Jotaro VS Kenshiro

Jotaro VS Kenshiro is the 90th episode of Death Battle, featuring Jotaro Kujo from the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure series and Kenshiro from the Fist of the North Star series in a battle between manly anime brawlers.
==Interlude==
Wiz: We've covered a lot of macho heroes here on Death Battle, but these two are as manly and stoic as they come.
Boomstick: It's all in those sweet ass jackets. I mean, I-I guess they're pretty badass, too.
Wiz: Jotaro Kujo, the delinquent turned hero from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure.
Boomstick: And Kenshiro, the wandering Fist of the North Star. He's Wiz and I'm Boomstick.
Wiz: And it's our job to analyze their weapons, armor, and skills to find out who would win... a Death Battle.
==Jotaro Kujo==
Wiz: As a teenager, Jotaro Kujo was a fairly infamous troublemaker.
Boomstick: But you can just call him "JoJo" like his friends do. Get it? JO-taro Ku-JO?
Wiz: How... bizarre.
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We see the "To Be Continued" screen appear, though the analysis continues after a few seconds.
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Boomstick: While being a high school hoodlum isn't usually a good idea, it worked out great for him, 'cause he toughed up a lot.
Wiz: At the age of 17, Jotaro was arrested for brutally pummeling four known gang members, who were armed with knives and nunchucks of all things, with apparently his bare fists, but Jotaro had a bigger problem: He didn't know how he did it.
Boomstick: He knew he was tough, but not that tough, so he came to the only conclusion that makes sense: He was possessed by an evil spirit! (makes ghostly noises)
Wiz: Just like my pet rat!
Boomstick: Yeah, wait, is that why he's been scratching pentagrams all over his cage?
Wiz: You'll find out. But then, Jotaro did something absolutely crazy: to prove his theory, he swiped a police officer's gun, pointed it straight at his head, and fired.
Boomstick: And that's how he died. ...Just kidding! A third arm popped out of his body to stop the bullet, of course!
Wiz: This strange being attached to Jotaro wasn't an evil spirit at all; it's an entity physically generated by Jotaro himself, and inherited through his bloodline.
Boomstick: Yeah, lots of the JoJo family has 'em, including his granddad Joseph.
Wiz: These beings are called Stands, literally because they stand by you.
Boomstick: (groans) I mean, I guess it's not wrong.
Wiz: It's so lame!
Boomstick: Stands are powered by their user's life force, and turns out, Jotaro's life force is supercharged because he's got one of the strongest Stands of all: Star Platinum.
Wiz: Star Platinum has superhuman strength, speed, precision, and vision. He can even phase through bodies and affect the person's inner organs. Plus, while Star Platinum can take a solid hit, most Stands can only be damaged by other Stands or Stand users.
Boomstick: So, he's basically invincible unless he's fighting another Stand?
Wiz: Exactly. In fact, unless you have a Stand of your own, you wouldn't even be able to see Star Platinum.
Boomstick: Oh great, so he's invincible and invisible.
Wiz: And when you combine all that with Jotaro's fighting skills and exceptional cleverness, they make a magnificent team.
Boomstick: That's good, 'cause Jotaro soon found out his family's old vampire nemesis was out to get him!
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Boomstick and Jonathan Joestar: DIOOOOOO!!!
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Wiz: With Star Platinum at his side, Jotaro didn't just stand up to DIO, he copied DIO's greatest ability: the Time Stop.
Boomstick: With this new power, Star Platinum can freeze time everywhere for five seconds. He can do it multiple times, though it does need a sort of recharge between uses, kind of like an ability cooldown in a videogame, or me in the bedroom... ladies. But still, he can friggin' STOP TIME!
Wiz: In Jotaro's case, he may be human, but he's strong enough to smash through stone and leap several stories. On the other hand, Star Platinum is said to be faster than light.
Boomstick: Sure... technically he can, because he can stop time or whatever, but he can't really move that fast normally, right?
Wiz: Well... maybe. Star Platinum has matched his speed with another Stand called Silver Chariot. Silver Chariot previously defeated a different Stand called Hanged Man.
Boomstick: Long story short, Hanged Man moves between reflections at lightspeed, and Silver Chariot caught him in mid-movement.
Wiz: Granted, Silver Chariot had to use an elaborate plan to force Hanged Man into moving in a predictable direction. If Silver Chariot was truly faster than light, he wouldn't have needed to resort to such a plan, but the fact he caught Hanged Man at all is proof enough that he's at least close to light speed.
