History YMMV / JojosBizarreAdventureStoneOcean

** ''Stone Ocean'' frequently is derided for having forgettable one-shot villains, but this is nothing new to the franchise. In ''Stardust Crusaders'', most of the Stand-wielding minions (except Hol Horse, Enya, Vanilla Ice, and the Glory Gods) [[FlatCharacter had little to no characterization beyond being malicious dicks]], especially Gray Fly, ZZ, Arabia Fats, and Kenny G, the latter two not even having lines. It's also worth noting that many of ''Stone Ocean''[='=]s villains at least have their own backstories and motivations outside of working for Pucci.

** The ending, ''big'' time. Was [[spoiler:the universal reset an emotional sendoff to Parts 1 through 6 that acted as a satisfying conclusion to the long saga]]? Or was it a cop-out [[spoiler: that made the wholesale slaughter of the protagonists pointless and felt like a contrived means of concluding the initial continuity]]? The base is split even further on how to ''[[AmbiguousEnding interpret]]'' [[AmbiguousEnding the ending]], with two common interpretations and no middle ground. Some believe that [[spoiler: the universe reset ''again'' after Pucci's death, and that the main cast we see in the ending is just another set of AlternateUniverse counterparts]]. Others believe that [[spoiler: the old universe (or at least an identical AlternateUniverse) was restored, and that the main cast we see is the original cast, [[LossOfIdentity albeit with their experiences of Part 6 gone]]]]. Part 7 doesn't elaborate on it and instead moves to a different continuity, and even WordOfGod has been ambiguous at best[[note]]Though Araki has interchangeably described Jolyne using both her original name and her new name of Irene, implying that the second interpretation has at least some basis[[/note]]. The anime adaptation also appears to believe in the latter interpretation, as it concludes on [[spoiler:a montage of scenes from each part of ''[=JoJo=]'' before closing off on a similarly-styled silhouette of the reborn cast, thus implying that all the past parts, including ''Stardust Crusaders'', still took place as usual and that ''only'' the events of ''Stone Ocean'' were changed [[ForWantOfANail as a result of]] Pucci becoming RetGone, and that Jolyne/Irene's name change symbolizes her liberation from the Joestar curse towards a more peaceful life]].

* NoYay: While Dio/Pucci is a popular ship, to the point where Pucci will [[NeverLiveItDown never live down]] his AmbiguouslyGay moments with Dio, a good portion of the fanbase finds the pairing extremely {{Squick}}y due to Pucci being underage when he first met Dio and during the scenes with the strongest subtext.

* RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap: Although the fight still isn't necessarily popular, the anime adaptation managed to make most fans more forgiving of the fight against Kenzō and Dragon's Dream, as, like [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureGoldenWind King Crimson]], the effects of the Stand were made easier to comprehend through the anime thanks to animation allowing for both the actions of Dragon's Dream and Anasui's explanation of Feng Shui to be better visualized than in still imagery. Additionally, Kenzō and Dragon's Dream were voiced by veteran voice actors Creator/{{Mugihito}}, William Frederick Knight and Creator/{{Cho}} respectively, all three of whom give them hammy and memorable performances and some pretty hilarious dynamics. For Knight it would be one of his final roles before his death.

** In 2008, a fan-made [[https://youtu.be/wdYcgr8iOvg their own opening]] of ''Stone Ocean'', set to "A Cruel Angel's Thesis", the opening to ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion''. Over 13 years later, the anime adaptation of ''Stone Ocean'' was ''finally'' announced, and the fan's wish came true. One can only wonder where this fan is now, and how they reacted to the news. Not only that, but the anime's dub cast [[Creator/CaseyMongillo's Shinji's voice actor from the Netflix redub]] as Emporio.

** In 2008, a fan-made [[https://youtu.be/wdYcgr8iOvg their own opening]] of ''Stone Ocean'', set to "A Cruel Angel's Thesis", the opening to ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion''. Over 13 years later, the anime adaptation of ''Stone Ocean'' was ''finally'' announced, and the fan's wish came true. One can only wonder where this fan is now, and how they reacted to the news.

