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I don't know if you knew this but Araki in his book Manga in Theory and Practice, The Craft of Creating Manga said that Valentine is a coward.
When Araki says that Valentine is a coward, he doesn't mean that Valentine is not capable of fighting by himself because he has shown that he is capable of that and more. Araki means that Valentine uses innocent people and does horrible things for what he wants, this is selfish cowardice and his plan to redirect the misfortune of the United States to the rest of the world is the best example of this, because if Valentine had been successful with his plans, the United States would be Falconia 2.0 and the rest of the countries would be a total disaster and would have worse living conditions and those who have read Berserk will know how horrible the consequences of the creation of Falconia are for the other countries of the Berserk universe.
Hence Valentine's stand name, Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap, as he believes himself that the lives of others are cheap compared to his bigger picture of him, he is very cowardly. And stands represent the soul, and Love Train is a stand that gives only Valentine complete protection, emphasis on only him, while hurting other innocents, including US citizens that he claims to protect. Then blaming Gyro and Johnny for this, when it's not their fault, Valentine is just so deluded into thinking he could never do something wrong. Coward no matter what, a true villain.
#and this is one of the things that makes him one of my favorite villains of all time#jojo's bizarre adventure#jojo's bizarre adventure spoilers#jojo's bizarre adventure meta#jjba#jjba spoilers#jjba meta#steel ball run#funny valentine
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No offense to Giorno Giovanna but I have to call him out. That man played Bruno like a mf fiddle and got half of Bucci gang wiped out in a week of knowing them. Man didn’t give a fuck. He wanted to be mafia head honcho. I ain’t saying the death didn’t get to him, because he goes from teenager with terrible home life to seeing Leone Abbachio with a softball sized hole I’m his chest within like 3-4 days. But shit didn’t get to him get to him. Bro hardly knew anybody in Bucci Gang’s names when they started dropping. They was disposable to him because if bro gave a fuck about them, he would’ve said “nah time to back off this” when Bruno died and he had to him into a zombie
I get why La Squadra went out how they did. They had to spin for Sorbet and Gelato. Plus, they’re experienced hitmen so you know they know how to poker face shit. But giorno did not give a fuck about Bucci Gang as people. Not on a deep emotional level. He was the new kid that Bruno dragged in. But it’s how could he? He only knew Bucci gang formally for 168 hours.
I got love for lil bro but I cannot act like he gave a fuck on the level that somebody like Mista or Fugo did.
#narancia ghirga#jjba la squadra#jjba#giorno giovanna#haruno shiobana#vento aureo#jojo bizarre adventure#jojo part 5#jjba meta#pannacotta fugo#guido mista#leone abbacchio#bruno bucciarati#bruno buccellati
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Ever wonder why Hol Horse is one of the only JoJo characters with the specific SFX 「メギャン」 (me-gyan)?
Me too, me too.
(I'm not an expert in Japanese expressional words, let alone its manga SFX, so take this with a spoonful of salt)
I assume "me-gyan" is a mix of "meki" and "kyan". "Meki" is the sound of something "ripping out", like a tree growing out of the ground at rapid speed. "Kyan" can be two things - a squeal or a wolf's cry.
At this point...it's safe to say that a high pitch, cracking howl is what Emperor literally sounds like when it "rips itself out" of Hol's hand. The manga and anime didn't show this, obviously. Just Emperor phasing in and out from Hol's hand with a synth sound...
But the OVA literally did show the ripping out part (which is kinda scary, tbh...to have a gun rip out of one's arm like some Kazuo Umezu story).
Which makes OVA Hol Horse even cooler, btw.
For a minor character to have a very memorable SFX assigned to him, shows how much Araki actually cared for Hol Horse. He just never had the capacity to expand him during SDC's run. But, from Hol, we were given Gyro (a better Hol Horse, according to the man himself) so that's good.
