Manga / Joey's Special Experience

What A Strange Adventure^note From left to right: God Brand, Joost Jodocus, and Dionysus the Magic Dog

"Our story is about the events that took place during this Mexican process, and the stories of two adults are terrible!"

— Prologue of Chapter 1, which pretty much sums up the chaos that you're about to read.

Joey's Special Experience (often abbreviated to Joey's, Joey or JSE) is a bad Google Translate edit of the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure manga, created by Twitter user Blue Joseph, who does much of the translating along with editing all the manga pages. Starting partway through Part 1: YES, other people have also helped with the translation, and are credited below their respective chapter release tweets.

Despite the fact that the dialogue is random, the manga seems to follow an actual (albeit confusing and cryptic) plotline, which like in the source material, is divided into several parts. Supposedly written and illustrated by the mysterious Hirohiko Archie, the series follows the adventures of the Jodocus family, who belong to a race of ancient divine creatures known as Carpenters. The series explores the different conflicts originating from the tense relationships (both romantic and political) between Carpenters and humans or between the different Carpenter tribes, and how the members of this family are involved in or affected by them.

Each part starts with the antagonist wanting to get something mundane; like sex, love, money, or, more often, a mix of all of the former, which somehow always escalates into a global conflict. Each protagonist must gather a set of allies to fight against the villain that caused said conflict. All of these villains so far seem to be connected to Satan, a deceased member of the Jodocuses that wants revenge against her family and their race, and tries to become the protagonist by posessing weak-minded humans.

The story of JSE (if you could even call it a story) is also notable for its massive amount of references, its unexplainable religious allegories, its horses, its crapsack World of Symbolism (or Faux Symbolism, depending on how you see it) and just for being... flat-out weird.

So far, the series has three parts:

1. Yes: The first part follows Joost Jodocus, a Carpenter aristocrat, as she grows up with and eventually fights her adoptive brother and ex-husband God Brand, who was possessed by Joost's mother, Satan, and turned into a racist vampire. Now Joost has to go on a journey, make allies, and master the ancient art of Bacon in order to defeat her ex and save the European Union. It ran from May 3, 2022 to June 27, 2022.
2. Modern Warfare: After the events of the first part culminated in a war between Carpenters and humans (which eventually turned the Earth into a Carpenter colony), Joseph "Joker" Joseph and his husband Cesare Dragonfly "Dragon" Cepelis fight to protect The Rock, while Joker also has to contend both for the right to be the protagonist of the story and for the property rights of the Jodocus mansion after Satan recruits some former acquaintances of theirs to try to claim the fortune of the family and literally steal the role of protagonist. It ran from July 22, 2022 to February 28, 2023.
3. Star Wars: When God suddenly returns from his apparent death and gives Jotara Kodjo’s mother cancer, he and the insane-as-always Joker must join forces with an apocalyptic cult leader, a cocaine-addicted robot, and an ex-gangster with family problems that rival that of the Jodocuses’ to save her, along with recovering the body of Jotara’s dead brother Jota. It ran from April 17, 2023 to April 16th, 2024.
4. Leftists Cannot Be Killed: The upcoming fourth part.

The series also spawned some spin-offs based on bad translations of other JJBA media, as well as non-JJBA works written by Araki.

• JojoLov is Excellent: A bad translation of the infamous CLAMP in Wonderland doujinshi made by Hela (one of the main translators that help Blue Joseph), it follows the forced marriage between Screw Unknown Dog and his submissive wife Cackyoin, which is threatened by God's jealousy and by an unwanted son.
• Fuji World Wisdom: Number of Ugly White Snakes: A bad translation of the NSFW Stone Ocean one-shot Fujiko's Bizarre Worldly Wisdom: Whitesnake's Miscalculation made by translator Juana F, it follows a bad attempt at making a theatrical production inside a women's prison, which is ruined when the main star Jolino Kudo is tricked into buying suspicious documents from an artist called Fuji Fuji.
• Man!: A bad translation of Baoh made by translator SpecTwo. Archie attempts to write a tourist guide/social commentary for the Tohoku region of Japan, which is interrupted by the story of a teenage boy possessed by a man and a chalk-loving child who ages in reverse, who are being chased by Dora's criminal organisation, lead by the boy's father.
• George Yostar: A bad translation of the light novel Jorge Joestar. Currently in Development Hell, only one of the chapters has been revealed as of 2023 (and is very likely that it will get re-written and become non-canon).
• Beyond Paradise: A bad translation of the light novel Over Heaven, yet to be released.
• 4 - INTRODUCTION: a bad translation of an infamous Diamond is Unbreakable yonkoma, the story of which follows Josuchius Higashikatari as he uses his Employment, Wet Diamond, to crush two rappers in reaction to their anti-Interspecies Relationship views.
• The Irish Are Amazing: a bad translation of Gorgeous Irene also made by Juana F, it is actually a spin-off of JSE's first part, Yes, focusing on the character of Erin and taking place during the seven year time-skip of this part.

