The protagonist of Part 2's Battle Tendency, Joseph Joestar, was born in 1920 as a natural-born Ripple user. He eventually got a Stand in Hermit Purple much later in 1988.

A long-standing joke in the Jojo community is that, with his clear skin and youthful disposition, creator Hirohiko Araki might just be a vampire himself. In reality, of course, the mangaka is ...