"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it." ― Winston Churchill
Toru, the concurrent calamity harbinger from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure.
Sato, the immortal terrorizing arcade gamer from Ajin: Demi-Human.
As a part of the minority with the strongest capabilities of them all, one will likely see themselves at the very tip-top of the food chain, a scale that no one else could ever match. With the inability to die and always being able to be one step ahead of those who oppose you, there's no way that your power could ever be doubted. However, when the sheer will of one's soul and their humanity can come out, your power might not be as outstanding as before- yet this hasn't taken away from these two manipulative, mass murderers.
With these two being practically one of the greatest, both acting remotely from themselves and most lacking the inability to defeat them for their ability, they stand in the way of everything and everyone. Having the plan to change society for their own selfish means and values, all for the sake of their own personal enjoyment and betterment, there's nothing that makes them happier than being able to grind people into the ground who get in their way. Yet, between calamity and constants, there's always an end to something, and these two know that best. Will Toru bring endless death-filled disaster to the immortal Demi-Humans life, or will Sato pursue the means to bring an end to this age of calamity? That's something these two'll have to deal with in this DEATH BATTLE!
Before We Begin…
Simply put, for this blog we’ll be focusing on both of their main mangas, that being JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: JoJolion and Ajin: Demi-Human. We won’t be referencing any other extended media in particular due to just not being consistent and innately non-canonical, so no need to worry about anything you might see in JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: All-Star Battle or AJIN: Demi-Human’s Netflix anime adaptation for these two.
Due to the innate comparisons as ‘only the users can see them’ abilities of Ajin and Stand users, we’ll be equalizing the ability for both characters to see the others unique powers for the sake of fairness with both parties.
Background
Toru
Born in the forest as with all Rock Humans in the year of 1924, Toru was always at a disadvantage fighting for his life as were all children under a Rock Human, forced to live in the wilderness often done by the natural order of eating animals to gain nutrition and sleeping for months on-end in hibernation. Feeding on generations of wasp colonies as a child, he would grow old enough after feeding on tons of bugs to enter society, fitting with his looks of an 18 year old teenager. Having set his sights on Morioh, Toru now began to work in the ‘real world’, making up his own identity.
Around sixty years later, Toru encountered a young Yasuho Hirose who he would identify as a Stand user- using her ability of Paisley Park to look at people through her phone. After convincing her of trusting him, he uses the seven year old to identify an elderly doctor in a nursing home that he fakes his identity as- Dr. Satoru Afeku. After leaving the young girl, he wishes to meet her again and keeps her own identity in mind as he goes onto completely mimic the Head Doctor in order to steal his identity with his Stand. However, Toru would eventually reemerge and take the role of a medical student who began to look more into the Locacaca fruit, leading to him faking his identity into a high school and would fall in love with a familiar girl; Yasuho Hirose. During this time, Toru displayed technological genius however his presumed youth despite his age caused him to be downplayed by everyone, leading to him growing his dislike of society on those who could change history itself with their intelligence. Having soon broken up with Yasuho and becoming extremely distant due to his lack of perceived self-worth, Toru soon cut himself off from her and focused on his studies- however a year or so later during an encounter of a new villain, he’d set his eyes upon Yasuho once again.
Yet, this hadn’t been genuine appraise. While Toru seemed to be a human- he hadn’t been so. Toru was actually a Stand user that no one had been aware of around him. This Stand in question hid itself as the doctor, as mentioned prior, Satoru Afeku. The head doctor had came in conflict with Josuke Higashikata and his company, who had been chasing after the doctor through the Locacaca organization, a group that in-truth Toru had been manipulating and in charge of. By using this role, Toru had gotten ever-so closer to his goal of using the Locacaca fruit for his intentions to bring economic fruition and riches to himself, which he plans on doing so by cultivating the plant for his own means which other Rock Humans have indeed followed him in his doing. This goal leads to him dropping all of his appeal for Yasuho later down the line and intending on doing his best to maintain survivability- such as against Josuke’s Go Beyond, an ability which appeals beyond the nature of our world that he flees from while trying to manipulate Yasuho into giving him the newly found Locacaca tree.
However, having failed to flee and being constantly hit by Josuke’s attacks through Yasuho’s Stand sending the attacks to him, Toru is overwhelmed by these attacks alongside Kaato Higashikata’s intentions- of which to use Toru’s equivalent exchange effect brought upon the Locacaca fruit he’d eaten as to heal from his injuries from Josuke to heal her grandson from the Rock Disease, which leads to the destruction of Toru and Wonder of U albeit at the cost of Kaato’s own life who succumbs to one final calamity. This hadn’t stopped the Stand of calamity who made one final attack against the Higashikata family, however with Josuke making his way to the scene, he blasts away Wonder of U with another attack- or at least, what had remained- putting an end to the Rock Human’s flow of calamity, all to make sure that unlike others, Toru’s hopes and dreams would never be realized once again, thereby putting an end to his life completely.
Sato
Born as Samuel T. Owen, born to a Chinese mother and a British father, the American boy had held violent tendecies even as a kid. During his youth, he had displayed psychopathic tendies, butchering animals and lacking any emotion on his face both from it and being physically abused. Indirectly, this had led Samuel to become a brutal individual, and joining into the military as a result. Due to his pure lack of emotion, the man was called ‘Poker-Face’, having taken eight weeks of military training. However, he’d been silently taken into another group due to a supposed illness- a cover-up for the fact that he’d actually been taking into a special military operation featuring the greatest soldiers of their time, of which Sato had become the leader of the unit. During an invasion, Samuel’s bloodlust had gotten the best of him as he’d awaken an entire group of enemies, causing his small group to have to fight off hundreds of soldiers. While he’d succeed in taken them all down alongside his men, he’d lost one of soldiers, left one severely injured, and he himself had lost his leg during the war. With this, Sato had become wheelchair bound and dishonorably discharged from the military, leading to him getting into a hobby of playing arcade games every single day as to get a high score, a sort of past-time he blatantly appealed to prior to the war.
At some point, Samuel’s uncle had came into the picture many years after the soldier’s wartime appearance, inducting him into his scheme tied to the underground by convincing him to travel to Japan- the land where Sato’s favorite games and consoles had come from. After travelling to the nation, his uncle and teammates were attacked by a rival gang that led to their death, however Sato was able to fight off every single gang member single-handedly, being left alone and having his Gameboy broken by the previous gunfire. Samuel, having adopted the name Sato (Samuel T. Owens) during this time albeit vaguely, had now made several hundreds of enemies in the underground gang scene, taking on various gangs who had attempted to kill him and never faltering. Five years after his first attack, Sato had been caught up in the hands of the gang who’d originally kill his uncle and his team, leading to Sato being lead to execution against a wall. Being given his last words, Sato hoped for having a high score in life before being shot in the head- however, due to maintaining a unique physiology known as an Ajin, Sato had resurrected from death right after being shot, allowing him to immediately kill his executioner and thereafter massacring the gang in question.
