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Finally ! This is what I, KAIS, succeded in achieving with a lot patience and pasting : My drawing's PERFECT Form ! (And I did not need deliquent twins or a green baby to complete !

Because there's so much awesome themes to talk about Hirohiko Araki's Ode to Humanity (and  that the  anime will take years to get to, hoping they even adapt every part.



I_ FAVORITE JOJO :

I have already discussed this, though all 6 of them are great characters on their own right: devilkais.deviantart.com/art/Jโ€ฆ
But if we go through various parodies, the ranking will be:
1 Jotaro
2 Jonathan
3 Joseph
4 Giorno
5 Jolyne
6 Josuke


II_ FAVORITE SIDE CHARACTER(Non-Jojo)

A tough one, but let's give it a try. Since I have a fondness towards the characters I drew in the poster, I will pinpoint the one that entertained/impressed me the most.
Part1 : Speedwagon (for his hat trick and invention of the captainobviousese language...)
Part2 : Stroheim (Yes, Captain Guile used to be a NAzi ! More of the "Suck Herrmany's dick !" kind than "Concentration Camp", but he's still an asshole.)
Part3 : Jean-Pierre Polnareff
Part4 : Rohan Kishibe ( especially for pissing off an annoying as fuck kid! 2.bp.blogspot.com/-hq72M_BuYgIโ€ฆ )
Part5 : Bruno Buccellati
Part6 : TIE. Foo Fighters / Narciso Annasui ( finally ! Another psychopath I can relate to ! 2.bp.blogspot.com/-x0-_J-PYBCoโ€ฆ )

III_ FAVORITE MAIN ANTAGONIST

I love every single JoJoโ€™s primary antagonist. Each one of them is variable when it comes to cruelty (from not-really-a-villain to ungodly wicked bastard!), each one is a different person with a very twisted view in humanity and life in general. I tried to rate them but I failed. I'd say I'd let it go this way:

1) Yoshikage Kira : I can perfectly relate to his desire of a quiet life and I do love cats too. Easily the most atypical villain in the franchise and a tour-de-force for Araki who's read serial killer biographies to create Kira. Though I'd use Killer Queen on different targets, hehehe....

2) Dio Brando : From a  petty usurper to a regal hammy vampire to an extremely influential and charismatic sect leader, no one can deny Dio's influence on the series. It's funny that a lot of the tragedies that occurred in the series can be originated to the fact that he never understood/wanted to acknowledge that Joestars actually saw him as part of the family. There's a pretty cool article about Dio, alovelyburn.tumblr.com/post/53โ€ฆ (watch out for spoilers of course !).
My only disagreements with that article are:
- The SBR counterparts, I consider SBR as a completely separate story devilkais.deviantart.com/art/Sโ€ฆ : Diego and Dio are completely different persons: the former being a tragic and sinister anti-hero while the latter is a villainous and egomaniacal Mofo with a God complex.Jonathan is not a saint, just a kind-hearted optimist. And finally, Jonathan is genuinely sympathetic and lovable while Johnny is a little fucktard that begs for my sympathy while there are far more tragic/compelling characters and has a contrived as fuck background (so much for "best JoJo", PFEH!).
- I never shipped Dio with anyone but himself.Seriously, the scenes with Pucci just showcase how manipulative and devious he can be DESPITE the fact that he sincerely can appreciate loyalty and obedience from others (he sees himself as a God after all !).
- The only reason he has sons is that, much like we can have leftovers in our plate, he just was not hungry enough at the time to finish his dinner.


3) All the others...And I really feel that they are somewhat underappreciated !

- Kars : The pillar-men are not evil when you see things from their perspective (and no, killing his people was SELF-DEFENSE! He did not conquer them or anything, they wanted to butcher him !). They are the apex predators and what they do in the story is basically what would happen if you were to fight sapient chicken (you do eat chicken, right ?) . There's also a sense of camaraderie between Kars and his underlings that will actually motivate him to kill JoJo (if you notice, they were barely interested in Joseph and his allies : Wammu only gave him some attention because of his audacity ('t was a huge risk from Joseph though !), Esidisi was after the stone and only got serious after JoJo's progress (though if it were not for the wool, he would have feasted on the Joestar at that point !) and Kars... he was the detached scientist of the group. In fact he only hated Joseph AFTER Esidisi's demise ! On his own though, he's an excellent fable character: while he is a genius, he never foresaw the negative sides of his goal...

