Jodio and Dragona meet their cousins

someone drag the wonder of u arc away from me i can't stop drawing it it's such a funny arc to me

One thing that I find interesting about jojos is its heavily familial theme surrounding a fairly broken family.

From the very beginning, Jonathan loses his mother, is bullied by his adoptive brother, and is viewed as less favorable by his father. After his death, Erina must raise their child on her own, only for him to pass away and leave her in the same role once again. Joseph doesn't know his mother. Jotaro's father is missing from the story. Josuke is an illegitimate child who reconciles with his absent father. Giorno severs all ties to his family after their abuse. All of them have few family members that are actively in their lives. And yet, they all bear the Joestar curse. They are fighting the battles of their family members that they never knew, simply because they are part of the Joestar family. Their stands manifest at the same time; they are literally connected by fate. All of this culminates in Stone Ocean, as Jotaro, caught up in pursuing the Joestar family problems, neglects his own daughter and takes on the role that his father did when he was a child. Jolyne hated him for not being there, yet always knew he would be there for her. She stole a car. Why did she do that? So he would come save her. "The Joestar family, through their bloodline, have seized victories by drawing strength from honor and courage. However! Your bloodline is also your weakness. Jotaro Kujo, your weakness is your daughter" - this is what Pucci tells him the moment that Jotaro chooses his daughter over the universe. Their familial love is strong, yet distant. They repeat the mistakes of their parents before them. They are struck by tragedy before they can become parents. They can't connect. And yet they'd doom the world for each other.

I think that, in the second continuity, this theme is very literally personified through the rock disease. Before that, we get gut-wrenching lines like "God took the wrong son" from Joestar fathers, before Johnny marries into the Higashikata family. It is the rock disease that leads to Johnny digging up the saints corpse to protect his family. He was willing to go against the entire goal of sbr in order to save his wife, and when his son was afflicted with the same condition, he was willing to lose his life. The rock disease serves as a physical embodiment of the danger that led to the tragedy of the Joestar family. It is literally passed down through the Higashikata family, similar to the way that "destiny" and "fate" were almost inherited by the Joestars. In the Higashikata family, each generation was forced to choose to let their eldest son die, or kill someone in his place. This death and tragedy is inherited, and everyone knows. Norisuke has to live with the fact that his mother died so he could live. He is willing to do the same for his grandson. Jobin's life was heavily influenced by the fact that his mother wouldn't die for him, and it leads him to pursue the same for his son. The Higashikata family has this extreme inherited trauma that they can never truly escape.

The rock disease even reaches the Joestar family, with Holy becoming afflicted with the same condition. Holy, a single mother like her counterpart, also serves as a guiding force of the story. The fact that she rescued Josefumi when his own mother wouldn't is what leads to him helping Kira save her. Even after they become Josuke and lose their own memories, Josuke understands that Holy is his mother. She was such a strong comforting presence in both of his pasts, that even though he cannot remember anything about his life, he understands how important she was to him. In the same way that Joestars inherit their battles and traumas, Josuke inherits his mother's love. He is welcomed into the Higashikata home. He is given a family. And I think that is the true message in all of this. Josuke literally has no connection to his past, much like previous Joestars who are disconnected from their family, yet the efforts that they made still affect him. It is the people that he chooses to surround himself with that matter, as even when presented with Kiyomi, he would rather go to his real family. Family can pass along a great sadness, but family is also the people you choose to surround yourself with. Love transcends fate.

Yasuho is so funny for this - first she tells this poor amnesiac that his real name, something he's been desperate to discover, lowkey sucks and then casually mentions she wanted to name him after her DOG like girl 💀💀💀

What about a miracle?

Out of all the stuff that canonically makes Johnny famous/infamous, his SBR start has gotta be the most wild

Like imagine you kept up with the papers and horse races at the time. Here’s what you know about Johnny.

• Johnny “Joe Kid” Joestar is a wildly successful jockey who rivals Dio Brando

•Johnny is taken out of the race world because he was shot and paralyzed

•JOHNNY IS A LAST MINUTE ENTRY AT SBR AND STILL PARALYZED. HE BOUGHT A HORSE AT THE STARTING LINE WHO BEAT THE SHIT OUT OF HIM. JOHNNY JOESTAR PHYSICALLY DRAGGED THROUGH THE DIRT TO THE RACE BY HIS HORSE. SUDDENLY PULLS HIMSELF UP AND SUCCESSFULLY RIDES THE HORSE PARALYZED.

•Johnny does very well in SBR

•Seen walking at the end. Faked his accident? Medical miracle? Probably faked it all.

•Dies young over seas

hahaa hey man listen I’d do anything to help you wouldn’t it be funny if we [ REDACTED ]

Oldseph but with Fumi's stand because when I read that chapter I lost my shit

I've always enjoyed the idea of Hermit Purple having another form besides it's vines <3

Something I really liked about Jojolion was how Josuke never actually ends up getting his memories back. At first, the Higashikata family takes him in "at least until he regains his memories" and it's treated like he's a person that's lived a full life and just doesn't remember any of it- it's a pretty typical start to a "main character with amnesia" plot.

Then, Josuke learns that he's actually a fusion of two people. He grapples with his identity at first and wonders if he'll regain any of the two's memories, and characters from both of their pasts recognize him as either one or the other before going "wait, no, looking closer, you don't actually look like (Kira/Josefumi)." At this point, Josuke is basically treated like two people pasted together, and the worries that he'll be able to recover anything about the two start to increase.

Then eventually, he realizes that he's not just two people smashed together and he needs to re-learn everything about the two of them to regain his lost identity- he's his own person with his own identity that he's developed throughout the story. He has his own personality, he has beliefs and motivations, he has a family that's taken him in, he has friends, and he has a (pretty much, anyway) lover that's cared about him since he first emerged from the ground. He individually decides to declare himself Holy's son and thinks of it as his duty to save her. Near the end, he says that he is neither Kira nor Josefumi.

He never regains any of their memories because it ends up that he doesn't need them- he's his own person now. Instead of the entire plot being Josuke seeking to regain the memories of the people he used to be, the story ends with him wholly embracing himself for who he is in the present, and I think that's neat.

this is how the final fight started right

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What did Araki mean by this

@jotaromonth day 7: sbr-verse

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been going crazy thinkin bout the higashikatas and how much i want even ONE of them to be in P9...

i miss them so much thinkin bout them in the timeskip in my head forever

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