Jojo's Bizarre Adventure

And now I've been spoiled.

x more: I just figured there was a chocolate-based stand coming up.

x more: I just figured there was a chocolate-based stand coming up.

....yes, that would make sense in this series wouldn't it?

Remember almost all the gangsters are named after food.

We have a guy and a Stand named after chocolate in this series, although one is not connected to the other. So yeah, two chocolate fights.

For anyone who doesn't already know, parts 1-3 of the Jojo manga have been added to the series available to read, in full with official translations, on Shonen Jump's website if you're a subscriber ($1.99/month for what that's worth)

https://www.viz.com/shonenjump/chapters/jojos-bizarre-adventure-part-one

https://www.viz.com/shonenjump/chapters/jojos-bizarre-adventure-part-two

https://www.viz.com/shonenjump/chapters/jojos-bizarre-adventure-part-thr

That’s cool

Do they still keep the name changes?

I haven't looked in depth but I would assume so. They don't really have a choice in that regard.

Edit: Yeah they are. I looked at chapter 125, "The Dark Void of Cool Ice"

Edited by sgamer82 on May 4th 2019 at 5:50:45 AM

Soo... uh, yo. I got into this series through the many memes surrounding it.

I eventually ended up loving it and just cannot go a single day without making atleast 1 reference.

And as a result, I have had a few dreams featuring non-existent Stands that would be pretty interesting to see if they were in the actual series. Here is one dream that I remember pretty clearly.

I dreamed that I was watching a non-existent episode of Diamond Is Unbreakable, and it had Jotaro and Koichi in an abandoned house that seemed to have clues towards Kira's identity. Suddenly, they hear noises. It sounds like a wind up key.

Then, it gets closer and closer. When a figure appears from the shadows and! ...Its one of those creepy cymbal monkey toys.

The monkey's wind-up key stopped as it emerged from the shadows and fell on to the floor... Only for the wind-up key to start to spin on its own and the monkey is back up playing his cymbals as he walks towards Jotaro and Koichi.

The weird thing about this? I somehow knew that the monkey, was in fact. NOT an ordinary toy. It was actually a Stand User! (Yes! A goddamn toy monkey was a Stand User!)

Sadly the dream ended just before the monkey's Stand abilities were shown.

Anyone's got any suggestions as to what its Stand and abilities could have been?

Edited by dood9780 on May 4th 2019 at 5:23:14 AM

Don't know about abilities, but you could name the Stand Sex Cymbal.

Didn't even knew there was a song with that name, but I guess it could work!

It was the first thing I came across when I googled "song title cymbal"

"Not much has happened since they turned against the boss"

• We've gotten the boss' backstory, understand another power of his, and his dual identity
• The assassination Squad is now gone
• A team member died
• Another team member got an ability
• The team now knows the boss' identity
• Several of the team have noticed that Bruno's injuries are no longer healing

That's pretty much everything to set up the final act other than a discussion about the Stand Arrows.

The current opening song still reminds of a James Bond movie theme, but with less silhouettes of naked women. Which brings to mind a possible crossover fic.

"The name is Bond. Jojo Bond."

Son of James Bond and a previously unmentioned female member of the Joestar family, Jojo Bond works for Her Majesty's Secret Service much like Dad.

His stand is "Stardust" (In the books, it's mentioned that 007 looks like Hoagy Carmichael), but most of the other stands are based on the movie themes or the bands that made them. Live and Let Die, Thunderball, Skyfall, Beetles....

For anyone who doesn't already know, parts 1-3 of the Jojo manga have been added to the series available to read, in full with official translations, on Shonen Jump's website if you're a subscriber ($1.99/month for what that's worth)

Well now I feel stupid for buying the first volume of Stardust Crusaders and Diamond is Unbreakable.

Well, you can't collect the digital edition and show it on your shelf.

Not with that attitude.

Oh wow this Golden Wind/Fullmetal Alchemist mashup is really cool. Be warned that there are spoilers for the rest of the Part 5 anime in there.

You can be glad you're directly supporting the author and shit. Capitalism, ho!

Edited by rikalous on May 7th 2019 at 4:19:31 AM

Not going to lie, I had to get my appendix removed recently. The whole time I was there and thinking about going under the knife, I was thinking about Chocolate purposefully torturing people by making them wake up mid-surgery.

Thanks, Araki.

Jojo villains tend to rank pretty high on the scale of vileness. It starts with a literal Kick the Dog, then the dog being burned alive, and just moves up from there.

It's interesting how it's usually not the main villain whose the worst as well. In DIU we had Angelo and now we have Cioccolata whose somehow making the paranoid delusional mob boss trying to murder his daughter seem like an upstanding citizen by comparison.

And in Part 3 we had J. Geil who IMO was way more of a sicko than Dio was and Dio allowed a woman to eat her own baby.

Edited by ReynTime250 on May 10th 2019 at 8:00:09 PM

More like deliberately set up a woman to eat her own baby, but yeah Geil was a sicko in his own right.

Well, Doppio finally found an actual phone this episode, sort of.

Hey, Dio said he wouldn't hurt the baby, nothing about her hurting it