Rohan Kishibe

Rohan Kishibe is a fictional character introduced in Part IV: Diamond is Unbreakable. He is featured as one of the main characters and is the only character of the series to star in other standalone stories. Being a successful cartoonist by profession, it is likely that he's a self-insert of Hirohiko Araki. The name Rohan Kishibe appears to be an anagram of the author Araki Hirohiko. Rohan's name shares enough letters to spell "ARKI HIHO" and if duplicating the missing letters in "O,R,A,I,K" it would complete his name "Araki Hirohiko."

Personality
He is very much aware of his nearly superhuman skill and his success in his profession as a mangaka, thus his attitude towards others is seen as arrogant. He doesn't socialize much as he finds most people to be "incompatible with his wavelength" (especially Josuke, who he greatly dislikes). Even the one person he does consider his friend Koichi frequently calls him overbearing and pushy, especially when Rohan successfully manipulates Koichi into assisting him in his work research several times. Rohan is said to be an expert at psychological mind tricks.

Being very successful at his job has him being very rich as a result - evident by his house worth millions or the Gucci watch he wears. But he makes it a point to Koichi that he never was interested in gaining fame and wealth. His only passion is to create manga, and he goes to great lengths for his research to make his work feel as "realistic" as possible. He is eccentric in procedure and manner and even is a little childlike. Even though he acts indifferent to the affairs of others, he does believe in the forces of good, making him a valuable ally in the chase against Kira – especially after hearing the tragic story of Reimi towards whom he feels an odd familiarity.

Early Life
When he was young, he was the only survivor of Reimi Sugimoto's murder and possibly the first witness to Yoshikage Kira's murders.

Diamond is Unbreakable
He first appears as an antagonist to Koichi and Toshizaku when they go to his house for an autograph. After they try to sneak a peek of the new issue of his manga he uses his stand to prevent either of them from attacking him. Then he reads their memories and in doing so finds out about Josuke Higashikata, Okuyasu Nijimura and everyone else in the story so far, but only according to how Koichi sees them. He then decides to use them as materials for his manga. After using Koichi as his personal "inspiration" Okuyasu and Josuke find out about where Koichi has been going by following him. Josuke defeats him and leaves him in the hospital for a while.

Upon being healed from the hospital, Kishibe finds a lot of respect for Koichi Hirose who he confides in and at the same time has a deep hatred for Josuke. When Josuke finds a transforming alien, he decided to play a dice game with Kishibe, who soon finds out that Josuke is cheating before threatening to take off his little finger if he doesn't stop. Although before the game is finished, his house burns down and he is unable to prove Josuke's dishonesty

He also encounters stand user Ken Oyanagi who encounters him five times to play Rock, Paper, Scissors and almost loses his stand in the process.

After defeating him, he's attacked by Highway Star after seeing Kira in a room cutting off a woman's hand.

He also encounters Masazo Kinoto, who harbors Cheap Trick on his back before transmitting it to himself after seeing Masazo's back. He deals with this by forcing the stand to detach from his back in Reimi's alley.

During the effects of Kira's Another One Bites the Dust, Rohan investigates to find out that Yoshikage Kira in fact hiding as Kosaku Kawajiri  after reading about his secret identity via using Heaven's Door on Hayato. Another One Bites the Dust activates and Rohan dies and disintegrates. The time loop activates, upon which the time rewinds repeatedly and Rohan dies in the same manner at the exact same point in time. He does, however, survive when Kira deactivates Another One Bites the Dust.

Thus Spoke Rohan Kishibe - Mutsukabeza
This one shot is a Jojo`s Bizarre adventure spin-off starring Rohan Kishibe as the main protagonist.

Under Execution Under Jailbreak
This book contains a new chapter of "Thus spoke Kishibe Rohan". In this story(Chapter 16: At a confessional), the mangaka heard an horror story from a mysterious sinner confession. This chapter was originally published in Shonen Jump magazine in 1997.

Rohan at the Louvre
As part of the "Le Louvre invite la bande dessinée" ("Cartoons - The Louvre Invites Comic-Strip Art") exhibition at France's famed Louvre art museum, Araki created several art pieces featuring his character Rohan Kishibe. The exhibition was January-April 2009. Along with the showcase artwork, Araki also created a short story titled "Rohan Au Louvre" ("Rohan at the Louvre"), which is set in the museum. The book is to be released early 2010 in French and Japanese.

Rohan Kishibe Goes to Gucci
On the October 2011 issue of Shueisha‘s women’s fashion magazine Spur a short Spin-Off manga was written and illustrated by Hirohiko Araki. The One-Shot featured a bag with the stand-like ability to vanish things and Rohan Quest to know the true nature of that bag, visiting Gucci Factory.

Stone Ocean
When Stairway to Heaven sped up time to a one-hour week, he was the only mangaka to continue to meet his deadlines.

Trivia

 * There are several parallels between Rohan and Hirohiko Araki – one of the most interesting is that Hirohiko Araki himself claimed that his favorite character is Josuke, while Rohan holds an unparalleled hatred towards him.


 * As if to signalize his occupation as a mangaka, he has a pen nib theme as a part of his fashionable identity. He wears pen nib earrings, buttons shaped like pen nibs and other pen nib shapes incorporated into his extensive wardrobe.


 * In the Japanese dialog he uses the polite type of speech usually used by young boys.
 * The magazine in which his manga "Pink Dark Boy" (Pinkdark no Shonen) is serialized in is Weekly Shounen Jump, the same magazine in which the JJBA series ran in (before moving to another).
 * It is worth noting that Rohan has by far appeared in the most spin-offs and side stories.
 * He appears in the video game Jump Ultimate Stars, available as one of the characters who the player can choose to guide them through the menus. He, Dio Brando, and Gyro Zeppeli are the only non-Jojo characters to represent the series in the game.
 * Like all authors he gets fan mail, a few showcased are:

''- Sensei's works are the best. Give your best more and more! (male, jr. high 2nd grade)'' '' - Once I read I couldn't stop anymore. Please give me your autograph! (male, elementary 5th grade)'' '' - Your pictures are gross! (21 year old student)'' '' - I read it every week at least ten times over and over. (female, high school 1st grade)'' '' - Just from looking at this manga I get pissed, I especially hate the colour spreads! (male, high school 3rd grade)'' '' - This is a letter for bad luck. You have to send 99 by tomorrow. (anon)'' '' - Aren't you showing off, asshole!? (anon)'' '' - I love you. Please marry me. (28 year old OL)''