an alternate reality version who is a descendant of johnny joestar through his mother holy joestar-kira and thus a distant relation to the higashikata family. he was also a friend of josefumi kujo, who attempted to help him save holy's life by stealing a locacaca branch to use its fruit. but it ended with yoshikage fatally wounded by the rock people with josefumi attempting to save him with last of the locacaca fruit they stole before the two were buried alive by the 2011 tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. the fruit takes effect with kira's body parts and traits of his stand killer queen being swapped with josefumi's to turn him into josuke, with what remained of yoshikage's body uncovered a few days after josuke was found.