You can find the entire series here.

Warning: The marked spoilers are only for Joey's Special Experience's storyline. Spoilers for JoJo's Bizarre Adventure might be unmarked.

In Mexico, there are tropes.

General

• Aerith and Bob:
  • The series tends to have characters with completely normal names, like Lisa or Erin, alongside characters called "Mr. Long Crotch", "Fast Ambulance" and "Joshar".
  • This also happens a lot with the multiple alternate names of the same character. For instance, the protagonist of YES can be both referred to as Joost and as Joe, even in the same scene.
• Adaptational Name Change: To almost all characters.
• Alien Space Bats: It is highly likely that the Carpenter involvement in historical events caused the bizarre alternate history of this world.
• Anachronism Stew: The series mixes people, events, countries, technology and social media that didn't exist at the same time, such as Mark Zuckerberg and the FIFA World Cup... existing in the 1800s and early 1900s.
• Ancient Astronauts: Expected, since Carpenters and Gods are basically intercheageable words. Even in ancient times humans were asking Carpenters for guidance, which these took advantage of to propagate their colonialism on the Earth they created.
• All Gays are Promiscuous: In a series where most, if not all characters are queer and Everyone Has Lots of Sex, this is expected.
• All Myths Are True: The mythology of Joey's Special Experience is a strange deconstruction of the Bible featuring a melting pot of different faiths and myths. The protagonists are implied to be the descendants of the Lost Tribes of Israel yet they pray to Allah (who in this universe is probably real and even one of their kind), if that isn't enough there's also overt references to Greek and Norse myths, Buddhism, spiritism, Satanism, Nazi esoterism and UFO religions. No wonder atheists in this universe tend to be made fun of (and in the case of God Brand, they're implied to be more of a Hollywood Atheist case).
• Angrish: Many, if not all the characters tend to scream random or utterly nonsensical things during battle, although from Modern Warfare onwards, it is less frequent due to updates in the translator service.
  God: Q!!
• Arc Words:
  • "Horse".
  • "Divorce".
  • "Women and men".
  • "What do you think?" Often repeated multiple times.
  • "The European Union" and "World Health Organization".
  • In Star Wars, "cancer".
• Big, Screwed-Up Family: The Jodocus, Cepelis, and the Crotch families are probably some of the most extreme examples of this.
• Bizarre Alien Biology: Carpenters (the alien race that most of the main cast belong to). They are hermaphroditic individuals with an impossible height, oversized genitals and the ability to turn into animals and other beings.
  • The elusive Working Fairies (Avandole, Pope ABBA II and Ges Philiantrophy) are not too far behind either. They are the essence of broken souls born with employments and they can be revived from death by having their eyebrows removed.
• Bizarro Fiction: JSE is basically what would happen if you let a bizarro author re-write JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. It checks out every single characteristic of this kind of fiction: it's weird, surreal, experimental (at least in premise), often borderline pornographic, functions in what basically is cartoon logic, has a decent cult following and, of course, it's fun to read.
• Blue-and-Orange Morality: Morality in Joey's Special Experience, especially in pre-Almond War Carpenter society, is wack, to say the least. Apparently, killing your child, raping random people in the street and having a child wife is alright, but having slaves, being an atheist and being straight is not? Don't expect the moral compasses of the characters to be consistent either.
  • Also apparently, there's a law that the citizens of the US have to get high whenever they see their president/king/pharaoh/dictator Straizus.
• Captain Obvious: Some of the dialogue often falls into this territory. The Indian medic who appears in a flashback, for example, said this line to Cepelis:
  Medic: If a man dies, he loses his life.
• Cast Full of Gay: Unlike the main series (which although full of homoerotic moments, has a few canon queer characters), almost everyone in the Joey's Special Experience universe is neither straight nor cis.
  • Subverted with the Collumnists, which are an all-female race and mostly simp for masculine Carpenters (when they aren't trying to kill them). In fact, at least two of them are actually very homophobic.
    • And suddenly it gets double-subverted when we discover that Esidis and Mr. Car were married.
• Cloud Cuckooland: The entire setting of this series, but especially India and Cabaleiros do Vento. No wonder why they must be destroyed.
  Indian motorcycle delivery rider: Siege! I am the Egg King, bow!
• Crapsack World: The story takes place in a nightmarish alternate reality where the Earth is a colony of an alien empire full of internal conflicts and where humans are systematically oppressed.
• Darker and Edgier: Even though the source material is already quite dark compared to other shonen, JSE often has even darker plots and events, mainly because of the crapsack world that the characters live in.
• Demonic Possession: Done by Satan multiple times, notably with God via the Ice Mask.
