SOURCE: JoJo's Bizarre Adventure wiki. Tamami Kobayashi (小林 玉美 Kobayashi Tamami) is a tertiary antagonist featured in the fourth part of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Diamond is Unbreakable, introduced in the "Koichi Hirose (Echoes)" story arc. Tamami is a petty scammer who tries to swindle Koichi but is eventually neutralized. He subsequently becomes a tertiary ally and works legitimately as a debt collector. His Stand is The Lock. In the manga, he has two distinct appearances, with one turning into the latter by the end of his introductory story arc. Tamami initially appears as a tall and intimidating man. With pronounced epicanthic folds, he wears hair of dark to medium tone combed in the manner of a pompadour into a sort of thick helmet; and he has a small cross-shaped scar beyond the bottom-left corner of his mouth. He wears dark, baggy pants, casual business shoes, a wristwatch, earrings and a button up polo, which appears in two different designs throughout Part 4. It first appeared with the English flag on his left breast, the Swiss flag on the right collar and the Italian flag on the left, however, the anime depicts the left collar flag as the Netherlands. The other design has a row of patterned triangles circled around his waist and sleeves. Throughout the Koichi Hirose (Echoes) story arc, Tamami is seen gradually shrinking. By the end of the arc, he is around Koichi's height and retains this height for the rest of Part 4. In the anime, Tamami is always portrayed as short in stature. Tamami Kobayashi is a sly hustler with a despicable personality. Tamami is defined by his activity as a con man, his specialty being tricking people into feeling extreme guilt so that he can pressure them into giving him money. As a con man, Tamami doesn't use violence but trickery, which is reflected by The Lock having no offensive ability whatsoever although it increases the guilt of his victims. As a con man, Tamami is also avaricious and generally unpleasant. He's notably a con man because he prefers to hustle people and easily get money, and has no qualm hustling people who can't pay what he demands of them (when Koichi told him his money was for buying the necessary sneakers for his physical education, Tamami told him to go barefoot). When he had a grudge against Koichi, Tamami even planned to take the Hirose Family's house for himself. Even after he turned a new leaf, Tamami became a loan shark. Apart from his greed, Tamami also shows he's a pervert and openly lusts for Koichi's sister. Finally, he's also a coward as when Josuke and Koichi went after Toshikazu Hazamada, he expressed admiration for Koichi but also left, not willing to act and help neutralize an evil Stand user. Tamami shows some tenacity and pride as a trickster. Whenever he faces setbacks, Tamami confidently goes further in his hustles to force his enemies to yield. He notably claims that he must live up to his namesake of "Tamami", the "Tama" of his name meaning "balls". However, he was forced to flee in front of Josuke Higashikata, because Crazy Diamond was a perfect counter for his hustling tactics, and also ultimately yielded to Koichi when Koichi showed that his family's trust was stronger than any guilt. At first confident, Tamami became Koichi's lackey and began looking up to the boy.
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