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Funky Valentine posted:Everyone's getting the poo poo kicked out of them by an Elvis song so Yausho is calling in a motorcycle to fix everything. This is extremely jjba but I'm just not sure I can read it monthly lol
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you'll be waiting a bit longer, then. it's definitely reaching some sort of climax but it's still going to be a little while.
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Jose posted:This is extremely jjba but I'm just not sure I can read it monthly lol Honestly nobody really knows for certain where we're at except Araki himself. The currently ongoing fight may very well be the final one; there's no obvious villains remaining except the current one, and the whole Still no sign of flashback guy
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Jose posted:i stopped following jojolion ages ago whats its status now? like maybe 20 chapters in if that By my estimation it's at around the point where Kira was introduced in part 4
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Who's flashback guy again?
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Electric Phantasm posted:Who's flashback guy again?  From the first major fight in Part 8
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if that dude doesn't show up i don't ever want to hear anyone criticize the Araki Forgot joke ever again
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Patware posted:if that dude doesn't show up i don't ever want to hear anyone criticize the Araki Forgot joke ever again my guess is it was some early design for josefumi but i am leaving room to be surprised
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Patware posted:if that dude doesn't show up i don't ever want to hear anyone criticize the Araki Forgot joke ever again it's still insanely, weirdly insulting to say the dude who's been writing a series for 30+ years and spends probably near every day thinking about it in some form just up and forgets poo poo like he has alzheimers or something when in reality he probably just changes poo poo on the fly every now and then because it works better for the story. the guy is pretty candid about certain things, like not even knowing what he was going to do for the ultimate villain in part 4 until about halfway through, so i don't really see a reason to invent ways to imply the guy is an idiot.
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I don't think anyone making the Araki Forgot joke is actually suggesting that.
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there absolutely are people who have 100% meant that. i'm not limiting it to this forum or whatever, for the record.
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everything said, i still don't know what the gently caress was up with the weird aliens crawling out of people in part 5's final stretch and i think that's part of why i heavily dislike it
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I think anyone actually suggesting he has Alzheimer's is an outlier and can be safely ignored/mocked Ime "Araki forgot" had always been a gentle rib, fully cognizant of his crazy work ethic and schedule. Literally anyone pumping out a great manga on his schedule for years on end would probably forget bits here and there along the way Son of Thunderbeast fucked around with this message at 03:07 on Dec 3, 2020 |
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Johnny Joestar posted:everything said, i still don't know what the gently caress was up with the weird aliens crawling out of people in part 5's final stretch and i think that's part of why i heavily dislike it it was aliens op
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Funky Valentine posted:Everyone's getting the poo poo kicked out of them by an Elvis song so Yausho is calling in a motorcycle to fix everything. also i enjoyed this description of the current status a great deal the curtain is falling on a truly bizarre adventure 
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grieving for Gandalf posted:it was aliens op but how does this relate to mikitaka in part 4
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Johnny Joestar posted:everything said, i still don't know what the gently caress was up with the weird aliens crawling out of people in part 5's final stretch and i think that's part of why i heavily dislike it It was something about how that was the next step in human evolution, wasn't it? You could argue it thematically fits with "evolution" since that's what the arrow does to a stand, but that doesn't really make that final part any less of a giant mess. I still have yet to read any of part 8 and this thread has been a good way of knowing to temper my expectations. As far as a mysterious guy that never shows up, Araki has drastically changed designs before so I would probably just assume he's someone you already saw.
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Johnny Joestar posted:but how does this relate to mikitaka in part 4 ? he's also an alien, like from outer space
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Son of Thunderbeast posted:I think anyone actually suggesting he has Alzheimer's is an outlier and can be safely ignored/mocked I like how Oda does it, where someone reminds him of something he forgot and then he ends using it for something later down the line.
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grieving for Gandalf posted:? he's also an alien, like from outer space i want to make a game theory youtube video about how mikitaka is responsible for the alien things crawling out of people in part 5's ending sequence and it's going to get millions of views
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overmind2000 posted:I called it a "stand" after "light stands," the type that sit beside your bed in a "looming" manner when you read. what the gently caress Everyone: “They’re called stands because they’re allies that ‘stand beside’ you, and it’s also another one of Araki’s famous musical references to the classic song Stand By Me by Ben E. King” Araki: “They’re like a lamp.”
