Let's Go to the Manga Artist's House, Part 1

Recently discharged from the hospital, Toshikazu Hazamada runs into Koichi Hirose on the streets of Morioh, and the former foes quickly warm to each other over a shared passion for manga. Hazamada mentions that the celebrated artist Rohan Kishibe has moved into town, so the two head to his home hoping for a glimpse. Rohan turns out to be delighted by fans and shows them around his studio, unsettling them by chewing on a live spider in the name of research. The moment he steps away, the boys sneak a look at his fresh manuscript and fall prey to his Stand, Heaven's Door, which peels their bodies open like books and lays bare their every secret.

Koichi calls out Echoes, but the strike fails because Rohan has already written a command into him forbidding an attack. Fascinated by Koichi's vivid life story, Rohan begins tearing memory pages out of him before sending both visitors home with no recollection of the encounter. That night Koichi senses something wrong upon discovering he has lost twenty kilograms, yet the thought slips away before he can tell Josuke. By the following day he inexplicably finds himself back at Rohan's door, with Josuke Higashikata and Okuyasu Nijimura trailing close behind.

Rohan Kishibe and his Stand Heaven's Door make their full appearance, establishing an ability that rewrites and reads people as living manuscripts. Koichi's attempted counterattack is neutralized by a written command, and Rohan strips away chunks of his memory and body weight. The cliffhanger sees Koichi drawn helplessly back to the studio with reinforcements unknowingly following.

The adaptation cuts Rohan's musings about the appeal of reading ordinary lives and adds a flashback of Toshikazu in a bookstore, during which the Stand user Masazo Kinoto can be spotted with his back deliberately hidden. The ending sequence gains new touches such as Rohan drawing, Akira Otoishi playing guitar, and Joseph Joestar holding Shizuka. In the English dub Rohan refers to the Stand Love Deluxe by its original name rather than a later localized one.