Afterwards, Sato had briefly experienced discrimination as with all Ajin had in the world: A minority that the Japan government would attempt to contain under its jurisdiction and torture for tests, of which Sato would constantly fight against in his own accord. Having met his path with another Demi-Human that opposed his goals, while he tried to mask his intentions as noble and of good will, Sato eventually realized that his only means of great opposition would lead into him targeting the government. Having access to a hard drive from one of his past experiences, Sato would leak information about the anti-Ajin studies that the government made while forming his own terrorist group that intended on getting laws passed to support Ajin-kind. However, with their goals not truthfully helping and bringing more bias against his people, Sato decided that it would be best to go for mass terrorism across Japan, leading to him going down the line to kill hundreds of people all across his city, both ranging from the innocent citizen lives to influential figures all across the board. He’d stop at nothing to do so, easily making his way through any obstacle in his path- simply put, he’d been unstoppable because he was Sato.
After overthrowing a military base accompanying the Prime Minister, taking him as his hostage, Sato began to threaten to destroy the nation by striking various integral buildings to the structure of society, such as broadcasting buildings. However, with the work of Nagai and the Anti-Ajin forces, Sato’s fight seemingly came to a low- but he’d one-up the cast even further beyond this. By using an airplane with his Black Ghost and running away from the conflict after dropping his jet on Nagai directly, he planned on running away to a greater country- with a bigger military, a bigger economy, and most importantly, a bigger pro video game scene. Going on to attempting to leave an influential goodbye, Sato intends on fleeing, however he’s unable to actually enact on this plan as he’s sent drowning into a river by Nagai. Our hero, however, drags Sato out of the river and he’s instead left suspended into a specifically designed anti-Ajin coffin that would seal him and sedate his brain, preventing him from ever leaving… hopefully. With Sato’s intentions, though, it seemed that life for all Ajins would get better through his actions despite his carefree feelings on the world when using the growth as a front for his scheme of just having pure fun with killing people in the nation. So… maybe the psychopathic demi-human had succeeded in one way or another after he was incapacitated.
Experience and Skill
Toru
Although Toru is not an extensive combat, he is a heavily experienced Stand user with his own fairly powerful Stand ability. Having been went after for a number of years in his life, he’s never been actively pursued or put on challenge by any opponent prior to Josuke in their final battle due to his sheer power, all while maintaining his secret identity with no problem. On its own, his Stand perfectly maintains the identity of an integral head doctor having extensive knowledge on medical aspects that Toru himself shares as a faux medical student, with this innocence allowing him to easily manipulate people such as Yasuho while he was able to simultaneously fight against Rai and Josuke, attempting to compel them to pursue his Stand as to be able to attack them.
Alongside his near eighty years of experience just in general, Toru is rather intelligent. He had been the first person to ever think of and create a patent for a wireless charging device for cellphones, and with his own medical experience he can easily understand issues found in the human body, such as identify choking and discern it from a diabetes attack which he’d use as a way to get closer to Yasuho.
Sato
Sato is an immensely skilled combatant with a background of military experience who uses his primary immortality especially to his advantage, having taken on an entire army single-handedly iwth a shotgun that he would completely slaughter, with said army taking exact precautions to defeat him that he was able to counteract through his support of two other Ajins. With his terrorist strikes, he’s singlehandedly taken over thousands of lives on his own, having snuck through airplane security to hijack an airplane and crashed it into a commercial building. With his terrorism, Sato had brought an upbringing of Ajin’s all across Japan that constantly expanded day after day, threatening societal structures and even the governing forces should they not treat his people righteously.
Prior to becoming an Ajin, he was a highly skilled combatant in the military brought into a highly prestigious special operations team hidden from everyone that held only the highest of combatanst in it- considered to be the head of the gang with his sheer skill and leadership. During his wartime, he took on over a hundred enemies with his team, having been taken out with a grenade that would leave him wheelchair bound and discharged. This military skill obviously carries into combat, both having the skill to steal and use weapons on the fly as well as using the environment to his advantage. He once devised a plan to send his body disguised as fried chicken to the office building that an anti-Ajin agency was working at and tossing his body into a woodchipper as to send priority of regeneration to from his hand, coming back to life to attack the group.
Additionally, he’s done feats such as blowing up an entire room as to knock out the main duo and flee, using said explosion as a disguise to mask him as an ‘injured officer’ to kill others, used a painting off the wall as a shield to fight against soldiers while gunning them down, and broke into the sturdiest room of a building meant explicitly built against Ajins by cutting off his arm to break a hole into a hefty door. He can also take on large numbers of extensive military squads who had experience with his forms of combat and killed them, and can constantly one-up tactics played against him such as forming large squadrons of people disguised as citizens to gun down remaining soldiers outside of his battle during the same timeframe. Through this plan, he orchestrated a massive plan in his ‘final wave’ to blow up important buildings across thousands of miles in Tokyo by sacrificing F-15 jets structured at the military base he took over.
Equipment
Toru
White Van
Like all 89-year old high schoolers, Toru drives a white van under his fake job as a med student. He’s first shown driving his car to save Yasuho when she calls out for his help after being horribly injured on the Higashikata estate.
Rock Insects
De Do Do Do De Da Da Da
A Rock Insect with a rather special physiology, the insect spews out Asbestos into animals that fills them up, either poisoning small animals or bloating them up to kill or at least suffocate them. It also has the ability to travel across walls, constantly targeting an enemies throat as it goes for multiple angles of attack. Wonder of U uses this insect against Rai and Josuke when they attempted to not pursue the Stand, which was destroyed by a whip from Doggystyle.
Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da
Another Rock Insect with a special physiology, this insect sticks onto enemies as a small disguised pawprint which is impossible to get off. When unknowing prey (or people) attempt to detach the insect, it will quickly multiply around the body of the prey, ripping apart the limb that it would be attached to when doing so. Although its weaknesses are unclear, the insect seems to be highly powerful and one of Wonder of U’s safety nets as to prevent him from being harmed by Josuke.
Sato
Assault Rifle
During an invasion on a government facility, Sato displayed the usage of an assault rifle which took down multiple armed soldiers with no problem.
Handgun
Having to switch off from his assault rifle after cutting off his forearm as to prevent tranquilizers from affecting him, Sato wields a handgun as his secondary sort of gun to place back-up fire when he can’t use his primary rifle.
Machete
Sato’s leading weapon in close quarters combat, he wields a machete which he can use to decapitate people. This is particularly useful as a back-up weapon but can be useful against other Ajin, too, due to the aforementioned decapitation ability.
Circular Saw
Used on an airplane when he hijacked an airplane, Sato brought along electrical tools in order to do so, one of which including a circular saw from his backpack. He would later also use a drill and such to seal himself in the cockpit of the airplane he’d hijack as well as kill the pilots.
Shotgun
Sato wields a shotgun that can bust through body-armor which he uses to take on the anit-terrorist group sent after him in a massive combat brawl.
F-15 Aircraft
Used to stealthily attack the main duo, this aircraft is equipped with dual machine guns that could easily tear through reinforced glass that could withstand a tank shell and tore apart a roof.
Smoke Grenade
Having stolen from a military base in one of his raids, he’s shown the usage of a smoke grenade in order to cut off vision and assault soldiers easily.
Powers and Abilities
Toru
Rock Human Physiology
As a Rock Human, Toru gain special characteristics of his body, granted this unique physiology which comes in a completely altered biology compared to humans. They are stone-like in nature, acting as their own relative species due to how their DNA and bodies are assembled comparatively.
