Tsukumojuku Kato (Original Universe)

Background

Tsukumojuku was born in a town called Nishi Akatsuki in Fukui Prefecture, Japan. As a child, Tsukumojuku showed interest in reading detective novels, believing in playing the role destined to "always arrive at the truth." His father's occupation in archaeology allowed him to travel to different places around the world such as Africa. At the age of five, Tsukumojuku moved to Canary Islands with his mother.↗

Not much is known about Tsukumojuku's life in Canary Islands before he met George Joestar, although George describes him as the "lone Asian" in their class.↗↗

1900-1904

Tsukumojuku formally meets George and Lisa Lisa while solving the case of Antonio Torres 's apparent death. Declaring himself a detective, he claims to have solved the case after showing Antonio's corpse to the class, much to everyone's horror. He explains that the corpse was not truly Antonio, but a discarded sheet of skin which was a work of art by Maria Torres, Antonio's mother, after carefully peeling off pieces of her son's skin since he was a baby.↗↗

2012

Not long after the boat's vanishing, Tsukumojuku finds himself in the company of Jorge Joestar in a different Fukui Prefecture, Japan. Jorge meets him after saving him from nearly drowning in Serika Kato 's house, which was strangely filled with seawater. Tsukumojuku introduces himself and says that he had been on a boat before ending up in the Kato's household.↗

In the hospital, Jorge and Tsukumojuku discuss about the map of their worlds. The geography of Jorge's world is completely different from his, where there is only one continent, Panlandia, and the Canary Islands, the Atlantic, and the Kingdom of England do not exist at all. He also tells Jorge about the other Jorge in his world, who helped him solve the case that Jorge happens to be solving as well.↗↗

The next morning, Rohan finds Tsukumojuku's corpse in his study. His naked body, wrapped only in a diamond-shaped red cloth, is discovered mounted on a stuffed polar bear with a slit in his throat and a broad axe slung over his shoulder, resembling the folk tale character Kintarō. As it turns out, Tsukumojuku had been the victim of a series of murders involving two other detectives, whose bodies were made to resemble Japanese folk tales after their deaths.↗↗

A Brief Reunion

From the effect of Cube House, Tsukumojuku's spirit returns to George Joestar to assist him once again. After Darlington Motorize promptly tells George to leave the house, Faraday, the Motorize family's butler, tells him that a friend of his was just waiting for him in the house. He was a young boy who looked like he was in middle school and spoke Spanish at first, fitting Tsukumojuku's description.↗

It is later revealed that although George saw the Japanese kid Tsukumojuku, Faraday saw a Spaniard kid who had no eyes.↗↗

Legacy

Back in Morioh, Jorge Joestar tries to find out who the mysterious figure is that he saw wandering inside Cube House. He checks every room only to find that they are all empty. Reimi then screams after checking the camera that was installed to surveil the figure. The group sees Tsukumojuku Kato captured on the screen merely a few minutes ago, despite being dead.↗

In George's universe, a few years after his encounter with Tsukumojuku's spirit, Lisa Lisa and George reunite and profess their love for each other. Lisa Lisa reveals to him that she became worried after the Tibetan named Tonpetty secretly prophesied that George would die around the time they get married. She starts crying but George promises that he won't die and leave her alone.↗↗

Personality

He works with adult police officers to solve cases and has no qualms about keeping the dead skin of his classmate as a souvenir for solving their murder case.↗↗

Profile details

Status: Deceased (JORGE JOESTAR)↗

Date of Death: July 24, 2012 (6:30 AM)↗↗↗

Cause of Death: Throat slit by Antonio Torres↗