History Manga / JoJosBizarreAdventureJoJolion

''[=JoJolion=]'' (ジョジョリオン) is the eighth part of the ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' series and the longest, running from May 2011 to August 2021. It is preceded by ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureSteelBallRun Steel Ball Run]]'' and succeeded by ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureTheJoJoLands The JoJoLands]]''.

''[=JoJolion=]'' (ジョジョリオン) is the eighth part of the ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' series and the longest, running from May 2011 to August 2021. It is preceded by ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureSteelBallRun Steel Ball Run]]'' and succeeded by ''[=JoJo=] Lands''.

* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:The child Kaato murdered and was imprisoned for 15 years ago, was a school bully who constantly picked on Jobin and took advantage of the boy's [[ForgetfulJones short-term memory]] to [[KarmaHoudini get away with his actions]]. When the bully tried to murder Jobin for refusing to set fire to the house of a girl who tattled on the bully, Jobin unwittingly knocks the bully out [[TraumaticSuperpowerAwakening with his Stand]]. Kaato decided to switch the family curse onto the bully and buried him alive underneath the shrine on their family land, but eventually she was caught and imprisoned because her DNA was found on the body. Hardly makes the bully sympathetic, though.]]

%%* CurseRelay: The Stand, Milagro Man, from [=JoJolion=], works like this. The Stand makes it so that the User will constantly earn money and never lose any, [[DeathByMaterialism eventually killing them by literally drowning them in cash]]. [[spoiler: The only way to escape the Stand is to trick someone else into stealing the User's money, causing them to become the new User. ]]

* DenserAndWackier: The series is even weirder than Parts 6 and 7, with several story elements being so out there that it seems like Araki is purposely making this Part as aggressively weird as possible.

* ProudBeauty: Hato evidences a degree of narcissism, self-identifying as beautiful.

->"''This is a story of breaking a'' curse. [...] ''This mysterious boy buried in the ground, [[IdentityAmnesia who in the world is he]]?''"

** The Good: Josuke, Yasuho and Rai, whose main motivation is saving Holly.

* BananaPeel: Yotsuyu Yagiyama falls victim to this trope when he slips on a banana peel created by Paper Moon King.

* MythologyGag: The fight against Born This Way serves to be a recreation of the fight against Highway Star in ''Diamond is Unbreakable'', with Josuke having to evade an extremely fast SuperPersistentPredator riding a motorcycle, like how Josuke in Part 4 had to use a motorcycle himself to evade an extremely fast Stand, whereas Yasuho is trying to find Holly Joestar-Kira in TG University Hospital, like how Koichi (who also has the last name of [[LegacyCharacter Hirose]]) was trying to stall for time in the hospital so that Josuke could find Yuya's hospital room.

* OlderThanTheyLook: The parents of the Higashikata children looks extremely attractive for people who are in their 50's.

* EverythingIsOnline: Taken to the absolute extreme with Paisley Park. The Stand can independently scan for any information online and break any encryption necessary to solve the problem. So far, it has operated as a GPS, hacked electronic devices, accessed medical and dental records, created video loops, deleted files from cellphones, and even copied the functions of specialized electronic devices (e.g. became a portable X-ray machine).

** '''Family versus Self-interest''': A major motivation by nearly the entire cast is the struggle between doing what's best for yourself, and doing what's best for your family. Josuke wants to rediscover his identity, but in doing so he puts his foster family at risk. Norisuke really comes to like Josuke and wants to assist him on his quest, but must also consider the issues that come with putting a stranger above his own family. Jobin must come to terms with doing what's right for his ailing son at the cost of putting himself in great danger, and even the main villains are motivated by a desire to keep their smuggling ring in tact so that they can survive. One of the final fights even revolves around an abstracted form of this concept: [[spoiler:Wonder of U makes it so that selfishly pursuing the Stand causes untold Calamities to befall the pursuer. The catch is that being made to pursue something the Stand is also going after does not trigger the Calamity effect, because you're not technically pursuing the Stand itself. Wonder of U also becomes subject to LoopholeAbuse when Josuke figures out that automatic Stand attacks do not trigger the Calamity effect, allowing Kei to arrive and immediately shift the tide of battle.]]

