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Hitlersaurus Christ posted:I don't think the SBR Universe is the one that you see at the end of part 6. I think it's just a complete continuity reboot. Araki said part 4 and part 8 are in "parallel worlds" in this ASB interview. Well, if you look at the Joestar family tree, all the other Joestars do still exist (outside Giorno since Dio never became a vampire and lived to become a dad) up until you get to Holly and then it diverges. I don't think it'll be super relevant if the SBR universe is the same one as the one at the end of part 6 since Araki just rebooted because he wanted to tell a new story, but I think it's kind of neat if they're connected somehow.
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Doc V posted:It's not really an "if you have X willpower you can use a stand" thing - the more powerful the stand, the more willpower you need to keep it under control. Remember when Jolyne tried on Star Platinum's stand disc and realized that she couldn't control it at all? Achtung Baby doesn't exactly seem powerful, so it would probably be pretty easy to control, and most people who had their stands from birth would likely initially manifest much weaker (and therefore easier to handle) versions of their stand. We did see the child version of Chariot in the Alessi arc and it appeared to be pretty much unable to actually fight back against an adult. Star Platinum was hard for Jotaro to control at first too. He said he kept hurting people by accident, but it never seems to be an issue again. Avdol probably trained him offscreen.
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Ketchupface posted:Things that can handle a stand and therefore are stronger-willed than Holy Joestar: Hey those two rats came the closest to killing Jotaro out of any other stand user. Spacedad posted:Well, it would be nice to have a stand that's big enough to throw a huge party on. That orangutan was probably only evil because of DIO. If he showed up in part IV, he would have just been that chill orangutan with the party boat stand. tap my mountain fucked around with this message at 14:37 on Apr 6, 2014 |
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Broseph Brostar posted:Hey those two rats came the closest to killing Jotaro out of any other stand user. Other than the one that puts him in a coma and later kills him?
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Pomp posted:Other than the one that puts him in a coma and later kills him? That didn't count, Jotaro never got the chance to fight back.
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Whitesnake and Made in Heaven were stupid as poo poo in how strong they were, that's not even a fair comparison.
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Orgia Carnaval posted:Whitesnake and Made in Heaven were stupid as poo poo in how strong they were, that's not even a fair comparison. I actually kind of liked the idea behind Whitesnake. It was super weak in a stand-up fight, so Pucci had to get creative and be sneaky to use its powers effectively. Jotaro lost that one because Pucci straight-up got the drop on him. Made in Heaven was bullshit though, yeah
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Dio is a vain motherfucker that would have filled your Facebook feed full of selfies every day.
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Maremidon posted:They should authorize one of those spin-off light novels about her. You could do some fun stuff with invisibility and the power to turn other things invisible.
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Pomp posted:Dio is a vain motherfucker that would have filled your Facebook feed full of selfies every day. Makes me wonder...  Gratuitous Dio selfies, of course.
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A demo for the English version of ASB is gonna be on PSN tomorrow. EDIT: Just tried it out. You can play Arcade Mode with either Jotaro, Caesar, or PB Dio. You go through 3 battles, the first two against the characters you didn't pick, and the third against a "boss". Jotaro's boss is Gyro, Caesar has Wham, and Dio has Abdul. The translations are decent to good. They took some liberties such as with context-heavy lines from the manga. Not a big deal imo. We still have the looming threat of "Eiffel" and "Zipper Man" to worry about, Kaiser Mazoku fucked around with this message at 23:20 on Apr 8, 2014 |
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Apr 8, 2014 03:14
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How long has there been a banner ad?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nxl6SZf19ec It's a mashup between this and Quad City DJs. It's pretty good.
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Goddamn: Re-reading through it, I feel that Steel Ball Run is probably as good as Araki is going to get at conveying emotions through his story. As Johnny's thoughts turn to being grateful for Gyro's company throughout the horse race, I couldn't help but get all choked up. I had already read through it once, but... goddamn.  boredsatellite posted:And nobody really cares because SBR was the best thing ever. I want that animated in my lifetime I really hope that the anime adaptation of Stardust Crusaders is successful enough to convince sponsors, Shueisha and whoever else with money to burn on fabulous that an anime of Part 7 needs to be a reality.