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"araki forgot" is definitely a meme, and usually said mostly jokingly among the fanbase. The problem is that casual fans don't realize it's a joke, and I've seen several people say they don't want to give the series a chance because "the author just forgets plot lines" - the meme gives the impression that the story is sloppy and doesn't matter.
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i'll never apologize for Araki Forgot i'm reading jojolion month-by-month, i deserve to joke about Araki Forgetting god damnit
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CodfishCartographer posted:
If he had those weird hair bubbles he would kind of look like the younger version of Norisuke we saw in chapter 99. Maybe he's an early design for Jobin but probably not because he was introduced in the next chapter. zetamind2000 fucked around with this message at 06:56 on Dec 3, 2020 |
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Pigbuster posted:what the gently caress The number of things in JoJo that end up not having a symbolic/significant meaning is quite high. For example, people saying that Dio is in Egypt because he was under the sea for one hundred years and wants to be as far away from the ocean as possible when in reality Araki posted:my editor is a man I respect as a severe teacher and also a god. He was the one that decided that Dio should be in Egypt since he loved Egypt and was very knowledgeable of it. zetamind2000 fucked around with this message at 09:44 on Dec 3, 2020 |
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Hasn't Araki been asked about story inconsistencies before and his answer was literally "I forgot"?
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Araki probably forgot certain things in ways that don't effect the overall plot that much, and he definitely has consciously chosen to drop some things in favor of new ideas. However, anyone who thinks that "Araki forgot" the stranger who saved Josuke is unforgivable
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RatHat posted:Hasn't Araki been asked about story inconsistencies before and his answer was literally "I forgot"?
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“Araki changed his mind” is probably more accurate most of the time.
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"Araki got bored"
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Son of Thunderbeast posted:By my estimation it's at around the point where Kira was introduced in part 4 There's no way we're only halfway through part 8 right now.
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Gyro Zeppeli posted:There's no way we're only halfway through part 8 right now. You say that but we have Jobin and his mother still alive and well and it looks like the Good Doctor is about to eat poo poo. Turns out all this is just the Jojolion equivalent of the Red Hot Chili Peppers arc.
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Johnny Joestar posted:everything said, i still don't know what the gently caress was up with the weird aliens crawling out of people in part 5's final stretch and i think that's part of why i heavily dislike it Chariot was running solely on "keep any human being from ever touching the arrow" at that point. "Removing the human race worldwide from the equation" was just a particularly aggro interpretation of that mandate, cuz Requiem be a crazy bitch.
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Brought To You By posted:You say that but we have Jobin and his mother still alive and well and it looks like the Good Doctor is about to eat poo poo. Turns out all this is just the Jojolion equivalent of the Red Hot Chili Peppers arc. Brought To You By posted:Jobin still alive and well 
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RIP Jobin owned by WD40
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i know there's a lot of interpretations people can make if they want but there's literally no scenario where jojolion isn't at like an absolute bare minimum 80-85% done at this point, and that's handily allowing for cato to pop in at some point here soon
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Johnny Joestar posted:i know there's a lot of interpretations people can make if they want but there's literally no scenario where jojolion isn't at like an absolute bare minimum 80-85% done at this point, and that's handily allowing for cato to pop in at some point here soon Yeah, hasn't it passed up SBR in terms of page-count? If so it's currently the longest part, trying to say it's only halfway done seems like a real stretch hoping for a more iconic villain than "fuckboy ex who was raised by bees"
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Johnny Joestar posted:i know there's a lot of interpretations people can make if they want but there's literally no scenario where jojolion isn't at like an absolute bare minimum 80-85% done at this point, and that's handily allowing for cato to pop in at some point here soon It would be funny if this were just another mini climax like Damo and there's still another three years of random encounters around Morioh after this before the endgame actually starts
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Tooru doens't know that Norisuke is already dead. I refuse to believe this will stick for Jobin.
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