*I shouldn't be more explicit on that one. I still feel gassy in my stomach.. But I'm good!
so as you read on the title, This is a review of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (JJBA) or JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken in Japanese... This is going to be a non-spoiler review but at some point I will put spoiler warning if I have to (because It's quite hard not to...)
I didn't know about JoJo at first, but then I realized that I knew about it without realizing that it was JoJo' Bizarre Adventure. It was 2008 where I was still in my college days and I just hooked up to the internet. I knew it from WRYYYYYY from youtube.. And I was keep asking myself,
"Why's that guy suddenly brought up a road roller into a battle??! Holy crap! That thing came out of nowhere! XD"
I didn't realize that was actually a spoiler for Part 3 in JJBA, the climax final battle between Dio and Jotaro.
What triggers me to start to watch this anime is because I feel super saturated with the current airing anime at that time... I was like
"I had enough with moeshit and ecchi! Time to watch something different!" so I thought watching JJBA would be the answer. I miss the time when man doing manly things are considered manly and not gay..
Today's anime was like "Harem ecchi series where most of the characters are girls" which is suited for boys, and "Overly metrosexual men passing balls at each other's face" like Kuroko no Basuke is suited for Girls. And those girls shipped those boys so much. Apparently being friendly to other boys were considered "I want to bang him" by fujoshi
so when Anime is full of men characters in it, the casual anime fan (which I already described here) be like
"Dude! Don't watch this anime! it's Yaoi!"
and I witness that statement on one of our local cinema page when they post Initial D movie (which is awesome btw)..
Before I watch this series, I was expecting Jotaro vs Dio, But this anime series didn't show it here, It's later on in Part 3, Stardust Crusaders
"Why's that guy suddenly brought up a road roller into a battle??! Holy crap! That thing came out of nowhere! XD"
I didn't realize that was actually a spoiler for Part 3 in JJBA, the climax final battle between Dio and Jotaro.
What triggers me to start to watch this anime is because I feel super saturated with the current airing anime at that time... I was like
"I had enough with moeshit and ecchi! Time to watch something different!" so I thought watching JJBA would be the answer. I miss the time when man doing manly things are considered manly and not gay..
Today's anime was like "Harem ecchi series where most of the characters are girls" which is suited for boys, and "Overly metrosexual men passing balls at each other's face" like Kuroko no Basuke is suited for Girls. And those girls shipped those boys so much. Apparently being friendly to other boys were considered "I want to bang him" by fujoshi
so when Anime is full of men characters in it, the casual anime fan (which I already described here) be like
"Dude! Don't watch this anime! it's Yaoi!"
and I witness that statement on one of our local cinema page when they post Initial D movie (which is awesome btw)..
Before I watch this series, I was expecting Jotaro vs Dio, But this anime series didn't show it here, It's later on in Part 3, Stardust Crusaders
I watched this series like almost 6 months ago but I've been watched this series up to 3 times (alone,with my girlfriend, and my little sister!) Goddammit! XD
So after a long intro, let's just jump into it!
So after a long intro, let's just jump into it!
Story
A little bit of background knowledge for you, JJBA is divided into parts. Each parts has its own period or timeline and main character (which is usually called JoJo even though they have different name). Currently in the manga series there are 8 Parts of it.. and it's still ongoing. and this manga has been released from 1986 until now.. (next year would be the 30th anniversary, wow).
So I'm going to tell you the story for each part
So I'm going to tell you the story for each part
Part 1 : Phantom Blood
The story setting is in Britain on 1880's. The story opens up with an accident that happened to the Joestar family, and there's a thug who witness that accident. They were planning to rob and loot them but in the end one of the victim wakes up and grabs his hand. The thug was shocked and thought that he was done for. But then George Joestar thought that the thug is actually helping him, He was like
"Help my son, how's my wife!?"
and the thug replied
"Your son is all right, but your wife is dead"
and George Joestar asked for help for this man. And also asked his name which is Dario Brando.
George Joestar felt indebted to Dario's help.
A few years later, Dario's son, Dio Brando, sent him to the Joestar family because Dario is dying. He has been a douchebag father and told Dio to take all of the wealth in the world. And Dio arrives at the Joestar mansion and in there he met our main character, Jonathan Joestar. Dio's goal is to inherit the Joestar's wealth and make Jonathan's life miserable and make him say
And that leads to them fighting and punch each other's face until one of their blood splattered to the stone mask and the blood triggers it to release some spikes out of it.
