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Posting my thoughts and reactions after each arc just for fun! PART 1: PHANTOM BLOOD Thoughts: My mind is blown, this is an awesome ride, can't wait for 8 more arcs of this bizarre creativity. Excellent way to start a series. Favourite parts: - "TRICKY BOY!!!!" - Frog punch - Actually just about every single scene with Baron Zeppelli - "He kicked me so hard I flew 50 meters into the air, but not so hard that my potential family would suffer. What a gentleman!!!" *resigns from a life of crime* - Awesome ending - Dio is so awesome as a villain, oh my god, wow. His introduction makes you sympathize with him at first before you fully grasp the depths of his depravity, making his arc much more believable and human. It's a refreshingly unique set up and I love it. - BUT IT WAS ME, DIIIOOOO! - MUDA MUDA MUDA MUDA MUDA lovely parts: - Hamon is kind of meh but at least it has a refreshingly short, bizarre and to-the-point introduction. - The Tarkus fight with the roof chains was a really uninteresting setup. - Zombies were probably cooler 30 years ago when this was made.
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PART 2: Battle Tendency Holy hell what a ride. Loved it, and it had some fantastic moments, but I felt like the story arc and setup wasn't as fresh or memorable as Phantom Blood. The first part was unique in so many ways, and this part was also awesome but structurally the story is basically just Goku and Vegeta training with Master Roshi to fight off the Saiyans. Overall I feel like i'll remember Phantom Blood for the story and Battle Tendency for many of it's incredible moments. Loved: - "Work? OHH NOO" - "And now you're going to say:" - The stupid clackers being ridiculed by everyone around him and in a surprise twist, remaining basically completely useless forever. - The loving ending, I spent the last two episodes trying to figure out how to possibly defeat a perfect immortal being, but oh of course you just blow up a volcano and launch him into space! - Murder squirrels - Laughed my loving rear end OFF at the first fight in the diner, where the vampire talks for minutes about how perfect he is and how he's countered every of JoJo's moves, and how will you defeat me now!! JoJo!!! *LinkedList of glued grenades* - Joseph was a great protagonist, I liked how he contrasted his grandfather the Ultimate Gentleman with being a streetsmart, lazy, temperamental idiot. - Caesar's death came out of nowhere and hit me hard, ouch. Did not see that coming. - Waamu ended up being a truly memorable villain. A true man, in his own peculiar way. - Strondheim. My heart beats for you. If only you weren't a nazi. - The blade has little sparkly chainsaw teeth on it oh my god that is SO CUTE!!! - I really adore how the fights are focusing much more on strategy than strength, it feels like if Bleach was written competently, executed well and compressed to be about 10 times shorter and faster. I think none of the fights involved more than 4 exchanges of blows before they were over. Hated: - Lisa Lisa suffering the usual anime female treatment of being basically useless, getting ambushed while bathing naked, and finally ending up a damsel in distress. - I feel like the part missed a proper villain, the bad guys were cool but felt like Saiyans arriving from outer space, and had very little personal connections or relations with the main character. There were exciting fights for sure but the personal drama was missing. - All in all the fighting in the end in Switzerland dragged on a bit by the end, although the chariot fight was fantastic. - Hamon, you can tell the author is trying to get creative with it and sometimes succeeding but it was reaching its limits near the end for sure. Without prior knowledge I'd expect it to get either upgraded or replaced with something else soon, but since the internet exists i'm now hype as hell for some Stand battle! - The hamon training was boring and the pillar climb was both dumb and boring. It didn't feel like the training made any tangible difference other than villains verbally agreeing that wow you sure are stronger now. - Re: Bleach, this also felt a bit like the bad part of later bleach, namely becoming more focused on figths and powers to the detriment of overal story and character building. I hope the series doesn't continue going too far down this road. Bisse fucked around with this message at 13:13 on Sep 1, 2022 |
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Wow, Stardust Crusaders is basically five pokemon trainers encountering random battles, aint it?
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A wild legendary rock band appears! It’s super muscular!
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Uhm, what the gently caress was the deal with the child porn on the abandoned ship episode?
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I often ask myself that, too.
