Jojo's Bizarre Adventure

Its incredible that hes still doing this.

Some people live for their craft.

For some context on how long Jojo has been going for:

• It started in 1987, three years after the first chapter of Dragon Ball.

• Yu Yu Hakusho started in 1990, shortly after the beginning of Stardust Crusaders.

• Case Closed started in 1994, near the end of Diamond is Unbreakable.

• One Piece started in 1997, when Jojo was in the middle of Golden Wind.

• Stone Ocean (Part 6) ended in 2003, the same year Death Note started.

• Fairy Tail started in 2006, early in Steel Ball Run (Part 7).

• Jojolion (Part 8) started in 2011, a year before Code Geass.

Edited by PushoverMediaCritic on Jan 29th 2021 at 6:21:27 AM

Interesting timing all those dates, it must mean something.

Is Araki using his vampire powers to siphon the lifeforce of all those mangeka?

People talk about One Piece being a long-runner, but Jojo has it beat by 10 years. Araki has seen the entire landscape of manga and anime change over and over again in real-time while he makes his weird-ass quirky series. Many series known for being long-runners have started and ended during Jojo's run.

The current anime adaptation started in 2012, after Jojolion started, and it's only up to the year 2000 in terms of material adapted.

Huh, Berserk also started in 1990. Thought it started around 1987 lol.

Here's a list of the manga with the most volumes, Jojo is at 9th place, tied with Hajime no Ippo. I'm actually shocked at how many of the top 10 are still ongoing.

A bunch of madlads they all are.

I'm also shocked at how many of the top results I straight-up hadn't heard of before. Like, what the hell are Dokaben, Minami no Teio, Cooking Papa, and Ginga: Nagareboshi Gin? These series have to be cultural touchstones in Japan, right? I've literally never heard anything about any of them, but they're long-runners on a titanic scale.

Edited by PushoverMediaCritic on Jan 29th 2021 at 6:52:52 AM

I've thought up of an insane theory regarding Jojolion. (Spoilers for the part, obviously) The Wonder of U is the source of the Higashikata Curse, being a generations-long Calamity. This would explain why, in the flash-forward seemingly after the battle with Tooru, Tsurugi is seemingly healed from his "PS2 character glitching the fuck out" mode.

Of course this doesn't make...really much sense if you think about it, but hey, food for thought.

Edited by Makir on Jan 30th 2021 at 8:08:02 PM

They say as if Jojo needs to make sense.

I agree with Mark that sometimes, good old fashioned Black-and-White Morality is just as satisfying to read or watch in a story. And the big Dio fight is that feeling in spades.

Jotaro caving his skull in is so satisfying to watch. It helps that DIO is very good at what he does.

Charismatic enough where you love watching him, but vile enough to where you just can't wait to see Jotaro beat his ass.

Huh I just noticed volume 8 of DIU at my Barnes n Nobles. Since it ends with Rohan's Cheap Trick fight and the heroes discovering Kawajiri, then volume 9 will be the end of DIU.

Almost there to to Venteo Aureo.

I'm surprised Mark didn't say anything about Star Platinum gaining the ability to Stop Time, I feel he would have said something about it (either talking about it being an ass pull or defending it)

My guess is he thought it was fitting for the story's narrative, which is why it didn't merit either overt criticism or praise.

The main thing that makes me okay with Jotaro having Time Stop is that it doesn't suddenly make him stronger or even just as strong as DIO, Jotaro is still at a MASSIVE disadvantage for the entire fight, all Time Stop does is allow him to fight DIO at all. Jotaro's victory is 100% down to intelligence, creativity, and trickery to outmaneuver DIO, all Time Stop does is give him one more tool to work with to even partially counter DIO's own Time Stop.

The reveal that Jotaro has Time Stop is also told in the best way it could be: from DIO's perspective trying to unravel the mystery of whether Jotaro has Time Stop, thus making it feel more like a reveal than an ass-pull.

Nah, it feels like a massive Ass Pull to me. I originally thought that D'Arby's paranoia at Jotaro being able to fill his glass or whatever was supposed to foreshadow Jotaro discovering he has the time stop but i'm not really sure that's the intention.

Whatever ingenuity and tricks Jotaro used, could only even come up because his ability to see, move, and eventually stop time itself existed, and those did come out of nowhere. I imagine because Araki was like "Shit, if I don't do this anything that lets them win is going to seem like bullshit."

Edited by LSBK on Feb 6th 2021 at 10:53:24 AM

Even if it's out of nowhere, Jotaro's time stop can sort of be explained as "DIO's Stand abilities are a two-way street to the Joestar bloodline." We already know he has a connection to Hermit Purple, and they knew that before ever seeing DIO in person or figuring out what his main Stand ability is. They eventually learn that The World is effectively identical in function to Star Platinum with the only exception of the Time Stop. But if there's a connection to the Joestars, Jotaro could at least try to see what he could do.

Hell, if anyone knew they were going up against someone with Time Powers, the self-preservation reaction should be "what can I still do under these conditions?"

A big part of why the heroes struggled initially against DIO was precisely because they had no idea what DIO's The World could actually do. They didn't know he had power over time.

Edited by M84 on Feb 7th 2021 at 5:30:50 PM

IIRC, DIO outright said The World was exactly like Star Platinum, but stronger. My take at the time I was reading it was that Jotaro had picked up on that and decided to try if "exactly like" also applied to stopping time, and it worked. But that still sounds like an Ass Pull, so...

Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan is coming to Netflix in the US on March 4.

For some reason the Thus Spoke Rohan Kishibe has an Italian dub...but not the original series. Seeing Rohan speak in my native tongue is mildly cursed.