Several years later, both JoJo and Dio finished their college study, and George Joestar fell sick. Jonathan then revealed that Dio was poisoning his father, and he looked out for an antidote and met a thug named Speedwagon which tells him where the poison is. And Dio was sneakingly snatch the stone mask and wants to kill JoJo with it. and he tested on a random thug on the street and it was revealed that anyone who got stabbed by that spike on that mask is going to be a vampire.
So later on, JoJo revealed Dio's true nature to his father. And Dio activates the stone mask to himself and he became the Vampire.And apparently he must shout WRYYYYYYYYYY! as his battle cry. JoJo and Dio fight each other out and there's so much casualties happened during the fight.
After that battle, Dio went somewhere else and Jonathan wakes up and met Will. A. Zeppeli the master of Hamon. Hamon is a martial arts which used breathing technique that burns vampire (summarizing power like a baws)
And then JoJo, Speedwagon, and Zeppeli went to look for Dio and stop him and destroy the stone mask once and for all! Will they succeed stopping Dio?
The story setting is in Britain on 1880's. The story opens up with an accident that happened to the Joestar family, and there's a thug who witness that accident. They were planning to rob and loot them but in the end one of the victim wakes up and grabs his hand. The thug was shocked and thought that he was done for. But then George Joestar thought that the thug is actually helping him, He was like
"Help my son, how's my wife!?"
and the thug replied
"Your son is all right, but your wife is dead"
and George Joestar asked for help for this man. And also asked his name which is Dario Brando.
George Joestar felt indebted to Dario's help.
A few years later, Dario's son, Dio Brando, sent him to the Joestar family because Dario is dying. He has been a douchebag father and told Dio to take all of the wealth in the world. And Dio arrives at the Joestar mansion and in there he met our main character, Jonathan Joestar. Dio's goal is to inherit the Joestar's wealth and make Jonathan's life miserable and make him say
it means "What the hell are you dong?"
Several years later, both JoJo and Dio finished their college study, and George Joestar fell sick. Jonathan then revealed that Dio was poisoning his father, and he looked out for an antidote and met a thug named Speedwagon which tells him where the poison is. And Dio was sneakingly snatch the stone mask and wants to kill JoJo with it. and he tested on a random thug on the street and it was revealed that anyone who got stabbed by that spike on that mask is going to be a vampire.
So later on, JoJo revealed Dio's true nature to his father. And Dio activates the stone mask to himself and he became the Vampire.And apparently he must shout WRYYYYYYYYYY! as his battle cry. JoJo and Dio fight each other out and there's so much casualties happened during the fight.
After that battle, Dio went somewhere else and Jonathan wakes up and met Will. A. Zeppeli the master of Hamon. Hamon is a martial arts which used breathing technique that burns vampire (summarizing power like a baws)
And then JoJo, Speedwagon, and Zeppeli went to look for Dio and stop him and destroy the stone mask once and for all! Will they succeed stopping Dio?
Part 2 : Battle Tendency
Time passed by after the events of Phantom Blood, It's 1938 in New York City now! The story focuses on Jonathan Joestar's Grandson, Joseph Joestar who fights against the Pillar Men which are the creators of the Stone Mask. They are awaken by the Nazi because they want to use it as a weapon for winning the World War II. But that plan backfired. The first awaken pillar men was named "Santana" by Stroheim. And Santana rampages on the Nazi's camp. Joseph manages to stop Santana and he was told that there's more of Pillar Men. Later on, he was sent to met Caesar Zeppeli and team up with him to stop Pillar Men.
It is revealed that the Pillar Men which are AC/DC, Cars, and Wham (yes you don't read them wrong, it's all band names) are after the mythical Red Stone Aja which is needed in the stone mask in order to make the ultimate being. Joseph and Caesar tried to stop them but defeated so badly. During the process, Joseph manages to stall them and made them not to kill him immediately
he was like
"If you kill me now, you will be sorry because I have more potential to kick your asses in the next months!"
feeling challenged, AC/DC and Wham placed a ring on Joseph's organ which contains poison that will activate in the next month
Feeling insecure, Joseph and Caesar met with the Hamon master Lisa Lisa to train and tries to prevent the pillar men to get the Aja Stone. Will they succeed?
