Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable Episode 8: Yukako Yamagishi Falls in Love, Part 1

The Queen of Yanderes has arrived.

I don’t like Yukako. Let’s just get that out of the way right now. I don’t like her at all. I don’t like yanderes, I just don’t understand the appeal of them. Most of the Jojo fandom seems to love this chick and I have no idea why. She’s unlikeable in every way. And she’s crazy as fuck! I just…don’t like her. Like yeah she’s cute. Gorgeous, even. Even more pretty in the anime, but I still don’t like her. When the Part 4 anime was announced, I wondered to myself if my opinion of Yukako would change in the anime. But the anime is following the manga religiously, so…I don’t think so.

C’mon, I can’t be the only one that doesn’t like her. 🙁

Anyway, it’s another Koichi episode! Koichi has a hard time in Part 4, this poor kid. The episode opens up with Josuke explaining to Okuyasu that Hazamada doesn’t know anything about the electrical stand that now has the bow and arrow. He explained this to both Josuke and Jotaro while he was recovering in the hospital, and he also mentioned an interesting detail: Stand users are drawn to each other. They always seem to pop out when you least expect them to. So the fact that Josuke and co. are meeting so many Stand users in such a short time isn’t just coincidence.

While the boys walk home from school, they spot Koichi awkwardly sitting by himself at a cafe. Though it looks like he’s waiting for someone. And all of a sudden, a beautiful girl sits at his table. Her name is Yukako Yamagishi. The boys hide near the table to hear the conversation, Okuyasu recognizing her because she’s in his class. Yukako is quiet and Koichi asks whether she wants money from him, or wants to switch cleaning duties with him, or class notes. Then all of a sudden, Yukako confesses her love for Koichi, and the kid is shocked. At first he thinks it’s a joke, but when he sees how serious she is, he’s still shocked, but also really happy. Meanwhile while the boys hear this, Okuyasu gets jealous and starts crying and Josuke’s like “Dude, relax, don’t cry” and it was hilarious. Poor Okuyasu, I love you, don’t worry. And so, Yukako says she’s noticed how lately Koichi has looked sharper and cooler lately, most likely because of him becoming a Stand user. She thinks highly of him, and loves him. She then asks if he hates her, then if he loves her, then again if he hates her. Koichi doesn’t know what to say, so then without warning Yukako slams her fist on the table and screams at him to make up his mind. Red flag. After that she became “normal” and then ran off, Koichi pretty much pissing in his pants. Okuyasu stopped being jealous too. Also, black hair in his soda. HINT.

The next day while Koichi is cleaning in the chemistry lab, Yukako walks in and apologizes for what she said. Koichi is still freaked out by her but is relieved when she said she wanted to instead be friends with him, and he agreed, and she’s really happy. But then…red flag again, she takes out a sweater she knitted herself for Koichi she spent all night on. She knows his sizes and everything, and knowing this bitch she probably also knows his sign, blood type, and family history. She also took out a lunch she made herself, with seafood from the freaking fish market. At this point, Koichi knows that this chick is crazy as hell and he needs to get the hell out of there. But he doesn’t want to do anything to make her angry, but thankfully the class rep found him and hounded him to take out the trash and she went with him, much to Yukako’s disappointment. She later threatens the class rep girl to stay away from Koichi and they have a short spat. Then, mysterious moving hairs make the girl’s hair catch fire from the incinerator, and more hairs appear and stops her from finding water. Of course, it’s Yukako.

Ever since learning from Hazamada about Stand users, Josuke was suspicious of Yukako, and indeed she is a Stand user. The boys help the class rep, then find Koichi. Koichi is at a loss, but the boys come up that Koichi has to make himself unappealing for Yukako to leave him alone. So they suggest to ruin his hygiene but not showering or brushing his teeth, but Koichi doesn’t want to. So, hilariously, the boys come up with bogus stories of Koichi being a shoplifter and not paying back money in Yukako’s earshot. She doesn’t react and just walks away.

But things get worse! Yukako literally fucking sneaks into Koichi’s room at night and kidnaps him with her hair. Then the next day he finds himself in some random house, where Yukako walks in like she’s his wife and brings him dinner. Koichi remembered her hair and asks what that’s about, and she mentioned one day she was shot with an arrow, and since then she could do that. Also, she doesn’t know anyone else who can do something like that. So Koichi, although scared, goes along with what’s happening to not anger Yukako. He’s about to eat but Yukako notices the low grade he got on his English test, so she makes a game with his breakfast where she asks him questions and he picks either A, B, or C and whatever behind’s that box, he has to eat it. It’s crazy and ridiculous, but he goes along. He gets the first one right and is rewarded with eggs, but the wrong answer “foods” were an eraser and soap, and Yukako wasn’t kidding about him eating those if he were wrong. He made her mad in the second question by reading her face so she tries to make him east asparagus wrapped with pages from a dictionary but he ain’t having that!

He talks back at her, but of course it doesn’t go well. She mentions she’s brought him to some person’s villa, and that person won’t return until summer. She’s cut the phone wires so he can’t call for help. So…he’s fucked. Someone save this poor child.

She’s crazy, Yukako is fucking crazy, I wasn’t looking forward to this episode at all. She may be pretty, but she uses her looks to hide all her crazy! I enjoy her voice, though. Can sound soft and sweet, then her voice lowers a pitch and sounds scary. I like it! Also, what the hell was with the EDM remix of the opening because I hated it. Please keep the original jazzy beat, I love it and it reminds me of Uptown Funk.