#also just make jjl

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i just looked into the steel ball run anime and it’s only a rumor currently. the animation director had made a tweet about horses and needing them for reference, but he deleted the tweet soon after.

bawright good for them ig lol

[black-cat-aoife]

The last Lewis episode is on and on the one hand there's scenes that feel even more emotional after having watched the final Endeavour episode and on the other a certain someone's face makes me want to punch him. Hard. Repeatedly.

[rael-rider]

You mean what happened to Johnny Joestar in JJL?

Spoilers for Steel Ball Run and Jojolion

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Yes, Johnny's story in JJL was pretty upsetting for me (as in it hurt me and it emotionally devastated me and it took me awhile to get over it). Johnny basically grew as a character and I initially loved that he was able to form a family and live a good life after SBR but then the whole rock disease thing happened to Rina and Johnny stealing the Saint's Corpse to heal her, but then transferring the disease to George, then himself and finally the rock crushing his head because of that one leaf stand...

But the fact that Johnny, who lived a very miserable life and was a morally dubious and selfish man, ended up dying because he sacrificed himself so his loved ones would live it just hits me real hard (and man it doesn't escape me that two of my other favorite Jojos also died sacrificing themselves for their loved ones).

it also hurts me that both Jonathan and Johnny Joestar ended up having their heads removed from their body. They both have really shitty luck too (Johnny is more evident with what he suffers throughout Steel Ball Run and Araki gave Jonathan low luck when he made a stat chart for the protags in part 1-5 not to mention he does go through some awful stuff in Phantom Blood and the Sword of Luck and Pluck didn't really last long for him).

it also makes me wonder if every Jonathan Joestar is fated to lose their head. Like it's a constant in every reality.

[fauzhee10069]

The incoming new year could be a new age for us fellow JoJo fans, because Araki just announced that he will start #jjba part 9 on February 17th 2023: The JOJOLands.

This could be our first time as (devoted) JoJo fans keeping up the monthly serialization in real time!!

As we used to abbreviate JoJolion with JJL, how will we give abbreviation for The JOJOLands? JJL2? JJL+? Some suggested me to use TJL, sounds NICE.

According to the news, part 9 will have Joseph's descendant as protagonist and it might takes place in Northern Europe, and perhaps some part of future Morioh city (Japan).

Joseph Joestar himself appeared at the end of part 8 as flashback character.

What is your prediction and wishful wish for part 9?

As it will be about Joseph's descendant, it could be either Kira/Kei's child (if they had any), or even Gappy (Josuke)! Some fans also speculate that Joseph has illegitimate offspring akin to part 4.

I personally don't want an imitation of part 4, I hope Joseph's descendant will only derives from Holy, because she deserves to be a grandma as well.

My wishful thinking is that the new protagonist will be Josuke-Yasuho's child/grandchild, because I want my OTP to be official :3

Popular prediction from fans is JoJo twins, I hope so and please, make it yasugap's children!! *fingers crossed*

Apart from the protagonist, my personal wish is that we will finally have a female main villain, I hope that this time our main villain won't be overly mysterious like Tooru so as not to cause JoJotubers to create more outlandish theories.

One more thing, I hope that the continuation of part 8 that left hanging can be explained, such as Holy's fate and more lore about Rock-Humans and Stands.

[hobbyist-hellscape]

mye’s media list, 1/23

last month, i made my first media list--a list of four-ish things i’d like to engage with in that month.

the items on that list were:

jojolion

hikaru ga shinda natsu

pride and prejudice

when the angels left the old country

for this month, i’ve decided to take on the following:

spy x family cour 2

princess jellyfish/kuragehime

when the angels left the old country

here’s what i thought about last month’s offerings, and then a rundown of this month’s list:

last month’s list

jojolion

i kind of understand why jjl isn’t as widely read as other parts of jojo: at least, i know what took me so long to read it. i was afraid of reading the last available part, because i didn’t want jojo to be ‘over.‘

i did work up the courage to read it, and i’m very glad that i did! it gave me the same thrill that the other parts have! it had the same creativity and deeply compelling emotional core as every other part, a fabulous reminder of why i love jojo in the first place.

though i understand why people haven’t read it, i’d really suggest that they do!

stan jobin.

hikaru ga shinda natsu

god, everything about this is so beautiful in such a unique way. i usually read manga pretty quickly--i’m still trying to cultivate patience--but i really found myself slowing down to take in the gorgeous art and the haunting storyline.

