New Manga is Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure as a Romcom
The manga The Strongest Haunted House and the Guy with No Sense shares many ghostly likenesses to Diamond Is Unbreakable in Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure.
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With such a descriptive title as The Strongest Haunted House and the Guy with No Sense, the particular arc from Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure that this budding manga series brings to mind is Diamond Is Unbreakable. That’s because of the unique situation that Jojo’s Reimi Sugimoto finds herself in. She’s a ghost who will only stop haunting the mortal realm once her killer is avenged. Meanwhile, The Strongest Haunted House’s Earth-bound spirit Kinako-sama spends her time terrifying mortals instead of departing to the next life.
There’s one thing noticeably absent in Reimi’s story that Kinako brings to the Ouija board table: Romance. Undoubtedly, Jojo’s Reimi is too driven by her desire to witness the death of her murderer, Yoshikage Kira, to be bothered by something as trivial as romance. Most of her ghostly existence involved haunting the streets until she found someone who would bring Kira to justice. Incredibly, that person ends up being the young infant named Kishibe Rohan she saved from her serial killer on the night she was murdered. She had been babysitting Rohan at the time, but now he’s a grown man.
In comparison to Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure, The Strongest Haunted House not only adds romance to Reimi’s story but changes the ghost’s main objective. Kinako-sama doesn’t care about staying or leaving the mortal realm. She doesn’t even know what’s keeping her tethered to the land of the living, either, though it’s later discovered she hates herself for what she did to her parents. But none of that matters. Her primary goal is to scare humans. At least, that was her main objective. Now, she’s just obsessed with scaring the current occupant of the building she haunts. And it’s starting to get personal. He’s lived there for three years and not once has she been able to scare him.
Ironically, he wants to be scared as well, which is why he moved there. The romance finally comes into play when the occupant places a piece of paper with the word “yes” in front of one lit candle and another piece of paper with the word “no” in front of another. He then proceeds to ask questions at the empty house, hoping that a spirit will respond by blowing out the candle that’s associated with the word they want to answer him with. And it works! But being a desperate boy himself, he starts asking promiscuous questions once he learns the spirit is a girl, which only frustrates Kinako-sama to no end as her only intent is to scare him. Things get incredibly complicated, however, when a powerful ghost hunter arrives to slay the occupying spirit but somehow gets roped into serving as the boy’s translator. Of course, the hunter is a girl, which strikes the boy’s fancy, but this seems to bother Kinako-sama as she takes out her frustrations on their translator.
The ghosts in both manga series transcend their archetypal tropes by sharing a deep connection to the living world beyond what’s tethering them there. In JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure, Reimi cares deeply for and is overprotective of Rohan most likely because she was his babysitter when she was alive. Meanwhile, Kinako-sama is plagued by her feelings of self-hate, which is probably why she only cares about scaring the occupant of her building in The Strongest Haunted House and the Guy with No Sense. But Kinako-sama undergoes a stunning 180. She falls in love with her victim while he only has eyes for the human ghost hunter and translator, adding even more layers of intrigue to an already fascinating story. Even if Kinako-sama’s ability to love can cure her self-hate, wouldn’t she become more entrenched in the human world as a result? This dilemma is what’s missing in Jojo’s Diamond Is Unbreakable. It would have been much more compelling if Reimi’s desire to protect Rohan remarkably overpowered her years-long obsession to bring her killer to justice. After all, love conquers all, even overprotectiveness.
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