While I’m sure I’m missing quite a lot of the background that might help me appreciate this episode even further, I think it’s safe to say that Episode 1 of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable perfectly suits what most fans expect from JoJo’s. So should you watch season 3 of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure?
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Cut to Angelo possessing a delivery driver near Josuke’s home, eyeing Josuke’s hot mom with unmistakable malice. Now Angelo knows that Josuke is a Stand User. Things get interesting when it’s revealed that the lout is possessed: Angelo’s Stand slithers out of the guy’s mouth, looking like a cross between Frieza and Alex Mack, and promises to watch Josuke always as he slithers away into a nearby gutter. The clerk heals, but the lout’s own knife is left in his belly. His Stand punches a hole through both clerk and lout. The possessed lout makes the mistake of calling Josuke’s hair ridiculous, because you can’t just leave Chekhov’s Pompadour unpoked, so Josuke hulks out - the drama is intense. Then he holds a convenience store clerk hostage, but Josuke’s on the scene with his hilariously tiny friend whose presence next to the enormous Josuke is a visual joke of its own. Angelo has the ability to possess people with his Stand and he uses it at once to take control of a passing local lout, brutalizing and murdering the lout’s girlfriend, whose broken body we see casually hidden off the side of the road. His name is Angelo and he’s also a Stand User. The episode’s tiny narrator, a freshman in high school, runs straight into Jotaro’s iron crotch Josuke’s hot mom bashes a catcaller into his own car window her dad the cop patiently and kindly explains why he won’t lift a finger to help the guy and Josuke’s explosions over his hair are goofy but still amusing somehow.Īs for the villain, he’s the Most Villainous of Villains (is it JoJo’s without hyperbole?) who was sentenced to death, didn’t die, and then escaped prison. It’s all the kind of exuberant goofiness you just… expect from JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure, but with the promise of some cheery grotesquerie made at the very start of the episode by a severed arm left on a cheery breakfast table. ) Josuke’s Stand has one special ability: things busted by it will heal in unpredictable ways. A Stand is “the physical manifestation of your psychological energy,” which basically summons buff chrome-plated humanoids to battle on your behalf. Josuke is a cool kid with an affable air - unless you insult his buoyant pompadour, at which case he is immediately filled with powerful ire and unconsciously summons a Stand. But he also comes with a warning: a powerful Stand user is heading for Josuke’s town, and Josuke needs to be wary.
This big cool buff guy Jotaru, technically Josuke’s nephew, needs to make plans for splitting the inheritance.
The plot is this: Joseph Joestar made a child in his old age, and Josuke Higashikata is that child. You learn what you need to learn and meet who you need to meet: Jotaro all huge and strident with a notably cool hat, young Josuke with his punk hair, Josuke’s hot mom and the little everyman narrator who serves mostly as a stand-in for the viewer’s gawping wonder.
I especially enjoyed Diamond is Unbreakable ’s unusual color work, which reminds me of Prince of Stride: Alternative.Īs for the plot, Episode 1 of Diamond is Unbreakable doesn’t do much to hold new viewers by the hand and lead them into the wacky mysteries of the JoJo universe. The clothes as grandiose, the characters’ builds as cartoonish, and the linework as bold as ever.
The eyes are thickly lashed and bright, a notable characteristic of JoJo’s style. And it will shoot you like a baffled cannonball from scene to scene, with revelations and ridiculousness unfolding in equally outlandish measure.Įpisode 1 of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure season 3 seems to stick faithfully to the JoJo’s mold visually. It’s in the title! JoJo’s isn’t an anime, it’s an experience. It’s bizarre and it’s supposed to be bizarre. You just don’t judge JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure by exactly the same rubrics of character and plot as you might judge other shows. Still, I respect the hell out of this series, which remains true to its insane, ridiculous roots every single time. I’ve tried to watch JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure before, but its brand of high-octane violence, goofiness, and melodrama only sometimes works for me.
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