• Easy Sex Change: Many of the characters can do this, thanks to their Carpenter biology. Hormones are also readily available. The only thing stopping many characters to do this is the (sadly somewhat common) transphobic sentiments from their circle.
• Everybody Has Lots of Sex: Public sex (and not the missionary vanilla type, the hardcore type) seems to be a common occurrence in the world of JSE, the main characters tend to have many sexual partners, and it's common that battles eventually evolve into orgies after some time.
• Everyone Is Related: The characters are often either relatives (close or not) or a couple, often both.
• Family Drama: Most prominent during Modern Warfare and some parts of Star Wars, although it still describes most parts pretty accurately.
• Fantastic Racism: Humans and Collumnists are oppressed by pure Carpenters.
• Flames of Love:
  • God literally burns down the house with his desire and lust for Joost, which might be a subversion, since what God wants to actually do with Joost and the flames might be a representation of the destructive nature of God's lust for her.
  • Avandole's Employment has the ability to create flames, and it is not uncommon for these to be used as an allegory for love, passion and sexual awakening (It's even stated in Avandole's character bio that he's "passionate when he loves"). Take for example the way he uses his "hot spirit" to tie down Jotara and make him "come out", or the relation between him, the Flame Mafia, and Pollenrib.
• Foreign Ruling Class: After the Beta Queen Elizabeth scandal, Carpenters started taking a much more aggressive, dominant role on Earth, usurping most world governments and amassing large amounts of riches. By the end of the Almond War, the Carpenters had undoubtedly become the undisputed leaders of Earth, and the humans ended up displaced, exiled to space, or as slaves of the Carpenters, something that lasted at least until things stabilised after the Troll War.
• Forever War: The world seems to constantly be at war, with wars often “ending” just to immediately start back up again.
• Good Colors, Evil Colors: The colour red in the world of JSE is associated with feminity, but also with violence, bloodshed and just evil in general, and Satan is normally identified with this colour (and God/Satan also do stuff like gifting Cocaine a red horse). So is Erin, who is red-headed and bullied for it (though somewhat justifiably since she is in fact pretty Ax-Crazy). On the other hand, the heroes are often identified by green.
• Gratuitous Foreign Language: The characters sometimes speak different languages, such as Malay, Spanish and Polish.
  Joshar: Takpe... JoJo buat macam manna... my words failed ^Translation Nope... JoJo what do you do?
• Hotter and Sexier: This work often devolves into outright smut at some points.
• Human Aliens: Justified, since the characters from the source material are, in fact, human, and only the translated dialogue changes this.
• I Have Many Names: Most characters in the series. Joost, Bullet Train and Poland are especially egregious, having over 25 names each.
• Interspecies Romance: There are many romances between Carpenters and humans, the most infamous couple being God and Joost.
• Leaning on the Fourth Wall: A rather unique example, because the one who "writes" the chapters is a translation service and so it cannot break the fourth wall consciously, but there are some surprising moments in the dialogue where this happens. In fact, most of the characters almost seem to realize that they are part of a story.
  Dragon: (looking ahead, out from the page) It seems you're translating.
  • Chapter titles for some reason tend to become quite meta, even referencing the original manga at some points
  • Alternatively, these fourth wall breaks could be additions of the in-universe author, Hirohiko Archie, who lived through or has memories of the original events that inspired his manga series.
• Mind Screw: Because of the randomness of the translations, don't expect that the series will follow the laws of logic, reason or conventional storytelling, and most, if not the entirety of the dialogue is basically word salad. Good luck trying to figure out what the "plot" is actually about without the help of fan theories.
  • Slightly downplayed in Third Part, which has a more coherent (but still insane) plot and dialogue compared to its predecessors.
• Mood Whiplash: Very extreme tone changes between scenes (and even between sentences) are very frequent, in fact, there's one at the very beginning of the first chapter:
  Narrator: (about the Aztecs) This is a very healthy environment for children between the ages of 12 and 16! Their culture includes cannibalism and serious rituals!
• Mr. Seahorse: Many male-identifying characters end up pregnant. Jusitifed, since Carpenters can change their biological sex and also reproduce asexually.
• Noodle Incident: Where to begin? There's Erin sacrificing a random baby with a towel, Cepelis throwing a grenade at India, Mario getting arrested for the possesion of marijuana in the Middle Ages and then becoming a kinky Nintendo-themed lingerie model in the 1930s, Lisa's parents getting killed by a cockroach migration (something that's rarely to never brought up again despite being an important aspect of the plot)... and the list goes on.
