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Alpha3KV
Mar 30, 2011

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Agent Kool-Aid posted:

a big thing with how the villains in arc 4 are more 'humanized' in a way is that araki more or less has a running start after arc 3. there's a noticeable shift from the first half to the second half of stardust crusaders where more focus is put on the actual stand user than the stand itself.

On this note, I kind of wonder if the earlier Part 3 enemies not being much like real people is something of a holdover from the first two parts' emphasis on the supernatural. The villains were vampires and later the Pillar Men, and even their mooks were zombies. The bad guys weren't human, and thus didn't have human needs. It may also explain the spotlight focusing on the stands themselves rather than the people behind them.

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Alpha3KV
Mar 30, 2011

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I learned from the comments on this video that this song won the Animation Kobe Award for best theme song.
http://myanimelist.net/news/43067305

Alpha3KV
Mar 30, 2011

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Some liberties were taken for the answers to Yukako's first question. A is pretty accurate, C translates to something along the lines of fantasy, and B means ancient or primeval, which I don't think makes much sense as the correct answer. There was discussion of this in the anime thread, since the official subs use the rather loaded term "primitive" for that choice. Also, the "oftern" typo bugs me a lot more than it probably should.

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