* AccidentalMurder: While chasing the Head Doctor of T.G. University Hospital, Josuke, Yasuho and Rai are attacked by a Stand, which seems to amplify the force of objects that collide into them. Josuke injures himself in one of these attacks and accidentally splashes his blood onto a nearby hospital patient, who is angered and tries to grab Josuke. Josuke blocks his hand with bubbles and ends up reflecting the force of the collusion into the patient, which is strong enough to snap his neck.

* AccidentalMurder: While chasing the Head Doctor of T.G. University Hospital, Josuke, Yasuho and Rai are attacked by his Stand, which amplifies the force of objects that collide into them. Josuke injures himself in one of these attacks and accidentally splashes his blood onto a nearby hospital patient, who is angered and tries to grab Josuke. Josuke blocks his hand with bubbles and ends up reflecting the force of the collusion into the patient, which is strong enough to snap his neck.

** One of [[spoiler:Tooru's]] defining character moments is listening to Music/ElvisPresley's "The Wonder of You" to maintain composure. However, while Elvis' recording of the song was released in 1970, the album it's listened off of is ''The Wonder of You'', an Elvis compilation album with additional compositions from the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra released in 2016. In contrast, ''[=JoJolion=]'' takes place in 2011, emphasized by the heavy usage of [[TrackingDevice GPSs]] and [[IProduct iPods]].
** A more glaring example is Yasuho's flashback to her first meeting with [[spoiler:Tooru]] at summer camp, where she's seen looking up beaches in Okinawa on her smartphone and later [[spoiler:(presumably with the assistance of Paisley Park) successfully finds a medical practitioner (Satoru Afeku) to the standards that Tooru's looking for.]] The problem is, given that Satoru's stated as being 10 years younger (79 rather than 89), this flashback presumably takes place in 2001, at which point smartphones would hardly even exist, with very few of those being advanced enough for such actions as searching specific locations on the internet or finding actual profiles of people. It's possible that all of this is thanks to Paisley Park, but [[spoiler:Tooru]] does not seem surprised for what would be unheard of in those times. Perhaps it's an AlternateHistory where technological advancement occurred much earlier?

** [[spoiler:Kaato does this again against Tooru, who has already killed Jobin through his manipulation of Calamities via Wonder of U and has eaten the new Locacaca to enact a beneficial EquivalentExchange between two people. She first uses Space Trucking's cards to immobilize him, thwarting Wonder of U's automatic activation by not actually attacking him. She then pulls Tsurugi out of her deck of cards and has Tsurugi's petrifying body come in contact with Tooru, beginning the equivalent exchange between them. Tooru's Rock Human biology means she won't be tried for murder this time around, but Tooru gets the proper punishment for having caused so much death in the Higashikata family in his quest for the new Locacaca.]]

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Tooru is defeated and Tsurugi is finally freed of the Higashikata family curse, while Norisuke has survived Speed King's attack and is expected to be discharged from the hospital soon. But the Higashikata family had to go through a TraumaCongaLine in the process, losing both Jobin and Kaato. Josuke meanwhile fails to find a cure for Holly Joestar's deteriorating condition, while Rai and Kei (the latter being the only other family he has) are also dead. Nevertheless, Josuke finally comes to terms with his identity and finds a new family in the Higashikatas who have come to accept him as one of their own.]]

** '''Rock Humans''': The central enemies of the part are "Rock Humans", silicon-based lifeforms who evolved alongside humans but with numerous evolutionary differences. They hibernate for long periods of time, have a ''very'' strange birth and childhood that borders on {{Squick}}, and are infamous for their terrible relationships with normal humans. What's interesting is how Rock Humans parasitize human society, infiltrating our institutions and constructing relationships that center around AllTakeAndNoGive in their favor. The later parts of the story are spent analyzing various Rock Human romantic relationships, [[spoiler: including Yasuho's relationship with her ex-boyfriend, Tooru]], and contrasting how their selfish relationships mirror the selfless ones of the heroes.

* HeroesActVillainsHinder: This is a key difference between this Part and other parts of [=JoJo=], and the reason behind its infamous apparent lack of a BigBad. Josuke's goals of finding his past identity [[spoiler: and his identities' original goal of [[MedicalMotivation saving Holly]]]] have various other characters running into him and trying to stop him. This escalates into him discovering the Rock Humans' smuggling operation; from that point onward they become the principal villains of the story, [[spoiler: with [[BigBadEnsemble Jobin and Tooru]] at the forefront.]]

