Jotaro Kujo

"What a pain... (やれやれだぜ)"

- Jotaro Kujo

Jotaro Kujo (空条 承太郎) is the protagonist of Stardust Crusaders. He appears prominently in Diamond Is Unbreakable, and again in a key role in Stone Ocean.

Serious, stoic and intelligent, Jotaro lends great power and stability to his allies.

Jotaro is the first JoJo introduced with a Stand, and is among the most well-known characters of the series.

Appearance
Jotaro is a tall (195 cm/6'5"), handsome and well-built man. He has dark hair, a strong jaw, bold eyebrows, and light eyes. He also bears a mild resemblance to his great-great grandfather Jonathan Joestar and his grandfather Joseph Joestar when he was a young man.

The superficial theme of Jotaro's attire changes in each Part. His trademarks are a visored, ornamented cap, torn at the back and blending with his hair, and a roughly mid-calf-length coat with a standing collar and chains attached.

Stardust Crusaders
Jotaro wears a dark, modified Japanese school uniform. Jotaro wears a trenchcoat-length gakuran/tsume-eri with a tall, stiff collar, pierced on the left with a golden chain. Underneath he wears a fitted sleeveless shirt. He wears a pair of slim-fitting ¥20,000 pants of very short, sharp flares; and two slim belts, often differently colored, patterned in a row of alternately colored tesselated triangles (reflecting Caesar/Joseph's headband). He wears a pair of leather shoes without socks.

Jotaro's trademark cap is adorned near the center with a golden button and a rectangular golden piece with a palm design (reminiscent of abhayamudra, later replicated elsewhere in JoJo media and as a trademark of Araki's) on its left. It is torn at the back, appearing to merge with his hair. While they are first shown as being completely separate but slightly torn, later publications cause more uncertainty as to where his hat and his hair actually meet. According to Araki in an interview, Jotaro's cap is actually a part of his body. He drew him this way intentionally, which is supported by the fact that Jotaro has never removed his hat. (This may have been a joke, due to the fact that Jotaro was shown without his hat on a couple of occasions.) This was in order to make him seem more elegant and he also wanted readers to recognize Jotaro even from his back, and not just his forefront.

According to Araki, Jotaro's attire was influenced by, a famous manga of a boy in a gakuran having an adventure in a desert.

Diamond Is Unbreakable
Jotaro's outfit undergoes a few transitions during this arc. Each features his trademark combination of a visored cap and a trench coat. He wears wide-legged pants, and his hat, coat and pants are typically depicted as white.

In his first outfit, he wears a plain light-colored shirt, and his hat has a metallic "J" emblem added to his earlier palm, now enclosed by a heart. The anime version of this outfit is given much more variety, with a blue jumper of sorts with a light green collar shirt underneath, along with a stiff collar, reminiscent of his previous outfit. His belts keep the tessellated pattern, though the yellow triangles are replaced with black ones.

His second outfit doesn't differ much from the first one, but his hat's emblems are replaced with a dolphin and the sun, while he then has an emblem of two dolphins together, resembling a heart, with a strange triangular emblem on the left. The anime version changes it up a bit, with the inside of the coat being a shade of pink, the shirt being a darker shade. The emblems are all a different shade of gold. The overall white of this outfit is slightly darker in comparison to the first one.

Later, he wears a black turtleneck shirt with a square golden palm emblem at his neck. His hat has a row of black Venus symbols (♀) with an arrow at the bottom of the cross, along with another palm emblem. He wears two black belts, while his cuffs inherit the triangular pattern formerly seen on his belts. He wears a small, open, lapel-less waistcoat patterned with alternating circles and crosses. In the anime, the only notable changes is the purple belt's different shade, but other than that, is the least changed outfit out out the three.

Stone Ocean
Jotaro again wears a dark overcoat; this time of more detail, primarily in gold (when colored). Lines ring the top and the base of his collar; joining to run the length of the coat's opening. The surface of his collar bears two star pins, with one on the inside, along with a small chain piercing the left. Two lines run the top of the shoulders, with two more radiating from his collar to their sides.Two zips lie between the chest and the stomach. The sides of the shoulders bear large (green) stars, beginning a light stripe reaching his cuffs (also bearing a star) that reads "JOJO", repeatedly. A line runs from the armpit to the end of the coat.

He wears a light under-shirt, printed at the chest with a large star. His shoes and pants are of a piece in a snakeskin texture. He wears a single leather belt, studded in two rows, folded behind itself after the buckle.

Jotaro's torn, blending cap is also again dark. The visor is square, with a subtle arch. A light gold bar at its joint maintains a gold palm emblem like his original. Two lines run the top of the visor, while a widened (green) star spans the front of the crown, its topmost point running onto the top.