Toyohiro Kanedaichi

Standing at an unremarkable height, Toyohiro dresses in trousers reinforced with iron over the knees and a short-cut top held to his belt by a pair of straps running from his shirt pockets. A cap crowns his head, resembling a sailor's or newsboy's style except that its brim rides unusually high. Nature motifs cover him in the form of pinned ornaments, among them a spider, a butterfly, and scattered leaves along his belt and armbands, echoing the decorative flourishes common to other figures in the fourth story.

What truly sets him apart is the series of masks he hides behind. At first he looks handsome and defined, with hair spilling out from beneath his hat, yet peeling away the first covering leaves his ears warped and the tones of his eyes reversed, while loose skin gathers at his throat. Under a second, brimless cap sits an even less flattering face, its scalp nearly bare and its mouth grown broad and slack. Every one of these revealed visages carries a matching pair of stitch-like lines trailing down the cheeks.

Kanedaichi is willing to deceive, luring Josuke into Super Fly while quietly arranging his own getaway. Even so, he insists he holds no wish to kill and calls out a warning when Josuke slips, admitting he never truly expected the plan to work since his schemes rarely do. He confesses that dread of the outside world kept him rooted in the tower to begin with, and that he only agreed to the trap because Yoshihiro dangled the promise of a comfortable life. Remorse follows his defeat, as he offers his opponents a meal and treatment for their injuries, which they turn down.

Braced for what he assumed would be his end, he was ready to accept it, but being rescued softened him into contentment, and he settles into a quiet existence chatting casually with visitors. Because his mask conceals his true face and everything he claimed about himself was invention, his genuine name and looks stay a mystery. His deep aversion to company explains both why he hides who he is and why he walked away from society for the tower in the first place.

Roughly three years before the events of the story, Kanedaichi bought a retired transmission tower from the power company for a modest sum and remodeled it into a fully self-supporting home, choosing the solitary life out of his own reclusive nature. Over time a self-harming Stand called Super Fly took root in the structure, chaining him to its limits. His long tenancy toughened his palms into massive calluses that let him drive nails, ride cables, work out calculations, and stash tools, and he grew nimble enough to swing about the girders and slip past blows. It was Yoshihiro Kira who eventually approached him, dangling freedom in exchange for snaring a Stand user.

When Josuke, Okuyasu, and Mikitaka stumble upon the abandoned tower, Kanedaichi plays the harmless recluse until Josuke is drawn inside, then reveals that his own Stand had imprisoned him and that he had spent the wait building a household. A furious clash with the three follows. Beaten, he chooses to remain, realizing the world beyond the girders frightened him more than staying ever did, and he becomes a fixture of Morioh, letting sightseers snap photos in trade for spices and tools. Adaptation and novel material continue his story as a tower-bound curiosity known to locals only as the Iron Tower Man, still trading pleasantries with the tourists who bring him treats.