YMMV / Jorge Joestar

• Broken Base: While it's generally agreed that the novel is utterly bizarre, people are split on whether it's better or worse for it.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Original Kars is the novel's most memorable Canon Foreigner for giving one of the franchise's less developed villains a Heel–Face Turn and a bit more backstory, and for subsequently developing an Odd Friendship with Joji.
• Fanon Discontinuity: While most of the works not done by Hirohiko Araki are vague on whether or not they are truly canon, Jorge Joestar is the one most of the fandom refuses to see as anything more than a "Glorified Fan Fic".
• Just Here for Godzilla: The fandom completely ignores the parts with Jorge and Lisa Lisa (which comprises half the novel) in favor of the completely bonkers Joji story.
• Memetic Mutation: 36 Kars on Mars!^{Explanation (Spoilers)}At one point in the story, it's revealed that Made in Heaven only resets Earth, not the universe, that it has done this 36 times so far, and the plot of Battle Tendency has to play out to the letter with each new iteration. As a result, there are currently 37 versions of Kars (commonly misremembered as 36) stranded on Mars. The sheer absurdity of this plot point in a spinoff novel already known for its outlandishness resulted in it becoming a widespread subject for parody among fans.
• Narm:
  • "Funny Valentine" is already a fairly unthreatening name for a major villain. His son and grandson being named Funnier and The Funniest are even harder to take seriously.
  • Kars easily taking Killer Queen from Kira is strange enough, but becomes unintentionally amusing when you consider that Kars cares for animals and Killer Queen is a cat humanoid. What, did he offer it some tuna and pspsps at it?
• No Yay: Fan art pairing Joji and Original Kars exists. The former is fifteen, and the latter is, well, Kars.
• Quirky Work: Joji's section of the plot is even more bizarre than canon. As just a partial summary: it's revealed that Made in Heaven's Cosmic Retcon at the end of Stone Ocean is the 36th so far, and is actually just limited to Earth - and in each universe, the basic plot of Battle Tendency plays out, meaning that there are 37 versions of Kars living on Mars. One of them has the ability to steal other people's Stands. He eventually manages to steal Killer Queen and use Bites the Dust to reverse time to undo said Cosmic Retcons, somehow reach the Steel Ball Run/JoJolion universe, and get Made in Heaven Requiem. In addition, Jonathan comes back to life with DIO's sub-Stand via the Saint's Corpse... that was actually Dio, not (as is very heavily implied in Steel Ball Run) Jesus.
• So Bad, It's Good: Some JoJo fans enjoy this novel solely for how completely bonkers it is while taking itself dead-seriously.

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