yoshiki is such a compelling protagonist and hikaru (or not-hikaru) is a truly charming love interest, and the underlying symbolism... the horror of growing up gay and approaching queer desire for the first time is portrayed so well here, and it resonated so strongly with me.

there are only a few chapters out as yet, but don’t let that stop you. run, don’t walk, to hikaru ga shinda natsu--and, of course, support the upcoming official release!

pride and prejudice

i will not lie. i did not finish pride and prejudice. i was in a mood for something more action-packed at the time i was reading it, and jojolion quickly consumed all of my attention.

additionally, i found myself thinking ‘i can get the same enrichment in less time by watching the 2005 film.‘

however: i enjoyed what i read of it. i loved austen’s wit so much. i also found it really interesting to observe the way that it was written--the rules of engagement vis a vis writing have really changed in the past 200 years.

not bad! just not what i needed at that time.

when the angels left the old country

i’m sure you’ve noticed that this is on my list for both december and january--this is because i didn’t make it. i didn’t touch it at all, i just didn’t have time.

my excitement to read this book is unchanged. it’s in my kindle library. it will happen.

this month’s list

princess jellyfish/kuragehime

a favorite anime from my teenage years, but the show doesn’t cover the whole story. since i’m getting back into reading manga, i think it’s finally time to see how princess jellyfish ends.

spy x family cour 2

i have a terrible habit of keeping myself from doing fun things. i feel like i have to earn it by being productive.

i enjoyed the hell out of the first cour of spy x family. it’s time to let myself have fun with the second cour.

let’s get going! and, of course, if you have any suggestions for things to include on future media lists, feel free to reach out! i’d love to hear from you!

thanks for listening!

[plague-of-nice]

this grampa dripping dangerous amounts of swag

[volfoss]

Ok so thoughts on jojo part pacing:

Phantom Blood legit has such good pacing and the action never gets boring although I think that's because it's only 44 chapters

Battle Tendency's pacing is really good although I feel like they could have drawn it out a bit to give the characters more attention (not that they don't have good personalities bc I feel they do but I just wish there was more time to get to know them)

Stardust Crusaders- ok maybe hot take but the pacing for SDC is so so so fucking slow. Like the fights (even in the anime) feel like they drag on forever and as much as I really like getting to know the characters well, it goes on for far too long imo

Diamond is Unbreakable- no secret but I feel the pacing is really good for this, the beginning part isn't as much dragging on bc the villain isn't introduced until a bit later on and when he is, the pace speeds up accordingly. The anime making the Thursday July 15th episode intertwining the arcs keeps the pace really fast and good

Vento Aureo- I love this part but the pacing is way too fast, the fact the part takes place around a week in universe time just doesn't give us enough time to get to know the characters well enough and the villain was introduced a bit too late imo

Stone Ocean- imo the pacing for this part is really good, keeping the fights not too long but also giving character growth time as well as time to see the villains motives and why he is an actual threat

Steel Ball Run- biased extremely but the pace feels really good. The main threat, just like w DIU isn't introduced until a bit later although Funny Valentine was built up since his very first appearance and how the goal was more centered around the race than fighting someone kept things paced nicely. There was plenty of time for characters to grow and change and for you to learn about the world

Jojolion- it begins kinda slow but as soon as the group (keeping vague bc spoilers and ik not everyone is caught up) is introduced, it goes from family stuff and character growth to honestly a really good pace that keeps things good for character growth and also villain fear although the organization itself being the big villain of this part was an interesting thing to do!

[gallus-rising]

it’s so funny how hard Araki went to establish JJL!Kira as just as much of a freak as the og one as soon as possible

he only owns one outfit and i don’t just mean in the typical manga/anime way. Yasuho is able to track down his home bc a hatseller is like “yeah he’s bought that exact hat multiple times.” when we get to his home Araki makes sure to show us the several copies of his outfit on the wall

the Mona Lisa in his living room flanked on either side by replicas of his own hands

i don’t think he has a tv or computer???

all the food in his house is green

he got so mad at a dude for being a surfer that he verbally tormented him until the dude chewed off the tips of his own fingers

said surfer dude was actively torturing women with supernatural powers for his own twisted amusement. Kira didn’t seem to care too much abt that, but being into ocean sports specifically is unforgivable??

