I actually have information on this. As fan of jojo for almost 20 years this “rumor” came from a interview that araki was originally going to make stardust crusaders a modern retelling of Dracula. A lot of japanease message boards were coming up with ideas of how it would playout if he went with that idea, and what crussder would fit the roles of the charecters from dracula. Everyone seemed to lean towards kakyoins role being Mina Harker, because kakyoin was possesd by dio at the beginning and mina was posessed by dracula. Also mina was the fiance of the main charecter.
on a side note i seen the artical about female kakyoin with my own eyes! A old friend translated It I have been wanting to see it again for a year now! maybe translate it myself, check the facts.
It had something to do with araki wanting a female crusader, but the editor said it was a bad idea to have a girl as a main character in a shounen manga. So araki went with a softer male to foil jotaro instead. It didnt directly say kakyoin was going to be a girl, just that he replaced the idea of a girl.
I’m not afraid to say i dedicated almost ten years to digging around the way back machine and looking trough old articles for any mention of jotaro and kakyoin. And buying old merch like ova cels and 90s joka doujins. “I own clamp in wonderland” I bought a jotaro kakyoin doujin from 1990! That is almost as old as stardust crusaders itself!
I just find it so so fasinating to look back on such a old and ritch ship its so cool seeing how the jotakak ship art changed over time, based on the erra and person who made the art. as time goes on the styles change the colors change, even the content changes based on the worlds view of the lgbtq comunity. but there is always that heart and passion to each artwork. Its nice seeing that they stood the test of time as a pair! the core dynsmics that araki gave jotaro and kayoin and made them very popular and resiliant. there foil personalities is what makes jotakak popular, and such a fun ship to play with.
Another resson for this rumor espesally in the japanease community is
Back in the early 2000s clamp had a jotakak webpage called green drug. There was a post on there from them that said they asked araki sensei “would jotaro marry kakyoin if he was a girl”. Clamp said araki resonded
“yes I dont see why not, kakyoin is quiet and traditional but could keep jotaro in check” “laughs”.
Remember araki never said this! clamp said he did. But i like to think he did, as araki likes to leave things open and leave his fans minds to run wild. Unfortunetly the web page legal drug has been removed because the guy that wrote one peive didnt want the sajixluffy porn on there “oh clamp"lol
So the only solid proof i have of that is a rare book published by clamp depicting how they imaginged araki’s coment would play out if jotaro and girl kakyoin were a married couple. Interesting thing to note is this early 2000s book predicts kakyoins mothers hair in the anime. That concludes the reasons why the fandom has this rumor "there still might be truth to it. "Schrodinger’s cannon” untill i can find that article and prove it valid of fase.
I also noticed a question @hajnarus gets asked alot. why alot of artists most noteably “Japanese fanartists” depict kakyoin as feminine?. Well you can take this at face value, “hes just pretty”. But there is acualy a cultural reason for this!.
Around 2011 i got in a leangthy converstaion about why kakyoin is depicted as feminine in alot of fan works from japan. What she told me was absolutely fascinating! She said that japan has a female way of speking and wrighting and a male way of speaking and writing. And kakyoin talks and writes in a female dialect!. My friend mentioned how it reminded her of lady oscar in the rose of Versailles, and how oscar speaks with a male dialect, kakyoin is the reverse.
Hears a interesting artical on the subject
Talk like a girl or boy in Japanese, depending how you want to sound.
I must also mention he is canonly considered very feminine. Each translaion depicts him as very femmine or effeminate. The japanease translates losely to lady like.
The important thing to take from this long ted talk is that kakyoin’s beauty and femininity were lost to translaion and arakis early art style.
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