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Good avatar material sirtommygunn posted:What is this stand going to do? Once its crossed through the barrier, what's it going to do? When it comes in here, and reads my posts, what's it going to do to me? Good avatar text material
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Crusader posted:I haven’t gone back to check but there was definitely at least one early interlude missing from the color version Yeah, it's a shame it's missing because I thought the Johnny backstory added another layer to why he has such an irrational hatred to Diego, or how Stephen's backstory being told early on shows how Lucy's act of kindness helped him when he was at his lowest point. YggiDee posted:Lucy Steel - I hate everything that happens to her (child bride, various forms of sexual menace, weird magic pregnancy) but I adore everything she does (learning lip reading to spy on folks, stabbing Valentine in the loving throat, carrying around a severed head for the express purpose of loving disintegrating Diego. Also I liked Diego. I was rooting for him (Dino Diego, not The World Diego), even though he was a shithead. Also Hot Pants was cool. Yeah, Lucy rules so much. I like her way more than Hayato as the "normal person gets involved in Stands and stuff" character because she gets involved in the plot really early and shows a lot of agency. Also Araki deliberately having us question what the hell is up with Stephen and Lucy from the start and then turning that around with their backstories is some neat storytelling. The marriage being just a huge sham that Stephen and Lucy's father came up with as the only way to save her from the mob was a relief to find out. The part where Lucy offers to be "a wife" to Stephen for a day, only for him to completely shoot her down and explain she has her whole life ahead of her once he's gone cemented him as a good person. I really loved Lucy's small laugh of relief because while she fully trusted Stephen being a good guy, she needed that extra reassurance.  Plus this moment really stuck to me later on Johnny asked Valentine for that extra 1% of trust.
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Oct 1, 2019 03:17
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Tusk is also great because it's inherently cute and endearing, so everyone enjoys seeing it when it appears. I think the thing that gets me most about the talk Johnny and Valentine have is that Johnny literally saw the President unload his gun into Gyro, then Valentine comes back like "wait wait wait, truce?? Truce????? I'll bring Gyro back, I never WANTED him to die, truce????" We all know that Valentine is lying but Johnny has SO MUCH of an advantage that Valentine's only real option for survival is to talk him down, but he still comes this close to stopping the spin and letting him go. Both because he wants Gyro back and how hard it is for him to believe that he's not the bad guy here. People talk about the moral grayness of the characters here, and Johnny's fully capable of discarding his humanity...but he doesn't. Gyro was the one to pull him back every time. We know that Valentine has been a slimy little bastard from the very beginning and Johnny's totally justified in stopping him. Remember that when Love Train first shows what it can do, two local farmers bear the brunt of it, not people halfway around the world, and Valentine's completely fine with that. Knowing Valentine's true intentions is where the tension from the scene comes from; it's another test for Johnny, to see what he's learned and if he can get over that last hurdle. We believe in Johnny already, but can Johnny believe in himself?
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Oct 1, 2019 03:18
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Meme Emulator posted:Also that chapter went to the extreme with the little symbols in the speech bubbles, which was making me laugh even though it was supposed to be a tense and emotional moment. "My country (American flag in case you forgot what country this takes place in)"
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Oct 1, 2019 03:38
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Oct 1, 2019 04:16
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Even though I read this before and knew it was coming The World reveal still had me grinning. Also I like that Lucy bringing Dio's head to kill Dio is kinda like the end of Part 1 where Wang Chun brought Dio's head to kill Johnathan.
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Oct 1, 2019 05:36
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Oct 1, 2019 07:14
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its hosed up that gyro had to die in new jersey of all places
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Oct 1, 2019 15:05
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Funky Valentine posted:I hope Norisuke spends his money wisely. 
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Oct 1, 2019 15:19
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In the end, Gyro fulfilled the Zeppeli legacy: Dying so a Joestar can kill the bad guy.
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Oct 1, 2019 15:26
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paragon1 posted:In the end, Gyro fulfilled the Zeppeli legacy: Dying so a Joestar can kill the bad guy. i was really hoping this time would be different 
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Oct 1, 2019 15:33
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wAq8QetOUQ Watch every single one of disco ballad's videos but especially this one that just got uploaded.
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Oct 1, 2019 16:43
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Oct 1, 2019 17:20
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Disco ballad continues the venerable tradition of Japanese Jojo fans making awesome videos.
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Oct 1, 2019 17:25
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I fully intended to keep up my "one volume a day" schedule for this final week, but then I accidentally blasted through all three volumes because they kind of own. Whoops. I don't know if it's just because I'm not a native English speaker or not, but the translation feels a little harder to follow at times than I remembered from my first readthrough?  It's still perfectly legible, it's just sometimes I had to stop and reread things a couple of times. Ah well, all the more reason to pray this part gets animated too!(Don't get me wrong, though, I am immensely grateful to the folks who worked so hard to help people read this extremely good manga. Maybe it's just that my reading comprehension's gotten worse in the past couple of years.)
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Oct 1, 2019 18:50
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Johnny Joestar posted:holy poo poo
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Oct 1, 2019 21:06
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Thinking back on the themes in the story, I wish Pocoloco got a bit more attention, just so we could see the contrast between him and Valentine. Valentine fought like hell to obtain the power he sought, which allowed him to send his bad fortune to others. Then he got wrecked because he had it coming. Pocoloco just kept to his business and counted his blessings and ending up winning everything he wanted.
