yoshikage kira part 8

Who is Yoshikage Kira ?

Yoshikage Kira is a posthumous character featured in JoJolion.

Kira is the son of Holy Joestar-Kira and the older brother of Kei Nijimura.

Parts of his corpse were exchanged with Josefumi Kujo which transformed Josefumi into Josuke Higashikata. Kira worked as a marine surgeon and was also a Stand User, wielding the bomb-producing Killer Queen.

Kira was a narcissist, keeping sculptures of his own hands around his house, apparently as documents to their ideal state.

A copy of the Mona Lisa hangs from a wall in his living room, alluding to the Kira of Diamond is Unbreakable, indicating a similar fascination with beautiful hands. He seems to have had certain obsessive-compulsive tendencies, keeping an organized stock of entirely green foods, and shelves of containers of his fingernails in his bathroom, labeled by date. His interactions with others are mostly cold and apathetic.

As a teenager, he immediately jumped to the conclusion that a drowned and unconscious Josefumi was fated to die, showing exasperation when his mother prompted him to manually save the boy’s life, only wishing to see Titanic in the theater later and leaving the hospital alone because of it. As an adult, when a fellow crew member on his team is injured, sustaining heavy blood loss and the inability to breathe, as the surgeon of the crew, Kira applied little effort to helping him, nonchalantly putting his shoes on before getting out of bed and ordering the others to hold his hand and encourage him, without so much as looking in his direction (his lack of concern was mostly due to presumably knowing the seriousness of the injury and that the crew member was in no life-threatening danger).

Later, he easily antagonizes Rock Humans by referring to them as “things” rather than individuals, even though he had not interacted with any of them at that point.

Kira is a man of slim to medium build and seemingly average height.

He has dark eyes and fine features, and wavy black hair of irregular chin-length resembling thin naturally occurring dreads (later appearances depict the same lock of hair as straightened).

Kira’s Stand is Killer Queen,

with the ability to generate bubbles that explode on contact. Part of this Stand is fused to Josefumi Kujo’s when the two are buried together, resulting in Soft & Wet. The Stand also has an ability called Sheer Heart Attack, which releases several miniature remote controlled bomb tanks.

Kira was the dangerous serial killer villain in Diamond Is Unbreakable and was remembered as much for his unique Stand as well as his Valentino-dressed fashion.

Although he met his demise in Diamond, Kira appeared again in the Jojolion chapter of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure.

Or at least, a version of him did, as Jojolion’s Kira is his own unique character different from Diamond’s Kira. Yet, the two also share more than a name.

Much like Kira Yoshikage from Diamond is Unbreakable, Kira wields the bomb-creating stand Killer Queen.