Death Thirteen, Part 1

Kakyoin dreams of a deserted amusement park where only a dog keeps him company, until the Death tarot card materializes and its Stand, Death Thirteen, strikes, slaying the dog before Polnareff shakes him awake to leave town. Alarmed, Kakyoin notices a fresh cut on his sleeping hand, then spots the very dog from his dream lying dead in the same way, deepening his dread.

Rejoining the others, the group finds Joseph arguing with a man who now refuses to rent his plane because he must rush a baby to a hospital. Joseph offers to carry the child, and a woman agrees, confessing mid-flight that the infant, Mannish Boy, is not hers and that his fangs frightened her. As the plane flies on, both Kakyoin and Polnareff drift asleep and return to the same eerie park. Kakyoin tries to warn Polnareff about the dream attacker, using the dead dog as evidence, but the warning goes unheeded until Death Thirteen strikes at them both; inside the dream they cannot summon their own Stands. Joseph wakes Polnareff to change the baby's diaper just before a killing blow lands, leaving Kakyoin alone.

With Death Thirteen exposed as Mannish Boy's Stand, Kakyoin gashes his own arm while thrashing in his sleep, causing Joseph to crash the plane. Once the team makes camp to await rescue, Kakyoin sees he has carved the words "Baby Stand" into his arm and realizes the infant they have been carrying is the attacker. He tries to alert the others, but no one believes him, and Mannish Boy delights that his plan to kill the group is unfolding.

Kakyoin is first attacked by Death Thirteen inside a shared dream and wakes with real injuries. The group unknowingly takes the baby Mannish Boy aboard their plane, and the Stand is revealed to belong to him. Kakyoin, thrashing in his sleep, causes the plane to crash. He deciphers the message on his own arm and identifies the infant as the enemy, but his companions dismiss his warnings.

The nineteenth episode of Stardust Crusaders adapts chapters 168 through 170 and forms the first half of a two-part story storyboarded by Toshiyuki Kato. The anime removes a short manga beat where Kakyoin reaches to touch the smiling baby only for it to burst into tears. Director Naokatsu Tsuda praised Ikue Ootani's cute yet menacing performance as Mannish Boy and noted the deliberate visual contrast built between the waking world and the dream realm. A trivia point marks this as the first Stardust Crusaders episode with an unconventional preview, showing only Kakyoin asleep as the baby cries.