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So I finally got around to reading Steel Ball run over a week long binge, and I just gotta say: holy poo poo. I was not ready for those last two volumes, poo poo went down. I actually said "holy gently caress" out loud at the reveal of Alt-Diego's stand. There is just so many little things I love, like how the President uses alt dimensions to make himself ripped or that there is a stand whose ability is to make a dinosaur zombie plague. Or really anything to do with the President, what a character. The one appearance of the OraOraOra was incredible as well, hella satisfying  I'm also kind of amazed at how much better it did a "defeating an enemy in infinite realities" thing that Bioshock Infinite did. Dojyaa~~n ManlyGrunting fucked around with this message at 08:26 on Jan 17, 2015 |
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ManlyGrunting posted:So I finally got around to reading Steel Ball run over a week long binge, and I just gotta say: holy poo poo. I was not ready for those last two volumes, poo poo went down. I actually said "holy gently caress" out loud at the reveal of Alt-Diego's stand. There is just so many little things I love, like how the President uses alt dimensions to make himself ripped or that there is a stand whose ability is to make a dinosaur zombie plague. Or really anything to do with the President, what a character. The one appearance of the OraOraOra was incredible as well, hella satisfying Steel Ball Run is Araki's honey pot for all the people that don't like Star Platinum because he just ghost punches. He says, "No, there's no ghost punching at all! Just cool power ghost buddy puzzle fights, it's just what you wanted!'. And then at the end, he pulls back the curtain, and the whole thing was just an enormous, nearly decade long set up, for the greatest and most satisfying ghost punch ever.
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Should I read parts 5 and 6 before starting Steel Ball Run or just skip straight to it?
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Jan 17, 2015 10:16
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Should you read more JoJo or less JoJo, hmm lemme think Skipping 5 is acceptable because there's no good translation but you should read 6.
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Star Platinum posted:Should you read more JoJo or less JoJo, hmm lemme think Excellent point.
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Jan 17, 2015 10:22
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there's really no point in skipping any of them. i'm not sure why people would want to do that, since the later parts aren't going to magically disappear in the meanwhile.
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Part 5 has all the strongest stands
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Jan 17, 2015 18:20
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One of the stands is just magento from X Men but even more powerful and he turns your blood into razor blades
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My favorite was the guy that can kill you 30 seconds and had to be written out of the story.
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Jan 17, 2015 18:27
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Big Anime Fan Here posted:One of the stands is just magento from X Men but even more powerful and he turns your blood into razor blades I'm pretty sure Magneto kills a guy in a similar way in that X-2 movie.
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Hobgoblin2099 posted:I'm pretty sure Magneto kills a guy in a similar way in that X-2 movie. Yeah but Magneto's name isn't Metallica so he's not as cool.
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Jan 17, 2015 18:48
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Hobgoblin2099 posted:I'm pretty sure Magneto kills a guy in a similar way in that X-2 movie. Wasn't that guy injected with extra iron as a way to smuggle metal into Magneto's prison? I don't think he could pull that trick on anybody with a regular amount of iron.
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Jan 17, 2015 18:50
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Magneto ripped some iron out of a guys body where as Metallica literally turns your blood into razor blades with no regard for the logic of chemistry
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Jan 17, 2015 18:58
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Holy poo poo that afterword rules
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Jan 17, 2015 18:58
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Part 5 has a lot of awesome combo fights going on and also has some really loving good side characters that are rad enough that they're still rad as gently caress even with the bad translation.
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Jan 17, 2015 19:00
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It has the dance
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Jan 17, 2015 19:03
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It has a lot of things. Like that time Bruno died but stuck around cause he's too cool to die. Or that time Giorno decided that the best way to fight the guy who can freeze anything near him is to drive into water. Or the entire train fight.
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Big Anime Fan Here posted:It has the dance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yCNj6S3TzQ
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You do miss out on a lot with the poor translation, but what remains is still worth reading. Plus its got one the best protagonists in Jojo.
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Broseph Brostar posted:You do miss out on a lot with the poor translation, but what remains is still worth reading. Plus its got one the best protagonists in Jojo. Yeah, Bruno is pretty rad, I can agree there.
