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Plutonis posted:Please keep the ASB cast for the next parts they were pretty awesome. Please please please! Josuke's DOOOORARARARARARAAAAA is the greatest thing, if P4 gets made this better happen.
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Meme Emulator posted:Yea, the DUWANG urban legend I always heard was that the guy was crazy and had insane output and would churn out a volume a week, and the english speaking guy proofreading for him didnt want to harsh his buzz and just said 'whatever' Ok, I was pretty active at the Higher Voltage (HerV) forum, which was supposed to be mostly about fighting games but was mostly YCS, when VeggieH8ter, one of its members, and some other dude whose handle I forgot were doing the Duwang translations. At that time if you wanted to download Jojo (Part1-4) you would do it from a direct link at HerV. My brother is still active in what is left of HerV so I'll have him ask some of the guys there about the whole story, because I don't remember it being a school project of any kind. The low quality was because, well, imagine YCS doing a translation and that's it. trucutru fucked around with this message at 00:56 on Nov 17, 2013 |
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MelvinBison posted:Your ASB dollars at work. Kaiser Mazoku posted:I'll wait as long as it takes to get a perfect, proper adaption of Part 3.
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Soulcleaver posted:The 1993 series got the Darby poker game and the fight with Dio (minus the missing steamroller) perfectly. Everything else... not so much. The whole desert fight was pretty accurate too.
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Chapter 26 of Jojolion is TOP. SECRET. Looks like Yasuho's stand ability is "Plot Railroading"  We have a second antagonist, apparently? He has a stand who looks vaguely like Killer Queen's outline.
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Can Of Worms posted:Chapter 26 of Jojolion is TOP. SECRET. Looks like Yasuho's stand ability is "Plot Railroading" EDIT: Referring of course, to the half of Jo2uke that [Isn't Yoshikage Kira.] I know he has a half that is.
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Cipher Pol 9 posted:I got Kira vibes from him too. Maybe he somehow has the other half of Yoshikage Kira? But then who the hell is/was Jo2uke's other half? This series is painful at a monthly pace, now I know how SBR-readers must have felt, and we're only at chapter 26! The problem with that being... Didn't they find Kira's corpse? Does Wall Eyes copy/paste things to other things or does it merge them?
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Tobaccrow posted:The problem with that being... Didn't they find Kira's corpse? Does Wall Eyes copy/paste things to other things or does it merge them? They found a corpse that was half Kira.
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Kabanaw posted:They found a corpse that was half Kira. I was getting really Kira-ish vibes from Yotsuyu Hagiyama too, but I don't see how it'd work out. And he's way too outgoing- showing himself like that- to be Kira.
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Oh yeah, I completely forgot that happened. Thanks for pointing that out. Back to square one with the creepy new guy though. Makes sense now, his identity is fully Top. Secret. too.
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I'm not getting this Kira thing you guys are other than his general attitude. I'm getting more of an alternate Rohan feel. He works as an artist, he doesn't want anyone to know where he lives, he's interested in examining people's inner selves just filtered through stands this time, and his wanting social status is a turn on that Rohan wanted nothing to do with that. And both of them are really creepy. Anyway, I'm interested in whether or not "he's gonna die again" has to do with the disease curse we just learned about. If it is first born lineage and Yasuho's hint that that's what's affecting Holly, then it makes sense that Kira probably had it or was going to have it. Maybe being combined with whoever to make Josuke had something to do with that? Yeah, I'm lost. loving monthly updates  
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Araki mentioned in an interview that there'd be a crazy manga artist in Jojolion that wasn't Rohan.
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onepixeljumpman posted:I'm not getting this Kira thing you guys are other than his general attitude. I'm getting more of an alternate Rohan feel. He works as an artist, he doesn't want anyone to know where he lives, he's interested in examining people's inner selves just filtered through stands this time, and his wanting social status is a turn on that Rohan wanted nothing to do with that. And both of them are really creepy. Some theories: If that outline is Killer Queen, then it could be that he has the ability to steal stand powers if he's not Kira, or alternatively, maybe he *is* the combination of Kira, Jo2uke, Killer Queen and whatever Soft and Wet used to be. That is to say, an independent stand that can look human... 
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Man, what's with Yasuho and her tendency to attract creepily possessive males? I know Stand users are destined to meet weird people, but she seems to get a specific type of weird. At least Yotsuyu isn't possessive of her, though trying to drown her is hardly any better.
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I don't know why but I get the feeling Gappy might be made up of Johnny due to the mention of dying again and stuff. I dunno, I think it'd be neat if that were true since I imagine the question of who Gappy is made up of is PROBABLY an important plot point  Aside from that, I still have no clue what the heck Tsurugi was going on about. So, every first born male in the higashikata family gets an illness at age 10 that slowly starts to turn them into stone or something, or every first born child period does since I guess Holly is suffering from it somehow, and I have no clue what was going on with Yasuho feeling "safe" or whatever. Was she drugged? And what about the weird hands in the tree trunk?