the surfer dude is also the one to say for once and for all that Josuke isn’t Kira. he confirms this by proving Josuke’s hands aren’t nearly as beautiful as Kira’s

idk is it just me, or did ppl not seem as concerned abt him not having testicles as they should’ve been?

it’s not even chapter ten

in conclusion: So He 100% Jerked It To The Mona Lisa, Right? Do You Think Gappy Knows. Do You Think That Was One Of The Sense Memories He Retained. Do You Think Yasuho Knows

[loveydive]

okay thoughts on stone ocean

i just wanna say that i feel like im in a unique position reading this since some common complaints abt opinions of stone ocean being negative is that ppl rushed thru it to get to sbr too quickly. which just does not apply to me bc i read sbr and jjl first before reading stone ocean teehee x so ya

likes

I LOVE JOLYNE SO MUCH THIS CANNOT BE UNDERSTATED. I LOVE. HER. SO. MUCH. THERE IS NOT ONE THING THAT I DONT LIKE ABT HER I LOVEHER SO MUCH. I LOVE HER DUMBASSNESS, I LOVE HER RECKLESS BEHAVIOUR TO SAVE HER FRIENDS THAT IS TYPICAL FOR A SHOUNEN PROTAGONIST BUT NEVER SHOWN THRU A FEMALE SHOUNEN PROTAG I LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE HER. i love her development. i love her. and shes liKE GENUINELY SMART IN BATTLES AS WELL. AND NOT LIKE GIORNO WHO HAS A WIKIPEDIA EMBEDDED IN HIS FRONT CORTAL OR SMTH. BUT LIKE PROPER BATTLE SMART THAT MAKES YOU GO OKAY I DID NOT THINK OF THAT. i love her flaws. i love how she has daddy issues and is complex abt loving her dad or not. i love that she loves her mum. love love love.

fights dont feel like villain of the week format. progresses nicely and logically imo. overall, there were some fights that just seemed to drag foreverrrr, but only 1 or 2 that i outright hated (unlike jjl lmao). fave arcs were white snake: pursuer, ff intro, bohemian rhapsody, heavy weather, c-moon, made in heaven just off top of head

versus was esp interesting as a minor villain. i felt his motivations were justified and it made him interesting. i esp liked the little tension btwn him and pucci and wish it had been expanded more.

perhaps unpopular opinion but i actually liked pucci as a villain. lots of ppl say that hes just another part 3 villain but More. and hes just a lamer version of dio which i just disagree with. i felt that his back story lended a lot to making him his own person, with dio being a mentor and kind of like the like shaping for why he believes what he does when he was dealing with his grief and guilt. like his backstory in particular i loved. the idea of coincidences, fate, tragedy. he obviously frequently questions it when we read his backstory (why did those two have to meet? why did the lady tell him about switching the babies? why did her baby die?) its like a series of events that all reached to a peak with the tragedy of his sister's death and weather's lynching. and AH im going crazy. and ofc he feels guilty over his but at the same time, he wonders why it all happened. because of fate? why was it fate for his sister to die? and he just feels powerlessness over this. CUHRAZYY. and how his stand abilities manifest in direct response to losing his sister?? LOVE THAT. oh my godddd and his relationship with weather and that quote 'you're the ultimate image of evil, but you dont realize that you're evil. this is what makes you the worst kind of evil.' SCREAM. ANW THATS HOW I INTERPRETTED HIM AND I LIKE HIM. TOP 3 JOJO VILLAINS EASY.

i REALLY REALLY liked weather report's backstory and relationship to pucci. LIKE THE DRAMA OF IT ALL. THROUGHOUT READING IT I WAS LIKE GIRLLLL WHY ARE YOU DOING THATTTT. IT FELT LIKE READING A TRAGEDY YK? LIKE SHAKESPEARE. LITERALLY SHAKESPEARE. romeo and juliet but incestuous (rip). even has themes of senseless hatred!!! (side not i cannot believe araki actually put the kkk in there and also weather being a BLACK MAN I WAS LIKE WAIT ARE WE DOING THIS FR?). anw really liked it. made pucci feel wayy more human and made the stakes feel more personal

i liked the character designs just in general. and even tho annasui looks like a diavolo ripoff, i think hes looks very pretty. found myself looking at him sometimes even if i dont rlly like him dgsauids

aside from jolyne, i feel like i REALLY liked f.f. perhaps a tad more than hermes. ff was so bubbly and unique to the story. she was absolutely hilarious and i wish she hadnt died so early in the story but i feel like araki just didnt know what to do with her anymore esp since she didnt have a stand.

