Yoshikage Kira

Yoshikage Kira, also known as Kosaku Kawajiri, Killer and Dad, is one of the main characters from the JoJo's Bizarre Adventures series.
== Charactah Account ==
Yoshikage is a seemingly boring man works as a typical businessman during the day, but he is secretly the mysterious serial killer who has terrorized Morioh for nearly 20 years. He has an erotic fascination with hands, and targets beautiful women so he can keep their severed hands and treat them as "girlfriends", dinner dates and all, until they finally rot. Yoshikage first runs afoul of the heroes when he is forced to kill a student who accidentally discovers Yoshikage's current girlfriend. A chase ensues, but Yoshikage is clever enough to get Aya Tsuji to alter his face with Cinderella to resemble a local nobody, and gets away, murdering both Aya and the random business man.
Yoshikage longs for a peaceful life, safe from any worry, and does not wish for it to be interrupted. Whenever that peaceful life seems assured, Yoshikage adopts a jolly and confident demeanor. Although he is highly intelligent and possesses many talents, this yearning shows in his dislike of coming in first, and Joutarou theorizes from his many trophies that he even made it a point to never rank better than 3rd in any competition so as not to stand out. Since his youth, Yoshikage has been avoiding standing out, living a healthy life and following a strict regimen. He becomes bothered when someone disrupts his habits and goes to extreme lengths to get it back. As his father pointed out, this will to stay in the background was so bad that if bullied or denied his favorite toy, Yoshikage would bite his nails until they bled, being the only way he's found to express his frustration.
However, beneath his façade of a simple, humble salaryman, Yoshikage is very abnormal. The most abnormal characteristic of Yoshikage are his frequent and periodic murderous impulses. Yoshikage targets women, or, more specifically, women with beautiful hands. Yoshikage possesses a hand fetish, which he discovered when he found himself aroused by the Mona Lisa's hands. However, his desire has never extended to the rest of the female person and he otherwise shuns their presence. This results in murdering random women, not caring in the least how they look like or behave, in order to acquire their (severed) hands as "girlfriends", acting as if the severed hands were actually sentient and conversing with them, even offering them various gifts. When one "girlfriend" begins to decay, he disposes of it and goes off in search of a replacement. Yoshikage is an opportunistic killer, his modus operandi being spotting a potential victim, following her to her house, and murdering her when both are isolated. His Stand erasing any proof, these murders are actually reported as missing persons. Moreover, Yoshikage has expressed various other similarly violent impulses such as the desire to choke his victims to death and has horribly scarred at least Reimi Sugimoto.
== Appearance ==
=== Anime ===
* JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 4: Diamond is Unbreakable
=== Light Novels ===
* Jorge Joestar
=== Manga ===
* JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 4: Diamond Is Unbreakable
* Under Execution, Under Jailbreak
=== Video Games ===
* JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: All Star Battle
* JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: All Star Battle R
* JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Eyes of Heaven
* JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Last Survivor
* Jumputi Heroes
== Trivia ==
* According to Yoshikage himself, the total amount of women he's killed for their hands is 48.
** Yoshikage committed his first murder on August 13, 1983, at the age of 18.
* Yoshikage's MO as a serial killer resembles that of other, real-life series killers:
** Yoshikage's very outwardly normal and charming persona in public is very similar to Ted Bundy.
** Yoshikage's obsession with dead body parts and treating them like real people is like Ed Gein.
** Yoshikage's use of explosives is very similar to Theodore Kaczynski.
** Yoshikage also shows traits that are similar to Buffalo Bill and Hannibal Lecter from Silence of the Lambs, both of which were partially inspired by the above men.
* According to a Top 10 List published in JOJO A-GO!GO!, released in 2000, Yoshikage is Araki's favorite antagonist and 2nd favorite character overall.
* According to an interview with Araki, the idea to have Yoshikage takeover Kosaku's life while Hayato suspects his "father" of being replaced was inspired by the Philip K. Dick novel, The Father-thing.
* In an ironic twist, Yoshikage has his hands severed multiple times: His left hand twice (when he removed Sheer Heart Attack from his body and when the Cleansers attacked him) and his right hand once (when he was bitten by Arnold in Reimi's alley as a ghost).
* Yoshikage's favorite fashion brand is Gianfranco Ferré.
* The story of Yoshikage's first murder as told by the ghost of Reimi Sugimoto shares similarities with the "Humans Can Lick Too" horror story.
* Yoshikage's initial design is fairly notable among JoJo's Bizarre Adventure fans due to its resemblance to the late British singer David Bowie (particularly how he appeared during his Serious Moonlight tour). Coincidentally, the finale of Diamond is Unbreakable, which featured Yoshikage's death, aired in late December 2016, while Bowie himself had died in early January of that same year.
* Despite being the main antagonist, Yoshikage doesn't have an active role in Diamond is Unbreakable until halfway in the part. The anime attempts to build up Yoshikage's presence before his first appearance by showing the aftermath of his murders and the severed hands he's collected along the way from the opening scene of the very first episode of the Part 4 anime, along with a quick cameo in episode 86 (DU episode 12).
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Yoshikage Kira at Jojo's Bizarre Wiki
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