It is revealed that the Pillar Men which are AC/DC, Cars, and Wham (yes you don't read them wrong, it's all band names) are after the mythical Red Stone Aja which is needed in the stone mask in order to make the ultimate being. Joseph and Caesar tried to stop them but defeated so badly. During the process, Joseph manages to stall them and made them not to kill him immediately
he was like
"If you kill me now, you will be sorry because I have more potential to kick your asses in the next months!"
feeling challenged, AC/DC and Wham placed a ring on Joseph's organ which contains poison that will activate in the next month
Feeling insecure, Joseph and Caesar met with the Hamon master Lisa Lisa to train and tries to prevent the pillar men to get the Aja Stone. Will they succeed?
Characters
Part 1
Jonathan Joestar is the main character in Part 1, he is a true gentlemen, but naive at some point which makes me sometimes irritated watching his decision when doing something. But that's okay, I like his character development from a weak naive little boy from a badass hamon user who kicks Dio's ass. His relationship with Erina (his love interest) is very old-school *like chasing around the trees, oh those 1880's trend*.
Dio Brando is the ultimate douchebag main antagonist in Part 1. He is just purely evil, love to make other's life miserable. Killed a lot of people. And I love how the story portrays him as the big bad evil guy that must be hated by the audience but when he is gone, we will miss him so badly. When I watch for the first time I was like "Damn you Dio! I hope you die!" and for the second time I was like "Dio! My god it's been awhile!". I like his development in motivation, when he was a kid, his motivation was like
Will A, Zeppeli or Master Zeppeli is the my favorite character in Part 1. He is so badass and manly! He teaches Jonathan to master the hamon martial arts. And he always say something really inspirational like
Part 1
Jonathan Joestar is the main character in Part 1, he is a true gentlemen, but naive at some point which makes me sometimes irritated watching his decision when doing something. But that's okay, I like his character development from a weak naive little boy from a badass hamon user who kicks Dio's ass. His relationship with Erina (his love interest) is very old-school *like chasing around the trees, oh those 1880's trend*.
Dio Brando is the ultimate douchebag main antagonist in Part 1. He is just purely evil, love to make other's life miserable. Killed a lot of people. And I love how the story portrays him as the big bad evil guy that must be hated by the audience but when he is gone, we will miss him so badly. When I watch for the first time I was like "Damn you Dio! I hope you die!" and for the second time I was like "Dio! My god it's been awhile!". I like his development in motivation, when he was a kid, his motivation was like
that sounds like a soap-opera-stepmother goal seriously
and when he became a vampire, his motivation is simply become the top of all. Number 1! Maybe he is one of my all time favorite villain character ever after Joker from Batman haha
Will A, Zeppeli or Master Zeppeli is the my favorite character in Part 1. He is so badass and manly! He teaches Jonathan to master the hamon martial arts. And he always say something really inspirational like
Damn he is so manly!
Robert E.O. Speedwagon or Speedwagon is the best bro ever. At first he was the random thug that wants to rob Jonathan when he is looking for an antidote for his father. And he fights JoJo. And he feels that JoJo is so gentleman and naive, and he likes JoJo's personality and become interested in him (not in that way ok?). He is an important character in this part because he yells everything about anything that happens before his eyes. It feels like he is replacing the narrator's job describing anything that happens during the show (lol). Later on in Part 2 he made a foundation named after his name and helps Joseph Joestar to stop the Pillar Men. I told you he is important! Man I wish I have a bro like him.
Part 2
Joseph Joestar is the main character in Part 2 and probably my all time favorite JoJo in the series (I haven't read all the JoJo manga, so yeah XP). His personality is so wacky and funny. But badass at the same time. It feels like watching Gintoki Sakata from Gintama (welp maybe because he is voiced by Tomokazu Sugita as well) or Dante with DMC 3 personality. He talks a lot in the battle. Sometimes he use provoking in order to win the battle. He has a big mouth personality. The mind games and being tactical during the fight makes him even more a likeable character. One thing that I like from him is he loves to predict what the opponent is going to say for example "Your next line would be '(insert line here)'" and the opponent says the exact same thing!
