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ElectricBoogaloo Insert title here. from My Room. Since: Jul, 2011 Relationship Status: What is this thing you call love?
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#226: Oct 7th 2012 at 7:44:02 PM

Speaking as a guy who only had contact with Jojo's indirectly via Memetic Mutation and Sakuya (but have always been flirting with the idea of reading it, howerver I'm very lazy about manga), I can say that the anime looks pretty promising, specially for me on the "gateway to a franchise" department also, the written out sound-effects and Roundabout as ED are a nice touch. All in all, a welcome change of pace for today's anime market that is so overrun with moe series these days

edited 7th Oct '12 7:45:00 PM by ElectricBoogaloo

There's no Part 1, I just thought it was funny at the time.
Justin_Brett Since: Jun, 2010
#227: Oct 7th 2012 at 9:24:43 PM

Wait until it gets to Jolyne's part. No moe, only women.

edited 7th Oct '12 9:24:58 PM by Justin_Brett

Zeromaeus Since: May, 2010
#228: Oct 7th 2012 at 10:40:15 PM

Well, assuming the rest is as faithful as the prologue (this first bit is effectively prologue to the arc proper), then it only gets better from here. I'm... kinda dreading Battle Tendency (Part 2), though. Nothing against it on a story perspective, its just very, very muscly. No worse than DBZ at its loudest, I suppose, but still...

edited 7th Oct '12 10:43:21 PM by Zeromaeus

Justin_Brett Since: Jun, 2010
#229: Oct 7th 2012 at 11:01:54 PM

If you mean the proportions, it fixed the stuff in Phantom Blood so far. No body-building twelve year olds, for example.

Zeromaeus Since: May, 2010
#230: Oct 7th 2012 at 11:08:50 PM

I was more referring to mostly naked Aztec warriors.

doctrainAUM White Hindu from New Jersey Since: Aug, 2010
White Hindu
#231: Oct 7th 2012 at 11:13:23 PM

@228: The villain in part 2 was cool and all, but he was defeated in a way that makes absolutely no sense no matter how you look at it. Given the series, I can't decide if that's a negative or a plus.

edited 7th Oct '12 11:20:14 PM by doctrainAUM

"What's out there? What's waiting for me?"
Zeromaeus Since: May, 2010
#232: Oct 7th 2012 at 11:16:29 PM

It makes just enough sense to fit in Jojo without me questioning it. Really, the less I question Jojo overall, the more I enjoy it.

I mean, if I think about the ending of Part 6 at all, I start to pick it apart, and it loses its effect.
...
If the sons of Dio were drawn to that place, then where the hell was Gio Gio, and why didn't Jotaro call him in to stop dude? You'd think having an absolute power like Gold Experience Requiem (which wore off, but would be easy enough to redo) would be kinda handy for a situation like that. Though that seems more like a situation like with the poison fist guy where he couldn't be brought back simply because it was too hard to put their powers on the same level as others'. Plus, it wouldn't have been very satisfying to have two big bads killed off the same way.

edited 7th Oct '12 11:21:10 PM by Zeromaeus

UltimatelySubjective Since: Jun, 2011
#233: Oct 7th 2012 at 11:18:40 PM

This is hilariously over the top when I think about it.

And yet the story is still so simple.

This is kind of like some larger than life hammy stage play really.

Somehow it's working, and I think the art is even part of that.

Zeromaeus Since: May, 2010
#234: Oct 7th 2012 at 11:22:44 PM

Agreed. It definitely plays out like that at this point, and I love it. Even when the story calms down and nothing is really happening, there's always a level of energy keeping it at that bizarrely over-the-top level that I've come to expect from Jojo.

universalperson Since: Jan, 2001
#235: Oct 8th 2012 at 12:50:14 PM

When I read Part 3 of Jojo's, I noticed the author's tendency to infodump things, such as the rules of poker, for example.

I then thought of similar infodumps I've seen in Silver Age Superhero comics - and I realized that was it. Jojo is a Bloodier and Gorier silver age superhero comic.

doctrainAUM White Hindu from New Jersey Since: Aug, 2010
White Hindu
#236: Oct 8th 2012 at 1:11:06 PM

On the plus side, I learned a lot about foreign haggling! It will be useful in the rather unlikely event that I go to the countries depicted. Assuming, of course, that it's true and not Silver Agey falseness.

