CHARACTER PROFILE
Kenzou
- Primary work
- Stone Ocean
Kenzou (ケンゾー, Kenzō) is a secondary antagonist featured in the sixth part of the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure series, Stone Ocean, specifically the " Enter the Dragon's Dream " story arc.
Kenzou is an elderly inmate at Green Dolphin Street Prison, and the former guru of a sect. He is sent to assassinate Jolyne Cujoh in the Ultra Security House Unit. He eventually battles Foo Fighters instead when she comes to save Jolyne. Kenzou is a Stand user, and wields Dragon's Dream.
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02Appearance
Kenzou is a small yet athletic old man, with a heavily wrinkled and clean-shaved face, but he has unusually long eyebrows over slanted eyes. He has several thin braids on the back of the head.↗
Kenzou wears a furred bodysuit open on the chest, a jeweled skullcap on which are several big pearls, and a similarly jeweled necklace.↗
03Personality
Kenzou is an assassin and martial artist brimming with great confidence. His prison card also states that he has knowledge of Kung-Fu, Tai Chi, and tea ceremonies. His great experience and power of "feng-shui" give Kenzou a lot of confidence, since he knows how to evade attacks and can easily find a target's weak spot. As such, his general behavior is that of a placid and confident master, as well as that of a ruthless assassin who can take a life without qualm.↗↗
Kenzou is calm in combat and rarely loses his cool, but even if Foo Fighters kept resisting him, Kenzou maintained his confidence in his opponent's eventual demise. He even found Jolyne's power interesting because it was "hard to read", implying he would have appreciated the challenge of fighting her.↗↗
However, underneath his calm, Kenzou has delusions of grandeur. 40 years ago, he founded his own cult and even attempted a mass suicide in order to not be arrested by the police. Even now, Kenzou treasures the memory of his "glory days", and ambitions to become a cult leader again, using his feng shui powers to be seen and revered as a savior by the prisoners. At his most exalted, Kenzou compares himself to the Buddha.↗↗↗↗
04Abilities
Stand
Dragon's Dream manipulates the concept of Feng-Shui to show the luckiest angles, and is used by Kenzou to strike from odd angles for maximum lethality. It is remarkable in being neutral in a fight and equally usable by Kenzou's foes.↗
Techniques
Kenzou has knowledge in kung-fu and tai-chi and has decades of experience in practicing martial arts. Kenzou's footwork is at an expert level, as while he can read the lucky locations on the battlefield, it is his footwork that allows him to constantly go to these lucky positions and evade Foo Fighters's shots, even at short range. His agility is such that he needs minimal movement to avoid F.F.'s bullets. Despite his age, Kenzou is surprisingly agile and can perform acrobatics and leap great distances on a regular basis without tiring. This allows him to easily touch Dragon's Dream.↗↗
05Story
SPOILERS
Background
When he was 37 years of age, Kenzou was the leader of a very popular cult that included Hollywood stars and other famous people, reaching 30,000 members. However, his sect was soon investigated by the police and FBI. Subsequently, Kenzou and thirty four members of his cult attempted a mass suicide. Kenzou drugged everyone and put fire to the building, burning everyone.↗↗
Kenzou's persistent and gradual perfection of his Feng Shui Assassination led to the natural awakening of his Stand ability, Dragon's Dream.↗↗
Stone Ocean
Kenzou is sent to the Ultra Security House Unit alongside D an G, Viviano Westwood and Guccio to assassinate Jolyne Cujoh. After Westwood loses control and frees all the inmates, Kenzou makes short work of most of the inmates and drowns them. He confronts a battered Jolyne but detects Foo Fighters and attacks her first by kicking the corpse she is is hiding inside of. F.F. comes out and shoots Kenzou, but the corpse's leg twitches, protecting the old man.↗
Kenzou and Foo Fighters properly engage each other. He summons Dragon's Dream and reads the lucky spot. Thanks to that, he avoids F.F.'s shots and drives his fist inside of her throat, using a specific technique to trigger a secretion of mucus from the adrenal gland that is supposed to make his targets drown by themselves. He then turns to face Jolyne but F.F. surprisingly pierces her own throat and shoots again. Kenzou barely manages to be avoid the attack and kicks F.F.↗
He reads the lucky spot again and summons Dragon's Dream, who is seen by F.F. and irritatingly explains to F.F. the ins and outs of its ability for the sake of a fair fight. After an exchange of blows, Kenzou reaches Dragon's Dream and his arm connects with F.F.'s unlucky spot. Although F.F. blocks the fist by dislocating her elbow, a series of events causes pieces of glass to pierce F.F.'s face. She opens her mouth in shock, allowing Kenzou to attack although F.F. backs off to avoid the attack.↗
F.F. shoots Kenzou, who is barely out of his safe spot and manages to hurt him. However, the attack is not enough. F.F. thus plans to trick Kenzou into misreading Dragon's Dream with a mirror made of water but desperately needs it to sustain herself. Kenzou begins to rant about the hell his life has been since his arrest and orders Dragon's Dream to show him the way to make his final attack. F.F. runs towards the fire extinguishing hose the guards used, pursued by Kenzou. F.F.↗
F.F. manages to sneak into the hose through a tear made after Kenzou's kick and break the faucet open, but her earlier action prevents her from touching the water since her own arms attack it. F.F. is thrown down to the execution room and the hose activates the execution sequence on the electric chair there. By pure misfortune, F.F. finds herself unable to get away from the chair. Kenzou arrives and F.F.↗
F.F. is being electrocuted but Dragon's Dream reveals that she was able to collect the sweat from Kenzou after his effort. Kenzou realizes he's in an unsafe spot and is grabbed by F.F., who share the electrocution with the old man. Kenzou barely survives it and Jolyne approaches to finish him off despite her own injuries. However, Kenzou manages to avoid the attack and himself stands up to kill Jolyne. He tries to jam his foot in Jolyne's throat but Narciso Anasui intervenes.↗↗
07Appearances
08Sources & attribution
- Kenzou
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 (9)
- Stone Ocean Chapter 71: Enter the Dragon's Dream, Part 5, p.20 Open ↗
- Stone Ocean Model Sheet No.SO-TL015-01 Open ↗
- Stone Ocean Chapter 96: Jail House Lock!, Part 1, p.4 Open ↗
- Stone Ocean Chapter 67: Enter the Dragon's Dream, Part 1, p.5 Open ↗
- Stone Ocean Chapter 68: Enter the Dragon's Dream, Part 2, p.13 Open ↗
- Stone Ocean Chapter 71: Enter the Dragon's Dream, Part 5, p.11 Open ↗
- Stone Ocean Chapter 73: Enter the Dragon's Dream, Part 6, p.17 Open ↗
- Stone Ocean Chapter 71: Enter the Dragon's Dream, Part 5, tailpiece Open ↗
- Stone Ocean Chapter 69: Enter the Dragon's Dream, Part 3, p.19 Open ↗
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