Rohan Kishibe's Adventure

Recovered from his beating by Josuke, Rohan recruits Koichi to help him explore a strange alley absent from every map of Morioh, drawn to it after reading Koichi's memories. Inside, each corner returns them to the same street and its mailbox, and a girl named Reimi Sugimoto approaches. Suspecting a Stand user, Rohan uses Heaven's Door on her, but she proves to be an ordinary person as he reads far into her private history, earning Koichi's rebuke. When Reimi begins a ghost story, a dog with a slit throat joins her, and she reveals that both she and her pet Arnold are spirits, and that the alley is a limbo between the living world and Heaven.

Reimi explains that the man who killed her has gone on secretly murdering others and begs the pair to stop him, then guides them toward the exit with a warning not to glance back too soon, lest dark spirits drag them into the afterlife. Near the way out, those spirits trick a panicked Koichi, something they have never dared attempt with Reimi, and Rohan uses Heaven's Door to pull them both to safety. Rohan later meets an old monk at Reimi's grave who was once her friend and was spared the same fate. When Koichi reports the murders, Josuke doubts they can act against an ordinary man, and the episode closes on that killer, Yoshikage Kira, calmly conversing with a severed hand about his inherited family home.

The adaptation fully visualizes Heaven's Door touching Reimi, adds more imagery to her murder, and gives her school as Budogaoka High. The Kira reveal is shifted to play over the closing credits rather than the usual ending song. Director Naokatsu Tsuda noted that the alley used a deliberately unusual color palette to convey its otherworldly feel, and that Rohan's outfit would change with every appearance from this point onward.