Narciso Anasui
- Primary work
- Stone Ocean
Narciso Anasui (ナルシソ・アナスイ, Narushiso Anasui) is a primary ally featured in the sixth part of the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure series, Stone Ocean.
A convicted murderer who serves his prison sentence in Green Dolphin Street Prison, Anasui falls in love with Jolyne Cujoh and decides to help her with defeating Enrico Pucci. He is a Stand user who wields the permeating Diver Down in battle.

Image attribution details
Narciso Anasui. Source illustration via JoJoWiki; copyright remains with the original rights holders.
Image via JoJoWiki. Original franchise/production rights holders retain copyright; the wiki text CC BY-SA license does not license this image.
Original image ↗ · Archived image ↗01Basic information
02Appearance
Anasui is a man of above-average height and medium to athletic build, bearing an androgynous appearance with long flowing hair and feminine clothing in most of his depictions. He is always seen with a flat horned studded hat, and his main attire is centered around a form-fitting mesh piece.↗
The piece consists of a studded leather back and a mesh front and sleeves. The mesh is comprised of diagonal stripes that resemble a fishnet pattern with extremely large gaps between the clothing lines, exposing most of Anasui's chest. It is accompanied by a waist skirt with a thick studded belt, and thigh high boots that seamlessly meld into Anasui's underwear via the same fishnet pattern. The sleeves also end in wristbands. In addition, Anasui wears three large footprint decorations which are placed on the center of his waist skirt, abdomen, and chest. These decorations also serve as pockets.↗↗
03Personality
A significant aspect of Anasui's character is his intense devotion to Jolyne. Falling in love with her at first sight, he admires her focus and determination, which he claims inspire him and give him hope for his future. Viewing himself as Jolyne's protector, Anasui strives to earn her love and trust, declaring his intent to protect her at all costs so they can eventually get married. He believes that he can protect her better than Jotaro Kujo or Weather Report, and frequently uses his Stand ability to shield Jolyne, such as absorbing C-MOON 's gravity inversion to give her time to strike back.↗↗↗↗↗↗↗↗
Anasui exhibits boldness and confidence in his pursuit of Jolyne's affection. He openly confesses his love for her upon meeting her, even slipping an expensive ring on her finger as an indirect proposal. His actions occasionally blur personal boundaries, such as nibbling a flower from her face, or assuming she reciprocates his feelings when interpreting her warnings about Yo-Yo Ma as a kiss attempt. Nonetheless, Anasui values the importance of gaining approval from both Jotaro and Jolyne.↗↗↗↗↗↗↗↗↗
Anasui's psychological evaluation showed no signs of mental illness, but Emporio describes him as someone who might act unpredictably if not kept calm by Weather Report. Anasui had a compulsion to take anything apart since he was a child, including toys, phones, clocks, and his neighbor's Porsche. Upon discovering his girlfriend with another man, he disassembled them to pieces so that they could never be together again. Later, Anasui agrees with the newspapers' claims of him being a vicious murderer.↗↗↗↗↗↗↗↗↗↗
04Abilities
Stand
Diver Down is a close-range Stand with the main ability to imprint an attack on any surface and release it. It also is able to phase through solid materials and change the materials that make them up.↗
05Story
SPOILERS
Background
Born with a condition that compels him to disassemble anything he sees, Anasui had a troubled childhood. He meticulously took apart pocket watches, toys, and other items within his reach. At the age of ten, he was admitted to a psychiatric facility for six months after disassembling his neighbor's Porsche. One time, he even disassembled a high-voltage utility pole.↗↗