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Watched until the Death 13 fight now, Lali-Ho! Part 3 is really god drat good now, but man it had a rough start! Its obvious Araki was trying something new and it took some time to get it right. The intro in jail and the way Jotaro’s stand was introduced was really cool, but the Hierophant fight was just a mess. It’s a painting power, no wait its a possession power, no wait it’s a tentacles thing, eh gently caress it have some projectiles. The beetle fight on the airplane was annoying and dumb as hell. At this point every protagonist other than Joseph is also kind of a muscular character-less furrowed-eyebrows face so that’s not helping things. But what I thought was the worst part was Polnareff vs Avdol which was just a pokemon fight with dumb rear end powers being pulled out of the butt. It was literally two dudes with their hands in their pockets smirking while their pokemon trade fire and piercing attacks. Boring, dumb, ergh, what happened to my JoJo’s? At this point I realized Hamon had some limits but it did make the fights really physical, up-close and intense, and with logical ways of winning. Well that was until I saw the underwater fight which was just insufferable and won the Shittiest Fight prize, it made me almost give up on the series, plus it finished off with Star Finger which is just, no. No. The abandoned fright ship was the first sign of life (other than the CHILD PORN!!) and the idea that Stands could be things or concepts is pretty cool. It’s when they get to India that the wheels finally hit the ground and we’re back to kick rear end JoJo’s. Hol Horse and Hanged Man were a villain dream team, Avdol’s death came out of nowhere and the way it causes Polnareff to realize what a bad teammate he was was incredible, but what blew my mind was when Hanged Man jumped into the kid’s eye. Finally it felt like battles were up-close, personal and logical battles again. The Justice battle was great, just the idea that it’s about figuring out in time who the user is. The Lovers battle was genius. From there it just gets better and better so far! Bisse fucked around with this message at 17:15 on Sep 5, 2022 |
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Hahaha they pretended Avdol died just to gently caress with Polnareff, i’m dying
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goblin week posted:Seth is gonna make you poo poo yourself like a baby
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Done with Part 3: Stardust Crusaders! After a rough start it was just wonderful all the way. I usually get bored of MOTW formats because I just want the story to progress, but watching these silly beefmen claiming to be in highschool outsmart everything in their way was just cozy and fun. Too many unforgettable moments to remember all of them, and I could watch several seasons of a comedy series thats just Joseph saying OH NO OH poo poo OH MY GOD at things. Favourite battles: - Dio’s world was easily the best, laughed so hard at Sewer Jojo i almost woke up the family. I wish they found another way to deal with The World than JoJo having it, although I like the implication that The World was actually Jonathans stand and it’s a lineage power, but it was still a mindblowing fight in so many ways. - Hol Horse and Hanged Man in india - Oingo Boingo just because of how gross and gnarly that comic book is. Also it seems like the most terrifying power for the user - even the slightest mistake and you’re dead. - Poker showdown had me in shivers - Pet Shop fight was the closest this series has had to a classic action battle and it was really cool, loved it - The Void Vampire before Dio, just for how terrifying he was, but also for showing how scary Polnareff can be when he’s actually giving it his all and fighting for something other than himself. - Death 13, lali-ho - Avdol dying twice, lol, lol, roflmao EDIT: oh and to save Polnareffs dumb rear end both times, lol, omg, mvp - Polnareff, what a man poo poo pile: - Early pokemon battles and the nude 10yo - The videogame battle had a cool ending but was dull and dumb until then - Netflix censoring, black airbrush over gore but also over JoJo smoking a cigarette??? What is this, China? - That’s it actually??? Bisse fucked around with this message at 15:16 on Sep 10, 2022 |
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Yeah I read it the same way, that they have literally the exact same stand, other than looks. Which must mean they are connected somehow, and the obvious link is Jonathan’s body.
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BTW where is a good place to watch parts 4 & 5 in europe? It seems like Netflix doesn’t have those and just jumps straight to Stone Ocean.
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Well hell I was waiting for Jotaro in Part 4 to bust out The World, but I didn’t think it’d be against a… a rat. And this was after him trying to find an invisible baby in a lake, and just after the guy who turned people into manga books. drat I love this series. Oh and also old Joseph Joestar is the sweetest thing i’ve seen in a long time. Recalling that this senile old sack of bones is the same guy who took down two Pillar Men and knocked the ultimate being into space is… emotional, for real.
