Doggy Style (ドギー・スタイル Dogī Sutairu) is the Stand of Rai Mamezuku, featured in JoJolion.
Appearance
Doggy Style takes the form of a humanoid with an elongated and almost featureless face, save for 6 small eyes and beanpod-shaped protrusions from the sides of its head. It has a heart-shaped torso, whisk-shaped appendages for arms and the kanji for "bean" (豆 mame) written on its shoulders within a circle.
Doggy Style is cyan and silver with a hint of pink in the colored manga.
Abilities
Skin Peeler: Doggy Style's full capabilities are currently unknown, however its primary ability allows Rai to "peel" his own body like an apple, unraveling his appendages into "wire rope" that he can control and manipulate.[1]
Rai first uses it while on an aerial liftW to retrieve a strawberry from a bush several feet below. The most advanced usage of this ability is when Rai turns his entire arm into a makeshift crossbow, from which he fires a fork using his mouth.[2] Rai can also send his rope fast enough to give it cutting power and he notably cut a garden of Locacaca plants this way.[3]
Rai is also able to completely unravel himself as shown when he feigns death from Poor Tom's Ozon Baby. He seemed to be able to unravel every part of his body besides his eyes and teeth, making it look like he had been crushed to death.[4]
Spin
Before Rai fully dies, he reveals to Josuke the technique of the Spin. He demonstrates this to him with Doggy Style by unraveling his hand and spinning the thread rapidly. The extent of Mamezuku's knowledge and experiences with the spin is unclear, as it could merely be a demonstration of the principle of "spinning" and not an actual Spin technique.[5]
Chapters
Gallery
Trivia
- In a 2013 interview for NHK Educational TVW's SWITCH Interview: Tatsujin-tachi with composer Akira SenjuW, Hirohiko Araki discussed how music has influenced JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, and revealed Snoop DoggW's album DoggystyleW is in his music collection, which he listened to when writing Vento Aureo and its gangster protagonists.[6]
- Doggy Style's ability to unravel its user's body into a string-like substance is similar to the primary ability of Stone Free. But unlike Stone Free , Rai does not use general body mass to produce lengths of identical rope; it is simply the unraveled form of his limb or body part. For example, Rai cannot send out a rope from his finger like Jolyne often does, he would have to unravel his finger to reach further.
- It had an altered appearance in its introductory panel.
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