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Mighty Dicktron posted:Yeah, Bruno is pretty rad, I can agree there. Zipper Man vs. Fisher Man is still the best fight.
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arc 5 matters the least out of every arc but it definitely has a lot of cool stuff also you can experience the phenomenon of 'araki retcons something a few pages later because it's too odd for jojo's'
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Liquid Dinosaur posted:Yeah but Magneto's name isn't Metallica so he's not as cool. Broseph Brostar posted:Wasn't that guy injected with extra iron as a way to smuggle metal into Magneto's prison? I don't think he could pull that trick on anybody with a regular amount of iron. Big Anime Fan Here posted:Magneto ripped some iron out of a guys body where as Metallica literally turns your blood into razor blades with no regard for the logic of chemistry These are all very good points.
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Hobgoblin2099 posted:These are all very good points. Thanks you.
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Part 5 also has the best outfits(apart from Vanilla and Anasui).
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Mugticket posted:Part 5 also has the best outfits(apart from Vanilla and Anasui). The_Biggest_Lie_in_Vento_Aureo.png I almost posted this in the anime thread when they were talking about stand users wearing ridiculous outfits, but then I remembered it was the anime thread and stopped myself.
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If you feel as though you can rest soundly after skipping 6 pages of MUDAMUDAMUDA and a page of WRYYYYYY, you could skip part 5. But you might as well skip 6, 7 and 8 though because you're probably not a JoJo fan if you don't want to see 6 pages of MUDA. e: JoJolion 39 spoilers. http://araki100p.web.fc2.com/jojolion039.html Josuke Higashikata fucked around with this message at 22:17 on Jan 17, 2015 |
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Fucknag posted:Should I read parts 5 and 6 before starting Steel Ball Run or just skip straight to it? I personally skipped part 5 because of the translation and went back to it after everything else, and I don't regret it. But it's all worth reading.
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5 is not tied into the overarching plot at all except for the return of a special friend and a funny idea for a cameo in part 6 that never ended up happening, so you can enjoy it at your leisure
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really the most disappointing thing about 5 is that it didn't tie into 6 when it seemed like by all metrics it would
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Big Anime Fan Here posted:really the most disappointing thing about 5 is that it didn't tie into 6 when it seemed like by all metrics it would Yeah seriously that was all kinds of disappointing. I know part 6 suffered from battle fatigue towards the end with nobody getting a chance to just take a breather and rest but I'd have been down for Giorno in Disney.
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Part 5 is probably my favorite. There I said it.
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I would've loved a confrontation between Pucci and Giorno, especially since Giorno and Jotaro never got a proper meeting nor did Giorno ever get a chance to show that he wasn't like his father. Well, not in the bad way, at least. He does still end up in control of a legion of Stand Users that he sends out to kill people who piss him off.
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I would've liked a side story about all the Stand users the Joestar brigade left alive and wrecked in their passage in part 3. It's actually probably a pretty significant list, though I guess they'd also all be living in the Middle East. TOPICAL COMMENTARY.
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I would love a side story detailing Hol Horse's adventures period. On the topic of other villains, I imagine Arabia Fats decided to do something sensible with his powers and made a lucrative career selling sunscreen.
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Hobgoblin2099 posted:I would love a side story detailing Hol Horse's adventures period. He's dead. They just left him laying unconscious in the desert in the middle of the night. He probably froze to death.
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Hobgoblin2099 posted:I would've loved a confrontation between Pucci and Giorno, especially since Giorno and Jotaro never got a proper meeting nor did Giorno ever get a chance to show that he wasn't like his father. Well, not in the bad way, at least. He does still end up in control of a legion of Stand Users that he sends out to kill people who piss him off. If All Star Battle is anything to go off of, GER vs Made in Heaven would have been amazing, also going to say that despite the translation I actually really enjoyed part 5, I kinda like how at the end they switch things up and had the protagonist rather than the antagonist get the plot device that makes you overpowered, even if it lead to a rather boring final fight
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I'm more disappointed Great Uncle Josuke never got a chance to jump in and be a big drat hero. Poor guy was forgotten past part 4.
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