Post by insomnia1995 on Nov 10, 2016 19:27:06 GMT -6
I just want to say that I absolutely hate JoJo. And this is coming from a guy, who wasted quite a lot of time getting into it.
I was curious about it during my long manga-phase of life. I read the first two volumes, and found the whole thing interesting in concept, but kinda boring in realisation. It always starts off with a pretty interesting premise and cool setting. But in the end it's all wasted on just another battle shonen manga, where everyone just fights. And also, EVERYONE has got to have expository monologues about everything. I then tried to watch the 90-s OVA based on Stardust Crusaders. I dropped it after they killed Iggy the dog. Just hated it... It's not really interesting overall. Which is odd, considering first three episodes were written by Satoshi Kon. The last two episodes are pretty good though. Action kicks in, and animation is really outstanding at times. I am still keeping the last episode on my computer just for the animation references.
Then, many years later, nowdays, I picked JoJo up again. Mostly, because Araki's art style is AMAZING. And this time I tried to read one of the latest volumes- Steel Ball Run. And this time I was really hooked. Austin was right. This is the first "actually good" JoJo arc. The premise is great, and the characters are interesting. It's still a battle manga, but every fight is well justified by the story. And sometimes fights are more like puzzles or some kind of weird fairy-tale-ish situations. But then, something happened, and this something snapped me. So...Araki has a huge problem with female characters. There are very few of them, but they are always brutalized, sexualized, put in a fridge etc. Heck, every episode of OVA was showing a sacrifice of a naked busty woman at the start of each episode...ugh... And "Steel Ball Run" also had this problem. The only female character is called Hot Pantz (yes, really), and of course she has some trauma based on childbirth. And she dies at some point (maybe not permanently, I haven't finished the volume, nor do I give a fuck). Another character was called Lucy, I think. She had a mission of stealing body parts of Jesus Christ (the main goal of every character basically) and at some point in the story she gets several of them...and then the President of Usa, who btw also has one part of Jesus, tries to rape her. And stops when he realizes that the spirit of Jesus Christ is inside her, and she will have to give birth to the last remaining body part. F*CK ME!
...you know, I was raised as a christian. Since then I stopped being one, and I don't believe in any god or any religion right now...and I generally don't give much of a toss about dipictions of christianity in media. But this actually enraged my inner christian. My inner dead christian. Plus, I hate when anyone uses rape in anything as a plotpoint. So yeah, this was a double trigger for me. I dropped the manga right there and I am never picking up anything JoJo-related ever again. to hell with this thing
Post by ThatWeirdAnimeGuy on Dec 26, 2016 11:59:14 GMT -6
So the anime finished Part 4 (Diamond is Unbreakable) Friday. I feel like comparing it to Part 3 is the only one that makes sense at this point because the first two parts are completely different. So here we go. This might be a long read.
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