Rock Humans can turn their skin to rock, being able to withstand very high or freezing temperatures when they do so. These states inhibit a very low heartbeat, which is due to this hardened state being used for a month-long hibernation, allowing them to stay awake and alert for at least two months afterwards. Due to a Rock Human’s innate body physiology, however, they already have a stone-like physiology alongside this, allowing them to maintain blows that crumble away, such as Toru maintaining constant injury to his torso that hadn’t killed him, and with Rock Humans being able to consciously move and react when their entire bodies are crumbling apart, such as seen in Toru’s death.
Wonder of U
“I am Wonder of U. The flow of things will always lead to calamity.”
An automatic Stand wielded by Toru, Wonder of U is a special sort of Stand that functions on the logic of calamity. Rather than other Stands of which are directly combative, Wonder of U targets combatants indirectly- completely defending Toru from attacks by shifting probability with the energy of calamity that changes as you pursue the Stand or it’s user. By using this sort of probability manipulation, the Stand becomes one of the most defensive capable powers in the entire series, allowing Toru to severely injure and constantly target those who wish to pursue him into a fight, becoming more lethal as time goes on and those who pursue him get ever-so-closer.
Duplication
At two different instances, Wonder of U had appeared in front of Rai and Yasuho in completely different areas of Morioh as the two travelled at the same time. Chapter 96’s cover shows a very blatant display of this concept, although the idea of it being the same sort of ability and not a special design is absolutely arguable. Wonder of U could also duplicate itself between forms, allowing the cast to perceive and chase after the head doctor while appearing as its more natural Stand form to stalk them while the Stand walked downstairs to evade them.
Immersion
Wonder of U can appear inside of reflective surfaces and then reappear physically, including picture frames, windows, computer screens, reflective walls, or glass.
Selective Intangibility
Wonder of U can phase through walls if need be, with it being able to perform this both in its standard form as well as when disguising itself as the Head Doctor. This is usually used to stealthily follow others, however it also allows them to phase through walls to get to destinations quicker.
Shared Perception
Toru is able to see through Wonder of U, identifying both those affected by Calamity as well as direct events happening. This allows him to see cases such as when Josuke had been hidden away in a lab and intended on bringing Wonder of U towards him. This meshes well with Wonder of U’s innate homing system, which allows him to go after targets and know their whereabouts even if they aren’t a target of Calamity.
Alternate Form
Innately, Wonder of U does not pertain its iconic disguise. Rather, the Stand mimics the Head Doctor’s body, having its own relative form that comes out when it duplicates itself separately from the Doctor or intends on acting as its own being. This form later down-the-line merges with the Head Doctor, becoming the design shared most notably in the series.
Endless Calamity
Toru’s Stand follows the logic of Calamity, referenced as essentially being the source of its immense power, which brings a chain of effects upon those affected by it, usually leading to severe injury or death. Should you have thought of pursuing Toru or the Head Doctor (Wonder of U), the effect of Calamity will pursue and activate whenever you intend on going directly after him. Even looking at Toru, however, with the intent to pursue, will immediately bring upon deadly effects. However, this can also be varied, as those who intended on pursuing the Head Doctor on an ideological front aren’t affected extensively lethally until Wonder of U would allow such. Thus, it is likely that this scale of Calamity varies rather vaguely, however it’s likely something that Toru and Wonder of U hold a general scale of control over that gets more severe as one were to get closer to getting to Toru himself. With how calamities work, if they extend after Toru's death, and due to Wonder of U's form as calamity energy in itself, Wonder of U can permit after death to continue influencing endless calamities to those who remain on the flow of calamity.
Indirect Effects
While not something that Toru naturally holds the ability to do to anyone on the direct chain of events, he can kill people outside of the chain of events should it be taken as a way to harm the target of the calamity events as it is basically a ‘form of conflict’. Toru can also indirectly affect objects in severe ways, such as filling a piece of bread with maggots with the intent to poison Rai when he pursued the Head Doctor.
Energy Manipulation
Calamity is able to make objects deal more impact- such as when it formed a deadly storm that created raindrops capable of ripping through Josuke and Rai. Calamity itself is a form of energy which Wonder of U wields, of which increases as Toru’s enemies get closer to him, leading to more drastic changes in nature and force as such happens. This can change the way entire abilities work, such as changing how much of a Locacaca fruit was needed to physically alter the body and cause an ‘equivalent exchange’. However, Toru cannot ultimately control the levels of which this calamity reaches, in particular as to him decreasing Wonder of U’s capabilities. While he holds no intention to kill Yasuho, he knows that because of Wonder of U’s activation with others, it would be a heavy threat to Yasuho’s life should she see him.
Incident Creation
Calamity can create ‘incidents’ that essentially act as attacks towards enemies, such as is the case when Wonder of U would hurt Rai with an umbrella stand, caused the cast to get hit by traffic in their chase with the Head Doctor, caused Mitsuba to make mistakes when she was cooking to seemingly attack her with a knife and boiling water, or as zany as shutting off Josuke’s mouth. It can completely shift the path of causality for events, with the sheer thought of pursuing the Doctor at a close distance being able to cause this.
Attack Redirection
Calamity is able to redirect attacks, such as Awaking Ill Leaves’ ability into hitting a nearby wall on accident. By controlling Josuke’s bullets, as well as other movements, he was able to redirect a point-blank attack from Doggystyle, and in turn took out Rai. When Josuke was in the line of Calamity and dealt barrages to several Locacaca capsules, each blow had sent the fragments and remains he’d created with each blow right back at him. This ability goes to the degree that defying the means of redirection is seen as opposing Calamity itself and defying logic, due to the power working on the scale of cause and effect. However, this attack redirection has been only shown to explicitly work with Wonder of U, with Toru himself showcasing quite the direct opposite when he was hit by Space Trucking, who’s ability explicitly put her on the list of calamity-induced pursuers, and other examples of interference with attacks had come from pre-destined attacks towards characters that had no effects to the actual projectile, unlike Wonder of U’s own examples of redirection.
Sato
Demi-Human/Ajin Physiology
Revived from the cusp of death as an immortal human that defy the very laws of our universe and the modern grasps of our science, an Ajin (or Demi-Human) are special beings with invisible black matter (IBM) manipulation that allow them to regenerate from any damage and form invisible beings out of said matter, practically making them superhuman. IBM is a sort of matter described as not being natural and defying existence created by human emotion which will repair the human body, with all sorts of Demi-Humans having this within their body. However, the existence of this energy can only be found out after death or severe injury, where a person will be resurrected or regenerate, or otherwise in special cases found out should one form IBM in their body at a young age to create Black Ghosts. While this might seem to be special towards Demi-Humans, the extent of human emotion makes it so that anyone may hold the potential to become a Demi-Human should they hold onto their emotions before they die.
Immortality
As an Ajin (or Demi-Human), Sato wields IBM throughout his entire body that allows him to regenerate from wounds he takes physically in various degrees. He’s shown the ability to…
Regenerate from his brain being blown out and having cut off his forearm.
Regenerate from Nagai’s Black Ghost cutting off his foot and forearm.
Regenerate from an airplane crash that caused an explosion and blew off parts of his body.
Regenerates from being constantly gunned down by a military team.
Regenerates from blowing his own chest open with a shotgun.