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Okay that's Part 4: Diamond is Unbreakable done! Loved how extravagant, over-the-top and flamboyant a lot of the characters were, and it was interesting to see the plot confined to one location. Although, the plot felt all over the place and kind of like the author was winging it as he went, and there were a bunch of inconsistencies with plot threads being forgotten about. Overall I really enjoyed and felt like it was the strongest part so far in terms of style, characters and battles, but the weakest in terms of writing and setting. Loved: - Old Joseph and his interactions with Josuke were super charming, and searching for an invisible baby drowning in water was such a bizarre situation. - The 3-episode stretch of the "alien" that Josuke has turn into dice to rip off his pals, Rohan getting so full of hatred trying to find the cheating vomiting dice that he doesn't notice/care his house is on fire, leading into the just bonkers Highway Star battle, is probably the greatest poo poo i've ever seen on TV. - Heaven's Door is such a cool power - The restaurant visit for just being such a funny and cozy episode. - Enigma, wow - Kira as a person is a pretty terrifying villain - The mind game between transformed Kira and his new 'son' was tense A F - Digged the small-town vibe a lot overall - Loved the first and third intro - Overall all the weird as poo poo stand battle was peak JoJo's - On that topic: Sniper rats Shitpile: - Biggest thing is the part really suffered a lot from being confined to one location but still following the MOTW format. In earlier parts especially SDC there was a sense of progression that's sorely missing here. In Part 2 you can count the remaining pillar men and in SDC you can see on a map how far they are from Egypt/Cairo, but here it just feels like the weekly stand users keep coming until the author decides to progress the plot. I know that's the case in earlier parts too but it was a lot better done. - Old Joseph showing up for the sole purpose of using his power to locate killers, and then doing absolutely nothing, ever. - On those two topics, Kira's dad photo flying around for ages shooting people was grating, dumb and boring and made Joseph not using his powers to locate the bad guys even more insufferably stupid. - Crazy Diamond just magically losing its property of things being repaired in a wrong/wonky manner. - Killer Queen Bites The Dust being just a patchwork of random abilities to force a certain situation. - Koichi dating the psycho who tortured and tried to murder him, yeah right sure. - The Cinderella episode also felt like it was another random patchwork powerset and that also made the episode feel like it. - Reverb Act 3 was much less interesting than Act1/2's sound-word powers. - Felt like they tried but pretty much failed to build up Morioh as a living breathing small town. - There was a looot of 'Goku will arrive in 20 seconds!' *five minutes of talking later:* 'Goku will arrive in 10 seconds!' moments. - Also a lot of 'The person with the perfect power for this situation is here but just stares at the sky and does nothing' moments. Bisse fucked around with this message at 12:51 on Sep 19, 2022 |
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Whoever picked 'Freak'n You' as the Golden Wind outro is a god EDIT: Man I was so not ready for it, still in shock
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Somehow what makes this amazing is Jon teabagging.
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YggdrasilTM posted:???? Araki is 62.
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Son of Thunderbeast posted:Speaking of timelines, is it just me or is it implied that Bites the Dust is teleporting Kira not just back in time, but to another universe/timeline? I could swear I saw a shot or two of a ton of big black spheres that (to me) implied a multiverse. Might've been an anime only thing.
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Currently thinking about how in Part 3 the introduction of Dio's stand means Dio is freezing time and moving people around and going pack to pose before time resumes and can't loving get how brilliantly stupid it is out of my head
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Oh and currently watching part 5, saw through Green Tea and Sanctuary and had to watch the 30-second punch combo a few times because wow that fucker sure deserved every single second of it. Part 5 is pretty great, the Italy setting is fantastic and the stands are cool, the cast is great, everything's there on paper, but it's missing something that I can't put my finger on. I think the characters are lacking character more than usual. I miss Okuyasu's dumb face and dumb comments, I miss this like Josuke and Okuyaso going to a restaurant, I miss poo poo like Polnareff's incredibly stupid car chat with so-obviously-not-Jotaro. It's very good at what it does but it feels mostly all business. A main offender for sure is Giorno's character being basically just a plank with a JoJo face drawn on it. Bisse fucked around with this message at 16:23 on Oct 6, 2022 |
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Man its 2AM so will post my thoughs on part 5 tomorrow but I gotta ask right loving now uh, what in the actual hell was the deal with those last two episodes and the Rolling Stones?? Wha what??
