Joze Shiuba

Joze Shiuba (real name José Silva) is one of the male students who attended Akademi in 1980s Mode. He was the Treasurer of the Student Council.

Appearance[]

Current[]

Joze has short, wavy dark brown hair, light brown skin and olive green eyes with light green highlights. His eyebrows are noticeably thicker than most other students.

He wears the Student Council uniform alongside the "Red Armband of Leadership" on his left arm reading 生徒会 (seito kai), meaning Student Council written in kanji.

Out of all of his fellow members, he is considered to be the shortest.^[2]

Previous[]

Before the June 1st, 2022 Build, he had dark brown hair and his bangs swept over his left eyebrow.

Personality[]

“

Treasurer of the student council. Foreign exchange student from Brazil. A genius with numbers. When flustered, speaks in a mix of Japanese and Portuguese words. Many girls at school find him to be 'exotic.'

”

— Description in Ryoba's notebook.

“

Treasurer of the student council. A foreign exchange student from Brazil. His Japanese is rough, but he's a genius with numbers. Many girls at school think his accent is cute, and find him to be "exotic".

”

— Previous description in Ryoba's notebook.

Among the Personas that are currently implemented in the game, Joze is Dangerous. If he witnesses Ryoba Aishi commit murder, he will run up, spray her with pepper spray, and restrain her. Like the 202X Student Council members, he will push Ryoba away if she gets too close and pepper spray her if she attempts to kill him without stealth or gets too close five times. He will break up fights between Ryoba and a delinquent by standing in between them.

Routine[]

HoseModel — Joze patrolling around the track area.

At 7:00 AM, Joze leaves the Student Council Room and will begin patrolling the exterior of the school, starting with the Plaza. He also patrols near the Incinerator. The only club he patrols is the Gardening Club.

At 8:00 AM, he walks to Classroom 1-1 and sits at his desk waiting for his morning classes to start at 8:30 AM. He leaves to go patrol the exterior again at 1:00 PM. He walks back to class again at 1:22 PM and sits at his desk before his classes start at 1:30 PM.

He goes back to patrolling the exterior at 3:30 PM. Afterwards, he heads to the Student Council Room and stays there for the rest of the day.

On Fridays at 3:30 PM, he goes to the Meeting Room and meet up with the rest of the Student Council and all the club leaders to have their weekly meeting.

During Week 9 on Friday, at 4:20 PM, he will leave the Student Council Room along with the other members and goes to the back of the school to sit down and read on the bleachers.

Topics[]

The Conversational Topics Joze feels towards are as follows:

Positive	Negative

Science Justice School Family Money	Drama Violence Reading Gossip Socializing

Relationships[]

Student Council Members[]

Main articles: Reiichi Tanaami, Ken Kyonashima, Daisaku Aragaki

Joze views his relationship with his fellow student council members as friends.^[3]

Trivia[]

Joze and Nagaharu Kurudo are the only characters who speak a different language other than English in the game.
His name was originally "Hose Shiruba" until the October 24th, 2021 build.
When Joze sends Ryoba Aishi to the Counselor's Office, he mixes up Portuguese and Japanese words, indicating that he gets nervous, just like it is said in his student profile.
His position as the treasurer in the Student Council is likely due to his skill with math.
His hair model was changed to look less basic/generic and more like the "dreamy foreign boy" character.^[4]
He and Fureddo Jonzu are the only foreign characters that attend Akademi.
Canonically, Joze survived the events of 1989 and later traveled to the entire world for many years working as a math teacher and professional mathematician before returning to Brazil and settling down.^[5]^[6]
If Joze was given a flower, he would be awkward and attempt to remember how to say "thank you" and "flower" in Japanese.^[7]
He and Ken Kyonashima are incapable of self-defense.^[8]
If Joze wasn't in the student council, he would be in the Sports Club with Daisaku Aragaki.^[9]
Outside of school, Joze wears clothing that is casual and comfortable, but does not make him look sloppy.^[10]
If Joze caught someone skipping, he would continuously mispronounce the Japanese phrase for "skipping class" until he got it right. But the student skipping would get bored and return back to class.^[11]
Joze likes Brazillian girls.^[12]
He enjoys listening to music that reminds him of Brazil.^[13]
While he is not expcetionally good at it, Joze can play the berimbau,^[13] which is a traditional musical bow commonly used in various genres of music in Brazil.^[14]
If Joze was called sexy, he would bashfully rub the back of his head, then thanks the person, but not in Japanese.^[15]
Joze would enjoy Chainsaw Man.^[16] His favorite character would be Makima.^[17]
Joze is great in math.^[18]
He comes from a lower-middle class family.^[19]