Rohan Kishibe

Rohan loves manga, dislikes socializing and approaches his work with painstaking care. Willful, self-centered and strongly opinionated, he would rather suffer a loss than yield to someone else. He has been tormented by a lack of vivid experiences to use as material and constantly fears that readers will stop wanting his work, yet he can endure hardship for the sake of creating. He treats people he likes with respect: he repeatedly seeks Koichi Hirose's help, respects Joseph and Jotaro, and works to identify Yoshikage Kira for the sake of his deceased childhood neighbor Reimi Sugimoto. His relationship with Josuke Higashikata is much more antagonistic; the two can barely stand each other.

Rohan's successful manga Pink Dark Boy has European and Taiwanese editions. There is no American edition because he believes American readers are too insensitive to understand it. In 1999, he lives in a Western-style house in Morioh with seven rooms, a living room and an attic on a 103-tsubo property, approximately 340 square meters. One of Morioh's unusual sights, the house has visitors whom Rohan puts to work as if they were servants. His distraction during a gambling match with Josuke leads to a fire and seven million yen in damage, including designer furniture worth 2.5 million yen. Architect Masazo Kinoto later quotes twenty million yen for restoration work. Rohan subsequently has the house restored.

Rohan's Stand, Heaven's Door, is named after Knockin' on Heaven's Door, covered by Guns N' Roses and originally performed by Bob Dylan. Its parameters are Destructive Power D, Speed B, Range B, Precision C, Persistence B and Development Potential A. It can turn a person's body into a book, allowing Rohan to read their experiences and memories and write commands into them. Commands do not necessarily fail because they exceed the subject's ordinary abilities; one familiar instruction prevents a subject from attacking Rohan. Primarily a reconnaissance and information-gathering Stand, it has almost no direct offensive role. It throws a few ineffective punches when faced with Kira's third bomb. Initially it has no separate physical form, later adopting the appearance of Pink Dark Boy's protagonist. In the anime, its ability initially resides in Rohan's manga and requires the target to see an original manuscript. After his encounter with Reimi, drawing its image in the air is enough. In the spin-off, it develops further and can affect ghosts and supernatural creatures, as well as Rohan himself and objects.

• Main series: Diamond is Unbreakable; mentioned by name in Golden Wind and Stone Ocean; a Rohan Kishibe also appears in The JOJOLands.
• Spin-offs: the Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan stories, including At a Confessional, Mutsu-kabe Hill, Rohan Kishibe Goes to Gucci, Millionaire Village, Poaching Seashore, The Harvest Moon, A Rainy Monday, D.N.A. and The Run, as well as Rohan at the Louvre.