vanish valuable things that are kept inside it. If the user is in trouble, the bag will return the object as part of a trade offer for something else. The stand is separated from Rohan after his bag gets stolen by his interpreter, implying the ability has now passed onto her.
Trivia[]
Hirohiko Araki's illustration of himself and Rohan
- Rohan's name comes from the Meiji-era author, Rohan Koda.
- Rohan's stand is named after the Bob Dylan song, "Knockin' on Heaven's Door".
- Rohan has gained notoriety for being one of Hirohiko Araki's personal favorite characters as he's used quite frequently in external media and has received his own spin-off. According to Araki, Rohan is partially based off himself, making him somewhat of a self-insert character, however, he also states that their personalities are quite different, though he mentions that if he could lick a spider like Rohan did, he probably would.
- In an interview with the singer Shoko Nakagawa, Araki mentions that if he could have any stand ability he wanted, it would be Heaven's Door
- Accoring to Araki, during the events of the universal reset of Stone Ocean, Rohan was still writing his manga and managed to finish his manuscripts in time, despite Made in Heaven's time acceleration.
- In an interview, Araki has jokingly considered to make Rohan reappear in the series' eight part, JoJolion, although he would later on retract these statements, saying that he would not return in the part, but that another weird manga artist might appear instead. A variation of Rohan from the second universe would later on appear in the series' ninth part, The JOJOLands.
External Links[]
- Rohan Kishibe on the JoJo's Bizarre Wiki
- Rohan Kishibe on the Villains Wiki