Ermes's Stickers
Anasui first appears in the ghost music room overhearing Emporio and Ermes Costello 's conversation about investigating Whitesnake alongside Weather Report, but doesn't intervene. In the anime, Anasui meets Jolyne at that point instead of Ermes. Emporio introduces him to her and he walks out of the room.↗↗↗
Ultra Security House Unit
Anasui then appears ascending the stairs of the Ultra Security Punishment Ward just as Foo Fighters and Jolyne are about to face Kenzou. At first, he doesn't engage in the battle, instead expounding on Kenzou's history and confesses his love to Jolyne. He then explains the concept of ' feng shui ', which Kenzou's Stand Dragon's Dream relies on.↗↗↗↗↗↗
Yo-Yo Ma
Anasui hurries and leads Jolyne and Foo Fighters out of the Ultra Security Punishment Ward, but is informed of the actual direction of the exit by Foo Fighters. They encounter Guccio, who is cowering and whimpering in a corner. Anasui approaches him casually and asks his name and if he's an enemy, Guccio responding without really understanding and pleading for his life.↗↗
Whitesnake's Pursuit
Anasui plans to kill the Green Baby, and submerges Diver Down into the wall of the bottle. He slides the entrance of the bottle over to him and Jolyne so that they are able to escape while trapping Green, Green Grass Of Home by putting the cap back on the bottle. However, the Stand starts to roll the bottle towards the two of them and almost crushes Anasui before the Green Baby calls off the attack, intrigued by Jolyne's birthmark.↗↗
Escaping Prison
In the men's ward of the prison, Weather Report states that Jolyne has left the prison, able to sense her due to the Joestar birthmark. Anasui forces Weather to take him to her.↗↗
Heavy Weather Unleashed
Anasui and Weather Report end up outside the hospital where Jolyne and Ermes fight against Donatello Versus 's Stand, Under World. After Versus uses Under World to deliver Weather Report's memory DISC to Weather Report inside the hospital, he regains his memories and activates Heavy Weather. Anasui is shocked by Weather's new attitude, but follows him nevertheless in order to find Jolyne.↗↗↗
Battle Against Pucci and C-MOON
On the car ride to Cape Canaveral Space Station, Anasui notices Jolyne asleep on his chest and comments on how cute she is. He takes out a jeweled ring that he bought from the prison merchant, softly placing it on her finger. However, Ermes startles her by pointing out a large alligator and she unknowingly throws it at the alligator. Anasui repeatedly asks her to open her hands when he notices, weeping.↗↗
Alternate Universe
In the alternate universe, Anasui has a counterpart by the name of Anakiss. When Emporio approaches his car, his girlfriend and Jolyne's counterpart, Irene, tells the boy that they will be going to her father so that she can ask him if she can marry Anakiss. They also offer a ride to their car to a distressed stranger, Ermes Costello 's counterpart, in exchange for her money for gas. The group later picks up another stranger by the road, who is Weather Report 's counterpart.↗↗
Eyes of Heaven
When Heaven-Attained DIO starts to rewrite reality, Anasui is among the people turned into his servants. Anasui and a similarly brainwashed Ermes Costello thus attack Jolyne and Emporio just as they were fighting Enrico Pucci and his C-MOON at Kennedy Space Center. However, the Jotaro from 1989 joins Jolyne in fighting Ermes and Anasui, and manages to restore both. Anasui becomes jealous of Jotaro's proximity to Jolyne until she properly introduces her father, surprising even Jotaro himself.↗
06Plot details
SPOILERS
Personality
He describes his love for Jolyne as a form of 'purification' and suggests he 'used to be dead' before meeting her.↗↗↗↗↗↗↗↗↗
