JoJolion's True Villain 

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There is still no evidence that Elvis is not a rock human.

Another parallel between valentine and kaato is the idea of passing of negative things to someone else at their expense rather than be willing to take it on yourself, with seemingly no remorse. Valentine takes all the negative that comes to his country and passes it on to different places around the world, with no regard for anyone who isn’t in his nation. Similarly kaato is willing to take the negative (rock disease) and pass it on to others. She is willing use others as a sacrifice, with no regard for anyone who isn’t in her family.

Joshu will awaken his true power and use the infinite「 N U T 」 against Tooru

Damn, now I have to rewrite tomorrow's chapter.

Maybe the real villain was the friends we made along the way?

"Wait, they're all rock humans?" "Always have been."

"You make really valid points, however it still just a theor..." "Hell, even Kaato's hair resembles a hornet's nest" "OH SHIT I'M SOLD"

Why do people obsess over kato when we all know the final villian is THE MYSTERY MAN

lion hasnt appeared in ANY CHAPTER since the start of Jojolion, i think it's safe to say that this is an Araki forgot moment Edit: i have been made aware that we have recently seen lion, however like a true araki forgotter i absolutely refuse to acknowledge it and never will

The real main villains are Tooru's teddy bears

And now, in the most recent chapter, the Spin has all of a sudden come back into play. I think JoJolion is going to be the craziest part yet.

my man has been gone for so long, its like he was living under a boulder

In short words: Wait it's all rock humans? Araki: Its always has been

You see, the problem is that your prediction made sense, in any other manga that would fly, but this is Jojo

The one thing I've always disagreed with is that the old universe was about time, and the new one is space. It would be better to say that every villain since the beginning has a power that lets them change fate. The masks allow an evolution beyond their normal lot in life, The World can instantly change the course of the fight, D4C lets Valentine access worlds where fate is different and allows him to surpass death itself, with Love Train outright telling you it's manipulating fate.

The villain has been right in front of us this whole time. It's a lion. A lion did it all

Another excellent analysis

Really great video. I think my only outstanding issue with the theory is, like a lot of people have pointed out, her lack of presence in the story as a whole. Despite the fact that she had plenty of influence on the characters who are present, it would feel really unsatisfying if she came out of nowhere and revealed herself the villain. It feels to me almost as if DIO had popped out at the end of Stone Ocean and assumed the role of villain, with the same relative amount of overall presence. I think, though, that like with a lot of the odd concepts being worked with, it could be done well. We'll see.

Perhaps the REAL main villain were the friends we made along the way

We stan jojolion in this house

I think Wonder of U is actual a mashup of I Wonder U by Prince and The Wonder of You by Elvis and not just a copyright free name. Hat Josuke is also a mashup of Elvis and Prince but also two specific people. Therefore I think the current Tooru is a merger of Afeku and Tooru. Well maybe not the last one, but if next couple chapters confirms this and I'm correct that Hat Josuke and Tooru are connected in this way there is no way Tooru is not the the main antagonist if they are that strongly thematically connected. Kaato may be the final boss of jojolion but I doubt Tooru will be retconned into being a minion for Kaato like damo was for Tooru. Araki would not pull the same trick twice, right?

