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TL;DR. A long running manga series written by Hirohiko Araki.  While (imho) originally coming off as a bit of a fist of the north clone, It quickly lived up to its namesake and ended up becoming the cult classic we know today. With its fairly western inspired art style, it has become this messy delicious goop of crazy violence, weird humor, and an impeccable fashion sense. While it is a long (and even ongoing!) series, It's split into smaller, lightly continuous, parts which can easily be consumed stand alone, if you so please, making it nice and easy to get into. The gist of each part revolves around a certain Jojo (a descendant of the joestar family) going on a bizarre adventure and along the way meeting or facing off against a bunch of equally strange characters all hilariously named after western musical references. Its weird as gently caress but you can forgive all its sins because  . In being a cult classic, It's quite often quietly referenced in anything vaguely otaku related. Sometimes to the point where it's "The gift that keeps on giving".Part 1: "Phantom Blood" Gist: Vampires and Ripples and poo poo.  Jojo: Jonathan Joestar Bad guy: Dio Part 2: "Battle Tendency" Gist: Nazis, New Wave, and Sweaty Naked Super Men.   Jojo: Joseph Joestar Bad guy: Cars, Wham, AcDc, Santana Part 3: "Stardust Crusaders" Gist: Psychic shenanigans and Dio's Revenge  Jojo: Jotarou Kujo Bad guy: Dio Part 4: "Diamond is Unbreakable" Gist: The Hardy boys.  Jojo: Jousuke Higashigata Bad guy:Yoshikage Kira Part 5: "Golden Wind" Gist: Of Boy-bands and Gangsters  Jojo: Giorno Giovanna Bad guy: Diavolo/Doppio Part 6: "Stone Ocean" Gist: Girls in prison and Dio's ultimate legacy  Jojo: Jolyne Kujo Bad guy: Enrico Pucci Part 7: "Steel Ball run" Gist: Reboots and Broken backs. (both literally and figuratively)  Bad guy: President Funny Valentine "Steel Ball Run" is presently being published monthly in Shueisha's "Ultra Jump". Animation: Jojo's Bizzare Adventure OVA - a recap of Stardust Crusaders. Jojo's Bizzare Adventure: Phantom Blood - A movie version retelling the events of Part 1 Games: Famicon Jump I & II - Cameos Jojo's Bizzare Adventure - Snes RPG Jojo's Bizzare Adventure & Jojo's Bizzare Adventure: Legacy of the Future - Crazy and innovative(at the time) Capcom Fighting game for the PS1, DC, and Arcade. Featuring Characters from Part 3 (And Joseph Joestar!) Jojo's Bizzare Adventure: Golden Experience - PS2 3D action game Jojo's Bizzare Adventure: Phantom Blood - PS2 3D action game to coincide with the movie. Features fancy poses. Jump Super Stars & Jump Ultimate Stars - Horribly overpowered playable characters (Dio & Jojo from Part 3) as well as a few other characters as support characters Family Tree: (Spoilers?)  Other things of interest: A video and a page of 'references' that have been used through out the comic Samples of all the music (NicoVideo) that's referenced through out Jojo. And finally this.
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| # ? Sep 12, 2010 07:28 |
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| # ? May 24, 2013 13:07 |
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That gist of part 4 is a little too perfect (best part just so everyone knows btw) As it is now Stardust Crusaders is the only in the series that you can purchase in English, published by VIZ. This MF folder is a goodiebag of all the rest of titles one'll be needing http://www.mediafire.com/ArakiCollection
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| # ? Sep 12, 2010 11:02 |
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I have got to agree that despite the utterly horrible translation/scan quality for part 4 it is still the most enjoyable story-arc. Why does every main villain after part 3 have some sort of time-altering gimmick? 
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| # ? Sep 12, 2010 11:45 |
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Someone post the lime-green picture of all the Jojo protagonists immediately because this thread has dangerously low levels of fabulousness.
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| # ? Sep 12, 2010 20:00 |
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 edit: ah, that's better. Flashbang! fucked around with this message at Sep 12, 2010 around 20:56 |
| # ? Sep 12, 2010 20:19 |
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Part 2 is still my favourite part and I would kill multiple people for a high-budget animated adaptation. Shame it'll never happen. 
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| # ? Sep 12, 2010 20:30 |
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I was reading part 5 a few years back but it seems the group translating it dropped off the face of the earth mid-way through and I never got to finish it. Has anyone else taken up the reins on that?
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| # ? Sep 13, 2010 00:38 |
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It's completely done. And not only is it done, it's getting a total redo with better translation and pages.
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| # ? Sep 13, 2010 03:05 |
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I ended up liking Stone Ocean a lot more than I thought I would. The fights were really, really long though. I liked the shorter fights in Steel Ball Run. Too bad that comes out really slowly.