places on intellect and, believing he is about to die, offers her both his mind and body so that Jotaro's DISC would be safe.↗↗↗↗↗↗↗↗↗↗
Appearances
Stone Ocean Chapter 154: Made in Heaven, Part 6 (Death)↗
Stone Ocean Chapter 155: Made in Heaven, Part 7 (Corpse only)↗
Stone Ocean Episode 37: Made in Heaven, Part 2 (Death)↗
Profile details
Status Status based on their final appearance in the part(s) they are featured in: Deceased (Part 6)↗↗
Date of Death: March 22, 2012 (Accelerated)↗↗
Cause of Death: Fatally impaled by Enrico Pucci via Stone Free↗
07Appearances
08Behind the Character
At Lucca Comics and Games 2019, Araki revealed that the reason behind Anasui's sex seemingly changing after his first appearance was that he wanted to portray a character with an androgynous image that went beyond the standard definition of genders.↗↗
Masanori Shino, the character designer for Stone Ocean's anime adaptation, designed Anasui to draw out his androgynous appeal but also initially considered his original female look in the manga. Though the design is later omitted, Araki has later stated that it would have been fine for Anasui to be depicted as a woman.↗↗
09Sources & attribution
- Narciso Anasui
Source bibliography (43)
- Reborn as Anakiss Open ↗
- Stone Ocean Chapter 59: His Name is Anasui, p.18 Open ↗
- Stone Ocean Chapter 60: The Secret of Guard Westwood, Part 1 Open ↗
- Stone Ocean Chapter 60: The Secret of Guard Westwood, Part 1, Tailpiece Open ↗
- Stone Ocean Chapter 154: Made in Heaven, Part 6 Open ↗
- JOJOVELLER: STANDS Open ↗
- Stone Ocean Model Sheet No.CR206-81 Open ↗
- SO Chapter 138 Open ↗
- Stone Ocean Chapter 59: His Name is Anasui Open ↗
- Stone Ocean Chapter 87: Awaken, Part 3 Open ↗
- Stone Ocean Chapter 140: Gravity of the New Moon, Part 2 Open ↗
- Stone Ocean Chapter 92: Whitesnake - The Pursuer, Part 4 Open ↗
- Stone Ocean Chapter 151: Made in Heaven, Part 3 Open ↗
- Stone Ocean Chapter 143: C-MOON, Part 3 Open ↗
- Stone Ocean Chapter 76: Birth of the "Green", Part 1 Open ↗
- Stone Ocean Chapter 68: Enter the Dragon's Dream, Part 2 Open ↗
- Stone Ocean Chapter 138: At Cape Canaveral Open ↗
- Stone Ocean Chapter 152: Made in Heaven, Part 4 Open ↗
- Stone Ocean Chapter 137: Heavy Weather, Part 13 Open ↗
- Stone Ocean Chapter 77: Birth of the "Green", Part 2 Open ↗
- Stone Ocean Chapter 81: Yo-Yo Ma is Coming!, Part 4 Open ↗
- Stone Ocean Chapter 153: Made in Heaven, Part 5 Open ↗
- Stone Ocean Chapter 59: His Name is Anasui, p.8 Open ↗
- Stone Ocean Chapter 74: Enter the Dragon's Dream, Part 7 Open ↗
- Stone Ocean Chapter 78: Yo-Yo Ma is Coming!, Part 1 Open ↗
- Yo-Yo Ma is Coming! story arc Open ↗
- Stone Ocean Chapter 106: Bohemian Rhapsody, Part 3 Open ↗
- Stone Ocean Chapter 89: Whitesnake - The Pursuer, Part 1 Open ↗
- Stone Ocean Chapter 71: Enter the Dragon's Dream, Part 5 Open ↗
- Stone Ocean Chapter 86: Awaken, Part 2 Open ↗
- Stone Ocean Chapter 88: Awaken, Part 4 Open ↗
- Stone Ocean Chapter 95: New Moon! New Priest Open ↗
- Stone Ocean Chapter 125: Heavy Weather, Part 1 Open ↗
- Stone Ocean Chapter 148: C-MOON, Part 8 Open ↗
- Stone Ocean Chapter 24: Ermes's Stickers, Part 4 Open ↗
- Stone Ocean Episode 10: Operation Savage Garden (Head to the Courtyard!), Part 1 Open ↗
- Stone Ocean Chapter 67: Enter the Dragon's Dream, Part 1 Open ↗
- Stone Ocean Chapter 69: Enter the Dragon's Dream, Part 3 Open ↗
- Stone Ocean Chapter 103: Three Men Taken to the Hospital Open ↗
- Stone Ocean Chapter 118: Time for Heaven: Three Days Until the New Moon Open ↗
- Stone Ocean Chapter 158: What a Wonderful World Open ↗
- Lucca Comics (October 2019) | https://twitter.com/jojo_wiki/status/1195888073273303041 Open ↗
- Ultra Jump: Interview with Masanori Shino Open ↗
10More profiles to explore
Continue with related characters, distinct versions and more profiles from the same recorded work.




