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[cntr]

you know

I never realized before, but Persona 2 is literally about nazis

 

[Spyder_Monkey]

Morioh is such a beautiful town What a Beautiful Duwang.

 

[Semblance]

Gotta be honest: Jojolion isn't very good. Even the Damo arc really failed to get me going. It's just so weirdly paced and hard to grasp.

I actually enjoyed the Joshu arc more because it kind of reminded me of the stupid one-off adventures of Stardust Crusaders and Diamond is Unbreakable.

I thought Joshu's arc felt more like those random Rohan chapters Araki puts out from time to time than those silly one-off adventures in SDC or Diamond. Except we didn't even get a cool haunted painting bringing back the dead moment, we just got Joshu being dumb as rocks with a weirdly abrupt ending.

you know

I never realized before, but Persona 2 is literally about nazis

I was always amused they threw shades on Hitler.

Dude's stand was kinda wack looking tho.

 

[Sibersk Esto]

Yoshihiro had a stand, so when he says he got the arrow from Enya and when Jotaro says DIO and Enya must have used various arrows, I just assumed Yoshihiro was one of Enya's potential stand users.

 

[Boss Doggie]

Killer Queen looks weird.

 

[Sibersk Esto]

Man looking around the internet and it has not been kind to the recent episode.

"How do you ruin the only good thing about Kira" is a sentence I've come across.

 

[Thud]

you know

I never realized before, but Persona 2 is literally about nazis

Persona 1 has a mafia boss.

 

[Grexeno]

Man looking around the internet and it has not been kind to the recent episode.

"How do you ruin the only good thing about Kira" is a sentence I've come across.

The person who said that line is a war criminal.

 

[RecRoulette]

Man looking around the internet and it has not been kind to the recent episode.

"How do you ruin the only good thing about Kira" is a sentence I've come across.

I'm not surprised that there are people that don't like Kira out there. But they are wrong

 

[JadedWriter]

I'm not surprised that there are people that don't like Kira out there. But they are wrong

How does one not like Kira? He's asexual kinky as fuck Bateman.

 

[cntr]

talk about overreactions, lol

 

[Siegcram]

How does one not like Kira? He's asexual kinky as fuck Bateman.

How is someone asexually kinky?

 

[cntr]

Kira's not into women, he's into hands.

Spoiler

Well, for now.

 

[JadedWriter]

How is someone asexually kinky?

Asexual as in he doesn't want to stick his dick into anything, though clearly he gets off...somehow.

 

[cntr]

I'm sure you can imagine all the stuff Kira does with the hands.

 

[JohnDoe]

They still haven't truly seen what makes Kira so special, imo. Give it some time.

 

[JadedWriter]

I'm sure you can imagine all the stuff Kira does with the hands.

I'm sure he has plenty of hand sex. "Put the palms this way, fingers here. It's just like a vagina, but better." What the fuck does he do with the restof the body? He just leaves it there? "These breasts disgust me."

 

[Sibersk Esto]

talk about overreactions, lol

You have to remember that the folks who don't like part 4 really don't like part 4

 

[Siegcram]

I'm sure you can imagine all the stuff Kira does with the hands.

I mean we all saw his O-face when he went to town on that sauce.

He's a textbook hand fetishist.

 

[JadedWriter]

I mean we all saw his O-face when he went to town on that sauce.

He's a textbook hand fetishist.

Lol. I wonder if that's as creepy as foot fetishes stuff. Probably walks around sniffing gloves.

 

[JayEH]

At least Kira doesn't make people eat their own hands. Kappa.

 

[cntr]

I like how Kira isn't just a hand fetishist, but has specific types of hands he likes

 

[Thud]

I love how much effort he puts in walking around town with his new loverhand and buying her presents. In his own twisted way he has that sense of romance.

Plus the toenail part is so Araki.

 

[Captain Rage Quit 69]

so are there gonna be tears in the anime thread when shigechi gets blown up next week or is everyone going to celebrate PLOT

I wonder if someone's gonna ask "why they gotta do him like that though"

 

[Matsukaze]

so are there gonna be tears in the anime thread when shigechi gets blown up next week or is everyone going to celebrate PLOT

I wonder if someone's gonna ask "why they gotta do him like that though"

I don't get the impression the average (non-manga reader) viewer feels strongly either way for Shigechi.

That being said, I imagine most people will be fine watching him die because it means a) main antagonist is finally killing someone on-screen and b) seeing Killer Queen in action.

 

[Sibersk Esto]

I am worried that David Pro bit off more than they could chew with 39 episodes straight.

 

[Grexeno]

Steel Ball Run is madness

 

[Rushersauce]

so are there gonna be tears in the anime thread when shigechi gets blown up next week or is everyone going to celebrate PLOT

I wonder if someone's gonna ask "why they gotta do him like that though"

Fuuuck me! Why did I enter here? For shame, me.

 

[Captain Rage Quit 69]

Fuuuck me! Why did I enter here? For shame, me.

While normally I'd apologize profusely, since this is the manga thread I'll just say "curiosity killed the cat."

Get it?

Cat

Stray Cat

Kira

it's ironic because

Spoiler

Kira uses a cat as a killing implement

(gonna warn any other part 4 anime-watchers to run now)

y'all better start laughing real fucking quick

 

[BreezyLimbo]

I just realized Ultimecia is basically Enrico Pucci.

Or Enrico Pucci is basically Ultimecia.

 

[Tizoc]

'Why You Should Watch Jo Jos Bizzare Adventure'
An interesting retrospective on JoJo Part 1 and 2 (for now)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgIuhkG63_s

 

[Boss Doggie]

Finished Milagro Man 2... well that was a crappy resolution.