• No Social Skills: The whole plot of Joey's Special Experience revolves around beings of all species who live in a dystopic chronically online ultracapitalistic bubble and thus have lost the ability to touch grass and try to recur to everything to regain it from sports to special drugs (Carpenters) or by asking the Carpenters/Gods/Aliens for strength.
• Our Angels Are Different: Formally introduced in the Les Amoreux arc, angels are thought to be Carpenters too, just a less powerful category that serves mostly protective and matchmaking purposes, and no actual discrimination is seen towards them. On the weirdest side of the spectrum though, angels in JSE are also unique in that they can possess living beings like if they were ghosts, as seen with Iggius.
• Our Demons Are Different: Demons in JSE seem to be divided by two categories: Collumnists, an all-female tribe of Carpenters that are extremely powerful and were expelled from the Kingdom of Heaven/Jupiter by the other Carpenters (making them more or less a metaphor or equivalent for fallen angels) and lesser demons, which are less powerful and tend to follow capitalistic ideologies (always frowned upon in Collumnist society, as shown by Mr. Carson and her sisters).
  • So far, the only confirmed way where non-working fairies can get employments in the JSE universe is by making deals with demons, which are often sexual in nature.
• Our Vampires Are Different: Vampires are created when a human fuses their soul with a Carpenter soul via an Ice Mask and are known for their extreme racism.
• Our Zombies Are Different: Zombies lay eggs (more than mice do, at least), and enjoy doing sports.
• Precision F-Strike: Many. They often come up very suddenly and out of nowhere, which is why they're usually Played for Laughs.
  Inspector: Buggy is dead!
  Bullet Train: Fuck!
• Recursive Translation: Basically the entire premise of this project. Sometimes lampshaded by the characters themselves.
  Joost: AAAAAAA! I'll never forgive translators!
• Related in the Adaptation:
  • Probably the biggest one is Bullet Train (Robert E. O. Speedwagon) being the son of Baroque Cepelis (Will Anthonio Zeppeli) and Dream (Doobie). Meanwhile, Major Strawberry (Rudol Von Stroheim) is the son of Straizus (Straizo) and Bullet Train.
  • In: Phantom Blood, Jonathan's only son was George Joestar II. In JSE, Joost (Jonathan Joestar) has three children: Joshu (George Joestar II), Straizus (Straizo) and a mysterious third one named Jonathan.
  • All the main three Collumnists are sisters, while in the original manga they do not share any blood relation. They're also the sisters of Baroque Cepelis (Will Anthonio Zeppeli) and the great aunts of Cesare (Caesar A. Zeppeli).
  • Baby Jesus (Santana) is a member of the Cepelis (Zeppeli) family in Joey's Special Experience, but in the source material he does not even belong to the same species.
  • In JSE, Poland (Jean-Pierre Polnareff), Spanish Wine (Sherry Polareff), J. Gay (J. Geil, who is also Sherry in this "adaptation"), Enyo (Enya), Mr. Long Crotch (Hol Horse) and Miso (Guido Mista) are all relatives. Gyroscope (Gyro Zeppeli) might also be Long Crotch's brother, but this is dubious as the mafia background offered by Archie implies it to be in a "partner in crime" way.
  • Fuji is Hermis' son in Number of Ugly White Snakes, while in the original one-shot, Fujiko is not related at all to Ermes.
  • Ikuro and Dr. Kasumi (Dr. Kasuminome) are father and son in Man! but in Baoh they're not related.
• Relationship Revolving Door: Basically every relationship portrayed, to the extremes of constantly getting married and divorced.
• Royal Inbreeding: Probably the reason why the Jodocus family is so full of incest. In particular, during Second Part, Bullet Train has to find a bride for Joker to mantain the bloodline, and he choses his own nephew, Dragon.
• Screw the Rules, I Have Money!: The main way of reviving in this universe is by buying something from "Salesmen", souls that live in Hell and wait to be revived by getting enough money. Only Carpenters can do this, however, if they want to they can bring humans back with them, as shown by Joshar bringing back Dariusz after proposing to him in hell.
• Serious Business: Sports have an important role in the world of JSE, as they're one of the many ways to lose weight and touch grass. The soldiers of the EU are trained by practicing sports, and most Bacon warriors learn their techniques at Tibet's volleyball club. There's also a whole arc dedicated just to the FIFA World Cup... taking place in 1939.
• Sex Is Evil, and I Am Horny: The views on sexuality are very messy in JSE, but that doesn't stop almost everyone from being extremely promiscuous. Some characters like Vamua and Mr. Car seems to have conservative views on sexuality and gender, but they still can be seen literally begging Joker to have sex with them, especially the latter.
• Shadow Government: The World Health Organisation and the European Union are implied to be this. Even after their supposed downfall they're still heard about and mentioned by the characters, which means that the Almond War didn't truly extinguish them. If you want to look it that way, the Carpenter/Heaven/Jupiter Empire could be this too.
• Shout-Out: The references in this series are too many to be covered in a single section:
  • "I HAVE ONE PIECE!". The Straw Hats have also been mentioned in various arcs. In fact, One Piece might probably hold the title for the most referenced manga in the series.
  • At one point in the final arcs of Modern Warfare, Joker says that he intends to kill Van Halen.
  • Many people have noted that some plot events and elements have certain similarities to the Five Nights at Freddy's series.
  • Mark Zuckerberg and Lionel Messi are name-dropped several times throughout the series, among other celebrities.
  • There are many references to quite a lot of prog rock bands and songs, most notably from King Crimson, Pink Floyd and Can.
    • The name of the first part, Yes, is commonly thought to be a reference to be a reference to the prog rock band of the same name. It doesn't help that the most popular outro of the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure anime adaptation (which is also the origin of the To Be Continued meme), involves the song Roundabout, composed by Yes.
    • And if that wasn't enough, Sushi Q is also implied to be a member or frequent collaborator of King Crimson, to the point that he bursts into anger when you don't listen to their albums, which led to Joker and Dragon threatening to sue the band. The Collumnist sisters also travel in a spaceship called "The Crimson King". And at one point, Vamua repeats herself when under stress, repeats herself when under stress...
  • Speaking about King Crimson, JSE also referenced the "It just works" meme several times.
  • And what about Part 3, which received the name of Star Wars? The fact that the story of the part also involves the Death Star, The Chosen One, something called "the force", mentions of Jedi and Sith, and an evil empire doesn't help either.
  • Stroheim informs Joker that Jesus Christ wasn't the only one who fell in love with Jerma.
  • One of the most frequently used alternative names for Erina is Eren.
  • There's also Led Zeppelin for Will's father and Dr. Dre for Dire, but they're not alternative names. In fact, these characters are heavily implied to be the actual Led Zeppelin and Dr. Dre.
  • It is not clear if Joseph's nickname comes from the Batman villain or the Persona 5 protagonist, but considering that he mentions being in a suicide squad...
    • Though he also has a harem...
  • The name of Cesare's father is Super Mario. And in Bleford and Wisdom's flashback, Beta Queen Elizabeth lived in Bowser Tower.
    • Speaking of Bowser, during the later half of the Ben Anubis arc in Star Wars, Jotara didn't expect Bowser to appear in front of him.
  • One ending chapter note reads "GOOD NEWS ABOUT ADVENTURE TIME"
  • The Red Rock of Isis also has a soul of its own nicknamed "The Rock".
  • Pope II's actual name might be Abba. And in Cepelis' flashback, the first Pope was given a copy of The Shining.
  • In Star Wars, Golden Heat offers Jotara a threesome with him and Mike Tyson.
  • When Avandole explains his resurrection to Pollenrib, he says that he was saved by a mysterious benefactor named Saul.
  • "THE ROOM!"
  • It's been noted that Star Wars shares a few similarities to The Bible, while acting as a simultaneous critique and actionised reinterpretation of the Good Book. Considering the part's main plot concerns the child of God/Jesus and their fight against a false prophet with Satanic associations, it's easy to see why some people think this.
  • Here's a playlist with all the music references showcased in the series so far.
• Skewed Priorities:
  • In First Part, Joshar is more relieved that his child is fat than that he has survived a near-fatal accident. Then again, Joshar didn't really love Joost that much...
  • The fat police officer from the beginning of Third Part wonders where to get beer in prison while a possible Satanic terrorist is behind bars and acting threatening.
  • From the same part, while Violence is crushing the Star Warriors to death, Avdoline thinks that it is the perfect moment to ask Cake to figure out Jotara's gender identity.
• Speech-Impaired Animal: Animals in JSE are intelligent and able to talk, albeit only speaking with short phrases or single words, although there are some exceptions, like Iggius, who speak in more coherent but no less random sentences.
  Frog: Psychiatrist.
• Tangled Family Tree: If you thought the original Joestar family tree was complicated then be prepared, because the Jodocus family tree is way, way worse, mainly because of the insane amount of cheating and incest committed by the characters.
  • Then there's the small matter of the Gay/Poland family...
• Trip to the Moon Plot: Happens in at least two parts:
  • In Modern Warfare, everyone is teleported to the moon during Joker’s fight with Vamua.
  • In Star Wars, the protagonists are unknowingly transported to the moon by Enyo.
• Word Salad Humour: Most of Joey's Special Experience's comedy falls into this, especially in its early stages, coupled with Surreal Humour.
• World Gone Mad: The lack of grass and the constant search for a life made everyone in this universe (from animals to literal alien gods) absolutely lose their heads and forget how to live and interact with each other, resulting in a chaotic world always at risk of collapsing due to the incompetence of everyone that inhabits it.

