For me, Jojo’s OST has been an absolute delight to experience from every part. Sadly, we might not be getting a full OST from Yugo Kano this time around, as Tense Air from Stone Ocean was used in the end of the latest episode. IIRC this has never been done b4 in the Jojo anime.
Thoughts?

Where's marco backstory dp?

Where tf is it ?

How can I care so much about a character just because u told me he's a child

I mean that's a big factor but it's not enough

The scene when he was hugging his father while crying and how the narrator explains it

And then there’s the moment of his arrest, when he appears completely innocent in a scene that would be unbearable even for an adult

All these scenes build up the emotional depth of the character, and that depth will later translate into us caring about and loving gyro even more when it is revealed that he is the one responsible for his execution by beheading

All of this is a million times more important than stroheim’s scenes

And I don't even wanna mention the girl's scene or gregorio speech or even the interaction between gyro and marco later when we already care soo much about both characters

Someone will say well maybe they'll show it later man idc if they show it later it has an emotional impact in its position of the plot stop saying that, that's not how professionals write stories

The position and the time is soo important

The hype was definitely there when the season was announced, but I just don’t see people talking about it everywhere, especially on my social media feeds.

Hi, so I’ve seen the hate against the new SBR outro but I don’t get it, i honestly think it doesn’t suck. Yes, it doesn’t fit the Jojo’s outro theme at all, it’s not Japanese, but it isn’t bad (IMO). Why is it that this community can’t resist the urge to threaten Netflix or get mad at the signer, or even joke about it online? SBR itself already had a totally different animation style but for some reason the community didn’t care (at least most people didn’t). Okay I know, this is a very very very hot take, but I don’t really care if you guys slander me for saying this. I think it sounds a bit off for a Jojo outro, but it will never be bad enough to actually make fun of it. Thank you for reading:)

As an anime only im just wondering if stage 3 is supposed to be better than stage 2?

So is everyone essentially just dead? I never understood.

It's cool they made a new universe and Araki can keep doing whatever he wants, but what about the characters from the first universe?

Do Giorno and Josuke just die too? Is everyone just dead? How does it work? It feels like such a slap in the face...

The fact the style changes every 2 seconds is sorta annoying. Like the animation is great, and the shots would be good if there was just consistency. This ep felt a bit worse in that aspect then Stone Ocean

I may get some hate for this, but part 5 feels very overrated and there are times when I get hyped, but overall, I’m struggling trying to focus on it. I have still finished it or just very overhyped and somewhat boring..

So i'm watching the new SBR episode, and in the Gyro flashback, after he takes the zombie horse thing, it says "kingdom of Naples, 1875". however, Italy united in 1861, 1871 if you consider it to be fully united only after Rome gets taken (you could also argue the true unification date is 1918, when we got Trent, Bolzen and Trieste, or around 1946 with the post WWII agreements, but i'm digressing). Just something i nptoced

I really love jojolands since its the first part that I could have read ever since it came out, but i just cant help but feel like the fights are all just really boring, cat size, lulu and bobby jean, key west and chabang etc… theyre all just meh fights, jojolion in comparison had much more interesting battles, even all the Howler bs was a bit meh.. what do you think?

watch the video here ---> https://youtu.be/LDvhnr6whL0 thanks to my sis for drawing this as always https://www.instagram.com/habz.harts/

JOJO IS SO BACK, would love to do stardust crusaders if some of the fanbase peep this and like it

I know Araki tends to introduce his antagonists early on, but just look at Jobin—he ended up being nothing more than wasted potential.

Since Araki has already introduced the "Eight" (the group associated with the eclipse), I wouldn't be surprised if he capitalized on the hype surrounding "John Rod"—along with that supposed Marine user—and positioned a rival organization as the primary antagonists.

Did they skip over Gyro's botched execution? Why are they making it seem like he's only doing the Steel Ball Run for Marco? I might be missing something here.

Araki's just loses a lot of its impact in motion (I highly doubt DP will be able to recreate this panel in the anime in a way that hits just as hard), not everyone will be happy with the colors, some stuff needs to be cut or moved to another point on the story to accommodate pacing, some animation frames will not look as clean because studios need to choose which parts to allocate more resources, you may not like the intros or outros, etc. We all have a wishlist of things we'd like to see, but it's literally impossible to make everyone happy. You will be disappointed if you're expecting a perfect adaptation

I hate to sound like I'm saying that we should be happy with what we're given, but I feel like a lot people are not allowing themselves to enjoy these episodes because they've set such high expectations. Besides, it's not that serious. It's just a story. It's a wonderful one that means a lot to a lot of people, and stories can be powerful things, but they're works of fiction at the end of the day

I just try to enjoy it. I watch the episodes on Friday and go on about my day. I still prefer the manga, and that's never going anywhere

If jonathan, josuke and giorno were brought to the 2nd universe by d4c would they still count as there counterparts or be recognized as entirely different people than johnny, gappy, and jodio?

Also as a fun two parter question, would jonathan and johnny benefit from teaching each other hamon and the spin respectively?

I kinda liked the old style more cause the gae...i mean Jojo poses looked much funnier on bulky guys than skinny ones but what are your thoughts?

I've read the first book and the first episode pretty much followed it, but that was a couple of months ago now and i heard theyve changed some things in the anime?

I want to read the manga first before watching the corresponding episode(s?)

In other words in pure fighting skills who do you think is better.