I just realized Ultimecia is basically Enrico Pucci.

Or Enrico Pucci is basically Ultimecia.

I still believe multiple Cars is real. No one will tell me otherwise!

 

[cntr]

In the Court of the Crimson King is a good album

 

[RecRoulette]

JadedWriter what kind of game are you playing in the Part 4 OT lol. You're gonna get Keicho'd

 

[cntr]

Maybe Star Platinum could be a better dad than Jotaro.

 

[BreezyLimbo]

Seriously tho, Ultimecia is basically Stairway to Heaven.

Time compression is the concept of condensing all of time and space into a single moment, or "singularity". It can be initiated by the casting of a spell, which requires incredible power on behalf of the caster(s) and places them at the center of said singularity. By compressing the entire universe in this manner and placing herself at the center of it, Ultimecia would assimilate all of creation into herself, then use her sorceress power to recreate everything according to her desires...very existences will be absorbed by the time compression causing them agony as their thoughts would be ripped apart with their memories fading away leaving them unable to do, think or feel anything.

it's describing Made In Heavens ability to a tee, where it recreates the world whilst Enrico is able to choose which details are left in.

The Stand's user may then alter the characteristics of the universe and the fates of the people in the recreated universe and create the perfect world they desire. Anyone that is killed by this Stand in the previous universe will not cease to exist, but simply replaced by a similar substitute, though Pucci states that their souls and personalities will have been erased and that they will appear as completely different people.

I'm not crazy, am I? It's totally possible that Araki took some inspiration from Ultimecia?

 

[cntr]

Araki and the FF8 devs probably took inspiration from the "big bounce", the idea that the (real) universe would compress back into a singularity and have another big bang. That idea was popularized in the 90s and early 00s.

 

[Boss Doggie]

so what do you guys think of milagro man's conclusion

 

[Fulminator]

so i've been reading JoJo all summer and I just finished Steel Ball Run (my favorite part right ahead of Diamond is Unbreakable, and least favorite is probably part 1, followed by part 5), and I can't believe it's taken me this long to read JoJo. Araki's character and stand designs are so good and I love the artstyle he starts to use in parts 7 and 8. In fact I love his art so much it's influencing my own artwork a lot currently. I keep finding myself doodling stands and heads like he does in my free time haha.

Anyways, I was wondering if there's a reason Araki ends all the parts kind of abruptly? Like I think the endings are fine, but they could also be fleshed out some more, if that makes sense? IDK I always feel a little bit unsatisfied at the end of a part because it feels like it just jerks to a halt when there could be a little bit more closure for the respective plot.

One more thing that upset me a little bit was that Jolyne wasn't even the one to beat Pucci in Stone Ocean...Araki kind of took Emporio from supporting role to main role in an instant, although I think it made for a nice ending with the whole Made in Heaven thing.

Anyways, I'm really glad I decided to pick up this series! I'm gonna go catch up to part 8 so I can talk about that too!

 

[Nairume]

Anyways, I was wondering if there's a reason Araki ends all the parts kind of abruptly? Like I think the endings are fine, but they could also be fleshed out some more, if that makes sense? IDK I always feel a little bit unsatisfied at the end of a part because it feels like it just jerks to a halt when there could be a little bit more closure for the respective plot.

I think part of the reason he seems to specifically avoid detailed epilogues so he can revisit characters, concepts, and events in later parts without having to deal with things he may have said years prior. This would at least makes sense with how the epilogue that does exist for part 2 explicitly only really goes into detail for people who were effectively being written out of the story (with the sole exception of Lisa Lisa having an incredibly minor off screen role in part 3), while Joseph is largely left a little more up in the open until he shows back up in the following two parts (and likewise for Jotaro for his subsequent appearances after part 3).

 

[cntr]

to be fair, only Part 2 really needs the epilogue. Part 4's characters just have the life we've already seen, and other parts have

Spoiler

almost everybody die

 

[jgminto]

so what do you guys think of milagro man's conclusion

I thought it was great. It had brisk pacing, a cool mythology behind the stand and showed another side of Joshuu.

 

[striferser]

so what do you guys think of milagro man's conclusion

Feels like one of Rohan oneshot to be honest. The end was a bit anticlimatic, but as a whole i like it

 

[RadioHeadAche]

Part 5 is the only ending that felt abrupt to me. I thought there was going to be a little more, but it just ends with the scene in the room where Giorno is already the boss.

 

[JadedWriter]

JadedWriter what kind of game are you playing in the Part 4 OT lol. You're gonna get Keicho'd

It's not my fault I ask tough questions.

Is Jotaro over there teaching Jolyne about dolphins?

 

[Boss Doggie]

Yeah looks like Joshuu never learned

 

[Nottle]

I'm sure he has plenty of hand sex. "Put the palms this way, fingers here. It's just like a vagina, but better." What the fuck does he do with the restof the body? He just leaves it there? "These breasts disgust me."

I always assumed he completely erased the rest with killer queen.

 

[Astral]

I always assumed he completely erased the rest with killer queen.

He did. That's how he gets away with murder without leaving any evidence.

 

[JayEH]

Part 5 is the only ending that felt abrupt to me. I thought there was going to be a little more, but it just ends with the scene in the room where Giorno is already the boss.

The flashback scene was super weird. Not sure what it was supposed to accomplish.

 

[BinaryPork2737]

I always assumed he completely erased the rest with killer queen.

You see him do exactly that in My Dad is Not My Dad. The only thing left of the woman is her hand.