Boomstick: So that means Star Platinum is close to lightspeed, too, and he's got the super strength to back up his super speed. He can lift a steamroller that's around 60 tons! He broke the top of this building off and threw it like a javelin, and then there's the time that he broke a giant monster lady's teeth that were harder than diamonds!
Wiz: The definition of hardness refers to an object's protection from scratches, but we could also compare this to pressure resistance or the possibility of fracture through a diamond's cleavage.
Boomstick laughs as the scene of baby Polnareff's face being squashed between Malèna's breasts as she hugs him plays on-screen.
Wiz: Not that kind of cleavage! The toughest diamonds break around 600 gigapascals. This means Star Platinum can clearly strike with a force equivalent to three million tons.
Boomstick: Turns out, diamonds AREN'T forever when Star Platinum's around! What CAN'T this guy do? Sounds like nobody could beat him!
Wiz: Maybe not, but unlike Stands, Jotaro isn't invincible or invisible, and whenever Jotaro is hurt, Star Platinum feels the same pain. In fact, when a Stand user dies, so does their Stand, and vice versa.
Boomstick: Sure, but with a guy like Star Platinum having his back, I don't think Jotaro has a whole lot to worry about. These two are one kick-ass duo, and stylish!
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Jotaro: Your receipt. You can keep the freaking change.
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==Kenshiro==
Wiz: It's the last decade of the 20th century, and the world has been ruined. In this apocalyptic age, the strong survive and the weak kneel. Only one man challenges this new society, and fortunately, he has the literal power to do it.
Boomstick: Kenshiro, Fist of the North Star.
Wiz: Like most important protagonists, Kenshiro began his journey to greatness as a young orphan.
Boomstick: Lucky for him, he eventually met old man Ryuken, who was a pretty cool dude, and ended up adopting Kenshiro, along with a few other kids.
Wiz: He was also the 63rd Denshosha.
Boomstick: Don't shoot what? Gun safety?
Wiz: A grandmaster of an ancient Chinese martial art called Hokuto Shinken. While anyone can learn the basics of this dangerous fighting style, there can only ever be one grandmaster for each generation.
Boomstick: So that's what Kenshiro set out to be, and with patience, training, and plenty of muscle building, he was named the next successor of Hakuna Mata-shin. Too bad his adopted brother got pissed he wasn't chosen and killed Ryuken over it. Talk about a sore loser.
Wiz: With Hokuto Shinken mastered, Kenshiro can focus his energy into his strikes, effectively killing an opponent with a single blow to their pressure points. There are 708 malleable pressure points in the human body, and striking any of them can cause all sorts of effects: stunning, blinding, healing, restoring memories, making people walk backward...
Boomstick: But mostly, they just make people explode! Anyway, things started looking pretty great for Kenny, he even got engaged, but then nuclear war broke out and turned the Earth into Mad Max land. Kenshiro's fiancée got kidnapped, and this guy used his knife fingers to draw a nifty Big Dipper on Kenshiro's chest. Seriously, how is he not dead after that?
Wiz: Miraculously, Kenshiro survived and began his wayward journey, wandering the wasteland searching for revenge.
Boomstick: And if we go by how many people he blew up, I'd say he got plenty of it.
Wiz: He really does leave a big mess behind. I can't even imagine what it must be like to clean up after one of his fights.
Boomstick: Kenshiro had no problem killing hordes of baddies with moves like his Bone Crushing Fist, Spilling Wheel Exploding Fist and Hundred Crack Fist.
Boomstick: Huh, seein' him kill all these people from the inside out reminds me a lot of my ex-wife.
Wiz: Um... how?
Boomstick: Emotionally, Wiz. Most of the time, his body explosions don't even happen right away, giving him plenty of time to explain to his foes how they're about to die, right before they explode.
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Geese: You think you can beat me with a finger?
Kenshiro: That finger struck the hidden vital point known as Gakuchu. There's no use fighting now. You're already dead.
Geese screams as he swells and explodes.
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Boomstick: Hakuna Matata isn't just for blowing up people.
Wiz: Sure! Kenshiro has developed a number of legendary techniques, such as the Tenryu Kokyu Ho.
Boomstick: AKA, the Art of Dragon's Breathing. According to Kenshiro, this unlocks the full potential of his natural abilities, where a normal fighter would only use about 30%.
Wiz: He can utilize Toki, or his own natural ki, to perform numerous techniques. Most of these involved punching, of course, but he can also create mirage images of himself, sense other fighting auras, and fire ki-based projectiles to attack or defend from a distance.