What this video is about: Caato Thumbnail: Tōru

Ok, pretty compelling theory as always, but I have a few comments: First in regards to Caato being a rock human, you bring up the fact that it would tie the two halves of the story together, but I don't think we even need one of the characters to be a rock human in order to accomplish that. As you say, the Higashikatas' rock disease may be caused by being a human/rock human hybrid. If this is the case, then there must have been a rock human that married into the family at least as far back as Norisuke I's wife since we see the rock disease happening to her daughter, Rina. So if the rock disease is caused by being a hybrid, then the two sides of the story will inevitably get tied together regardless of whether or not Caato is a rock human since the Higashikatas would still be hybrids either way. This would also still tie in the mention of rock human women and human men being able to mate from chapter 99 since, one of the generations of the family (potentially Norisuke I and his wife) would have involved a rock human women mating with a human man. If the Higashikata's are part rock human, then I don't think that a full-blooded rock human needs to be physically present for the finale at all. I have a feeling that at some point we are going to be getting a full flashback for Lucy going to Morioh to collect the corpse since we saw it so briefly in chapter 99. So maybe in that flashback she'll meet the Higashikata family of the time and learn that the mother is a rock human. I think that you too quickly assumed that one of the female characters that is currently in the story must be a rock human when I don't really think that is necessary. The next thing I have to bring up is in regards to Caato being the main villain. The main thing that makes this hard to believe is her complete absence from the story for so long. She was introduced in chapter 58, then a few chapters later, we got her backstory, then she completely disappeared from the story for 3 years. If she is supposed to be the main villain, then Araki could have been building her up during all of that time, if not by having her physically appear, then at least by having the Higashikatas frequently bring her up and question where she is and what she's up to. But instead she has barely been mentioned at all. If she does end up being the main villain, then it will be coming completely out of nowhere. Araki has had plenty of time to build her up as a threat, but he has instead chosen to spend that time building up Jobin and the hospital rock humans. Every single prior main villain has been continuously built up for at least half of the part. The main villain that showed up the farthest into the part prior to this is Diavolo but the entire second half of part 5 is about finding out more about him. Assuming that we get about 20-30 more chapters, Caato will also have been introduced a little before the midpoint, but instead of the entire second half being centered around her, most of the second half will have been centered around Jobin and the hospital rock humans. And prior to her grand reappearance in what will presumably be the final arc, she will have only appeared in 3 chapters. I wouldn't be surprised if Caato comes back in some way but having her be the main villain wouldn't make a lot of sense in my opinion. It's not like she doesn't have a role in the story as is. She is a foil to Holly. Holly is a selfless mother who saved a child (Josefumi)'s life to no benefit of her own while Caato is a selfish mother who killed a child (Jobin's bully) solely for her and her son's gain. Each of their sons inherited their mother's ideology and their current goals are based on that. I don't really agree with your explanation for why Jobin would just end up being guided by Caato if the two were both to be present in the finale. As you say, Jobin's ideology is an extrapolation of Caato's. He has taken her ideals to a logical extreme, which is exemplified by the fact that unlike Caato in her flashback, he doesn't just want to save his son, he wants to break the curse entirely. His goals go far beyond anything that Caato has expressed interest in so I don't think he is as dependent on her as you make him out to be. He respects her because his goals are derived from hers, but he has grown beyond her selfish desires to an extent.

Man, the curse definition goes further, it was said that can be too a friction of dark and light, and in the same chapter of the female rock human mentions, Araki said that silicon and carbon based beings are not exactly a shadow for a light. Araki is mentioning it as most people (Yasuho for example as she narrates the definition) thinks to be a manichaeism nature and he is disbunking this. It could be that the curse is the interbreed of this two species and the possible genetics problems. The friction or curse could be also the very intimate relationship that these two species sometimes try to but never work out, the interaction between the society and the rock humans. Funny enough, its curious that they used the word friction to signify a curse when the protagonist has the ability to remove this, it would be funny if Josuke was the one to remove this friction.

"Music Used: *****, The Divine - Xenoblade Chronicles Definitive Edition" Nice touch lol, great song too

This aged very well

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I have no idea how I never considered that the rock disease in the Higashikata family could be the result of rock human lineage. Thinking about it now, I would be incredibly surprised if that weren’t the case.

The mini rant about tooru aged like milk

Let's not forget that for the most part of sbr there were two main villains.

how have I NEVER thought about how the rock disease could be a consequence of interspecies children

I like a lot of your points about Kaato being a rock human. But I feel that the finale will be a 3-way battle of sorts with multiple parties converging on the estate for the final conflict.

broooooo... this video was so cool... damn. I never really realized the magician valentine theme until you brought it up... and when you started talking about it I realized that Kaato's stand was playing cards and that just made me go "is this your card?" Like broooo! JoJo is just falling into magic and shit for baddie themes?? That's so fuckin' cool! OH! I just realized that with the presumable reappearance for the spin, Valentine and Kaato's connection may be furthered! Cuz like, if Kaato is the main villain than that means that both she and valentine face off against opponents wielding the spin! That's so freaking cool!

Hmm yes who could be the main villian? Could it be the one that kills a bunch of characters, creating a calamity and risking josuke's life? Nah

Every single one of your uploads is an absolute treasure. All hail to the March of the Black Queen, Caato Higashikata!

When the “main” villain Dies, revealing the true villain, joshu

Also Jonny ‘s wife could be rock human as well

As for a final vilain, I just wanted to say that yes D4C and Kaato’s stand share a theme with dimensions, but D4C-love train and Wonder of U also have a shared theme, and while D4C is Valentine’s stand, the stand of the final fight was the love train version, but for the rest of the argument yes

it seems very likely that she’s a rock human but i still feel like jobin is the main villain. it’s possible kato will sacrifice herself for tsurugi. this’ll show her love for her family despite being a rock human and mirroring the way she save jobin from the rock disease

Also remember that the Head Doctor killed Rai's father in an attempt to take his pear orchard from him because it was "good land".