Regenerates from his deep-fried hand after jumping into a woodchipper, which breaks down wood into 5 cubic centimeter squares.
By cutting off his hand, he can pull himself towards his limbs should he be shot dead, shown here.
Regenerated from jumping off of a skyscraper.
After having his leg blown off in war, when he first awakened his Ajin powers he regenerated his entire left leg and from a gunshot to his head.
By killing himself he can regenerate all of his stamina after he was drained from fighting hundreds of soldiers on his complete own. The same likely applies when he simply dies and regenerates otherwise.
Wielding enough explosives on an F-15 aircraft to reduce his body to nothing but dust, he blows up a government building and proceeds to regenerate back at his arm alone.
Demi-Human’s themselves have displayed extensively similar levels of regeneration, with the first ever Demi-Human having been able to fight without his head entirely and have been implied to regenerate it, Shinya himself having regenerated an entirely new head, Nakono was able to completely survive being hit by a telephone wire and a car back-to-back, other Demi-Humans can come back from their bodies simply shutting down, etcetera. Nagai was additionally implied to be able to stagnate through being put into a barrel of formaldehyde, which would destroy his body. Demi-Human’s can also form many sorts of matter through their IBM to continue sustenance should they become malnourished, for example. By being a great distance, Ajins can completely recreate parts of their bodies which will destroy matter that blocks the wound in order to do so, which is the same sort of logic as to why physical objects don’t stagnate in the body when you die to a shot. This can be used to climb up walls by biting off the fingers and shoving them inside of walls, akin to a ladder.
Should a Demi-Human have their head cut off, they will ‘die’, however, this is the death of their original consciousness and they will create a new head entirely. This isn’t anywhere near the concept of a death for an Ajin, due to this regeneration, however it’s the closest to being ‘considered dead’ because they will have their original consciousness completely destroyed and recreate a duplicate head with a similar brain and memories. Even beyond death, though, Ajins also display the ability to function at points beyond death, such as functioning when Sato lost practically more than half of his entire body in an explosion and usually ignoring the concept of blood loss entirely.
Scream
A very simple ability that Ajins can use is the ability to send out a scream that can deafen people and incapacitate them, preventing them from moving but allows them to make conscious thoughts. This can be used to prevent foes from moving or attacking, and in return opens them up to be attacked or allow an opening to flee, which was how it was used in its first and only appearance.
Black Ghost
As a Demi-Human, Sato can form Black Ghosts through invisible black matter manipulation that can target opponents remotely, appearing where it’s needed and physically attacking them with its claws to rip apart enemies and being able to get stronger due to their physiology, with Sato’s Black Ghost having the ability to devour others. As a part of the user, it’s present to all Demi-Humans, however other humans are able to see Black Ghosts when they reach high enough emotions. Sato can also see through his Black Ghost, allowing him to see who his Black Ghost is targetting without preventing himself from seeing like others, as well as verbally communicate through it (which other Ajin’s may lack the ability to perform). What sets Sato’s Black Ghost apart from others, however, is it’s ability. The Black Ghost can appear even when Sato is unconscious and can fight on it’s own as well as mimic Sato’s body by using his detached limbs. Sato has stated that, at his best, he’s only conjured three Black Ghosts at a single time with his power.
These Black Ghosts also retain a form of special regeneration due to the IBM they are formed of, which allows them to fix their bodies after any sort of damage due to each of their cells being ‘magnetically’ attached to one another, allowing them to disconnect rather than being damaged, with the head being the weakspot. The denser that the invisible black matter (IBM) of a black ghost is, the more durable they’ll be and will be more willing to stagnate longer, however less denser figures are able to be created more consistently. The IBM of a Black Ghost will increase at the climax of death to overflow into a ‘flood’ and increase depending on emotions, which can strengthen them and allow them to stagnate further if activated after death. Speaking of which…
Black Ghost Flood
At points of high once-in-a-lifetime emotion when an Ajin dies, they are able to manifest large swarms of Black Ghosts out of the emotion they currently feel known as the previously mentioned ‘flood’ concept. This sort of expansion comes from IBM rays, with the hysteria at death combined with the increase of invisible black matter leading to the multiplication of Black Ghosts, essentially. However, these floods are dangerous to everyone but the user, as they cannot be controlled and will follow the same emotion felt at the time of death. Sato’s own flood was triggered when he was surprised by Nagai’s own flood, allowing him to summon hundreds of Black Ghosts all across the city and believed that he and Nagai could create as many as they wanted would they keep on fighting at this point. These Black Ghosts are easily able to rip apart humans and overwhelm them physically.
Hacking Skill
Sato shows the ability to hack into high-profile security systems controlled by the government, both under the USA and Japan’s jurisdiction.
Weaknesses
Toru
Toru’s biggest weakness is his Stand’s function, ironically enough. While Wonder of U can technically fight directly, the main ability is centralized around ‘pursuing’ the stand, which he does his best to make that a constant effort of his enemies, causing them to be attacked when they do so. Of course, this means that Toru can’t target someone with his Stand who he needs to pursue in the first place. However, he can still stalk people with his Stand, as it’s not considered pursuing them, as long as the intent is present, just holding the inability to attack them until Josuke and Rai intended on finding the Head Doctor. As Wonder of U explicitly cannot directly attack people until they make the effort to pursue him, he can only circumvent this through avoiding attacking others- using Rock Insects instead who use natural attacking mechanisms to harm Toru’s enemies, for example. Finally, should Toru be hit with a direct blow, calamity will remove itself from who it is currently targeting and will target those next in the list of priorities, and by ultimately killing Toru, the Stand will only focus on those who calamity was already pre-determined to target as it maintains no medium to increase the energy of calamities otherwise to make new targets.
Although not a big weakness and moreso a limit, Toru can also explicitly not control how his calamity works both under Wonder of U and otherwise, which means he cannot vary as to who can be affected by the chain of events. This is impactful against multiple targets as he will take priority over who is already targeted- and even if he removes his Stand from the fight, calamity will still nonetheless pursue. Similarly, due to working on a pathway of logic via calamity, Wonder of U does not fair well against anything that’s essentially logicless, which had led to its defeat in the first place and is inherently one of the most reliable ways to get around the Stand.
Sato
Basically, despite the immortality of a Demi-Human, there are some relative weaknesses they maintain. While they can regenerate from any mortal damage, they can still be affected by things such as drugs, with tranquilizers for example being referenced as one of the best ways to deal with Demi-Humans. However, this would need to be outside substances, as Demi-Humans have shown the ability to get from just being normally knocked out. Other sorts of incapacitation methods, such as blunt force trauma to rattle the brain hard enough to induce a coma or poison would work, although an Ajin has a way to ‘reset’ this should they die during this sort of event. For example, when Nagai had lost his memory to where he completely forgot about two months prior of work and his motive to attack Sato, shooting himself had completely cleared his amnesia and regenerated his brain of all of his memories. Sato himself could potentially be incapacitated by burying him underground, as this was the plan to defeat him during his final wave which similar means have trapped other Ajins, although there are likely ways he could’ve circumvented this. Ajins are also implied to be vulnerable to old age should they not constantly destroy their bodies, and as explicitly noted, Ajins will be able to eventually overcome this without needing to do so. However, Sato’s own body is blatantly vulnerable to aging, thus as he ages he could become physically weaker and unable to function while constantly resurrected by his IBM.
