galagazombie posted:

You and I may think that, but as with the undead loophole, it's more often used in stories as an excuse to "kill" a villain and say the hero is still morally pure. Like putting Angelo in the rock was a whole "If you kill me you're just like me" thing. Though the whole "unable to die" thing was portrayed as pretty terrible for Kars and Diavolo, so I'm not really sure.

FirstAidKite posted:

I like how you can totes see how each jojo cast member's morality is a natural extension of their environment, their situation, their upbringing, and their parentage (most notable with Josuke inheriting so much of Joseph's cunning and trickery and Giorno being such a combination of both Dio and Jonathan's personalities)

Son of Thunderbeast posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLOHN-Yr0mA

Silver2195 posted:

I always say that trapping Engima's user in a book was rather excessive for a guy who hadn't killed anyone and was rather similar in motivation to how Rohan was when he was first introduced. Which doesn't mean Josuke was being out of character there; as people always point out when I point this out; Josuke gets really mad at people who threaten his mother.

Race Realists posted:

Son of Thunderbeast posted:

You are within range of my stand, 「BFG DIVISION」!

Son of Thunderbeast posted:

You are within range of my stand, 「NEW HORIZONS」!

Last Celebration posted:

Hey, so I’m probably pretty late to the bandwagon at this point, but I finally started watching Part 3 on Netflix like a filthy casual (after watching part 1/2 years back) and it loving owns. I kinda assumed it would be overrated, and yeah insofar as nothing can live up to the hype created by being the most well-known part of one of the most influential series in shonen history, but it’s pretty drat great. I kind of just assumed with Jotaro at the helm the series would have less dumb humor but it doubled down because Jotaro is part of an ensemble cast of loving weirdos, while the fights are pretty great even knowing that no one dies until the end, which is pretty surprising itself.

I’m not quite done yet (at D’Arby the Younger) but unless the ending completely shits the bed (I know that things definitely don’t go very well for the cast but that’s not the same thing as badly written) I’m probably gonna go ahead and buy the super overpriced Part 4 set 1 Blu-ray.

Sorry if this should have gone in one of the general chat threads or something, I figured this thread doubled as general Jojo anime discussion

Last Celebration posted:

Hey, so I’m probably pretty late to the bandwagon at this point, but I finally started watching Part 3 on Netflix like a filthy casual (after watching part 1/2 years back) and it loving owns. I kinda assumed it would be overrated, and yeah insofar as nothing can live up to the hype created by being the most well-known part of one of the most influential series in shonen history, but it’s pretty drat great. I kind of just assumed with Jotaro at the helm the series would have less dumb humor but it doubled down because Jotaro is part of an ensemble cast of loving weirdos, while the fights are pretty great even knowing that no one dies until the end, which is pretty surprising itself.

Vookatos posted:

Couldn't sleep today, so decided to check the 1993 OVA with my bf, and I was pleasantly surprised.
It's a bit more slow, but overall really sold.
I can see why people like some stuff from DIO's World way more! It's way better paced and at times better-looking. A shame that they went for more serious tone, so stuff like Jotaro in the sewers, Al Yancovich, DIO's insane-rear end lean back, skull heart, etc. were cut. His voice was also super weird! Still, it was nice to see a different interpretation of some of those scenes

Blueberry Pancakes posted:

Yeah, Polnareff stabbing DIO in the head actually saves Jotaro in the OVA rather than just be "Haha, nice try. Now Jotaro has to go back to faking being dead again, basically leaving this whole situation unchanged."

Augus posted:

Part 4 has a ton of fun with the idea of people with psychic punchghost powers going about their daily lives and it's extremely good.

Son of Thunderbeast posted:

You are within range of my stand, 「 AT DOOM'S GATE 」!

Hitlersaurus Christ posted:

I refuse to watch the dub of part 5 because they don’t have Italian accents

YggiDee posted:

... Does DIO even understand Japanese? Is he at any point directly responding to what Jotaro's saying or is he just monologuing? Does he even know what Jotaro's beef is?

punk rebel ecks posted:

Nessus posted:

I think Stands let you communicate telepathically with each other, which is presumably what most of the crew is doing throughout, because I am drat sure they wouldn't naturally have a common language. It doesn't come up much in part 4 or 5 because everyone speaks Japanese or Italian.