** [[spoiler:Due to him being a Rock Human, Tooru is able to have the appearance of a late-teen to young adult, even though he has been alive and active as an adult Rock Human as early as 1941, making him at least 87.]]

*** Chapter 97: [[spoiler: Any assumption that Jobin is the main antagonist completely thrown out the window...because [[TheWorfEffect he's swiftly killed by the real one]], who is ''Tooru, Yasuho's ex''.]] Making matters worse is that [[spoiler: its been ambiguous if he actually died for a few chapters.]]

* AdultFear: [[spoiler:The Higashikata family is cursed by an incurable disease that turns all first-born children into stone. This causes the mothers of the family to pull {{Heroic Sacrifice}}s just so their children could live unaffected by the disease. Even Jobin, who has been acting behind his family's back in the Rock Humans' smuggling operation, acts out of fear that his son will not be as lucky as he was when the opportunity arose to exchange the disease onto his childhood tormentor, and that the Locacaca plant will be the solution to their family's woes.]]

* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: The penultimate chapter does not focus on Josuke, Yasuho, or the Higashikatas, but is rather [[spoiler:a WholeEpisodeFlashback to 1941 that focuses on [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureSteelBallRun Lucy Steel]] and a young man named Fumi-kun (later revealed to be Joseph Joestar), as they unravel the cause behind mysterious disappearances near the Higashikata Orchard.]]

%%* CurseRelay: The Stand, Milagro Man, from JoJolion, works like this. The Stand makes it so that the User will constantly earn money and never lose any, [[DeathByMaterialism eventually killing them by literally drowning them in cash]]. [[spoiler: The only way to escape the Stand is to trick someone else into stealing the User's money, causing them to become the new User. ]]

* AccidentalMurder: While chasing the head doctor of TG University Hospital, Josuke, Yasuho and Rai are attacked by his Stand, which amplifies the force of objects that collide into them. Josuke injures himself in one of these attacks and accidentally splashes his blood onto a nearby hospital patient, who is angered and tries to grab Josuke. Josuke blocks his hand with bubbles and ends up reflecting the force of the collusion into the patient, which is strong enough to snap his neck.

* DeliberateInjuryGambit: [[spoiler:Josuke intentionally gets injured by Wonder of U so he would be admitted to the TG University Hospital in order to continue his pursuit of said Head Doctor. This also spares Rai from the Stand's attack as his attention is shifted from chasing the Head Doctor to making sure that Josuke receives immediate medical attention.]]

* AdultFear: [[spoiler:The Higashikata family is cursed by an incurable disease that turns all first-born children into stone. This causes the mothers of the family to pull {{Heroic Sacrifice}}s just so their children could live unaffected by the disease. Even Jobin, who has been acting behind his family's back in the Rock Humans' smuggling operation, acts out of fear that his son will not be as lucky as he was when the opportunity arose to exchange the disease onto his childhood tormentor, and that the Rokakaka plant will be the solution to their family's woes.]]

** [[spoiler:Kaato does this again against Tooru, who has already killed Jobin through his manipulation of calamities via Wonder of U and has eaten the new Rokakaka to enact a beneficial Equivalent Exchange between two people. She first uses Space Trucking's cards to immobilize him, thwarting Wonder of U's automatic activation by not actually attacking him. She then pulls Tsurugi out of her deck of cards and has Tsurugi's petrifying body come in contact with Tooru, beginning the equivalent exchange between them. Tooru's Rock Human biology means she won't be tried for murder this time around, but Tooru gets the proper punishment for having caused so much death in the Higashikata family in his quest for the new Rokakaka.]]

* BossRush: [[spoiler: Josefumi]] ends up facing one when he was trying to [[spoiler: save Kira]], having to fight/run from ''every'' enemy introduced by then sans Aishou [[spoiler: whom he stole the Rokakaka branch from.]]

