Editing Jolyne Cujoh (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure) (section)

== Hāfu and representation ==

Jolyne stands out in the Joestar line as a Japanese‑American protagonist whose life is almost entirely lived outside Japan. 

Where Jotaro is a Japanese delinquent who later becomes international, Jolyne is an American young woman whose Japanese heritage is mediated through an often‑absent father and a complicated family history. 

From a broad ''hāfu'' perspective, she is a second‑generation mixed character: her father is already half‑Japanese and half Western, and her mother is American, likely of European descent. 

This makes Jolyne one of the most “globalized” JoJos on paper, a descendant of British and Italian ancestors whose story plays out in a Florida prison and whose identity blends punk, streetwise American attitudes with the inherited resolve of the Joestar clan. 

Crucially, ''Stone Ocean'' treats Jolyne’s mixed background as normal rather than exotic. 
Her struggles focus on injustice, autonomy, and living up to her own sense of right and wrong, with her biracial heritage functioning as quiet context rather than her defining trait—yet it still matters to how she sees her father, her place in the Joestar family, and the legacy she ultimately chooses to carry.