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Gina Szanboti
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Finally got caught up on 12-13. I think JoJo's is better for me when I binge the arcs instead of watching them weekly. At least this one was.
Didn't we already do a mirror stand? Or one that hangs out in any reflective surface? Gotta wonder about the security of "hiding" a key in plain sight in a tourist location (which was remarkably devoid of tourists - if that was because it's a restricted area, that just makes hiding and retrieving it stand out even more). Wouldn't it have been easier to have whoever put it in Pompey just give it to them directly?  Also, how did the guy get ahead of them to hang his mirrors if he didn't know where they were going?
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Yuvelir
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Stardust Crusaders, the guy who killed Polnareff's sister. IIRC, he never thought of dragging anyone into his world but he could attack their mirror selves to hurt their real selves. |
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Engineering Nerd
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Regarding the review for ep 14
Oh, Sam, you will have a great time for this stand battle, there is a reason Grateful Dead mini arc (which is 12+ chapters long in the manga) is an absolute fan favorite, and regarded as one of the best Jojo fights period. The one after this is pretty well-praised too, but I will stop there. Pesci and Prosciutto may seem like disposable one-off villians, but they WILL show considerable character growth as battle goes on; I could not believe what I just said before I read the manga |
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#889580
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I registered an account just to say this: the Grateful Death fight is awesome and heck you'll remember it.
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Yuvelir
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Huh, I'm surprised that The Grateful Dead will actually be a kinda long arc, since the nature of its power makes it very time-pressing.
Anyway, I already like the Hokuto No Ken carrot-shaped mob character. |
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crosswithyou
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I couldn't help but giggle how cute Sex Pistols is. Them genuinely caring for Mista is endearing. I have to wonder if Toriumi is voicing each of them... I can't tell. Does Toriumi's voice go that high? LoL.
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kenatsu
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I think episode 15 upped the stakes for the show in general in setting up an actual threat to the group. I was low key kinda hoping spoiler[Mista kicked the bucket there cause that would have been sad but also a real motivation for the show] Hopefully next week we get more of this and I really hope spoiler[Bucchiarti doesn't die].
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Aezreal
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You're definitely not alone in feeling this way Sam. Having read all the Jojo's manga barring newer Part 8 stuff, I'm no stranger to wacky Stand hijinks and weird logic, but this fight (and quite a few others in Part 5) tries to add a timer to the action that the viewers can't actually have any grasp about (like the previous "virus will kill you!" with Illuso). Also Part 5's just terrible about blood loss not killing people. It's strange to care so little about blood yet try and make the viewer care about body temperature minutiae, some of which is really wrong. Not that Jojo's cares about being accurate to life, but when it tries to teach new things and gets them wrong, I notice the inaccuracies more.
Agreed. I'd much appreciate more breather episodes once in a while. Nonstop fight after fight, it becomes hard to invest in what's happening or to remember enemies post-fight. The Grateful Dead arc seems to have a lot of respect fandom-wise but I didn't even remember it beforehand, though I remember a lot of cool fights from many Parts. Part 4 had much goofier Stands sometimes, it gave me more time to invest in its characters. Those felt like breather episodes that Part 5 doesn't have. |
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ChestPains
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First time reading Grateful Dead, awfully confusing and boring.
Second time reading it with correct translation side to side with the colored RAWs, absolutely outstanding. This is one of the best and most interesting fights in Part5 but like many others pointed out, the fact that it's time-related doesn't help when it's spread across a bunch of episodes, which I think is the biggest "problem" of any JoJo anime.
I think those are quite different situations. Grateful Dead is a straightforward AoE aging stand, where its lethality is based on a very specific condition, so the timer is constantly changing, while Purple Haze was a case of "if you get hit with the virus at its strongest, you've less than a minute left", but then plot armor kicks in and Giorno just survives way longer than he should, presumably because he only got infected with remains of the virus that was close to it, but it's still plot armor. |
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Aezreal
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I've seen so many descriptions like this. Wish my experience had been similar. I only ever read it on colored scans with correct translations, so no stupid mistakes or confusing art, yet I still didn't have a good time with a lot of Part 5. I did enjoy 4 abundantly, and 6 a good deal too.
It's not just Giorno though, Illuso manages to get out of it once. The way two different people skirt the lines and find ways to go past the supposed limit, to me is rather similar to the way that people will last longer depending on ice cube randomly melting or not, or ice cubes will additionally show up (or will stop working randomly, like when Bruno's touched by Prosciutto). |
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Bruce91
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I think certain people working for ANN will dislike the upcoming episode 17 or the upcoming character Melone. Because you know....
Can't wait to hear it on social media for the outcry. |
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John Thacker
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Pretty much my reaction this episode too. |
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ChestPains
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Oh boy you're in for a treat. This is one of THE most annoying stand fights in JoJo history for me because even when trying to speedread the chapters, they took too long. I dreaded this episode's release. 
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FilthyCasual
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Kicksville
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Grass Snowboard is definitely up there as one of the most ridiculous Jojo Stand Battle Solutions ever.
Also the name of my new dispensary/snow cone shop. |
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