I rewatched some battle tendency for the english dub experience

new appreciation for the one in a million experience Joseph had in feeling Caesar's dying breath course throughout his entire body

there are no more hamon users after this

(well kind of but I'm being dramatic lol)

oh yeah that tends to happen sometimes

you're just existing minding your own business and boom, sad jojos punch you out of nowhere

me when I see a bubble

lads....

they are everything to me

augh,,,,i hold them,,,i sob,,,

i forget how much you've watched through uhhh-

oh I probably forgot to announce this on plurk

I finished stone ocean!

I seen it all

actually, I meant to bring that up in some kind of ranking of the series but I wanted to rewatch battle tendency to decide once and for all if I think that or stone ocean is the best

caejose /lays here

I've brought you all to be my company in misery, thank you very much

that's fair

youre valid...also AAAAA

anyway im gonna add fuel to this fire

shizuka was probably named after caesar : ]

(the invisible baby, if you forgot)

'usagi does that mean you were asking because of p4 and not p6' sure was though its good too know abt p6 because oops

no I definitely remember shizuka, did not think about that before, ouch

very stealth if so

YEAH
it hit me while I was trying to sort out names and such for fic reasons

some of it for p6 nonsense, others for...nonsense, but like
the sounds for 'SHIZA' are right there oop

I Understand

i'd say more abt why i was looking for caesar namesakes but this plurk isnt spoiler marked for p6 so HAHAHA,

I'm surprised you didn't know I'm through part 4 though, what did you think my Kira journal was about!!

LISTEN
I BLANKED,

SHUT-

hahahaha

I BLANKED REAL GOOD.... holds my face in agony
I even knew you were looking forward to diavolo in p5 so its like HOW!!! HOW COULD MY BRAIN BETRAY ME

sadly I did not much care for him in the end, but I am willing to read meta

yeah he's one of those characters where like
'oh...what a let down,'
and then the right person comes along and goes what if i did this tho

like ryslig's diavolo is a Wonderful Hot Mess I should send you some threads sometime

feel free!!

(as for Why he's a WONDERFUL HOT MESS; the canon point is 'after ???numbers of deaths')

yeah that was certainly fun but it was kinda too little too late LMAO

AND YEAH I wanna ask the player for like
the threads they consider to be the Greatest Hits so that I don't just...Blast you with piles of links,

RIGHT THOUGH??? tragic uAu

I can see how there would be potential

but yeah for me Vento Aureo had a strong main cast and pretty mid villains overall

curious abt your pucci thoughts on that note, while we're on villains who are disasters of some form

nods firmly
Vento Aureo felt like... ...it went too quickly I think? so we could get attached to the main group, but when it came to the villains we didn't really...get a feel for them where we needed it

I loooove Pucci honestly, I had no idea how I was going to feel about him from the little I knew going in but he really worked as a character to me. Though it helps that I am a Dio LIker

I went into this for him

PUCCI IS SO
chefs kiss
he was so deep in his own sauce and i love this for him,

and hjgvdfkjhdfkjgh yes being a dio liker definitely helps the pucci enjoyment

like

you have to understand

In Stardust Crusaders, my favorite character was

ENYA

oh no I understand this fully
Pyra's fav was also Enya

I look at her like "hehe funny lady. I like Dio too :3"

every time Enya was on screen, she was Thrilled and Delighted and you know what that's correct

ENYA IS LIVING HER BEST OLD LADY LIFE OVER HERE

look at this scrungly....creecher of a woman

her episode is the funniest episode in SDC

it really is

she is a bog witch

Pyra 'n I have been doing a dub watch with Drag and
my God
I was largely lukewarm on the SDC dub but Enya,

Enya killed it

(as did iggy which I did not fucking expect,)

but Enya
she's the bog witch and she has brought Her Own Bog

I used to say that she is Dio's little friend as a joke

Enyaba Dying: YOU ARE WRONG STEELY DAN I AM DIO'S LITTLE FRIEND :|
me:

HFVNUIOKDHNVUIUHN

simpin to the end.... u-u

I didn't even watch the SDC dub

and SDC is my least favorite so I did not expect to

but if Enya is really good

maybe.

Pucci is so Pucci but also sometimes strangely relatable like man met a hot disaster bisexual vampire and had his life changed and I get that

Laughs it's....Very meh other than those two characters imo THOUGH
Polnareff OCCASIONALLY got me and I think it's because they seem? to have gotten someone who is fluent in french for the role
because he peppers his dialogue with it a lot and
it's actually....Correct,
in sound,

Pucci is also hot

and jkghdfjkghdfg right
like man,
pucci needed an intervention so badly but honestly at least the trauma hustle was a good ride,

let he who was not utterly smitten with Dio's stone ocean design throw the first stone

anyway Enya- solid
Iggy

they gave him a proper bostonian adult accent so for the entire two damn eps all of us were like WHAT?

WHAT!?!

great

IT CHANGED THE ENTIRE MOOD OF THAT FIGHT....

