Jojo's Bizarre Adventure; Part I: We're Lacking Poses!

[Scowling Dragon]

Well question is what was disliked in Part 3. Without knowing the why I can't recomend anything new.

[ryuplaneswalker]

The openings in Part 4 have been Bizarre, especially the newest one.

[Scowling Dragon]

I know I love it. Jojos at its best when its being JOJO.

[Fri]

What a strangely cheery op. That's the first time we get cheery song instead of fistpumping or epic song, isn't it?

[LaZodiac]

What a strangely cheery op. That's the first time we get cheery song instead of fistpumping or epic song, isn't it?

Yeah, though I'd consider the first Diamond is Unbreakable op to be pretty cheery?

Anyway, New Episode!

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So...thoughts on wheter or not our buddy here is an alien or not?

Also god damnit the next part is Highway Star. YES YES YES. The last couple episodes have been goolden.

[ryuplaneswalker]

Yeah, though I'd consider the first Diamond is Unbreakable op to be pretty cheery?

Anyway, New Episode!

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So...thoughts on wheter or not our buddy here is an alien or not?

Also god damnit the next part is Highway Star. YES YES YES. The last couple episodes have been goolden.

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I am going to say yes because it is Jojo and that is the most reasonable explanation

[LaZodiac]

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I am going to say yes because it is Jojo and that is the most reasonable explanation

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The thing I love the most about this guy is that they give us just enough evidence, and just enough non-evidence, that it could really go EITHER WAY.

[NecroDancer]

The new intro is amazing!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7Su0viKgV3g

[Gastronomie]

The new intro is amazing!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7Su0viKgV3g

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I didn't realize until I saw it in the comments, but there's some sign of Part 5 coming up. When Koichi appears walking through the street (with Yukako coming from his left and these doves flying above them), there's a sign post behind him that says "2001", with the mark of a ladybug and the initials "GW" (possibly stands for "Golden Winds").

[Flickerdart]

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The thing I love the most about this guy is that they give us just enough evidence, and just enough non-evidence, that it could really go EITHER WAY.

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I think he's not an alien. Why would an actual alien have an "ultra hyper gravity manipulator"? What even is that?

[LaZodiac]

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I think he's not an alien. Why would an actual alien have an "ultra hyper gravity manipulator"? What even is that?

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Why would you NOT. Flying is really good to travel with so adjusting your gravity would be helpful. It might also make it so that he can actually function on Earth, if he's an alien.

[Flickerdart]

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Why would you NOT. Flying is really good to travel with so adjusting your gravity would be helpful. It might also make it so that he can actually function on Earth, if he's an alien.

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He doesn't have it with him - he says the gravity manipulator is on the ship, like his ray gun.

[VariSami]

One of those epiphanies about part 7 which proves I can be a bit slow (although I have a vague memory about thinking of it before):

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Scary Monsters <-(Engrish scrambler)-> Scaly Monsters

[NecroDancer]

I just saw highway go go part 1



That dice game got out of hand

[LaZodiac]

I just saw highway go go part 1



That dice game got out of hand

As a friend of mine said "This is really intense and probably shouldn't be" and that's just Jojo in general sometimes.

Next episode is something that, despite the Duwang translations of Part 4, despite the poor quality of the scans, beyond eveerything, made me love Josuke as a protagonist. Practically salivating to see it animated. Hell yes.

[Brendanicus]

So, wait. How would The Lock be able to tell if Josuke was cheating? Can somebody explain that to me?

[Scowling Dragon]

Guilt. The lock works off of Guilt. So In a sense hes set it to attach to Jomiester if he feels guilty for not cheating.

[VariSami]

Specifically, Rohan basically set a new rule that Josuke must keep cheating. Thus, he would actually be cheating if he stopped cheating at that point. Since the 2 million yen prize gained by cheating by stopping cheating with the dice is big enough to probably make even Josuke feel bad if he gains it by cheating within the new rules to which it is connected, the lock would probably get him.

[Gastronomie]

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The way they animated "BUT I REFUSE" made me laugh in a good way. They replicated the original manga as best as they could.

[Fri]

**** man, this episode.

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The "Actually your house is on fire! But nobody realized it because everyone was too intense" had me. Holy god that must be the most ridiculously ridiculous thing in jojo so far. It's almost like a gag anime, but played completely absolutely straight and serious. Good god, this anime.

I must say that, eventhough later arcs might be as good, or better than DiU (everyone keep mentioning how Steel Ball Run is better), I doubt any arc could replace DiU's place in my heart.

It's because DiU is basically my favourite premise. That is, mundane things played seriously. Also, it's basically Durarara pumped to eleven, and a friend of mine once mentioned that Durarara is basically the Fri anime, it's the anime that perfectly capture what they thought of my taste.

[Gastronomie]

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I was sorta surprised at how no one in this thread said anything about Rohan's "BUT I REFUSE", but then I just now realized that's because it's not that famous a phrase in other countries.

In Japan, "Daga kotowaru" is a really popular interent meme and a phrase many otakus use - of course, being based off the line from Jojo. That probably has stuff to do with how they made the scene's animation so good in the latest episode.

[LaZodiac]

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The way they animated "BUT I REFUSE" made me laugh in a good way. They replicated the original manga as best as they could.

It's the best and I love it. This entire anime, from as far back as Phantom Blood, has tried to emulate the manga as much as it can. The only times it changes things, even slightly, is to make the rest of the story BETTER. Just small little touches, that you'd never notice unless "you knew" to notice.