#hol horse#jojo's bizarre adventure#jjba#musings#meta i guess#i was thinking that maybe emperor did rip out of hol except in lightspeed hence why we get the light emitting out when emperor was summoned#to show that it appeared fast in hol's hand#but when hol faced dio he did it as silently as he could so the ripping out effect was shown...at least in the ova
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No but the way Pucci being Christian is so intertwined with his motives as a villain... He’s every story I’ve heard of the Christian convert who suffered something horrible and senseless, and after drifting through life lost and without a sense of purpose, found hope by believing in God. He’s so many stories of tragedy I’ve seen where people managed to cope by finding peace in the idea that this is all part of God’s divine, incomprehensible plan; It’s fate, it’s his will, and by accepting it they can move on. It’s for a reason, even if they’ll never understand what they’re looking at.
That’s what Heaven is for Pucci; His core trauma is a series of horrific coincidences with no rhyme or reason, and so he latches onto the idea that it’s all part of “his” plan, God and/or DIO’s. That’s why he finds comfort in knowing the future, knowing it’s all in the hands of Fate and removing his own blame and agency, which is why the narrator asks the viewer to judge for ourselves who did wrong, when we see the backstory of Wes, Enrico, and Perla. Pucci made a decision and it backfired horribly, so he doesn’t want to choose anymore.
It’s the way Pucci’s desire to be the messianic hero screws him over and causes tragedy; He’s so devoted to his position as a priest that rather than sabotaging it in order to just tell Perla the truth to her face (thus breaking the rules of the confessional), Pucci relies on this roundabout method so he can have it both ways, only to cause heartbreak and death. Pucci is so desperate to save humanity to make up for his own guilt and failure that he resets the universe, making him the worst kind of evil in his brother’s eyes; One totally oblivious to its nature. Pucci begs to die a martyr from Weather Report and Emporio, rather than just dying here and now.
Ungalo and Rikiel are prepared to die for Pucci once he gives them a sense of purpose to all of the inexplicable misfortune in their lives; Versus is also emboldened by this realization, but chooses to weaponize it for himself. The sons of DIO are people who all went through misfortune their whole lives, they’re ‘children of God’ who find comfort in devoting themselves to something they can actually believe in, that they believe will take care of them in some way; Like many Christians following the path of God, believing Heaven is waiting for them at the end of the tribulation and that it will all be worth it, that it all meant something and mattered and served a cause, like them.
Pucci and the sons of DIO can no longer bear the pain and uncertainty of moving forward, so they aspire, Pucci especially, for a world where fate will move things along for them. They don’t have to take the first step, especially not Pucci, when Made in Heaven’s reset will compel him and everyone else to do what’s fated, regardless of what they try.
Pucci fears and admires the courage of the Joestars who are able to step forward and face fate, engage and grapple with it, rather than just blindly accept and surrender in despair. If Diavolo precedes Pucci as someone too resistant of fate, Pucci is the opposite; Someone too resigned to it. Unlike the Joestars who know their fate but can work with what’s written in stone to change the other details.
It’s why Pucci admires the first human to try a mushroom despite knowing it could kill them; But rather than put in the effort to get up to their level, Pucci would rather everyone stoop to his own, and claims he’s just sparing people noble yet needless pain (He’s only sparing himself by avoiding the reminder that he could and should be braver than this). He says he pities the human who tried a mushroom, adding that they were probably only motivated by hunger and desperation, and had no choice anyway.
I think Pucci is secretly envious of that courage, and that’s why he always downplays it afterwards by suggesting it’s foolishness rather than bravery. Pride, Envy, Wrath... Sloth given his despair, and a bit of Greed with the $800 dollar pants. Then there’s the BDSM vibes of Whitesnake for Lust, all that’s missing is Gluttony, which I guess the cherries and being devoured by the Green Baby account for...?
In all seriousness, Pucci wants guidance; He surrenders himself to God, follows the instructions led by DIO, and relies on Fate to tell him what to do when Made in Heaven resets the universe. Remember that time Pucci got around his brother’s Heavy Weather by removing his sight, and forcing Anasui to guide him? Yeah.
