01Basic information

Japanese Name
豆銑 礼↗
Romanized Name
Mamezuku Rai↗
Stand
Doggy Style↗
Age
31↗
Birthday
~1980↗
Gender
Male↗
Nationality
Japanese↗
Occupation
Plant Appraiser/Grower↗
Affiliation
Higashikata Fruit Parlor (employee) | Josuke Higashikata (ally)↗
Manga Debut
JJL Chapter 59 (Photo) Only appears in a photo | JJL Chapter 64 (1st full debut)↗

02Appearance

Mamezuku is a well-built man of above-average height with a bright flat top haircut that fades into dark braids behind his head. He wears a jumpsuit with a vine and peapod pattern over a light-colored shirt and a tie, as well as a bomber hat with seven small balls resembling a bunch of grapes on the front of the hat. In his first appearance, in a photo, he had freckles on his nose and two more braids hanging behind his back.↗↗

Mamezuku's left hand is missing four fingers due to Brain Storm infecting his hand.↗↗

03Personality

Rai Mamezuku is an eccentric and brusque individual with little care for politeness. He is highly analytical and quick-witted in his way of approaching problems. As soon as he learns of what is happening in Morioh and that he is under attack, he takes the initiative in joining with his allies. With a single phone call with Norisuke about Josuke 's confusing issue, Mamezuku manages to grasp the stakes for every party involved and see the best course of action for him. He tends to carefully observe his surroundings and verbally takes notes of everything remotely interesting to him; this habit allows him to discern the nature and subtleties of the attack against him.↗↗↗↗

Mamezuku is very coldhearted in his methods, repeatedly showing that he has no qualms about sacrificing a perceived less important part for a greater goal. His orchard specifically leaves a small part of the culture overridden with predatory insects and disease to better the rest of the orchard, he has no problem cutting off some of his fingers to save himself, and even puts Yasuho in great danger because he sees her as less important than his own safety. Another example of his ruthlessness happens when he deliberately makes a prisoner see Satoru Akefu to make the man hurt himself and have a chance to escape jail and be secretly brought to the TG University Hospital.↗↗↗↗

In his youth, Rai was described as a moody boy who disliked people and blamed his parents' mistake on the destruction of their orchard. A second flashback shows that he was at least on great terms with Norisuke IV.↗↗↗

04Abilities

Stand

Mamezuku's Stand is Doggy Style, which can create a prehensile bandage-like string from his body in order to grab objects from afar. It unravels his body into "wire rope" that he can control and manipulate.↗

Horticulture

Mamezuku is an expert in horticulture, his profession being a plant appraiser and a fruit grower, implying a great deal of knowledge and experience on plants. He can identify a plant simply from its appearance in a photograph, and has the knowledge on how to properly care for rare plants such as the Locacaca.↗

Cooking

Due to living in the mountainside next to his orchard alone, Rai is shown to be a competent cook able to use his own fruits directly from the orchard to prepare meals.↗↗

05Story

SPOILERS

Background

Mamezuku was born into a family of fruit farmers, whose high-class pears were prized goods.↗

Eventually, the cultivating techniques of Mamezuku's parents were leaked, leading to a competitor managing to steal an entire crop of pears and bringing down the fruit trees. The usurpers were connected with local money lenders. Thus, his parents had to part with their orchards. Blaming his parents, Mamezuku began to live alone on a ski slope.↗

JoJolion

Mamezuku is first shown when Norisuke presents a photo of him to Josuke Higashikata, advising the latter to go find him, as his skills would enable Josuke to recognize the grafted Locacaca branch.↗

The Plant Appraiser

After communicating with Norisuke in regards to a certain Josuke Higashikata 's inquiry about a Locacaca branch, Mamezuku notices that he is under attack from an unidentified enemy moving underground. Running from his assailant, Mamezuku ends up hijacking the bus that Josuke and Yasuho Hirose are on, formally meeting them and presenting himself in the process.↗

Ozon Baby's Pressure

Arriving at the Higashikata estate through secret underground tunnels, Mamezuku and Josuke stealthily manage to plant the moth larvae in the Locacaca branch and must now wait 12 days before a new fruit grows.↗

Despite all observing parties assuming that the plant appraiser was killed by the explosion, Mamezuku was able to successfully utilize Doggy Style in order to disassemble his body rapidly, giving the impression that he was torn to shreds. After the conflict with Poor Tom ends, Josuke discovers a surviving yet disassembled Mamezuku and mourns the loss of the branch, not knowing that Jobin had obtained it covertly.↗

Pursuing the Hospital Director

After the battle, Josuke explains what happened to the Higashikata Family. Mamezuku suspects Jobin of lighting the orchard on fire, but none of them have any proof of what happened. They decide to follow the trail of the ambulance's license plate. Finding that no such ambulance is recorded, Josuke finds another trail when Yasuho calls him to go to the TG University Hospital.↗

Confronting the Hospital Director

Mamezuku thinks about the enemy's ability and enacts his evasion plan. He begins by stealing a mobile phone and a kitchen knife from the evidence locker and smuggles them inside his cell.↗

