01Basic information

Japanese Name
田最 環↗
Romanized Name
Damo Tamaki↗
Aliases
Kan-chan (環 ちゃん) (by Hato)↗
Stand
Vitamin C↗
Age
23 (Self-proclaimed)↗
Birthday
~1987-1988↗
Gender
Male↗
Nationality
Japanese↗
Occupation
Owner of Damokan Cleaning↗
Species
Rock Human↗
Affiliation
Locacaca Organization↗
Manga Debut
JJL Chapter 47↗

02Appearance

Tamaki Damo claims he is 23, though he appears much older, seeing as his hair is styled into a comb-over to hide his bald spot. His facial hair is styled into a goatee and horseshoe mustache. He is introduced wearing aviator sunglasses and a dark-colored tracksuit with spiked sleeves and an image of a saxophone on the left breast. He is much shorter than Hato and is considerably overweight.↗

03Personality

Damo is introduced as an awkward but polite individual when he meets the Higashikata family, notably mumbling while speaking to Norisuke IV and Joshu, insisting on sitting on the guest's seat even if he breaks it, and somehow ignoring when his combover is messed up with.↗↗↗↗

Not much is seen of Damo's everyday activities, but he takes running the Locacaca trade seriously, meticulously ensuring that it goes unnoticed and taking swift and ruthless action when it is threatened in any way.↗↗↗↗

His power having limited range, Damo's modus operandi is to infiltrate a place where his targets will be trapped in, then plant Vitamin C 's handprints all over the place so that everyone will be melting and powerless. Damo enjoys lording over his victims, ordering them around in his position of power but goes rather straight to his point, being focused on his objectives. He also sadistically tortures and humiliates his victims, inserting various common-place objects into them and once videotaping it for his own enjoyment. In contrast, Damo has a tendency to "spare" one of his victims for various reasons, such as self-punishment for being careless or excessive cruelty.↗↗↗↗↗

04Abilities

Stand

Damo's Stand Vitamin C enables him to "soften" human bodies to turn them into something as malleable as putty or as viscous as liquid. He then takes advantage of his victim's softened state to torture them for information or kill them outright. He typically cuts them with 1,000 yen bills or other thin objects.↗

On one occasion, Damo even inserts a living fish inside his victim's body and watches it swim.↗

05Story

SPOILERS

Background

Damo was born as a nameless Rock Human, and subsequently stole the name "Tamaki Damo" from some hapless human. He subsequently set shop at a cleaning shop named " Damokan Cleaning ". At the same time, he led his men in the Locacaca Organization, using it to sell the Locacaca to a handful of wealthy people for a hefty price.↗

On August 19, 2011, Tamaki Damo and his accomplice Yotsuyu Yagiyama stow aboard Yoshikage Kira 's ship and ambush both him and Josefumi Kujo. Kira attempts to stop Damo with his Killer Queen, but Vitamin C softens Kira, Josefumi and their Stands. Damo reveals that he's aware of the duo's plan to steal and graft Locacaca Branches to grow their own fruits. He informs Kira that after the two stole the branches, Damo and his men searched for four months straight to find the culprits.↗

At some point after Kira and Josefumi disappear, Damo is implied to have stolen Josefumi's identity, as his face appears on Josefumi's passport.↗↗

After all of his men were killed in short order, Damo decided to confront the Higashikata Family. During a photo shoot in a studio next to Damo's shop, he approached Hato when one of the necklace she was wearing broke. Damo picked up all the pieces and repaired it, offering the necklace to Hato. Moreover Damo managed to write the sentence "I Love You" on the necklace, and Hato was seduced by the incredibly romantic gesture and he became her boyfriend.↗

Hato Brought Her Boyfriend Home

In the present day, Tamaki Damo is introduced as Hato 's boyfriend, and from Daiya 's explanation to Josuke the first she has ever had or brought home to meet her father. Everyone is taken aback by his appearance, aside from Joshu, who is humored by him and even snatches the man's sunglasses off of his face and undoes his comb-over in reaction to his nervous mumbling.↗