Caesar Zepelli is Joseph's sidekick who is a ladies' man. He is the polar opposite of Joseph' personality who is rather more cool, calm and composed. I like his hamon ability who uses bubbles as his power. At first I was like "Bubble doesn't sound so intimidating to me" but apparently his hamon techniques are quite deadly. It can cut things, prison someone inside of it and make someone suffocated. He is also a badass character
The Pillar Men are the main antagonists in Part 2. Their names are band names which is hilarious at some point. Each pillar men has their own personality. AC/DC is more a cunning person, Wham takes proud when it comes to fight. And Cars is a scumbag person who is obsessed to be the ultimate being. Each of their traits makes them stands out and memorable.
Animation and Sound
David Pro making a good job and give the "Bizarre" vibe throughout the series. The animation is cool and it feels like a true anime adaptation from the manga. As for the soundtrack, The first OP which is the best OP is Sono Chi no Sadame which is the opening for Part 1. It just so catchy and sets the manly mood and pumps you up just listen to it! I freaking love the reff!
The second Opening song for part 2 is Bloody Stream, it gives more of a modern feel since the setting is more modern than part 1. Still pumping tho
and the best part of this anime is the ending. I was surprised at first when I heard the ending at the first episode. I'm very familiar with 70's-80's rock songs. So when I heard the guitar intro at the end of this anime I was like "Holy crap! Isn't this YES!?" and I heard the song and yes, it was YES! (lolwut). Yes - Roundabout probably the best Ending song ever in anime history for me lol. It gives the bizarre and mysterious mood from the series. And just listen to the bass.. it's so damn catchy! just listen to it now.
as for the BGM in the anime, for Part 1 its more classical since it 1880's, while part 2 is more rock influenced. There's even a YES song as the BGM when Joseph encounters Santana at the first time. It's "Owner of the lonely heart" intro song. Part 2 also have some arabic music influence which are the pillar men's theme.
Personal Enjoyment
Superb enjoyment throughout the series, What's not to enjoy from this series? Epic battles, a lot of comedic moments, hilarious reference to rock bands, epic fabulous pose.
yes
there's a lot of epic fabulous pose,
Even more poses in the next Parts ahead. A friend of mine tried to go out of his car in Dio's manner in part 1 and he fell out of car instead. Don't try to pull out some stunts from JoJo guys. It's very tempting to be tried tho hahahaha
And each battle has their unique concept sometimes you have to think about it first, but you'll get use to it. And what makes me love this series is because it is very very consistent with its own logic or concept. You can see it if you watch it on your own XD
Problems that I have with this anime
Even though I enjoyed this anime so much, I have some minor problems with this series :
1) Some minor plotholes that actually covered in the manga but not shown in the anime, for example, where does the stone mask that George Joestar come from? It is explained in the manga though, but not shown in this anime
2) Deus ex Machina : well it's not a shounen series if there's not plot device or Deus ex Machina to make the story goes on. It's not a major problem, but still, you can't have a lot of coincidences like that in real life lol. I want to give you example but I will put the spoiler alert here
Spoiler alert!
- in Part 1 when it is revealed to the jonathan's father that Dio is actually an evil person, At that scene the Jojo's dad is there to witness Dio scheming to kill him. And then he said "I will go to my room I can't see my son got arrested" and then when Dio is going to be arrested by the policemen, He tried to stab JoJo with his knife in order to activate the Stone Mask, but suddenly it was revealed that it was JoJo's dad that was stabbed by Dio. And I was like "Huh? WTF!? I THOUGHT YOU WERE IN YOUR ROOM!?"
- in Part 2 ending when Cars almost finished Joseph Joestar once and for all, he attacks JoJo with Hamon and JoJo takes it with Aja Stone which happens to be in his arms. and he won because of that. What a convenient coincidence don't you think? lol
Spoiler ends
Should You watch it?
yes if you are into man doing manly things and great entertaining story. Not really recommended for those who wants some moe shit or looking for waifu material here. Except Speedwagon, he is a god tier waifu material *eh
Suggestions
Hokuto no Ken! It has quite the same theme "man doing manly things" but I haven't watch or finish reading it yet. Planning to watch the anime because I need more manly anime!
