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Yoshiya "Joshua" Kiryu is a character from Square Enix's ''{{w|The World Ends with You}}''. A sly and precocious boy with an incredibly deep view of the world around him, Joshua is actually the god-like Composer of Shibuya. His role was originally to oversee the Reapers' Game but decided to erase the district and everyone in it, accepting the challenge of Shibuya's Conductor Megumi Kitaniji to see if Shibuya deserves to be saved with three weeks of Reaper Games. To that end, seeking a proxy to use against Kitaniji, Joshua arranged [[Neku Sakuraba]]'s enrollment by personally killing him. Joshua partners with Neku in the beginning of the second Reaper's Game for various reasons, becoming an illegal player as he didn't die to enter the game. During the week, Joshua looks for the "Shibuya River" with Neku, using a tracker Mr. Hanekoma installed in his and Neku's cellphones. By the end of the week, Joshua was seemingly killed off by the Reaper Sho Minamimoto. However, during the final battle with Kitaniji on the final day of the third Reaper Game, Joshua appears and reveals himself to be the Composer. Once Kitaniji is killed, instead of destroying Shibuya as he have won the bet, Joshua offers Neku a chance to determine Shibuya's fate: by killing him in a pistol duel. Though Neku lost as he refused to shoot, the total change of the boy's personality and trust in him convinced Joshua to spare Shibuya.