First Part: YES

• Alien Gender Confusion: The human Bullet Train originally mistakes Joost, a transfemme enby Carpenter, for a man. This causes the very gay Bullet Train to go in denial, although it's implied that he truly respects Joost's gender identity and understands that he could never be with her even if he wanted to.
• Altar Diplomacy: In the beginning, Joost is married to the Leader of the Aliens to strengthen the prestige and respect of the Jodocus family.
• Anti-Hero: Joost and her main sidekicks are actually just as horrible at the villains, being gangsters, corrupt politicians, racists, terrorists, serial killers or even sexual predators. Unlike Modern Warfare, where most of the characters eventually change their ways, in YES, almost all the main characters got away with their crimes and faced no consequences.
• Big "YES!": The name of the part. Also one of Joost's names.
• Brother–Sister Incest: Lanzar and P-Mol are a same-sex example.
• Child Soldiers: Before and during the Almond War, the EU forced children to train as soldiers through sports such as boxing.
• Decade Dissonance: The Aztecs are "modern people" yet they seem to have much more primitive technology conpared to the EU. At the same time, the technological advancements of the UK are apparently nothing compared to the futuristic military tech of the Chinese.
• Early-Installment Weirdness: Compared to later parts, Yes, especially in its early chapters, had much less coherent dialogue that relied more on "haha, that's gay" and Word Salad Humour in comparison of the more straightforward surreal and black comedy of later parts (although Yes still had its fair share of it). This made the plot less cohesive and harder to understand.
• Fake-Out Opening: There's one at the very start of the series. At first, Archie seems like he's going to write about the history of the Aztec tribe that gained a life thanks to the Ice Mask and developed a culture that ruled the world with fighting fish. However, the Aztec chief Ckemi suddenly and immediately retires from the story, leaving Archie to write about the fates of two star-crossed individuals from the EU whose lives were caught up in the aftermath of this "Mexican process".
• Fictional Country: Cabaleiros do Vento, the ancient gaming kingdom that God takes over.
• Flirty Stepsiblings: Joost and God.
• Gratuitous Rap: Done in a rather exaggerated manner by many of the main villains, due to their background as musicians.
  Joost: (about God) He continues to rap as everything burns down!
• Hates Rich People: The other kids in Port Joestar hate Joost because she's a rich Carpenter aristocrat.
• Mysterious Parent: it is unclear if Straizus even has another parent aside from Joost at all. There's evidence for both him having another parent and being born asexually.
• Our Presidents Are Different: Joost, who is British, is implied to become the US President as a child. After her death, her son Straizus took her spot in the government.
• Redheads Are Uncool: Erin is hated by the English society for being Irish and having red hair.
• Ruling Couple: For at least three hundred years (1265-1565) the European Union was ruled by a two-queen system. The last two queens were Beta Queen Elizabeth and Mary Stardust, with Mary supposedly having most of the power.
• Toilet Seat Divorce: Subverted. Despite Joost and God often divorcing, their relationship had good reasons to end, especially with how toxic it was.
• United Europe: The European Union is mentioned many times, and appears to be an extremely powerful organisation.
• Thug Dojo: The Volleyball Club where Baroque learns the Sand Combat Technique. It is located in Tibet and the founder and main teacher is none other than the country's dictator Thonpeitie.
• Unusual Euphemism: Bullet Train in particular has given us gems such as "use my secret train...", and that's just one of the "normal" ones.
• Whale Egg: Mice and zombies reproduce by laying eggs in this universe, for some reason.
• What the Hell, Hero?: Joost was already known for her racist and violent tendencies, but she wouldn't get called out until the very end of the part, where she did somewhat of a Face–Heel Turn and started heavily shaming her wife for being Irish.

