Well, you know what time it is.
Time to grab one single quote from a specific character to take apart and analyze how deep
this goes.
In Diamond is Unbreakable, we’re introduced to so many of these extremely lethal stands,
but they’re always taken care of one way or another.
Majority of the time, it requires the user or the stand taking a beatdown for that fight
to be over, but except this one specific case.
That case is Shigekiyo Yangu, better known as Harvest or that one guy that with the extremely
odd head.
Seriously, why is his head like that, that’s not hair.
He just has, horns.
This is so odd.
Did you know this guy made Araki’s top 10 favorite characters pre-stone ocean?
Seriously, he’s above Dio, that’s amazing.
Alright, well Shigechi and his stand Harvest are the one case where they weren’t beaten
down ever but lost through being outsmarted.
What’s amazing about that is that happened in both fights that involved Shigechi.
Josuke and Okuyasu couldn’t defeat him so Josuke went ahead with a separate plan that
involved outsmarting Shigechi into making his Harvest leave him instead of defending
him.
In the case where it’s Shigechi and Kira, Kira showed him a coin.
Ok, so of course he made him think that the coin was the weapon or issue, but why would
you bring something directly to you without knowing why the other person was bringing
it out.
I would’ve kept a distance or something.
But in both fights, Shigechi was outsmarted since that was the only way anyone in DIU
could beat Shigechi.
In both fights, Shigechi had potential to end his opponents but didn’t because he
either wanted to taunt them or he needed time to think and ask questions.
In the fights alone, none of them had the ability to contest Harvest due to how strong
it was.
After looking through the stands of Part 4, I can only see a few stands with their users
that would be able to take on Harvest.
Coming to terms with it, I think that Harvest would have a great match up against a lot
of the stands in JoJo.
But why, is this the same case with all colony stands?
Well, revisiting what Harvest does.
*Ahem*.
Harvest is a stand with the ability of Harvesting, and there’s your oxford explanation.
So, the ability of harvest isn’t what directly makes this stand an issue.
The thing that makes this stand an issue is due to numbers, needles, and gnawing.
The time that it takes to have Harvest attack someone and have them in a position where
they could die is extremely small.
I think the two examples you can take on how effective Harvest is, is when it’s against
Okuyasu and Kira.
Specifically, Okuyasu, I swear he’d be dead a couple times over if Crazy Diamond wasn’t
a thing.
Harvest had punched a piece of Okuyasu’s ear off, gnawed and carved into his legs,
stabbed him in the eye, and got him drunk against his will.
This stand is evil.
So, what the stand is capable of is one thing.
Now, it’s on who can Harvest beat.
Well, let’s run through everyone in Diamond is Unbreakable.
Josuke, Okuyasu, and Kira are written off already since Harvest had already beat them
for the most part.
So, next in mind is Koichi.
There isn’t an act in mind where Echoes could take on all of Harvest, plus if Killer
Queen lost to Harvest, but beat Echoes, it shouldn’t be that difficult to figure out
that Harvest beats Echoes.
Red Hot Chili Pepper and Aqua necklace were to cases I’d be confused with because I
wasn’t sure on how Harvest makes contact with them, but this isn’t a case like the
stand Justice, those two stands get hurt when they’re attacked.
Plus, neither of them has nothing to do when the user is attacked.
Then, we have stands like The Lock and Surface, and both them do nothing in terms of immediate
defense, but both could do something if they pre-emptively did something that would work
towards using their stands how they’re supposed to be.
Heaven’s Door has a B in range so I think he’d be able to rewrite into Shigechi before
he’s dead, but that’s just if he’s fast enough and in range.
Bad Company Vs. Harvest sounds like an interesting matchup, but since Harvest has more defense
than Bad Company I’d see Harvest taking it.
Along with that, Harvest has more range and durability.
Now, let me grab a few of the stands that don’t stand a chance.
Pearl Jam, Hermit Purple, Achtung Baby, Cinderella, Boy II Man, and Superfly.
If the main goal is to destroy Shigechi while keeping the stand user of any of those stands
alive, none of the stands mentioned would be able to do so.
Pearl Jam is obvious, Hermit Purple has no defensive properties or offensive properties
that match up, Achtung Baby is a baby, Cinderella has the same case as Hermit Purple, Boy II
Man requires you to play Rock, Paper Scissors…
There’s just no way of defense in this case, and Superfly isn’t even a stand that works
for the user.
Toyo works for Super fly.
Ratt could severely damage Shigechi if he’s able to land a shot on him, but with how many
Harvest there are, it isn’t possible.
Atom Heart Father could destroy Shigechi since he wouldn’t be smart enough to do what Jotaro
did and would most likely attack the photo and camera.
Earth Wind and Fire is an Enigma for me, no pun.
But I feel like Harvest overpowers it for the most part.
Between Highway Star and Harvest, Harvest could kill both the stand and user before
Highway Star has a chance to start sucking away Shigechi’s energy.
Stray Cat’s bubble of defense gets immediately popped, and then it’s destroyed.
But, Stray Cat on it’s own is a reasonably strong stand since the stand users can’t
see the air bubbles.
To finish it off, we have Cheap Trick.
Cheap Trick demolishes, and Rohan is extremely lucky.
So, for the most part, Harvest is extremely strong.
It’s one of those odd ball stands that happen to be almost what it’s stated to be.
While Harvest isn’t invincible, it’s one of the strongest stands in Diamond is Unbreakable.
I’d like to mention stands from other parts, but I don’t see any reason to.
It’s not like we’d see that.
Since, you know…
Boom.
That’s going to be my take on it.
I could mention any other thoughts on Harvest, but I don’t care enough about this stand.