weedgoku Posted September 5, 2015 Share Posted September 5, 2015 So what is Jojo's Bizarre Adventure? A series that started way back in the 80's and still runs, to this day! It focuses on the ill fated Joestar family and their frequent run-ins with evil, most notably a generation spanning blood feud with the vampire Dio Brando. The series is broken up into parts focusing on a different Joestar and as of 2015 the first three parts have been fully adapted and animated by David Productions and the episodic nature of the series means that you can pick up at practically any part and start without having to worry much about continuity. So in short: Go watch or read Jojo's Bizarre Adventure now! Part One: Phantom Blood Phantom Blood takes place in Europe during the late 1800's and follows the story of spoiled young Jonathan Joestar who's life falls apart when his father takes on the charismatic Dio Brando (pictured above) as his ward. Dio, being a dick, destroys everything Jonathan holds dear and becomes a vampire. Jonathan vows to stop his adopted brother and learns to fight vampires from a mysterious Italian man named Zeppeli. Mastering the fighting style known as Hamon, Jonathan along with his friend Robert E. O. Speedwagon and Zeppeli head off to defeat Dio once and for all! Part Two: Battle Tendency The roaring 1930's! Joseph Joestar is the grandson of Jonathan Joestar and other than his Hamon powers, has inherited very little from his gentlemanly grandfather. Joseph is a cocky wise-cracking protagonist this time around who fights more with his wits rather than fists and he finds himself in deep trouble when nazis find an ancient race of beings known as Pillar Men that not only feed on vampires, but seem to be nearly indestructible! Together with Caesar Zeppeli, his partner in hamon training, Joseph has to find a way to defeat this seemingly overwhelming threat. Part Three: Stardust Crusaders The most popular part of the series, the most well known and for the longest while the only one to have been brought stateside! Stardust Crusaders introduces a sudden shift in the series in the form of Stands. A stand is, in short, a manifestation of someone's spirit. They take many forms and the rules tend to be somewhat inconsistent in the name of keeping the series interesting. But for the most part it goes that only a stand can defeat a stand, and only people of strong wills can manifest a stand. Stardust Crusaders takes place in 1989 and follows the gigantic teenager Jotaro Kujo, grandson of Joseph Joestar. Things kick off when out of nowhere he suddenly manifests a spirit known as a Stand, along with his grandfather. The root of this is revealed to be the vampire Dio Brando, having posessed the body of Jonathan Joestar, resurfacing after decades of sleep. Jotaro doesn't care about vampires, or his family bloodline. Until his mother gets sick, being unable to control the stand that Dio's presence forcibly brought forth. Pissed off that someone would hurt his mom Jotaro and his grandpa set out on an international vacation journey to punch a vampire in the face. Part Four: Diamond is Unbreakable Not yet animated! Diamond is Unbreakable takes place ten years after Stardust Crusaders and stars Joseph Joestar's illegitimate japanese son, Josuke Higashikata who not only inherited an incredibly powerful stand from the Dio ordeal but happens to live in a strange town where strange things are about to go down. Mysterious stand users start showing up out of nowhere and serial killings start happening, Josuke and his new friends begin investigating the causes to protect their small town of Morioh. With an almost scooby-doo "whodunnit" vibe to the story and a younger, more light hearted cast than usual, Diamond is Unbreakable is a stand out from the rest of the series but it's a lot of fun with some interesting characters even if the stakes never really reach global scales. Part Five: Vento Aureo Giorno Giovanna is the italian offspring of Dio! He's also joining the stand mafia with plans to over throw it and become the punch-ghost mafia kingpin! It's hard to say much about this part without spoiling a lot of it, but it did have the worst translation of all the series for the longest while. It was only recently that a group has decided to go back and redo the translation for it online so now people can actually understand what was going on without having to tear their hair out reading it. That all being said, it's honestly one of the less interesting but more self contained segments of the series. Part Six: Stone Ocean With a daring leap into the modern age of 2011, Stone Ocean stars the first female Joestar! Jolyne Cujoh is the daughter of Jotaro with whom she doesn't have the best relationship with. After being sent to prison Jolyne finds herself embroiled in a plot surrounding the still dead Dio in what may be his grandest scheme yet, even from