Josefumi Kujo

Background

Josefumi was born in 1991 to Sadafumi Kujo and Kiyomi Kujo. He was named by his grandfather who found the name Josefumi (仗世文) carved on a geta sandal that he had found, unaware that it belonged to Joseph Joestar. As a child, Josefumi nearly drowned during an outing to the beach with his mother, being drawn underwater and striking his head on a rock, leaving him for dead.↗↗↗

At some point, Josefumi attended T Academy to study agriculture, where he would meet Karera Sakunami.↗↗↗

Retrieving the Locacaca

Years later, he is seen eating in the same ramen shop as Ojiro Sasame and Kira. As Ojiro leaves the shop, he accidentally bumped into Josefumi, causing the latter to spill an excessive amount of pepper into his ramen, which he soon removed using his Stand. Kira quickly recognized him afterward.↗

The two meet up in the park later on to devise a plan to steal the Locacaca Tree from Aisho Dainenjiyama, as Kira wanted the fruit to save his mother. Josefumi insists that he help Kira as he feels some debt towards Kira's mother for saving him years ago, and devises a plan to steal a single branch from the tree and use his Stand's abilities to graft it to another tree and raise a Locacaca Tree of their own.↗

He and Kira were eventually found by Tamaki Damo and Yagiyama, the former horribly torturing them. Thanks to Kira, they managed to escape and arrive at the location of their Locacaca graft, but Kira having lost his liver, Josefumi fed him one of the Locacaca fruit. While waiting for Kira to awaken, Josefumi was ambushed by the A. Phex Brothers, whom Josefumi proceeded to viciously attack, before retreating with Kira's body.↗

Josefumi, anxious over Kira not awakening, begins to use their last Locacaca fruit to exchange his life for Kira's, claiming that he died a long time ago and that he owed Holy. He told Kira to live so that he could harvest more Locacaca fruit for Holy.↗

For the next several months, Josuke is unaware of his previous identity as Josefumi or his relation to Kira until Kei Nijimura reveals the process of equivalent exchange that resulted in him being partly her brother Kira and a chance meeting with Josefumi's friend Karera who recognizes that he is also Josefumi and the A. Phex Brothers who recognize that Josuke's Stand Soft & Wet is similar to Josefumi's Stand.↗↗

Personality

Not much is known about Josefumi Kujo, as he had exchanged parts of his body with Kira's corpse to become Josuke Higashikata prior to the start of JoJolion.↗

When given the opportunity by Tamaki Damo to let Kira die to save his own life, Josefumi's hidden sadness surfaces as he torments himself, saying that he always was abandoned and left out. He notably remembers the time when his mother Kiyomi almost let him die in the sea, but his manner of speech implies that he's lived an unhappy solitary life.↗↗↗↗

He does find her cute but circumstances made it so he died before anything could happen between them.↗↗

Abilities / Stand

He later uses soap bubbles to forcibly feed Kira a fruit of the New Locacaca after the latter is killed by Tamaki Damo.↗↗↗↗

Profile details

Status Status based on their final appearance in the part(s) they are featured in: Reborn as Josuke Higashikata↗↗