Yinlock posted:

Most Jojo fights are inpsired by whatever Araki read/watched that month, see Iggy vs Pet Shop suddenly cutting away to give us some fascinating bird facts

FirstAidKite posted:

So much of Araki's work is mimicry of other works he has seen but putting his own spin on things. It's kind of amazing how well his work stands on its own and how much its influence has rippled through and changed so much other media around it while itself being so singularly focused around being a composite of multiple existing things mashed together to create a new thing. Arrows.

Bisse posted:

Also maybe zippers can be used to move underground. And what if hard concrete arrows raining through liqud concrete? Also how does sound propagate in liquid concrete? Cut to: dramatic high stakes battle 7 feet below a pedestrian crossing in rome. Oh and also the other guy is a zombie.

Man somehow all these things seem so normal when watching, then looking back two weeks later you’re just like what the f u c k was that

Bisse posted:

I wonder what Hitler's stand was?

Baron La Croix posted:

To me, the single craziest thing in all of JJBA is Donatello Versus' backstory being ripped directly from Holes.
Can't wait for the anime to get there

Baron La Croix posted:

To me, the single craziest thing in all of JJBA is Donatello Versus' backstory being ripped directly from Holes.
Can't wait for the anime to get there

chrome line posted:

Do you think Araki read the book, or did he just hear about it somewhere? Or is it just one of the wildest coincidences ever?

chrome line posted:

Do you think Araki read the book, or did he just hear about it somewhere? Or is it just one of the wildest coincidences ever?

Electric Phantasm posted:

Those rule, put Alex Rider in JOJOMAMA

Yinlock posted:

if those are chronological

FirstAidKite posted:

goblin week posted:

I remember reading Stormbreaker and loving lmao at this

that book’s plot was loving insane btw

wikipedia posted:

The protagonist, Alex Rider, secretly becomes a teenage spy for MI6, working undercover in Port Tallen, Cornwall. There he discovers the Stormbreaker computer factory where millions of computers were being filled with biological weapons which would give smallpox to the user. The aim of the attack was to kill hundreds of thousands of British schoolchildren and their teachers.

Electric Phantasm posted:

Oh yeah?

Forget JoJo, manga adaptation of Alex Rider by Araki when?

quote:

Alex Rider is a 14-year-old schoolboy who lives with his uncle Ian and their housekeeper Jack Starbright. Ian is supposedly a bank manager and is, much to Alex's regret, often away from home. One day, Alex is told that his uncle has died in a car crash, but quickly discovers that his uncle was actually a spy working for MI6 and was murdered.

He is then recruited by his uncle's former employers, Alan Blunt and Mrs. Jones of the Special Operations Division of MI6, who explains to Alex that his uncle has been training him as a spy. Alex initially refuses to cooperate but agrees when they threaten to block renewal of Jack's visa and have her deported. Alex is then sent to a military training camp in the Brecon Beacons, the home of the British Special Air Service. At first, his fellow trainees look down on him because of his age, but he soon gains their respect with skills learned from his unwitting training.

He sets off on his first mission, aided by gadgets from Smithers. Billionaire Darrius Sayle is donating free high-powered computer systems code named Stormbreaker to every school in the United Kingdom. MI6 is suspicious of his seemingly generous plans and sends Alex undercover as a competition winner to investigate. There, he meets Sayle himself and his two accomplices, Mr. Grin and Nadia Vole, and is shown the Stormbreaker computer in action. Later, while Alex is having dinner with Sayle, the suspicious Vole steals Alex's phone and tracks the SIM card to his house in Chelsea. She goes there and finds Alex's true identity; while there, she is disturbed by and consequently fights Jack. Despite being outclassed, Jack wins with the help of a blowfish, leaving Nadia to flee the scene. That night, Alex sneaks out of his bedroom window to observe a midnight delivery of mysterious containers to Sayle's lair.

The next day, Alex finds himself in trouble when his cover is blown. After attempting to escape from the facility, he is captured, and Sayle explains his true reasons behind Stormbreaker – each system contains a modified strain of the smallpox virus which, upon activation in the Stormbreaker release, will kill all of the country's schoolchildren. Sayle leaves Alex tied up and departs for the London Science Museum. Nadia drops Alex into a water tank to be killed by a giant Portuguese man o' war, but he escapes using the metal-disintegrating spot cream supplied by Smithers, Nadia is subdued when she is hit by the jellyfish, rupturing the tank in the process. Alex then hitches a ride on a Mil Mi-8 helicopter piloted by Mr. Grin, using a sodium pentothal arrow to gain Mr. Grin's obedience. Alex parachutes out of the helicopter and lands just as the Prime Minister is about to press the button which will activate the computers. Alex uses a rifle to shoot the podium, which destroys the button, and ruins Sayle's plan.

Furious, Sayle leaves to carry out his backup plan, and Alex, with the help of school friend Sabina Pleasure, pursues Sayle through the streets of London on horseback. Fifty floors up on one of Sayle's skyscrapers, Alex reaches him and unplugs his backup transmitter. Sayle chases him out onto the roof and pushes both Alex & Sabina off the roof, leaving them hanging by a dislodged cable. Unexpectedly, Yassen arrives in a helicopter and shoots Sayle (in the same manner he did Ian) before rescuing Alex. Yassen then tells Alex that Sayle had become an embarrassment to his employers, and that Alex should forget about him, but Alex refuses saying that the killing of his uncle Ian means they are still enemies.

Alex returns to school; he and Sabina are talking about what happened and he says that it will never happen again. The film ends with someone observing Alex from a distance. He notices it and realizes that it's not the end.

Augus posted:

I read all the Alex rider books when I was a teenager but don’t remember enough about them to know if the guy with the planet earth on his face is an actual character or is just a symbolic visual

Electric Phantasm posted:

Does Alex have a Union Jack shaved on the back of head?

Augus posted:

one thing I do remember is that the cold open of the second book had a hitman assassinate some corporate suit by posing as an elevator mechanic in his building, getting into the system, and moving the elevator one floor up from the guy’s office, then attaching a high-tech hologram to the bottom of the elevator that generated a fake elevator below the real elevator. Then when the guy called the elevator, the assassin made the doors open and the guy stepped out into the fake elevator, passed through it, and fell all the way down the elevator shaft.

what I’m saying is I can see why Araki was considered a good fit

Augus posted:

what I’m saying is I can see why Araki was considered a good fit