** Before the anime was announced, it was very common for fans to make jokes, memes, and fanart comparing Enrico Pucci to fellow villainous SinisterMinister Kirei Kotomine from the ''Franchise/FateSeries'', resulting in Kotomine's voice actor Creator/JojiNakata being a very popular fancast for Pucci. Fans eventually got their [[AscendedFanCast wishes]] when Joji Nakata voiced him in the official Ultra Jump ''Stone Ocean'' commercials as well as ''[[VideoGame/JoJosBizarreAdventureEyesOfHeaven Eyes of Heaven]]''. Come the anime adaptation, Pucci was recast again, but this time as none other than Creator/TomokazuSeki, who famously voiced Kotomine's partner-in-crime Gilgamesh, and whose resemblance to DIO and similar levels of HoYay towards Kotomine were one of the main reasons people started comparing Pucci to the latter in the first place. These castings also had the side effect of accidentally making Pucci's first voice actor being Creator/ShowHayami in ''[[VideoGame/JoJosBizarreAdventureAllStarBattle All Star Battle]]'' a lot funnier, since he played Tokiomi Tohsaka, the last member of Kotomine and Gilgamesh's triumvirate in ''Anime/FateZero''.

** Anasui killing Pinnocchio becomes this with the final episodes of the anime adaptation releasing in 2022, a year when two less-than favorable [[Animation/PinocchioATrueStory Pinnocchio]] [[Film/Pinocchio2022Disney movies]] were released.

* AssPull: The conclusion to the [[Creator/YoYoMa Yo-Yo Ma]] fight relies on several pieces of information that were never established or foreshadowed: that Diver Down can enter other Stands in addition to regular matter, that remote control Stands have "target sensors" that can be targeted or manipulated, affecting the Stand's behavior, and that wiring a brain into these sensors will cause the stand to take on the behavior of the brain. As opposed to the clever manipulation of fight parameters that characterize most Stand battles, this resolution essentially boils down to "give opponent an instant lobotomy".

* ItWasHisSled:
** Given that [[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureSteelBallRun Parts 7]] [[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureJojolion and 8]] take place in an AlternateContinuity, the most well known aspect of ''Stone Ocean'' is probably how it ends in a [[spoiler:universe reset]]. Ironically enough, however, [[spoiler: the AlternateContinuity of Parts 7 and 8 is actually ''completely'' unrelated to the reset depicted in Part 6]].
** The ending, where [[spoiler:almost all of the main cast, save Emporio, dies]] is a well known aspect of this finale as well, as {{shocking|Moments}} as it is.

* AssPull:
** The conclusion to the [[Creator/YoYoMa Yo-Yo Ma]] fight relies on several pieces of information that were never established or foreshadowed: that Diver Down can enter other Stands in addition to regular matter, that remote control Stands have "target sensors" that can be targeted or manipulated, affecting the Stand's behavior, and that wiring a brain into these sensors will cause the stand to take on the behavior of the brain. As opposed to the clever manipulation of fight parameters that characterize most Stand battles, this resolution essentially boils down to "give opponent an instant lobotomy".
** [[Music/ElvisPresley Jailhouse]] [[JapaneseRanguage Lock]] causes it's victims to only be able to [[AmnesiaLoop remember three pieces of information at a time]]. However what constitutes a "piece of information" is ''incredibly'' vague and never elaborated on (for example, seeing six bullets shot at you is six separate pieces of information, but seeing those six bullets in a mirror only counts as one). Thus there's no way to follow the logic of Jolyne's memory loss at any point in the fight, until she just happens to win.

** Sports Maxx's [[spoiler: first]] death sees Ermes forcefully drowning him in a sewer pipe. [[spoiler: Worse, when he jabs himself with an inmate's drug syringe after becoming a ghost, the veins in his right arm ''explode'', resulting in raw sewage spilling out from the arm, as well as his eyes and ''mouth''.]]

* RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap: Although the fight still isn't necessarily popular, the anime adaptation managed to make most fans more forgiving of the fight against Kenzō and Dragon's Dream, as, like [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureGoldenWind King Crimson]], the effects of the Stand were made easier to comprehend through the anime thanks to animation allowing for both the actions of Dragon's Dream and Anasui's explanation of Feng Shui to be better visualized than in still imagery. Additionally, Kenzō and Dragon's Dream were voiced by veteran voice actors Creator/{{Mugihito}} and Creator/{{Cho}} respectively, both of whom give them hammy and memorable performances and some pretty hilarious dynamics.