Boomstick: Oh, uh... and he can perform miracles, like making a mute girl speak!
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Lin: KEEEEEEEEEEEN!
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Boomstick: How the heck?!
Wiz: But even that pales in comparison to Hokuto Shinken's ultimate technique, one which no previous grandmaster ever unlocked: Musou Tensei. Only those who truly understand pain and loss can apply Musou Tensei. With it, Kenshiro draws upon his inner sadness to enter a state of nothingness. From here, he is impervious to attacks, essentially achieving intangibility.
Boomstick: He also somehow connects to the souls of dead allies and rivals, and can even use their techniques, but it's not like he needs them. He's already crazy enough on his own. He smashed the bones of a giant with a single hand, broke a metal table just by standing up, and hit a tank so hard, it blew up!
Wiz: He's even strong enough to break a skyscraper in half!
Boomstick: And then when it collapsed on top of him, he just walked through it! What a boss!
Wiz: Just the concrete in one floor of an average-sized skyscraper can weigh over 1,000 tons.
Boomstick: (scoffs) You think that's tough? Kenshiro can stand in lava. LAVA! You know how hot lava is?
Wiz: Up to 2,000-
Boomstick: Yeah, really freaking hot, that's what! And remember that tank? Before he blew it up, it shot him square on, and did absolutely nothing to him! Seriously, this guy is manly as hell!
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Kenshiro: Omae wa mou shindeiru. (You're already dead.)
Galzus: Nani? (What?)
Galzus' left side suddenly explodes.
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==Prelude==
==Death Battle==
(Note: The characters speak Japanese, but their dialogue can be seen through subtitles)
Jotaro Kujo and his grandfather, Joseph Joestar, pass a dead squirrel as they walk in the desert and come across a pyramid. They hear an engine in the distance, revealed to be Kenshiro driving his car up to them.
Joseph: OH NOOOO!!
Kenshiro brings his vehicle to a stop right in front of the Joestars, kicking up a large cloud of sand over them. As it clears, Jotaro scoffs as he tips his cap downwards.
Jotaro: Who are you?
Kenshiro leaps out from his car to stand in front of the family, simply staring them down as "menacing" kanji surround him. Joseph starts growling at the enemy, but his grandson places his hand in front of him.
Jotaro: Wait, old man!
Jotaro then glares at the mysterious man and points at him.
Jotaro: If you wanna go... I'll take you on.
Kenshiro starts cracking his knuckles and gets into his fighting stance.
Kenshiro: Pick the place. It will be where you die.
Jotaro: You've got some balls!
Joseph backs up and starts running off as the two warriors face each other.
Kenshiro tries punching Jotaro, but Star Platinum blocks the punch, much to the confusion of the former, who cannot see the Stand.
Star Platinum: ORA!
Star Platinum then uppercuts Kenshiro into the nearby pyramid. Kenshiro leaps off the pyramid and prepares an aerial kick as Jotaro leaps towards him.
Jotaro: Star Platinum: The World!
Having briefly stopped time before resuming it again, Jotaro avoided Kenshiro's kick and has now moved behind him.
Star Platinum: ORA!
The confused Kenshiro is knocked to the ground by Star Platinum. Getting back up, Kenshiro enhances his vision to sense Jotaro's fighting spirit, allowing him to see Star Platinum behind him. The road warrior and Stand then get into a fist flurry and counter each other blow for blow.
Kenshiro: ATATATATATATATATATATA!!!
Star Platinum: ORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORA!!!
Finally, Star Platinum wins out and lands a punch on Kenshiro's face before attempting a powerful haymaker, which Kenshiro jumps back to dodge just in time. Star Platinum performs his Star Finger technique to reach his opponent, but Kenshiro jumps out of the way before retaliating midair with a blast of tōki aimed at Jotaro. Jotaro resummons Star Platinum back in front of him to protect himself from the blast. Landing back on the ground, Kenshiro opts to fire a wave of tōki this time, but once again, Star Platinum stands in the way to shield Jotaro as he simply walks slowly towards Kenshiro.
Star Platinum: ORA!
Having approached his enemy, Star Platinum lunges forward with a punch, only for Kenshiro to use his mirages to seemingly phase through it and split into four copies of himself, causing Jotaro to lean back in surprise while his grandfather reacts from afar.
Joseph: HOLY SHIT!
The mirages leap forward and rush at Star Platinum, who manages to fend them off while Jotaro backs away from the action.
Star Platinum: ORA!
