Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable Episode 6: Koichi Hirose (Echoes)

Koichi is certainly a man amongst men!

HIS HAIR FINALLY SPIKED!!!

Now Koichi’s going to look cooler from now on. 🙂

Honestly, I don’t have too much to say about this episode, but the fact that David Productions did great adapting the five chapters into one episode! I forgot how short the introduction to Echoes was. (Note: Translations always make it “Reverb”, but it’s actually Echoes.)

Tamami is an ass and a creep and he’s literally so irrelevant in this series that you’ll forget about him after this episode. Yeah he’s in the opening walking across the screen, skipping out on the dance party in the chorus of the song, and yeah he’ll make smaller appearances later (spoiler? eh), but who cares to be honest. But he’s important in this aspect in that he made Koichi go all Super Saiyan and summon a mini Imperfect Cell.

To keep things simple, Tamami’s Stand, The Lock, works when someone feels guilt towards him. Koichi accidentally ran over a cat, which he later found out was just a toy, that belonged to Tamami. Thinking he just killed Tamami’s cat, he feels awful and extreme guilt. Feeling the guilt, Tamami’s Stand activates and a giant lock appears on Koichi’s chest. And it’s heavy! Koichi can’t hurt Tamami because if he does, the pain Tamami feels goes back to the lock and makes it bigger. My sons Josuke and Okuyasu see something’s wrong and intervene and they get Tamami out of there, but still taking Koichi’s money. So he won that round.

After that day, he comes home all down and things just get worse when he walks in on Tamami in his house, calling his mom pretty, and massaging her. Koichi freaks out and asks why he’s there, and Tamami makes up this bogus story of the two accidentally switching wallets when they ran into each other, and that he had five hundred thousand yen in it, and Koichi’s mother is shocked. Tamami mentions a receipt of a restaurant he went to that he left in his wallet which would be proof, and when Koichi pulls out his wallet, boom there it is. Koichi’s mother feels the guilt of having a thief of a son and gets the lock. His older sister walks in and he sees she has a lock too, because when she brought tea to Tamami earlier he made her spill the tea on his hand and she felt guilty about that.

So now Koichi’s family is against him when Tamami makes things worse. Koichi gets so angry that he summons the egg Stand, which then hatches into a cute little thing. Actually, Echoes looks a lot bigger in the anime than he does in the manga. Anyway, this cute…bug-looking thing punches Tamami. But…it’s not strong. The punch didn’t hurt at all. Instead, it left the sound effect on Tamami’s face, like it drew it there. Echoes is a unique Stand. Its ability is that it can create sounds. It can’t really cause physical pain though, so the sounds just get unbearably annoying. Koichi uses this to his advantage and puts as many sound effects on Tamami, who then gets the knife, stabs himself and makes it look like Koichi stabbed him and has his family see, making his mother’s lock get even larger with guilt, so much that she wants to kill herself. Quick thinking with Echoes makes Koichi use Echoes to send a “Believe me!” to his mother, which snaps her back to normal.

The fight ends there and Koichi gets a snarky side, and ahh I love how he joked about the money. Koichi is super cool, I swear. If you didn’t believe it this episode (I don’t see how you wouldn’t), wait till later. Then next day, Tamami calls Koichi “Master” and is now his servant. The end. Amazing.

I remember when the cast for the anime was revealed and I saw that Koichi was recast, I was pissed. Yuki Kaji is one of the most overused seiyuus in Japan right now and I swear he’s in every show I’m watching this season. Somewhere. I don’t know, I feel like I always hear his ass. And I’m sick of him. But…dammit if I didn’t love his performance as Koichi this episode! It was great, and that snarky “It was a joke” line was….ugh, so good. You win this time, Kaji Yuki. You win.