There’s a reason why Whitesnake obsesses with preserving the past, and I think part of it boils down to Pucci being afraid of its counterpart the Future; Which Made in Heaven, not entirely unlike King Crimson, allows Pucci to speed through and glimpse, to get through the worst of it ASAP and lessen the pain. He doesn’t want to accept that sometimes things just… happen.
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A casi nd para el estreno de la segunda parte de "stone ocean", siuuuu
Asi que estoy emocionada jaj, es la primera vez que ando esperando un anime con tanto amors
Este dibujo funciona como wallpaper, eso creo(? , pueden usarlo si quieren 🥸💕
#no te metas con las oceano de piedra#my art#jjba#jojos bizarre adventure#jjba fanart#art#doodles#stone ocean#jolyne#jolyne cujoh#jojo#jjba stone ocean#jolyne modo
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a fun little thematic wrinkle to jjba that I've always adored is how the main villains are always the ones who are blessed by holy forces/fate. DIO the literal god who has the three moles on his ear representing good fortune and his literal angelic apostle pucci. kars the unmatched evolutionary genius that surpassed both heaven (the sun) and earth. lady luck is on the side of yoshikage kira. diavolo the literal devil who is blessed by fate in being able to circumvent it. funny valentine who carries the corpse of jesus and the holy tears. tooru and his ability to have calamity always protect him.
the main villains are always seemingly on the side of fate one way or another, and it's a great contrast to the joestars specifically because the defining trait of the joestars isn't their sense of justice, it's the curse that follows them. joestars are always fated to face impossible adversity and die young
in a way it's that the curse of the joestars is stronger than whatever divine protection the main villains have.
but there are also emporios final words to pucci: walking the path of justice is fate itself. so even though you have the inevitable fated conflicts between the joestars legacy and the brando legacy, the reason the joestars come out on top is always because of their sense of justice. more than anything, arcs like rolling stones and radio gaga go a long way to show a certain inevitability to the narratives of jojo. rolling stones saying that they were all slaves to fate regardless.
the curse of the joestars may be stronger than fate itself, but the joestar legacy isn't the curse, but the ability to overcome both it and fate itself.
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good evening chat i finally made that video essay out of this post
#video#essay#jjba#jotaro kujo#kujo jotaro#jotaro#jojo#jojo's bizarre adventure#jojos bizarre adventure#stardust crusaders#stone ocean#meta#analysis#Youtube
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One of the things that makes Jojo so special and unique is that it's really a huge goodie bag of culture. It's thoroughly infused with things Araki was influenced by and which he admired.
It's a fantastic gateway into the world of art, music, movies, and fashion for someone who hasn't previously dabbled into it much.
And yet all of this, all this massive, fascinating cultural range that was so lovingly fused together by a man who truly loves these things, gets reduced to a "jojo reference" by a lot of Jojo fans and to be honest, it's kinda frustrating and disheartening to see that.
A Jojo reference is when a modern post-Jojo show inserts a known Jojo pose, stand-like thing, or Araki's art style as a gag. A Jojo reference is not something that was referenced in Jojo.
Many of the latter are important for the culture and/or history in their respective genres, and it's worth learning at least a bit about them before you decide to reduce them to a meme that the fandom at large seemed to completely miss the point of.
Understand why King Crimson is important to music history. They are largely seen as the first true prog rock band, and the complex music they made in the 60s and 70s was unheard of before them.
Understand how Gianni Versace was hugely influential to the fashion world not only with his theatrical bright and flashy designs, but also as the first designer who realized the recognition that was gained by having celebrities wear his designs.
Lastly, and damn this one really gets me, please understand that JJBA is an Antonio Lopez reference, not the other way around.
The big men, colorful clothes, and dynamic poses that Araki depicted early on (particularly in parts 1 and 2) are all heavily, overtly, and unabashedly inspired by the fashion illustrations of Antonio Lopez. His Illustrations in Tales from the Thousand and One Nights also greatly influenced some character designs from part 3.
