Josuke Higashikata posted:

Are you Jonathan Joestar? 'cos I would totally decapitate you, sew my head on to your body, spend 100 years undersea playing with our dick, gently caress a bunch of women and sire 4 bastards, learn how to stop time with our new Stand, give your kids and their kids a Stand, try to kill one of them, send a bunch of assassins after the ones who don't get manga cancer, murder a loser NEET and your senile grandson before getting punched in the knee and explode

Rohan Kishibe posted:

I can't help but take this a little personally.

multijoe posted:

Jotaro and DIO's battle was mostly psychological and the when Jotaro detroys DIO in their final standoff he's undermined DIO's legendary narcissism and overwhelming belief in himself to the point he can overpower and destroy the physical maifestation of his ego (i.e. his Stand)

At the beginning of DIO's World DIO is constantly bragging about the complete incontestability of his Stand (the ultimate Stand which indeed has the power to rule over the whole world! etc) to the extent that when his fight with Jotaro starts he's happy to start it by dicking around comparing punch rushes, convinced Jotaro presents absolutely zero threat. Obviously this doesn't last long and DIO gets supremely freaked out when he realises Jotaro can enter his world of stopped time and for the first time someone can face him on something approaching equal ground. He bounces back by switching to a ranged attack and then gets his confidence shattered even worse when Jotaro plays dead to deliver a nearly fatal surprise attack, actually crippling him to the extent that the mighty DIO can't move his legs! He gets the ball back in his court by taking Joseph's blood, but althrough he now believes himself to be literally invincible he's still afraid to apporach Jotaro directly and for his final attack with ROAD ROLLER DA he still keeps 10 feet of solid steel between the two of them rather than face Star Platinum directly.

So at this point DIO's gone from 'I'm fuckin' touchable, come at me' to 'well that's okay, I can chuck things at him where he can't hit me from' to 'Well, it was kinda rough before but now I've reached my final form and can stab myself in the brain without consequence ... but I'd still rather fight him at range'. Whilst he would never admit it, he's become progressively more scared of Jotaro and less confident in his own, objectively stronger abilities. Then Jotaro of course uses The World himself to stop time, using the one technique DIO thought set him apart from everyone else in the world (He captured my favourite technique!) and takes to opportunity to get in a yare yare daze and act like it ain't no big thing, belitting DIO even further. So he breaks DIO's leg and belittles him again by saying he'll be sporting and let him get up, we then see DIO's internal monologue where he's gone from saying 'it's impossible for me to lose' to 'I'll do anything to win' - he no longer has faith in The World or his own superhuman abilities to destroy Jotaro, his ego and self worth lie in tatters. So he resorts to a cheap sucker punch to get the drop on Jotaro, who then destroys his Stand - the manifestation of the soul, in a single hit. It plays out very similarly to the D'Arby fights: when the mighty DIO had been reduced to chucking gunk in a guy's face to win, he'd already admitted defeat in his heart, Star Platinum shattered the The World because it was the manifestation of DIO's utterly destroyed ego

FirstAidKite posted:

I wonder how many people wasted away as a result of rohan ripping pages out of them before he tried that poo poo with koichi

I wonder what even happened with them, since they were losing lots of weight suddenly but maintaining the same shape (or whatever was happening I forget)

Sinners Sandwich posted:

With how every good character in Jojo usually has their first appearance being a really hosed up creep, I'm suprised Speedwagon didn't kill that cat eating a puppy to show Jonathan the circle of life in The Alley

Cabinet posted:

Tbf he did try and kill Jonathan.

Cabinet posted:

But on the other hand Speedwagon did shove buzzsaws into his hat and would throw it at people. Kinda a dick move tbh.

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Stallion Cabana posted:

I realized earlier today I've never read an actual good translation of Part 4. I read the DUWANG translations, but there are better ones out there, right? I'm not asking for or anything, just confirming that I can probably find better translations of JoJo somewhere.

alcharagia posted:

also, steel ball run is really good

Stallion Cabana posted:

I realized earlier today I've never read an actual good translation of Part 4. I read the DUWANG translations, but there are better ones out there, right? I'm not asking for or anything, just confirming that I can probably find better translations of JoJo somewhere.

Baal posted:

Jotaro is cooler and also a better father than Dio

Hobgoblin2099 posted:

Giorno ended up wearing designer Italian suits and became the head of the mafia.

Jolyne ended up in prison.

I mean, I like Jolyne, but the results speak for themselves.