01Basic information

Japanese Name
仮頼谷 茂儀造↗
Romanized Name
Karaiya Mogizō↗
Gender
Male↗
Species
Vampire↗
Affiliation
Kars (Master)↗
Manga Debut
CDDH Chapter 9 (Flashback)↗

02Appearance

Mogizo has long wavy light hair that covers his face. During his flashback, he wears a light-colored traditional Japanese-style robe. His irises are light with cracked markings below his lower eyelids. Despite his age, he retains a youthful and strong physique, due to his vampirism. Like other vampires, he also bares fangs and sharp nails. He always wears a thick layer of greasepaint makeup to hide his youthful appearance, making himself appear older.↗↗↗

03Personality

Mogizo is a reclusive man who hates all humans, believing that they are shallow creatures with evil hearts. As a vampire, he always locks himself in a separate room claiming he has an allergy to ultraviolet rays, not allowing anyone to approach him during the day. However, he joins his family for dinner and would go out at night. Despite it seeming as if he didn't eat anything else, he didn't suffer from malnutrition, implying that he would drink blood.↗↗

Mogizo claims that he has personally witnessed how depraved humans are. Although others thought he went insane because of World War II, he mentions the war was just a game to him since he became a vampire before that. He is inspired by Kars, who believed that the people who succeed are those who solely focus on winning rather than things like pride or conviction. Thus, like Kars, he is a megalomaniac who desires to stand at the top of the world. Believing that his grandson is not so different from him, he chooses to pass on what he learned from Kars.↗↗↗

Although he hates humans, Mogizo puts on an act when talking to others, having a pleasant demeanor. As a result of his strange habits, the people in his neighborhood call him a hermit.↗↗

04Story

SPOILERS

Background

At some point, Mogizo had a son with an unknown woman and he was in the military. Before World War II, he was deployed to St. Moritz, Switzerland on an intelligence operation. There, he witnessed something that transcended all of creation. It is implied that Kars turned him into a vampire, but it is unknown how he escaped. Since he got married and had a child before becoming a vampire, he never told his family the truth about himself or what he learned back then.↗

Decades later, he speaks with his grandson, Kazuki Karaiya, in Japan and advises him to never open his heart to other humans. He feels that Kars's ideology lives on in him and passes on those teachings to Kazuki. He plans to give a part of his vampiric essence to Kazuki when he becomes an adult so that they could stand at the top of the world together. However, Mogizo suddenly disappears when Kazuki is in elementary school.↗↗↗

05Plot details

SPOILERS

Profile details

Status Status based on their final appearance in the part(s) they are featured in: Deceased↗↗

Mogizo Karaiya (仮頼谷 茂儀造, Karaiya Mogizō) is a posthumous tertiary antagonist featured in the spin-off manga Crazy Diamond's Demonic Heartbreak and the light novel Crazy Heartbreakers.↗

06Relationships

CharacterRelationshipNotes
Kazuki KaraiyaGrandson↗

07Sources & attribution

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 (2)
  1. Crazy Heartbreakers Chapter 7: DIO Open ↗
  2. Crazy Diamond's Demonic Heartbreak: Chapter 9 Open ↗

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