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Stupid pretty Joestar

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there will be no episode of jojo this week because okuyasu is still too blazed from 4/20

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thing I can’t get over: araki’s answers to a poll in 2000 (before stone ocean) to who his favorite jojo characters were

Josuke

Kira

Bruno

Diavolo/Doppio

Giorno

Joseph

Mista

Jotaro

Shigechi

Dio Brando

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It’s late, I’m tired and I’ve been watching too much Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure and It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. I always wondered what if Jojo had the same cold openings as IASIP…

So I put the two together for Part 3!

I’m probably going to make more soon, leave me some ideas of titles!

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jojo twitter dump! i’m almost done part 6, f.f. and weather report are my favs <3

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Oh yeah! Since I don’t see this floating around here, here’s the official translation of the blurb on Lisa Lisa from JoJonium 5!

The text is nearly impossible to read (and I have this as a digital copy–it’s still nearly impossible to read) so here’s what it says:

“Lisa Lisa the Hamon teacher. For the second JoJo, I had a female character play the part of the Hamon master. This idea originally stemmed from me wondering what it would be like for a female to follow up the original Hamon master, Mr. Zeppeli from Part 1. There actually weren’t too many female characters in JoJo’s at that point, but she works well paired up with Joseph and Caesar, doesn’t she? There are times where I think “no…a guy or an older man just wouldn’t work here” and pick characters based on the balance of the group. The first obstacle with Lisa Lisa’s character was her name. Back then, if you picked a non-Japanese name for your character, it was a challenge to get the audience to remember it. That’s why I picked Lisa Lisa – I had hoped that like with JoJo, a repetitious name would help. It also phonetically resembles Japanese to some extent.

When this part was originally serialized, the girls that showed up in shonen manga were all cute types – essentially the stereotype of “a man’s ideal girl”. Readers weren’t looking for a realistic portrayal of women, but instead, the type of girl that giggles during a conversation with heart marks appearing next to her. That’s why I think a warrior-type character like Lisa Lisa felt fresh. Mr. Zeppeli in Part 1 was a very gentle character, and to contrast to that, I made her what you would call a “Sadistic” character today. There was a girl in my neighborhood who would tutor me toward the end of elementary school. She was incredibly smart and it was very intimidating for me! Not that she was a sadist or anything (laughs). I think I was inspired by that moment, that exhilarating “nervousness” that I felt around my female tutor. It’s normal to see strong women these days, but back then, it was unheard of in a shonen manga, not to mention society in general. It was exciting to challenge people’s expectations through the medium of Weekly Shonen Jump by having a woman train the main character so he can get stronger.

In addition to functioning as someone’s master, people also weren’t used to seeing a woman fight. When displaying the strength of a character, for example, if it’s an old man, there could be a backstory where he spent his youth doing harsh training, therefore he was able to learn techniques and become a master. That would explain why he could catch a fly using chopsticks…but for a woman, there needs to be something more substantive to back it up. In a match, common sense dictates that the physically stronger one would win, but I realized that if you add supernatural abilities into the mix, a woman can fight on equal footing with a strong male opponent. In other words, if the battle is between those with supernatural powers, physical appearance has nothing to do with strength. The Hamon is Lisa Lisa’s supernatural ability. The idea of “looks being irrelevant in supernatural battles” is what led to the introduction of Stands in Part 3.”

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JOJO【腐】落書き２ by 1000

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Hey guys! I let yourtumtums color my Steven Universe x JoJo piece.

I’m digging the colors much more on Garnet here, I think it fits her character more. I may make prints out of this but not too sure…what do you guys think?

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Alternative Names for each JoJo part

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I remember an /a/non saying how fun a Jojo go-kart videogame would be and I couldn’t help imaging buff Jojo dudes crammed into tiny fabulous cars and thus I spend the past week designing jo-karts…. Got sketchy at the end oops….

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ok but could you imagine a jojo stageplay??

like, the lighting techs would have a blast trying to figure out which colors to use for fight/intense scenes. they could use projections for the stands, and there are so many options for what to do if they tried hamon. and the costume colors/fabric could be chosen based on how light hits it, and how easily the hue can be changed based on the lighting and it could be really cool, man

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boy you better run

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JOJO!!! 

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JOJO【腐】落書き２ by 1000

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favorite things about the universe of jojo’s bizarre adventure:

vampires are the result of experiments done by ancient mesoamerican/middle eastern supermodels

jack the ripper was a vampire who could shoot knives out of his body at will

the only way to beat vampires is a martial arts technique that’s basically punching the sun into them

by the 1930s the major powers of wwii mastered cyborg technology

somewhere in space there’s floating a superpowered ancient human who has the power to do anything ANYTHING but the only thing stopping him is that he gave up any effort after being launched into space

during the 1980s because of a british vampire waking up, people around the world got ghost fighters

anyone can have a ghost fighter including: a dog, a turtle, an orangutan, a colony of plankton, a car, a town

an ancient egyptian sword also got a ghost fighter that may also be the god anubis

an entire small town in Japan is rife with ghost fighters, this is because of the british vampire somehow

a serial killer manages to evade police for decades and only gets discovered because one kid really wants his sandwhich back

there’s one alleyway that’s actually a looping portal to the afterlife

Italy is important

no one can explain King Crimson, mostly because bad translation, but no one can really explain what it does exactly

everyone just accepts a teenager has always been in charge of a mafia that’s been running for decades

at some point in the 2000s everything in florida starts getting pulled to Cape Canaveral

Joseph of Arimethea somehow figured Jesus’ body bits would be in America, but because no one knew where America was, everyone just forgot about it

if you hang around in an Arizona desert long enough you get a ghost fighter

Milan manages to remain a successful nation state for 1000 years

there’s a martial arts where you can do major damage by spinning mundane objects right

there’s an official au that’s just as insane

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All I’ve got are Jojo Dumps I’m sorry.

There’s probably spoilers, oops

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i drew josuke who will be animated next week on friday, which i am very excited about