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EP. REVIEW: JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond Is Unbreakable

But without Shigekiyo they'd have exactly zero while he'd just happily continue to collect change, so the little bastard's got a point.

I personally really like the MOTW storyline because most of the fights aren't based on physical combat rather Josuke and co's intelligence.

Also, I think I spotted one of the mental fireworks reading "WRYYYYY." Is it memetic in Japan too?

Come to think of it, this might be the longest ranged Stand we've seen yet. Are there any with longer reaches?

So does Yukako have a Shota complex?

I doubt this will be received well by other fans of the show (and maybe I'm not that.. anymore?), but man, this arc and the last one just really make me miss the first two. I want a dark, hilariously serious, Beowulf-like battle of good versus evil out've Jojo, not a sequence of unrelated episodic slice-of-live villains. I long ago got the sense this is no longer the show for me (though I kept hoping the electric villain from episodes past would become an interestingly menacing antagonist), but I want to still find something to love in it, because those first two seasons were exactly in my wheelhouse. Anyway!

I doubt this will be received well by other fans of the show (and maybe I'm not that.. anymore?), but man, this arc and the last one just really make me miss the first two. I want a dark, hilariously serious, Beowulf-like battle of good versus evil out've Jojo, not a sequence of unrelated episodic slice-of-live villains.

The last two seasons feel to me like they've careened rapidly towards "Circus of arbitrary low-stakes powers." and away from "Epic battle between good and evil.", to reframe my frustration, I guess.

edit: I also think to some extent this is intrinsic to stands. They take the focus and direct it away from the characters to a significant extent; this often makes me care less about fights, even if they still may harm the characters themselves (or I think it does, anyway). Just a minor psychological observation. Haven't been a fan of them as a narrative tool since their introduction for this reason.

edit2: As an example: consider the "racecar guy" of last season from Dio's mansion. I bought into the atmosphere of Dio's mansion (well, sort've; the brutal animal Stand Master fight immediately prior to entering it just seemed grotesque rather than terrifying or intense, and that wasn't a good place to begin that part of the story IMO) for the most part, but... then we play videogames to beat this guy? At first glance that has me wondering whether I'm watching a show that wants me to really believe anything can happen to its heroes. Nevertheless, certainly a zany idea like that could be sold as terrifying, horrific, deadly, etc... but I don't think it was except in the most distant sense.

From color palettes to framing to the nature of its denizens' powers, I saw Dio's mansion as a carnival of oddities more than a terrifying darkness.