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| # ? Sep 13, 2010 03:44 |
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Stardust Crusaders is the best series because all the story components are just right  Jotaro Vs D'Arby the Gambler is too goddamn good for words. Hell they're all pretty drat good, but Steel Ball Run has so many goddamn  moments I'm still trying to figure out if it's inspired or crass.
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| # ? Sep 13, 2010 04:33 |
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I've never finished part 4 (it really felt like it started drag on and on after a certain point) but I couldn't pick a favorite between part 2 and 3. They're both just goddamn amazing.
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| # ? Sep 13, 2010 05:28 |
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Stardust Crusaders is indeed the best part but I'll always hold a special place in my heart for Part 2 and the amazing power of ACDC.
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| # ? Sep 13, 2010 06:20 |
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Steel Ball Run is the worst, if only because it's a product of an incredibly boring and lazy LETS RESET THE UNIVERSE AND MAKE EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENED BEFORE THIS POINT UTTERLY POINTLESS AND DUMB
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| # ? Sep 13, 2010 06:34 |
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Zorak just do what The Dark Tower books taught me to do and make up your own ending if the one you get is awful.
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| # ? Sep 13, 2010 06:45 |
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No fuckin' way. Third series will always be the best IMHO. The stands were extremely imaginitive, and without it we wouldn't have the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure fighting game (I will wreck any one of you at any time with JoJO, Grandpa JoJo, Dio, Polnareff, or Kakyoin). I mean seriously..."I'm developing this psychic manifestation of my inner bad-rear end. Better lock myself in jail." Totally awesome.
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| # ? Sep 13, 2010 07:59 |
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Part 3 was easily the best, I dont know how its possible to draw up any other conclusion. The lovely scans for 4 though really REALLY don't help it.
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| # ? Sep 13, 2010 09:21 |
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Part 3 is awesome for introducing the stand concepts but was too tame on the bizzare, especially with part 2 being so awesome; but part 4 really turned it up. Kweh posted:Why does every main villain after part 3 have some sort of time-altering gimmick? Because of Dio. He was that awesome. Zorak posted:Steel Ball Run is the worst, if only because it's a product of an incredibly boring and lazy LETS RESET THE UNIVERSE AND MAKE EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENED BEFORE THIS POINT UTTERLY POINTLESS AND DUMB Steel Ball Run is probably Araki's best looking work so far; especially since Stone Ocean was butt ugly
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| # ? Sep 13, 2010 12:29 |
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Honest Thief posted:
This, and time is always a really broken power, which is necessary for a dangerous villain in a world of broken abilities. The interesting thing however is how the time abilities are vastly different. Time Freeze, Repeating Time, Time Skip, and Time Acceleration. If anyone had told me before I read it that the villains in part 3 onwards all had relatively unique time related powers, I'd have called shenanigans. The most creative one in my opinion is the one in part 5 though.
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| # ? Sep 13, 2010 13:56 |
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Really? I felt the one in part 5 was just confusing. (gently caress the haters part 4 had the most unique stands)
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| # ? Sep 13, 2010 14:13 |
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If I remember correctly, (It's been a while) it's like this. Time experienced by King Crimson ----------|-----|--------- Time experienced by enemy ----------| |--------- And at the end of the time walk people are in the exact same state, yet not the exact same position as before. This means that King Crimson can essentially take a heavy blow from the enemy during the time walk, the timewalk ends, and he is unharmed, yet the opponent is completely disoriented, and doesn't know that he has already tried that blow. He tries it again and King Crimson knows it is coming.
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| # ? Sep 13, 2010 17:29 |
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I thought King Crimson looked the coolest, although Killer Queen is my favorite when all's said and done. Part 4, in general, is my favorite as it finally provides more of a focused and fertile context for all these wacky stand adventures. The whole Arrow gimmick allowed for a good explanation on why all these stand users are showing up, and the town allowed for a good set up on why they would all cross paths. It's much more episodic than the other parts (although one could make the argument that Jojo is more episodic than a lot of other manga), but its structure really is served well by its context and scenario. It also has Rohan Kishibe, who, as far as self inserts go, is one of the best characters ever. ART MUST BE REAL! Time Erasure isn't so hard to get, I just felt that the scans were really unclear in how they translated how the ability worked. It's sad when there needs to be a page or so of translation notes with examples provided just to get across to your audience what the drat thing is. Exercu posted:If I remember correctly, (It's been a while) it's like this. Almost. King Crimson can also see 10 seconds into the future, so he can see that heavy blow coming and then erase the "frames" of time that it happened in. He can also choose what "frames" he erases too, allowing bullets to pass through him and into other things for example. Man, it's no wonder Gold Experience Requiem was the most broken stand ever.... TNG fucked around with this message at Sep 13, 2010 around 17:36 |
| # ? Sep 13, 2010 17:29 |
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Honest Thief posted:It was getting too hectic keeping things straight, first the mask then stand from bloodlines then the arrow; just hit the reboot button and dont worry in keeping track if Batman did or not go to Planet X "three things" isn't that complex, though. It'd be complex if he kept MAKING it more complex. He would have been better off just ending the series with Part 5 and then going to work on something else, instead of basically invalidating everything he made before that time. It's one thing if you invalidate a bunch of dumb Batman plot or whatever, it's another to invalidate everything good about the series because "I was making it too complex and didn't want to be bothered to reel it in".