However, amidst the action, the real Kenshiro leaps at the defenseless Jotaro and thrusts his arm at his chest for a deadly strike, though Jotaro seemingly dodges it by leaning back. Immediately afterwards, Star Platinum appears to grab Kenshiro and throw him back, with Jotaro scoffing at his foe's apparent failed attack. Kenshiro, now regrouped with his mirages, all jump into the air and perform the Tenha Kassatsu, firing beams of tōki from their fingers. Star Platinum charges forwards into them, unaffected as per usual, while Jotaro dodges the rest. He then summons his Stand to his side, stopping time.
Jotaro: Star Platinum!
Jotaro performs another Time Stop just before he can be struck with the tōki beams, freezing Kenshiro and Joseph in their places.
Joseph: OH MY GOOOO—
Jotaro steps away from the beams and walks torward the Kenshiros, with Star Platinum locating the real one. It then phases its hand through his body and around his heart, preparing to crush it. However, Jotaro declares that the five seconds of the Time Stop have almost elapsed.
Jotaro: Time's about to move.
The Time Stop runs out and time resumes as normal, also allowing Joseph to finish his exclamation.
Joseph: —OOOD!!!!!!!
The beams fired at Jotaro miss completely and Star Platinum clenches his fist to crush Kenshiro's heart. However, Kenshiro uses Musō Tensei and phases away from the fatal blow, appearing behind Jotaro. The Fist of the North Star then famously declares to Jotaro:
Kenshiro: You're already dead.
A flashback occurs, replaying the earlier scene of Kenshiro thrusting his arm at Jotaro's chest, with the addition of a close-up shot immediately after revealing that he barely managed to touch it with the tips of his fingers despite Jotaro's attempt to dodge it. With his fate sealed, Jotaro and Star Platinum are unable to do anything but stare in shock as Jotaro's body starts convulsing and Star Platinum fades away. As every one of Kenshiro's victims has said before, Jotaro says in shock...
Jotaro: WHAT!?
...before finally exploding in a massive burst of blood. Joseph looks on in horror as Kenshiro grunts and walks away.
Joseph: SON OF A BITCH!!
Kenshiro continues walking away, leaving Joseph to mourn the death of his grandson, whose spirit in the afterlife simply tips his hat down.
Jotaro: Good grief...
==Results==
Boomstick: Whoa, wait! What just happened?
Wiz: Well, all Kenshiro needed to do to win was just get one hit in, but this matchup was far closer than that makes it seem.
Boomstick: Of course it was! Kenshiro spent the whole time fighting Star Platinum, who he couldn't even see. Lucky for him, once he figured that out, his ability to sense other fighting auras helped him keep track of SP, but no matter what he did, Kenshiro isn't a Stand user, so he couldn't actually hurt Star Platinum.
Wiz: Then again, Star Platinum's own strength wasn't quite enough to hurt Kenshiro much either. One of Star Platinum's greatest strength feats involves breaking and throwing a small section of a building. In comparison, Kenshiro broke an entire building, let it fall on him, and acted like it wasn't even there.
Boomstick: Also, while Jotaro may be skilled in deducing his enemy's weaknesses and strategies in mid-fight, Kenshiro's skills, durability, and straightforward approach meant there really wasn't anything for him to pick apart here.
Wiz: Kenshiro did have trouble with Jotaro's time stopping and Star Platinum's speed. However, with his awesome durability, plus additional intangibility when using Muso Tensei, Kenshiro survived the Time Stops, and the Time Stop's cooldowns between uses gave Kenshiro enough time to work around them.
Boomstick: The Time Stop has been worked around by foes in Jotaro's past before, and as far as speed was concerned, Kenshiro may not have been faster than Star, but a mix of Muso Tensei and mirage clones were more than enough to get by. And let's be real, Jotaro never stood a chance against Kenshiro by himself!
Wiz: In the end, both combatants had plenty of advantages, but Kenshiro's techniques and overwhelming power ended this fight.
Boomstick: JoJo didn't Stand a chance.
We cut to the "Winner" card.
Wiz: The winner is Kenshiro.
==Original Track==
===Composition===
The track for this fight is "Bizarre Stars" by Therewolf Media. It features a high-energy rock chorus that matches the tone of both combatants' home series. It also features remixes of "Stardust Crusaders" from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders and "Ai wo Torimodose!!" from Fist of the North Star.
===Title===
The title is a combination of the titles of both combatants' home series (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure and Fist of the North Star). It also refers to Jotaro being a member of the "Joestar" family.