i generally overall like the characters individually. they are all interesting to look at/ have interesting personalities, motivations and stands etc etc

i like the little exploration of jotaros weakness being his own daughter buttttt - will explain more in dislikes

dislikes

(dragon dreams arc) kenzo fight is bs - hate fights that are basically just like. im winning… just just bc i am!!! liek you could explain this whole new concept to me that describes how hes winning but if its just some astrology bs that essentially says ‘just bc’ then im calling bs. this fight is bs.

jailhouse rock was. hm. it was an interesting stand in CONCEPT. but execution was like not fun to read at all imo.

im gonna be honest. like compared to the other jojo gangs, this part felt the least like they were friends. EVEN COMPARED TO PART 5 - whose relationships i thought were like eh (prolly cause we’re watching it from giorno pov and giorno has only known them for like. a week LMAO) ANW i think its bc so many times, the gang had to split up to like fight. and i dont think there was a single fight where all of them just like fought tgt. it was always in pairs and one or so was always out of commission. like mannnn. like jolynes individual relationship with each of them was good. but the trio of girls only really felt like real friends and that doesnt last long since hermes gets put out of commission after her revenge and ff dies shortly after like WTF sadface. so like when weather dies and hermes is crying. im like girl why are you crying did you even interact with him 😭 AND i feel like the fact that the gang arent really friends makes itself REALLY obvious when in the c-moon arc. hermes gets hit and knocked away from everyone and. everybody just kinda. continues without her anw??? like THINK ABOUT IT WOULD ANY OTHER JOJO GANG LET THAT HAPPEN IN THE OTHER PARTS?? THEY JUST LEAVE HER?? HUH??

maybe im eheh, more boring, but i prefer my um stories to be a bit more grounded (says the girl reading literal jojo). but yeah the story in general was like super okay good. but the ending battle hm. was a bit too lets say. out there for me teehee. like guess im not a big fan of like space and all that and alternate realities on a grander scale. it was just like a LOT.

moving onto the most controversial thing i think. the ending. a lot of ppl hate it. some ppl love it. imo i had stronger (negative) feelings with the jojolion ending. the stone ocean ending was. eh. like i didnt vehemently hate it, nor did i love it persay. i felt that it was indeed a bit rushed. like araki was like oh shit! i need to end this in the next few chapters and did that dhasuiodasd. like the gang died so quickly i didnt even realise that they actually died i was like no way right.

ANW BACK TO THEMES OF THE ENDING. i wish it was more. like. if youre gonna rewrite the entire universe, at least have it mean something yk? bc even though the ending was technically happy, very happy. i dont think there was a justifiable reason for it i think? like it could have just as easily been an unhappy ending and i get how ppl are like its symbolism!! the joestars dont have to fight evil anymore and its meaningful bc an outsider ended it. (side note, i do think this story was a better way to start off the way jjl started ‘this is a story about breaking a curse’ can you imagine that at the start of stone ocean? ooo goosebumps) but anw, imo i just do not feel that it was set up properly or justified. emporio did not deserve to be the last one standing imo, there just wasnt enough reason or set up for him to be. the use of weather’s stand was satisfying but not the fact that is was emporio. i wish it had been jolyne i think idkk

like even tho it technically is a happier ending for the gang, it doesnt feel deserved in my opinion. like not bc theyre bad ppl and they dont deserve it or that they didnt work hard, like i LOVE THE CHARACTERS. but. hm. it doesnt make sense thematically is what im saying. the characters dont meaningfully engage with puccis notion that he should create a universe where everyone knows their fate and is happy. they kinda are just like. oh hes killed ppl and is evil so therefore, we must stop him!! and im just rlly? like dont you wanna hear him out a bit GDIASUDHASD but yeah i just feel like weather had stronger motivations in this regard. the gang just dont have really strong reasons to fight pucci. including jolyne who already got her father’s disc back

