It's kind of funny how much of a change-up Part Five was Although I guess aside from returning characters, Part Four was a bit of a change too But Part Five has basically no returning characters aside from a literally five-minute cameo by Koichi And Giorno was barely a JoJo by a weird biological technicality
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Oh we were just seeing the dream from Jotaro's perspective I thought it was going to be a dream-in-a-dream situation
Oh maybe the second disc is his life One for Star Platinum, one for Jotaro
When the two discs first popped out of him I thought it was one for each of Star Platinum's abilities Since he kinda takes on DIO's Za Warudo too But I guess Star Platinum never actually had an ability before it began to mirror Za Warudo's time-stop ability It was only really good for punching things
Araki really developed a kind of fascination with murder mystery killers for a while We had the mystery and reveal of Kira in Diamond is Unbreakable, and the phantom leader of the mafia in Vento Aureo And now some Stand user who's Stand is practically a full-on character itself
After the pretty transparent villains for the first three parts, he seemed to swing more into a suspense mood, making the reader wonder who the big bad might be
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Oh they did change her name a bit Or maybe it was just how they localized it in fan translations When I'd seen her name before, she was called Hermes But she was named for a fashion brand, since Araki is a big fan of high fashion So they probably changed her name in official localization to Ermes to avoid complaints Although Hermes should really be a name anyone can use at this point
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Man, she's got a weird Stand And she's already learning how to use it well
Would you give your underwear to someone to keep them from killing you
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Hah hah hah This guy is an advanced level of mopey The kind of life where nothing has gone right for a long time You kinda just learn to accept that life sucks
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In case it wasn't clear from the design, Ermes' Stand is called KISS Like the band I wonder if it got a particularly large change (to Smack) because KISS are known to be particularly litigious about their image But it might also be there's no good way to change Kiss to something which is conceptually similar while sounding similar Jolyne at least got to keep the Stone part of Stone Free in the legal-proofing of her Stand's name
I think it's kind of poignant that Araki chose CD discs for the materialization of people's souls Music is a really important thing for Araki, and for a lot of his life, CDs were probably the main means through what he listened to music through It seems goofy on the surface, but I think he probably does earnestly consider them as a very reasonable thing to embody one's soul in
what sense does that make he hit it while standig right next to her
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Well if it was taken up by a complaint board it would be his word against hers I'm pretty sure he'd get off scott-free and she'd probably get reprimanded for letting prison hardware like the bracelet get dinged
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I really doubt the White Snake Stand user would still keep the hidden discs in the tire after everything that's happened They'd probably move them now that they've gotten Jotaro's discs
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Oh, well, damn Those bomb bracelets really are effective
Although Jolyne's Stand is kind of spooky in its own right As it unravels her own body to create the string
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I think in the Japanese credits, White Snake's seiyuu is credited as ??? I wonder why they did that Maybe because its user will share the same seiyuu and they don't want to make that connection obvious when the user eventually shows up
Man I think it was easy to neglect because the previous JoJo parts have been fairly heavily censored But this series is actually really grotesque at times
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>Foo Fighters Oh yeah there was a Stand with that name
Kind of hard to see elsewise The overlap of where White Snakes was and where he was is kind of clear
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It's also kinda-unfortunately not really a surprise for me I haven't read Stone Ocean but I've been familiar with its villain and some plot beats for a long time now Most of it is visually still a surprise for me though Seeing Foo Fighters in action was pretty fun
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I also didn't know how much of a Spider-Woman Jolyne's Stand lets her become My awareness of it before starting this anime was "It lets her body become string"
A whole night of JoJo, gosh We probably won't get around to wrapping it up, providing Bang's around tomorrow night for some of his shows But hopefully the anime of the new year doesn't start off too heavy and we can do clean up for at least Stone Ocean
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Man and here I thought the President in Steel Ball Run was weird with his napkin speech I'm not even sure what Pucchi was trying to say with that thing about cherries
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F.F. is like half a kid, half an alien Maybe making a person out of a Stand isn't the best idea
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I feel like it's pretty clear whenever someone bets that much money on something like a game of catch They're planning on some kind of sabotage
why did they go through the trouble of doing the catch game should have just beaten her up
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It started pretty innoccuous with the smaller bet And then Ermes got greedy with the bet for a thousand dollars At that point the time between throws was already set to ten seconds and the Stand user was making a point of hiding and avoiding confrontation It was a pretty clever set-up by the Stand user Too bad Jolyne out-played her since they did never establish who she needed to throw the ball to
