Masazo Kinoto

Kinoto is a wiry man whose undercut leaves two unruly strands standing out, and his ears are the cauliflower kind. He turns up in relaxed office wear: a roomy trench coat, khaki slacks, and a collared shirt colored blue on the page and green on screen.

Reserved and easily unsettled, Kinoto is an architect with a streak of greed. The Stand fixed to him whispers a constant warning that any exposure of his back means death, and the paranoia drives him to strange behavior. He shuffles back to back with strangers, presses against walls to move sideways, and even climbs stairs upside down, all to keep his spine hidden from view.

Cheap Trick clings to its host's back and slays him the instant anyone else lays eyes on it, then leaps onto whoever did the looking. It stays unseen while riding a person, even to other Stand users, yet can make its voice understood by anyone. Kinoto lacked the will to shape the Stand properly, so instead of a usable power it left him with a compulsion to conceal his back, and only when Rohan Kishibe finally saw it did Cheap Trick take full form.

He had become a Stand user among the many people Yoshihiro Kira shot to shield his son Yoshikage, and the Stand's menacing murmurs bred his phobia. Hired by Rohan to price out repairs on his fire-damaged home, Kinoto meant to pad the bill since his client was wealthy. Rohan, wary of a hostile Stand user, knocked him out with Heaven's Door and read him, finding nothing dangerous apart from the odd terror of a seen back.

Curiosity got the better of the artist, who lured Kinoto into a hole in the floor that bared his spine, letting Cheap Trick drain his life and move on to Rohan.