Those are just three examples of many more cases in which Jojo fans would talk about Jojo references in regards to things that came way before JJBA, and even directly influenced it.
The comment section on any song mentioned in Jojo is nauseating. Every time I've seen an Antonio Lopez piece on twitter, at least one comment would mention its "JoJo vibes".
If you question why so many people are annoyed by JJBA and its fans, the answer is plain and simple; they are frustrated by the unintentional disrespect many fans show to original sources, the willful ignorance that's often displayed that way, and bluntly put, the obnoxious behavior many fans express while making their jokes.
I think that, in a way, that lack of cultural curiosity also distinctly goes against the spirit of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, which is fundamentally built on Araki's own appreciation of so many different things.
Please be more open to learning about culture beyond your animes!
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Sometimes, it's hard to appreciate Jotaro and Polnareff's friendship because a good percentage of the people who talk about it the most are so dismissive of Avdol and outright disdainful of Kakyoin.
Say what you want about Jotaro and Kakyoin not having much interaction, but Polnareff is clearly closer to Kakyoin and Avdol than he is to Jotaro, and it's honestly really weird to just write them out of his life like they don't matter.
Kakyoin is the reason Polnareff wasn't straight-up murdered by J. Geil and Hol Horse in the first few seconds of trying to avenge his sister. He was literally the only thing holding him together after he thought he got Avdol killed trying to save him. They spent the entire arc fighting side by side and watching each other's back during the most pivotal battle of Polnareff's life.
Polnareff and Kakyoin bicker all the time and get on each other's nerves, but Polnareff fucking loves that bitch. They made a secret handshake sometime off camera, which they whipped out about two seconds before drowning in a submarine to celebrate Polnareff making a joke about underwear (which only Kakyoin got). That's brotherhood goals right there.
Polnareff completely lost his shit and went into full panic mode after Kakyoin got blinded, carried him like a baby, and spent the whole N'Doul arc basically hugging him and keeping him safe. He hugged Kak so hard after he got out if the hospital that Kakyoin had to tell him to stop before he broke his ribs.
Seriously, look at him. Look at him grinning like an idiot in his sleep just because he's so happy Kakyoin isn't mad him for knocking him out during the Death 13 arc.
And do I need to even get into how gay Avdol and Polnareff are for each other. Polnareff canonical asked Avdol for a date.
Seriously. They are so fucking gay. If those two kissed on screen, I wouldn't bat an eyelash.
Polnareff and Jotaro are 100% friends, and they obviously care about each other. But Polnareff isn't automatically special and important than everyone else because he gets more screentime than the whole Stardust crew, including the main character. The entire part is about friendship and male bonding and dudes being bros. There's a reason why Jotaro looks like his soul is leaving his body when he's photographed standing next to his wife, but he kept a photo he took in Egypt of his first real friends on his desk for almost 25 years. There's a reason why the other crusaders are the last thing Polnareff thinks of when his body dies. They all love each other and have fun hanging out and doing dumb guy stuff together and would die for each other in a heartbeat.
#jjba#jojo's bizarre adventure#noriaki kakyoin#jotaro kujo#jean pierre polnareff#mohammed avdol#stardust crusaders#meta
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bigender yoshikage kira hcs 🫶
- kira's view of gender is very binary. interesting that he has a standard for women is to be hairless, meanwhile he can't stand having body hair on himself. very interesting
- i don't think kira would have the vocabulary to know about his identity rn, and if he eventually did, he would treat it as in-depth research, almost like a hobby. morbid curiosity, he'd claim
- as an extension of that "hobby" mindset, i think using killer queen as an outlet for his femininity would act as a barrier in his mind to express himself without having to actually apply it to Himself (the gender euphoria of using she/her for killer queen bc kira wouldn’t admit to it otherwise)
- KILLER QUEEN IS HER TRANSONA.