SPEAKING OF WHICH, UM. CAN WE HAVE MORE PAYOFF FOR JOTARO COMING BACK TO LIFE PWEEAASSEEE. like he comes back and its pretty badass ngl but i want MORE btwn him and jolyne. like how abt an apology old man? why does ANNASUI AND JOTARO TALK MORE THAN JOTARO AND HIS OWN DAUGHTER IM GONNA KILL MYSELFFFF like he tells jolyne that shes grown (which, sweet) but can he PLEASE JUTS SAY THAT HES PROUD OF HER OR SMTH?? PLEASE? YOURE JUST STATING A FACT THATS SHES GROWN HDUIASDHASD OLD MAN SAY SMTH MORE USEFUL IM GONNA BASH YOUR HEAD INNN. IF JOLYNE FORGIVES HIM SHE IS DOING ALL THE FUCKING LEGWORK HERE

THAT BEING SAID. even tho jolyne is meant to be the PROTAGONIST of this part, her role in the final final battle is HEAVILY DIMINISHED. AND IM LIKE HUH. LIKE THIS IS THE PART WHERE WE GET A FEMALE JOJO AND THE THREE MVPS IN THE END TURN OUT TO BE THE GUYS LIKE 😐 OKAY. at least in the other parts, their respective jojos actually FEEL like the protag. jonathan kills dio, joseph kills kars, jotaro kills dio, josuke heavily has a whole badass fight with kira, giorno oneshots diavolo, and jolyne... what DOES SHE DO IN THE FINAL FIGHT AGAIN? 😭 like annasui has diverdown and stuff, jotaro stops time which stops pucci a fair bit, and emporio literally kILLS pucci. EVEN THE STAND USED TO KILL PUCCI WAS WAETHERS LIKEEE PUHLEASEE. and im reading this and itS LIKE SORRY WASNT JOLYNE THE PROTAGONIST? literally after the c-moon arc, i cant really recall like anything SIGNIFICANT that she does despite having just read it yesterday. and it makes me sad bc um. i rlly like her

overall - 6/10 - top 3 protag and antag. the concepts are THERE but the execution was off. definitely more experimental but thematically, it just wasnt satisfying.

[kamuzeros]

Is there a story to your Jojo group??

HI SORRY IVE BEEN PLAYING VIDEO GAMES ALL DAY!!!

mmmmmm i mean?? kinda??? like!! i have ideas floating around, but i dont have anything concrete yet!! all i have is that it's set in the united states and the majority of the setting is in a university and pretty much a majority of the characters are all university students (which explains why everyone's outfits look so plain lol, also the year this takes place is around 2031 i believe in the same universe as sbr/jjl) and i want the villain to be a professor or something lol. i just know i want the dynamics of the characters and the way its structured to be kinda like part 5 and all the crazy action yet at the same time want the setting to be very slice of life mystery like part 4 but!! i dont really have anything since i'll admit im really bad at world building lol im more skilled at making characters rather than their setting. though!! the "part" name is called Dramaturgic Affliction :]

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i love rai mamezuki so much. is a shame he isnt talked about a lot

rai was such a great character! he's just a bitch and i lOVE him for it he was hilarious and really just an iconic character

like for a guy who showed up so late to the story he really came in strong

and like, i dont like to say this often about men from jojos, but i will not ignore that araki drew rai very very handsome, so theres some merit to that

[liesonthefloordramatically]

A wild 2021 recap post appears!

Stuff I made this year:

Fiction: The only fic I posted this year was the wildly underrated a flower blooming, in reverse.  Y’all, I know a reverse chronology genfic about C-PTSD is a hard sell but, like, it’s good??  Anyway, go tell a genfic author that you love their fic for me.

Playlists: Some favorites: Camp Howling Ground (a soundtrack for our first Sleepaway campaign), Styx (a playlist for my player character in my second Sleepaway campaign), Stop calling me, Josh (a playlist for when Josh won’t stop calling you), sonic landscapes: pandemic video games edition (sometimes you just need some background listening).  I actually made more than this, but I keep forgetting to post them.  Oh well.

RPGs: Finally finished and posted Speak Through Me!  Play my weird little game about mediated spirit possession!  I’m also super proud of The Extra Camper, which has some of the most evocative horror writing I’ve done?

Knitting: made two shawls and two scarves and am currently finishing the torso of baby’s first sweater!

Other stuff: Baby’s first edited volume chapter got published!  Finished two dissertation chapters with a third on the way!  Presented at a conference!  Guest lectured maybe too many times!  Taught the best class ever!  Somehow managed to survive year two of the pandemic!