** '''Family versus Self-interest''': A major motivation by nearly the entire cast is the struggle between doing what's best for yourself, and doing what's best for your family. Josuke wants to rediscover his identity, but in doing so he puts his foster family at risk. Norisuke really comes to like Josuke and wants to assist him on his quest, but must also consider the issues that come with putting a stranger above his own family. Jobin must come to terms with doing what's right for his ailing son at the cost of putting himself in great danger, and even the main villains are motivated by a desire to keep their smuggling ring in tact so that they can survive. One of the final fights even revolves around an abstracted form of this concept: [[spoiler: Wonder of U makes it so that selfishly pursuing the Stand causes untold calamities to befall the pursuer. The catch is that being made to pursue something the Stand is also going after does not trigger the calamity effect, because you're not technically pursuing the Stand itself. Wonder of U also becomes subject to LoopholeAbuse when Josuke figures out that automatic Stand attacks do not trigger the calamity effect, allowing Kei to arrive and immediately shift the tide of battle.]]
** '''Self-identity''': Josuke's character arc revolves around him deciding who he is based on the experiences he has. He begins the story as a fragile and quirky weirdo, but the progressively darker circumstances of the story and the brutality he suffers at the hands of his enemies quickly begins pushing him towards being TheStoic. Other examples include Yasuho's struggle with her AbusiveParent and figuring out who she wants to be, Joshuu's desires to be loved and given affection, and Jobin's [[spoiler: descent into villainy by realizing his desire to save his son from the family curse outweighs his love for his father.]]

* FamilyThemeNaming: The Higashikatas in [=JoJolion=] have four different levels of this.

** Finally, several of the [[spoiler: Rock Humans]] that Josuke faces are named after real life mountain ranges. Yagiyama and Dainenjiyama are both actual mountain ranges in Sendai, while Dolomite refers to the Dolomites of the Italian Alps. [[spoiler: They are likely fake names that the Rock Humans made to blend in with modern society.]]

* ForcedFriendlyFire: [[spoiler:In the final battle against Wonder of U, Rai is killed by the Stand after its calamity powers redirect Soft & Wet's hidden bubble trap into him, perforating him into human swiss cheese mere moments and 2 centimetres before he could do the same to Wonder of U.]]

* FusionDance: [[spoiler:It's revealed that Josuke is the fusion of this timeline's Yoshikage Kira, who takes the place of Jotaro Kujo in the Joestar family tree, and Josefumi Kujo, who also seems to be a Joestar. Josefumi made a deal with the Rokakaka to save Kira's life after he was mortally wounded by the Rock Humans, and they were then buried together by a cave-in which occurred near the Lone Pine on the Higashikata estate. These grounds fused them together, and the power of the two men's Stands Killer Queen and the original Soft & Wet fusing to become Josuke's Soft & Wet. The kicker is that Josuke had no memory of his previous lives.]]

** The Evil: The rock humans, who wish to exploit the Rokakaka solely for their own personal gain, and are largely sociopathic and unsympathetic.
* HalfwayPlotSwitch: The first half of the story is mostly concerned with Josuke trying to find out his past identity. [[spoiler:When this gets resolved, the plot switches to Josuke trying to obtain the [[MacGuffin New Rokakaka]] in order to rescue his ailing mother.]]
* HealingHerb: The spiky Rokakaka fruits that appear with the Rock Humans are basically this, able to heal any ailment. However, the healing is a form of EquivalentExchange; for whatever part of the body it heals, another part is destroyed and [[TakenForGranite turned to stone]]. One of the first times this effect is seen is when Yasuho and Tsurugi spy Aishou Dainenjiyama selling a fruit to an elderly man missing a leg. The leg immediately grows back, only for the man's eyes to turn to stone and crumble away. Said man begins to ravage his wife and says that the two of them will just begin eating more and more fruit, restoring whatever part of the body they lost only to lose another, until they can live with the result.
* HealthcareMotivation: [[spoiler:Yoshikage Kira's motive for stealing a Rokakaka is because it can cure his ill mother from an incurable and rare disease. Norisuke IV also took Josuke in in the hopes that his memories as Kira can be recovered to help lift the family's mysterious curse.]]
** [[spoiler:When Josuke finally gets to visit Holly, he decides to continue on Josefumi and Kira's tracks and get the New Rokakaka to save her]].
* HeroesActVillainsHinder: This is a key difference between this Part and other parts of [=JoJo=], and the reason behind its infamous apparent lack of a BigBad. Josuke's goals of finding his past identity [[spoiler: and his identities' original goal of [[MedicalMotivation saving Holly]]]] have various other characters running into him and trying to stop him. This escalates into him discovering the Rock Human's smuggling operation; from that point onward they become the principal villains of the story, [[spoiler: with [[BigBadEnsemble Jobin and Tooru]] at the forefront.]]