- the most heterosexual lesbian you will ever meet…
- the idea of transphobic transgender kira is so funny to me knowing her other values. she won't remember your pronouns bc she will not care to refer to you in general, but even if she did, any pronouns besides he or she are “gramatically incorrect and/or superfluous.” okay multi-pronoun user
- would claim that he doesn't need external validation for his gender and that it's nobody's business, but it's rly due to internalized transphobia and his fear of sticking out that he doesn't leave the closet :(
- she has her moments though. maybe one day, she's painting her “girlfriend's" nails a lovely shade of purple when she realizes it goes with her suit. she applies the polish to her own nails to test the theory, and sure enough, it's a perfect match. she tries not to think about why it disappoints her to wipe it off before work
- in his mind, it was never a feeling of choosing one or the other but rather the feeling of being incomplete. kira is someone who rly values routine and balance, so i imagine that this applies to gender too, in that masculinity and feminity are two sides of the same coin to him. i don't think he would want to medically transition even if that were an option, but his gender expression is very much real and tangible to him, even in the most seemingly inperceptible ways
- i think that she started questioning after getting KQ but never felt the urge to seek out answers or dig deep into it once she started being able to give herself freedom of expression at home. it only became a problem when she had to hide as kosaku and was once again having to keep those parts of herself hidden (i'm sorry that this follows so many story beats of kira's murder activities, it's not meant to be a one-to-one parallel 😭 just a result of the freedom vs repression of canon circumstances)
- HOWEVER smth that diverges from canon is that i think there's a way around kira's gender expression now that he doesn't have to perform in secret but rather express himself through a different outlet once shinobu becomes part of the equation. kosaku tends to wear dark/dull-colored clothing whereas kira is more inclined towards coloful pastels. i think shinobu would pick up on this difference and start having them wear matching outfits, slowly making his closet more feminine. kira would freak out at first thinking it was some kind of test that he had slipped up on, but shinobu would only lean harder into it bc honestly she just wants to bond with her husbandwife over smth as simple as clothes. it's the first time kira's even been called pretty. he doesn't protest
- when kira gets used to having someone recognize and even encourage her gender expression, i think this would be when she starts being comfortable enough to talk abt it and recognize it as more than just a feeling. she and shinobu might even have a conversation (probably initiated by shinobu through unsubtle questions that kira was too embarrassed to dance around and would rather address head on)
- as big of a revelation as this is for kira, i don't think much would change. he still prefers to do things as they always were and doesn't rly feel like he misses out on much when he goes out in his suit and gets called masc terms; in fact, it's a comfortable familiarity. but every time he puts on the subtle perfume that shinobu got for him, well, that becomes a familiar type of comfort for him too
- shinobu: “no wonder kosaku was so repressed before, he's been so much more expressive now that she's come out of the closet ^__^”
- this is how we can make the babygirl kira agenda real.
bonus: @f0rvalaka’s genius addition
#yoshikage kira#shinobu kawajiri#kirashino#jjba#jojo’s bizarre adventure#diamond is unbreakable#bigender#gender headcanon#danbles#genderposting#part4#💣#meta#long post#i cant believe in all my years of loving kira ive never drawn anything for this au#juggling 2 bigender aus rn what a time to be alive#me when a closeted bigender character starts exploring their identity in their 30s thru the support of their spouse
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I like Araki’s take on vampirism. Bro got vampire teeth, but drains blood with his hands. Bro can use mirrors. Bro doesn’t have to ask permission to enter, or get effected by running water. Bro can shoot lasers out his eyes. Bro can’t go outside in the daytime and he lived forever. Araki ate
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There’s a weird idea; Meta knight vs Scp-076-2 aka Abel. Abel does have several parallels to Galacta knight (very powerful warrior, sealed away, always comes back, causes a ton of collateral damage) and Meta Knight is always on the lookout to become stronger.