Mamezuku first tries to warn Josuke but the latter is overwhelmed by Do Do Do, De Da Da Da. Mamezuku thus intervenes personally. By unraveling himself partially, Mamezuku is able to crawl on the ceiling like a snake and take Do Do Do, De Da Da Da by surprise. Mamezuku violently extends his fingertip and impales the Rock Insect, killing it. Despite Josuke's wish to let Wonder of U come to him, Mamezuku directly confronts the hospital director, waving his fingertip mere centimeters away from it.↗↗

Go Beyond

Mamezuku's body lies still as Josuke engages Wonder of U. His spirit guides Josuke about the ability of the spin and explains how it could bypass the calamity. Kei Nijimura joins the battle to assist Josuke but gets incapacitated by the calamity. Her help reveals the hidden ability within Josuke's bubbles. His and Kei Nijimura 's hands are seen grabbing onto Josuke. The fight reaches its climax as Josuke succeeds in using the spin with his Stand 's bubbles.↗

06Plot details

SPOILERS

Personality

That said, even Mamezuku cannot stay calm when Akefu hints that he was behind the death of Mamezuku's father as well as all the calamities that destroyed his parents' orchard, and he hastily tries to kill the hospital director.↗↗↗↗

Relationships / Family

After finding out that the landslide that struck his father was a calamity caused by Wonder of U, his father's death becomes one of the primary factors that drive Mamezuku's intentions on fighting Akefu.↗

Later on, overwhelmed by the amount of debts from the pear orchard, she fell ill and died. Like the case with his father, Mamezuku becomes enraged after learning that his mother's death was also a calamity by the hospital director.↗↗

Relationships / Enemies

After finding out that the landslide that claimed his father's life was a calamity caused by Wonder of U, his father's death becomes the primary factor that drives Mamezuku's intentions on fighting Akefu.↗

Profile details

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

Date of Death: September 25, 2011↗↗

Cause of Death: Fatally injured by Soft & Wet 's bubbles via Wonder of U 's calamity↗

07Relationships

Family

Father: Due to Mamezuku's parents' incompetence, Mamezuku ran away to live on his own. However, it's shown that Mamezuku still has a love for his parents, especially his father, since Mamezuku at some point attended his father's funeral.↗

Mother: Due to Mamezuku's parents' incompetence, Mamezuku ran away to live on his own. Mamezuku's relationship with his own mother remains unclear, though she attended Mamezuku's father's funeral with Mamezuku.↗↗

Friends and Allies

Norisuke Higashikata IV: Mamezuku met Norisuke at the age of 17. Norisuke became impressed at Mamezuku's fruit-cultivating skills, and therefore hired Mamezuku to be his secret personal fruit grower and appraiser. Since then, their secrecy remains unnoticed even by the eldest son Jobin. It is shown that Norisuke assumes a father figure role to Mamezuku, as he attended his father's funeral, and was there to comfort him.↗

Josuke Higashikata: They ally together due to their connection with Norisuke, and so that Mamezuku could tell Josuke where the New Locacaca branch is. They still get along with each other regardless.↗

Enemies

Do Do Do, De Da Da Da: Mamezuku does not directly consider Do Do Do, De Da Da Da an enemy, though in his past he saw the Rock Insects infest his father's pear orchard with asbestos. It is unclear if one of them was Do Do Do, De Da Da Da. Mamezuku kept trying to tell the public about this, but they didn't believe him; only his father did.↗

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 (15)
  1. JJL Volume 16: Mother and Child (Age originally 32 in Ultra Jump) Open ↗
  2. JoJolion Chapter 59: Dolomite's Blue Lagoon, Part 1 Open ↗
  3. Timeline for JoJolion Open ↗
  4. JoJolion Chapter 66: The Plant Appraiser - Rai Mamezuku (31), Part 2, p.39 Open ↗
  5. JoJolion Chapter 64: Mother and Child, p.43 Open ↗
  6. JoJolion Chapter 65: The Plant Appraiser - Rai Mamezuku (31), Part 1, p.4 Open ↗
  7. JoJolion Chapter 63: Dolomite's Blue Lagoon, Part 5, p.13 Open ↗
  8. JoJolion Chapter 66: The Plant Appraiser - Rai Mamezuku (31), Part 2, p.40-43 Open ↗
  9. JoJolion Chapter 96: Just Don't Move, p.17-20 Open ↗
  10. JoJolion Chapter 66: The Plant Appraiser - Rai Mamezuku (31), Part 2, p.1 Open ↗
  11. JoJolion Chapter 100: The Wonder of You, Part 17, p.30-32 Open ↗
  12. JoJolion Chapter 75: Ozon Baby's Pressure, Part 3, p.1-5 Open ↗
  13. JoJolion Chapter 99: The Wonder of You, Part 16, p.20-25 Open ↗
  14. JoJolion Chapter 65: The Plant Appraiser - Rai Mamezuku (31), Part 1, p.33-39 Open ↗
  15. JoJolion Chapter 100: The Wonder of You, Part 17 Open ↗

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