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[Permanently A]

Watching this show with my mom and little brother is a really fun experience. My mom doesn't watch TV outside of soaps and stuff, so shit like Chili Pepper goading Okuyasu into cutting the electrical wires blows her mind.

 

[JadedWriter]

Imagine if a shitbag said he'd take to you to Hirohiko Araki, you'd go along with it just to meet Araki

Isn't Araki the type to draw you a stand and create powers for it?

 

[Killer Queen]

Watching this show with my mom and little brother is a really fun experience. My mom doesn't watch TV outside of soaps and stuff, so shit like Chili Pepper goading Okuyasu into cutting the electrical wires blows her mind.

That's awesome, I wish my family would be interested in this stuff.

 

[turmoil]

Watching this show with my mom and little brother is a really fun experience. My mom doesn't watch TV outside of soaps and stuff, so shit like Chili Pepper goading Okuyasu into cutting the electrical wires blows her mind.

Cool, I can't even make my friends watch jojo

 

[Permanently A]

Cool, I can't even make my friends watch jojo

Haha, I have that same problem.

One of these days.

 

[Boss Doggie]

Is it just me or does Jonathan Joestar have the weakest pose game?

but his pose (the fingers cover the face) is very iconic

 

[JadedWriter]

but his pose (the fingers cover the face) is very iconic

I thought that was just a fucking ripple fighting stance. Needs to take notes from Dio. Dude was just randomly posing while taunting Erina and blocking punches.

 

[Monochromaticx]

It must have been overWhamling !

 

[cntr]

how did you get your mom to watch jojo if she only watches soaps

 

[Thud]

how did you get your mom to watch jojo if she only watches soaps

Must be a stand.

 

[Boss Doggie]

I thought that was just a fucking ripple fighting stance. Needs to take notes from Dio. Dude was just randomly posing while taunting Erina and blocking punches.

who said ripple fighting stances aren't posing

 

[JadedWriter]

who said ripple fighting stances aren't posing

Posing with a tactical reason isn't proper posing lol. I guess since my brain was never like "why the fuck is he posing" it just never registered for me.

 

[Madao]

it still cracks me up that everyone treats Koichi like he's a grade schooler. even his sister talks like he's in grade school.

 

[Dedication Through Light]

Oh wow he looks amazinghere. https://twitter.com/NOJAMMAN/status/748861133700804608

 

[Sibersk Esto]

Rohan has a TON of fanart.

 

[Permanently A]

how did you get your mom to watch jojo if she only watches soaps

I wasn't trying to get her into it, I was watching Pet Shop vs Iggy on the tv with my brother and she just started watching and liked it

she got pretty mad at SC's ending lol. "what kind of story ends with all the heroes dying!?"

 

[Hatty]

Rohan has a TON of fanart.

Yeah because he's the best

 

[wwm0nkey]

Yeah because he's the best

#1 Mangaka Husbando

 

[Killer Queen]

I'm gunna be honest and say as of right now,i enjoyed stardust Crusaders more but DIU has much better stands.

 

[JadedWriter]

I wasn't trying to get her into it, I was watching Pet Shop vs Iggy on the tv with my brother and she just started watching and liked it

she got pretty mad at SC's ending lol. "what kind of story ends with all the heroes dying!?"

But only the irrelevant heroes died...and Iggy.

 

[Ezalc]

I wasn't trying to get her into it, I was watching Pet Shop vs Iggy on the tv with my brother and she just started watching and liked it

she got pretty mad at SC's ending lol. "what kind of story ends with all the heroes dying!?"

The kind that isn't afraid to show that not everybody survives all the time.

 

[Unspeakable Evil]

Rohan has a TON of fanart.

Yeah because he's the best

Is he the most popular character in Part 4?

 

[RubberLuffy]

Is he the most popular character in Part 4?

He's the one character Araki has done the most spin-off manga of, like the Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan series and Rohan At The Louvre. He's a fan-favorite and an author-favorite

Also about Araki:

 

[jgminto]

Can someone remind/explain to me why Hazamada is all buddy-buddy with Koichi despite how evil he was? He made someone stab themselves in the eyeball with a pen.

That's how Koichi is, he's a kindhearted person. He gave Tatami a second chance even after what he put him and his family through.

 

[RadioHeadAche]

I think we need a published collection of Araki's thoughts and musings.

 

[RubberLuffy]

I think we need a published collection of Araki's thoughts and musings.

For a dude who is all about violence and body horror, his author notes and such are surprisingly adorable and generally super humble and funny.

"I must be the only one who cares, but I often nearly drown myself. Not in the sea or in a river, no, I narrowly escape death drinking a glass of water. I only need a mouthful of water to suffocate, and I find myself unable to breathe. Generally, if I stay calm, I manage to get my breath back little by little, but recently, I almost passed out. That was a close one. That day, I miraculously escaped death, to everyone's indifference."