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Ok so JOJO PART 5!!! It was the wildest ride far, I really loved it in so many ways, the idea is fantastic, the creativity is off the charts, the setting was beautiful and varied, and we're back to travelling around and having a clear plot and objective which I was sorely missing from part 4. But, it was also messy, many dropped plot lines, and things being retconned really quickly (like let's forget about Trish's dinosaur foot print its a softener stand now), but most of all it was missing some character or spirit that I can't quite put my finger on, it felt oddly all-business and at the same time completely disinterested in the actual gangster business. I was missing things like Joseph’s OH NOO, Jotaro’s extreme bluffing and badassing, Okuyasu and his dumb face and comments, silly car chats, etc. And when this part tried to do it it was like ”BREAKING NEWS: SIX GANGSTERS BEAT RANDOM MAN TO NEAR DEATH IN VENICE RESTURANT AND THEN HAVE A LAUGH” Loved: - Doppio and Diavolo were an extremely cool villain / duo, loved every second of he/them on screen grabbing for his 'telephones' - Cool ensemble cast with enjoyable interactions - Wow Li'l Bomber's kill count was through the roof - Too many cool moments to remember all of them, but Banana Gun, 30-second muda, Boat Inside A Boat, Fisherman guy going through an entire character arc in the span of one battle, the entire Risotto vs Doppio battle was just A++ Dream JoJo's, and eeeeeeverything about the final battle from the colisseum and onwards was just a mad man's fever dream, I thought I was in for another cool Dio battle, well we got that and also whatever the hell *waves at everything* that was - Gold Experience had the potential to be a truly broken stand, but it kind of got stealth nerfed by ignoring the 'reflects damage' part of it and instead it became a super creative and flexible stand, I liked it. - The whole deal with Zombie Buccaratti was a really cool mystery, and wow that Gold Experience stand sure is broken huh? - Gold Experience Requiem was. It was. Bonkers. - POLNAREFF!! IT'S MY BESTO FRENCH GIRL!! I hope they had clean bathrooms in Italy! - Naples and Italy felt so alive as a setting. - Fighting Gold besto op, change my mind - As a person with Italian relatives who I often joke about Italian cliches with, I find the names unspeakably hilarious. The Legendary Dark Assassin, Risotto. The Unhinged Mass Murderer, Ciocciolata. etc Vomit: - Another main villain with a time stand?? That is basically just Dio's stand with minor differences and with the Oingo Boingo stand on top? - Stand reuse - although the creativity was through the roof there was some stand rehashing which was kind of odd. Misha has basically Hol Horse's stand, we have another Mirror stand (didn't we say this specific stand was impossible earlier?), and Green Day was basically Purple Haze. - Giorno turned out cool in the end but feels so randomly written. He kept saying he has a dream and then what happened to it? Was his dream just to Kill Some Diavolo and tadaa? And in terms of character he was a wooden plank with a JoJo face drawn on it. - The Ice Skater stand was like fan fiction or something, idk what happened there but felt like they just decided whelp this particular stand is just completely invincible now, have fun! I did NOT understand why his breathing hole was covered when the bullet hit but the pole spike just went through like nothing? - The conclusion to GER vs Diavolo felt very abrupt, infinite deaths was a cool way to end the battle but what actually happened if you ignore the insane JoJo flavor on top, is Arrow Stab -> Muda Muda -> Fall Into River -> "He's dead we win". - What the fuuuuuck kind of ending was the Rolling Stones thing. I wanted to see what happened to the... gangsters... kids with drugs... dream... trish.... *waves at everything again* but instead I was just flabbergasted watching this random rear end thing and kept checking the play time from the final two episodes melting away like... there's gotta be more??? Right??? And then it was like 2 minutes at the end of 'hey let's go save bucarrati' and giorno looking solemnly at the sky and well I just felt like I got robbed of a proper ending. Bisse fucked around with this message at 13:57 on Oct 7, 2022 |
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I think his dream was vaguely defined and was also multiple things (I like gangsters, I don't like selling drugs to kids, I wanna clean up Naples, I Wanna Be The Gang-Star), but also it never came up after being introduced or was reinforced in action, then it got kind of mixed up with saving Trish and stuff, so by the end Giorgo has stopped talking about it and you've almost forgotten about it. I think there was great opportunity to reinforce the bad side of the gangster business and Giorgo's dream of cleaning up Naples right after they found Polpo's treasure and are hiding in the Naples area running errands, but the show just wasn't interested in that at all beyond brief mentions of 'btw you run drug business now. anyway-' and like, one kid one time having one syringe mark, motive established let's move on. It would have also worked if the ending had at least a teeny weeny bit of an epilogue showing rather than implying the aftermath of defeating Diavolo.