I put my soul into this one
#jojo fanart#jojo reference#jojo meme#jojo#jjba#jjba part 4#jjba stardust crusaders#jojo bizarre adventure#jjba memes#meta knight#kirby#kirby fanart#scp#scp fanart#scp fandom#scp foundation#scp community#scp character#scp containment breach#Abel#scp abel#scp 076 2#scp 076#digital fanart#fan art#my artwork#myart#my art#digital art#artwork
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I feel like someone a lot smarter than me could write an essay about how Jojo's Bizarre Adventure relies on misdirection, especially with stand battles, and how that ties into its horror media inspirations. Something about the fear of the unknown, and how it is conquered when characters unravel the mystery behind a stand attack.
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What Makes Jotaro Kujo The Most Powerful Stand User
Sorta. Arguably he’s beaten out (with good reason) by GER Giorno and Johnny’s Act 4 Tusk in terms of power, but in-universe he’s considered to be the world’s most powerful Stand user both by characters within the text treating him as such and the overall narrative.
Case shut, post over it seems, but let’s dig a little deeper into the why… besides being the main character.
The above screenshot frames Jotaro as the most powerful Stand user, but he doesn’t even have the most powerful version of his Stand in Diamond is Unbreakable (it’s actually the weakest). The Stand stats page for Stone Ocean’s Star Platinum reveals that the most powerful version of Jotaro is “when Jotaro was in his prime (18 years old).”
Narratively, the most powerful Stand user is Jotaro at the very tail end of Stardust Crusaders, after he has gained Time Stop. This is his prime. Another way to pop the bubble on my own analysis here is point out that canon focuses on this moment because it’s right when he kills DIO. Very much usurping a king to take the crown.
But before the story ended, we saw Prime Jotaro do something else which I believe is (also) what makes him the most powerful Stand user in existence. It’s a small, almost forgotten moment. Tucked in between Jotaro learning about Kakyoin’s death and reviving his grandfather.
It’s the time when Jotaro tries the impossible.
SDC Time Stop Jotaro isn’t considered the most powerful Stand user because he’s in his physical prime with a powerful ability. He’s considered that because this was the very moment he decided to try. That’s what makes him the most powerful Stand user.
Which makes it all the more painful meaning that the times that Jotaro fails are the moments were he doesn’t try enough.
More analysis below the cut. Spoilers for part 6 btw.
There’s that common joke pointing out how ridiculous it is that Jotaro tells Josuke that “you can’t bring back a life once it’s lost” after Josuke’s grandfather dies because Jotaro was literally able to do just that. Sure, the circumstances were different especially with the vampire blood giving immortality, but Jotaro’s attempt was to see if flushing Joseph’s body back with his Joestar blood would revive him, with no intention to turn him vampiric (which it doesn’t. Or it does and Joseph gets the immortality but not the rest of the bad side effects. Joestar blood is too op pls fix in next patch dev team). Regardless, it’s pretty odd and perhaps unintentional parallel that two grandfathers tip the bucket and one survives and the other’s grandson is told that the dead will always remain dead.
Speaking from a in-universe perspective, Jotaro’s speech to Josuke should be taken at as the truth. Bruno dies against Diavolo during their first encounter, with him essentially living as a ghost(/soul) within his own withering corpse thanks to Giorno’s intervention. More obviously in Stone Ocean, when Pucci finds Perla’s body and gets a memory of DIO telling him that there’s no way to bring back the dead.
So the one exception of cheating death outright is in Joseph being revived by Jotaro. It could be explained by the aforementioned vampire/Joestar blood BS. It could be a simple retcon that got established in DiU so a situation like Joseph wouldn’t happen again. Both interpretations make sense and I would agree with both.
However, I would like to argue that Joseph’s miraculous survival is not a narrative oversight. His revival is proof of Jotaro’s power as a direct result of Jotaro’s willingness to try. Jotaro plans for DIO and Joseph’s body to be put into the same ambulance to return the Joestar blood back to his grandfather. It’s an idea he’s not even sure that works, he asks the doctors if it was possible to transfer blood between the corpses. Joseph is very much dead at this point. If Jotaro calling Joseph’s body a corpse and seeing his soul float off wasn’t enough proof, the doctors immediately call the revival plan impossible/useless.
