Diamond Is Unbreakable, part 4 of Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure.
If you had seen the anime in it’s entirety, you notice the narrator perspective from Koichi.
Jojo usually circulating around the main Joestar at the time, and you would think that it would
be in their perspective.
But for some reason, going past both Josuke and Koichi, I feel like DIU was also Rohan’s
story Not as in, all of it about Rohan, but it was
about Rohan and it moved to those who were now present in Morioh.
See it like this, Rohan and Kira have a history through Reimi.
Rohan had almost came close to the first kill of Kira, who later on in the years had Morioh
in his hands.
Then when you have the Morioh Warriors and the reconnect of Rohan and Reimi, it feels
like they have some sort of background protagonists/side protagonist roles.
Even Volume 7 was named “Rohan Kishibe’s Adventure”.
I guess that’s more of when DIU had developed their characters, you’re probably not going
to see it when going over Rohan when he was a minor antagonist for a bit.
Revisiting that time in specific, I wouldn’t even say that Rohan was actually evil.
A bit insane, but he had some reasonable and understandable moments.
And at the same time, he had moments where you would think that he could possibly be
Kira’s little brother.
But for Rohan it’s all in the issue of someone trying to do the right thing, just in the
wrong way.
It’s time to revisit that time in specific, Let’s go visit the mangaka’s house.
When first being introduced to Rohan, he had already seemed pretty abnormal and a bit terrifying.
He had let Koichi and Hazmada into his home and he had actually came around when being
praised.
Then we get to know more about Rohan’s workflow, inspirations, and the secret to writing comics.
This here was where I felt a connect between Rohan and Araki, the creator of Jojo.
“Reality is the lifeblood that makes a work pulse with energy!
Reality itself is entertainment!”
At the same time, this isn’t supposed to be taken so seriously.
I doubt Araki is able to summon and manifest his fighting spirit to fight vampires, serial
killers, and the list goes on.
But to interpret this, I would say that morals, moods, and life itself has things to where
they are included in Jojo.
For example, Rohan’s reasoning in his writing.
He doesn’t write for the sake of making money, he writes because he wants to be read.
Along with that you have him talking about his inhibitions.
First feeling great after a job well done, but then that feeling of it going to nothing
right after.
Because what exactly do you do when you put your hard work into something just for nothing
to come out of it.
For Rohan specifically, he feels that if nobody bothers reading, then not knowing what to
do and a loss in motivation would shortly after.
That there is what I feel that everyone can relate to, or at least those that work in
something that would rely on the entertainment and enjoyment of consumers.
Say that you do spend a lot of time working hard on something, and had minimal results
coming from said thing.
How exactly do you go about it?
This isn’t rhetorical, I’m actually asking this.
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For me in specific, I try to take apart why it didn’t do well and try to find out why
so it doesn’t happen again.
I have friends involved in art, meaning either drawing or graphic design.
I know that some would put a lot of time into said art and shows it to the world with a
caption of, “Rough draft” or “Quick drawing”.
The reasoning behind that is to fallback safely and hoping no one is going to be too critical
due to the caption.
Which is a flashing red sign of insecurities.
Rohan doesn’t want to face said insecurities so what exactly does he do here?
Well, he attacks two high schoolers and steals the memories of one of them.
Which probably isn’t the best way to go about this.
You know what really puzzles me though, along with having underlying insecurities, Rohan
has really strong confidence.
I had found this interview of Rohan when revisiting the manga.
Where it shows that Rohan really has no person that he looks up to.
Going even deeper on that, he believes that there’s not a single person above or even
equal to him.
He also believes there’s not a single thing that’s more important than his manga, and
I wouldn’t even say that’s a selfish thing either.
In Rohan’s perspective, his work really is his everything.
It dictates how he feels, his relevancy, his money, and other aspects that are highlights
in someone’s life.
So there’s nothing really else for Rohan in that case, anything else is a possible
bonus but isn’t necessary to his happiness.
Having so much riding on one thing is stressful, and having nothing to fallback on is a nail
in the coffin if that one thing was to ever fail.
But what if you had something to get the results you wanted tenfold?
In Rohan’s case, it was other people’s memories.
But, it was for his literal everything.
Which probably doesn’t make doing what he did ok, but hopefully it lightens it a bit.
Ok well, he kind of was ok with killing Koichi for the sake of his manga and, yeah that’s
messed up.
But after getting brutally beaten by Josuke, Rohan had turned a new leaf.
I’d like to believe he had thought about it, and had realized he should write more
about his own experiences.