A Black Ghost can be easily destroyed by targetting its head with blunt force, which can cut it off from the user momentarily if hurt in this way. Due to the physiology of Black Ghosts, and the communication being dependent on radiowaves, they can be affected by means that would distract these waves- such as rain- which can weaken them, although ‘cutting their leash’ (allowing them to act on their own wild instinct) can circumvent this. Additionally, due to the limits an Ajin may hold and the density of one’s IBM, although we aren’t aware of Sato’s highest end, a Black Ghost is on average only usable for five to ten minutes and usable twice a day due to the energy needed to create one at once let alone maintain it. Plus, while a flood of IBM energy can create large bursts of Black Ghosts, they are not constantly emitted unless the high of emotions are maintained by Sato.
Feats
Toru
Overall
Faked his identity as the head of Locacaca organization, while protecting himself under the guise of an innocent medical student.
Holds vast medical knowledge being able to deduce physical ailments and problems on people in a moment’s notice, such as understanding that a child having a diabetes attack had also been choking on chicken which was the root cause in truth.
Faked his role as an ally to the main cast as to maintain his manipulation efforts over them.
Somehow pulled a girl with his yee-yee ass haircut.
Listens to Elvis 🔥
Power
Toru could physically overpower Yasuho with his bare hands.
Wonder of U was able to deflect one of Josuke’s attacks with it’s cane.
Uhh… Wonder of U doesn’t physically fight. Sorry…
Speed
Wonder of U was able to dodge blows from Soft & Wet, disappearing from sight and taking up its disguise immediately after.
Wonder of U could move as a blur when moving through reflections in the Higashikata household.
Blocked one of Soft & Wet’s projectiles with its cane. (See Before the Verdict)
Durability
Toru was able to survive a hit from Soft & Wet Go Beyond that heavily injured him and sent him flying into a windshield that he dented.
Survived having a hole in his neck and chest at the same time, and kept himself awake after his body was being completely crumbled apart.
Wonder of U could survive a hit from Soft & Wet Go Beyond, although it had hurt the Stand noticeably and led to it attempting to leave the area.
Even after having it’s head blown off, Wonder of U was able to continue fighting and reformed itself with another duplicate.
Sato
Overall
Experienced combatant and former member of the military who was apart of a top-secret legendary group of soldiers.
Pro video gamer.
One of the greatest Demi-Humans of all, orchestrating the deaths of over thousands of people all across Japan ‘for fun’.
Leader of an Ajin revolution all across Japan that he’d eventually lead nearly solo by the end of it, fighting through betrayal irregardless and still being nearly undefeatable.
Probably got a really good high score in life. We know he sure as hell did in Tetris.
Power
The Black Ghost of another Ajin, of whom Sato is stronger than, was able to hold off an entire room of people from going through a glass door and other Black Ghosts have shown the capability to crush heads.
Was able to physically beat up and rip apart Black Ghosts in his and Sakai’s flood who were capable of ripping apart humans.
Easily disembowels armed guards and cuts through body armor with a machete and box cutter.
Can easily cut off his own arm (See above)
Able to physically contend with Nagai and overpower him in hand-to-hand.
Speed
Stated to be able to and can dodge tranquilizers from a gun, due to them being too slow (Having a muzzle velocity of ~30-40 m/s)
Able to dodge gunfire by hopping behind a wall.
His Black Ghost, whom he can control and react to, was able to clear a kilometer in under two minutes (16 m/s) and caught up to a military vehicle.
Stated to be faster than Nagai and has been able to outrun him on foot.
Durability
By using his Black Ghost, he creates a bulletproof barrier to protect himself from a close range shotgun blast.
Could survive blows from Nagai in close combat.
Able to tank gunshots without being taken down and can fight through extensive harm and injury.
Took an explosion at point-blank that had only left him with a bleeding arm.
Before the Verdict
Wonder of U Q&A
There are likely a ton of things that we’d like to bring up before we move onto the verdict, mostly to clarify general ideas spread around for Wonder of U’s capabilities.
Q: Isn’t Wonder of U the concept of Calamity? It’s stated to be calamity itself and the law and the logic, so it’s pretty blatantly calamity itself! Why didn’t you say that?
Simply put, this isn’t true at all. While Wonder of U is a “form” of calamity, which we’ll specify in a bit, it is nowhere near close to being a conceptual or abstract form of calamity itself. Truthfully, it is very blatantly just a formation of calamity energy that Toru controls allowing him to use the law of calamity to his own means.
For starters, Wonder of U was never treated as being the calamity itself and it’s very blatantly in a vacuum from the calamity’s order. Wonder of U itself states that in order to hurt it, you need to get past the logic (in context of calamity) in the first place, and Josuke is able to hurt it by using something that is small enough to where it’s not natural in this universe to bypass calamity’s law of order and probability manipulation. However, this isn’t some sort of immortality, nor anywhere close to it. Overcoming this was in the context that Rai had failed to hit Wonder of U at a close range, only 1 centimeter away, however this point blank attack was launched at the wall behind Wonder of U. This is especially notable when Toru himself, after subtracting his Stand from the equation, notes that the calamity itself would not stop pursuing Josuke. Wonder of U itself also blatantly puts itself and the logic or law of calamity and its disasters in a different regard, stating that you’d need to overcome them in order to attack ‘me’. While Johnny had stated that overcoming the flow of calamity in the context of Wonder of U had been impossible, this is not the same as stating that Wonder of U is calamity.
This is because Wonder of U is rather stated to be a constantly-attacking form of energy that Rai specifically describes as being ‘the calamity’, rather than calamity in itself. Yasuho backs this up herself when stating that Wonder of U is ‘calamity energy’, with it perpetuating because Wonder of U is the form of the energy that focuses upon all of Toru’s ability targets. Despite what has been said by others, the idea that Wonder of U was able to remain because it was Calamity itself is untrue, rather it follows the law of calamity and is an ability that allowed Toru to use the law to his own end and stagnated after Toru’s death because there were still targets under Toru’s list of priority who’s candidate had shifted towards Norisuke at the time, due to not being able to pin down Yasuho or Josuke due to Toru taking damage from both which spares them from calamity’s efforts. The only instance of Wonder of U being referenced as being the form of any sort of calamity without referenced as being under the concept is when the Head Doctor was stated to be ‘disaster taken form’, however this is innately very vague to give any sort of credit towards abstract existence and more than likely lines up with how calamity energy is described, which brings these disasters to fruition and would line up with the idea of someone who has no exact history on the Stand besides the Head Doctor’s appearance causing numerous accidents to happen.
Overall, Wonder of U simply isn’t some sort of conceptual entity as YouTube Shorts might have suggested. It is indeed a form of ‘calamity’, however it is nothing more than a form of the ‘calamity energy’ that causes misfortune in the first place for those caught under the flow of calamity.
Q: Doesn’t Wonder of U show the ability to regenerate from damage? It was able to seemingly reform from wounds like blowing it’s head off, so isn’t that just blatant regeneration?
While we were on and off about this idea, we honestly do not agree with the idea that Wonder of U has any sort of special regeneration.
