
While Josuke can be violent at times, he also has a degree of restraint toward enemies he doesn't have to kill. Nonetheless, he felt a strong sadness when he first saw Holy Joestar-Kira, meaning he's also retained subconscious memories strong enough to still feel attachment to her. It causes him to question what he really is and consider his identity to be nebulous. However, Josuke ultimately considers himself separated from both, neither being Kira nor Josefumi as he doesn't have memories from either man, nor did anyone from Josefumi's past look for him. At times he displays strong emotions like Josefumi, while also being able to analyze situations and strategize like Yoshikage. Josuke seems to have retained certain traits from both of his original identities. His determination to reach his goals is best illustrated when he willingly steps into a rain made deadly by Wonder of U, letting his body get pierced by raindrops including his head just to reach the hospital. He still demonstrates the same steadfastness in investigating the fruit and the whereabouts of the Locacaca Organization, with the addition of deferring more to Rai Mamezuku's opinions, deeming the plant appraiser's expertise about the fruit worth listening to. After learning about his past identity, Josuke set for himself the new goal of retrieving the Locacaca branch and use the fruit to heal Holy Joestar-Kira. That drive is sufficiently strong that he was willing to interrupt a rare moment with his love interest Yasuho to investigate Karera Sakunami. As such, Josuke is driven to discover who he was by investigating the circumstances of his presence in the beach prior to having been saved by Yasuho that goal occupy nearly all of his activities and no action on his part isn't made without approaching him of learning the truth. Josuke is afflicted by extensive retrograde amnesia, lacking memory of himself or events prior to meeting Yasuho Hirose, but retaining various degrees of knowledge. Josuke Higashikata is a quirky amnesiac determined to learn his true identity and his past. (White sailor suit with light blue bands, brown pin, red belt, and green shoes) Yasuho mentions he resembles her dog, Josuke. He has two sets of irises, four testicles, and two tongues, all joined as one, differing in texture and color. Josuke has a diastema W between his upper incisors and a star-shaped birthmark on his left shoulder. The rocks on his eye are eventually removed during the final battle. These rocks are notably inconsistent in how they appear, sometimes appearing to have rotated 90 degrees, while the one that goes through his eye sometimes seems to pass over it, instead. Josuke has segmented rocks which form a running stich going down his left side, passing through his eye. He wears a sailor suit, cut with a wide neck and above the navel, a neckerchief with a button resembling a slotted screw head, large emblems of an anchor on his right side and a compass rose on his left, fitted pants with a belt, and a pair of high-top athletic shoes.Īfter partaking in an equivalent exchange to save his life. He wears a tasseled "Dixie cup" sailor cap (in multiple illustrations, it is adorned with the same palm insignia as Jotaro Kujo's hat). Josuke is a young, physically fit man of above-average height. 3.2 The Wonder of You (The Miracle of Your Love) (story arc).3.1.23 Equivalent Exchange and the University Hospital.3.1.21 Urban Guerrilla and Doremifasolati Do.3.1.19 Dolomite's Blue Lagoon (story arc).3.1.18 Dawn of the Higashikata Household.