Media I enjoyed this year:

Books: Fiction recs for this year are The Thread That Binds by Cedar McCloud (genuinely made me cry) and Piranesi by Suzanna Clarke.  Non-fiction recs are Healing Labor by Gabrielle Koch and Jesus Loves Japan by Suma Ikeuchi.  The latter, especially, is SO readable and lovely, I’m really in awe.  Also not my first time reading them, but I reread both The Underland Chronicles and The Bartimaeus Trilogy this year and they frickin’ SLAP; teen Queenie had such good taste but also rereading them was truly the mortifying ordeal of being known.

RPGs: I really enjoyed Our Traveling Home, Oh Maker!, and The Quiet Year.  Honorable mentions to Pilgrimage to the Center of the Earth and Alice Is Missing.  Also ran really good campaigns of Sleepaway and Blades in the Dark (although I’d played both before).

Video games: In no particular order: Outer Wilds, Persona 3 Portable, Deltarune, Hades, Tales of Berseria.  Outer Wilds and Persona 3 Portable have both permanently occupied space in my brain--sometimes I think about them and just stare into the middle distance.  I have a narrative type, okay??

Manga/comics: I think JJL was the only thing I read this year...

Fanfic: Okay, time for the regularly scheduled wall of text.  In no particular order: Come Together (JJBA:VA), what is living is burning and none of this will bring disaster (JJBA:SDC), Firefly (P3P), this river runs to you (MDZS), Eleuseos (JJBA:SDC), Why Worry (JJBA:SBR), best friends forever (MDZS), from yesterday comes tomorrow (JJBA), and RE: thesis defense issue (FAQ: The "Snake Fight" Portion Of Your Thesis Defense).  Special nods to The Best Worst Case Scenario (My Hero Academia) and Sleeping Lessons (Sleuth of the Ming Dynasty) for being fics for source material I know little to nothing about that were still emotionally engrossing enough to make this list.

Films: literally have not watched a single movie since January 2020.  Might be time to retire this category.  >.>

TV: TGCF and Stone Ocean!

Podcasts:  Continued listening to a bonkers number of podcasts.  Some highlights: In Strange Woods (I have listened to this all the way through twice and cried both times), The Strange Case of Starship Iris, Old Gods of Appalachia, and Keeping It 101: A Killjoy’s Introduction to Religion.  Special nod to Keep It Steady, which only has one episode so far, but I have already listened to it twice.

Music: Apparently my top song of the year was Dessa’s “Life on Land,” which is unsurprising to me.  Spotify won’t let me view my full Wrapped because it’s only available for mobile users (boo), but my guess is that Yorushika is my top artist of the year.  It was another weird year for listening--I was commuting the last four months of the year (so started listening to albums again), but then wound up either listening to older stuff I already had or podcasts.  And then on my desktop it was a combination of listening to playlists or chaos looping a single song for weeks on end.  For example, “Magnolia” was apparently my second most listened song this year, which can almost certainly be blamed on a combination of it being on my playlist for a flower blooming AND looping it for a couple of weeks while I edited my diss.

Anyway, あけおめ！！！ 良いお年を！！！

[betchi]

really love the last anon so i just wanna add that so many people hate tooru and misunderstand him but he was a perfect fit for the villain role bc while he, who has never experienced motherly affection and his first interaction was a parasitic one with the wasps, who only formed 'bonds' that benefited him in some way, was defeated bc josuke was propelled by the bonds he formed and the force of two mothers (holy gave him a fighting chance before falling to the rock disease, saving him from his injuries with the rokakaka vial and kaato dealt a huge final blow to tooru with her dead son in mind, and with the purpose of curing her grandson) i just really love jjl. so much

hi chris hiii you're so smart and right because love is the point OF IT ALL. tooru is nothing because he thinks of himself as the centre of the world gappy is everything because he knows that the people around him are what make him who he is. metaphorically and also literally

[fauzhee10069]

JoJolion: The Hard Life of Nijimura Kei

…and how she was criminally underutilized by Araki.

Nijimura Kei, the other Joestar in JoJolion besides Josuke & Holy, who was alive during the JJL storyline (until her last role). She was introduced as a young woman in her early 20s, working as the maid in Higashikata, the richest family in Morioh where most of the family members are spoiled.

JJL Chapter 7: Josuke, Go to the Higashikata Family

She was a Stand user, using 「Born This Way」, an automatic Stand that activates when the person she has targeted opens something to attack Josuke as a temporary side boss/antagonist. Knowing that it’s automatic, this sealed her fights to be very limited and hard to develop further (both in terms of mechanism and plot).