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Oct 1, 2019 22:00
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YggiDee posted:I adore everything she does (learning lip reading to spy on folks, stabbing Valentine in the loving throat, carrying around a severed head for the express purpose of loving disintegrating Diego Also secretly claiming the corpse behind everyone's backs at the very end, what a loving boss.
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Oct 1, 2019 22:05
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Lucy gave birth to Jesus so it stands to reason that she has the best claim over him.
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Oct 1, 2019 22:36
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Now Jesus finally has two moms and two dads.
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Oct 1, 2019 23:02
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I love Valentine’s last dramatic monologue. Man, what an exceptional villain.
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Valentine's last trick being just trying to convince Johnny that he's right and Johnny having self-doubts and thinking that he might be the one that's in the wrong is really something else.
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Oct 2, 2019 00:04
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Johnny seeing through all of Valentine's talk to realize that he is full of poo poo and has always been in it only for himself and that Valentine isn't going to honor anything he says is great too. Got to be 101% sure.
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Oct 2, 2019 00:20
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My heart and actions are utterly unclouded.........! They are all those of 'justice'. [dies attempting to murder a disabled teenager for the sake of pettiness]
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Oct 2, 2019 00:23
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I also felt like that was the point that the Jonathan side of him fully merged with his Johnny side. Like, he really wanted to believe Valentine and stop so there would be no more blood shed.
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Oct 2, 2019 00:23
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Johnny is just broken by the end. Just 100% done with this race and this corpse and this president. When he's telling Valentine to just pick up the gun, it's just the most intense thing.
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Oct 2, 2019 03:34
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Oct 2, 2019 03:51
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I love Johnny's big star onesie with the huge hood. If the anime doesn't go with the blue for his color scheme, I'll be really upset What is that big thing behind his head supposed to be? a feather?
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Oct 2, 2019 04:07
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Oct 2, 2019 04:11
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I don't know if someone's posted it yet, but I just love that scene of Johnny and Gyro confessing each other's deepest secret to each other. Johnny looking so flustered while explaining what his kink was had me in stitches.  YF-23 posted:Valentine's last trick being just trying to convince Johnny that he's right and Johnny having self-doubts and thinking that he might be the one that's in the wrong is really something else. Personally, I thought Valentine's final trick was to bring in World Diego to get revenge on Johnny. It's just so perfectly petty too. Bring in someone whose ambitions Valentine somewhat approved of and then give him explicit instructions on how to defeat Johnny with his own rotation. Plus I just love how this relates to Lucy. After all the fear and stress, the threat of sexual violence, using her as his personal 'goddess', Lucy being the one to smash Valentine's last act of malice into pieces was just perfect. Maxwell Adams posted:Thinking back on the themes in the story, I wish Pocoloco got a bit more attention, just so we could see the contrast between him and Valentine. Valentine fought like hell to obtain the power he sought, which allowed him to send his bad fortune to others. Then he got wrecked because he had it coming. Pocoloco just kept to his business and counted his blessings and ending up winning everything he wanted. This does make me think that if Johnny and Gyro didn't bother with the corpse parts, they could have probably won the race by a large margin. Or hell, if Sandman just kept racing then he could have won the money he needed to buy back his peoples' land. 
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Oct 2, 2019 06:10
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There's a bunch of dimensions where the two of them probably won because they didn't get dragged into Valentine's Jesus hunt.
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I want to see the reactions of the Johnny and Lucy in the other dimensions as their Valentine just goes "hold up imma be right back" and then vanishes underground.
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Accordion Man posted:There's a bunch of dimensions where the two of them probably won because they didn't get dragged into Valentine's Jesus hunt. Only the ones in which Pocoloco didn't have the 1 in a billion luck. Him lucking into #1 is one of my favourite things.
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Oct 2, 2019 08:41
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Theres a bunch of timelines where the president just suddenly goes from completely fine to a corpse. History must be fun in those.
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Oct 2, 2019 15:38
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Hemingway To Go! posted:Theres a bunch of timelines where the president just suddenly goes from completely fine to a corpse. History must be fun in those. It's called assassination and it's happened like twice.
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Oct 2, 2019 15:42
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But when d4c is involved there's no really going to be a culprit
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Oct 2, 2019 15:45
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Yeah, come to think of it, what reason would the Johnny and Lucy of the corpseless worlds have to end up where they were in the base world? Did Johnny need the diamonds really badly for some super expensive spine surgery or robot legs or something? Did Lucy eat the diamonds?
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Oct 2, 2019 16:19
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Dragonwagon posted:Did Lucy eat the diamonds? She took them to the sky.
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Oct 2, 2019 16:22
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Dragonwagon posted:Yeah, come to think of it, what reason would the Johnny and Lucy of the corpseless worlds have to end up where they were in the base world? Did Johnny need the diamonds really badly for some super expensive spine surgery or robot legs or something? Did Lucy eat the diamonds? Interesting that at least one of the Johnnys had Tusk Act 2. 
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sirtommygunn posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wAq8QetOUQ Watch every single one of disco ballad's videos but especially this one that just got uploaded. Part 7 and Part 4 are definitely the tops for me in terms of main JoJo and Bad Guy Stand design
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