YMMV / Vanishing Act

• Adorkable: Shizuka has a love for superhero comics and pro wrestling, and usually makes lame puns or jokes. She's still a dangerous Stand user.
• Epileptic Trees: According to the canon timelines, the confrontation with Izanami in Persona 4 occurred the same year and just a few days before Pucci summoned Made in Heaven. With Canon Welding in effect, it's been posited by many readers that the former is somehow the reason for the pre-reset JoJoverse still existing.
• Harsher in Hindsight: Joseph's death prior to the story is already sad enough but takes an even more poignant tone with the death of Unshō Ishizuka, Old Joseph's voice actor.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • Many of the ideas introduced in the fic — the presence of a therapist, new Palaces, Futaba gaining combat capabilities, taking the Velvet Twins around the city, Morgana becoming human — would later be canonized by Persona 5 Royal. Hell, Makoto even pulls off some Rapid-Fire Fisticuffs in the trailer! (Though it's a Fist of the North Star reference, technically. But same effect since JoJo was inspired by it.) There's even an endgame plot that involves breaking free a Lotus-Eater Machine that traps the Phantom Thieves in an idealized version of their lives. For extra hindsight, The Sixth Ranger for Royal, Kasumi, has a case of Successful Sibling Syndrome like Shizuka... though on a much more tragic scale.
  • Mr. A's Stand power is to control vectors. If this sounds familiar, it's because Mitsuba Higashikata from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: JoJolion ended up having a very similar one.
  • Shizuka's Starter Villain being Kamoshida is hilarious when you realize he shares an American voice actor with Yoshikage Kira.
  • Rohan being described as not having aged a day when the Arditi encounter him at the museum becomes this to anyone currently reading JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: The JOJOLands.
• Nightmare Fuel:
  • How far is Akechi willing to go to in order to beat the Phantom Thieves? Far enough to trigger a psychotic breakdown in Sae, while everyone's in her Palace.
  • In the next chapter we see what it's like to experience a psychotic breakdown first hand, and it's not pretty.
  • So the Phantom Thieves have managed to beat Akechi, and with him out of play there shouldn't be any humans to give them trouble in the cognitive world. And then Death 13 shows up.
  • Death 13 then proceeds to torment Shizuka with her own deep-seated fears. Those fears being a towering vision of Killer Queen attacking her with Sheer Heart Attack, followed by nearly drowning alone in darkness.
• Tear Jerker:
  • Shizuka lamenting that she'll never get another pair of sunglasses from her father again. When she and Josuke meet up in person, they have a quiet moment together where they express mutual sadness over their father's passing,
  • Really, the idea that the Joseph Joestar we know and love has died counts too.
  • Shizuka's abandonment issues and insecurities can be pretty tough to see, especially coming from someone we're used to seeing as a confident and vibrant person.
  • Any scene where Futaba has a panic attack.
  • Satoshi wondering whether his wife would be ashamed of him and contemplating suicide after getting a call from Mr. A about the battle with Bloody Sunday. He ultimately can't do it, but his feeling of helplessness is crushing.
  • We finally get a possible lead on Shizuka's past, and it looks as though her parents were murdered by Kira while he was on his way to Morioh. Shizuka has lost her biological parents as well as her adoptive ones.
  • Lifeson's death, his last words calling out for his sister.
  • Satoshi writing to his son for the last time before he storms Club Ravana to get back at Mr. A.
  • The Heroic Sacrifice of Akechi, who begins to turn over a new leaf and show genuine affection for Joker and the Arditi, only to die taking Camael with him.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: Considering the addition of 3 Stand users to the Phantom Thieves, it would have been interesting to see how Caroline and Justine would react to fighting Stand users.
• Unexpected Character: Plenty of characters would react to Madarame's confession in Chapter 26. But who expected the story to show Mitsuru Kirijo's reaction?
  • Hol Horse makes a cameo in the Hawaii arc.
  • Turns out Mannish Boy is a member of Shido's conspiracy, possibly recruited by Mr. A after DIO's death.
  • Shizuka meets Jonathan Joestar. That is all.
  • Not exactly a character, but The Red Stone of Aja comes into play in fighting Yaldaboth.
  • Futaba gets transported to what appears to be an alternate Earth and runs into Raidou Kuzunoha the 14th and Gouto.
  • Minato/Door-kun is back in business.