I didn't realize it was a meme in Japan, nice. It'd be like in English if he said "...no u" I guess? But yeah, that scene was awesome! The reason why we haven't really been talking about it is because this entire episode is kind of full of REALLY good moments.

**** man, this episode.

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The "Actually your house is on fire! But nobody realized it because everyone was too intense" had me. Holy god that must be the most ridiculously ridiculous thing in jojo so far. It's almost like a gag anime, but played completely absolutely straight and serious. Good god, this anime.

I must say that, eventhough later arcs might be as good, or better than DiU (everyone keep mentioning how Steel Ball Run is better), I doubt any arc could replace DiU's place in my heart.

It's because DiU is basically my favourite premise. That is, mundane things played seriously. Also, it's basically Durarara pumped to eleven, and a friend of mine once mentioned that Durarara is basically the Fri anime, it's the anime that perfectly capture what they thought of my taste.

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It is absolutely one of the best comedic moments in the series. The two of them were so intense about their gambling that they didn't notice the RAGING FIRE. God, imagine what it'd be like to be a fan of Rohan Kishibi's manga in this universe? First he's out for a MONTH, and now you receive word that his house has burnt down. It's a good thing he's a mangaka god and can easily recover drawing wise.

And then we get the second half of the episode (or, more accurately, the actual start of the episode, because the entire gambling thing was the end half of I Am An Alien) with the creepy tunnel house, and Rohan's fetish for telling people who think they're stronger than him "haha no" is great...and of course Josuke's whole "well...he WAS right, I AM a punk who does the opposite of what I'm told, haha" which leads to him getting targetted by Highway Star.

Which causes the Highway Star chase scene. Which is one of the best things I've ever seen in a manga. I cannot wait to see it animated.

With regards to Steel Ball Run: It's a really good series (especially if you like yaoi shipping as an aside.) but I'm not sure how I'd rate it against Diamond is Unbreakable. The somewhat hilarious thing is that despite being parts of the same series, they're actually TOO DIFFERENT to really compare, beyond "having stands". It's part of the reason why I love Jojo, every arc is so vastly "different".

[Yael]

What I really want to see is next episode, one of the trademark moments of Josuke that keeps getting used in the games

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It is fair if I heal you first, right...?

[LaZodiac]

What I really want to see is next episode, one of the trademark moments of Josuke that keeps getting used in the games

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It is fair if I heal you first, right...?

I'm pretty sure this is the chapter that line comes up

[gooddragon1]

What kind of fan of the show would I be if I didn't make a dumb fictional stand...

Name: Touch Sight
Appearance: Gaunt human shape with no eyes on face. One eye on each finger with coverage similar to a thimble. Eyes appear to be more like tattoos stretched over the described areas than actual eyes.
Abilities:
+Can see unnaturally well out of each eye with no such problem as peripheral vision.
+Finger eyes are not sensitive to touch and only by completely destroying the entire surface of an eye or covering it is its sight impeded. If any part of an eye is left intact or unimpeded it can see from that part.
+Very strong mental link between stand and user. Like a hive mind. Anything one knows the other knows. No chance of stand rejection as a result.
+Generates a telekinetic field around it in a radius that it can manipulate things within.
+Can automatically learn everything about anything "touched" by this field. Memories, history, etc. Can learn less if desired.
+Limitless knowledge capacity and recall.
+Not physically strong.

I mean there's already really weird stands right... what's one more?

[LaZodiac]

*looks at some of the future stands*

Yeah this is fine. Wait until we get Moody Blues.

[Gastronomie]

Speaking of original stands, I once had this random idea of writing a fan fic spin-off of Part 5, with the protagonist(?) being

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Diavolo before he became the Boss.

The idea seemed pretty fun, but I didn't have the time to write it.

[Anonymouswizard]

So I got into JoJo about a week ago, and rushed through the first anime and have just started Stardust Crusaders. While I enjoyed Phantom Blood, Battle Tendencies was just so much better in almost every way, and I'm hoping Stardust Crusaders is just as good. Even perStands are a fun addition, I can't wait for the quirky ones to turn up.

The one thing that annoys me is the ridiculously over muscled bodies all the men have. How long is it until that disappears?

[Fri]

Never, really. That's pretty much the author's trademark style.

Though I noticed that they're actually not that muscly anymore in Diamond is Unbreakable? Will they get back to muscly later?

Also you know my opinion that Stardust Crusader is actually pretty boring and someone earlier got put off by it (or to be specific, way too long. Really, I realized that's actually the problem with it, it doesn't really need that many two-parters), but stay with the series. DiU will make everything worth it.

[Gastronomie]

Stardust Crusaders is like a vast collections of the "Enemy Stand User of the week!", so it's not really a sort of connected drama like Part 1 and 2 are. It's enjoyable in its own way, but it's obviously different from the previous parts, and thus, if you expect something similar, you might get disappointed.

As for the characters being muscular: Blame it not on Araki, but on Fist of the North Star. Araki's previous works, like BT or Baoh, did not involve that many muscular men. But if you look at the age in which Jojo's parts 1 to 3 were published you'll see it's the era of Fist of the North Star, and basically all the shonen manga of that time involved having lots and lots more of muscular men.

Muscles suddenly diminish in part 4, where the story is about the daily lives of normal high-schoolers wielding badass superpowers. Part 5 involves not much muscle, but it instead involves a lot of really, and I mean really bizarre fashion. This trend is actually stronger than the muscle trend, and goes on all the way till now.