An Abridged Series using footage from the JoJo's Bizarre AdventureOVAs, covering part three of the series. Created by AntfishFTW and featuring a voice cast from a few other TAS's. The series has 10 episodes (the 5th acting as a Season Finale); with Episodes 9 and 10 having 2 and 3 parts respectively. Found here.
Flashback (as well as Flash Forward) scenes are mainly shown as manga screenshots, since the anime only covers a small portion of the series as a whole.
Plus, the second half of the series comes from footage of the '90s OVA series, while the first half was made from the more recent series which was made to fill in the missing portions of the story. Lampshaded at the end when Jotaro's mother Holly wakes up from her coma, and she looks completely different.
Big Damn Heroes:Polnareff jumping at Dio from behind before he can decapitate Jotaro, and earlier "Avdol returning and saving Polnareff from justice"
Call Back: The first time the gang meet Polnareff, Joseph gets a rapier through his artificial hand and screams "Ooh, my sexy hand!!". Around the final 3-part episode, Jotaro nails Dio's Stand with a deft punch damaging its fists and as a consequence, cutting up Dio's hand. And he says the very same thing.
Avdol's "I have found the only way to defeat X is to BURN IT." where X is whatever they happen to be facing at the time. Lampshaded by Joseph when he asks if Avdol is trying to get that printed on a T-shirt.
Double-subverted during episode 8, when he's interrupted by Polnareff, denies that he was going to say it because "That's just retarded."...and then proceeds to open Dio's casket by burning it.
Cloud Cuckoolander - Jotaro. Let's just put it this way: his pen pal is Duck Dodgers, and he writes to him like it's a Letter to Penthouse. Let's leave it at that.
Cluster F-Bomb - Joseph drops quite a few when he flashes back to his final fight with Cars.
Antfish is clearly a fan of the whole of Jojo because he'll slip in little jokes about the other parts of the series. Other than the blatant ones such as the flashback to the Cars fight and the reference to Dio burning Danny Joestar, there's also little asides like Jotaro telling Polnareff not to get trapped in a turtle.
Joseph: You're like the son I never had...Josuke.
Jotaro: Jotaro.
Joseph: Johnny.
Also, there's a another incredibly stealthy one from the "World Inside the Mirror" spinoff, "WHEELY HIGH." Brick Joke because they soon meet Polnareff, confined to a wheelchair, who had also seen the Mirror World before.
And even later in Episode 10:
Polnareff: I guess I'll just.....Stay here....Getting used to not moving my legs.....
Jotaro: Dude, it is crying from its wrist. That is hard emo, bro.
Made even funnier by the fact that Linkin Park's Crawling is playing in the background as he says it.
Mr. Fanservice: Lampshaded when Kakyoin is referred to as "the only reason women watch this show."
Even the Guys Want Him: Dio's status as this gets parodied when N'Doul is gushing at length about how wonderful Dio is, and by the time he gets to "His trapezius muscle tore through his shirt," Jotaro interjects with "Okay, I'm getting a little uncomfortable..." and N'Doul immediately tells him to shut up because "Dio Brando's a sexy man!"
Jotaro: Wow Dio, looks like I just violated your manhole..... cover.
Also gets lampshaded and defied when Dio's explaining what he did to Joseph.
Dio: I, Dio, blew any chance of him living out of the water. I, Dio, sucked him bone dry. I, Dio, reached around and— you're just getting me to say a whole bunch of really gay sh*t now, aren't you.
Parodied when Jotaro walks past Kakyoin in a series of freeze-frames, with a "CLAMP Warning" meter at the bottom of the screen that skyrockets just as he passes him. And then plummets back to zero when Jotaro walks past him and turns his attention to Enya.
Also shows up in the "Or is there?" video:
Abbacchio: So don't ever say there's no such thing as a world inside a mirror! Got it?
Giorno: *beat* You smell nice!
Abbacchio: *stunned silence*
I Have Many Names - The Rock introduces himself as such when auditioning for Stand Idol.
In Name Only: Abridged? The final episode is in three parts, and is nearly as long as the final episode of the OVA. Though shortening it would be difficult without cutting out material important to plot, as the final battle rages across the entire city. And onto a river. And it's still hilarious.
Insane Troll Logic - Joseph's interpretation of Kakyoin attacking the clock tower, which leads him to believe that Dio's stand can breathe fire.
Kitchen Sink Included: As in the original, Diostops time and throws dozens of knives at a frozen Jotaro until there are too many for him to block or avoid. Before starting time up again, he adds, "And for comedic effect..." and a kitchen sink gets photoshopped into the scene.
