Joseph Joestar

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 Introduction
 Gallery
 History
 Misc

Joseph Joestar
 Part 2
 Part 3
 Part 4
 Manga
 Anime

Japanese Name

ジョセフ・ジョースター
Alias

JoJo (nickname in his youth)

Stand

Hermit Purple
Profile
Age
18 (Part 2)[1]
69 (Part 3)[2]
79 (Part 4)[3]
Birthday

September 27, 1920[1][4]

Zodiac Sign

Libra[1]
Chinese
Zodiac

Monkey[1]
Gender

Male
Height

195 cm (6 ft 5 in)[1]

Weight

97 kg[1]
Blood Type

B[1]
Nationality

BritishW[1][5]
Hair Color

Battle Tendency
Purple (Digital Color)
Brown (Anime, EoH)
Dark green (ASB)
Stardust Crusaders
Light blond (OVA)
Gray (Digital Color, Anime, ASB, EoH)
Eye Color

Green (Anime)
Occupation

Real Estate[6]
Favorites
Color

Marine blue[1]
Food

Fried chicken[1]
Chewing gum
Actor

Jean Gabin[1]
Animal

Dogs[1]
Hobbies

Collecting comic books and manga[1]

Other Information
Media
Manga Debut

Chapter 45
New York's Joseph Joestar (1)
Final
Appearance

Chapter 439
Goodbye, Morioh Town -
The Golden Heart
Anime Debut

Episode 10
New York's JoJo (Part 2)
Episode 27
A Man Possessed
by an Evil Spirit (Part 3)
Episode 84
Let's Go Eat
Some Italian Food (Part 4)
Game Debut

Famicom Jump: Hero Retsuden

Japanese Voice Actor

Anime:
(Young Joseph)
Tomokazu Sugita (ASB, EoH)
(Old Joseph)
Unshō Ishizuka (EoH)
OVA:
Chikao Ōtsuka (OVA)
Miscellaneous:
Tōru Ōkawa (Heritage for the Future - Old Joseph)
Hōchū Ōtsuka (Heritage for the Future - Young Joseph)
Kenji Utsumi (Drama CD 1 & 3)
Gorō Naya (Drama CD 2)

Dub Voice Actor

Anime:
 Dub Voice Actor

Ben Diskin (Young)
Richard Epcar (Old)
OVA:
Michael Bennett (English Dub)
François Siener (French Dub)
Enrico Bertorelli (Italian Dub)

Your next line is...

“ ”
—Joseph Joestar, Chapter 47: "Joseph Joestar of New York, Part 3"
Joseph Joestar (ジョセフ・ジョースター Josefu Jōsutā) is the main protagonist of part 2
and an ally in part 3 and 4. He is the 2nd JoJo of the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure series.
Joseph is a natural-born Ripple user and eventual Stand user, wielding the psychic
photographic Stand, Hermit Purple. Joseph meets the fantastic threats approaching him
throughout his life with initiative and impressive ingenuity, battling Vampires, the Pillar Men,
and malevolent Stand users.
He is the second most recurring JoJo in the series after his grandson Jotaro Kujo and is
one of its most well known characters.

Contents
 Appearance
o Battle Tendency
o Stardust Crusaders
o Diamond is Unbreakable
 Personality
o Battle Tendency
o Stardust Crusaders
 Abilities
o Ripple
 Attacks
 American Clackers
 Other Equipment
o Stand
 References
 Site Navigation

Appearance
Battle Tendency
18 years old, Joseph is tall (195 cm/6'5"), handsome, and powerfully built, with light eyes.
He has short, dark and unkempt hair, parts of his bangs shooting outwards in spikes, apart
from which he closely resembles his grandfather Jonathan Joestar.
Joseph's primary outfit is relatively minimal and pragmatic. He wears a tank top cut above
the navel, gloves studded at the knuckles, fitting pants with a leather belt, and knee-high
leather boots. In Switzerland he dons a long, broad, striped scarf; and later, as a gift
from Caesar, a long, thin headband patterned with a row of tessellated triangles.
Stardust Crusaders
Joseph retains most of his health and muscularity, though his face displays his age. His
hair is short and gray, and he sports a thick, well-trimmed beard.
During the group's journey to Egypt, he wears an outfit comparable to Indiana JonesW'
basic outfit: a fedora; a light, short-sleeved, buttonless shirt; khaki pants; dress shoes; and
white gloves with dark wristbands concealing his prosthetic hand (a result of his fight
with Kars).[7] At his introduction he also wears a trenchcoat and a turtleneck sweater.
Diamond is Unbreakable
At age 79, Joseph suffers from senility, having deterred from longevity through Ripple due
to lack of motivation.[8] While his stature is still apparent, he is hunched over and uses a
cane.[9] He wears a diminutive pair of pince-nezW spectacles, and a spotted, brimmed
woolen hat with ear flaps reminiscent of a ushankaW. He wears a thick trench coat, a
collared shirt and tie, and baggy pants.

Personality
Battle Tendency

Joseph fighting with a Taxi driver.

In Battle Tendency, Joseph is a hotheaded, impetuous, and confrontational young man.
Quick to violently respond to the slightest provocation, Joseph would often get into brawls
growing up; prior to events of the story, he had been imprisoned seven times and expelled
once from school for fighting.[1] Having no respect for authority save of his grandmother's,
and later Lisa Lisa's, Joseph has antagonised policemen[10] and mafiosi[11] alike.
Furthermore, Joseph is a foul-mouthed individual and regularly taunts his enemies,
enjoying aggravating them. His signature taunt is predicting his enemy's next line, which is
shown to be correct all the time. He notably taunted Kars when he launched him into
space, claiming to have again planned everything from the beginning just to annoy him.[12]
Joseph is a playful man and prefers fooling around over having any responsibility. By his
own admission, his most hated sentences are "hard work" and "work hard",[13] and still had
to be pushed to train his Ripple talent in spite of facing certain death if he didn't meet and
fight Wamuu again. Joseph has a fairly goofy side and spends half of his fights enjoying
having outsmarted his current enemy with incredibly zany schemes, which take his
opponents by surprise by how silly his plans are at first sight. He also often incorporates his
taunts into fights, to distract his enemies into otherwise obvious traps. A show-off, Joseph
likes being the center of attention and couldn't stand that his rival Caesar had a special
technique.[14] With his prestidigitation talent, Joseph mixed his boastful nature and his love
of pranks into a dangerous tool in battle.
Stardust Crusaders

OH! MY! GOD!

In Stardust Crusaders, Joseph has considerably mellowed out, having lost much of his
aggression and laziness. Still irascible toward Japanese in general, due to a Japanese
man marrying with his beloved daughter Holy,[15] Joseph is otherwise nice to his grandson
and Noriaki Kakyoin. His penchant for befriending people is still present, notably with the
appearance of his new friend Muhammad Avdol, and his tendency to approach the locals
first and communicate with them,[16] overall being the one to deal business with them. For
instance he takes it upon himself to order food in Hong Kong,[17] gladly approaches an
Indian barman to try sugar cane juice,[18] tries to salute a hotel owner in Pakistan[19] as well
as order shishkebab in Karachi.[20]

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Joseph's goofy side is also still present, and Joseph's somewhat frequent failures at
blending with the local culture and his struggle at battling Stands are a constant source of
humor. Moreover, his boastful nature leads him to occasional goofs, such as misreading
Chinese so much he orders dishes completely different from what he figured,[16] or
pretending to know how to ride camels only to ridicule himself.[21] At the end of the saga,
he demonstrates again his love for pranks, briefly making Jotaro believe that he was DIO
resurrected upon being saved via a transfusion.[22]