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FishLion
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Funny enough, I was a prog rock fan before I was a Jojo's fan and while it took me awhile to see how genius the series is having roundabout at the end made me curious enough to binge it. Then my roommate wanted to quit the series because part 4 "made them gay." He was a gay man but he wanted the "buff gays."
Strange dude but I'm glad I stuck with it anyway as I was hooked by the end of Part 1 and I feel like it has only gotten more interesting as it continues. |
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b-dragon
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I liked part 1 back when it released. I loved part 2- Battle Tendency is great! But I fell off after part 3: Stardust Crusaders definitely finished strong, but I though the middle dragged on for way too long. Afterwards, I wasn't really interested in the franchise. I've tried to watch each subsequent part as they came out, and never quite got hooked again.
I'm hoping that Steel Ball Run's fresh start catches me a bit more than the prior parts managed. |
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Kicksville
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It remains very, uhhh, bizarre to me that Jojo is now popular and well loved internationally in English. Like, it's not actually surprising - I still remember the days of a handful of fans begging people to give it a shot, knowing well all the stuff that could make it a big hit was right there (the 2000s). That a full anime adaptation finally did it is both predictable and still kinda surreal.
It's really too bad the 90's Part III OVAs aren't officially available anymore and somewhat forgotten (not even mentioned in this column!), since they do a great job of focusing on the good parts and tightening everything up.
If that Fist of the North Star remake announced a bit back is any good, that should be an easy recommendation. |
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bassgs435
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While pirating games for my PSP in High School, I discovered the Stardust Crusaders fighting game (Heritage for the Future) and had fun with it. I watched some of the old OVAs
And then, years later, after hearing good things about the David Productions anime (It was only parts 1 and 2 relesed at the time. Their Part 3 anime hadn't started yet) I binged it and was hooked. Since then, I’ve been enjoying each consecutive part and all the memes and fun the fans have with the story. Hyped for SBR, and hoping they indeed figured out a way to make the horses work. Certainly one of the things in animation that might be as hard to get right as mecha, if not even harder |
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FishLion
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The anatomies of these types of characters amaze me, I love older styles with those impossibly buff builds. We don't talk now but hopefully they are enjoying buff men somewhere. Good recommendation though, I have been thinking about convincing my boyfriend to watch the original Fist of the North Star with me and I almost forgot there's a remake coming. |
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fausti
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Wow, I feel old while reading this. I got into Jojo back when the first OVAs came out in the 90s. I watched the first set when they were fansubbed from the laserdiscs. Afterward, had to talk to other fans to figure the whole story of Stardust Crusaders. And then bought the official US DVDs when they came out in the 2000s so I could finally watch it all in chronological order. Still have the entire set of DVDs too and they will never leave my sight!
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Dr. Wily
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I was introduced to JJBA, as I'm sure a lot of people are, by memes. I still laugh at a good use of Roundabout/To Be Continued in an edit. Anyway, as someone who is usually a dub watcher first, one of my favorite games is watching the show, seeing a stand name (or human name), and trying to backwards figure out what the reference is before giving up and just looking it up. My personal favorite ever was either going from "Steely Dan" to "Dan of Steel" or perhaps for the "creative workaround" award, changing "Made In Heaven" to "Maiden Heaven" so the actors don't even have to say it differently
I'm excited to see Part 7, the break gave me enough time to get over the initial angry reaction a lot of people had with part 6's ending. |
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Lord Geo
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My introduction to JoJo was way back with the Capcom fighting games, specifically the port to the Dreamcast back in 2000 that collected both games (I've never seen an actual arcade cab for either game in the wild). Then, once I fully started getting into anime & manga a few years later, I managed to find the two-part OVA adaptation of Part 3, and then later I read the first two parts via old scanlations, before supporting Viz's initial attempt at bringing over the Part 3 manga back in the mid-to-late 00s. I also did try to read the old "Duwang" scanlation of Part 4, but stopped after only a couple of volumes.
Then the David Pro TV anime adaptation finally happened, and I'd call it the last "new" anime to really first find an audience via fansubs, because Crunchyroll actually didn't simulcast the initial season that adapted Parts 1 & 2. I remember going to Anime Boston in 2013 & seeing a more than decent number of cosplayers for JoJo there, which was still solely due to the fansubs, so when Crunchyroll announced that it would start streaming that initial season a year later (to go with the simulcast for the Part 3 TV anime) I wasn't really surprised, aside from how long it took to happen, since I had seen that JoJo had finally managed to hit a zeitgeist in English-speaking fandom. Still have to watch the Part 5 & 6 TV anime adaptations, though, and read any of the manga beyond Part 3. |
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Traptrix Lover
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Part 4 is my favorite part. I'd love a sequel to it sometime (part 8 doesn't count) since it had the characters I enjoyed the most. We got a few spin off chapters about some of the characters but i want a full blown sequel.
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gorilla491
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That's Jesus JOJO Christ there folks!
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Bonebrain
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The last exchange makes me wonder what politics people attribute to JJBA. Josuke Higashikata says "All Cops Are Good" I guess? I'm really not looking forward to all the hot Steel Ball Run takes that spoiler[Funny Valentine is supposed to be a Donald Trump expy] though. I can already see it lol the fandom is going to be cooked.
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FishLion
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I'm excited for you to see those! I have yet to catch up on Part 6 but Part 4 and 5 have been among my favorites so far. I like all of the series but that's when they start really adding a lot of depth to the characterization and mixing up the plot structure. The first three really feel like straight up adventures in that the end point is known fairly early on and it is just about how to get there. Part 4 and 5 it really feels like you don't know quite as well where the story will head in a general structure sense and not just in the fights, which have always been unpredictable as all get out of course. |
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Daidan12
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I read JoJo's the second that the anime was announced on 2012.
I was a davidpro enthusiast thanks to anime like LevelE, Ben-To and Inu x Boku SS. So I was excited for their new series. I already had some knowledge about JoJo but I seriously thought that they used music in battle due to all the names being music-related lmao. It wasn't until I read the manga that I noticed that it was going to be MUCH more bizarre than that. |
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