beyond the grave. Having to team up with fellow inmates and even her own father to escape prison and deal with the remnants of Dio's followers Stone Ocean may very well be one of the more brutal parts of the series while Jolyne herself is one of the more active and interesting Joestars. Part Seven: Steel Ball Run A new timeline! At first this wasn't even titled as a Jojo's Bizarre Adventure series! Steel Ball Run gives the series the old reboot and stars Johnny Joestar, a paraplegic horse jockey, and Gyro Zeppeli, a man from a mysterious family with an unusual talent for throwing metal spheres. The two join a nation wide race for what at first simply seems to be personal gain but soon turns out to be a much more unusual conspiracy involving the president of the united states, the corpse of a certain religious idol and some incredibly unusual stands. Steel Ball Run takes the series in incredibly...bizarre directions and tends to be very decisive on that matter, people either love it or hate it but it's a fun romp full of callbacks to the rest of the series while most of the characters are new timeline counterparts to old ones. Part Eight: Jojolion The most recent part! So far the plot has been a confusing mystery as a strange man wakes up outside Morioh Town with no memories of who he is. Taking the name Josuke, the memoryless guy becomes caught up in the unusually suspicious Higashikata family's issues while trying to find out the truth behind his own identity. Full of increasingly strange and surreal characters with a plot that leaves much room for speculation on what will happen next, Jojolion is definitely a stand out from the rest of the series but it does have a slow update frequency. So there you have it, some brief summaries of all the parts to date with attempts to avoid spoiling much! If anyone has suggestions for better representative images feel free to suggest some. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rayblasterx Posted September 5, 2015 Share Posted September 5, 2015 Jojo HYPE! Josuke is my fave Jojo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weedgoku Posted September 5, 2015 Author Share Posted September 5, 2015 Josuke is great and I love part four. I really hope they animate it! Not looking forward to the flood of duwang joke subs though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phyresis Posted September 5, 2015 Share Posted September 5, 2015 I'm a pretty big JoJo fan and have been for a while. (It's not really my biggest fandom atm but I still love it.) Huge fan of parts 2, 6 and 7. I've even picked up the first volume in English a couple of weeks ago, on top of owning the HD port of the Dreamcast game and All Star Battle. Plus, it looks like Eyes of Heaven is gonna come out stateside. I AM SUPER FREAKING PSYCHED. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foiexx Posted September 5, 2015 Share Posted September 5, 2015 wut. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weedgoku Posted September 5, 2015 Author Share Posted September 5, 2015 I'm a pretty big JoJo fan and have been for a while. (It's not really my biggest fandom atm but I still love it.) Huge fan of parts 2, 6 and 7. I've even picked up the first volume in English a couple of weeks ago, on top of owning the HD port of the Dreamcast game and All Star Battle. Plus, it looks like Eyes of Heaven is gonna come out stateside. I AM SUPER FREAKING PSYCHED. I've been buying the hardcovers as they come out! I'm not the biggest fan of Araki's redraws of classic characters on the covers but I'm so psyched that they're finally giving the series the attention it deserves. I loved ASB despite its flaws(I mained Baoh) and I'm looking forward to Eyes of Heaven too. wut. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grimoire Greys Posted September 5, 2015 Share Posted September 5, 2015 (edited) Josuke is great and I love part four. I really hope they animate it! Not looking forward to the flood of duwang joke subs though. Nice to see other JoJo fans here. I've been reading and playing the games for many years now and have stayed with the series throughout. (I'm also one of the top Vanilla Ice players on JJBA HD's Japanese Rankings) Definitely looking forward to more animated parts as the last few have been pretty well done. Also for anyone that has watched the more recent anime i'd recommend checking out the abridged eps done by AntfishTAS , they're quite humorous. Edited September 5, 2015 by Grimoire Greys Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weedgoku Posted September 6, 2015 Author Share Posted September 6, 2015 ååååååå Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
griffeni Posted September 8, 2015 Share Posted September 8, 2015 my favorite part was battle tendancies bc of these parts Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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