Yellow Temperance

Strolling through Singapore with Anne and Kakyoin, Jotaro buys chilled coconut juice for the group, but Kakyoin is behaving crudely and violently. At a cable car station the fake Kakyoin tries to shove Jotaro off a ledge; Jotaro saves himself and lands a punch, exposing the impostor as Rubber Soul, wielder of the blob-like Yellow Temperance. A piece of the Stand latches onto Jotaro's finger, and Rubber Soul boasts that it will steadily devour and spread across his body. When Star Platinum strikes, Yellow Temperance burns Jotaro's arm instead.

Jotaro leaps from the cable car to break away and tries burning the blob off, only to make it grow. Boarding another car, he attempts to chill it with a boy's ice pop, which drives it deeper. A fellow passenger who consumes a puppy reveals herself as the disguised user, insisting that neither fire nor ice affects the Stand. Told that Yellow Temperance cannot be beaten, Jotaro falls back on the secret technique of running, punching a hole through the cable car floor and dropping out alongside Rubber Soul.

Splashing into water, Rubber Soul opens the Stand's guard to breathe, and Jotaro finally lands a hit and interrogates him. Rubber Soul gives up the identity of J. Geil, a man with two right hands whose mirror-based Stand is named for the Hanged Man tarot, and who killed Polnareff's sister. When Rubber Soul funnels his Stand through a drainpipe to catch Jotaro, Star Platinum bursts the drain with water pressure and blasts him back into the open, where Jotaro finishes him with a barrage. Later, aboard a train to India, Avdol reveals Anne has gone back to Singapore, and Kakyoin unnervingly mimics Rubber Soul's cherry trick.

Rubber Soul impersonates Kakyoin and ambushes Jotaro with the shapeshifting, consuming Stand Yellow Temperance, which resists both fire and ice. Jotaro escapes by punching through a cable car and defeats Rubber Soul once the Stand's guard opens underwater. Under interrogation, Rubber Soul exposes J. Geil, the two-right-handed killer of Polnareff's sister, whose Stand Hanged Man works through mirrors. The group boards a train toward India, and Anne departs to search for her father in Singapore.

The ninth Stardust Crusaders episode, and the thirty-fifth overall, adapts the latter half of Chapter 136 through Chapter 139. The adaptation lengthens Joseph and Anne's phone call and shows the genuine Kakyoin arriving to explain his absence, a gap the manga left open. In his commentary, Naokatsu Tsuda singled out the celebrated cherry-licking scene handled by animation director Fumiaki Kouta, the effort to render Yellow Temperance's gelatinous look, and the pink Singapore sky that voice actor Daisuke Ono praised.