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| # ? Sep 14, 2010 01:29 |
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I'm pretty sure as he was going along he would forget the way some stands were supposed to work, or forget people have powers at all. (Joseph vs D'Arby could have been over so fast if he just used haman to keep that water in the cup, for example.)
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| # ? Sep 14, 2010 02:17 |
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my favorite page in the manga so far: Zorak can you make this my av:  or hell, anything from that page would own
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| # ? Sep 14, 2010 02:18 |
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TNG posted:
Ah, right, I forgot about Epitaph (The little head in King Crimson's forehead) And yeah, you pretty much need a stand as broken as GER to combat King Crimson's ability. On the other hand, I can't imagine anything in any series ever beating GER. Even Super Saiyan 3 Son Goku would be unable to harm him.
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| # ? Sep 14, 2010 10:37 |
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Zorak posted:"three things" isn't that complex, though. It'd be complex if he kept MAKING it more complex. He would have been better off just ending the series with Part 5 and then going to work on something else, instead of basically invalidating everything he made before that time. SBR didn't invalidate anything, blame Stone Ocean for that; Jojo's part 6 ending was lovely though. If Araki ever picks up stuff from before the same way G-Mo did then the better, if not it doesn't make SBR any less good.
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| # ? Sep 14, 2010 12:40 |
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What was Gold Experience Requiem's power again? Its been some time since I read part 5. Is it just me or did he become less happy to kill off major characters in the later series as well?
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| # ? Sep 14, 2010 21:49 |
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Can someone link to that blog of the dudes redoing the part 4 scans? Or whatever part it was that has godawful scans.
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| # ? Sep 14, 2010 21:59 |
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Jose posted:What was Gold Experience Requiem's power again? Its been some time since I read part 5. The power to reset things. For instance, pummeling a certain someone to death and then resetting things so that he's untouched & will then spend the rest of time getting pummeled to death.
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| # ? Sep 14, 2010 22:06 |
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Dickeye posted:Can someone link to that blog of the dudes redoing the part 4 scans? Or whatever part it was that has godawful scans. Huh I could have sworn it was already posted somewhere in this thread before http://donebetterelsewhere.blogspot.com/
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| # ? Sep 14, 2010 22:33 |
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HitTheTargets posted:The power to reset things. For instance, pummeling a certain someone to death and then resetting things so that he's untouched & will then spend the rest of time getting pummeled to death. Actually he never dies, the peculiar thing about GER is that the final effect will never happen.
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| # ? Sep 14, 2010 22:37 |
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Jose posted:What was Gold Experience Requiem's power again? Its been some time since I read part 5. Hehe, funny you mention that and part 5 in the same post. He kills off Buccellati at like the midway point, but it just doesn't take until the very end. Man, Part 5 is so unbalanced. It has very imaginative stands, a cool set up(GANGSTERS), and a fun cast of characters. On the other hand it has a pretty boring Jojo all things considered, a set of really ridiculous stands towards the end, and a very very strong case of Villain of the week syndrome. The downtime where the characters can just hang out and do stuff isn't as strong in Part V due to the whole chase theme. I like Part 4 so much because Josuke, Koichi, and Okuyasu do stuff that helps to build their characters independent of ORA ORA ORA ORA.
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| # ? Sep 14, 2010 22:43 |
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The arc in part 4 where josuke plays dice against rohan had me rolling on the floor.
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| # ? Sep 14, 2010 22:50 |
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I think my favorite is a toss up between the second Kira arc(Face Switch) and the one with Boyz II Men.
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| # ? Sep 14, 2010 22:57 |
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Kweh posted:Huh I could have sworn it was already posted somewhere in this thread before http://donebetterelsewhere.blogspot.com/ It was in the other JoJo thread, which is the only reason I knew about it
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| # ? Sep 14, 2010 23:21 |
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Jesus Christ, I didn't even notice the "AWAKEN, MY CLUB" image was fanart until a friend I got reading through it pointed it out to me. Such is the power of Araki that I don't even bat an eye at the superbuffeminate.
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| # ? Sep 16, 2010 15:08 |
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I think it funny that literally no one was surprised when Araki came out of the closet. Like, yeah it's a given, but it's funny in how much it was a given.
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| # ? Sep 16, 2010 15:43 |
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haha when did he come out?
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| # ? Sep 16, 2010 23:27 |
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If, at all.
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| # ? Sep 17, 2010 02:06 |
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| # ? May 24, 2013 13:07 |
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Maybe I'm remembering wrong and it's just an open secret. He loves manlove though.
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| # ? Sep 17, 2010 05:23 |
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