That last sentence sounded a lot better in my head.

"What's out there? What's waiting for me?"
Zeromaeus Since: May, 2010
#237: Oct 8th 2012 at 1:27:24 PM

Part 1's random history lessons were mostly malarkey. Most everything else had at least hints of truth to it. I found the infodumps to be oddly amusing.

PantheraSapiensEllipsis pobody's nerfect from your teacup Since: Mar, 2011
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#238: Oct 8th 2012 at 7:10:10 PM

Oh wow. That book of Boingo's... that art style. It almost makes you grateful that the regular art is the way it is.

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SeveredKhan GERMAN SCIENCE! from Germany Since: May, 2009
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#239: Oct 9th 2012 at 11:49:36 AM

The art from Boingo's stand was weird as shit.

TheHandle United Earth from Stockholm Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
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#240: Oct 9th 2012 at 3:45:39 PM

I'm watching it and did Dio's father just call his wife a cunt?

Observation: Dio shares many parallels with Loki.

Observation 2: Jonathan is such a... this goes beyond Knight Errant... I don't know what that is, besides the cutest, most adorable Narm I've ever seen. I mean, he carved a heart into a tree, isn't he precious?

Whatever that is, he's also a Woobie and really deserves a hug,

edited 9th Oct '12 4:03:35 PM by TheHandle

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Justin_Brett Since: Jun, 2010
#241: Oct 9th 2012 at 4:05:03 PM

I don't remember that on [gg]'s subs.

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#242: Oct 9th 2012 at 4:05:37 PM

Dio's Dad is an ass.

Dio is also an ass (Albeit 100 times worse).

With the exception of Giorna, who appears later (And even he has his moments sometimes), the assholish-ness runs in the Brando family.

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TheHandle United Earth from Stockholm Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
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#243: Oct 9th 2012 at 4:15:30 PM

[up][up]That's because it wasn't in the subs, but in the japanese. He called her a mankei.

I'm really enjoying the Black-and-White Morality. The good guys are very good, the bad guys are very bad, and it overall feels like a... like a... ah, that's right:

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
doctrainAUM White Hindu from New Jersey Since: Aug, 2010
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#244: Oct 9th 2012 at 4:19:48 PM

[up][up]I'm not entirely sure if Giorno counts as a Brando given ...umm... his birth and stuff.

"What's out there? What's waiting for me?"
PerpetualLurker Forever Scootaloo Since: Dec, 2011
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#245: Oct 9th 2012 at 4:21:16 PM

The Black-and-White Morality doesn't stay too perfect, as later arcs end up with Defeat Means Friendship as the primary means of gaining allies in the beginning. Hell, Part 2 even has Nazis counted among the protagonists by the end of it. The Big Bad of each arc is usually a Complete Monster, though (Part 7 is the exception), so at least that stays constant.

TheHandle United Earth from Stockholm Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
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#246: Oct 9th 2012 at 4:22:48 PM

Yeah, Dio is such an asshole it defies comprehension. I mean, at some points he seems to be making sense and I start to understand him, but then he goes and does something irrationally evil...

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Demongodofchaos2 Face me now, bitch! from In a Cultivation World (Ancient one) Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
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#247: Oct 9th 2012 at 5:04:07 PM

And you haven't even seen the worst of him..

Not even close.

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MyssaRei Since: Feb, 2010
#248: Oct 9th 2012 at 5:13:10 PM

Actually barring Steel Ball Run, Dio seems to live for kicking the dog as hard as he could. That's just how big a bastard he is.

PerpetualLurker Forever Scootaloo Since: Dec, 2011
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#249: Oct 9th 2012 at 5:17:54 PM

Fitting, considering that his very first evil action on panel is kicking a dog. tongue

Though technically Diego Brando is a separate character. Almost just as badass and cool, but not nearly as sadistic and more goal oriented than revenge oriented.

edited 9th Oct '12 5:23:22 PM by PerpetualLurker

Zeromaeus Since: May, 2010
#250: Oct 9th 2012 at 6:00:28 PM

I was actually hoping Diego would survive the Steel Ball Run, but its OK this way too. Yeah, Dio, no matter what universe is an absolute bastard. The original much, much more than his successor.


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