I know I might have given him some flak in my previous videos, but I think if I was supposed
to do a top 5 favorite characters in Diamond is Unbreakable, Okuyasu Nijimura can make
that top 5.
I’ve always thought of his character as such an odd and cheery character, but I can’t
recall to a time where I disliked him.
Even in areas where people have been vocal with their dislike of him, I look to those
areas and can’t relate.
For example, Okuyasu versus Red Hot Chili Pepper.
Everyone and even me had spoke about his use of The Hand and were all questioning why he
won’t just scrape the stand instead of kicking at it.
Though for me that’s just more on me wanting Okuyasu pulling an act that wouldn’t be
Okuyasu.
Him kicking at Red Hot Chili Pepper was helping by giving a physical output for all his anguish
on Chili Pepper.
He had lost his older brother, someone who he loved dearly and needed a way to get that
pain out.
It obviously wouldn’t work on just anyone since everyone in JoJo doesn’t go ahead
and generalize their personal problems on everyone they come across.
He can only be quenched by hurting Akira, but he wanted to make sure to hurt him as
bad as how Akira had hurt him by killing Keicho.
Though if we’re to compare emotional pain to physical pain, he’s still not resolved.
The death of Keicho was a such a monumental loss to Okuyasu, but the thing was this man
was still able to put on a smile for the rest of the part and make so many of us laugh and
enjoy him.
Though I think that’s why him and Josuke have such great synergy.
Both Josuke and Okuyasu had suffered a loss early on in the part, and they’re both able
to just connect well and share the best of moments with each other and Koichi included.
Though I think duos are what get me in JoJo, the ability to bounce dialogue back and forth
from each other and being able to follow up on what the other does is such an art to me.
It works that way in DIU when Koichi isn’t present, but I don’t believe that DIU could’ve
just been a duo part.
Okuyasu and Josuke are great, but Koichi helps the dynamic of the team.
I’m not sure as to why I just can’t see the two without Koichi, but I think it lays
in the color theory in my head.
Since you have the trio representing the cooler area of the color circle.
With Koichi as green, Okuyasu as blue, and Josuke as purple.
They just work so well with each other, and I think I have a bit of hypothesis as to why.
Okuyasu was a younger brother that was always following behind his brother without any question.
Koichi’s character loves to get to know others and tag along more than actually lead
himself, the times where you would see the power of a leader is when he’s guiding himself
into a winning situation.
Josuke is a Joestar which gives him this natural born leadership, but it’s done through showcasing
better options and ideas created outside of the box to the group.
The power of Crazy Diamond influences that a lot.
So, when you piece all of what we have, you have Okuyasu and Koichi as seconds, and Josuke
the number one.
It’s also because he’s the protagonist, but JoJo isn’t something like that which
always falls into line where the protagonist is the leader of the group or duo.
The trio in DiU isn’t even a group to where Josuke is a definitive leader, they all hang
around as friends with equal positions, it’s just that Josuke takes initiative the best.
I believe that the kind of group they have contributes so well into Okuyasu’s character
development because he’s no longer continuously following behind his brother.
It was never a completely bad thing that he did so, it’s just that as a big brother,
I’m sure that Keicho would want Okuyasu to go on to live his own life and define himself
as a person.
Though it’s possible that I’m just projecting because I’m a big brother to many brothers
and sisters.
I can understand as to why Okuyasu would follow Keicho so strongly.
If you remember the childhood of the two, it was terrible.
After the death of their mom, the only highlight was that their father was making more money,
and even that was bad because it was just obtained through means of Dio.
It was a continuous spiral down, and the only thing Okuyasu could see in all of that was
the back of his brother since he would always be upfront and protecting him.
Even that had went bad because the abuse and terrible conditions Keicho and Okuyasu lived
in had made this Keicho this child forced to live a life that wasn’t his.
He even stated that his life would finally be able to start as soon as he finds the stand
that can give his dad a peaceful end.
Coming to think about it, the Nijimura arc is the saddest arc we get for Okuyasu, especially
since his character gets happier with life as the part goes on.