That's it, I hope you enjoyed this anime review, sorry it take longer than I expected lol. Thanks for reading! :D
Part 2
Joseph Joestar is the main character in Part 2 and probably my all time favorite JoJo in the series (I haven't read all the JoJo manga, so yeah XP). His personality is so wacky and funny. But badass at the same time. It feels like watching Gintoki Sakata from Gintama (welp maybe because he is voiced by Tomokazu Sugita as well) or Dante with DMC 3 personality. He talks a lot in the battle. Sometimes he use provoking in order to win the battle. He has a big mouth personality. The mind games and being tactical during the fight makes him even more a likeable character. One thing that I like from him is he loves to predict what the opponent is going to say for example "Your next line would be '(insert line here)'" and the opponent says the exact same thing!
Caesar Zepelli is Joseph's sidekick who is a ladies' man. He is the polar opposite of Joseph' personality who is rather more cool, calm and composed. I like his hamon ability who uses bubbles as his power. At first I was like "Bubble doesn't sound so intimidating to me" but apparently his hamon techniques are quite deadly. It can cut things, prison someone inside of it and make someone suffocated. He is also a badass character
from left to right : AC/DC, Cars, Wham
The Pillar Men are the main antagonists in Part 2. Their names are band names which is hilarious at some point. Each pillar men has their own personality. AC/DC is more a cunning person, Wham takes proud when it comes to fight. And Cars is a scumbag person who is obsessed to be the ultimate being. Each of their traits makes them stands out and memorable.
Animation and Sound
David Pro making a good job and give the "Bizarre" vibe throughout the series. The animation is cool and it feels like a true anime adaptation from the manga. As for the soundtrack, The first OP which is the best OP is Sono Chi no Sadame which is the opening for Part 1. It just so catchy and sets the manly mood and pumps you up just listen to it! I freaking love the reff!
The second Opening song for part 2 is Bloody Stream, it gives more of a modern feel since the setting is more modern than part 1. Still pumping tho
as for the BGM in the anime, for Part 1 its more classical since it 1880's, while part 2 is more rock influenced. There's even a YES song as the BGM when Joseph encounters Santana at the first time. It's "Owner of the lonely heart" intro song. Part 2 also have some arabic music influence which are the pillar men's theme.
so arabic. wow
Personal Enjoyment
Superb enjoyment throughout the series, What's not to enjoy from this series? Epic battles, a lot of comedic moments, hilarious reference to rock bands, epic fabulous pose.
yes
there's a lot of epic fabulous pose,
I honestly do a lot of Caesar's pose seriously
more poses!
And each battle has their unique concept sometimes you have to think about it first, but you'll get use to it. And what makes me love this series is because it is very very consistent with its own logic or concept. You can see it if you watch it on your own XD
Problems that I have with this anime
Even though I enjoyed this anime so much, I have some minor problems with this series :
1) Some minor plotholes that actually covered in the manga but not shown in the anime, for example, where does the stone mask that George Joestar come from? It is explained in the manga though, but not shown in this anime
2) Deus ex Machina : well it's not a shounen series if there's not plot device or Deus ex Machina to make the story goes on. It's not a major problem, but still, you can't have a lot of coincidences like that in real life lol. I want to give you example but I will put the spoiler alert here
Spoiler alert!
- in Part 1 when it is revealed to the jonathan's father that Dio is actually an evil person, At that scene the Jojo's dad is there to witness Dio scheming to kill him. And then he said "I will go to my room I can't see my son got arrested" and then when Dio is going to be arrested by the policemen, He tried to stab JoJo with his knife in order to activate the Stone Mask, but suddenly it was revealed that it was JoJo's dad that was stabbed by Dio. And I was like "Huh? WTF!? I THOUGHT YOU WERE IN YOUR ROOM!?"
- in Part 2 ending when Cars almost finished Joseph Joestar once and for all, he attacks JoJo with Hamon and JoJo takes it with Aja Stone which happens to be in his arms. and he won because of that. What a convenient coincidence don't you think? lol
Spoiler ends
Should You watch it?
yes if you are into man doing manly things and great entertaining story. Not really recommended for those who wants some moe shit or looking for waifu material here. Except Speedwagon, he is a god tier waifu material *eh
Suggestions
Hokuto no Ken! It has quite the same theme "man doing manly things" but I haven't watch or finish reading it yet. Planning to watch the anime because I need more manly anime!
That's it, I hope you enjoyed this anime review, sorry it take longer than I expected lol. Thanks for reading! :D
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