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doomydoomdoom
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It's indeed very awesome that Jojo is gaining steam over here, and I intend to support it fully (I mean, look at my avatar...). I have yet to grab All-Star Battle, but I will within the year.
For those of you who are new, just wait until Stardust Crusaders starts getting closer to the end. The final battle will have you yelling "OHHHHHHHHH" at the screen. For the naysayer, Jojo, especially the third arc, is famous for breaking the mold of standard shonen battles, both with its use of psychic avatars doing the fighting, and with Araki's idea of changing locales constantly; so that things are fresh and the team has to use strategy rather than Fist of the North Star/Dragon Ball superpowered brute force to defeat enemies. In other words, Jojo is a great mix of style AND substance. It is the anti-Dragon Ball in every sense. (Not intended as a slight against DB, but to demonstrate that Jojo broke the Shonen Jump Battle Manga mold personified by DB in most people's minds) P.S. Jotaro > Joseph. Then again, I love the taciturn Kenshiro/Charles Bronson/Clint Eastwood hero (JK was inspired by Eastwood, who has been photographed doing the Jotaro Point for the Jojomenon book). Last edited by doomydoomdoom on Mon Jun 02, 2014 10:00 pm; edited 2 times in total |
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NeoStrayCat
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OT: Other than that, the Jojo series has its own charm, style, action, and more importantly, the poses, lol. So yeah, the history and the traffic the series is going, the better. |
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ParaChomp
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Off topic, I NEED this!
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StudioToledo
Posts: 847 Location: Toledo, U.S.A. |
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Recall my local arcade had the Banpresto Dragon Ball Z game with this classic scene. http://www.pinterest.com/pin/30891947416851490/
Paid to be first!
Thank you social networking Arabs out there!
Don't suppose there was any hand-cam footage either. |
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EnigmaticSky
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Awesome read. I was curious about Jojo for quite a while now, but never really knew how to get into it.
So the current series is an entire reboot, starting from the beginning of the manga? For some reason I thought it was just a random arc. I mean sure, it sounds crazy, but Devil Survivor 2 got an adaptation while DS1 never saw any sort of anime. Would that be the best jumping off point, or should I check out one of the ova first? |
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EyeOfPain
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You can start on the current season with no issues, but then you'd miss Battle Tendency, which is quite a lot of fun. |
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Chrno2
Posts: 6172 Location: USA |
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I won't lie when I say that I enjoyed this column. I never quite knew what Jojo's Bizarre franchise was about other than the manga I saw sitting in Japanese bookstores and the games that were being sold in the states. My first exposure to the creator was through his earlier work 'Baoh'. I saw the OVA many years ago through trades with friends. Then later on I came across the Jojo books but never made the connection that it was tbe same person until a decade or two later. And that wasn't through a wiki entry, it was connecting the dots through the art. The interesting thing after reading this column is seeing how this series has had staying power for all these years. And the fact that it borrows from a long gone era or "banchou" males always had me puzzled. But I'm truly amazed that the creator has been able to keep the series going this long. I mean 100+ volumes, now that is impressive.
I'm trying to find anime clips to the show to see some of those poses. But I'll admit they are pretty intense. |
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