Second Part: Modern Warfare

• Alien Invasion: The Carpenters have conquered Earth after winning the Almond War, and now are persecuting humans.
• Artistic License – Geology: We definitely do not recommend using a volcano to melt cheese in real life.
• Animal Stampede: The cockroach migration that killed Lisa's biological parents.
• Chekhov's Gun: Earlier in this part, a plot point about a "secret cheat code" left by Joost in the Jodocus mansion was introduced. After the introduction of the three Collumnist sisters, however, this point was suddenly dropped and made some fans think it was a mere MacGuffin. However, at the very last arc, the secret cheat code was revealed to be part of Mr. Car's transformation into Super Car.
• Chummy Commies: Aside from Baby Jesus, the (now extinct) hippie communist Collumnists are actually perceived in a quite sympathetic fashion, being shown as a pacifist race who didn't want to start wars (even though they accidentally did), and who also see Mr. Car, Satan, and their supporters as villains.
  • It's even implied that most of the apocalyptic problems that would arise in the events of Third Part would not have happened if the Carpenters just listened to the Collumnists and their predictions, heavily pondering the question of who exactly is the real villain of this story...
• Gag Penis: Vamua is a very rare feminine example of this. ^note Granted, Carpenters are actually hermaphroditic, but still.
  Vamua: My eyes are crying... and I'm scared... But it hurt so bad I hid behind my cock and left. THE END.
• Go-Karting with Bowser: Joker and the Collumnists randomly plan a pizza party together.
• Great Offscreen War: The Almond War, which led to Carpenters taking over the world, the EU being reduced to a small group of rebels, and the rise of Coconut Germany.
• I'm a Humanitarian: Cesare kills and later eats his own father as a part of his revenge.
• Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back: After the Almond War, Mexico and the US were merged by Straizus under the name of the USA Kingdom.
• One-Gender Race: The Collumnists are an all-female lost Carpenter tribe. Sort of.
• Pokémon Speak: In Holy Football, Joker teases a cat that only repeats the word "cat".
• Searching for the Lost Relative:
  • After being ostracized by his close family, Major Strawberry searches for his Long-Lost Relative Baby Jesus, whom he eventually finds, although things do not go as planned.
  • Cesare vows to kill his long-lost daughter upon learning she survived his Family Extermination.
• Soul Jar: The Red Stones, which often contain souls of Carpenters waiting to be reborn and also have their own souls that act as Salesmen (third parties that allow Carpenters to reincarnate)
• Star Killing: Baby Jesus tries to use his powers to age the sun and turn it red as a celebration of communism, speeding up its death as well.
• Those Wacky Nazis: They are now known as Coconut Germany, complete with a coconut as their symbol on flags. They also have plans to conquer the entire universe.
  • Adding to this, Adolf Hitler is apparently a guitarist in this universe. Also probably an alien.

