Jojo's Bizarre Adventure

Was that ever in doubt?

The first impression tends to be that he's a grade A jackass.

edited 1st Feb '17 8:16:58 AM by Zeromaeus

I wonder if he did find that kid after beating up Rubber Soul to buy him a new popsicle. Probably doesn't make up for the horror of seeing his dog eaten alive in front of him, though.

Similarly, I wonder if Polnareff got that kid whose eyes he kicked sand into a caramel.

Starting "Kiss of Vengeance"…

…Is there anyone is this prison who didn't get in or purpose or after being framed? Also, FF is trying very hard to take Jo's place as my favorite character in this part. That little cafeteria scene was quite something.

edited 1st Feb '17 4:04:22 PM by Lyendith

He never seemed to be a jackass, just gruff. Well meaning though, otherwise he wouldn't have been a Stardust Crusader.

Just thought of a Stand who's power is to give you the right directions to your intended destination.

And it's not limited to physical places.

edited 2nd Feb '17 2:04:09 PM by fredhot16

Dude. That would be such a good villain Stand. Like, if it applies to any goal, not just a physical location, they'd be one step ahead of the heroes all the time, because the plan is all laid out to them from the start. And if it works in battle? Like, "how do I get past Jojo, who is standing in my way?"

Like, damn. I can imagine some amazing scenes and conversations regarding that power. Like, I'm imagining the villain being possessed of the belief that his end goal is best for the world, and when the heroes confront him with the atrocities he's committing, he's all "it was all necessary. My stand showed me the path I need to walk to make the world right."

And the big climax would have the villain in an impossible situation and his stand has no answer when he seeks to find a way out.

Now all it needs is a cool name.

edited 2nd Feb '17 2:28:11 PM by Enlong

Would it be called "My Way"?

That's a strong name.

I mean, that's basically what Paisley Park does.

...I think.

It's a bit more multiple choice but yeah Paisley Park is basically super GPS

Yeah, basically Paisley Park. Actually, PP does even more than that, because it helps you get to a person, who may be a moving target. And IIRC it's also Super Google, because it helps the user in finding any relevant information as well. I should re-read the manga to confirm that, though.

edited 3rd Feb '17 5:56:52 AM by KusaMigeru

Eh, I still like the idea. Though I just came up with a flaw: he or she will know how to achieve their goal but they don't actually achieve their idealized goal.

How do I put it? They have a goal. Their Stand tells them what to do to achieve. But they somehow fail in their goal because...well, they can only do so much. The amount of advice the Stand can give is proportional to how much the person can actually do. And the Stand's advice may be wrong or invalidated through events it couldn't know.

Kiss of Love and Revenge over… I wonder, how many shonen at the time had the guts to mess up their female protagonists so badly? Cause damn, Jolyne and Hermès take some pretty brutal damage. There's a bit of a Family-Unfriendly Aesop too, with Hermès killing Sports Max in revenge without an once of remorse. Twice. And I think that was around the time of the Kurapika arc in HxH too (2001)?

I guess Shonen Jump was pretty hardcore at the time.

edited 3rd Feb '17 9:10:32 AM by Lyendith

To be fair, Sports Maxx was a dick and Hermes is basically Polnareff in terms of backstory.

Huh… not that you say it. And yeah, Sports Maxx needed to be at least that much of a dick to deserve that. >.>

Earth, Wind and Fire… I swear this part is gonna make me love muscular women. <3 Araki is just too good at drawing them (I guess part 5's characters served as training for that ). This fight was strangely my favorite in this part so far, even though Westwood himself wasn't really that interesting. It just felt raw, brutal and no-holds-barred.

Love that Oh, Crap! moment when you realize there's still more shit coming when she has just barely survived the last fight.

Anasui (?) wisely chooses a wife he won't be able to "disassemble" any time soon. Or he won't live to tell the tale.

edited 3rd Feb '17 3:01:21 PM by Lyendith

That Stand got renamed "Planet Waves" when the story got compiled in books later, right? A shame; it would've been funny if they kept it as "Earth Wind And Fire", just to keep Mikitaka as confusing as possible.

Huh… You just made me realize that his Stand had two names… On this page◊ it's named "Planet Waves", but on this one◊ it's "Earth, Wind and Fire"… and on this one◊ it's "Planet Waves" again.

(by the way, that second page is completely gratuitous but completely badass. <3)

It got changed to Planet Waves after it was pointed out that Araki had already used Earth Wind and Fire before.

that pose is so cool, it was used as one of Jolyne's win poses in Jojo ASB.

The first two pages say Vivano and the third is Viviano.

Re: Paisley Park, in addition to being super Google + GPS, also seems to straight up warp reality to get you where you need to be. At one point it makes a ladder randomly fall to create an escape path, and at another it goes I think halfway across the city to implant a suggestion in Josuke to call Yasuho or something. And it can throw down if it needs to, though not particularly well.

The protagonist stands in part 8 are some of the coolest and most vaguely defined in the series.

Does Yasuho have active control of Paisley Park? I remember at first it was automatic, defending her when she had no idea what stands even were. I could easily not be remembering. I can't even recall when she got the info dump on what stands were.

Green Birth… oh… oh fuck. How much do you have to kill this guy to make him stay dead?

Keep on trying, Anasui, I'm sure you'll manage… something.

I also don't quite get how FF's body works… Sure, they're plankton, but their host body is still human flesh, isn't it? How can it survive having the head scliced horizontally, brain and all?

The host body is already a corpse. The plankton can stitch the wounds together though.