Rohan had stayed on hiatus until Part 4 was over, and that last clip of him doing his
hand exercises (while being a reference) means that he was getting back into it.
Along with that it even says that the serialization had returned.
So his character had came together, a full roundabout.
When he came in, he had a huge problem due to the only thing that had mattered to him.
His problem being solved because of well, human interactions and friends.
Which hopefully he realized it’s ok to like people.
I mean well I would hope after the bond of him and Koichi after the whole Cheap Trick
incident.
Or you know, chasing down the serial killer who had been around for 17 plus years.
But after rewatching Koichi’s narration and perspective, Jojo being jojo about jojo
and sometimes in the perspective of Jojo, and Rohan’s history bound to the plot; I
realized something.
Everyone has a plot that you can actually distinguish pretty well.
Before you call me out on how that’s just development, the case is somewhat different
I swear.
Everyone has a main goal for the most part of Jojo and it was common, it was mainly to
find the Killer.
But when it comes to specific characters, everyone needs something for the most part
and they get said thing by the end of DIU.
For example, Koichi as a character needed development and growth.
The events of DIU had made him a stronger and trusting character.
Rohan had needed closure and inspiration for his manga.
He got exactly that, more on the inspiration part because that’s what makes Rohan, Rohan.
Closure was a common goal for everyone due to Reimi being the center of plot and attention.
But on inspiration for Rohan, it’s actually amazing to have a perfect give and receive
situation.
Giving time to live and receiving material for his art, plus that allows him to not be
like everyone I know during the summer and let’s him leave the house once in awhile.
Rohan has so much to experience in his life and that alone is great for strengthening
his writing as a mangaka.
You can also catch up on Rohan’s experiences through the upcoming OVA.
Or you could just read it, and you know read the other things he got involved in.
He has multiple One-Shots guys, you don’t have to just wait for part 5.
Do something please.
But when it comes down to the line, Rohan was probably top 3 favorite characters for
me in the show.
I really had liked his character on the other type of episodes like the Mikitaka or Highway
Star episode.
Or I guess arc, apparently that’s how it all works.
If you want highlighting Rohan moments, there really is a lot, especially in arcs like those.
There’s Josuke Vs. Rohan, Rohan saving Ken (the Janken kid), Rohan vs. Highway Star,
and then Rohan Vs. Cheap Trick.
In Josuke Vs. Rohan, Rohan shows how adamant he can get when someone is trying to play
him.
He also punishes himself for not being able to figure out what Josuke has been doing.
It’s not just because he’s getting played, it goes back to him believing everyone is
under him.
So if someone who is supposed to be under him is playing him, he’s feeling humiliated.
He’s even going as far to think Josuke is just laughing at him because Rohan hasn’t
figured out what has been going on, while Josuke is actually just terrified of getting
caught.
Also damn he dresses nice, jeez.
Then there’s Rohan Vs. Ken, which had happened before Josuke Vs. Rohan, but correlates with
Rohan Vs. Highway Star.
When establishing his win over Ken, he tells Ken that he going to destroy his stand, and
along with that he would set his fate in stone so that he would never win a single game of
Janken ever again.
While doing that, Rohan slowly approaches menacingly.
Then Ken in a response to Rohan’s attempt, tries to kill himself.
Because he rather die than let someone control his fate and heart, which is probably the
only cool thing he did.
Rohan thinks his act of freedom is amazing and says the kid has got guts so he can’t
someone like that get away.
Rohan loves when some has the ability to say no to someone with an overwhelming power over
them, he thinks it’s the coolest thing ever.
Bringing that up leads into the Highway Star encounter.
Where Highway Star offers Rohan his life in exchange for Josuke’s.
Getting this straight, Rohan doesn’t like Josuke at all at the moment.
This was right after the whole Mikitaka dice incident, so Rohan and Josuke are going through
the motions.
Even after all of that, he’s easily able to look Highway Star dead in the eyes and
say the iconic line.
“Daga kotoaru.
I refuse.”
Then he gives his reasoning right after which follows why he like the Janken kid’s will.
“The one thing I, Kishibe Rohan likes more than anything else, is finding people who
think they’re hot shit and saying no straight to their faces.”
This guy is Mr. Hot stuff, pretends not to care about people, says no to death, and has
the ability to control everything about a person.
Rohan in such a character, like he’s a anime character that makes anime characters, and
likes when his fellow anime characters act like anime characters.
He acts anime, while being anime, creating anime, inside of in anime.
Kaleb, Rohan is kind of an enigma.
No viewer, his stand is Heaven’s Door, not Enigma.
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