===Cover Art===
The cover art done by Luis Cruz depicts Kenshiro's arm punching through Jotaro's hat. It also features the iconic "menacing" kanji from the JoJo series.
==Trivia==
===Production===
*The core connections between Jotaro and Kenshiro are that they are both muscular anime protagonists who are considered two of the manliest men in anime and have iconic attacks that involve rapid punches and a repetitive battle cry ("ORAORAORA" and "ATATATA", respectively). In addition:
**Both of their greatest enemies (DIO and Raoh, respectively) are also muscular, share the same power as them (time-stopping and Hokuto Shinken, respectively), and are related to them through adoption (DIO is Jotaro's great-great-granduncle, while Raoh is Kenshiro's brother).
**Despite defeating their greatest enemies, both had to later fight their successors (Enrico Pucci, DIO's friend and disciple, and Kaioh, Raoh's older brother, respectively).
**Both have a permanent mark on their body which relates to stars (Jotaro has the star-shaped Joestar birthmark while Kenshiro has seven scars in the shape of the Big Dipper).
**Both have appeared in multiple Shonen Jump crossover video games together, including Jump Super Stars, Jump Ultimate Stars, and Jump Force.
**Fist of the North Star was one of the bigger influences on JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, with Jonathan Joestar (the first JoJo protagonist) having been based on Kenshiro himself.
***Kenshiro makes a small cameo appearance in JoJo during Stone Ocean's Bohemian Rhapsody arc, in which fictional characters are brought to life. In a news report, Kenshiro is stated to have come to life and defeated Raoh in Tokyo.
===Easter Eggs===
*The dead squirrel seen on the ground at the beginning of the fight is likely a reference to Android 18 VS Captain Marvel, as a squirrel is seen flying off the branch of a tree at the beginning of its fight (which was the last one animated solely by Zack Watkins, who also animated this fight by himself), with it potentially crash-landing in the desert off-screen and dying as a result of the impact.
*The battle location being a desert with a pyramid is a reference to both the setting of the latter half of Stardust Crusaders, which takes place in Egypt, and Kenshiro's fight against Souther, which took place on the Holy Emperor Cross Mausoleum, which is a pyramid.
*In the battle, Joseph provides comic relief by shouting his famous English expressions ("OH NO!", "HOLY SHIT!", "OH MY GOD!", and "SON OF A BITCH!"), all of which have become memes.
**According to the commentary for this episode, this was the primary reason Sam Mitchell and Noel Wiggins chose to include Joseph in the fight.Jotaro Vs Kenshiro w/Commentary
===Errors===
*On Jotaro's "Background" slide, Jolyne's last name is spelled as "Kujo" (which is how Jotaro's last name is spelled) instead of "Cujoh" (which is how her last name is actually spelled).
*Excluding the "menacing" kanji, the cover art for Bizarre Stars seems to be flipped, as not only are Kenshiro's arm bandages on his left arm instead of his right, but the placements of the button and rectangular plate on Jotaro's hat are also swapped from their usual positions.
===Other===
*This is the second Hitotsubashi-themed episode, after Naruto VS Ichigo, and with the next 11 being Roshi VS Jiraiya, Sasuke VS Hiei, Mob VS Tatsumaki, All Might VS Might Guy, Sanji VS Rock Lee, Madara VS Aizen, Tanjiro VS Jonathan Joestar, Deku VS Asta, Gogeta VS Vegito, Gojo VS Makima, and Mahito VS Shigaraki.
*This is the fifth Anime-themed episode, after Zoro VS Erza, Natsu VS Ace, Lucario VS Renamon, and Naruto VS Ichigo, and with the next 16 being Roshi VS Jiraiya, Sasuke VS Hiei, Mob VS Tatsumaki, All Might VS Might Guy, Gray VS Esdeath, Beerus VS Sailor Galaxia, Sanji VS Rock Lee, DIO VS Alucard, Madara VS Aizen, Tanjiro VS Jonathan Joestar, Deku VS Asta, Gogeta VS Vegito, Killua VS Misaka, Gojo VS Makima, Mahito VS Shigaraki, and Ash VS Yugi.
*This is the fourth episode in which a character speaks in a different language (Japanese), after Chun-Li VS Mai Shiranui, Ragna VS Sol Badguy, and Chuck Norris VS Segata Sanshiro, with the next three being Dragonzord VS Mechagodzilla, Red VS Blue, and Heihachi Mishima VS Geese Howard.
==References==
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Category:Season 5 episodes
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