I'm always surprised people rank Phantom Blood so low, I think for being such a short story it was pretty good and it was the perfect way to introduce how much of an asshole Dio is and show where all of his fuckery comes from.
Speaking specifically of endings, I will say that I don't remember exactly how some of them happen due to it being a while since I read the manga and I just don't remember all the details of the last fights BUT I have a few comments, which I will use mostly going off whatever I remember and Em's post:
Part 5's battle was trash, I'll agree to that since it's easily my least liked part. King Crimson's powers still make little sense today, GER becomes probably the most broken stand ever, Polnareff for all the dumb shit he does becomes a turtle and nobody bats an eye to that event, and just whatever the hell the last fight was is just completely confusing. NEXT.
In regards to Part 4 I actually found it a bit disappointing, I guess it's because it just seemed so static? Josuke keeps trying to find a way to get near Kira but can't due to Stray Cat and then when he does Killer Queen can't match his close combat strength at all, which makes Kira run away again and then Jotaro and Koichi come in and kick his ass. Best part was Kira getting dragged away, also I don't completely understand how Another One Bites the Dust works.
Part 3's final moments were great, I like D'arby the Gamer but the battle with Vanilla Ice is so brutal and then with Dio it's all pretty amazing. I have to say that I agree that Jotaro's sudden power is basically the definition of asspull, the only argument of foreshadowing to this ability is maybe the D'arby Gambler fight and even then it's questionable. Yeah Joseph also comes back from the dead, but I don't care about that because I actually like him so I can excuse that and less so Jotaro's crap. Which brings me to my next point.
Part 2's last fight was great, Stroheim is back, Lisa Lisa is there though the only downer is that she doesn't get to do anything, and then we have piranhas on a plane and a squid and a fucking volcano. It's amazing, it's as over the top as the whole part has been given Joseph's real stand of Looney Tunes Asspull. The volcano explosion sending Kars into space is only justified in my eyes because of two reasons: 1) Because I like Joseph more as I said before and 2) Ok seriously, it's because he actually admits that he had no idea that was going to happen but lied about it to Kars just to fuck with him. Jotaro's attitude when he stops time isn't one of holy shit I can do it too? It's more of a of course I can I'm fucking Jotaro. I already don't like the type of stoic bravado he displays, so this makes his asspull that much more awful in my eyes whereas with Joseph at least he admits that he just got ridiculously lucky but he sure as hell wasn't going to let Kars know that.
Part 6's ending was bittersweet in that it was weird seeing the reset, it was good to see Jotaro die especially with the face cutting in half thing (yes I really dislike him as it should be obvious) but it sucked seeing Jolyne not really get to do anything at that point. She became something of a side character in the last fight against her own main villain. Hell they were relying on Jotaro's power to try and stop him and when that failed they just died one by one. I kind of wish Jolyne's power had been able to try and counteract Pucci somehow even if it was something as dumb as just tripping him. It was also heartwarming to see her sacrifice herself for Emporio and at the same time to see the best stand of that part to kill the asshole priest and Weather get revenge. Pucci dying by asphyxiation is actually pretty great, dude deserved a slow and painful death, fuck that guy.
Part 7's was also bittersweet because damn it I didn't want Gyro to die when he finally got a cool stand :C but also because Tusk Act IV is awesome. I didn't like seeing Alternate Diego with The World though, I thought it was cheap and his "win" over Johnny to be really contrived and made just so that there could be some more sadness in the ending when that wasn't necessary given Gyro's fate. Also, I will always pronounce it gee-roh instead of jai-roh. Dude's Italian that's how it's pronounced damn it.
Speaking specifically of endings, I will say that I don't remember exactly how some of them happen due to it being a while since I read the manga and I just don't remember all the details of the last fights BUT I have a few comments, which I will use mostly going off whatever I remember and Em's post:
Part 5's battle was trash, I'll agree to that since it's easily my least liked part. King Crimson's powers still make little sense today, GER becomes probably the most broken stand ever, Polnareff for all the dumb shit he does becomes a turtle and nobody bats an eye to that event, and just whatever the hell the last fight was is just completely confusing. NEXT.
In regards to Part 4 I actually found it a bit disappointing, I guess it's because it just seemed so static? Josuke keeps trying to find a way to get near Kira but can't due to Stray Cat and then when he does Killer Queen can't match his close combat strength at all, which makes Kira run away again and then Jotaro and Koichi come in and kick his ass. Best part was Kira getting dragged away, also I don't completely understand how Another One Bites the Dust works.
Part 3's final moments were great, I like D'arby the Gamer but the battle with Vanilla Ice is so brutal and then with Dio it's all pretty amazing. I have to say that I agree that Jotaro's sudden power is basically the definition of asspull, the only argument of foreshadowing to this ability is maybe the D'arby Gambler fight and even then it's questionable. Yeah Joseph also comes back from the dead, but I don't care about that because I actually like him so I can excuse that and less so Jotaro's crap. Which brings me to my next point.
Part 2's last fight was great, Stroheim is back, Lisa Lisa is there though the only downer is that she doesn't get to do anything, and then we have piranhas on a plane and a squid and a fucking volcano. It's amazing, it's as over the top as the whole part has been given Joseph's real stand of Looney Tunes Asspull. The volcano explosion sending Kars into space is only justified in my eyes because of two reasons: 1) Because I like Joseph more as I said before and 2) Ok seriously, it's because he actually admits that he had no idea that was going to happen but lied about it to Kars just to fuck with him. Jotaro's attitude when he stops time isn't one of holy shit I can do it too? It's more of a of course I can I'm fucking Jotaro. I already don't like the type of stoic bravado he displays, so this makes his asspull that much more awful in my eyes whereas with Joseph at least he admits that he just got ridiculously lucky but he sure as hell wasn't going to let Kars know that.
Part 6's ending was bittersweet in that it was weird seeing the reset, it was good to see Jotaro die especially with the face cutting in half thing (yes I really dislike him as it should be obvious) but it sucked seeing Jolyne not really get to do anything at that point. She became something of a side character in the last fight against her own main villain. Hell they were relying on Jotaro's power to try and stop him and when that failed they just died one by one. I kind of wish Jolyne's power had been able to try and counteract Pucci somehow even if it was something as dumb as just tripping him. It was also heartwarming to see her sacrifice herself for Emporio and at the same time to see the best stand of that part to kill the asshole priest and Weather get revenge. Pucci dying by asphyxiation is actually pretty great, dude deserved a slow and painful death, fuck that guy.
Part 7's was also bittersweet because damn it I didn't want Gyro to die when he finally got a cool stand :C but also because Tusk Act IV is awesome. I didn't like seeing Alternate Diego with The World though, I thought it was cheap and his "win" over Johnny to be really contrived and made just so that there could be some more sadness in the ending when that wasn't necessary given Gyro's fate. Also, I will always pronounce it gee-roh instead of jai-roh. Dude's Italian that's how it's pronounced damn it.
