Hirohiko Araki's Most Bizarre Quotes

The author of Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, Hirohiko Araki, has said some absolutely fascinating things over the years. Here's a compilation of the best and weirdest quotes he's had throughout his time working on the series.

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[tartaruganinja]

- Goes to bed early
- Sees dead woman float from bathroom door
- Dead woman approaches with blood on her hands
- Tells dead woman is too tired to deal with this
- Refuses to elaborate
- Goes to sleep

[TheIronDefender]

Araki is like a cryptid trying to mimic human behaviour, I love him

[fool]

I love that he lists "death" at #10 on personal fears right below ceiling cockroaches and three steps behind his own acquaintances, who ever they are.

[scoutszewc]

-doesn’t seem to age
-stated that he wanted to drink blood
He definitely put on the stone mask

[kapkant]

"In June of 1998 I saw a woman get dragged into a car and did nothing."-Hirohiko Araki completely unprompted at the JoJo 30th anniversary celebration event

[hippotripo]

GigaChad Araki:

Ignores ghost because he’s tired
Intimidates his dentist from fixing his cavity
Average “The Grinch” enjoyer
Decides fate is how he feels about it
Wants to suck blood like Morbius
Speedruns mariage
Gets gains on his own during pool date
Names an imaginary restaurant after his character

[lukelupul]

I love that Araki's top ten fears include both acquaintances and strangers --that's everyone.

[rogercheetoofficial]

honestly seeing araki's unhinged ideas just thrown in there makes me understand how much of being a creative type is just being completely wacked out

[Nonzerotonin]

Hirohiko Araki, the man who miraculously escaped death to everyone's indifference

[EinFelsbrocken]

The whole fandom for 25 years: "Jonathan Joestar? What could it mean? What are the implications of such a naming scheme? This surely bears a lot of symbolic weight."
Araki: *J*

[Freshwater]

My favorite quote was within the last few chapters of Jojolion and he just said he tried some white bread and really liked it and that everyone else should try it too. That was it, he didn’t give a brand name or anything.

[xmegami]

Araki channeling his inner Pixar and going
"What if answering machines had feelings?"

[corrinflakes]

Araki got a sleep paralysis demon but said “sorry but I refuse”.

[domada]

imagine if instead of "ask your father" he said "ask your mother". that would be a devastating line

[blokvader]

I will say, the thing about "Beautiful Men" is just solely beautiful as in spiritually, the specific word he uses in the interview is a different kind of "Beautiful", (Utsukushii)
Araki doesn't literally mean "damn those men are fine" (although, they are, sheesh) more just about their personalities, ambitions, and fate

[nantoghidrah]

Araki really channels that 3am, unhinged energy in these quotes. And it seems to run in the family from the quote about his sister. Also, I like to think that the bird cage quote was a continuation of the muscle cat quote.

It also is nice to see some of his thought process when making Jojo and possibly where he got some of his ideas from. Like the quote about him buying baby items might have inspired the scene in Part 4 of Joseph buying baby items.

[firstnamlastnam]

This actually made me want to read JoJo more than anything else had.

[scoutshellby]

Araki is right, delusions are fucking terrifying, imagine if what you saw in the world around you wasn't actually the world around you. I watched the anime "Gakkou Gurashi" and it fucked me up.

[daborshy]

1:20 Araki wanting to learn about his readers is like Rohan turning people into books to learn their personal stories

[TheEmanvideo]

are we just gonna gloss over the fact that araki guzzles water so hard he nearly passes out????