In the final fight against Wonder of U, the Stand has it’s head blown off multiple times which it shows on-screen after Toru’s death. Later, it has a head when it goes for another attack. While this might seem cut and dry, the vagueness of this is a big issue here. While it is true that Wonder of U was able to reform itself with a head, we don’t necessarily agree with it being a sort of healing process as implied. Not only does Wonder of U show the capability of self-duplication and recreating it’s form multiple times across the story, with said formations being influenced by calamity energy presence and could also be willingly formed. This might seem like a more confusing argument, however, we do genuinely believe that with Wonder of U’s calamity being resuscitated to target Josuke when he goes for a final Go Beyond shot, it was vastly more likely that Wonder of U took a new form because of this resuscitation rather than straight up regenerates a missing head that it functions perfectly well without. This is innately something we believed to be more accurate because of the fact that Toru is made out of pure calamity energy and has taken multiple forms in the past, often completely changing it’s physicals as displayed when it had appeared against Rai as the Head Doctor and then in its more natural form against Josuke. Plus, with Wonder of U taking on another form in this fight and reappearing elsewhere than before when Josuke intended on destroying it would innately make a lot more sense than presuming that the Stand could mysteriously regenerate- an ability it did not explicitly display before and blatantly lacked when it was left heavily bleeding (especially blatant in its Head Doctor disguise with noticeable injuries) against Josuke’s Go Beyond to where it was injured enough that it went for a tactical retreat while trying to incapacitate the sailor with a Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da.
Q: Can you even defeat Wonder of U? Even if you kill Toru, it can come back and kill you! Plus, it needed something hyper-specific and non-existent to be defeated, so isn’t someone who exists going to have the impossibility of winning? Besides, the Stand can’t even be harmed because it stops attacks, so Toru can’t die, so he’d blatantly just win a fight! … Right?
Not quite.
Wonder of U’s most notable thing in the final battle is that it was able to permeate because it was a disaster affecting the entire Higashikata family, including those relative to Yasuho and Josuke due to working on the whole ‘system of law’ that calamity exists upon. Thus, until they had stopped pursuing Toru or his goals, which had been the Locacaca fruit, Wonder of U would persist against them and the family until their motives were gone or they had died. This makes the Stand innately powerful, yes, however it is not at all close to the idea that it would permeate infinitely after death and constantly attack those who kill Toru because not every opponent would be constantly searching to kill Toru, let alone oppose his specific goals. Because injuring Toru spares you from the list until you bring back your intent to pursue him, and the said hyper-specific conditions of these effects, it is very unlikely that any person killing Toru would be able to bring back up the conditions to where Wonder of U can permeate its effects of calamity without losing its form due to the lack of calamity energy via no target to look out for against Toru’s pursuers. Even if there were more people to pursue, Wonder of U would not be able to just randomly attack anyone on the list due to the innate priority list that the Stand wields, for example shifting all of its priority which had been immensely high at the time to Yasuho as she would be the closest to Toru and perceive his face, and this being considered pursuing for the Stand itself, thus becoming practically useless in a fight as it cannot initiate combat on its own.
In regards to the conditions of defeating Wonder of U and Toru, while we don’t have many exact details on Wonder of U’s capabilities, we don’t think that it’s impossible to defeat Toru or Wonder of U. While it obviously did require Go Beyond, which uses nigh-nonexistent power to hurt Wonder of U, the ability to kill Toru himself is much easier. The inability to interact with Toru and Wonder of U are much different, with Wonder of U having the whole aspect of uninteractability and it’s calamities are what acts as the defense against Toru. As shown in the final fight, people can still fight and interact with Toru directly, with Kaato being able to affect him with her cards and wasn’t prevented from exactly hurting Toru, with her getting close to doing so against him and interfering with his plan simply caused a calamity than displace her unlike against Wonder of U who almost always displaces attacks that are meant to attack it or otherwise prevents them completely. Thus, we don’t believe that Toru innately has the whole displacement capability that Wonder of U displays, meaning that you could still affect him with an attack should you have the means to make your way throughout his calamities. There are more ways to defeat him beyond this, too, however we just simply want to preface that Toru distinctly isn’t immune to being attacked (besides being defended by calamities when you attack him) in the same way that Wonder of U, as a form of calamity energy, uses the flow of calamity to prevent others from interacting with the Stand entirely.
To put it simply, Wonder of U isn’t an unbeatable Stand, with Toru having various caveats as to ways you can interact with him. The general idea of prolonging after death could happen, however, without an extensively prepared situation, it’s unlikely that it would be able to do such a thing due to the circumstances met when Toru first died. Wonder of U itself, while having the ability to redirect impossible attacks, can only do this to itself and explicitly cannot do the same to Toru, let alone redirect Toru out of the way of attacks even should they be indirect.
Q: Why wasn’t Wonder of U given complete scaling to Josuke? Wouldn’t he scale to other Parts in that way?
While it’s absolutely true that you could argue for JoJolion’s cast to gain scaling between parts, namely due to Killer Queen, we were very uncertain on giving Wonder of U this specific sort of scaling. Toru was already out of the question, and Wonder of U itself was easily overwhelmed by attacks from Soft & Wet’s Go Beyond bubbles physically to where he couldn’t keep fighting in the same instance. Admittedly, Wonder of U does deflect one of Josuke’s attacks physically with its cane, we have no measure on the strength as Wonder of U explicitly displays manipulation over Josuke’s bubble as they get in the way of calamity, and with Calamity’s energy manipulation, we’re very uncertain as to what degree Wonder of U is physically nullifying attacks (as he’s done before) or was manipulating the speed of these projectiles (as his redirection has shown this ability) with the route of calamity itself making it so that these attacks won’t do anything.
Of course, we truly didn’t care much because this wouldn’t affect the verdict at all, not only since Wonder of U isn’t an innately physical attacking Stand, but the measure of speed you could give to him truly wouldn’t matter overall due to how its ability functions. Whether or not you give him this sort of scaling is up to how you perceive the amount of how much Toru affects attacks to completely weakening and redirecting them with measures of calamity or otherwise, however for the sake of this blog we didn’t use these sorts of arguments due to this conflict and bringing quite literally no impact to the matchup if you did or didn’t give this sort of scaling. But, ultimately, this is a JoJolion blog, so we wanted to solely focus on the story for this blog, hence why we didn’t tackle it even if we had agreed with it because it relies heavily on extensive out-of-part scaling.
Verdict
Stats
With both being nothing more than a superhuman, these two statistics were very open-ended but at the same close and shut. Both are already innately immensely durable due to their physiologies, however because of Toru’s general lack of physical and statistical showings, he was absolutely overwhelmed by Sato’s own physical power in a direct conflict as his best durability feat of surviving being thrown into a windshield had been dwarfed by Sato being able to physically overpower and harm Black Ghosts that could withstand gunfire and having his fair share of durability feats comparable to or exceeding that or Toru’s, such as withstanding an explosion at point blank from a carbon monoxide tank. Of course, we couldn’t assign exact concrete values to these feats, so for the sake of respect and our intention to hold off on eyeballing, we’d assume they’d get similar sorts of values.
