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ok finally caught up with JoJolion what the gently caress was Poor Tom I'm glad he's dead tho
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RubberLuffy posted:ok finally caught up with JoJolion I'll always respect Poor Tom. He just used his stand collectively and intelligently, no real pettiness beyond "hey, you ruined our business so i'll take all of you down" and he is down to eat a lady out while technically fighting Eight stand users. It's important to give oral too.
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Oct 17, 2018 22:53
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Ozone Baby was definitely one of the more OP Stands.
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Kaiser Mazoku posted:Ozone Baby was definitely one of the more OP Stands. When you know exactly where your enemies are and are able to set it up, sure.
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Oct 17, 2018 22:59
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ozone baby felt like a part 6 stand
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Oct 17, 2018 23:18
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it involves burying a lego replica of the white house somewhere so to an extent it's not the simplest thing to unleash, all told
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Oct 17, 2018 23:18
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The thing I'm most looking forward to in the SBR anime is winter catfish
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Oct 17, 2018 23:37
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Speaking of the anime, was it ever said why they stopped doing post-episode previews? DIU had them the day before new episodes, but they don't seem to be doing them at all for VA.
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Oct 17, 2018 23:39
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Hobgoblin2099 posted:Speaking of the anime, was it ever said why they stopped doing post-episode previews? DIU had them the day before new episodes, but they don't seem to be doing them at all for VA. Is it a time thing? Like, instead of giving time they're allotted for the episode over to a preview, it's more show they can include?
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Oct 18, 2018 03:02
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Onmi posted:Also, having finished my Re-read of Steel Ball Run, I've identified my favorite Arakism is when he has a character basically say the same thing 3 times in a row. I can't help but imagine him writing the line three times, trying to determine which one is best before going "gently caress it, all of them!" This made me curious so I checked the Japanese version and it's basically the same going on in the original (and not some quirk of the translation). I see it as the dialogue version of the really effective tension-building visual technique Araki likes to do where he draws the same subject across multiple panels but each time we're just a little bit closer. (I'm going through DIU right now so I'm thinking of the blood trail leading to the Nijimura's front door or Koichi seeing the bow and arrow on the wall or Tomoko drinking the cup of coffee with Aqua Necklace in it) (or the one from SC that Araki mentions in the how-to book with Avdol finding Holly on the floor of the kitchen).
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Oct 18, 2018 03:10
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I really like these SBR covers  Improbable Lobster posted:The Stone Ocean ED should be Rusty Cage I always gotta vote for God's Gonna Cut You Down
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Oct 18, 2018 05:41
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Wekapipo got a raw deal
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Oct 18, 2018 05:44
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I actually have a buddy who is not really that fond of Steel Ball Run outside of the final stretch (in his own words "it took a sharp upturn in quality after Gyro died, ironically even though he was the best character in the whole thing")
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Oct 18, 2018 06:11
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Except after Gyro dies, there's like 3 chapters left of D4C and then it devolves into base fanservice and is easily the worst part of SBR on a real level. Not that I don't love Diego's World too but fanservice is all that really is.
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Oct 18, 2018 07:09
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Those last few chapters of D4C are excellent though.
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Oct 18, 2018 08:37
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The problem with SBR is that the body horror gets really repetitive. Remember that part where they were helplessly lying around while parts of their body were deforming/transforming/being horribly mutilated?
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Oct 18, 2018 08:40
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Heavy Weather was in Stone Ocean.
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SyntheticPolygon posted:Chariot Requiem was in Vento Aureo.
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Oct 18, 2018 10:03
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Even Diegos World owns. Like remember when Diego's version of the knives is sending lit matches through the stopped time and then Tusk Chumimin~s it's way through stopped time? Owns
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Oct 18, 2018 12:09
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Also it was cool to see Johnny, who didn't have Time Stop powers of his own, or the ability to move through frozen time, fighting against Dio who DID, and the various ways they had to fight each other. I was kinda sad Johnny didn't win, but it's the journey, not the finish line.
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BravestOfTheLamps posted:The problem with SBR is that the body horror gets really repetitive. Remember that part where they were helplessly lying around while parts of their body were deforming/transforming/being horribly mutilated? That's definitely a form of horror that Araki tends to fall back on, but I think SBR is one part where it's actually warranted. The lead character is a paraplegic in a long distance race, and Jesus cameos as a series of immobile body parts being carried about higgledy piggledy by the greedy and righteous alike. I won't argue that it isn't overwrought at times, but at the same time, being helpless and at the mercy is much more of a thing in SBR than it is in other parts.