"In my childhood, I heard the following kinds of rumors about being a cartoonist.
Cartoonists secretly keep a real handgun in their basements.
They can just ask anyone to get naked when they're drawing models of men or women.
There's a person who just gives out ideas and can give them from anywhere in the world.
Every fourth day of the week, they're night shift is spent golfing and playing on a yacht.

How much truth is there in all this? I can't tell you."

"Here is the top 5 of my favorite toys

1. Phosphorescent skeleton (When it shines at night, it feels like I'm in a fairy tale.)

2. Bouncing ball (This piece of rubber took me into a science-fiction universe.)

3. Resident Evil(Playstation) (It's so great!)

4. A Thunderbird II model (I love the design and I find that the container's conception was very clever! I really had the impression I could go anywhere with this.)

5. Lego or Mega Bloks (I spent whole days assembling and disassembling the piece to make new models. I think that Lego is the Western philosophy in its entirety.)"

 

[JadedWriter]

Now I'm waiting for phosphorescent skeleton to be a stand name. His author notes are so funny and non threatening.

 

[Nottle]

Can someone remind/explain to me why Hazamada is all buddy-buddy with Koichi despite how evil he was? He made someone stab themselves in the eyeball with a pen.

Koichi really is a Gohan expy.

 

[Drkirby]

I'm not sure you can classify Resident Evil 1 as a toy.

 

[cntr]

oh yeah, Koichi's is Gohan with a Cell stand

 

[JadedWriter]

oh yeah, Koichi's is Gohan with a Cell stand

Is it done evolving yet?

 

[cntr]

answering that is spoilers

 

[JadedWriter]

answering that is spoilers

I'll just read between the lines of that non answer then.

 

[Permanently A]

Is it done evolving yet?

yes

no

perhaps

can you repeat the question?

 

[The Silver]

Was Koichi talking to Jotaro on the boat the first time we've seen the heroes talk through their stand?

 

[JadedWriter]

yes

no

perhaps

can you repeat the question?

Sits here waiting for the episode where Echoes throws the katakana for evolve at itself.

 

[cntr]

Was Koichi talking to Jotaro on the boat the first time we've seen the heroes talk through their stand?

Nope, that was introduced way back with Deep Blue Moon.

But it's the first time we someone use a long range stand to convey messages; that's why Koichi used ACT 1.

 

[Permanently A]

Sits here waiting for the episode where Echoes throws the katakana for evolve at itself.

lmao that's pretty clever

 

[The Silver]

Nope, that was introduced way back with Deep Blue Moon.

But it's the first time we someone use a long range stand to convey messages; that's why Koichi used ACT 1.

Lol I don't even remember what deep blue moon is. I know it's the water stand, but I can't remember anything about that episode

 

[cntr]

it's the episode where Jotaro punched a shark

 

[JadedWriter]

All I remember is a shark getting Stahr Platinumed...can't remember the context behind it.

 

[MillionStabs]

All I remember is a shark getting Stahr Platinumed...can't remember the context behind it.

He did it to save that girl that didn't need to be in the story at all.

 

[Mr. Smiley]

did she even have a name

Edit: lmao I just searched up "Jojo girl" and Google immediately knew who I was thinking of with the first result.

 

[JadedWriter]

He did it to save that girl that didn't need to be in the story at all.

That chick that the orangutan was thirsty for.

 

[jgminto]

Deep Blue Moon had that awesome Jotaro bluff.

 

[cntr]

did she even have a name

they never said it in the manga, but the anime credits list her as "Anne"

 

[papertoonz]

did she even have a name

Edit: lmao I just searched up "Jojo girl" and Google immediately knew who I was thinking of with the first result.

she was know as the runaway girl for the longest time but the anime did give her a name, Anne

 

[Drkirby]

she was know as the runaway girl for the longest time but the anime did give her a name, Anne

Yep. A bit of an odd character, she just drops off. I wonder if Araki ever explained in an interview what was originally planned for her.

 

[RubberLuffy]

Yep. A bit of an odd character, she just drops off. I wonder if Araki ever explained in an interview what was originally planned for her.

She was obviously gonna be the Speedwagon/Poco/Smokey of Part 3 but I don't think Araki knew what to do with her. It really seems like an editor pushing him to add a similar character, but she keeps disappearing (probably because he had no ideas for her) and the editor probably kept pushing. That's what I would guess.

 

[Madao]

She was obviously gonna be the Speedwagon/Poco/Smokey of Part 3 but I don't think Araki knew what to do with her. It really seems like an editor pushing him to add a similar character, but she keeps disappearing (probably because he had no ideas for her) and the editor probably kept pushing. That's what I would guess.

with the kind of enemies that came later, she would've been a dead weight mostly. she would have been caught in most Enemy Stand schemes instead of the heroes since she can't see them and she's an easy target for bad guys (and some of them looked like pervs that would prey on her).
if they had plans to make her a Stand User later, she could have added something but the way to awaken Stands wasn't created until Part 4 so even that was hard to write in at that point.