It turned out that she is a Joestar and related to Josuke, the main protagonist.

JJL chapter 16 and 17

And her role as Higashikata’s maid was just a disguise to investigate Higashikata's family secret and help her family (mainly her mom, Holy).

JJL Chapter 17: The Lemon and the Tangerine

Kei's life at that time should have been pretty tough, when she got news that her brother had just been declared dead and her mother was terminally ill.

Her father died when she was barely a little girl (according to family tree, Kei was born in 1989 and her father died in 1991, making her just around 2 years old when she lost her father).

As a widow, it also made Holy to have to work as a career woman to support her young children (9 years old Yoshikage and 2 years old Kei were left fatherless). And indirectly took away her time as a 'mother' for Kei.

JJL Chapter 50: Vitamin C and Killer Queen - part 1, look how little Kei looked lonely with her doll.

And back to present time (2011), Kei also had to lose her brother (Yoshikage) and lived alone with the only family member who really depended on her (a very ill mother).

JJL Chapter 58: Dawn of the Higashikata Family

I'm not sure Kei's salary as a maid alone will be able to cover her mother’s medical bills, plus she was in undercover so she couldn't show herself as her family member out-of-nowhere.

The family mostly depended on Yoshikage to pay for it, and very unfortunately that Yoshikage is already dead, causing the payment to be stopped. I'm sure Kei did not want this to happen to her mother, but sadly she couldn't do much.

Supposedly, after Kei's true identity and role were revealed, there should be a secret collaboration between her and Josuke. Too bad we never see it, Kei only occasionally appeared as cameo or one of the 'victims' of the Stand attacks from rock-humans (aka. jobbing).

JJL chapter 75 and 48, not doing anything and got jobbed by 「Vitamin C」& 「Ozon Baby」.

And when she did not get any significant role through the story, she was doing her own business. Turned out that she had been taking care of her mother in hospital.

JJL Chapter 102: The Wonder of You (The Miracle of Your Love) - part 19

And taking care of someone who is in a coma like that is not something that everyone’s willing to do. Surely everyone loves Holy, despite her lesser time as Kei's mother due to her job, her daughter still loves her and that’s why she was willing to take care of her in such a way.

Still, having a life like Kei's is a tough one… and not everyone can live it.

And when Kei got her new significant role in the story, her last chance to help the protagonist as his ally…

Araki gave her such badass intro only to…

JJL Chapter 104: The Wonder of You (The Miracle of Your Love) - part 21, get jobbed once again.

Kei's role in JoJolion is quite disappointing, she is a Joestar, a Stand user, and unlike her mother’s condition, she was fit and well so she should be able to do a lot more than Holy as a Joestar.

Kei is connected to the main protagonist, biologically related in a weird way and she held an independent mission as a spy in the Higashikata family. There should have been a lot she could have done in exchanging information and cooperating with Josuke, but her only product to Josuke throughout the story was an information regarding 'equivalent exchange' ability in Higashikata's land and nothing more.

And in the climax arc of “Wonder of You” where it was Kei’s last chance to cooperate with Josuke in defeating the big villain, when we were expecting an exciting 2-vs-1 battle, her role was only as far as a messenger as she delivered the cellphone (message) from Yasuho and just… die, nothing more to it.

Caato got a great intro (so great that she was wrongly hyped for years), but was absent for a long time and suddenly came back just to die. But even so she still left an impactful impression by defeating the main villain and breaking the family curse.

Too bad, Kei’s character who underwent similar thing ended up just jobbing like that… with her last action that was not so impactful, because we need to surprise the readers.

Kei might be a disappointment, regarding her role as a ‘character’ in JoJolion. But if we look at her as an ‘individual being’ with a life of her own (using the mindset that we are the main characters in our own lives), she had lived a very hard life. And we need to appreciate her toughness, that she still lived her life well, that she did not fall into moral turpitude, or becoming a criminal. She did not abandon her family even though they became a burden to her.

My personal confession:

Kei could be the person I admire right now because I am currently experiencing similar thing as her life. My father got covid and currently he is hospitalized. It’s been around 2 weeks right now. We both live off the island away from family, so I am the only family member who is able to support him. A few days ago he needed a platelet donor, those were the hardest days for me as the only family trying to look for. At least those days have passed. But until now he has not recovered yet and is still being treated in hospital.