* MeleeATrois: [[spoiler: Beginning with the Ozon Baby arc, Jobin splits off from the Rock Humans after being betrayed. He, his son Tsurugi, and his wife Mitsuba conspire to keep the New Rokakaka for themselves, even roping his mother Kaato into it, against what remains of the Rock Humans and the trio of Josuke, Yasuho, and Rai Mamezuku.]]

* MommasBoy: Unlike Part 4 Kira, whose father enabled his atrocious behavior to monstrous extremes, this Kira is deeply attached to his mother, Holly Joestar-Kira. [[spoiler:To the point where he was willing to take extreme risks in getting the Rokakaka fruit so her [[TakenForGranite disease]] will be cured. Josuke's extreme emotional breakdown upon seeing Holly's worsening mental condition is partially due to [[FusionDance half of him belonging to Part 8 Kira]].]]

*** Josuke is a [[spoiler: flesh golem of sorts animated by mixing together the remains of two men.]]
*** One of the major plot points is a mysterious disease afflicting the Higashikatas, [[spoiler: with said affects literally turning their victims to stone.]]

*** A flashback that establishes this part's connection to the previous one concerns [[spoiler:what Johnny Joestar does after the Steel Ball Run race, and how his attempt to send away Rina's rock disease by using Ticket to Ride causes him further grief]].

*** The primary MacGuffin of the Rokakaka fruit also forces a form of equivalent exchange, one that can "cure" the Rock Disease, which is why all the human characters want it.

* MyNewGiftIsLame: Inverted. Jobin Higashikata comes back from a trip overseas and gives everyone utterly lame souvenirs like a fake Oscar, a T-shirt, and an ashtray, and they ''love'' them. Meanwhile, Josuke's gifts are actually good-- a luxurious wristwatch and a prized live stag beetle.
* NakedFirstImpression: Josuke in Jojolion is introduced in the story naked save for a sailor hat.

** [[spoiler:Due to him being a rock human, Tooru is able to have the appearance of a late-teen to young adult, even though he has been alive and active as an adult rock human as early as 1941, making him at least 87.]]

* QuestForIdentity: The main plot of [=JoJolion=] is Josuke's ongoing attempt to find out who he is.

* RunningTheme: Rocks and stones. The main antagonists are mysterious Rock Humans, the Higashikata Family is afflicted by the Rock Curse/Disease, the preferred method of EquivalentExchange of the Rokakaka fruit is turning body parts into rocks, and Johnny Joestar [[spoiler: got crushed by a boulder.]]

** The prized Rokakaka is potent enough to regrow a whole leg, but in exchange a random body part transforms into rock. The fact that the new Rokakaka variety [[spoiler:that fused Yoshikage Kira's spirit with Josefumi Kujo's body before the earthquake]] has no obvious rock-based EquivalentExchange drives the secondary conflict with the remaining Rock Humans [[spoiler:who have Jobin in their employment]].

* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Josuke [[spoiler: splits Damo's head with a punch from Soft & Wet, right on the sidewalk.]] The general pedestrian reaction was mild confusion. Justified since [[spoiler: Damo was a Rock Human, and the people probably thought that Josuke had only broken a statue.]]

* WhamEpisode: Because of the way the story is presented, ''Jojolion'' has quite a few of these.
** Chapter 16-17, where we learn that [[spoiler: Kei Nijimura is a Joestar and Holly's daughter, and is also ''Yoshikage Kira's sister''. Josuke happens to be [[FusionDance a fusion of Kira & someone else]], due to being buried under the Wall-Eyes.]]

** Chapter 26-32: The Higashikata family is revealed to have [[spoiler: an incurable Rock Disease that affects the eldest son of a generation while affecting women when they're older, and can only be exchanged to someone else. Also, while fighting Yotsuyu Yagiyama, we find out that he's entirely ''made up of rocks'', which isn't a Stand-ability. Rather, its because he's part of a HumanSubspecies called [[SiliconBasedLife Rock Humans]].]]
** Chapter 33 & 39: [[spoiler: Jobin, the eldest son of Norisuke IV, is heavily implied to be associated with these Rock Humans. We also find out that the Rokakaka Fruit doesn't simply just heal injuries; it heals a body part in exchange for turning another into stone. This is shown by Aisho giving it to an old man to regrow his feet...while his eyes simply turn into rocks, [[{{Squick}} while having sex with his wife in the car during this]].]]

** Chapter 95: [[spoiler: Jobin seemingly ''killing his father'' hours before the new Rokakaka fruit blooms. In front of the rest of the family no less.]]