Upon looking for info about Josefumi, Yasuho discovers his I.D. with a picture of Damo. Shortly after, his Stand becomes hostile, melting Kei and Joshu away into the walls and a sink drain respectively, their fates currently unknown. After Daiya is affected by his Stand while trying to give the fax sent by Yasuho to Josuke, Damo convinces Hato to go look for her. Due to now being alone with Norisuke, he immobilizes the latter with his Stand and explains his motives.↗

Dropping his awkward demeanor, Damo states that he entered the home in order to solve three problems at once. For his first goal, he plans on discovering and eliminating the culprit behind the disappearance of four of his acquaintances: an architect, two twin brothers, and a security guard. Damo comments that the Wall Eyes have changed the landscape greatly, and wonders what could have happened to the whole family, which upsets Norisuke.↗

Norisuke continues to feign confusion when pressed with more questions from Damo, but is tortured further as Damo has a fish flop about in Norisuke's liquefied body. It isn't until Damo threatens to murder the entire Higashikata family with Hato being killed in front of him that Norisuke cracks and confesses what he knows about Josuke's connection to Josefumi Kujo. Josuke then confronts Damo, demanding that he free the Higashikatas.↗

Damo, now seriously wounded, hurries to the fireplace while Hato scales the house. He berates Hato under his breath while gathering the liquefied Norisuke and shoving him into the fire pit. Damo hopes Hato will attempt to save her father from burning to death and in the process, touch Vitamin C's fingerprints. However, Josuke's bubbles reveal his location, allowing Hato to fire her Stand's spikes through the roof and into Damo's skull.↗

06Plot details

SPOILERS

Personality

This is later revealed to be a facade hiding a much colder and calculated personality, which he unveils while interrogating Norisuke.↗↗↗↗

His interest in the profit a Locacaca hybrid will bring him even on the verge of death indicates that he does it out of greed.↗↗↗↗

Profile details

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

Date of Death: 2011↗

Cause of Death: Head obliterated by Josuke Higashikata↗

Originally introduced as Hato Higashikata 's boyfriend, he is later revealed to be a Rock Human and the head of the smuggling cartel in the Locacaca Organization. After his henchmen have been killed, he infiltrates the Higashikata Residence and attacks the entirety of the Higashikata Family.↗

07Behind the Character

Hirohiko Araki writes in the author's comment of JoJolion Volume 14 that when listening to music there are artists that make him wonder to himself, "How have I not heard about an artist this talented and this amazing for decades? Where were they, and how did I not hear about them? Why were they hiding from me until now? What a shocking encounter". Such an example is the band Can and its now former lead singer Damo Suzuki, hence the name of Tamaki Damo (田最 環, Damo Tamaki). The kanji for "Tamaki" (環) can be read as either " Tamaki " or " Kan ".↗

Several aspects of Damo's appearance and backstory appear to be based on the character Irving Rosenfeld from the 2013 movie American Hustle, as Damo shares a very similar body build, hairstyle and pair of sunglasses with him. His occupation of owning a dry-cleaning service and having committed identity theft are both also shared between the characters.↗

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 47: Hato Brought Her Boyfriend Home, Part 1 Open ↗
  2. JOJO magazine 2023 WINTER: JoJo by Generations Open ↗
  3. JoJolion Chapter 47: Hato Brought Her Boyfriend Home, Part 1, p.15 Open ↗
  4. JoJolion Chapter 48: Hato Brought Her Boyfriend Home, Part 2, p.1-3 Open ↗
  5. JoJolion Chapter 47: Hato Brought Her Boyfriend Home, Part 1, p.19 Open ↗
  6. JoJolion Chapter 51: Vitamin C and Killer Queen, Part 2 Open ↗
  7. JoJolion Chapter 52: Vitamin C and Killer Queen, Part 3, p.43 Open ↗
  8. JoJolion Chapter 55: Walking Heart, Breaking Heart, p.6 Open ↗
  9. JoJolion Chapter 49: Hato Brought Her Boyfriend Home, Part 3, p.16-19 Open ↗
  10. JoJolion Chapter 54: Walking Heart, p.6 Open ↗
  11. JoJolion Chapter 52: Vitamin C and Killer Queen, Part 3, p.4 Open ↗
  12. JoJolion Chapter 54: Walking Heart, p.11 Open ↗
  13. JoJolion Chapter 48: Hato Brought Her Boyfriend Home, Part 2, p.23 Open ↗

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