- Diavolo : Seriously, this dude was a rarity as a villain. While MOST big bads tend to underestimate their opponents, Diavolo does the opposite : He even thinks that their goldfish could be a potential threat ! Truth is, he is not that mysterious . What I mean by that is that the very first time we see him pondering about his next move in that hotel room, we already get the dude's motivation : he's at the top (boss of a far-reaching maffia !) and he is devoured by the idea of staying at the top (even violently refusing to promote some of his best assassins.The reason Nero and some others will betray him...). Nevertheless, like real-life Dons, he does not see himself as evil but as a benefactor and a business man (to his credit...he does not exactly bother with people unrelated to his business unlike Dio's indulgence in sadism). Pardoxically, he's also hands-down THE funniest JoJo big bad ever : from his overzealous paranoid plan of getting rid of his own daughter to his Doppioness, the lengths he goes to are simply amazing ! Does he even sleep ?
I'll conclude by saying that Vinegar Doppio is his SCARIEST side (since he can snap at any moment and violently so!). King Crimson is not haxxed, it is just used by the right meticulous person and he's the only one in this list I felt sad for when he died...

- Enrico Pucci : I maintain what I said; there's nothing funny about the guy. Even the "humorous" quirks are dowright creepy once we get a glimpse at WHO he is and his background. Pucci is classy as hell, arrogant, extremely devious, and probably the LUCKIEST of all of the main villains (he has the bad guy version of Joseph's good fortune.). The saddest part is that his idealised vision of Dio will lead him to do some of the most horrible acts in the whole series," The way to hell is paved with good intentions...". I do wonder how he would have reacted if he's seen what kind of monster Dio truly was, like the mother-baby scene for starters...

IV_ FAVORITE PART

I don't have a favorite part. They all have their own strength and weaknesses and while unrelated, it is ONE huge story. And, much as I like the current anime, I do really regret that they didn't do a huge project to animate each part of the manga in the OAVs/movie format WITH Junichi's Hayama's chara-designs. Hokuto no Ken did it, and Berserk is doing it now (despite the huge gripe I have against Miura for NOT finishing it. Seriously, END THE DAMN THING ALREADY !).
Now I know what you'll say : "but  the OVAs will cut things from the story !". And I'll say this: I have no problem with an adaptation making things TIGHTER or getting quicker to the meat of the story. I will even admit that I definitely prefer the 2000's OAVs to the former half of the manga when it comes to Part 3 (let's be honest, "Stardust Crusaders" really gets going once they get to Egypt.Those fights I would have kept, even tweaked a little, in the OAVs. BUT prior to that: Holly is so sugary it is cringe-worthy (this is why Jotaro is so grumpy then ?) , the runaway Girl was fucking USELESS (Thank God for the way they mixed the meeting with Polnareff and the fight against Forever, that had a better flow...) and many fights were mere fluff. Granted, the other parts have their fluff too, but this drawing should give you an approximative idea about what I would have kept or left in an OVAs format.). Another good example are the GUNNM OAVs (why there hasn't been more will always sadden me ! Tweak things ! I don't mind it as long as they can keep a coherent whole. What works for comics does not necessarily work for animation and vice-versa and as such many things need to be omitted/adapted/portrayed in a specific way.).

The current TV series has great voice actors, excellent music (both background and themes! Just Excellent !) and nice chara-designs ( I prefer Hayama's but hey, there are pretty cool ! Oh and if anyone complains about the way he draws noses, I still take 'em over the new style of Araki on older characters. I elaborate: Hirohiko Araki's art style is peculiar in the way that what works for his current series DOES NOT at all for his older work ! Which means... eh, nobody's perfect.). Its flaws however are the mediocre animation (though I'll give them a pass...their budget is crap! So they have to make up for the freeze frames by other ruses, I perfectly understand that.), the zealous faithfullness (though, many Animes tend to suffer from that...) and the voice-over... DAMN THAT NARRATOR. I am cool with it during funny or over-the-top scenes, but in scenes like Wammu VS Caesar or Kars VS JoJo, he needs to shut the fuck up ! In fact, they should really tone the voice overs DOWN ! It works in comics, but in animation you need a more clever and optimal narrative way.  The onomatopeas I can take or leave...