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Oct 18, 2018 14:08
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Yeah Johnny blasting himself with the spin and turning into a noodle and Diego getting deep cuts in his face from his dinosaur teeth busting his jaw open feels different than like, the guards skull busting open with snails or Jolyne ripping off Westwoods toenail I'm not sure why
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Oct 18, 2018 14:30
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I wonder if Araki was never satisfied with any of Jonathan and Dio's fights and that's why Diego's World happens. One last ride for the OGs.
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Oct 18, 2018 14:31
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I read SBR pretty recently but honestly most of that poo poo doesn't really rank compared to Westwood's toenail, which is one of the only moments of gore in this series that I still remember and shudder thinking about.
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BravestOfTheLamps posted:The problem with SBR is that the body horror gets really repetitive. Remember that part where they were helplessly lying around while parts of their body were deforming/transforming/being horribly mutilated? They really needed more people struggling to hold coffee cups and eating rocks, imo
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Oct 18, 2018 14:41
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Meme Emulator posted:They really needed more people struggling to hold coffee cups and eating rocks, imo I think the best part about Diego and Johnny's relationship in SBR is, unlike in PB, we don't actually see any of Diego's truly heinous or dickish actions Johnny is just completely sure he's an rear end in a top hat and refuses to get along with him. Combined with Diego trying to hide turning into a Dinosaur it's all this great sense of comedy.
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High Voltage is about giving closure to the end of Johnny’s journey by having him take up Gyro’s mantle as the hero of the story and fighting Gyro’s rival
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Oct 18, 2018 15:28
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Did Diego ever do anything to Johnny outside of the race? Also, it's been a while since I've read VA. How did Mista survive being shot in the head on the train? I remember that he did, I just don't remember how.
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Oct 18, 2018 15:32
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Hobgoblin2099 posted:Did Diego ever do anything to Johnny outside of the race? He beat him when he was younger.
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Oct 18, 2018 15:35
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He probably shot a bullet with another bullet or something.
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Oct 18, 2018 15:35
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Hobgoblin2099 posted:Did Diego ever do anything to Johnny outside of the race? Number 5 stopped the bullet inside his head.
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Oct 18, 2018 15:37
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when in doubt just assume there's a bullet gremlin doing something helpful
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Oct 18, 2018 15:38
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I like that it's Number 5, too. That it's the cowardly one who ultimately saves Mista's life is pretty neat.
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Expect My Mom posted:Yeah Johnny blasting himself with the spin and turning into a noodle and Diego getting deep cuts in his face from his dinosaur teeth busting his jaw open feels different than like, the guards skull busting open with snails or Jolyne ripping off Westwoods toenail I'm not sure why Now I'm thinking it's something to do with the thematic element of a lot of Part 7s horror being inflicted on the characters by themselves (Johnny shoots off his fingernails, he shoots himself, he watches his arm fall out as gets the Corpse Arm, Gyro gets his replaced by the Corpse Eye, Hot Pants shoots her flesh out of Cream Starter). Theres a throughline of sacrifice being made by harming yourself to achieve your goal vs harming other, or in Valentine's case, seeking to experience no harm ever again. I'd love do a Part 7 group reread in this thread sometime
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https://twitter.com/kewl0210/status/1052937503358021639?s=21 Go figure that the first time I did even a little typesetting for jojolion, it's for a creepy chapter  Oh while I'm talking about this I'll mention that I scanned the Rohan Gucci chapter in color for HWMN so I think that will see the light of day sometime relatively soon Okuyasu Nijimura fucked around with this message at 16:11 on Oct 18, 2018 |
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Oct 18, 2018 16:09
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Part 7 is so loving powerful it beats Chimera Ants as my favorite individual section of a longer running manga. Like, CA arc is my favorite shounen arc of all time but SBR is my favorite manga arc of all time period and it helps JoJo as a whole beat Hunter x Hunter as a whole.
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Okuyasu Nijimura posted:https://twitter.com/kewl0210/status/1052937503358021639?s=21 fuuuuuuck
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Oct 18, 2018 16:19
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"uu tomoki never fails!!!", i continue to insist as i slowly crumble and break into asbestos
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Arist posted:I like that it's Number 5, too. That it's the cowardly one who ultimately saves Mista's life is pretty neat. 5 is also the "lucky number" in several Asian cultures, like how it's 7 in most western cultures
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I also forgot that 5 is the one who helps Giorno fight Cioccolata after the other Pistols get incapacitated.
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