01Basic information

Japanese Name
笹目 桜二郎↗
Romanized Name
Sasame Ōjirō↗
Stand
Fun Fun Fun↗
Age
22 (August 22) | 23 (September 22)↗↗↗
Birthday
1988↗
Gender
Male↗
Nationality
Japanese↗
Occupation
Surfer↗
Manga Debut
JJL Chapter 5↗

02Appearance

Ojiro is a man of average to above-average height and athletic build. He has light hair, short or shaved except for a light sweep at his front, which are depicted with X-shaped marks in his later appearance, and very thin eyebrows. As noted by Yoshikage Kira, he has a very visible tan that causes him to stand out, which is much more visible in his later appearance. His most notable feature is his disfigured fingers, which Ojiro bit off down to the second joint due to the emotional distress caused by Kira's treatment of him.↗

When he meets Josuke, he is wearing a shirt with a bowtie, along with a jacket and gloves. All of his clothes have his Stand's "Q"-like symbol patterned across them. In his later appearances (both in flashbacks and after his reappearance in Chapter 87), he is bare-chested and wears a puffy jacket.↗

03Personality

Ojiro is a hateful man who lives a life of crime and hides his vileness beneath a friendly face.↗

Ojiro is a petty criminal whose crimes mostly revolve around taking advantage of women. He is shown for instance to forcefully take control of a woman with Fun Fun Fun and enjoy watching them stuck under the water. He's also kidnapped a woman and forced her to stay locked up as part of a scheme to get at Yoshikage Kira. At some point, he takes photos of her in obscene poses and keeps them in a photo album to frame Kira. Ojiro also takes advantage of his oblivious girlfriend Maako, stealing her money behind her back.↗↗↗↗↗↗

Ojiro desires to have revenge on Kira because his harassment broke him psychologically so much that he ate his own fingers. The one time they are shown together, it seems true that Kira intimidates and brutalizes Ojiro on a regular basis. However, he is said to still consider him a good friend. His "friendship" with Kira makes him feel entitled to take the Locacaca for his own personal gain, despite knowing that it was meant for Holy Joestar-Kira.↗↗↗↗↗

04Abilities

Stand

Ojiro's Stand is Fun Fun Fun, with the ability to control the body of a person underneath him.↗

Personal Skills

Trap Expertise: During his fight with Josuke in Kira's apartment, Ojiro is shown to be skilled in making sharp traps out of mundane objects, tricking the target into touching them before exploiting their injuries sustained from the traps by using his Stand's ability to manipulate their limbs.↗

05Story

SPOILERS

Background

Ojiro developed a Stand in his childhood. The house where he grew up was completely leveled by the earthquake and one of the Wall Eyes rose on that spot.↗↗

Ojiro, in his adult life, was using Fun Fun Fun's ability on a woman and submerging her in water at the beach when confronted by Yoshikage Kira. Kira, appearing from behind Ojiro, insulted his occupation as a surfer by questioning whether surfers were men of the sea or men of the land. Kira later encountered him in a ramen shop near a port, and relayed the same question.↗

Some time after this encounter, Kira began questioning Ojiro whether or not he was even a man at all, and Ojiro was ultimately coaxed by Kira into eating all ten of his own fingers under the influence of alcohol in an attempt to prove he was a man.↗↗

Soft & Wet

After the incident that costed him his fingers, Ojiro held a grudge against Kira ever since. With vengeance in his mind, he rented an apartment room above Kira's, and planted traps in Kira's room. He notably trapped most of the bathroom, changing the furnitures, planting razors and nails everywhere and putting snakes on the veranda with a saw. He also captures and puts a female hostage stripped and fully branded in the bathroom as a lure, hoping to use Fun Fun Fun on Kira and kill him.↗

When it seems Kira has returned, though it was really Josuke Higashikata, Ojiro waits for his target to injure himself. At one point, he forces the girl to shut up and submerges her in the bathtub, threatening to drown her. After Josuke saves her, Ojiro forces the girl to cut off her tongue with a razor; when Josuke grabs the razor from her, Ojiro tries to manipulate Josuke into slashing himself with the razor.↗

The Wonder of You

Much later, Ojiro reappears at a condo, relaxing in a jacuzzi. He is accompanied by his girlfriend Makorin, who previously appeared at a school meeting for Tsurugi Higashikata and was told to move her "forepaw" by his mother Mitsuba. He discreetly grabs a few yen bills from her purse as she rants to Ojiro about her failed attempt to obtain the valuable land where the Higashikata Residence and orchard now sit atop of.↗↗

Ojiro takes pictures of the Higashikata Fruit Parlor and the Higashikata Family while littering all the trash of his food on the street. He meets up with Tsurugi Higashikata near the Higashikata house and taps his hand in order to place Fun Fun Fun's mark on him. Ojiro tells Tsurugi that he's looking for Tamaki Damo 's laundry services, revealing that Jobin Higashikata was working with him to launder money.↗