As for the supposedly "awful" Part 1 movie, it disappoints me that it got botched and not distributed (come on , it can't as big a missed opportunity as Cool World was ! Now that's a movie that NEEDS a remake that sticks to the original concept !). It did suffer production-wise from a tragic accident and as such, the studio had a mostly botched under-2 hours movie. A shame because
a) Phantom Blood can perfectly be distillated/Perfected into a 3hours movie!
b) The first 16 minutes of this banished movie  are...Let's say that I would approve of human sacrifices if the Tv series could have been given THIS level of quality in art-design and animation! You can't tell me this is bad www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSyev_โ€ฆ
BTW from what I could gather, Araki never wanted a JoJo TV adaptation, which I can understand. This kind of tells you how lucky we are that Shueisha insisted, yuck yuck...

Now, since I gave my opinion on Each part, here's for those who are late (and as a bonus, since the series has A LOT of musical references, here are some fitting themes for the big last fights in each arcs. I tend to reread them with these songs in mind. :

Part I: JoJo's Horrifying Misfortune
Opinion: devilkais.deviantart.com/art/Jโ€ฆ
Final Fight Theme Song : Fundamentum (Lesiem)
Starring : Shuu-rlie Brown / Captain Obvious / Trendy Ramirez / British Yuria / Souther Evans / Zombie HNK Extras

Part II: JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (we mean it this time !)
Opinion: devilkais.deviantart.com/art/Jโ€ฆ
Final Fight Theme Song : Super-Charger Heaven (White Zombie) ... This AMV is pure genius ! www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AEPokโ€ฆ
Starring : Thugs Bunny / BubbleSoap Rei / Herr Reichminator / Carpenter's Sexy thing / Hellloooo Sensei ! / Hellllooo Maid ! / Flaming Highway To Hell / Good Guy Raoh / The Fabulous Dr Baoh / POSES ! / Fabulousness ! / Even more HNK extras

Part III: Joestar and Pals VS DIO's Evil Fabulous Sect
Opinion: devilkais.deviantart.com/art/Jโ€ฆ
Final Fight Theme Song : Black Sheep (Sonata Arctica)
Starring : Grumpy Kenshiro / Oldiana Jones / Dr Firelord / Keanu Reeves / George Dandin / Snoopy / Fabulous Lestat / Ice Ice Baby ! / The best Falcon Ever / The Duke of hazzards / Unmasked Leatherhead / Your Mother-In-Law / A Yu-Gi-Oh Villain / The brother of that Yu-Gi-Oh villain / Magnet Bewbs !

Part IV: JoJo's Freaky As Fuck Suburbs
Opinion: devilkais.deviantart.com/art/Jโ€ฆ
Final Fight Theme Song : Another One Bites The Dust (Queen)
Starring : Pompadour Mickey / Goofy Kuwabara / Son Gohan / Teen Medusa / Art Crumb / Anthony Kiedis / Tom Lehrer / The Cutest flower ever ! / Eega Beeva / The Power I'd Love To Have / Josuke's silly hair / That damn Kid You will thankfully See Dead / That other Brat You wanna see dead / Cool Musical references / Mark Evans / That Scary Alley / Deadites hands

Part V: TSMG In "Sweet Golden Irony !"
Opinion: devilkais.deviantart.com/art/Jโ€ฆ
Final Fight Theme Song : Crimson King (Demons and Wizards)
Starring : Gandalf Lucifer / Gangsta Gold Saint / Sephiroth / Dude Looks Like A Lady / Pecos Bill / The Boss's Daughter / Metal Gambit / NORG The Fat / Nicolas Cage / Agent Jekyll /  Mayuri Kurotsuki / Fashion Victims / A Tortoise ! / Lovecraftian Horror ! / The Blob

Part VI: JoJo VS DIObolus Ex Machina
Opinion: devilkais.deviantart.com/art/Jโ€ฆ
Final Fight Theme Song : To Die For (Lion King OST)
Starring : Charlotte's Web / Ellen Ripley / Solty Plankton / Littlefoot / Father Bootylicious / Fred Durst / A fellow Disney Fan / An Evil Cripple / An Evil Junkie / An Evil Cow-Costume wearing Dude / Gasteropodean Armageddon / Weather Report's Hat / My Broken Heart


V_ MOST DESIRED STANDS

1) Killer Queen
2) Heaven's Door
3) White Snake
4) Bohemian Rhapsody
5) Metallica
6) The World
7) Star Platinum
8) Scary Monsters
9) King Crimson
10) Mr President
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