Third Part: Star Wars

• Apocalypse Cult / Fantastic Terrorists: The cult of Avdolism strives to destroy all nature, cause school shootings and destroy ATMs.
• Bait-and-Switch: After Poland is turned into a kid by Alice, a man in the street grabs him by his clothes and seems like he's about to molest him... only to slap him and teach him a lesson about not dating adults.
• Blatant Lies: Enyo tries to convince Jotara that his brother Jota is in her hotel, despite the fact that Jotara met Jota’s killer in the arc prior. He doesn’t buy it for a second.
• Brick Joke: In Second Part, Mario II is said to wear a tight DS bra on his chest for an advert. Enter his battle against Joker and Avandole in Star Wars and it revealed that the infamous DS actually stands for a hidden Deadly Sword.
• Call-Back: The chapter "Game of Thrones: Season 5" is notorious for having a lot of callbacks to the previous parts, most notably Jotara repeating God's "...what else can I say?" and being mentioned to kill two families of 8-9 people just like his great-grandma Eren. The game also mirrors several events of Joker's fight against the Collumnists.
• Elephant in the Living Room: During the Pope II arc, Avdoline asks Joker to talk about their relationship considering the obvious issue concerning Poland's presence, something rare in JSE.
• Forced Out of the Closet: The first three chapters revolve around Joker trying to make his grandson confess that he's gay and doesn't love Satan, something that Joker's boyfriend Avdoline would end up achieving after tying him down with flames and showing him his hot spirit.
  Avdoline: Hey, Sun God... Look, he came out of the closet.
• Interplanetary Voyage: The main story follows Joker, Jotara and their newfound harem travelling to Jupiter (which is also the implied heaven of this universe due to being the birthplace of the Carpenters) to defeat God. At the beginning of the Destroy Egypt arc, an agent of the Bullet Train Group informs the Star Warriors that Jupiter has landed in Cairo, and it's implied that the resultant instability of the planet's arrival is a major contributing factor to the Earth's accelerated death.
• It's Not You, It's Me: Poland breaks up with Avdoline because he feels that killing his sister makes him unworthy of his love.
• Join or Die: The Star Warriors and especially Joker and Avdoline are known for being violently threatening towards new allies at first, including Joker's grandkid, Jotara.
• Lunacy: The moon is stablished as having strange abilities during the 18th of every month, the most notorious one being that it turns blue and has a chance of opening a portal to hell from the sea (which is where Captain Tennis' impostor and Suspicious arrived from).
• Sex for Services: Non-working fairies can obtain employments by making deals with demons, often sexual in nature.
• Red Light District: When the protagonists arrive in the Valley of the Children of Horses, Avandole tells them that the area's economy revolves around its locals having sex in public.
• Terrorist Without A Cause:
  • Joker often commits or plans to commit several acts of terrorism without explanation, like crashing the plane he's flying, causing the passengers to suffer, or sinking countries like India and Malaysia. The cult of Avdolism is also well-known for these type of crimes.
    • Alternatively, India may have been sunk to upset God, as his father is implied to have been from India. This is supported by the sinking of India being a major plot point in several chapters, while Malaysia is only shown flooding once the protagonists leave Singapore (so sinking Malaysia would fit this trope). Either way, nothing is outright stated.
    • Chapter 179 may have revealed the true motive: allowing Avandole to get away with tax fraud.
  • At the start of the part, Jotara is heavily implied to have caused 9/11. This is never explained or brought up again.
• They Died Because of You: Joker pulls a really mean one on Poland after Avandole's first death, maybe due to a mix of jealousy and grief (since Avandole was also Joker's boyfriend who seemed to lose interest in him when Poland re-entered the picture).
  Joker: Polnaref... it's your fault, Avdol is dead.
• Wham Line: One that radically changes the course of the Hanged Man arc.
  Poland: My evil sister has returned! Now I can see victory!

Spin-Offs

JoJoLov is Excellent

• Antagonistic Offspring: Jyta tried to kill Screw Unknown Dog multiple times.
• Word Purée Title: "JoJoLov?" That's not even a real word... Although the title is arguably the least weird part of this spin-off.

Fuji World Wisdom: Number of Ugly White Snakes

• Bestiality Is Depraved: The play that Jolino is starring in seems to involve a sex scene with a dog.
• Tamer and Chaster: The work is considerably less NSFW than the original... if you ignore the art and the implied bestiality.
• Slut-Shaming: Jolino does a PG (but still heavily implied) version of this to Barbie Doll.
  Jolino: If you don't want people to look at you too much, put you under a pillow or whatever.
• Word Salad Title: No, the number of "ugly white snakes" does not influence the plot at all.

Man! The Meaning of Travel

• Adaptational Villainy / Shout-Out: The founder of the villains' organisation is named Dora, who is apparently on another quest. She's the founder of a shady corporation that makes chemical and biological weapons, backed up by its own private army, and which is also involved in drug smuggling.

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