Recalling back to after the fight between Keicho and Josuke.
Okuyasu has been listening in on Keicho’s retelling of his life story with Okuyasu.
Then it gets to the scene to where Josuke repairs the chest and picture that their father
had been rumbling around in for the past 10 years.
It chilled me to heart that he would piece the photo up and just cry after failing the
process.
Josuke repairs the photo and you see their father bawling looking at the photo, knowing
that he misses all of it, and wants to go to where life was nothing like it was after
the death of the mom.
Trying to fix a photo of your past for 10 years, and this whole time Okuyasu and Keicho
had been deeply saddened at the thought of their father not remembering them.
Okuyasu had taken in all of this information and it gave him hope that his father has a
chance at possibly being normal again, but there was no way Keicho was going to feel
the same.
Especially since what Keicho had already done just to try to find someone to put his dad’s
life out it’s misery.
The thing is, Keicho had a chance a better life still, it just seems that way to him
because of what he did overwhelms him all the time.
If we’re being as real as possible, he has a huge chance at life because Hazmada is walking
around perfectly fine.
But, Keicho says that he can’t turn back, and along with that he threatens Okuyasu’s
life.
Fast track to Red Hot Chili Pepper, and Keicho saves Okuyasu, but then his last words to
his brother was that he was a hinderance!
As Okuyasu, I wouldn’t even know how to process what had happened.
That emotional and mental trauma is like getting beaten down by the mental projection of Muhammed
Ali.
On one hand, his brother had been defending him his whole life and wanted the best for
him in the future, on the other Keicho had attacked him and nearly makes him blind, on
another hand it’s all because Keicho had to take on the role of a damaged leader so
early on into his life which had made him into the person we had seen until the end,
and on another hand his final words to come out of his mouth was an insult, but then on
another hand he had sacrificed himself for his brother anyways.
I don’t know what gives!
His life was filled with 13 years of terrible, yet he was able to come out at the end of
it smiling nearly everyday!
It’s beautiful and sad, and amazing, but tragic.
He’s just so happy!
Then his final defining moment being his comeback in “Crazy Diamond is Unbreakable” where
he meets up with his brother again.
He was in the darkness, but then light and that light was Keicho.
Light symbolizing the guidance that Keicho has been to Okuyasu, keeping him through life
and getting on his way.
He felt like he can always count on his big brother, and he’d be able to rest easy because
he knows his brother makes the right choices.
I believe it was actually Keicho speaking to him, telling him that he needs to make
his own choices and follow his own paths.
He didn’t have the best words when dying, but I’m guessing that “I love you” was
way too easy and out of Keicho’s character.
It’s obvious by now that Keicho loves his brother, he might have terrible ways of doing
it and might be a lot messed up because of what he went through, but it’s always been
apparent to himself and probably Okuyasu.
But this was the final moment between the two, and I’m guessing this is where Okuyasu
finally comes to term with himself and picks to start guiding himself from now on.
Waking up feeling alone because it’s a new feeling to him, it’s not strong independence
but more of a slight realization that it’s has to be him that guides himself from now
on and he can’t keep thinking about his brother and what he would do for situations.
While Okuyasu had defining moments before this one, notice he would be a lot more abrasive
when it came to situations with high stakes.
In his last fight, he looks more composed than ever.
He completely destroys Kira’s win condition against Josuke and it’s done comically,
just fidgeting around with stray cat in his hands.
Him doing that almost made me forget how major this battle is because of how easy he had
done with something that had been taking Josuke down chapter after chapter.
I love it.
Diamond is Unbreakable has always been a part that I can just go back to and enjoy casually
when it had so many likable characters, and Okuyasu was one that I would never get tired
of seeing.
I feel like we saw a lot less of him when getting further out, but it’s probably bias
and that I just wanted to see more of him.
Unrelated to this, I love how Araki had done his facial expressions and how they were adapted
into the anime.
I also love the voice actor they have for Okuyasu, I feel the vocal tone and that kind
of raspy aspect fits so well.
I’ve got all I wanted to talk about out for now, well at least about Okuyasu.
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