SDC is so much and learning the context of why it was the way it is made me appreciate its format more but I understand why people don't like its monster of the week style

I'm glad Polnareff is good bc he is the most tolerable crusader

Yeah he's like
Mmm. Definitely better in the subs
but at least he can do french

lmfao monster of the week... more like hentai doujin of the week

ye might be better off finding clips of the bog witch so

and god right
me having come from the manga to it like hey so like....how are we Worse now??

not that I'm complaining

I like hamon more than stands but there are some stands I really like so it worked out in the end

stone free my beloved

it was all very 'listen i expected this in the 80s, when this manga was actually published, but davpro,,,,was this Necessary'

STONE FREE...! p6 just went so ham with stands and I am so u0u

I feel like...Stone Free was Araki actually going through with what he had set out to do with Star Plat
because supposedly the intention behind SDC and Star Platinum was 'i want the protag to win with something other than brute force'

and i mean Jotaro did some fast thinking but

stares

Stone Free meanwhile has that in sssssppppaaaaades

looks at star platinum

are you sure bro

the switch to stands was probably a necessary switch that needed to happen, it helps that stands are more or less an evolution of hamon at least

RIGHT??? LIKE
ARAKI
I THINK YOU MAY HAVE FAILED HERE

but he learned.... u0u

that's probably why he made Crazy Diamond the way it is

Josuke is constantly using Crazy Diamond in creative ways in like every episode

yeah I felt like all three of the protags after that had stands that they used in increasingly interesting ways

yep!

so it was like, he set out to do something and kinda borked it, alright, but he refined and worked on it
and honestly I think that's part of why I love JJBA over all like

you can feel Araki constantly trying for new things, trying to improve his work, whether that goes well or not

it's probably also why he tends to stay away from giving protags the typical shonen power up

and mainly only gives those to villains

absolutely yeah

he's a big fan of 'it isn't about the power'

even GER was Giorno's "reward" for beating Diavolo as the true final fight was the struggle for the arrow

yeah and on top of that it's like
you look at the list of things he lost by then

give the kid a win here,

most jojos lose a lot by then. give josuke a loss. I am definitely not biased Okuyasu stole my man's cat

and even heroic characters with evolving stands don't necessarily mean a powerup

they're more like sidegrades than direct upgrades

ye

and HGJFKDHG LISTEN,

Hey Josuke uhhhh...lost some money a couple times??

he lost all the money he would have bullied out of shigechi if kira hadn't murdered him :c

oh he also had to touch a turtle once, big L

josuke looking at the turtle in part 5 like "y'all live like this?"

GHVNBNJFDKHNG

i love when arakis like 'my fav protag is josuke' bc we all get to look and go yeah we know hes the only one u didnt severely traumatize with death

*multiples rather

as a writer, that only makes me disbelieve

when I heard that, I was honestly like.....

really? it's not the one you put in three of the series?

but I'll admit I'm biased

joseph my problematic fave

fr though if you aren't making your character suffer then is he really your fave. I guess he was giving it all to Kira

HFNVJUKDhngvkjdfhn

he DOES love to shove rohan around....hHhhmmmm

that too lol

back to joseph though it's even more silly because someone was like 'araki is he still alive in 2012 u figure' and he was like YEAH. MIGHT BE GOING SENILE BUT YEAH'

araki really said 'joseph never dies. Ever'

milking that hamon longevity for all it's worth!

STILL KICKIN SUCKERS!!! HAH!

honestly in hindsight considering he was 79 in p4 he was doing Pretty Well still for all that it's a bit jarring what 10 years did hjngkhnvf

Joseph will definitely live past a hundred. mark my words

oh 100%

sweats in p6 though boy uh, way to spend your last decade tho huh

'wonder what my grandsons up to' [loud sirens blare in the background]
'im sure hes fine'

Joseph's last decade was actually two decades. thanks Pucci

gotta go fast

(disclaimer that I do not remember how fast time was moving this is a funny haha)

FAR TOO FAST IS HOW FAST!!!!

if u ever play the game Eyes of Heaven, Josuke does basically look at Coco Jumbo and do just that

its true and its delightful

eyes of heaven had good food man

EoH is literally just someone's self indulgent fanfic but made into a licensed video game and I love it

tiny jolyne lives rent free in my heart,

not me cupping my hands and going PLEASE REMEMBER TO BREAK OUT MY SON THOUGH, JOTARO!!!!

sadly I don't have a PS4

but I have heard fun things about EoH

I could ask Pyra where she watched the cutscene comps? That's how she got her EoH fix so :|a

sounds good

Yeah as a game it's pretty mid to play, so you don't really lose out on just watching the cutscenes

I will say the cutscenes are hilarious though, because of the way the game renders and places characters, they seem to drop from a small height off camera for a second before it shows them, so every time Jotaro appears in a cutscene his coat chain is falling downard

and Jotaro appears in the most cutscenes so this happens all the time

snrk, yup

just clink

here it is! eoh time tadaaaah

wait this was the wrong plurk I think

welp eoh cutscenes if ye want m

no it's the right one

thank you!

OH GOO- oh plurk didnt load 3/4s of the plurk last time that explains my confusion

I watched the eyes of heaven. Damn that was really fun

I love Dio's Hatsune Miku twintails, the true sign he has ascended to godhood and full circle from me watching JoJos for him because he's the reason why Rin has a roadroller