Ojiro returns on the roof of the Higashikata house and begins using Fun Fun Fun to control Tsurugi and take a video of the Locacaca using his phone. Using a different phone, he tells Makorin what he has learned of and sends her a picture of the Locacaca. He resolves to go steal some of the fruits.↗↗

He manages to steal the Locacaca from the Higashikata house and thinks he successfully escaped after getting control of Tsurugi and Jobin. However, Tsurugi made an illusion with Paper Moon King to make it look like he and Jobin died. In reality, Jobin set Speed King on Ojiro's body and boiled his blood vessels after he got away. It seems that he fell into the pool after a cerebral infarction killed him, as he is seen at the bottom of the pool, with Makorin later suffering the same fate.↗↗

Later, Norisuke uses King Nothing to materialize an appearance of Ojiro when he was killed by Jobin. However, just when Norisuke and the Higashikata family realize that Jobin was the one who murdered Ojiro and Makorin, Jobin gives Norisuke a heat stroke, and Norisuke and the Ojiro animation collapse to the floor.↗↗

06Plot details

SPOILERS

Personality

Even if he doesn't kill them, he believes that because of his Stand's power, he could theoretically get away with murder despite having never killed a person.↗↗↗↗↗↗

Profile details

Status Status based on their final appearance in the part(s) they are featured in: Deceased (Part 8)↗

Date of Death: September 22, 2011↗↗

Cause of Death: Cerebral infarction caused by Speed King↗↗

Final Appearance: JJL Chapter 88 (Death) | JJL Chapter 95 (King Nothing's ability)↗

07Relationships

CharacterRelationshipNotes
Maako KitaniGirlfriend↗

Girlfriend

Maako Kitani: Maako is Ojiro's girlfriend, who he calls Makorin. She buys him things with her wealth, such as new prosthetic fingers. He takes advantage of her by staying in the jacuzzi of her condo and stealing money from her purse without her knowing.↗↗

Enemies

Yoshikage Kira: Kira would persistently ask Ojiro whether he was a man of the sea or a man of the land. This caused him so much emotional stress that after drinking and doing drugs, he bit off his own fingers down to the 2nd joint. Despite wanting revenge on Kira, he still thinks of Kira as a close friend of his.↗↗

Kidnapped Girl: Having kidnapped a woman as part of his plan of getting revenge on Kira, Ojiro has no regard for her safety, having sexually abused her to frame Kira and using his Stand to nearly drown her to trick Josuke into cutting himself. Despite this, the woman is willing to cooperate with him to help him kill Josuke, due to being used by people she knew in her life. After Ojiro's defeat, the woman is freed from his Stand and immediately left the apartment.↗

Josuke Higashikata: Mistaking the then-amnesiac Josuke as Kira, Ojiro completely booby-trapped his apartment to get his revenge. After being isolated from Yasuho by a doctored photo album, Josuke is forced to maneuver over Ojiro's traps on his own while trying to keep a girl Ojiro kidnapped safe. Upon awakening his Stand, Soft & Wet, and with help from Yasuho, who've returned back to the apartment, Josuke used his newfound power to trick Ojiro into falling off the balcony before defeating him. Once Ojiro immediately recognized Josuke is not Kira, Josuke roughed him up for information before knocking him out as payback.↗

Yasuho Hirose: While there was little interaction between them, Ojiro saw Yasuho as a hindrance in his plan to kill Kira, using a doctored photo album of him raping a women he kidnapped to manipulate her into leaving Josuke, whom he targeted. In the midst of nearly killing Josuke, Ojiro's plans were foiled when Yasuho returned and indirectly helped Josuke in tricking and defeating the surfer.↗

08Sources & 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 (13)
  1. JoJolion Chapter 6: Soft & Wet, Part 5 Open ↗
  2. Timeline for JoJolion Open ↗
  3. JoJolion Chapter 87: The Wonder of You, Part 4 Open ↗
  4. JoJolion Chapter 91: The Wonder of You, Part 8, p.11. It can be inferred that he and Maako Kitani died the same way. Open ↗
  5. JoJolion Chapter 6: Soft & Wet, Part 5 p.23 Open ↗
  6. JoJolion Chapter 3: Soft & Wet, Part 2 Open ↗
  7. JoJolion Chapter 86: The Wonder of You, Part 3, p.39 Open ↗
  8. JoJolion Chapter 88: The Wonder of You, Part 5 Open ↗
  9. JoJolion Chapter 6: Soft & Wet, Part 5, p.29 Open ↗
  10. JoJolion Chapter 49: Hato Brought Her Boyfriend Home, Part 3, p.32 Open ↗
  11. JoJolion Chapter 87: The Wonder of You, Part 4, p.1 Open ↗
  12. JoJolion Chapter 86: The Wonder of You, Part 3 Open ↗
  13. JoJolion Chapter 95: The Wonder of You, Part 12 Open ↗

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