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Rereading SBR always gets me choked. That was a really well told story
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boredsatellite posted:Rereading SBR always gets me choked. That was a really well told story Every part has been my favorite part as I read through Jojo, short of Part 4, when I only liked in retrospect - Araki really improves as a writer and an artist with each arc. He's clearly trying really hard to improve his craft. I really enjoy the bit in SBR when you can clearly see him experimenting with his current style. Suddenly, there's a bunch of close ups that a really different from anything else in the comic, and the style of the close ups slowly turns into the style of the entire manga.
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You forgot to say "Except for 5"
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Five owns, Bruno owns. Arrivederci!
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yes but how does king crimson work
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One day we will have a competent translation of part five, and then the long nightmare in the court of the crimson king will be over.
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Part five is great because all of passione are cool and it has the best battle cries.
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I liked 5 a lot and didn't really like 6 very much at all.
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Mr. Maltose posted:One day we will have a competent translation of part five, and then the long nightmare in the court of the crimson king will be over. Speaking of, did they ever finish the updated translations of part 4? The link in the OP only has up to Vol. 40. Duwang is funny and all, but it gets really grating after a few volumes.
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They maybe possibly might be starting back up sometime eventually. Fan Translation is a fickle field.
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Pomp posted:Every part has been my favorite part as I read through Jojo, short of Part 4, when I only liked in retrospect - Araki really improves as a writer and an artist with each arc. He's clearly trying really hard to improve his craft. I really enjoy the bit in SBR when you can clearly see him experimenting with his current style. Suddenly, there's a bunch of close ups that a really different from anything else in the comic, and the style of the close ups slowly turns into the style of the entire manga. The series changed publication from a weekly format to a monthly one mid-SBR and that shows.
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I hate the monthly format, every chapter feels like a weekly one that's just stretched out by unnecessary close-ups of people having no emotion (or if he wants to show them having emotion, sweating).
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I just don't like it cus the pacing ground to a halt. Every part before SBR took like three to four years to get through. Part 7 took, well, seven years. I love SBR and was fine with how long it was, it just took twice as long for readers to get it. And it makes me worry we're still four or five years away from getting mysteries revealed in Jojolion.
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FirstAidKite posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nxl6SZf19ec Oh my god. "You goddamn baka." People need to see this.
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I get the feeling we're at least nearing the halfway point of Jojolion. I think SBR took as long as it did because it was originally planned as a weekly series but then partway through switched to monthly. Jojolion is still probably going to be running until 2017-18, but we're starting to get answers and fight actual antagonists.
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Kabanaw posted:I get the feeling we're at least nearing the halfway point of Jojolion. I think SBR took as long as it did because it was originally planned as a weekly series but then partway through switched to monthly. Jojolion is still probably going to be running until 2017-18, but we're starting to get answers and fight actual antagonists. There is no way this is only halfway through the series.
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Aurora posted:There is no way this is only halfway through the series. Have we even seen a real antagonist outside of the architect?
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Broseph Brostar posted:Have we even seen a real antagonist outside of the architect? I think the architect is gonna be like akira was in part four and move on once we actually see the big antagonist.
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For all we know he could just be the Angelo of Jojolion.
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Joushuu is the real antagonist.
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Dred Cosmonaut posted:You forgot to say "Except for 5" No, I loved five. Great cast and some really kinetic fights. A lot of stand powers were kind of a bad fit for the medium, and thus confusing, but I really look forward to the anime adaption.
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Herr Tog posted:Is it okay for me to skip part 1? Dude its like, 50 chapters. Just power through
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From now on whenever someone asks if they can skip any part, everyone should just say "No way, there's so many important things, you'll be missing so much".
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