Speed was an iffy factor simply due to Wonder of U’s general vagueness of dodging and distinct scaling chain problems, as well as the fact that Wonder of U’s primary ability already interferes with projectiles and attacks to where they can be completely useless against them. This made it very difficult to put a grounds as to where Wonder of U would get in speed, and its only other instances of ‘speed scaling’ as interpreted by others were instances where Wonder of U would completely disappear from the fight and into another instance- likely having returned to another body rather than actually reacting to the attacks granted in both instances there are multiple Stands and it doesn’t ever make an effort to attack- which we simply think are too vague to say scaled to reactions for the Stand in that it completely replaces itself through an ability that comes out through the law of Calamity than conscious control. Given Toru’s lack of speed scaling in itself and getting blitzed by Josuke’s attacks, admittedly invisible ones, as well as not having reacted to Yasuho pointing her phone at him in each instance and being caught off guard both times, Toru was very likely much slower physically. Sato, on the other hand, had more direct speed feats with bullet dodging, tranq gun dodging, and his Black Ghost having its own reliable speed feat of moving around 16 m/s rather casually which was around five times faster than the average person’s maximum running speed, as well as outrunning military vehicles. With this in mind, but for the sake of respect on both ends due to Wonder of U’s vagueness, we decided it would only be fair to say that they’d share physical speed stats, too.
Ultimately, though, stats shouldn’t be a big issue for this debate. Neither of these characters are necessarily going to be doing anything of large scale during this fight, and even if you’d scale Toru to another part’s capabilities or another character, Wonder of U does not physically fight and Toru would never get direct scaling. Thus, this is one of the least important categories that we decided out of fairness to equalize Toru and Sato in strength due to the former’s lack of physical feats and general vagueness of physical scaling in general… which means that, for general reference, these two are being treated as completely physically comparable.
Arsenal
This is one of the more notable factors between these two, starting with their general arsenal and capabilities. Toru himself is a more long-distance fighter who attacks automatically with his Stand, requiring Sato to need the means to close the gap, which he admittedly could maintain with his vehicles and by using the environment to his advantage. There are abilities that could come into conflict with this which we’ll elaborate on later, which could make this difficult, however.
In regards to direct conflict, though, both do maintain a few notable weapons that could make it vastly more interesting. Sato’s guns and extensive weaponry allows him to shut down a lot of capabilities, like Wonder of U’s Rock insects who he could destroy easily due to their vulnerability. However, Wonder of U’s Rock insects are absolutely great tools to use in the fight, with De Do Do Do De Da Da Da being able to maintain the ability to easily injure and prevent Sato from moving unless he were to regenerate a new body or overcome the Asbestos pumped into his body, and Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da being able to stick to and physically injure Sato by hooking into his body, as well as being able to duplicate should Sato attempt to rip it off. However, innately, there were factors that allowed Sato to easily overcome these two cases beyond his arsenal, in regards to his…
Abilities
Immortality.
Sato’s immortality allows him to easily and constantly regenerate from any wounds done to his body, being able to come back from just his hand if not much less so after destroying the complete rest of his body, granted Ajins have displayed the regeneration of smaller parts of their body such as closing bullet wounds, their brain, or their fingers. With this regeneration, Ajin is a very potent combatant which Toru cannot easily deal with as this allows him to make his way through Toru’s long list of calamity-inducing effects albeit they could nonetheless slow him down. Calamity could easily get into the way of Sato’s attempted attacks, destroy parts of his arsenal such as making his gun jam or get him into an airplane crash, cause him to accidentally harm himself through the environment or his own weaponry, etcetera. However, most of these cases are in the bounds of what Sato can regenerate from, as seen with his full-body regeneration after getting into an airplane crash and one of his first instances of regeneration being from a bullet wound as well as being able to regenerate in general from being pumped full of lead. Thus, it’s unlikely that many of Wonder of U’s calamities would have the necessary means to shut down Sato and kill him due to his immortality, being able to regenerate from most circumstances that the disasters could hurt Sato with. Even if Wonder
A question that might come up is incapacitation, however. Wonder of U will go by fate to stop people from pursuing Toru, so he could obviously stop Sato no matter what, right? Not necessarily. While Sato does maintain an incapacitation weakness, due to his Black Ghost, he can kill himself to prevent incapacitation such as through tranquilization darts. In addition to this, Sato’s Black Ghost has shown to be able to distinctly work on its own at a much longer range and remotely more than any other Black Ghost, such as finding and driving an aircraft to save Sato, so it’s very likely that Sato does indeed have means to circumvent incapacitation physically. Even when he was going to be stuck in a pipe, which the cast and anti-Ajin forces did indeed believe to be able to defeat Sato, plus other Ajins have been stopped by being stuck in walls that they couldn’t move out of. However, even without remote travel, Sato has extensive showings of being able to prepare, with the way he circumvented the incapacitation method was by cutting off his whole arm so that he would regenerate from his entire limb rather than just his forearm as to prevent himself from getting stuck. Even if Wonder of U could incapacitate Sato, he would more than likely have the ability to escape through the fact that he can consciously and sub-consciously fight with his Black Ghost as well as rip apart his own body so that he could regenerate elsewhere, assuming he wouldn’t have prepared prior. With Rock Insects in mind, too, his Black Ghost could easily destroy the insects because of it being able to exist independently and Sato having the means to regenerate from his body being stuffed full of Asbestos, granted he’s regenerated from his entire body being blown up before as well as being completely destroyed, and with the unique physiology and regeneration capabilities, Sato could likely nullify and destroy the Asbestos inside of his body just by regenerating the damage done due to being able to deconstruct matter inside of his body that interferes with his regeneration and immortality. Thus, while Toru does maintain a ton of environmental control, it’s very unlikely he could incapacitate Sato with Wonder of U. Plus, Wonder of U has never shown the intention to incapacitate nor the capability, and has explicitly displayed that the Stand goes for completely killing opponents who intend on pursuing and/or killing Toru, so the method of incapacitation is very out-of-character and calamity would explicitly go for killing Sato, meaning that he will always have a way to come back into the fight if he took brain damage or was buried in the ground, for example.
Thus, could Wonder of U do anything? Generally speaking, yes. While it cannot directly incapacitate Sato, it has shown various large-scale calamities allowing it to work on a grand scale of events, such as having Rai live out of his sheer luck for years before coming right back to the Stand and being killed by its calamity or having begun storms out of its domino effect, meaning that it could hypothetically drag Sato into a very hyper-specific situation overtime that would prevent him from coming back. This is an innately vague win condition, however Sato’s immortality is not a sure-fire means of winning the fight because it does have specific caveats, such as the potential of Sato losing the complete intention of pursuing Toru if he takes heavy brain damage and would only continue pursuing Toru if he dies afterwards, such as seen with Nagai who needed to blow his brains out as to regenerate all of his memories. Thus, while it could be very unlikely, there are definitive effects that calamity could create that might be able to shut down Sato and, given enough time, the right cause and effect might happen.
