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>Kaneda: Looking at things through the prism of being a Fujoshi, or rather in my own interpretation, the appearance of Father Pucci in Part 6, a character who is very serious about his committed feelings for Dio, is the final piece in my theory that "Dio = princess" (laughs). Despite that Dio had a background roughly similar to that of a prostitute, he rose to a higher position and although, of course, his body was sullied by various men in the process, he never lost the nobility of his soul. And then we have Father Pucci, 16 years old, captivated by such a personality that is Dio… Early on, there's a scene where Dio and Pucci are having a conversation while lying on different sides of the same bed in a disheveled manner. I simultaneously could barely believe my eyes and went mad with joy. Anyhow, was that scene drawn with that aim in mind as I suspect, Mr. Araki?
>Araki: Hmm, I probably wasn't anticipating that scene being taken that way back then. That kind of thing happens a lot between guys. It's kind of like sleeping together in a huddle at a sleepover. Like when you go drinking and it gets late, so you crash at somebody's place.
>Kaneda: Eh, then you're saying that Father Pucci and Dio were out late drinking?! (laughs) Stop it, these two aren't the type of characters who would miss the last train home for the night nor would they have sleepovers.
>Araki: If you're going to insist, now that I hear it, I'm starting to think I might've had something like what you're thinking in mind when I drew it (laughs). Either way, Dio's the sort of character who's not afraid of that sort of thing. Whether it be women or men, he can go for both.
It kinda seems like a fujoshitter coerced the answer out of him and this particular interview is the only time that's ever cited for Araki confirming his sexuality. Dio is never explicitly shown to desire a romantic relationship with a man. The interviewer brings up his relationship to the antagonist of Stone Ocean, but that character was a priest and specified that he loved Dio in the same sense as he loved the Christian God (i.e. clearly not sexually). There is a bit of a homosexual undertone to the series, which I would guess started out as comedic flair but now may be completely unironic as JOJOLANDS has a literal nigger tranny as the deuteroganist. It's worth noting that Dio had kids with multiple women, which is the only explicit indication of his sexuality within the actual series that I can recall.
Rest of the interview: https://jojowiki.com/Interview:Eureka_(November_2007)