EARLY ACCESS JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Episode 21 Reaction

Bizarrily speaking... my head has been creaking,

Michał Zienkiewicz

ah the ship finally sank lmao XD

Jess

Also, Jojo was published in Weekly Shonen jump up until a few chapters into Part 7 so the new chapters were released once a week not once a month like it is now in Ultra Jump

Craig Starbird

I hope they see this!

Araki debuted as manga artist in 1980 (He was 20). In 1986 he started to write Jojo for Shonen Jump. Jonathan was the first non-japanese MC of a Shonen Jump manga and Shueisha at first was against it. After not even a year of serialization, he decided to kill the main character because he felt limited by his reactive nature and uninteresting personality. It was another gamble but a very successful one. He designed Joseph to be very similar to Jonathan in physical appearance so that people could feel like it was the same manga, but decided to change his personality to the one of a trickster not only for the sake of change but so that the battle could be won not through sheer power but using cunning and logic. That was another big revolution Araki brought in the battle shonen genre. Today a lot of battle shonen use this dynamic in the fights but at the time was a great revolution. And this is the reason why Jojo is so worshipped. It’s not just the bizarreness, the poses or Speedwagon, but also because it introduced so many new elements that made the shonen genre what we see now. Araki is never afraid to try new things. Each part brings to the table new elements and a new atmosphere. This is also the reason why Jojo is so unique. Maybe you could recreate the atmosphere and the bizarreness but you will never be able to recreate the impact Jojo had in the manga history.

TheMadBarber

there was a jojo movie, it was bad

Matheus Henrique Silva Rosa

That movie bombed so we're probably not getting any sequels.

Part 2 (of 8 currently): Battle Tendency was written from 1987-1989. Very early in Araki's career in writing JoJo's and it still holds up in today's standards imo.

Luis Everth

Part two ran from 1987-1889, so it's still fairly early days for Araki. The amount of improvement you can see in both his writing and art over time is amazing. Araki had some less successful manga before releasing Jojo's. They are fascinating to read, but mostly incoherent. Weirdly enough, Jojo's Bizzare Adventure feels much more restrained and grounded compared to his earlier work.

Silver Bard Games

and there was a live action JoJo movie based on the first arc of Part 4, which is allegedly going to eventually get a sequel(s?) to do the rest.

Frederick Jaskowski

JoJo movies: there was a Phantom Blood movie, but it was screened once and then pulled because Araki thought it sucked.

Frederick Jaskowski

Just an FYI, Joseph is 19 years old at this point in JoJo.

Canadian_Caesar

I think trying to recreate the feeling and impact of Jojo's is similar to trying to recreate the feeling and impact of something like Star Wars. it's so specific and and has been around for such a long time that any attempt of imitating it too closely will feel like a hollow rip off. Jojo's impact on pop culture in japan has been huge and I think the way people have been impacted by it has been basically perfect. People realize they can't necessarily make a whole story like jojo's so they choose specific things about it to draw inspiration from instead, this can come off as "references" (and a lot of the time they just are). But I see it as deeper than that, it's taking something Jojo's (the family heritage, the battle of wits, the power systems, the villains) and making it your own, while basically being forced to acknowledge the roots of those ideas since Jojo's is so blatant and distinctive. Even with all of that there have kind of been jojo's rip offs, they just fail because it's so hard to do what jojo does because of it's legacy. Btw the series was weekly around this time, it's only been monthly since like 2005.

Shloppy

Fun fact, there was indeed a JoJo's movie that recreated Part 1... it was so bad that it has been stricken from history (it never got released outside of theaters in Japan. No home release) and Araki refused to acknowledge its existence.

TheWerdna

Congratulations! I hope you're going to destroy your opponents again, Caleb!

Anonimowy Gaal

Oh, and... We knew that Hamon slowed aging already. Straights, Ton Petty, etc. Ton Petty died of old age, which is how Straights took over the Hamon monastery.

Princess Paladin

can´t wait for the final showdown xD and curiosity did you guys watch fate/apocrypha?

Crozzo

The maid's name was Suzie Q! Also, there actually used to be carnivorous horses, I believe, so that's where Joseph's comment about "dinosaurs" came from, incase you were wondering. They're extinct now, thankfully.

Princess Paladin

Congrats on that win! (now... it's finally time to bring out food and blankets)

Lord Snail the Slimy