I want to stress this is the worst night of Jotaro’s life.
Right before this scene happens he overhears the radio confirm that Kakyoin is dead. He went into the final fight with DIO knowing Avdol and Iggy were both dead, upping the pressure to keep the rest of his friends/family alive. He watched his grandfather die right in front of him and DIO promptly desecrate the corpse. If it weren’t for his own actions, Polnareff would be dead too. He doesn’t know if he killed DIO in time either, from his perspective his mom could’ve died before he could save her in time. (Ha. Time.)
I suppose, in a sea of despondent despair, there was no other options than to cling to the impossible. After all, against all odds, he was able to learn Time Stop and kill DIO. He had to make it worth it. He was there to save his family, his friends died to save his family, if Joseph or Holly died… well.
He wanted to beat the odds again. And he did. In a way, this is him beating fate or at the very least—fate was literally in his hands and he made the decision to bring his grandfather back no matter what.
In DiU and beyond, Jotaro becomes resigned to fate and thus the weakening of his power overall. If fate determined that his friends would die in Egypt, then that would lessen the weight of blame on him and put their deaths as more of an inevitability. Fate is final. You can’t change it.
Jotaro doesn’t feel pressured to act upon something until he has to, then he does what he needs to be done. In SDC he doesn’t really care about women until they need to be saved or protected. In DiU he says he “hates doing anything tiring” as he saved Koichi from Sheer Heart Attack. He doesn’t visit Jolyne until she’s in jail because of a plot against him (and he couldn’t let DIO’s resentment ruin his daughter’s life).
The actions he takes are what he believes to be the best option, but that option is probably a compromise, not an attempt at the best possible outcome. His treatment to Jolyne is the subject here. He focused his priorities on keeping his family safe by baiting his enemies to himself instead of them, instead of trying to find a compromise where he could be with his daughter and protect her. I can’t blame Jotaro for this decision, but I also can’t avoid the simple fact that he hurt himself and his family for being distant. When fate does catch up, as he expects it to, it bites him in the ass—the stubbornness of DIO’s followers outlived Jotaro’s and he ends up in a coma, unable to act and unable to protect his daughter.
I don’t mean to say that effort isn’t shown by him, he’s extremely observational and analytical and uses those skills to his advantage in practically every fight he’s in. I think the Anubis fight is good proof of that, being brought to his physical limits to the point he can’t move after it. He tries plenty, but it seems clear to me that he tends to only lose when he’s not trying hard enough.
He almost died to a rat because he didn’t plan ahead and figure that the bullets would ricochet. In Stone Ocean, his Time Stop isn’t long enough to save everyone from Made In Heaven. He didn’t maintain his prime Time Stop or sought to expand it, because that was DIO’s goal or, more simply, he didn’t bother to. He went ten years of not needing to use it until Josuke forces him to.
Even with his ability becoming duller in later parts, the story and characters still treat Jotaro like The Most Powerful Stand User. In DiU, after the culmination of the Gang’s efforts, it’s up to Jotaro to stop Kira from reactivating BtD. In Stone Ocean, it’s up to Jotaro to kill Pucci when no one else is literally able to. Stardust Crusaders’ final fight is when Jotaro is completely alone, when there’s no one left but him to stop DIO.
The narrative again and again reenforces the idea that Jotaro is the strongest Stand user in the story, that everything falls on his shoulders and he is the one to make sure the evil dies and who’s left, lives. Past part 3, the narrative continues to say that he’s the most powerful Stand user, but it’s also clear that it’s not true anymore. His Time Stop isn’t as strong as it was in his prime. He no longer lives up to the expectation he made for himself in the few minutes after he killed DIO.