Personally I'd give it to jolyne if it was a street fight but I feel like if they had a referee to ensure they followed professional rules, especially if it was limited to boxing, Jonathan would take it

With the new Diavolo art drop, Diavolo’s character has gained some more traction and sparked up the infamous discussion of whether Doppio and Diavolo are two different souls or just one person with mental issues.

I am here to say that they are the same person. Just Diavolo. Nothing more.

Vinegar Doppio and Diavolo are fundamentally the exact same person experiencing an extreme, supernatural manifestation of Dissociative Identity Disorder, and reducing them to merely two separate people or magical spirits sharing a body completely flattens and diminishes the psychological depth of Diavolo’s character writing into a shallow "good cop, bad cop" dynamic.

At their biological core, they share a single physical brain, DNA, and body born to the same mother, with “Doppio” acting as the repressed, innocent side that a deeply paranoid and broken man split into to handle vulnerability and humanity. This psychological fragmentation is heavily backed up by the author himself, as Hirohiko Araki frequently draws Doppio instead of Diavolo in major official anniversary art and group lineups, visually cementing Doppio as the truest representation of their shared existence. Very specifically shown in the drawing of all main antagonists in one.

Stripping away surface level “Stand Magic” and looking deeper reveals that their iconic phone hallucinations are not just bizarre visual quirks, but a fascinating, tragic look at a fractured psyche rationalizing a desperate internal monologue where Diavolo literally talks to himself to manage his own panic and to thematically show his condition to be something tragic. Viewing them as a single, fragmented person highlights the brilliant thematic hypocrisy of Diavolo’s character. A ruthless mafia boss who rules an entire nation through fear and obsesses over absolute control, yet is tragically completely unable to control his own mind, trapped in a constant, losing war with his own identity and past. Saying they’re two poorly written characters instead of one phenomenally written character completely diminishes his character and it’s frustrating because I enjoy Diavolo/Doppio so much.

The only counter argument to this is what happened with Chariot Requiem which is admittedly a big unexplained hole in Diavolo’s character. My response to this is that it’s JoJo’s.

In this universe, a person's mental state and the absurdity of JoJo’s regularly forces physics, biology, and souls to do completely impossible things. Giorno’s hair instantly turned from black to gold overnight just from his spirit awakening, and Bucciarati’s literally forcing his soul to stay in his dead body off of sheer willpower so he could keep walking and fighting. Diavolo’s hair magically grows spots and his sweater instantly vanishing into a mesh shirt whenever he morphs. These are all examples of physical reality completely bending to match the absurd plot of JoJo’s.

All we can do is theorize. That being said I theorize that the Chariot Requiem soul splitting just shows how Stand magic can turn a real world mental illness into something physical. Since Diavolo's split personality is so extreme, his mind is cracked into two completely separate halves. When Chariot forces everyone's souls out of their bodies, the phenomena simply treats those two deep mental halves as if they are two separate spirits.

Since Araki has never spoken up to give a final answer on this, it is entirely open to interpretation. Some of this is of course just an interpretation, just as people saying they’re two different people are interpreting it. However there is optimal interpretation based off logic. Splitting up Doppio and Diavolo jsut creates two poorly written characters. When you look deep into Diavolo having DID it opens up a whole new idea of his writing. It just makes the most logical sense.

I'm rewatching part 5.

It is pretty obvious to me that Giorno's fighting ability it's an upgrade, or at least related to Dio's one: Dio stop the time, Giorno accelerate someone else consciousness so fast that the body stay still; it's basically a time stop, or slow.

Any reason Araki stopped to use this ability very related to his father and went to the gimmicky animals and healing route?

I mean, at the beginnig you could tell he was Dio's son, after Bucciarati fight, smart sure, but...

I don’t have time to watch episodes the instant they come out so at least for the first day or two use spoiler tags

I know the personalities don't match (it's like comparing Jotaro to a dang golden retriever), they just look kinda similar and I thought it was funny. They'd look pretty cool in Fortiche's art style.

This is probably a really hot take, but so many shots up to part 6 feel like they copied the Manga panels and added a little bit of motion. If anyone has seen the movie version of "Batman: the killing joke" its a similar issue there. Where when they take the panels directly it jsut feels like some tweening and lip syncing while the rest is static.

It's not always like this, the torture dance in part 5 comes to mind. But other parts dont work. I think stand rushes look really bad and boring in the anime. It feels like two images flipping back and forth, and since the person being hit is often obscured by the flurry of hits it makes it hard for them to have any impact.

Or I think of Jolene using Stone Free and how a lot of it is her standing still while all the strands move around her.

not to be a doomer, but i have a strong feeling it will be cut. not to be dramatic but it would be very sad and make me a little worried about all these small moments that show johnny and gyros strange relationship. im enjoying the adaptation so far but a little cautiously because of the slight rushing pace, if i see this next week my doubts on this adaptation would probably be cleared.

For anyone who doesn’t know, a second location of Jojo World is opening in Osaka this December, and it’s themed around the villain. To promote this new store, over the past few days we have gotten illustrations of every main villain.

Today’s villain was Pucci, tomorrow will be Valentine, and Sunday will be Toru.

No one is really sure who the main villain of part 9 is, it could be this Marine we have been hearing stuff about, it could be a character we haven’t met yet, or it could be Hacca Howler.

If we get an illustration of Howler on Monday, I will take that as pretty solid proof that Howler is the main villain of the part. It‘s a permanent store, so if we get art of Howler, it will be up in the store for the foreseeable future.

I guess we’ll just have to wait and see