On the other hand, what can Sato do against Wonder of U? With a seemingly impenetrable wall of calamities and being able to attack from any angle as well as disable Sato’s main route of attack, it’s unlikely that Sato could immediately net a way to kill Toru, especially if he himself is getting constantly killed and coming back across the fight. However, this doesn’t mean that Sato has zero options of attack. With his IBM’s description and in-universe explanation, the form of matter is unique and not native to this universe, being described as straight up where the laws of the universe don’t apply to them and the matter shouldn’t exist in this world defying the very logic of our universe with Ajins explicitly being described that the only logic of death they’re vulnerable to is old age, as well as the matter being solely native to human emotion in contrast to all matter created at the beginning of the universe. Thus, granted similar explanations have applied to Go Beyond to where it ultimately transcends the logic of calamity due to not existing naturally, rather as pure energy known as Spin, it’s very likely that Wonder of U would not be able to affect anything formed of invisible black matter with the flow of Calamity- which means that it simply wouldn’t affect Sato’s Black Ghost or interfere with his regeneration besides attacking him- allowing Sato to actually completely circumvent the calamities and go for a direct remote attack with his Black Ghost as he’s done before. Even if you don’t agree with IBMs being unaffected by calamity with this logic, Sato does absolutely have the means to circumvent Wonder of U itself as he can form his Black Ghost directly around Toru, even if he’s not in the same general area. Due to Black Ghosts also working distinctly seperately from the user, having their own minds and bodies, it’s likely that the shift of calamity would explicitly target Sato while Toru can be attacked by Sato’s Black Ghost in a similar vain to how Yasuho was unaffected by Toru’s Stand even after perceiving him and he wasn’t able to pull away the calamities themselves from Josuke, only the Stand itself being able to flee.
Even if Sato had the inability to target Toru with his Black Ghost, assuming that the calamities would in turn target the Black Ghost and Sato at the same if it went for an attack, Sato has one more trick card under his sleeve. Or, well, two. Sato’s scream, albeit he hasn’t shown this in exact combat, should maintain the ability to paralyze Wonder of U and likely Toru as its user due to it affecting people when they hear the scream rather than a physical attack, which could leave Toru and his Stand to rely on calamities as a pathway to defense instead of being able to actually maneuever themselves. While this isn’t too extensively useful on its own, Sato’s flood allows him to summon a city wide attack of endlessly regenerating Black Ghosts that can spread across an entire city and will constantly resuscitate both themselves and other Black Ghosts with their physiology, being immune to gunfire and general destruction for a generally large timeframe, with Sato being able to maintain his Flood activity constantly as he verbatim states as long as he maintains his high of emotions. Even if Sato’s Black Ghost could not attack Toru directly, creating a city-wide flood of monsters who would all swarm Toru and attempt to kill the Rock Human would more than likely be enough, both with the innate scale of calamities and Toru’s inability of being defended by Wonder of U’s attack redirection that could prevent the Stand from being hurt itself, as well as the sheer numbers advantage and constantly swarming Toru itself.
Tertiary Factors
The tertiary factors are a bit more simple to cover. Both are vaguely similar experienced, with Toru being over eighty years old and Sato being… an old guy. However, Sato as displayed in series is vastly more combat experienced and on his own an immensely intelligent combatant being able to outsmart large military operations completely expecting him and hashing plans to break into large-scale buildings designed against him by exploiting his immortality as an Ajin as well as his own combat smarts, such as taking on hundreds of soldiers en masse several times throughout the series. Toru himself has displayed several advantages of booksmarts with his intelligence in computers and biology and medical science, all of which admittedly Sato wasn’t as intelligent in, however these were likely not as integral in combat. Both have also admittedly never fought against someone who’s able to bypass their abilities let alone match them until the protagonists came in, so they likely aren’t very much experienced against one another’s sorts of fighting styles. Regardless though, Sato is vastly more skilled and Toru does have a more likely edge in experience out of years alive.
We weren’t sure where to bring this up, however we were very uncertain on how Toru would play around Sato’s regeneration that considers him “dead”, creating an entirely new consciousness in return. While this would likely reroute Wonder of U back to its base calamity energy levels, if Sato retains the thought of pursuing Toru (which he likely would) it could re-enable Wonder of U. Thus, we believe that Sato being killed off in the fight (done by regenerating his head) would reset Wonder of U, however we don’t believe that it would stop Wonder of U besides that as it would just be considered a new foe going after Wonder of U after the calamity completely pauses after the death of its prior pursuer.
Conclusion
Advantages:
More experienced and older.
Wonder of U can redirect all of Sato’s attacks towards it, preventing it from being attacked.
Calamities can constantly destroy Sato’s body and interfere with his arsenal.
Wonder of U can still kill Sato…
Dripped out... just not dripped out himself.
Only truly lost because of a Deus Ex Machina. Thanks Rai!
Disadvantages:
… however Sato will resurrect, and would reset Calamity energy
Unable to directly counteract Sato’s regeneration without out-of-the-way tactics such as incapacitation which Sato can still work around.
Likely unable to manipulate Sato’s IBM with his Stand, making it impossible to control his Black Ghosts or conflict with regeneration directly.
No way to counteract Sato’s IBM flood or scream.
Less skilled in combat.
To Catch a Predator (who let this 89-year old rock man meet up with the high schooler bruh)
Seriously. Don’t bring up fingers. Or the bathroom. Or an elevator.
Advantages:
Immortality and regeneration make it impossible for him to die to Wonder of U or its calamities.
Black Ghost is completely invulnerable from damage unless its head is targeted, making it a great stone wall against Toru’s calamities and a great tool to attack him.
Scream can incapacitate Toru and Wonder of U momentarily to open up advantage points.
More intelligent, capable in combat, and more experienced in direct combat.
Flood can be used to kill Toru…
Can kill himself to prevent incapacitation from Wonder of U’s calamities, such as brain death or being knocked unconscious.
IBM can likely completely counteract calamity energy due to its nature in this universe.
Cool ass grandpa.
Literally described in the story as being ‘him’.
Disadvantages:
… however he would need to still extensively fight and reach a high in emotion to activate it.
Not as overall experienced or booksmart.
Cannot directly circumvent calamities that would affect his arsenal, such as getting him into a plane crash or jamming his weapons.
Could still be incapacitated by Wonder of U in specific situations.
Cannot directly kill Wonder of U due to its unique physiology and would need to outlast it if it permeates after death.
Would probably play League of Legends
Overall, we found this to be a very compelling debate between these two characters, especially with their very unique and completely unstoppable abilities. Both were immensely consistent in how much they could survive in this fight, unable to die at a first glance if not functionally impossible to defeat due to their capabilities. Toru’s Wonder of U is certainly a strong Stand that completely changes the flow of a fight and an environment, manipulating what seems to be cause and effect in itself to defend the user, making it a very potent tool in this fight. However, Sato’s immortality was much more directly defensive and allowed him to get through any of the disasters that the Head Doctor could throw at him- and eventually, Sato’s usage of an IBM flood would allow him to overwhelm Toru’s Stand and target the user itself to kill him.
That didn’t mean that Toru had no advantages, per se, as he still maintains the ability to likely completely incapacitate Sato in this fight. However, Sato had many direct means to attack Toru through his Black Ghost and could work remotely from the fight, whereas once Toru completely dedicates all of calamity’s flow towards Sato, he’d simply run out of any ways to defend himself against Sato’s Black Ghost which could completely tank any damage thrown out. Ultimately, while Toru’s cunningness and calamity-inducement was powerful, Sato’s immortality, skill, and sheer capability allowed him to easily overturn this disaster fest into a victory for the one to stand against this terror. The winner is Sato.
Final Tally
Toru (0) - uhh…
Sato (5) - hade, starmanatee., Sr-Fish, HyperSsonic, snaggler
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