That moment in the ambulance, that’s the moment Jotaro tries without the pressure of death—the dust has already settled—or his own sense of justice—the evil has been fought. Joseph is dead and DIO is dead. Out of the desire and the off chance that he could hear his grandfather share stupid trivia with him, Jotaro reaches for the impossible, the best possible outcome, and gets it.
After the end of Stardust Crusaders, Jotaro no longer is at his ‘prime’. For someone who hates useless things, he becomes what he deems as useless. He’ll live the rest of his life in the shadow of his own self, the self that proved that he could do the impossible.
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This is going to be fairly long, and also much more serious than my usual jjba meta. apologies in advance if i seem stilted: i have some issues with verbalizing things in a formal matter
Terunosuke Miyamoto's fate and portrayal are another egregious example of the subconscious bias present in Araki's work.
When I mention how Terunosuke was one of two characters to be given a fate worse than death in part 4, that he was the only p4 character to be nameless until years after the manga was completed, or that his fate was arguably undeserved, i am not saying anything new.
But I feel like not many people consider or realize that Terunosuke is canonically the only dark-skinned character in all of diamond is unbreakable.
Not only that, he is somewhat implied to be a foreigner in the manga (i cannot find a scan with a translation, but the canned drink he destroys is notably labeled as fruit lassi and it has a small drawing of an indian elephant on it).
In a part set in Japan, the only dark-skinned character, a character who is also implied to not be Japanese:
-is one of the few villains deemed irredeemable.
-is portrayed as uniquely sadistic, manipulative, and predatory, even when his actions are less or equally malicious than the actions of other characters. He kidnapped people and took hostages, but so did rohan. He threatened Josuke's family, but so did akira, and josuke was perfectly content with letting akira go to jail regularly.
-in fact, his crimes, crimes which are not unique among the cast of DIU, are deemed by Josuke to be as horrific as angelo's crimes, which were in fact uniquely horrible among the cast of diu.
-is given no characterization or motivation outside of sadism, to the point where he had no name for a good couple of years.
-is never mentioned or shown in canon again, which happens to few other DIU characters. Not even in the added davidpro epilogue scenes, which show other characters that were previously MIA after their respective arcs (such as toyohiro).
In fact, Davidpro actually makes his portrayal WORSE, all because of one small detail.
When his cover is shown onscreen, there's a small sticker on it that says, verbatim, "Morioh Public Library." Josuke hasn’t been to the library at that point. I may be reading in too deep, but the implication is that this sticker is part of his “body” and can’t be removed.
Terunosuke is the only dark skinned character in diamond is unbreakable, and the last proper shot of him is an image of him being..basically branded. It’s hard for this to not leave a bad taste in one’s mouth.
I do not think araki or davidpro were being intentionally malicious or bigoted in their handling of Terunosuke. The meaning of subconscious bias is that it is subconscious, so i do not think the enigma boy arc or terunosuke in general were written in bad faith .
However, the racism, colorism, and xenophobia that saturate his role in the story (to be a disposable and irredeemable villain who is only meant to be another obstacle in the face of our golden-hearted hero ) and his fate (to be literally dehumanized and locked away, never to be seen again, presumably for the "safety and greater good of morioh") are very clear.
Anti-discourse disclaimer fine text:
i am not trying to cancel jjba, diu, araki, davidpro, or any related concepts and parties, and i am not trying to make claims about the personal beliefs or agendas of hirohiko araki or members of david productions in any way, shape, or form. i am just writing about subconscious bias and how it possibly shaped a story arc in diu. i am not trying to give moral judgement to araki, davidpro, or any fans of jjba in this post. i am not trying to stop the collective you from enjoying things, just trying to inform. also, racism, xenophobia and colorism are bad. I edited this post due to quoting something based on an unofficial and incorrect translation and making a hypocritical point in the concluding paragraph.
#terunosuke miyamoto#jjba meta#jjba#jojos bizarre adventure diamond is unbreakable#jojos bizarre adventure#jjba diu#diu#diamond is unbreakable#racism ment#ask to tag#meta#fandom meta
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