Ken doesn’t need a senzu bean, he just gets SERIOUS
H-Dwryyyyyy Edition.
Sadly thats not how the Manga ended Rock :[
*I just finished Vento Aureo *
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[details=Spoiler] **What a ride. The end was a letdown with not much buildup or suspense for the final fight against Diavalo (Doppios personality made that character) but I liked some of the symbology it had going on with Gio the messiah, the spear of destiny etc. Reading Vento Aureo made me realize and question some of Arakis’ use of motiffs such as the manipulation of time, death, fate, human will,Christian symbology etc. Because of this realization I’ve started to wonder about what I can further interpret from his works other than the vestige of pop culture and social consciousness that originally appealed to me that permeates through his work. *
I digressed a little there but Vento Aureo really is a fine work. The journy for me was much better than the finale and I especially loved the members of Execution Squad who were all fun and fresh except for the iceman who had a cool (heh) ability but was pretty much devoid of personality. The gang was all great and shined more than Giorno but it felt to me as if Giorno and Brucie had a dynamic dual leadership roll in group. With Brucie acting as the charismatic leader while Giorno took on the roll of the stern objectively thinking Consigliere.* [/details]
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I think the HNK villains beat a good amount of the early Jojo villains, with the exception of Dio(they’re all kinda similar since Araki was inspired by HNK) but the later Jojo villains come out on top due to their backgrounds, personalities and cunning. Why is everyone so smart in Jojo anyway lol? Especially in later parts, it gets absurd.
Vento Aureo seems to get a lot of shit, but seeing as it was the first Jojo that I read, I really enjoyed it. I still think I’d enjoy it just the same if I went back and read it again.
[details=Spoiler] I genuinely liked Diavolo as a villain, due to the amounts of bodying he was dishing out, plus his cool stand, but I can’t really remember; why did he want to keep himself out of sight so badly that he’d happily want to kill his own daughter? The obvious reason would be he’s a mafia boss and he wants to keep himself out of trouble from the regular law(as if they could actually fuck with him) and assassinations from other stand users, but aside from that, I didn’t understand(or can’t remember) the reason why’d he’d go to such lengths to keep himself hidden, I need to read Part 5 again. I do agree that he was pretty flat personality-wise and Doppios made his character.
I liked the whole setting of Part 5(Italy, mafia and so on), plus the characters felt like a tight-knit and loyal group. Plus Polnareff lol, he was wicked despite being in a wheelchair. I think as Part 3 ends and Araki starts focusing on human opponents, the villains become a lot more complex and interesting, Kira being one really good example. The guy’s a complete fucking loon, but all he wants to do is live a normal life and even when he gets(not really) a family, he’s struggling with his nutty urges. I pretty much laughed my arse off when Kira was fucking up Koichi, it really exposed his character.[/details]
Finished the first two episodes, like I said in Lounge seeing Dio getting tossed the fuck over stairs by Jonathan in animation form was something I’ve always wanted to have. So far loving the pace of it, the animation, voice cast and the like.
I think Dio’s VA in particular was nailed down well, considering we are in for the long haul there.
Does anyone have the Baoh OVA they could share with me 'cos the few torrents I’ve found are dead?
Way better than the OVA one that’s for sure.
dislike! OVA Dio was the perfect fit. The new voice makes a good young Dio though.
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[details=Spoiler] Diavalo was a good villain because of his split personality disorder. Doppio turning and becoming murderous on a dime and having to rely on his diavalo personality in tough circumstances was really well done. But after the two personalities were split up it made Diavalos worth as a character degenerate into nothing more than your regular run of the mill “I want to take over the world” type of villain. As for killing his daughter he wanted no more traces left of who he actually is. It ties in perfectly to his stand King Crimson being able to cut away at portions of time and have people not remember what happened during that period of time. Since every stand ties into the persons personality it fits perfectly with Diavalo being a paranoid person and his personality disorder probably stemming from some form of neurotica. *
*Also I think the priest who raised him actually turning out to be the operative who gave Brucies gang orders for Trish was a nice touch. I feel the same way as you I like the setting and I also really really liked the gang but I was kind of sad I didn’t get to see more of Fugo since he was actually one of my favorite members of the gang. I actually haven’t read part 4 or part 3 in total yet but I hear everyone loves Kira. Personally Funny Valentine is still my favorite main antagonist. Just everything about him was done right, his stand, personality, his raison d’*etre etc.[/details]
who knew Dio had such a wonderful singing voice
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Uh, sorry…reflex. Too much Nostalgia Critic.
Episode 4 <3
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Zepelli Vs Frog was epic!
Finished watching ep.4 just now.
“We have ourselves a Vikings boys!” LOL, I like GG’s subs.
Zeppelli’s speech about human courage was sick, as was his wine ripple. This adaption’s just been solid all the way through, just really good. And next episode’s gonna be the bomb. One of my favourite parts in all of Part 1’s coming up, looking forward to that.
@Darkgeneral: thanks for the explanation about Part 5.
JoJo!!! You must have courage!!!
So pimp he catches bitches with broken arms
Oh No Kermit is done!!!
And Last but not least Tiger Knee without spilling the merlot!!!
Since my Young justice is M.I.A on saturday mournings now I just wait until saturday mourings to watch JoJo!!!
I think everything is great, from music op and ed voice work is great. Just no complaints at all.
Zepelli was pretty much the star of this week’s episode and he was handled rather well. As for next week…
Next week
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Tarkus and Bruford appear. Man, we’re really flying through the chapters. Should be pretty good, though!
One thing I did not like about part 5 was
[details=Spoiler]That the chapter at the end (or was it an extra chapter?) trying to explain why Bucciarti couldn’t die was because of the stand which tries to release people from their bad fate. It basically made it so he couldn’t die until he accomplished his fate at the end in helping beat Diavolo. When I first went through the manga, I first thought it was because when he first “died” against Diavolo, Gold Experience tried healing all his wounds, and Giorno noticed at that point he had no pulse even though he was alive. I took it that he could heal all physical damage but whatever made him truly alive wasn’t fully there, hence why he was doing things like losing his sense of feeling/hearing/sight throughout the manga, like against the guy who swims through solid objects.
Then at the end a chapter gets released trying to explain why he didn’t die earlier. I think if the chapter with the fate stand was released in the middle of the manga, it would of made much more sense, instead of releasing it at the end after the story pretty much wrapped itself up. [/details]
I thought the scene with Erina was just d’AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW
*[details=Spoiler] The last chapter was to depict the events leading up to the beginning of how everything started. The stand user who looked a aweful like Jesus Christ ability was the rock to being able to “chisel out” a persons impending “fated” death. The sculpture was the exact pose they would have and how they’d look as they die, however if a person was to take hold of the rock then they could die right then and there and “escape fate” painlessly. The stand user is basically acting like a false prophet and “alleviating” people from their fates if you want to call it that. If anything that chapter shows the real reason why Mista decided to stay with the group instead of splitting like Fugo since he had a idea exactly how terrible Bruno, Narancia and Abbachio deaths would be.
Also for me it seemed to be the precursor of part 6’s theme of “fate” (gravity) and Judeo-Christian (and idealogy in general) being further explored. In my opinion the ending of Vento (Silver Chariot Req to the last chap) was the beginning of Araki’ change in direction as a writer in tackling more mature subject matter as we start see more complex human characters perplexed by feelings and situations that are common in our world. [/details]*
Gonna download that HD version tomorrow and finally retire my DC copy.