JoJo's Bizarre Adventure - Part 9 Jojolands currently ongoing

Who's your favorite JoJo?

  • Jonathan

    Votes: 30 6.5%

  • Joseph

    Votes: 182 39.6%

  • Jotaro

    Votes: 38 8.3%

  • Josuke

    Votes: 64 13.9%

  • Giorno

    Votes: 33 7.2%

  • Jolyne

    Votes: 29 6.3%

  • Johnny

    Votes: 66 14.3%

  • Gappy

    Votes: 18 3.9%
  • Total voters
    460
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Wow, that was it? I mean apparently there's more chapters coming but I find hard to think where the fuck the story can go from where it is now. It felt so anticlimatic and it does little to change how I feel towards this part, what a dud.

the autist of dojima said:
10 years for the worst arc in all of jojo
Thank you araki
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Saxxon said:
Wow, that was it? I mean apparently there's more chapters coming but I find hard to think where the fuck the story can go from where it is now. It felt so anticlimatic and it does little to change how I feel towards this part, what a dud.


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The only thing that can save this is a High Voltage moment, but there is still so much that hasn't been answered. I wonder if there was some meddling that caused everything to feel so rushed or if Araki dropped the ball.
 
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Thank you araki
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Jojolion is genuinely one of the most disappointing, anti-climatic and overall pointless of the bizarre adventures. I genuinely don't give a single fuck about the main jojo and whatever the fuck the rock people are doing.

It fucking sucks that it has some of the best characterization, art, a few extremely well done stand battles (and easily some of the worst stand battles to balance it out), and (in the beginning) potential. All made meaningless.
 
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Well that was just completely anticlimactic. The ending of the chapter is also just so fucking strange. Why would you even bother showing the Head Doctor trying to possess Norisuke when Josuke is going to literally come out of nowhere (seriously, wasn’t he at the hospital?) and one-shot him? I mean we had him fighting fucking rock insects for like 10 chapters, you think Araki would’ve at least let that play out as a cliffhanger instead of introducing and resolving it in the span of like 3 pages.
 
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Well that was just completely anticlimactic. The ending of the chapter is also just so fucking strange. Why would you even bother showing the Head Doctor trying to possess Norisuke when Josuke is going to literally come out of nowhere (seriously, wasn’t he at the hospital?) and one-shot him? I mean we had him fighting fucking rock insects for like 10 chapters, you think Araki would’ve at least let that play out as a cliffhanger instead of introducing and resolving it in the span of like 3 pages.
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Its kind of insulting because Araki moving to a monthly release schedule should give him the room to avoid these kind of last minute ass pulls.

I am just going to say it, the monthly release schedule fucking sucks. I get that the art work is amazing, but holy shit does it drag the pacing of the story into the fucking dirt because now Araki has too much time to cram whatever bullshit pops into his head into the manga.

Each adventure also takes around 100-150 chapters. He does have more pages on a monthly schedule, but it has hardly affected the number of chapters as we have seen. When he was doing weakly he could pump these out over the course of 2-4 years. On a monthly schedule, that number balloons to 8-12 years per adventure. Its simply too long a time for most sane fanbases to stick with something unless its extremely good. Unfortunately, Jojolion is just not the same quality as prior adventures.

I understand why he doesn't want to do weekly releases because of how brutal a schedule it is, but good lord has it come at way too high a cost in terms of delivering a quality product.
 
HexFag said:
The only thing that can save this is a High Voltage moment, but there is still so much that hasn't been answered. I wonder if there was some meddling that caused everything to feel so rushed or if Araki dropped the ball.
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I think it’s just his “make shit up as you go” style not really working with the kind of story he was trying to tell with Jojolion. Unlike the previous Jojo parts, Jojolion has a lot more complex elements and ideas, that really NEEDED better planning, setup and payoff. Because there ISN’T really a “main villain”, the story needed to compensate by elaborating on the themes of a curse passing through generations and the ideological clash between humanity and the rock humans (plus giving them some agenda beyond “lmao let’s make some money selling some weird fruit”).

Basically, the other long parts either had some structure built into the premise. Parts 3 and 5 have a road trip format that lends itself really well to this kind of thing, since you’re literally following a pre-set path to a known destination. Part 4 has the main villain appearing halfway through and after that focuses entirely on the hunt for Kira. And Part 6 has the main villain known from the get-go with a really obvious goal for Jolyne to work toward (getting out of prison). Jojolion however has always felt kinda directionless, and unlike Part 4 the plot never really coalesces around a main goal.

Probably the biggest indicator that there’s still some stuff coming up is the fact that we still haven’t hit the flash-forward, which doesn’t logically follow from what we’re seeing now. I give it a 50/50 on whether Araki forgot about it and has no plans to address it, or if either Josuke shooting the head doctor, or Tsurugi fusing with Tooru results in some kind of Bites-The-Dust style time reset that’ll have the same events play out in a different way.
 
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Anybody have a hard time getting into any of the arcs after Stardust Crusaders? The animation change is jarring and the new characters are boring.

I hear DiU gets better when the villain shows up, but right now I'm stuck at the part where this one simp bitch is keep that annoying twat kid locked in her house.

Battle Tendancy was easily my favorite thus far, but I still really liked SC and PB (unpopular opinion I know).
 
I feel like I'd have liked Jojolion more if it had even just been twice a month updates instead of once every month or so. This story may get better on binge but shitsticks it lost so much potential due to Araki's glacial release format.

Part 9 really needs to rennovate the release model to something more consistent. Araki's 60 now, so that'll likely be his final part (especially given on prior multiples of 3, he's said it was the planned ending or intended ending of the series).
 
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