CHARACTER PROFILE
Illuso
- Primary work
- Vento Aureo
Other recorded work links
Illuso (イルーゾォ, Irūzō) is a secondary antagonist featured in the fifth part of the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure series, Vento Aureo, specifically the " Man in the Mirror and Purple Haze " story arc. He is also one of the protagonists of the short story " Il Gatto Randagio Se Ne Va con il Vento di Primavera."
A member of La Squadra Esecuzioni, Illuso faces Pannacotta Fugo, Leone Abbacchio and Giorno Giovanna in Pompeii in a race to grab an important key left by the Boss. He is a Stand user and exploits the mirror powers of his Man in the Mirror to ambush his enemies.
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Illuso. Source illustration via JoJoWiki; copyright remains with the original rights holders.
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Original image ↗ · Archived image ↗01Basic information
- Japanese Name
- イルーゾォ↗
- Romanized Name
- Irūzō↗
- Aliases
- Illuso of the Mirror (moniker)↗
- Stand
- Man in the Mirror↗
- Gender
- Male↗
- Height
- 188 cm (6 ft 2 in) (Anime)↗
- Nationality
- Italian↗
- Occupation
- Passione Hitman↗
- Affiliation
- La Squadra Esecuzioni | Passione (formerly)↗
- Manga Debut
- Chapter 478↗
- Anime Debut
- GW Episode 9 (Cameo) | GW Episode 10 (1st Full Debut)↗
- Game Debut
- GioGio's Bizarre Adventure (NPC) | JoJo's Pitter-Patter Pop! (Playable)↗
02Appearance
Illuso is a man of above-average height and slim to medium build. He has light-colored eyes and past shoulder-length hair tied into six pigtails. His outfit is entirely quilted, consisting of a down vest with long sleeves and matching down pants. With this outfit, he wears dress shoes in a similar style to Giorno's and metal cuffs on the sleeves. He also has circular knee and elbow pads with straps on and a belt with a square, metal buckle. Holes are cut into the outfit to reveal most of his abdomen and neck areas.↗
In some panels, his sleeves, instead of ending in metal, simply end in more quilted fabric colored a light color. His vest also changes details, such as having a flap with buttons that buckles it together or simply being one strip.↗
03Personality
Illuso appears before Fugo, Abbacchio, and Giorno as a confident and smug assassin. He expresses great confidence and revels in Man in the Mirror 's ability. Illuso is very laid-back in the beginning, aiming to dispatch Bucciarati's men one by one and enjoys torturing them while sneering at their inability to fight back. He is confident enough in the Mirror World's power that he'd leave Fugo to engage the other two. Illuso underestimates his opponents as a result, which leads to him being repeatedly baited into making himself vulnerable.↗↗↗↗↗↗
He shows a great amount of will during the fight, juggling three opponents at the same time and slicing off his own hand to escape Purple Haze 's fatal virus. Even in his last moments he's able to muster up enough strength in his Stand to grab Purple Haze's arm.↗↗↗
In the anime, he is shown to also be condescending to his peers, as he mocks Formaggio 's power, along with Sorbet and Gelato 's relationship.↗↗
04Abilities
Stand
Illuso's Stand is Man in the Mirror. It is a humanoid Stand of moderate bodily power, and with which Illuso may isolate opponents in discrete alternate spaces reflected in mirrors.↗
05Story
SPOILERS
Background
Illuso was a member of La Squadra Esecuzioni, a team of nine assassins working within Passione. However, the team was frustrated they only received compensation for each kills while the rest of the gang was getting rich from the drug trade. One day their teammates Sorbet and Gelato disappeared while they were trying to investigate the Boss 's past. They found Gelato choked on a gag in his house, with a piece of paper on which was written the word "punishment".↗
Vento Aureo
Illuso finds Leone Abbacchio near the Cave Canem mosaic and attacks through a mirror. Abbacchio kicks the mirror but Man in the Mirror can grab Abbacchio's arm through a shard of the mirror. He drags Abbacchio inside as the latter almost took a key but Abbacchio suddenly chokes his Stand. In truth, "Abbacchio" is Moody Blues disguised as Abbacchio. Moody Blues take the advantage in a short close-quarters fight.↗
Worried, Illuso pursues the hand but then sees Giorno kneeling to take the key and staying immobile. Laughing at the new guy's slow wits, Illuso then attempts to drag Giorno into the Mirror World and succeeds without a fight, only for Giorno to reveal one of Purple Haze 's virus capsules. Giorno has infected himself with the flesh-eating virus and passes it on to Illuso as well.↗
07Appearances
Chapter 475: Narancia's Aerosmith, Part 6 (Silhouette)↗
Chapter 478: The Second Order from the Boss: "Retrieve the Key!" (1st Full Debut)↗
Chapter 479: Man in the Mirror and Purple Haze, Part 1↗
Chapter 480: Man in the Mirror and Purple Haze, Part 2↗
Chapter 481: Man in the Mirror and Purple Haze, Part 3↗
08Sources & attribution
- Illuso
Source text: JoJoWiki and its contributors. This entry has been reorganized and condensed for readability under CC BY-SA 4.0. Archived records reflect their capture dates. Referenced manga, anime, and artwork retain their respective copyrights.
Source bibliography (11)
- Chapter 486: Express Train to Florence, Part 1 Open ↗
- Golden Wind Model Sheet no CR200-00 Open ↗
- Vento Aureo Timeline Open ↗
- Chapter 479: Man in the Mirror and Purple Haze, Part 1 P.16. Open ↗
- Chapter 480: Man in the Mirror and Purple Haze, Part 2 Open ↗
- Chapter 481: Man in the Mirror and Purple Haze, Part 3 P.15. Open ↗
- Chapter 482: Man in the Mirror and Purple Haze, Part 4 Open ↗
- Chapter 485: Man in the Mirror and Purple Haze, Part 7 Open ↗
- Chapter 484: Man in the Mirror and Purple Haze, Part 6 P.14. Open ↗
- Chapter 485: Man in the Mirror and Purple Haze, Part 7 P.5. Open ↗
- Golden Wind Episode 10: The Hitman Team Open ↗
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