** The removal of [[spoiler:any and all references to the KKK]] in the third batch of the anime wasn't well-recieved by fans, to say the least. [[spoiler:While the private detective and his "clan" are still stated by the narrator to have heavily prejudiced views, and their brutal beating and attempted lynching of Weather Report is still hard to watch, many fans believed that the anime swapping the KKK's trademark outfits for more casual clothes immensely downplays how horrific and cruel the KKK were (and still are), and lessens the overall emotional impact of the scene. This doesn't even make sense from a pragmatic standpoint, as the entire reason the KKK wear robes and hoods is because they're a secret group no member wants ''anyone'' to know they're a part of, ''especially'' law enforcement. So now, the detective and his posse openly assault/lynch a teenage boy, sexually assault his girlfriend, and burn his mother's house down '''[[StupidCrooks completely undisguised]]'''. It also makes Weather Report's arrest for his murder of the detective go from being a convenient FrameUp by Pucci to a miracle the detective wasn't exposed for his crimes and Weather Report was arrested at all.]]

* [[spoiler:Jotaro's {{Gonk}} replacement in the Made In Heaven universe]] is often jokingly said to be stronger than [[spoiler:the original [[WorldsStrongestMan Jotaro]]]], and often gets inserted into situations where [[spoiler:Jotaro loses]] to instead win those fights.
* [[spoiler: The dolphin Jolyne and Emporio ride to flee from Pucci. On top of its terrifying power, Made In Heaven is stated to have a speed of '''infinity'''; therefore, fans were quick to point out that this one random dolphin was still somehow able to outswim Pucci ''while'' carrying two people, one of which would be the one to later deliver the final blow to the priest. Memes about the sheer speed of this dolphin soon followed.]]

* DracoInLeatherPants: Pucci gets this treatment as much as DIO. It does help that he is more sympathetic than other antagonists and there are some fans who found his motivations more understandable than the protagonists. But then again, we are talking about the guy who [[spoiler:killed all but one of the main cast]]. Not to mention, he's typically a ManipulativeBastard who uses others as {{Unwitting Pawn}}s and discarding them for various reasons, as well as having killed countless people, including Emporio's mother, in order to build up his arsenal in preparation to fight the Joestars.

* EvilIsSexy: Keeping with the series' tradition, many of the more antagonistic or downright unpleasant characters are still attractive. It also helps that this is the end of Araki's transition to his current art style, where fashion model-level looks are the norm rather than the exception.
** With his tight robe showcasing his physique, his general charisma and presence, and his pretty face, it's not surprising that Enrico Pucci has a lot of fangirls.
** Like Diavolo, who he resembles greatly, Anasui is a twisted psychopath who's nonetheless sexy, in part due to his revealing outfit.
** Gwess and Miraschon are nasty pieces of work who use their powers to torment Jolyne. They also happen to be very attractive women, a fact which they flaunt with their clothing choices.
** In addition to being an older-looking LongHairedPrettyBoy, Johngalli A. is fully naked in his first appearance, allowing the viewers to fully appreciate his [[FemaleGaze gifts]].
** Miuccia "Miumiu" Miuller is also a very good-looking woman, despite (or rather, [[UnkemptBeauty because of]]) her messy appearance, and also has a very domineering personality. Fit for a [[spoiler:corrupt security guard]].
** Rikiel and Donatello Versus, not unlike their father DIO, are both classically handsome, Donatello moreso due to his beautiful outfit and his more bastardly personality, while Rikiel is nobler and is dressed [[FashionVictimVillain much less enticingly]].

* AssPull: The conclusion to the Yo-Yo Ma fight relies on several pieces of information that were never established or foreshadowed: that Diver Down can enter other Stands in addition to regular matter, that remote control Stands have "target sensors" that can be targeted or manipulated, affecting the Stand's behavior, and that wiring a brain into these sensors will cause the stand to take on the behavior of the brain. As opposed to the clever manipulation of fight parameters that characterize most Stand battles, this resolution essentially boils down to "give opponent an instant lobotomy".