Now we can conclude it was the guard rail.

Plot twist: The final rock human is none other than DIO himself

Hell yeah. JJL content is just what I needed in these trying times 🙏🙏

The lyrics to Styx's Queen of Spades line up really well with this theory and could very likely be her stand's name

I really hope Kato's stand will be named either Queen: We Will Rock You or Queen: It's a Kind of Magic

Aeonstar is just from the future when jjlion is finished

I think its just safe to say JoJolion had a antagonistic force instead of one Antagonist.

Holy shit you just blew my mind with the rock human stand naming conventions and then just moved on like it was nothing

Laughs in guard rail

This Video aged like milk I actually know that Kaato was not the Main Villain

Wow. I already was of the opinion that Caato would be the main villain, but this just convinced me even more. One thing worth mentioning that you forgot is that immediately after Damo (who could be considered the main antagonist of the first half of the story) dies, Caato is introduced just a few pages later. There's just one issue, though. I find the idea of her using Locacaca to fight off sleep as being a more compelling angle than "she just didn't sleep", but the question then becomes "How did she obtain the Locacaca?" At first it sounds like an open and shut question: She just got it through Jobin, because Jobin was heavily involved with the Damokan group, and the two of them would stay in contact often while she was in prison. But that creates a problem. Jobin himself only became involved with the group after Yotsuyu contacted him at the baseball game, which was long after Caato went to prison. Furthermore, that means that Caato didn't ask Jobin for the fruit, but Jobin had to have told her about it. (This doesn't mean that she didn't know about the Locacaca, but that she couldn't have known that JOBIN knew about or was involved with it) Basically, if she was using the Locacaca, there is no way she was getting it through Jobin, at least not at first. The only explanation is that she was getting it through the Damokan group, which is interesting since it recontextualizes Jobin's initial meeting with them (she might have been the reason that Yotsuyu contacted him to begin with)

Ready for these theories to be validated in a matter of hours

Congrats on your 10th video. Always great to see your perspective and thoughts on my favorite part of JoJo.

Chapter 107 is out and I still don't know who the main villain is.

You could have never predicted guard rail main villain

The aesthetic points about Kaato are pretty silly. Star Platinum is nearly identical to Kars, Crazy Diamond shares heart motifs with Dio and The World, Golden Experience and Tusk both share Killer Queens (at the points when Tusk Act 1, 2 and 3 don't eerily resemble Green Baby) distinctly inhuman, or alien stand aesthetic, and it doesn't take much to look at King Crimson and Stone Free side by side. Araki has always passed down motifs from one generation to the next, usually from antagonist to protagonist- not that Kaato is a likely candidate for secretly being an ace of the support cast. It's just far more likely that Tooru or Jobin (if he survived-) are more likely candidates for the actual final villain. I get that this came out a day before the new chapter- but Mamezuku's demise actually puts the end of this part on a timer- since the loss of a friend in a Jojo part almost always concludes the second act, or begins the third- and specifically draws the throughline of who the protagonist will eventually face in the end.

I think the new universe often have a « second main villain » Like Diego in part 7, and I think that Jobin fills this role in jojolion

Im pretty sure Kaato would have aged from the time of the flashback to when she was released from prison... There would be an in world exposition of how weird it was that she looked so young otherwise.

I LOVE you narrative analysis and focus while crafting and explaining your theories, not only do I do the same when theory crafting in general but you make me appreciate even more details of Araki's storytelling. Always love when a new video comes out, they're such a joy to watch 💜

The thing about the Higashikata curse is that it's mentioned that in the past Higashikatas would adopt their successors as their firstborns would die. It's a curse, not a normal disease, hence why it only affects the firstborn, no matter how many children a Higashikata has.

Aeon, I’m SCREAMING. Your theories always blow my fucking mind. Your videos are so gracefully written and crafted. The bg music has me in goosebumps. Well done as always!! I’m 100% with you on this theory!

At this point people are starting to lose track of what "Main Villain" actually means. I think it's because they're so caught up with monthly releases that they just forget everything that's already been established beforehand. Main Villain apparently means the person who gets to fight Josuke at the end, not the person who caused a majority of events in JoJolion in the first place.

A fucking guardrail

Okay so I know that this was probably thought of in the writing of this video but since it’s not blatantly stated I thought id say it here. If Caato is a rock human than Joshu’s social awkwardness can likely be at least somewhat attributed to his rocky genes and if he continues down the path he’s currently headed towards then he will likely grow out of this and finally have a stable relationship with Yasuho and maybe even Josuke which matches up nicely with some of Jojolion’s themes and the characterization of some rock humans which I thought was neat.

what if the real villain was the friends we made along the way?

