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

It was cool seeing all of Morioh's Stand users in one episode.

Stands are non-physical, they can go through doors and walls. It's not obvious but we should infer that Kira saw Shigechi approaching to that door (or saw Josuke and Okuyasu before him, he already knew what they look like) and put the bomb there.

Animechic420 wrote:

It was cool seeing all of Morioh's Stand users in one episode.

Or Araki simply decided that throwing in a Diabolous Ex Machina behind a Hope Spot was a good idea even if it essentially created a plot hole and the anime writers had to commit to it.

Nothing about him seems dramatically smarter or stronger than the Dio's more competent henchmen in Stardust Crusaders, for instance. He's got a cool, simple design and a few interesting serial killer hooks, but so far he's not scratching any itches for me.

The tailor scene: What exactly was Yoshikage Kira doing hiding in that closet? Was he expecting some of our heroes to eventually find leads to him there, so he quietly snuck into the closet without anyone noticing?

Also, couldn't Jotaro have used his time-stopping powers when he saw Kira's arm grab the jacket and find out, definitively, who he is and perhaps give him a Star Platinum style pummeling?

Still, it's pretty neat to finally see the arrows that have permeated the openings and end credits.

How does Killer Queen's detonation power work anyway? The object becomes the bomb but remains unharmed through the explosion (as was seen with the coin and the doorknob), and the explosion is small and selective but intense enough to disintegrate a person? Does the bomb only work once, and if Kira wants something to explode again, does he have to re-activate it?

Also, is it normal for Japanese teenagers to just ignore someone horribly injured like that? Shigeki was crawling down the hallway at the school, and while he met a trio of girls who initially discuss telling a teacher, the one on the left says to just ignore them. I mean, I know teenagers can be mean, cruel, and psychopathic, but this was messed up. (Kira was also lucky to have Shigeki touch the doorknob when no one was looking. There was a very good chance someone else could've been passing down the hallway in that direction, or Josuke and Okuyasu could've been looking towards the window on the door.)

I find JoJo's Bizarre Adventure notable in that even the villains are shown to have strict limitations on their powers. Dio, for instance, can only stop time for several seconds (from his perspective). But the ability to cause things to explode on touch feels like it, too, needs to have limitations, or at least a better explanation of its rules. I mean, I know he's a villain and thus the narrative would prefer he have as few weaknesses to exploit as possible to give our heroes the biggest possible challenge. But this feels unusually vague. Maybe it's because Kira has only been introduced, and this is the first story where we see Killer Queen.

I think what's also confusing me is why, say, the coin does not continue to explode each time Kira does the detonation button hand gesture. Does Kira have to be consciously thinking of the object for it to explode? Or does it only work for whatever is the most recent object? I am certain I'm overthinking it, but really, this is a series where our heroes are always overthinking everything and it works out wonderfully for them, which invites someone like me to think about it similarly.

Then again, this is a man who hides out in his tailor's closet for who knows how long solely so he can kill the tailor and threaten Jotaro and Koichi.

No... its within Kira's character...

I find JoJo's Bizarre Adventure notable in that even the villains are shown to have strict limitations on their powers. Dio, for instance, can only stop time for several seconds (from his perspective).

Well, DIO might actually be the worst example for "restricted powers", in Phantom Blood his power is anything that looks cool enough, and we're not exactly sure why he doesn't use them again in Stardust Crusaders, such as the laser eyes and the freezing powers (alas, it is thought that not being a complete vampire explains this, but it's purely fan theory). Also, Kars's power is, literally, all of them.

Kira doesn't have to make the hand gesture, Killer Queen has too and yes, it has to be consciously, although it's not clearly explained, it's kind of an inside rule that your powers only activate when you want to and not at random because that would just not be safe (there are some Stands in JoJo that have control over the user's consciousness or work independently of them, but this would not be the case). I don't recall any rule that says that there is a time limit for how much this bomb can hold up, but it surely can be deactivated at will, also KQ can only place a bomb in one object at a time.

One of Killer Queen's major limitations is that (arguably a lite spoiler but I'll mark it just in case) spoiler[ he can only maintain one bomb at a time.

If he detonates an object, he needs to touch that object again to "recharge it".

As far as I know, he can maintain a charge on an object indefinitely, but if he turns a different object into a bomb, the current object loses it's charge and becomes normal.]

leafy sea dragon wrote:

I find JoJo's Bizarre Adventure notable in that even the villains are shown to have strict limitations on their powers. Dio, for instance, can only stop time for several seconds (from his perspective).

A restriction he was starting to overcome prior to being killed.

Idon't think he was capable of fully overcoming it though. The amount of time he could freeze went up a lot over the course of his fight against Jotaro, but when it ended, it was what, fifteen seconds at most? Jotaro was also gaining on him.

Also, is it normal for Japanese teenagers to just ignore someone horribly injured like that? Shigeki was crawling down the hallway at the school, and while he met a trio of girls who initially discuss telling a teacher, the one on the left says to just ignore them. I mean, I know teenagers can be mean, cruel, and psychopathic, but this was messed up. (Kira was also lucky to have Shigeki touch the doorknob when no one was looking. There was a very good chance someone else could've been passing down the hallway in that direction, or Josuke and Okuyasu could've been looking towards the window on the door.)