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You know, "turning to stone" sounds a whole lot like what happened to Lucy after the holy body got inside her. Edit: Also that mushroom pun was amazing. STANKBALLS TASTYLEGS fucked around with this message at 02:36 on Nov 23, 2013 |
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FirstAidKite posted:
It seems like the 'disease' effects every firstborn male in the family at age 10, though they've discovered some way to treat it several generations ago. At the moment that's implied to be by swapping it out to somebody else much like johnny did originally with HIS son, presumably through some sort of stand power. It's interesting to note that all of the Higashikata stands so far have involved 'taking' things (Memories, Perception, parts) considering what we were told about the corpse earlier, as well as the simmilarities between the disease and Lucy once she absorbs all of the parts.
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Eiba posted:Yeah, the point is both halves of Kira are presumably accounted for. Kira was arrogant as hell he would say his name outloud quite a bit.
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Multiple rape attempts last issue and now waterboarding? What is this, a Go Nagai comic? Actually it owned and I can't wait for the next issue. For the first time in my life I'm caught up with Jojo and now my balls will be bluer than smurf poo poo just like everyone else in this thread.
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Soulcleaver posted:What is this, a Go Nagai comic? Much as Dio rejected his humanity, Go Nagai rejected his sense of shame. He probably would've drawn the four balls.
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So I picked up the special edition of JoJoveller and looking into this thing, I swear to god Araki was trying to turn Dio into David Bowie, which is very bizarre as he already had Kira. Maybe not exactly Bowie, but man does Araki's increasing art style make some of the older characters feel different.
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I thought that was Valentine at first. I STILL think that's Valentine.
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Kaiser Mazoku posted:I thought that was Valentine at first. There's only one donut curl in his hair. Obviously not Mr President 
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Just finished Part 6. All I can say is holy poo poo  Looking forward to SBR, heard nothing but great things. I really enjoyed Pucci as a villain though, even if his stand(s) was basically "do random things to get random powers"
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How so? While the abilities themselves didn't make much sense, Pucci's motivations to achieve them worked just fine. Also thinking back on it, Stone Ocean really had some of the best fight scenes, or at least some of the best settings for fights. Fighting while tossing a baseball back and forth, in zero gravity, while sideways, while flying around while holding onto a bullet, etc. I really hope some more Part 6 characters make it into ASB 2, I'd really like to see Foo Fighters, Weather Report, and maybe even some of the enemies they ran into like Jumpin' Jack Flash or Kenzou
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Pucci's deal was following seemingly arbitrary instructions from Dio to achieve his goals. Also he's a priest, so you could read a lazy atheist joke in there I just now realized. I doubt that part is intentional.
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legendsuper posted:I just finished reading Stone Ocean... Don't worry, I'm only a few volumes into Part 7 and holy christ I can see why people were hyping this up. This is already one of my favorite parts, and I'm barely a quarter of the way through. I'm not sure how I feel about the ending of Stone Ocean, though, now that I've gotten some time to think on it. I guess everyone did get a happy ending, if only in an alternate dimension. What's the general consensus on it? CodfishCartographer fucked around with this message at 22:00 on Dec 11, 2013 |
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Araki doesn't run out of ideas no matter how many decades pass. He's the most creative man on the planet, though you wouldn't know it from his character names.
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I thought it was really weird at first, but over time I've grown to appreciate it. Usually universal resets are massive cop-outs (looking at you DC)but Steel Ball Run is fantastic and Jojolion is shaping up to be really good to, and they wouldn't be the same if there was no reset.
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I thought Araki had massive balls to kill almost the entire cast, especially Jotaro, in such a way. No heroic sacrifice, no prolonged death scene or famous last words, and they're all just reduced to dust in "seconds" of accelerated time. It felt like a touch of realism, death can be easy and sudden and the heroes don't get to win just because they're the heroes. Same thing with Avdol's death in Part 3.
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Star Platinum posted:I thought Araki had massive balls to kill almost the entire cast, especially Jotaro, in such a way. No heroic sacrifice, no prolonged death scene or famous last words, and they're all just reduced to dust in "seconds" of accelerated time. It felt like a touch of realism, death can be easy and sudden and the heroes don't get to win just because they're the heroes. Same thing with Avdol's death in Part 3. His first "death" was a bit of evil genius too. You get your breath back and then he just slams you right in the gut.
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Star Platinum posted:I thought Araki had massive balls to kill almost the entire cast, especially Jotaro, in such a way. No heroic sacrifice, no prolonged death scene or famous last words, and they're all just reduced to dust in "seconds" of accelerated time. It felt like a touch of realism, death can be easy and sudden and the heroes don't get to win just because they're the heroes. Same thing with Avdol's death in Part 3. Or Narancia's in part 5. Now that you point it out it does seem to be a bit of a theme. Manages to be shocking each time as well.
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I liked this universal reset because it's not out of nowhere. I mean, it WAS out of nowhere that Pucci could reset time, but it set up SBR being in its own new universe. At least, I think that's the case, since the Joestar family tree deviates at Jotaro and it would be really cool for the SBR universe to be somehow related to the original.
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Araki said they are different universes and completely unrelated, but since he hasn't really established that in the story, he could change his mind at any time.
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I'm hoping Pucci makes an appearance at some point. There's honestly no reason he couldn't, since he basically spent the first 13 billion years or so of the universe hanging out waiting for Emporio to get back to Green Dolphin Street.
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