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Now I know where I recognized the feeling I had when watching the Rolling Stones epilogue. It felt exactly the same as watching the last two episodes of Evangelion, wondering if I rented the wrong VHS or if someone wrote it over with something else, getting more and more stunned as the playtime is running out and realizing that, nope, this is it. I think it would have been a cool thematic element if introduced earlier, but slapping it at the end just felt out of place.
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Is Demonic Heartbreak essentially a side adventure by a different artist to deliver some JoJos during the gap inbetween part 8 and the next part? I really like Hol Horse in this manga, he's a very interesting villain/character as his motivation is not evil, but just pure survival and struggling against his own fears. He seems like at heart a decent person, who was in a lovely situation in Part 3.
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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 fucked around with this message at 08:58 on Nov 6, 2022 |
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Man whenever manga panels are posted I feel like i'm missing out on so much by seeing the anime. Don't get me wrong the anime is fantastic, but there's just something about Araki's wildly outlandish style, the bizarre poses and the insane amount of detail with all these childishly naive ideas (like an MI6 agent writing his own name in big silver letters on his arm) that are pulled off with total confidence. It's like he just swings a splat of creativity at the paper, lets the pieces fall where they fall, and then fully respects and dedicates himself to the result.
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Oh and also Part rankings! After having watched to the end of the anime, which currently stops in Stone Ocean at right after the jailbreak and Jailhouse Rock, here are my scientifically curated part rankings. From best to worst: 3 > 4 > 5 > 2 > 6 > 1 3 - Stardust Crusaders: After a very rough start, becomes the most personal, intimate and mysterious adventure, with a unique finale that's the opposite of balls-to-the-walls grand spectacle but still somehow manages to feel like it. (Somehow, with Araki's writing, grabbing onto a taxi manages to feel like a shocking planned moved by a villanous mastermind.) The best part about Part 3 is how... I can't find a better way to put it than: grounded in nature? the journey is. It's an adventure, a personal (not world-saving! personal!) adventure to a far-away land, across a vast exciting earth, to find a mysterious man. The gang feels as tight and fun to ride along with as the Ghostbusters team. I could watch entire episodes of Joseph screaming in english at shocking events, of Polnareff being Polnareff and his bathroom quest, Jotaro being too cool for school, Kakyoin the 16-year old being the party's dad character, and Avdol's deeply joyful personality peeking through the stern gruff facade. The second best part about it is the stand battles - at this point they are creative and exciting, but not too complex and out there, leading to most of them having logical conclusions. To this point, it has my all-time favourite stand battle: Hanged Man. It jumping into a child's eye just blew my entire mindscape away like nothing i've seen in anime, and the conclusion of getting everyone's eyes on the coin flip was just such a brilliant, logical and physical conclusion to an otherwise dream-like mushroom trip of a battle. And got to mention D'Arby, the most well-written poker showdown in all of fiction. When I want to excite a friend about JoJo, I will tell them about the poker battle where a guy, without even looking at his cards, bluffs so hard the other guy dies from a heart attack, and it's 100% believable. There's just something about Part 3 that's so much more personal and down to earth than the other parts. And that's why, it's #1 to me. 4 - Diamond is Unbreakable: Also relies a lot on great characters to function. Okuyasu is my favourite dumb face dumbass ever, Rohan is just a trip how wildly narcissistic a person can be, and the-short-guy needs some serious therapy based on his dating skills. It has great battles and action scenes - the top one being breaking apart and reassembling the motorcycle to get past the stroller - however, I feel being stuck in one location really hurts it. More than any other part, it has a really uninspired villain-of-the-week feel, with the feeling it's just being dragged out with more villains plopping up until Araki feels like it's time to meet Kira. Dad-picture flying around arrowing things is just, ugh, so bad. The plot feels incoherent, it changes focus and drops threads all over the place. Still, what makes a JoJo's parts are its characters, and Josuke is a great lead with a great team around him. 5 - Golden Wind: After a SUPER STRONG start, WOW at Naples and Italy as a setting, WOW at Giorno and Bucciarati as a team, we go on a wild ride through italy, with a fantastic vivid setting, out-of-this-world stand battles, great set pieces, and probably the series best villain/s, and also Fighting Gold is a Jack-loving-pot of an intro, all the pieces are there... but where did the character and humor go? This part feels all business, all the time. The gang feels like a set of great individuals, but where's the team dynamic? When this part tries to be funny and build character, it ends up with scenes like BREAKING NEWS: 6 MAFIA TEENAGERS BEAT RANDOM VENICE RESTAURANT GUEST TO NEAR DEATH AND LAUGH ABOUT IT. The characters are not forgettable but the part feels very... cold. From Part 3 and 4 I remember a feeling, but from this part I remember great action scenes. I don't feel like going back, I don't care about these characters, and while the ride is super enjoyable, I'm watching the characters from afar, kind of disconnected. Avdol and Iggy dying were absolute murder, but here when people die I feel nothing. It's a shame, it had all the pieces in place to be a world class experience, but now it's 'just' a very good shounen anime. 