do have a striking similarity in appearance from their body type down to their earrings but I mean josuke intentionally tries to look exactly like him so their similarities and appearance isn't that compelling but as we know hirohiko Araki is notorious for writing the story as he goes especially in earlier parts and it's not uncommon to see plot points left unexplained and even entire characters be ran out of the story when a rocky decides to change directions so the prevailing theory is that when diamond is unbreakable was in its early stages and this scene was written a rocky planned for josuke I assume nearing the end of part NUMBER_TOKEN to go back in time and save his younger self and I also assume that this method of going back in time was a rough draft of Kira's bites the dust' ability so for whatever reason Araki decided to change directions in the story and hopefully for the better because time travel can be extremely hard to write if you want it to make sense with little plot holes so rocky probably realized that time travel is confusing and said PROFANITY_TOKEN that PROFANITY_TOKEN so we are left an unexplained plot point that leaves readers in retrospect thinking but wait what about when josuke saved himself because the first time seeing this flashback I really thought that it would play into the story later but as we know it never did it's actually extremely obvious that the character in this flashback is or was going to be Jos Gate when we look at little details like the blood on his face and wounds that are exactly identical to Jos Ches wounds in his final standoff with Kiera which makes me wonder at what point at Iraqi actually changed his mind and maybe it wasn't even until one of the final uses of bites the dust' that he decided to ditch the time travel ending or maybe Iraqi changed his mind at some point before the final battle and made Jos gaze wounds reflect his heroes because it was Jos gaze time to be a hero and make more of a connection between the two characters but continuing on the theory that this was in fact supposed to be josuke there are even more details from the scene that clearly show it was him like why was he on a rural road away from any town in the middle of a blizzard at the exact right place at the right time Toma Coe got stuck and how did he know that there was a child sick inside the car when we see how small josuke was in the passenger seat there is no way someone standing behind the car would be able to see inside that see although this was slightly changed in the anime adaptation making the seed go back further almost completely flat and showing an angle that josuke saw himself in but in the original manga it would have been almost impossible for the character outside of the car to be able to see into the passenger seat and lastly the uniform that he was wearing is the same school uniform as teenage Jos gay and Tomoko said that Moria was still under development so possibly the town school wasn't even built or opened yet but yet this person still had a uniform that josuke would wear a decade later I think the most convincing detail is the fact that he looked like he'd just been in a fight and his wounds were similar to the ones that josuke had in his fight with Kira it kind of sucks that we see such an interesting concept of josuke going back in time or experience in a time loop and saving
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