Our apartment is far from the hospital so I have to go back and forth there for about 30 minutes almost every day to deliver the basic things he needs. I also have a full time job that can't be left behind. So just imagine how tired I am.

Unlike Kei who can visit his mother and directly take care of her, I can't see my father at all (and you know why). Even so, I stayed strong and did what I could as his daughter, just like Kei. And Kei became part of my inspiration to be as tough as her. Of course I still hope that these hard days will end soon and our family can be happy again together.

Let's pray for the recovery of my father and anyone else who is also seriously ill at this time.

Update: 7/15/2021

Unfortunately, my father just passed away at noon, 7/13/2021. May God forgives his sins. Bless for you all who still have your family intact, and pray for anyone who also lost their loved one by this terrible pandemic.

[heartbreak-sisters]

Who do you ship your ocs with?

oh boy get ready for a list because there's a lot

we'll divide this between parts because again i have Many OCs To Talk About (tm). beware this is gonna be LONG.

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for Part 1 i only have Arte who i ship with Dio. i know, what a shocker but i'm a slut for some bratty vampires hate fucking at 3am

for Part 2 the only one i have a ship with is Kitty and i ship her with Caesar, why is Joseph the only one who gets a cute maid wife, even if Caesar does die let him experience the joy of maid gf at least once 😔✊. Kaiya i don't exactly have a ship for because i just can't see her in a relationship during battle tendency, she's a woman with two kids, one who's missing and her whole point of BEING in italy is on the off chance she found her infant daughter there, she's not exactly in a position to be dating anyone during that time. Cambera is another i don't have a ship for, maybe with Arte herself because honestly who doesn't love gals being gals :) but something i like mulling over outside of the story ideas I have is Cambera and Kars because i'm a predictable slut for pretty men

for Part 3 of course i have Suzume and Kozakura, Suzume is sorta my flagship oc and i ship her with Jotaro. not a big surprise there but Jotaro and Suzume's relationship is sort of rocky, they're classmates who sort of annoy each other and end up becoming closer due to being forced to work on a school project together. after stumbling upon Jotaro's mom when she tried to visit the Kujos to work on the project with Jotaro she exposes herself as a Stand User while using her stand's ability to calm down Holly. After that she sticks around with the Crusaders whether Jotaro wanted her around or not and the two grow gradually closer over the course of the trip, after the fight with DIO and their return to Japan the two are unsure of what they are and before they could have a chance to figure it out, Suzume's parents freak out about what happened and they move away to Morioh, never to see each other again. (until DIU that is ;) ). Kozakura on the other hand I ship with Kakyoin because i'm dumbass and i think he deserves a cherry themed GF. Hanako of course is a married woman so she doesn't have anything but Mariko i have this joke ship with my bf where Polnareff keeps pining after her until he realizes she's like a 50 yr old woman and the only reason she looks so young is because of hamon.

for Part 4 Joshiko and Tsukiko i currently don't have a ship with (messing around with the idea of Tsukiko x Okuyasu but idk) but Kiyomi i'm also debating on whether to ship her with Josuke or Okuyasu depending on how Suzume and Jotaro go. or i can give Okuyasu two girlfriends.

for Part 5 i ship Etsuko with Bruno because honestly i love bruno so much 🥺. Ciambella however i ship with Abbacchio because i also love him sm. again a lot of these is just my ooga booga brain loving hot anime boys so idk how i'm gonna justify these but I Will(tm)

don't got another for part 6 yet but i have an oc who i'm cooking up an idea of shipping with either ermes or weather report.

for Part 7 i have Murasaki and Stray A, Murasaki i like the idea of her and Gyro but tbh idk how i would make that work. Stray A i ship with Diego because my Brando thirst is insatiable.

lastly for Part 8 i have Sugako and Daoko, both of which i actually don't have ships for, they're just a couple JJL ocs i have and i didn't really go in with ship ideas. Sugako and Gappy would be interesting but my lack of knowledge for JJL is the main reason i don't have anything for them lmao, i know i'm kinda cringe and a fraud but i just like making ocs and hyper-imposing myself onto them.

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[ice-block]

Araki spent like 20 years writing either bland or forced het relationships (while also accidentally making just about all of his characters queer coded) and finally got a few good het relationships with jjl and with how jjl is going thus far half of each relationship will probably be dead by the time part 8 ends