Rohan at the Louvre

Rohan at the Louvre (岸辺露伴 ルーヴルへ行く) is a short story written by Hirohiko Araki, starring JoJo's Bizarre Adventure character, Rohan Kishibe. Titled "Rohan Au Louvre" in French, it was originally featured at the in the exhibit "Le Louvre invite la bande dessinée" ("The Louvre Invites Comic-Strip Art") from January 19 to April 13 2009.

The following year, it was published in the April 2017 issue of Ultra Jump, and released in hard cover format in French on April 29, 2010. The hard cover edition for the Japanese version was later published and released by Shueisha on May 27, 2011, and the English version by on April 1, 2012.

Louvre Collection Synopsis
Rohan Kishibe is a young student who dreams of becoming a Japanese manga artist (漫画家, Mangaka). His life changes the day he meets a young woman who introduces him to the world of art. She tells him about sculpture, music, and painting - particularly a "cursed painting" by a Japanese artist long ago acquired by a curator at the Louvre. Then the young woman suddenly disappears.

Ten years later, Rohan, now a mangaka, decides to conduct his own investigation at the Louvre to find the painting that just might lead him to the young woman. But he discovers strange phenomena: does approaching the painting mean death? What does it represent? What is its secret?

Appearances

 * Rohan Kishibe
 * Nanase Kishibe
 * Rohan Kishibe's grandmother
 * Koichi Hirose
 * Okuyasu Nijimura
 * Josuke Higashikata
 * Noguchi
 * Pierre
 * Gaucher
 * Heaven's Door

Trivia

 * Rohan at the Louvre is the first manga in the comic-art collection published by Musée du Louvre Editions.