His "Rohan" series, drawing influence from Arthur Conan Doyle’s “Sherlock Holmes” tales and the works of Edgar Allan Poe, sets about investigating the “depths of Japan” as Araki said, referring both geographically to Japan’s hinterlands and the depths of the Japanese psyche.Īraki explained why he chose to break from “JoJo’s” tradition and make Rohan a central figure. ![]() (“It was a suburban town where beautiful rice fields stretched out across it, but the population increased when it developed rapidly in the 1980s,” Araki recalled.) Rohan hails from the town of Morioh, a crucial location in the “JoJo’s” universe modeled after Sendai City in Japan’s Miyagi prefecture, where Araki himself was raised.
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