Yoshiya "Joshua" Kiryu

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### Aliases

Josh, Prissy Kid, Pretty Boy, J, J-Dawg, Petit Prince, Josh-Josh, Pink, Pinky, Giggles, Rainbow

## Physical description

### Species

Human??? Angel??? Both??? Do Composers count as angels??? I have no idea

### Weight

Probably really fucking light, this man built like a twig

## Appearances

### Portrayed by

Ryōhei Kimura (Japanese), Aaron Spann (English Games), Clifford Chapin (English Anime)

### Appears in

The World Ends With You, Kingdom Hearts: Dream Drop Distance, Neo: The World Ends With You

### Debut

The World Ends With You

**THIS WHOLE PAGE WILL CONTAIN SPOILERS, JOSHUA IS A WALKING TALKING SPOILER**

Yoshiya Kiryu (nicknamed Joshua) is a character from The World Ends With You, he is Neku Sakuraba's second partner in the Reaper's Game. He is also the Composer of Shibuya, therefore running the Reaper's Game.

## Why Is He A Komaeda?

Joshua knows stuff that he seemingly has no right knowing, most notably Neku's death. He is very knowledgeable about the UG despite allegedly being a first time player. Upon first meeting, he refers to Neku by name before Neku even introduces himself. Also you can see him watching from the shadows during the first day of the game. It's very easy to miss, but he's there. Joshua is an overall suspicious individual, displaying various traits that a player shouldn't have. The most egregious example being that Neku can scan him, something that is usually impossible to do to other players and reapers. The scanning also reveals that he knows about Neku's death so yeah, not super trustworthy.

Like most Komaeda's, Joshua is very scrawny looking, he appears to be physically weak. This is supported by his gameplay, as he starts out as Neku's weakest partner by far. He's slow, sluggish, a complete downgrade from your previous partner. Then Week 2 Day 5 happens, and he's forced to drop the façade. He and Neku are surrounded by taboo noise, surely about to die. So Joshua casually drops a massive beam of light onto every enemy, vaporizing them all instantly. Thanks man, that ability would've been super useful during the **previous four days**, but whatever. From here on out, his gameplay completely changes and he becomes your strongest partner. Only later do we figure out that the reason he has all this power wasn't because he was alive, unlike the other players. No, turns out he was actually Shibuya's Composer the whole time. In other words, he's basically a God.

Joshua partakes in a popular activities among Komaeda's, annoying the absolute shit out of the protagonist. Joshua will take any given opportunity to get under Neku's skin. This can be seen in various top tier quotes such as "Good job Neku, show those 5th graders who's boss!", "Shut up and walk, dear.", "And here I am, playing the world's tinniest violin" and more. Sometimes he doesn't even need to say anything smug, his vibes alone are enough to make Neku consider strangling him on multiple occasions. One time he tells Neku that the day's current mission was to reach Cat Street in 20 minutes, or die. Neku, of course, panics and rushes to Cat Street as quickly as possible. Turns out this was a lie and Joshua just wanted to get to Cat Street so he could meet with Mr. H. Understandable really, Mr. H is a pretty cool coffee dad. At the end of Week 2, Joshua seemingly dies after Sho blows himself up. Turns out he just teleported himself into another dimension to avoid the blast, but he didn't know how to get back so he just kind of chilled there until Mr. H picked him up before the end of Week 3. Overall, Joshua will cause problems on purpose, as any good Komaeda should.

By the end of the game it's revealed that Joshua is the one who shot and killed Neku. This was done as a test to see if the city of Shibuya is worth preserving, as the majority of the inhabitants were becoming scumbags. Neku was chosen because he too was a scumbag. If Neku could develop into a respectable person by the end of the Reaper's Game, that'd prove that the rest of Shibuya isn't completely hopeless, if this jerk can better himself then so can they. If Neku still ended up sucking by the end, then Shibuya would be seen as a blight on the human race and thus destroyed. Of course Neku is a cool dude now, so Shibuya isn't blown up. and Neku is brought back to life along with his buddies.

I haven't finished Neo: TWEWY yet, so I can't really go over what he does there. He's only appeared once so far, in which he returns a pin to Rindo because Rindo has the worst butter fingers known to humanity. I'll update this once I finish the game.

There's a food item in The World Ends With You called cordyceps. Yes, as in the fungi that zombify ants. You can have any playable character eat the cordyceps for stat boosts, but none of them enjoy eating zombie mushrooms. Nobody except Joshua, he's the only character who like the cordyceps despite seemingly being the most formal of the group. Then again, he also ordered fish head ramen during the story so maybe this shouldn't come as a shock. This isn't really a Komaeda trait, I just wanted to mention it.

## Fanon

Some people ship him with Neku, even though Joshua is the one who murdered him. Yes, they remain on surprisingly good terms despite that. Yes, Joshua later tried to protect Neku from dying yet again in A New Day. But them being in a relationship is still pretty ridiculous. In canon, Neku doesn't forgive Joshua for everything he's done by the end, but he knows that Joshua is working to better himself, so Neku's willing to trust him. Their friendship is still very shaky, it'd be way too sudden for them to suddenly decide they love each other. But no, fanfics will smack them together like Barbie dolls regardless.

The superior fanon is that Joshua works at Darbeevision. He can never escape the TVs. Whenever he slips away, the TVs will always find him. Once a Darbeevision employee, always a Darbeevision employee. This meme exists because Joshua's English voice actor works at Darbeevision, there's a video of him advertising the company. His voice sounds exactly like Joshua, that's apparently just his regular voice.

## Baby Geniuses

    Joshua is the world's biggest Baby Geniuses fan. It warped him. It changed his outlook on life. He created a Baby Geniuses subreddit, it has 26 members! All of them are his alt accounts. Some may even say that he *is* Baby Geniuses incarnate. He has watched Baby Geniuses 1 at least twelve thousand times. Half of these times included an unwilling Neku, held at gunpoint. God help this man.

Unfortunately, he cannot hold this same love for the sequels. Why are these movies suddenly focusing on these stupid detective babies? Why is Big Baby the worst villain in the history of fiction? Why are the babies torturing Mrs. Garcia for no good reason? They're the Baby Geniuses for fuck sake! They're the heroes! They're supposed to uphold peace, not reign down terror! Where's the love? Where's the passion? No... These people don't know Baby Geniuses. They don't understand Baby Geniuses! Only Joshua understands. So, these people don't want to put the time and effort towards making a worthy continuation of the story? Fine. He'll do it himself...

Joshua gathers several sheets of paper and a pencil. Then he starts writing. He writes non-stop for several weeks. He cares not for sleep, food, or social interaction. Baby Geniuses is all that he cares about. Baby Geniuses is all that he *needs*. Finally, he finishes. The future of cinema was now sitting in his hands. It was the script for his own fan-made Baby Geniuses movie, SUPERBABIES: Baby Geniuses 2.

This was the sequel that his fellow Baby Geniuses fans deserved. The Baby Geniuses would no longer be represented by these depraved detectives. They were heroes once again, as God intended. This new group consisted of four babies: Bounce Boy, the girl one, the other boy one, and Finkleman. Finkleman would later be removed from the group, as Joshua realized he was the worst character in all of fiction. They were lead by Kahuna, a crusty old dude trapped in the body of a ten-year old boy. He was like so epic and cool and could beat up everybody and he totally wasn't Joshua's self-insert OC. The group was perfect (at least once Finkleman was removed). The movie was perfect. SUPERBABIES was so good that it kickstarted the New Golden Age of Film. Joshua was now officially gifted the Baby Geniuses license. The franchise is finally back on its feet, and it's all thanks to Joshua TWEWY.