2 - Battle Tendency Bringing Ultimate Style and Zero Substance in a tight, wild, flamboyant, overconfident and eXXXtreme package, this part does very little but does what it does super well. Joseph is a street magician with an ego 1000x times bigger than his skills and capacity, but manages to use his ego and sleight of hand to get himself through the craziest challenges any JoJo has the misfortune of facing. Ceasar and his death is the perfect partner to Joseph, forcing him to grow first by playing catch-up and then by rapidly maturing due to his own mistakes causing his beloved partner's death. And it has Speedwagon being in an eternal state of MIND BLOWN AT ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING! Unforgettable scenes include trying to kill a vampire by sticking a LinkedList of grenades to his back, reflecting a lazer beam with a shot glass, and just everything about Ultimate Kars and how he is defeated, just wow! To its detriment though, it is short, Super Sexist, is basically repeating the exact same plot as the previous part with the loving Stone Masks Again???, Hamon as a battle device runs out of steam fast, and while the Pillar Men are fantastic characters, they never rise beyond being just the villains of the week. They have no connection to any characters, there is no interpersonal drama. They are not Dio. I have trouble ranking this part, sometimes I want to place it a lot higher when just recalling all the awesome things about it, but to rank higher it would need a bit more meat to it, and not have some of its serious drawbacks. Still, Joseph's over-confident ultra-panicked struggle for survival against The Worst Odds Imaginable will stay with me forever. 6 - Stone Ocean If part 5 was cold, this part is a permafrozen tundra. After a strong and exciting start, with Jolyne being a loving fantastic lead, and Jotaro appearing and being mind-swiped, the weight of the setting gives a dark shadow to the part that could lead to something very interesting. But instead it's... flying zero-grav piss balls, piss drinking, bloating, raining poison frogs, schlopping around in a damp swamp, what ever the f u c k Dragon's Dream was, a guy getting his body turned into a Dark Souls Mimic chest, chasing a bone that grows trees from dead serial killers that grows a monster baby that secret ritual 16 random words that... if Part 5 was all business, this part so far is all darkness and dreadfulness. It is a JoJo's horror movie, but just not pulled off nearly as well as it could be. I have to focus to separate the fantastic bits from the bad parts. The finale could still lift this a lot, but so far, well, yeah. 1 - Phantom Blood. Dio. Oh, Dio. My dear Dio, you jumped out of that horse carriage posing like a loving baboon, and dove straight into my heart. Jonathan and Dio's rivalry is masterful. A beautiful and perfect way to start off on, and setting up Dio, the lord of all anime villains. The start from their childhood to Dio's vampirification and the battle in the burning mansion is just Perfect In Every Way, and grossly captivating. Following right after this, Baron Zeppeli appears and is well he is Baron Zeppeli and he punches frogs and he jumpkicks zombies without spilling wine and he is just a man's perfect dream. And the part's ending is shocking, thrilling, unexpected, brutal, sad and heartbreaking. But sadly, once all the set pieces are in place and the mid part kicks in, it's just run-of-the-mill poo poo. In fact, the mid part is entirely unforgettable, and other than a few great moments, dull enough to watch that I almost gave up on it. Thank god I didn't! In summary, a great starter to a great series, but filled with middling filler. Bisse fucked around with this message at 00:37 on Nov 8, 2022 |
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Son of Thunderbeast posted:Tallmami is the best
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Ngl as someone who hated the middle part of stone ocean and hasnt read the manga, this looks dope as gently caress and im hyped
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Yinlock posted:e: any pose those two have together really, "1 second from loving" is their default
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You should! The middle part is lame, but DavidPro gave their all on the last third and it loving. Rules.
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Next protag is a descendant of the Iggy bloodline.
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Bisse posted:Next protag is a descendant of the Iggy bloodline. Iggy hosed a penguin, loving called it
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PENISlands
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holy gently caress Is this basically Rohan going to the Louvre and critiquing art and being an infinite fuckwad as usual? Cause if so take my money
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