Large Ham - Dio was already one to begin with, but the Abridged Series cranked it up to 11.
Kakyoin's response to getting sliced across the eyes by Geb? "Ow."
Jotaro is also quite fond of this trope. For example: he does not so much as flinch while a zombified baby GNAWS ON HIS KNEECAP. Cue the following dialogue.
Kakyoin: Doesn't that hurt?
Jotaro: Doesn't what hurt?
Kakyoin: Aren't you in pain?!
Jotaro: What is "pain"?
"Ban-dage? What a strange device. Do...do I eat it? Is...is it microwavable? Does it...taste like...poptarts? I don't know."
Also pulled two off earlier in Episode 4, during the infamous "beat your bum" line.
Polnareff: Oh what's that? You say I can beat your bum? Oh you're into THAT stuff!! (Subtitle: ACTUAL DUB DIALOGUE)
Then when Polnareff and Kakyoin see J. Geil's Hanged Man in the chrome of their vehicle's steering wheel, the bizarre case of Lip Lock from the dub is referenced here by Kakyoin stating:
Kakyoin: POLNAREFF! He's in the CHROME of the STEERING WHEEL! (Subtitle: ACTUAL DUB INFLECTION)
Killswitch Engage's cover of Ronnie James Dio's (who was the Big Bad's namesake) "Holy Diver". Dio's original version is later used at the end of episode 8, when Dio makes his first non-shadowed appearance.
Dark Reprise - The above use of Holy Diver could be considered this.
Refuge in Audacity - Using N'Doul as a jive turkey? Possibly offensive to some. Proceeding to ramp it up by then quick-cutting to most known black stereotypes within only 10 seconds? Hilarious.
Rule 63 - A genderflipped picture of Dio and Jotaro is shown in episode 7, complete with les-yay. Very Squickish, although of course, Your Mileage May Vary. Said genderflipped Dio made an appearance on the comment special.
Short Runner/ Too Good to Last - Seeing as how the anime (and therefore, the abridged series) only covered a portion of the series with a 13 episode OVA, it really can't be helped.
Two separate OV As, with the final six episodes or so being nearly a decade older than the previous ones. Making for a noticeable degradation in animation quality for the second half of both Anime and Abridged series.
Episode 9 has so many it's hard to keep track, so here's the best way to sum it up: Kakyoin = The Matrix and X-Men, Joseph = Transformers (And it continues in the Series Finale) and about 20 others, and Jotaro has the floating Steve Buscemi head.
Dio: And so, you are left alone... like a rainbow in the dark.
Episode 8: Let's see, a guy (Kakyoin) saving his friend (Joseph) from a bad guy (Dio) as a certain song plays and a certain sound effect from his weapon (Hierophant Green) charges up...nope, I got nothing. Zip, nada, zilch, Zero.
D'Arby in episode 7 quotes the first few lyrics from Motörhead's Ace of Spades.
D'Arby: If you like to gamble, I tell you, I'm your man. You win some, you lose some, its all the same to me.
Dio quotes Ozymandias's "I'm not some Republic serial villain" line during his and Jotaro's battle.
Straight Man - Avdol, despite being easily angeredpyrokinetic with megalomaniacal life goals, he is by far the most level-headed of the Joestar troupe.
Antfish: (on viewing Star Platinum pulling Hierophant Green from a girl's mouth) Oh God, it's so gross! Ugh, stop it, stop it! *hits pause* Oh God, that looks so gross! Ugh... It'd be even worse in reverse...
*scene rewinds*
Antfish: OH GOD I WAS RIGHT!
And
Joseph: Guess what, everyone! We're one of the first Abridged Series' to go six episodes without a Metal Gear reference!
Others: Huzzah! *cue exclamation point and alert sound*
Joseph: Dagnabbit!
Invoked, then played straight later in the episode.
Joseph: All right, so long as no one jinxes it-
Jotaro: Hey, Granddad, the stand's dead.
*Geb attacks Joseph*
This Is Sparta - In Episode 9, the Chauffeur's speech patterns are...odd.
Also a nod to actual canon where in Dio often refers to himself as (based on rough translation) "this Dio".
D'Arby over-emphasizing the "oo" sound in anything he says.
Visual Pun: In the comment special, in the aforementioned answer to a comment saying he sounds like Tim Curry, Dio, after asking other Tim Curry-voiced actors (Including Dr. Frank N. Furter), Dio then asks a pan full of curry. Personally, he doesn't hear it.
Vocal Evolution - Kakyoin's voice went from this to this. Note that everyone else hasn't changed a whole lot.
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