Spoilers of jojo 8: Joshu favorite barber is the main villain and Joshu dies after he realized how his hair looks like

The true villian is the OG rock human, Kars.

Is a guardrail..

I love the parallel on Tooru and Diavolo, both are the bosses of the mafia of their part, they also have 2 ways of presenting eachother (Tooru and the Head Doctor & Diavolo and Doppio) and it seems that they can switch between themselves. Idk, I haven't heard anyone talk about that

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Maybe the real villain is a literal lion that got loose off Morioh Zoo

With a strong theme of combining, I would not be surprised if Kaatto had a relation to someone from Part 7, to bring all major family lines together a one single moment of time. Either a daughter, cousin, or grandaughter depending on her lifespan as a rock human or hybrid, would be a nice way to directly bring what happened to Johnny to present events without having to rely on second hand stories about the events.

Overall I think this is a pretty great theory but I do have one issue. If all the higashikata children are all at least half rock human, why are only the eldest sons affected by the rock disease?

The Bell has finally rung. AeonGalaxy Users Assemble here. This is a sacred ground

Seriously every video you make on JoJolion I feel like I would never be able to understand JoJolion as deeply as you Thank you for making these videos and I really hope what you said in this video will happen. It feels very natural and also now that we know Gappy uses the spin, kaato’s nest hair and Tooru’s hair all feature some sort of rotation and I wanna see where this takes us. Maybe kaato and tooru use the spin in some way as well

I think that, to explain her missing all these chapters AND being able to work all these days in prison is that she controlled herself during jail and is only now having a super nap so she can be fully charged in the finale.

If every higashikata has king in the name of their stand that probably means josuke will get king crimson (this is a joke dont @ me)

Question: If The Rock Disease is evidence of Rock Human heritage, why does it only affect the firstborn in the family?

I think the main villain will be tooru, but your teory do got some high possibilitys, still, d4c lovetrain and tooru' wonder of you, got the same theme of redirecting fate Also, mamezuku died in this last chapter, revealing that gappy's bubbles can actually counter WOY, so i dont think tooru is just a random minor villain

The real final villain has been in front of us all along. Think about it, what nearly killed Kira in DiU and allowed him to nearly win in the final fight? A cat. What’s the perfect villainous counterpart to a cat? A dog The dog will be the final villain to sate Araki’s need to kill dogs

The main villain of JoJolion is Josuke’s 5th ball.

Her stand might be "We Will Rock (Yo)u" or "Rockin' the Paradise". The first one is a *Queen* song that's really just a string of personal attacks. The second one is a Styx song with both "rock" and "king", except the "king" is incomplete, false; the title of the song could also refer to whatever her plans for the Higashikata estate are.

JoJolion? More like: I don't wanna read this I don't wanna cry I don't, don't do this to me Araki-lion

Imagine if in the anime whenever an object effected by Wonder of U’s ability would come into the shot, what if we hear a train horn whizzing by, like a doppler effect?

you prolly make my fav videos on youtube, it’s hard to put into words how actually amazing they are, whether it be ur ability to dive so deep into lore or something else incredible, u really know how to give me that feeling of truly having my mind blown

I love how the explanation for uwasuke not being the main villain was because he is a dog

I’m in love with this video! Great work!!!

The comments here aged horribly

I think that jojolion is the first part that i have to reread becouse the narrative is so complex compared to other jojo parts, this is why that’s my favorite part, we are in the finale and i’m still missing parts that have been stated in the past

>Kaato might be the rock human Hmm, yeah, I figured we were gonna get there >Higashikata rock disease *pogchamp*

The real villain is the monthly release schedule.

No its the GUARDRAIL

If Kaato was a stock she would be through the moon on Sunday

Hes back

Great video. Makes what Araki is thinking a lot clearer

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I strongly believe that if everyone other than Jobin end up being the villain it will be a MASSIVE waste of oportunity Jobin is one of the most well written characters araki ever done and it would be a very different villain to everything he has done at this point. We know his habits, his traumas, his hobbies, his ideals and his objectives He feels human and even his stand seems less threatning than most of the minor villains. He would end up being an EXTREMELY interesting villain to see trying to win

Look here. If Yashuo doesn't let Gappy's Quadicles and Duo Dick smash in the finale, I'm gonna die.

Will you ever consider bring back chapter analysis? I really enjoyed hearing your initial thoughts in video form for the few months you did it